Chap. VI. from the I. oj George I. to the Year 1734*

1727. in the Arms of a Gentleman, that fate in very, he departed this Life, ahont threetheCoach with him.About ten, thatNight, Hours after, {q) in the sixty eighth YearHe arrived at his Highness the Duke of of His Age, and the thirteenth of HisTorts s Palace, at Osnaburg ; Where His Reign, in Great Britain : Pi PrinceLethargy encreasing, notwithstanding all endowed with all Royal Virtues .the Physicians could do, for His Reco-

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C H A P. VI.

Naval Transactions and Expeditions of the British Nation, with other Occurrences ifrom the Death of Erg George I. to the Conclusion of the Tear, 1734.

Accession os

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George, II.to thetthrone.

1 H E fourteenth of June, aboutthree in the Afternoon, the sur-prizing News of the King’sDeath, was brought by a Messenger;Upon which Their Royal H:ghneiles,the Prince and Princess of Wales (nowKing and Queen of Great Britain ) whowere at Richmond , came, with all Speed,to Leieefer- House, where several Lordsof the Pr ivy Council, and other Personsof Quality and Distinction, being alreadyassembled, a Proclamation was drawn up&ts Procla- ant j Boned; But it being then late, theCeremony was defer d till the nextMorning, and then was performed, withthe usual Solemnity, (a) The seven andtwentieth o i June, the Parliament met,and towards the latter End of July, HisMajesty was pleased to appoint Com missCommission- sinners for Executing the Office of LordHigh Admiral of Great Bt itain, &c. (b)In the Month of sept ember, a List waspublished of all the Ships seized or ta-ken from us by the Spaniards, duringthe late short Spanish War, amountingto near seventy. (V) About the fameTime, came Advice, that a FrenchMan of V/ar, at Santa Lucia , had taken,

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at that Island, twelve Sail of English AndbytbtShips, and carried them to Martmica, E-ench.for carrying on, as they pretended, aprohibited Trade, and having FrenchGoods on Board. Those that had nosuch Goods found on them were dis-charged, but the Rest, it was believed,would be condemned.

The eleventh of OHober, was per- r Hformed the Solemnity of the Coronation of K.of His sacred Majesty, King George, 11 . George, II.and His Royal Consort, Queen Caroline. s aeeuI shall now return to Sir Charles Wager, arcun 'whom we left, the fifteenth of sure,cruising otf of Cadiz, Gibraltar, &c.

Continuation of Sir Charles WagerVPi ocee dings.

The seventeenth of June, in the gfr CJiarieaMorning, Sir Chat les Wager, with the Wager at-Ships he had with him, came to an An- rt yrs mchor, in Gibrattar-Bay. (d) The eigh-teentb, the Thunder- Bomb, and thetwo Sloops, came in from Tetuan. Thefour and twentieth, the Solebay andWinchester returned from cruising offX Malaga.

[q) In the very City (some lay Palace and Leghorn, for London, was commanded by Capt;Clumber) in which he was born. The first is true, IVilham Pugjley, who, some 1 ime before he wasbut for the two latter I question ; For, if I mis- taken, had lallen in with a Privateer, with whomtake not this Palace is entirely new built, since he maintained a sharp Fight, killed several Menthat Time ; And I am not sure, whether the Old in her, and, at last, shooting away her Mast, hePalace be not yet standing. got clear ; But, soon after, he fell in with another j

with whom he engaged for four Hours, untdl be-(a) In the mean Time, His Majesty caused all ing overpowered, he was forced to submit, havingthe Lords and others of the late King's Privy first killed four, and wounded eighteen of the Pri*Council, to be sworn of His Privy Councd. And vateeps Men. Captain Copithorn , in the Betty,then was pleased, to make a most gracious Decla- likewise, made a brave Defence, having sice of hisration, in Council, of His Resolution, to preserve Men killed, and all the Rest wounded, and hay-th° Constitution, in Church and State,- as now ing wounded eighteen of the Privateer’s Men be-happily established, and to study the Honour, In- fore he yielded. The two Privateers, which tookterest/and Security of His People, t$c. these Ships, sailed from Malaga, but two Days be- .

Li'They were the Right Honourable George, fore Advice came thither, of the King of Spain’ sLord Viscount Terr ing ton, John Cockburn , Esq; having signed the Preliminaries.

Sir John Not r is and Sir Charles ’Pager, Kts. Sir (i) He there founts the Royal Oak and Lyme ;Thomas Littleton , Bart. the Right Honourable Sir And the Winchester and Solebay being cruising offGeo^e Cholmon lliy , Kt. of the Ba h, commonly Malaga, he sent Orders to them to cease Host.lwcall’d Lord' Viscount Ma!pas , and Samuel Moly- ties, and join th* Squadron.

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(c) One of these, the Lcyal Gaily, bound from