1709. A. C.patch'd a Canoe to gain Intelligence what these Ships were, and had Advice by her, the 22d, that the two biggest Ships were the Coventry, (formerly taken from us) and the Mignon, both from Guiney; one of the other a French Trader of 36 Guns, and the fourth a Dutch Ship which they had taken at the Bastimentoes ; and that the two Guiney Ships were ready to fail The 25th, Captain Hutchins failed from the Sambles and the 27th anchored at the Baftimentoes; and ha-> ving Advice by his Boat, the 1ft of May, that the Two Guiney Ships were failed the Night before, he weighed and ftood Northward; and on the 3d, about Noon, they both being to the Windward, bore down 'to him, and as they paft gave him fome Guns, and then wore as if they intended to engage that Evening. About fix he tacked, and keeping fight of them all Night, between 7 and 8 in the Morning, he came up within half Pistol-shot of the Mignon; but was obliged to engage her to Leeward, by reafon he could not carry out his Lee-Guns, tho both of them did: After he had been very warmly engaged with the Mignon, the Coventry got on his Lee-Row, and fired at his Mafts very briskly; but Capt. Hutchins finding he 'had the better of the Mignon, he play'd her very warmly, till his Main-top-fail-Yard was fhot in two, and then they got a head of him; however he fpliced his Rigging, and repaired the Damages as faft as he could, and followed them with all poffible Diligence; and about Three in the Morning perceived that Boats paffed very often between the Two Ships. By reafon of Calms he could not come up with them till the 6th, and by Seven that Morning was close up with the Coventry, and then he engaged her, the Mignon firing at a diftance, which did little or no Damage. Between Ten and Eleven, he brought_the Coventry's Main-maft by the Board, and then the Ene'mies Fire decreafing, fhe ftruck at half an Hour after Twelve. Her firft Captain was killed, and the fecond wounded, and about 70 Men killed in both of < the Enemies Ships; the Mignon's Men being put into . the Coventry, and no more left in her, than to carry her into the first fafe Port. The first Captain of the Mignon was aboard the Coventry, having receiv'd many Wounds aboard his own Ship, which was 'fo much difabled, that they judged the could not * proceed to France, having not 20 Men on Board her, befides Negroes, which was the Cause they removed the Money which was on Board her, into the Coventry In this handfome Action, Captain Hutchins had no more than 9 Men killed, and 12 wounded, having ( not not above 220 on Board, Servants included, befides 12 Negroes, when he attacked the Enemy; and, he fays, that the Money which was come to hand in the 'Prize, at the date of his Letter, amounted to about 20000 Pieces of Eight, a great Part whereof, was found about the French Seamen; and Rear-Admiral Wager gives an Account, that he is in hopes the Ships he fent to join Captain Hutchins, on the Coaft of Hifpa niola, will meet with the difabled Ship the Mignon, and very much affift Captain Hutchins in bringing his Prize to Jamaica. * A. C. 1709. Britian. About the latter end of May, Sir John Leake was conSir John Leake, ftituted Rear-Admiral of Great-Britian: And on the made Rear11th of June, Sir John Holland, Comptroller of Her Admiral of Majefty's Houfhold, was fworn of Her Majefty's GreatPrivy-Council, and took his Place at the Board accor- Proclamadingly. Two Days before, a Proclamation was or- tion for fudered to be publifhed, for fufpending and stopping the spending further Execution of the A, for the effectual Recruiting the Land-Forces and Marines: And on the 13th of the raising Řefame Month, Count Kufftein, Envoy-Extraordinary June 9. from the Emperor, had his Audience of Leave of Her Audiences Majefty; as had alfo the 19th, Major-General Ha- of Leave. guen, Envoy-Extraordinary from the Duke of Wolfem buttle. cruits, The Young Marquis du Quefne, Son to Monfieur du Quefne, Envoy from the Proteftant Cantons of Swifferland, to the States Genéral, being fent hither, with recommendatory Letters from the King of Pruffia, the Monf. da Elector of Hannover, and the Duke of Marlborough, to fol- Quefne licit Her Majefty's powerful Interpofition, in favour bas Audience of the Proteftants of France, in the enfuing Treaty who exprefof the Queen, had, on the 12th of June, his firft Audience of Her fes berfelfin Majefty, being introduced by the Earl of Sunderland, Favour of one of Her Majefty's Principal Secretaries of State. the French Proteftants. He was very gracioufly received by her Majefty who, after he had made his Compliment, was pleaf'd to tell him, That tho' she had already given particular Inftructions to Her Plenipotentiares about the Matter yet he would be glad to receive and countenance any Memorials he should ** M 3 ** think Accordingly, the Marquis du Quefne, prefented three Memorials; the firft of which fhew'd, both from Hiftory, and the Laws of Nations, That a Sovereign Prince or State may interpofe, as to Matters of Religion, in another Prince's Dominions: The fecond proved, That all Proteftant Princes are particularly oblig'd to efpoufe the Cause of the Reformed in the Kingdom of France: And the third was to beg her Majefty's Recommendatory Letter to the States-General in favour of the French Proteftants which her Majefty was graciously pleased to grant. A. C. 1709. Addrefs of Poor Palatines and other Ger mans come over in great Numbers. think fit to prefent, relating thereunto. Some Days after, the Earl of Sunderland, prefented to the Queen, the following Addrefs of the French Churches in London: MADAM, T is three Years fince Your Majefty was gracioufly pleafed to declare, in Answer to an humble Addrefs from us, That you were fenfibly touch'd with the unhappy Circumftances of the perfecuted Proteftants of France, and would have it in your Royal Thoughts to take Effectual Measures, in Conjunction with your Allies, to redrefs that Calamity. "We do not prefume to approach the Throne of your Sacred Majefty, as diffident or forgetful of a Promise fo worthy a great and a Proteftant Queen. Thofe Expreffions of your Majefty's Goodness are $ deeply imprinted in our Hearts; in them we have ever fince placed all our Joy and Hope; they have been the Comfort of our Brethren that are Prifoners in Dungeons, of our Confeffors who are Slaves in the Gallies, and of all who fuffer for a good Confcience under an opprefL five Government. Our Brethren in Foreign Nations fend Deputies to befeech your Majefty's Protection: but we approach, at this Time, your Majefty, only to return our Thanks, and exprefs our Gratitude in the moft refpectful man ner. Your Majefty's great Piety has prevented any prefent 'Petition from us, your Majefty having, in Imitation of 'Providence, whofe Inftrument you are, granted before we have asked; and without an Application from us, in behalf of the Reformed of the French Nation, we receive the joyful Account that this has been moft particularly recommended by your Majesty, to your Mini6 fters in the Treaty of Peace. 'May Heaven continue to blefs your Arms, favour f your great Designs, and long preferve your Perfon for the Tranquility of the Church, the Happiness of Europe, and the Joy of your People. By this Time another fort of Refugees, did more immediately employ her Majefty's Compaffion, and befpeak her Royal Beneficence, and the Charity of the Nation for about the Beginning of the Month of May, great Numbers of poor Palatines, Swabians, and other Germans, most of them Proteftants, being driven from their Habitations, either by the oppreffive Exactions of the French, or the Defolation of their Country, occafioned by the Calamities of the War, began to come over into this Kingdom of Great Britain; infomuch much that by the middle of June, they were increased to Six Thousand, Five Hundred, and Twenty, viz. Men, having Families, One thoufand two hundred feventy eight; Wives, Óne thousand two hundred thirty four Widows, Eighty nine; unmarried Men, Three hundred eighty four; unmarried Women, One hundred and fix; Boys above 14 Years old, Three hundred feventy nine; Girls above 14 Years old, Three hundred feventy four Boys under 14 Years old, One thousand three hundred fixty feven; Girls under 14 Years, One thousand three hundred and nine. A. C. 1709. on Black heath Of these there were Husbandmen and Vinedreffers, One thoufand eighty three; Schoolmafters, Ten; Herdfmen, Four, Wheelwrights, Thirteen; Smiths, Forty fix; Cloth and Linnen-Weavers, Sixty fix;_Carpenters, Ninety; Bakers Thirty_two; Malons, Forty eight; Coopers and Brewers, Forty eight; Joiners, Twenty; Shoemakers, Forty; Taylors, Fifty eight, Butchers, Fifeteen; Millers, Twenty feven; Sadlers; feven; Stocking-Weavers, Five; Tanners, Seven; Miners, Three; Brickmakers, Six; Potters, Three; Hunters, Five; Turners, Six; Surgeons, Three; Locksmiths, Two; Hatters, Three; Silversmiths, Two, Bricklayers, Four; Glaziers, Two; Cook, One; Student, One; Carvers, Two. Thefe People being deftitute of all Neceffaries, they must have perifhed, had not the Queen, out of her Royal Bounty, first ordered a daily Allowance to be diftributed to them; They encamp and at the fame Time, a fufficient Number of Tents to be delivered out of the Tower, for their Encamping and near on Black-Heath, near Greenwich; and in a large Field Cambernear Camberwell (to which Places Multitudes of Londoners repaired to fee them) And afterwards, upon the dix, Num * Petition of the Juftices of the Peace for the County III. of Middlefex, granted † a Brief for the Collection of the p. 34.and Charity of all well difpofed Perfons, within the faid Seqq.A County. Not many Days after her Majefty ordered, their Relief Brief for that this Brief be extended to, and put in Execution, granted within the whole Kingdom of Great-Britain; and, at June 16. the fame Time, appointed feveral Perfons, in the most June 23. eminent Stations, to be Truftees and Commiffioners, for Collecting, Receiving, and Difpofing of the Moneys to be collected by virtue of the faid Brief, for the Subfiftence and Settlement of the Poor Palatines. The Kind Reception and Entertainment which these diftreffed Refugees found here, having been noised abroad, and Encouraged many other Germans to leave their defolate Habitations, in order to follow their Country-men, whereby the Numbers of the faid Pala tines encreafed fo faft, that the Commiffioners were puzzled * M 4 well. * See the Appen A. C. 1709. The Ger puzzled either how to fubfift, or Dispose of them; Her Majefty's Secretary at the Hague; was directed to put a ftop to their coming over; And, because a confiderable Number of German Roman-Catholicks, had come along man Papifts with the Proteftants, fuch of them as did not think fit jent back. voluntarily to change their Religion, were at the Queen's Expence fent down to Holland, where, thro' unexampled Generofity, her Majefty ordered a Sum of Money to be diftributed to them, towards their Charges in their Jourhomewards. As for the Palatines who ftaid behind in Great-Britain, fome of them were entertained in private Families; others difpofed of to feveral Parishes, who were allowed a certain Sum for each of them; Others fent to Ireland; Others to Carolina; and the greatest Part of those who furvived the Hardfhips they underwent, to New-York, under the Direction of the Commiffary Duprè who, with them, failed for that Country: about the beginning of April 1710. together with Colonel Hunter, Go The Palatines difpofcd of. ney Parliament vernor of that Country. June 24. " further pro- On the 23d of June, the British Parliament met, acrogued, She- cording to the laft Prorogation, and were, by Comriffs elected, miffion further prorogued to the 6th Day of October. The Queen The next Day, Sir Richard Hoare, Knight and Alderremoves to man, and Thomas Dunk, Efquire; were elected to ferve Windfor as Sheriffs of the City of London, and County of Middlesex, June 30. for the Year eufuing, on the 30th of the fame Month, The Marquis du the Queen dined at Kenfington, after which her MajeQuefne bas fty, with the Court, removed to Windfor; where, on bis Audience the 3d of July, the Marquis du Quefne, Agent for the of Leave, French Refugees, had his Audience of Leave of Her Envoy bas Majefty. Not many Days after, Francis Manning, Esq; bis private Secretary to Mr. Stanian, her Majefty's Envoy-ExtraAudience ordinary to the Cantons of Swifferland, was appointed The Earl of Her Majesty's Secretary to the Republick of the Grifons. The Genoese Dorset in Fall'd Con On the 16th of July, the Marquis Viali, Envoy Extraordinary from the Republick of Genoa, had his private Audience of Leave of Her Majefty at Windsor; And the fame Day, the Earl of Dorfet and Middlefex, Conftable of Dover Caftle, and Lord-Warden of the Cinque Ports, took Poffeffion of that Office, with the following Solemnity. His Lordship having heard a Sermon preached by his Chaplain to the Ports at St. Mary's Church at Dover, he was attended to the Castle by feveral Barons of the Ports, and the principal Gentry of the Country, where he was received with a triple Discharge of the Cannon. His Lordship was conducted from thence to a Place called Bradentone-Hill, in the following manner; the Out-guard Men, belonging to the Caftle of Dover, marching two and two, with |