Chap. VI. from the I. of George I. to the Year 1734.
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1729. fourth of June, by Vice-Admiral VanSommelsdyfo, with Part of the DutchSquadron, design’d to act this Summer,in Conjunction with theBritifb Squadron,the whole under the Command of SirCharles Wager , tho’ with some Restric-tion.
The seventeenth, His Majesty wenton Board the C a rolina-Y&chx, at Green~wich, and set Sail, with a fair Wind,for Holland, where he landed, the twen-tieth, and proceeded for Hannover.
Death of The thirteenth of June , the LordsCommissioners of the Admiralty receivedan Account, that Rear-Admiral St. Loedied, at Jamaica, the twenty-fecond ofApril, after a long,.Illness, and therebythe Command of the Squadron of HisMajesty’s Ships, employed on that Sta-tion, devolved on Captain William Smith.Captain The Honourable Charles Stewart, Esq;Ste J a J t ^' was soon after appointed Rear AdmiralC Rear-Mmi- ?f the Blue, in the Room of Edward St.
ral, in theCommand.
Loe , Esq; and was ordered forthwith to 1729,repair to Jamaica, in His Majesty’s Shipthe Lion, and take upon him the Com-mand of theBritiJb Squadron in the Wejldies. (,r)
The thirtieth of June, the United UnitedFleetSquadron of Britijh and Dutch Ships of at Spithead/War, then lying at Spithead, consistedof seven and twenty of the former, andfourteen of the latter, (t)
The fifth of Oftober, the combined Briti/ftFleet of Great Britain and Holland fepa-rated, Admiral Sommelfdyke having, that SpitheadDay, sailed ,homewards, with the Dutch separate.Squadron under his Command; And, onthe sixteenth, Orders came to Spithead,for twelve of the largest Ships of theBritijh Squadron to fail into Port, to belaid up. (u)
The Year, 1730. which I now come 1730.to, affords us little or no Matter for A SpanishNaval Hijlory. Letters, which came Gove snourthe Beginning of this Year, from Ja-^ Ut ™ * rons '
maica ,
(§) From Charles-Town, in S. Carolina came,about this Time, Advice, that one of the SpanijhGuard a Co/las had caught a Tartar ; For meetingwith the Durjley-Gally , Man of War, and takingher for a Merchant-Ship, he bore down upon her,and pour’d a Broad-side into her ; But was taken,after having five or six Men killed, and abouttwenty wounded, without the Loss of one Man, inthe Durstey. However, as an Instance, of ourdealing more favourably with the Spaniards, thanthey were pleased to do with us, she was soon af-ter released : As was, a Spanijh Advice-Boat, ta-ken and carried into Jamaica.
(t) These Ships were as follows:
DUTCH.
Leyden,
64
400
V.A. Sommeldyke,
Utrecht,
64
35°
Capt. Schryven.
Naffau,
64
350
Grendet.
Statenberg,
64
35°
Vander Graff.
Ter Veer.
64
35°
mifchot.
Pollaren.
5 Z
270
Reynft.
Twickloo.
5 Z
270
Hooft.
Beekviel.
S 2
270
Grood.
Ramhorst,
S z
270
Baarden.
Edam,
44
220
Vigh.
Noordwyck opZ.
44
220
Deute.
Gorcum,
44
220
Van Reed.
Besides a Bomb-Ketch>
and
a Store-ship.
Ships.
The Cormual,
Princess Amelia,
Burford,
Berwick,
Graf ton,
Kent,
Monmottth,
Nassau,
Royal Oak,
Dreadnought,
Kingston,
Lion,
Sunderland,Tork ,
Argyle,
Falkland,
Guernsey,
Leopard,
Portland,
Winch (st er ,
Kingfale,
Enterprise,
Adventure,
SolebayJ3omh.
Thunder -B.Pcos-Firelhip.Griffin. Fire-sh.
r .Men.
Commanders,j Sir Ch. Wager.
520
t Capt. Falkingham.sSir G. Walton.
5 Z °
1 Captain Davis.
44°
Ogle.
44°
Norbury.
440
Haddock.
44°
0 Brien.
44°
Purvis.
44°
Coleman .
440
Lestock.
3 6 5
Geddis.
3 6 S
Danjie.
3 6 5
Reddish.
3 6 5
Man.
365
St. Loe.
280
Roberts.
280
Atkins.
280
Cockburn .
280
Warren.
280
Rowzier.
280
Lock.
190
Harvey.
190
Smith.
190 Ld Musketry,
"5
sparks.
40
Trevor.
55
Herbert.
5 °
Rennet.
(u) These twelve were, the Cornwal , Najfau ,Grafion, Burford and Sunderland ; at Chatham }And the Princess Amelia, Berwick, Monmouth ,Kent, Royal Oak, King/Ion and Falkland, at Ports-mouth.
As my Readers may naturally ask here, whatBenefit the equipping of this large Squadron canhave been to the Nation, as it never put to Sea.I think I cannot better answer that Question, thanby the following Epigram.
E Portu non est ut solvat Clasps : IberisInftruttœ & juntlæ Fama futura fat est-Sic Aquilam fimul ac Pennas extendere constat,Continue imbellis Tecta Columba petit.
Englisli'd.
What need the British Fleet to leave her Shoar,
Or make, in distant Climes , her Thunder roar ?She’s arm’ d,she’s join’d, prepared to plough the MalarSure , that’s enough to humble haughty Spain ?
Thus, when Jove 'j Bird does but for Flight prepare,Th’ affrighted Doves ftreigbt to their Home repair „
AND, in Fact, we find, this Fleet had it’s desi-red Effect. For, the eighteenth of November, theHonourable Morgan Vane, Esq; arrived at St.James’s, Express from Madrid , with the Trea-ty concluded and signed by that Court