l* Chap, I. from the I, oj George L to theTear , 1734- 87?
1717. the Year 17x8. afofour Poundsy^r Man*A Supply "Mensem, for thirteen .Months, andthsjsff two Hundred, four and twenty Thou-sand, eight Hundred seven and fiftyPounds, -fourteen Shillings, and elevenPence, for the Ordinary of the Navy,for the fame Year. The seventh, theyresolved, that a Sum, not exceedingnine and twenty Thousand, six Hun-dred five and forty Pounds, eight Shil-lings arid nine Pende, Farthing, be grant-ed to His Majesty, to enable the Trea-r. _ surer of the Navy, to make good thePayments demandable of him from the,|. ,. Soutk-Sea-C-ompany, at or before thefour and twentieth-of June , 1718.in 18 The seventeenth of March, 1718.Crease of His Majesty sent a Message to. the^Number House ojCommons, requiring an Additionf Sea, J n of Sea men; (d) which was readily compli-4}Orations ed wish. The next Day, His Majesty was171 the Ad- pleased to “make some Alterations in theKtralty. Admiralty, (y) -
Q a4f Rq Th e eleventh ofMpril, Captain Ro-gers fails g-rs failed for his Government of the
far the Isle Me of Providence,tA ki ng with him a Naval<j Proyi- F or cef' for ■ the subduing the Pirats in
nCe ’ those Parts, (f) ' '
The eighth and twentieth, Sir JohnAs mw failed from the Buoy in the Nore,
with a Squadron of Men of War, under 1718.his Command, for the Baltick (g) Sir JohnRear-Admiral MighcP s of the r/hitss^s^ssfs^commanded in this Squadron under Sir tick.
John . The first of May, the Fleetweigh’d from Sokbay, having abouteighteen Merchant-Ships under . theirConvoy, with a moderate Gale at 8. E.
The second, at three in the Morning,they took their Departure, LozvejlofsLight-house distant six Leagues. Thetwelfth, about two in the Morning, theymade the Land of Jutland, the Windat W. S. W. At three, the Holm boreS. by E. five Leagues. . At five, in theAfternoon, they anchored in thirty Fa-thom Water,within the - W^-Point. Thethirteenth, they weigh’d again, and thefourteenth, about five o’clock, in theMorning, pafs’d by Elfenor, for Copen-hagen. (h) The Admiral was afterwardsjoined by the Danifto Fleet, and, upontheir appearing in the Baltick, theSwedes retired into their own . Har-bours.
Towards the latter End of June, the Pirats fur-Lords of the Admiralty received an Ac- render-count from Captain Pearj'e, of His Ma-jesty’s Ship the Phoenix, that he arrivedat the Ifland of Providence , the twenty-
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Worcester ; Having left behind him, the Severn,Straffbrdsmii Lynn. The Trade came to Tarmouth,three or four Days before, under Convoy of theChatham, Glocester and Hampshire.
(d) This Message, which' was iigned by HisMajesty, was as follows.
GeorceRex.
His Majesty being at present engaged in seve-ral Negotiations of the utmost Concern to theWei fire of these Kingdoms, and the Tranquilityof Europe ; 'And having lately received^ Informati-on from abroad, which makes him juage that itwill give Weight to his Endeivors, if a NavalForce be imployed where it shall be necessary, doesthink fit to acquaint - this House therewith, notdoubting, but that, in . Case he should be obliged,at this critical Juncture, to exceed the Number ofMen granfed this Year, for the Sea-Service, theHouse will, at their next Meeting, provide
for such exceeding. .
(e) He was pleased to appoint the Right Hon-ourable, James Earl of Berkley, Sir George Byng ,Si rjohn Jennings,John Cockburn,zaA WilliamGhet-ivind, Esq; Sir John Morris, and Sir Charles Wa-*er, to be Commissioners, for Executing the Of-fice of Lord High Admiral of England, Ireland,Sec. The Right Honourable James Earl of Berk-ley, to be Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, andMatthew Aylmer, E% to be Rear-Admiral ofGreat Britain ; And soon after, the. latter wascreated an Irish Baron.
(/) The Government had, before this, recei-ved Accounts of the Surrender of several of thesaid Pirats, upon Notice of the Preparations, thatwere making, against them. Letters from theBermudas- of the sixteenth os February, brought,i n particular, the following Advice.
In December last, a Sloop was font, by ColonelBennet, Goyernour of that Place to the Ifland ofProvidence , the Chief Rendezvous of the Pirats,to require them to surrender themselves, and ac-cept of His Majesty's most gracious.Pardon, con-tained in Elis Royal Proclamation, of which thesaid Sloop carried divers printed Copies. The Pi-rats, who were in the said Ifland, at that Time,received the Proclamation, with great Demonstra.tion of Joy, and promised to surrender themselvesto the Gov.ernours, of the Englifi Plantations, assoon as they could get convenient Passage, and saidthey did not doubt but -those who. were at Seawould follow their Example, as soon as they sawthe Proclamation, Captain Henry' Jennings, andfifteen others are already arrived, and have surrend-red themselves, Lesty, and NichoIs, two other Pirat-Captains, have sent Letters by them, wherein theypromise to come and surrender themselves, with agood Number of their Men.
(g) This Squadron contifted of the Cumberland,Captain Falkner, Buckingham , Captain T'revcr ;Hamptosi-Court , Captain Coleman ; Prince Frede-rick, Captain Mayne ; Salisbury, Gaptean Cockburn-,Defiance , Captain Soans ; Winchester ,. CaptainCampbell ; Guernsey , Captain Hardy ; and TVind-sor, Captain Piercy ; a Bomb-Ketch, and a Fire-ship, and they were to be followed by the St. Al-bans coming from Portsmouth.
(h) I might now proceed to give an Account ofSir George Byng’ s Expedition to the Mediterranean,with the Ileslroying of the Spanish Fleet, off ofSicily ; But that being the most considerable Expe-dition of this Reign, I shall give a very particularAccount of it, in a Chapter by it-self, after I havegiven a farther Account of some other Transacti-ons of this Year.