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The SpanishTroops land-ed.
Sir CharlesWager de-parts withhis Squa-dron,
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agreed on, for the Introduction and Di-stribution of the Spanish Garrisons. ( t )Two Days after, pursuant to this Regu-lation, about two Thousand Men, Spa-nish Troops, all that were on Board theShips then there, march'd into theTown. The next Day, Don Roderigode ‘Torres, the Spanish Rear-Admiral,came into the Road, with twelve SpanijhMen of War, having about two Thou-sand, 500 of the SpanifhTroop sonBoard,which were landed, and Part of themmarched to Pisa, to be quartered there.
The five and twentieth, Sir Charleswrote a Letter to the Count de Charni,to acquaint him, that, as all was adjust-ed, and the Season far advanced, hepropos’d to fail the next Day, unlesshis staying could be of farther Service.(u) Accordingly, the next Day, theMarquis de Rinucini , and several of theFlorentine Nobility having dined withSir Charles, on Board the Namur, in theEvening, the whole British Fleet weigh-ed, (x) and set Sail, leaving only theKingfale behind to wait for Letters.
As little or nothing remarkable hap-pened, after this, with the Squadronunder the Command of Sir Charles Mea-ger, I shall only mention, that he ar-rived, the tenth of December, at St. He-len’s, with five of the Men of War, un-der his Command, the Rest of the Squa-dron being separated at Sea by extreambad Weather in their Passage homewards;But they all arrived soon after, in Eng-land, except those who were ordered toremain at Gibraltar . Sir Charles arrivedin Town, the sixteenth, and going, soon
after, to wait on His Majesty, met with 1731.a most Gracious Reception.
Not long before this, (viz. the four ships put inand twentieth of November) the Lords Commission .Commissioners of the Admiralty werepleas’d to put some small Ships in Com-mission, ( y) and ordered them forthwithto be sheathed, in the several Portswhere they lay, in Order for their Sail-ing to the Wejt-Indies, as it was supposedto cruise on the Guarda Co/las.
The tenth of January, 1732. the, The King ofLords Commissioners of the Admiralty s P ain gi rfput two more small Ships in Commission, restmiing(z) Upon the repeated Complaints of the Depre-the Spaniards continuing their Depre'da- Rationstions, in the IVefl-Indies, and Mr. Keened ^yhisShss-Representations of them to the Court of JSpain, that Minister obtained, the Be-ginning of this Month,a Schedule or Or-der from His Catholick Majesty, whichhe sent to London, in Order to be trans-mitted to Rear-Admiral Stewart , to theIi r est-Indies, to be by him communicatedto the Spanish Governour’s. (a)
The thirteenth of the fame Month A Supplythe Parliament met ; And, the twenty- S r J nte df° ffirst the House of Commons resolved to * *grant a Supply for the Navy. ( b )
The ninth of February , the States T f e StaterGeneral acceeded to the Treaty conclud- ^distiled between the Courts of Vienna and Treaty be-Great Britain, the sixteenth of March, tuteen theof the foregoing Year. Courts ef
The third of June, the King embark- Great Lin-ed on Board the Carolina- Yacht, at ta i«-Greenwich, and set Sail, with the otherYachts which accompanied Him, thefame Evening. The fifth, they were
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(t) IT was signed by Sir Charles Wager, andMr- Coleman, on the Part of Great Britain ; ByF. Afcanio , Count de Charni, and the Marquis deMari , on the Part of Spain ; And by the Mar-quis de Rinucini, for the Grand Duke. It was a-greed, that Count de Charni should take the Oathsto the Grand Duke , the next Day, (as he did ac-cordingly) and that the Troops then on Board theShips should be landed the Day after.
(a) The Count returned him Thanks for whathe had done, and added, that as Possession was ta-ken of Leghorn (which Was the main Object) hewished him a good Voyage.
(#) Sir Charles had then with him, the Namur ,Princess Amelia, Cornwal, Graf ton, Edinburg,Buckingham, Kent, Hampton-Court, Tork , Canter-bury, Exeter, Dreadnought and He Hor, and wasjoined, a few Days after, at Sea, by the Gibral-tar, from Lisbon.
(y) The Experiment, Captain John St. Lo ;The Phœnix, Captain William Douglas; TheFlamborough, Captain Joseph Laws ■, The Deal-
Caftle , Captain - Jubin; All Sixth-Rates of
twenty Guns ; Besides the Grampus- Sloop, CaptainEdmund Williams , of eight Carriage- and ten
Swivel-Guns, and the /fh/f-Sloop, Captain Or-chard , with ten Carriage- and twelve Swivel-Guns.
(s) The Sbeerness, Captain Fytch, and theDolphin-, Captain Vincent, both Sixth-Rates, oftwenty Guns each.
(a) This Order was pretty peremptory ; Butas those were excepted from the Benefit of it,who were concerned in any illicit Commerce ;Without determining 'what was to be deemed illi-cit Commerce, and what not, a Door was left openfor them to continue their Piracies, under the spe-cious Pretence ot illicit Commerce ; As we havehad but too many Instances of their doing since.
If) They allowed eight Thousand Men, forthe Sea-Service, for the Year 1732. at fourPounds,per Man, per Month, for thirteen MonthsAndthe five and twentieth, they granted a fartherSupply of two Hundred and twelve Thousand,eight Hundred and eight'y-five Pounds, seven Shil-lings and five Pence, for the Ordinary of the Na-vy, for the fame Year. The third of April , theyfarther resolved, that sixty Thousand Pounds begranted His Majesty,on Account of Buildings, Re-buildings, and Repairs of His Majesty’s Royal Na-vy, in the Year 1732.