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as well as from the Garrison, continuedplaying on their Batteries and Trenches;And, the Wind being Eastely, theDurjley-G ally and Tpger came back intothe Bay.
Sir Charles likewise ordered the Col-chester, Swallow, Winchester and Port-land, to stand over to the West Shoar,to endeavour to intercept some ot theSpanijh Veiiels that were continuallypalling to and fro, with Ammunitionand Provisions for their Camp ; But theywere not able to do any Thing, beingkept at too great a Distance, by a Bat-ter ry of sixteen Guns on the Island ofHlgeziras, and a great Ridge of Rocks.
The thirteenth, the Admirals, withtheir Squadrons failed to the Westward;But, the Wind coming about, some ofthe Ships were obliged to come to anAnchor again, and the Admirals drovebehind the Hill. However, the fifteenth,all anchor’d in the Bay again, exceptth 1 Sterling-Castle about five in the li-vening, of the thirteenth, the Men ofWars Boats took a Sattee, in the Baybelonging to the Camp, laden withPlanks eight Buts of Wine, and one ofBrandy from Cadiz. This Day, like-wise, the Berwick and the Lenox failedfor the Weji- Indies, to join Vice-AdmiralHosier.
The fourteenth, the Spaniards finish-ed their first Parallel, and cast up ano-ther Intrenchment, on the MediterraneanSide, from the Eastermost Point of theRock, to defend themselves from theCannon of his Majesty’s Ships, and joinedit to their Parallel. In the Evening theAdmirals came into the Bay and anchor-ed. (J)') Sir Charles Meager, havingmade a proper Disposition of the Ships
under his Command, set Sail, the seven-teenth, with Admiral Hopson, to cruise,near Cadiz, and the Streight 's Mouth.
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The eighteenth, he met with one ofthe Transports from Ireiand, having onBoard two Companies of Colonel Hay'sRegiment, which had been seperatedfrom the Rest, in bad Weather. SirCharles caused the two Companies to betaken into the Men of W ar : Becausethe Officers informed him, thev had butfive Day’s Provisions on Board, andwere afraid of being carried into Cadiz,the Master of the Transport, and allhis Crew, excepting one Man, beingIr ish Papists.
The tvventy-first, (d) the Royal Oak,upon Signal given, chased, and took aSpanijh Ship, named the St. J ago, BonDiego de Jhifon, Commander, (e) SirCJ ar les ordered the two Companies ofColonel Hay's Regiment on Board thisPrize, and sent her to Gibraltar. Thetwenty-third, Colonel Kane, sailed,in the Solebay, for Minorca. Thefour and twentieth, the Tork returnedfrom chasing, and brought with her aGenoeje Ship, named the JeJus Maria,(f ) which Sir Charles sent to Lisbon.
The six and twentieth, the Men ofWars Boats took a Bark laden with Fas-cines, and another with Ballast. Thefirst, in the Evening, came in a Trum-pet, with Letters to the Governour andCaptain Davis, with an Account, .that aSattee, which the latter had fitted outto cruise, was drove on Shoar by theWeather, near the Spaniards Battery,on the E. Shoar, and the People in her,being the Lientenant of the Winchester,four and twenty Sailors, a Serjeant, and10 U tw o
(b) My Spanijh Journal fays, that the thir-teenth, towards Evening, we commanded a Vesselof theirs, which had fix Brass Guns on Board,andother Stores, and sent out our Boats armed to takeher ; But that their Troops, coming to her Assi-stance saved the Vessel, and obliged our Boats toretire, 5 who took, however, a Bark, laden withTimber, on the Coast, between Gibraltar and Al-geziras. In the Night, between the sixteenth andthe seventeenth, our Long-Boats took two Spa.m(h Barks laden, with Fascines.
J (c) With Sir Charles , failed the Kent, Ster-liw-Castle, Burfcrd , Royal Oak , Canterbury , Torkand Colchester ; The latter, however, staid be-hind some Time to convoy the Englijh and FrenchTrade to Cape St. Vincent. The Berwick andsenox were sent to the Weft Indies , as the Rea-dier has seen above. The Dursty-Gdlly was or-dered to Lisbon , but to return to Gibraltar again.The Lyme, being soon expected from Port Ma -ton , and the Solebay from Cape St. Vincent , these,
with the Tyger, Winchester , Swallow and Port.land , with two Bomb-VeiTels, and two Sloops,were ordered to remain in the Bay of Gibraltar,and to be assistant in the Defence of. that Place. Ofthe latter, two were cruising behind the Hill, theWinchester , sent in two Boats taken from the li-ne my.
{d) The twenty-fecond, one of our Men ofWar drew near the Mediterranean Shoar, to bat-ter the Trenches of the Besiegers; But, after someBroad-sides given, retired again.
(e) She was of about three Hundred Tuns,with two and thirty, (or according to some Jour-nals, eight and twenty) Guns, twenty Pattereroes,and one Hundred and fifty Men, laden with Wine,Oyl, and Brandy, and some Iron, bound for Car-thagene , in the West-Indies , and had three Govsr.nours on Board, for those Parts.
(/) She IcltBilboa, the twelfth Instant, whereshe freighted with Timber, tor Cadiz , for theKing of Spain’s Account.
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