... A 2 E T T E, Feb. 8 Whitehall, Feb. 8. His Majefty's Ship the Saphire, com- manded by Capt. Holmes, being on a Cruize on the Coaft of Portugal, and in Company with fome homeward bound Merchant Ships, which he was convoying into the Sea, faw two Sail on ...

... Toulon; that the Engagement continued three Days, and muft confequently be very bloody; and that two Seventy Gun Ships attack'd Admiral Matthews's Ship for a long time, and did her con- fiderablc Damage, &c. We hear a Bill is preparing td be laid before the ...

... of Stanton, Efq; Whitehall, Feb. 8. His Majefiy s Ship the Saphire, commanded by Captain Holmes, being on a Cruize on the Cotill of Portugal; and in Company with forne home: ward bound Merchant Ships, which he was convoying into the Sea, faw two Sail ...

... among other Things, that the Privateers of that Place had lately brought in 14 Englifli Ships, fome of which were richly laden. We expected to get fome Intelligence concerning the Galleons in the faid Letters, but prefume, that if they bro't any, the Court ...

... a favourable Gale, and ( njade the Harbour veiy plain the 30th, but faw no Men of { War there. We fe nt our Boat to get Intelligence, from* ' Vtllel that was coming out, who told them, they failed the « a6ih, and were near 30 Sail, including . three Flags; ...

... that the Succefs Man of War, with the Mer- chant Ships under her Convoy, arriv'd at that Port the 2d Initant, N. S. They left the Ships bound to Oporto well off the Bar of that Place. His Majefty's Ship the Bridgwater and the Serpent Bomb, aje, by the ...

... moved in tht Houfe of Commons, for an Account to be laid before them, of all the Intelligence received by his Majefly, or his Miniflers, relating to fitting out any Fleet or Ships of War in the Ports tf France fince the joth of April lafl, carr ,7 d in the ...

... London, February %7 Laft Saturday Night Exprefles were fent from the Lords of the Admiialty to the Captains of his Majefty's Ships the Sandwich, Duke, Princefs Royal, Princefs Amelia, Cornwall, Advice, Sa-- phire, and Sheernefs, which are compieatly mann'd ...

... remain • as. they are. • That the Commerce of the Cafpian Sea fhould not 'for the future be carried on but by Means of the Ships • belonging to the Subjeas of Perfia, and that the Englifh • and other Natioris that trade with Ruffia, fhould alfo • 4 make ...

... 15th of March. Befides the &id tiers: Upon this Intelligence Capt. Holmes failed for Vigo, which we have at Schardingen, a Refolution has been tat and on the rith eame off of that Town; and when his Ship to build another at Oberperg. As Loon as the Seafon ...

... but to endanger ours. This accounts likewife for the Squadrons of ift, 2d, and 3d R.ate Ships fent out only to beat the Seas, and be number'd in Lilts as Guard Ships for the Security of our Trade ; the rafli Attack on Carthagena ; the Wild Goofe Chafe in ...

... Field of Battle, rather than abandon themlelves to the Mercy of the Gcnoefe. They add, that the Malecontents having had Intelligence, that there was a Detaclimeil at Campolir ro, which forced the Inhabitants to pay the nine, they fent thither a Patty of ...