Chap. VL from the L of George I. to the Year 1734. 917

1731. Sir Charles having dined, the nextSir Charles Day, with Monsieur Patinho, on BoardBoard the c ^ e Galicia , above the Puntals, and af-

Spaniih Ad- ter wards returned some Visits, at Cadiz,mir al-. at his Return on Board the Namur, made

the Signal to unmoor, and, the nextMorning, turned out of Cadiz Bay, and, failed for Gibraltar , and, the feven-Gibraltar teeAth, anchor'd in that Bay. Thetwenty-third, the Squadron, having ta-ken some Troops aboard, failed forAnd Barce- Barcelona , where they arrived, the fe-lona. cond of September , and anchored in the

Road. (».) Here the Fleet remained,’till the sixth of OElobtr,('o) during whichTime, the Spanijh Fleet was getting to-gether, and in a Readiness, (p) and theSpanijh Troops, for the Expedition,were embarking. The Marquis de Manhaving, the Evening before, acquaintedSir Charles by Letter, that every Thingwas embarked, got under Sail, aboutseven in the Morning, with nineteenShips and two Snows, and, about anHour after, the Britijh Squadron weigh-ed likewise, and got under Sail. Thefifteenth, in the Evening, the Britijh

with Part of the Spanijh Squadron, came 1731.to an Anchor something short of Leghorn departsRoad. (q) Mr. Cokman and the Confu\y° r m ^Jf nceicame on Board ; And the Captain df the y ’Town came off, with a Compliment Arrives atfrom the Marquis Gaponi t Governour .ofLeghorn.Leghorn.

At Noon, Sir Charles IVager went a- conferencesflioar, with Mr. Cokman, and the Spa- held aboutnijh Admiral and General, to confer tbe lntr °-with the Grand Duke's Minister, about f/jfspmihthe Reception of the Spanijh Garrisons. Garrisons?(r) As soon as they came to the ConsulsHouse, the Marquis de Rihucini (theGrand Duke's Minister, and Secretary atWar) and the Governour of the Place,came thither. About five, they enter-ed into a Conference, in Order to agreeon the Manner of the Introduction of theSpanijh Troops into Leghorn , and theIndependency of the Grand Duke's Go-vernment and Garrison, from the Spa-nijh General, fs)

Th e twentieth, the Mafquis de Rinu- j p /cini having received farther Instructions on

^ ' Wi* */7l,

from his Court, concerning certainPoints yet in Debate, a Regulation was

agreed

(n) The seven and twentieth of Augujl, theFleet being off of Althea, where they afterwardsanchored, Sir Charles sent the Kingjale to Leg-horn, with Letters to Mr. Coleman , His Majesty'sMinister at Florence, and to Mr Skinner, Consulat Leghorn , to enquire in what Disposition theGrand Duke might be, as to receiving the SpanijhGarrisons, &c. And when he came near Barcelo-na he sent the Lord Fere Beauclerk a-head, whoagreed with the Governour, that they should re^turn Gun for Gun.

(0) The twenty-second, the Kingjale return’dfrom Leghorn , with Letters to the Admiral, fromMr. Coleman, and Mr. Skinner, giving an Accountof the Grand Duke’s Accession to the Treaty ofVienna , of the twenty-second of July, N. S. by hisMinister there. The fifth of October, Sir Charlessent away Captain Barnes, in the Biddiford, withLetters to Mr. Coleman, and a Spanijh Colonel,and other Officers, sent by Count de Charni, (Ge-neral of the Spanijh Troops designed for Italy ) tosettle their Quarters at Leghorn, and other Places.The Spani/h Dragoons being all embark’d, thefame Morning early, nineteen Sattees, and sixGallies, failed for Leghorn, and were followed,some Hours after, by one Gaily more and eightTransports..

(p) They were to be about twenty Men ofWar of the Line, eight whoreof were at Cadiz,six were cruising in the Mediterranean, under theCommand of the Conde de Clavijo, and the Re-mainder were to come from the Bay of Biscay.

I have seen a List of these Ships, wsth theirForce, (how genuine I shall not determine) whichwas as follows 1

Ships.

Guns.

Ships.

Guns.

1 St.Jago.

84

ir Teresa.

64

2 St. Philip.

80

12 Cajlile.

64

3 St. Isabella.

80

13 Vol ante.

S 4

4 St. Stephen,

44

14 Incendio.

70

5 Queen.

72

tS St. Ann,

so

Ships,

Guns. Ships.

Guns.

6 Galicia.

70 16 Lion.

70

7 New Conquerour.

64 17 Prince.

70

S Galio.

84 18 Princess.

70

9 Andalufta ,

64 19 Ruby.

60

16 Hercules.

64 20 St. Andrew.

64

(y) The Salutes having been settled with theGovernour, and an Account thereof given to SirCharles, by Mr. Coleman, were performed, thenext Morning, in the following Manner. At ele-ven, the Town saluted with two and twenty Gnus-(eleven for the British and eleven for the SpanishFlags;) And the Admirals both answered toge-ther, with eleven each. Half an Hour after, theTown fired eight and forty Guns and Chambers,(as a Salute of four and twenty to each of the Ad-mirals) and they both anfwer'd together, with tourand twenty each ; After which; the Town salu-ted Count de Charni, with two and twenty Guns,and was answered with the like Number from theSpanifi Admiral's Ship.

(r) At landing, they were saluted, by theTown, with two and forty Guns and Chambers,and were given to understand, that they were oneand twenty for each of the Admirals. The fameAfternoon, the Fleet weigh’d, and towed into theRoad, and, at five, anchored in nine Fathom Wa-ter, and moor'd.

(s) So many Difficulties were flatted, in thisConference that nothing could be settled that E-vening ; So they parted, and appointed to meeton Board the Namur , the next Day, in the After-noon. It was there agreed, that fix Battalionsshould be introduced into Leghorn , two to go toPort Ferrajo, and two be quartered at Pisa, to-gether with three Hundred Dragoons, and theRemainder, being about sixty or seventy, to serveas a Picquet at Leghorn. However, some Disputearising about the Command, and the Parole, theMarquis deRinucini agreed to write to the GrandDuke for Orders.