Chap. IY. Jrom thel.of George I, to the Year 89s
172:
A SpanishSloop taken.
Mediterra-nean Passescalled in.
ASgranted forthe Navy.
A Ship be-longing to thePretendertaken.
1723.
Promotionsof Admirals.
Value of ten Thousand Pounds. Aboutthe fame Time, two Pirat Ships tookeight Engli/h Vessels, in the Bay ofHonduras ; And Captain Candler , inHis Majesty’s Ship the Launcejion, tooka Sloop, with eight and fifty Spanijh. Pi rats in her, off of Jamaica.
The nineteenth of July, a Proclama-tion was signed by the King in Council,requiring Passes (called MediterraneanPages') formerly granted to Ships andVessels,trading in the Way of the Alge-rine Cruizers, to be returned into theOffice of the Admiralty of Great Britain,and other Passes to be issued of a NewForm. (f)
The ninth of Ofioher, the Parliament.met, and the four and twentieth, theHouse of Commons, in a Grand Commit-tee, resolved to grant a Supply for theNavy. («)
In the Month of November, CaptainScots, in His Majesty’s Ship the Dragon,with the Leopard, Captain Medley, seizeda Ship, called the Revolution, with eightand fifty Persons in her, in the Mole ofGenoa, upon Information of her beingin the Pretenders Service, and the Per-sons on Board her Rebels, (oc)
Towards the latter End of January,1723. Captain Charles Strickland wasmade Rear-Admiral of the Blue, in the
Room of Admiral Mighells, who was 1723.appointed to succeed Phomas SwantonEsq; lately deceased, as Comptroler ofthe Navy: And Admiral Littleton dy-ing, the fifth of February, Rear Admi-.ral Strickland succeeded him as ViceAdmiral of the White, and Sir GeorgeWalton was made Rear-Admiral of theBlue, the Junior Admirals taking Placeaccording to their Seniority.
The nine and twentieth of April, Twelve Mentwelve large Men of War were put into o/TVarCom-Commiffion, (y) the Edinburg, and the mi .U loncd -Elizabeth,having been commissioned be-fore. (z)
About the Middle of May, His CaptainC-Majesty was graciously pleased to confer gle knightedthe Honour of Knighthood, on CaptainOgle, Commander of th b-Szvallezv, whohad signalized his Conduct and Bravery,as we have mentioned above, in thetaking of several Pirats, on the Coast ofGuinea.
The third of June, His Majesty em- The Kingbarked on Board the Carolina-\acht,S D es totiohwhich, being accompanied by several o- iandither Yachts, joined their Convoy at theNore, the fifth, and arrived, the seventh,at Helvoetjluys : From whence His Ma-jesty continued His Journy to Hanover, Death ofwhere He avrived, the eleventh. The Admiral Dt-twenty-second of the fame Month, laVaL
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(t) This Proclamation* with the Orders,which were the Consequences of it, to all HisMajesty’s Ministers and Consuls, residing in Trad-ing Ports abroad*, were excellently well calculatedfor the Attainment of the desired End, and theBenefit of Trade ;'But the best of Regulations areliable to be eluded, and Abuses will find Holes tocreep in at, which has, likewise, been the Casehere. As the Management of these Affairs inHamburg , a Place where great Numbers of EnglijhVessels take their Loading, every Year, for Spain,Italy, 8cc- was in my Hands, under the Honoura-ble Sir Cyril TVich , Bart. from this Time, to theEnd of the Year, 173 o.sshad an Opportunity ofObserving not a few ot them ; And did, there-fore, design, in this Place, to have inserted, byWay of Digression, the Remarks I had made, dur-ing this Service, on the Office and Duty of Con-suls, Vice-Consuls and Secretaries, employed inTrading Ports abroad, the great Benefit they are,or maybe of, to the Trade of Great Britain, andH s Majesty’s Revenues, and the Abuses whichare crept in, and but too openly practised, in theArticle of Mediterranean Passes and others, to theGreat Detriment of the Trade of Great Britain ;But since they, as well as this Work in general, al-ready far exceed the Number of Sheets I pro-posed, I must defer the intended Digression to a-nother Opportunity, when I may, probably, treatof this Matter more at large, than I could havedone here.
{u) It was for ten Thousand Men for the Se 3-Service, at four Pounds per Man, per Month, forthe Year, 1723. And, the nine and twentieth, theyresolved, that two Hundred and sixteen Thousand,
three Hundred and eighty-eight Pounds, fourteenShillings,and eight Pence, be allowed, for the Or-dinary of the Navy, for the sameYear.
(x) Monro, her Captain, with Gardiner, Fordes and freach, three of his Officers, were onShoar, and the Doge and Senate making Difficultyof delivering them into the Hands of Mr. Dave-nant, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary, theyhad time to escape,porter into the House of a Fo-reign Minister, and the Rest into a Convent osDominicans.
{y) These Ships were as follows:
At Chatham.
Ships.
Commanders^
Guns.
1 Sandwich
Capt. Morrice.
90
Cumberland
Coleman.
80
Northumberland St. Lee .
70
Superbe
Field
60
Nottingham
W. Haddock
60
Plymouth
Rob. Man.
O'q
P. Frederick
Bedford
Captain
At Portsmouth.Falkingham.
Hume.
ffhetwood.
70
70
70
Breda
Rob. Trevor,
70
Dunkirk
At Plymouth.
Hock.
60
Rippon
Pearce,
60
(g) I Do not any where find, to whom the Com-mand of this Squadron was given, nor for whomdesign’d ; No more, than on what Occasion theseShips were put into Commission