fen had lain on board, fo many ere dead, fick, or upon Landing eserted, that when they muftered here appeared but 4,500. Which ade him break fix Regiments to the reft, and fent the Officers ack to raise new Men. The State f the Army in Spain before his Arval was thus: The Forces under e Lord Galway and Lord Peterbough in the laft Year were 24 Reiments, which when fent over were 8,852 Men, but by Death and Desertion were reduced to 13,809, id of them too 1,792 were Prifoers with the Enemy. The Parliaent in the laft Seffion had made rovifion for 29.395 Men to ferve 1 Spain and Portugal. Whereof here were at that time as abovefaid e 24 Regiments, and thofe under e E. Rivers, to which the Queen ropofed to add two new Regiments compleat the Number. Her Mafly being not yet apprized of the Reduction of the Regiments.

King Charles in a Council of War t Valencia in December 1706, reolved that all the Forces fhould & in one Body, and enter Caftile by he Way of Arragon. Some of the Confederate Generals were for actng on the Defenfive, but the other Council prevail'd, and they marched Accordingly. Tyrawley's Regiment, and two Battalions of Marines that were quartered in Catalonia, were detained there to guard that Province; and King Charles remained there alfo with 29 Squadrons, and 12 Battalions. So that the Army which took the Field April the 6th, amounted but to 42 Battalions and 53 Squadrons, of Englifh, Dutch, and Portuguese. They attacked and destroyed the Enemies Magazines in feveral Places with Succefs, but at Villena met with fo refolute a Defence, that they were held in Play till the Enemy came up. The French and Spaniards com

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manded by the Duke of Berwick, were 54 Battalions, and 76 Squa- 1707. drons, and the Duke of Orleans was advancing with 7 or 8,000 Men more. The Confederates confider'd that they muft either fight the Enemy, or abandon the Kingdom of Valencia to their Fury, the former therefore was refolved on. On the 25th of April the Battle of Almanza was fought, wherein the English and Dutch behav'd themselves very bravely, and pufh'd the Enemy, but the Portuguele gave Way on the first Attack, and the whole Weight of the Enemy lay upon the reft, which in the end bore them down, and a terrible Slaughter enfued, for at first the Enemy denied Quarter. The Lord Galway received two Wounds in his Face, and a great many Officers were killed, in all 88, and 285 taken Prifoners, befides a great Number of private Soldiers. The Earl of Galway collected the fcattered Remains of English and Dutch, and retreated. The Marquifs das Minbas with the Portuguefe had confulted their Safety betimes, and drew towards Tortofa to join K. Charles. The Earl of Galway having put Garrifons in proper Places, did the fame.

Valencia and Saragofa fubmitted to the Enemy, Xativa and Aleyra were taken; Denia was befieged, but being relieved by Troops from Alicant, and fome of our Men of War coming before the Place in due Time, the Town was faved; and the Earl of Galway fo well difpofed the Army, that the Enemy was not able to penetrate into Catalonia.

The Duke of Marlborough made a Journey to Hanover and to Alt-Raftadt in Saxony, where the King of Sweden then kept his Quarters, before he opened the Campaign. On the 16th of May he came to Bruffels, and on the 21ft he went to the Army. But there was nothing done this Campaign;

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A. D. Campaign; for altho' the Duke endeavoured to engage the Enemy divers times, they kept fo clofe in the ftrong Camp they lay in, that it was impracticable to attack them.

The Affair that made most Noife, and moft raised our Expectations, this Summer, was the Siege of Thoulon in Provence, the Place where the French Fleet of Great Ships lie. An Under taking of great Glory to the Confe. derates, but too great Difficulty to bring to its defired Iffue. The Duke of Savoy and Prince Eugene led the Land Army appointed for the Siege, and Sir Cloudfley Shovel com manded the Confe erate Fleet to affist and fuftain them. This Defign had been concerted with the ftricteft Secrecy between the Queen of Great Britain, the States General, and the Duke of Savoy. And was fo long a Secret to the French, that the Army was well advanced on its March, before they fufpected the Defign.

It must be premised that the Imperial Court at this time were too obftinately bent upon reducing the Kingdom of Naples to its Obedience; whether upon an Intimation of a fecret Overture of Partition France had made for Peace, wherein the Spanish Monarchy being divided into two Parts, the Indies and the Maritime Provinces of Spain in one, and Catalonia with the Italian Dominions and the Netherlands in the other, the Houfe of Auftria was to take its Choice, I fay whether on this Account, as has lately been fuggefted, or whether merely for the fake of being able to check the Pope, that Court was inflexible in it, and accordingly took away 14 or 15,000 Men, which might otherwife have been used in the Expedition to Provence.

On the 30th of June the Duke of Savoy, with the Army, let forth for Nice, making Feints at the fame

time by Parties of his Forces, as if he intended to invade Dauphin. Sir Cloudfley Shovel at Final and Genoa took on board the Ammuni tion, Provifion, and other Necelfaries, and failed to Nice, where on the 9th of July he entertained with great Magnificence his Royal Highnefs on board, and Matters being 1 there concerted for the Paffage d the River Fur, the Admiral fallt in the Mouth of that River, lan:ed fome Seamen, and beat the Fri from the Entrenchments they had made on the Banks of it, which gave Opportunity to the Army to p at a Ford above. They afterward purfued their March; but thro' the Difficulties of the Way, the Her: of the Weather, and the Provifion not keeping pace, frequent Ha were neceffary, fo that they can not to Thoulon till the 26th of July.

Marfhal Teffe, who commanded the French Army in Dauphise, find ing how the Enemy was difpofed, drew the Forces out of that Province to march for Thenlon. Hir felf rode Poft, and arrived there the 10th, he gave effectual Orders fr improving the Fortifications, pl ing Cannon, and forming an e trenched Camp without the Tear All which was performed with e tream Diligence. He paffed fres thence to Marfeilles, gave the re ceffary Orders there, and then re turned to his Army, which marched with fuch speed, that by the 25th Forty Batalions were arrived, and placed in the Town and the fr trenchments. Marthal Tee lected alfo other Troops, which M davi had brought out of Lambert, and Detachments were made from the French Army on the Rhine and in Flanders, which moved in long Marches to come up in time.

The Situation of Theulen was ich, that confidering the valt Number of

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A. D. Firebrand dash'd on the Rocks, and 1707. founder'd, but the Captain and 24 of his Men got afhore. The Phoenix run aground, but her Men faved themselves. Sir George Byng in the Royal Anne, by excellent Steerage changed her Courfe in a Moment, and faved the Ship, when she was juft running upon the Danger. The Lord Durley in the St. George alfo miraculously efcap'd. Sir Cloudley's Body floated afhore, and was taken up by the Country People, and buried in the Sands. On the 26th it was taken up again, and brought aboard the Salisbury, and afterwards interred at Westminfter, where her Majefly erected a fumptuous Monument over his Grave.

On the 2d of October the firft Parliament of Great Britain met, and the Commons being commanded to chufe their Speaker, they elected their former, John Smith, Efq; who was prefented the 30th, and then by the Queen's Command, both Houfes adjourned to November the 6th. On that Day her Majefty made a Speech, wherein the fet forth the prefent State of Affairs abroad, advifed them to provide the neceffary Supplies, left to their Confideration what might be thought neceffary to make the Union more advantageous to both Nations, and recommended Unanimity.

The Commons addreffed the Queen upon her Speech, but the Lords omitted that, and turned the Motion of it into a Refolution of taking into Confideration the State of the Nation. November the 19th that House went into a grand Committee upon that Subject. The Lord Haverfham, and others, exhibited Complaints; the principal whereof being upon the Management of the Admiralty, that was further confidered in both Houfes, and the Merchants heard upon the Subject of their Loffes and Disappointments.

It produced in the End two exce!lent Acts this Seffion, as we ha fhew by and by.

The feveral Debates in the Hock of Lords about the Earl of Petersrough, and in the Houfe of Commons about Sir Thomas Hardy, Commander of the Convoy to Lisbee, Commodore Edwards, and Admiral Whetfone, as alfo about Capt. Kerr, are too tedious to have Place here. The Supplies granted this Sethion amounted to 5,933,657. Tx Ways and Means for Raifig thefe Sums were, the Land T of 4 s. in the Pound. The Mal Duty. Upon the feveral Duties granted laft Year for Annuities a farther Sum was now enacted of 640.000 l. For like Annuities of 40,000! per Annum at the fame Price. Cal toms laid for 95 Years, on which ere Million of Pounds were to be taken in for purchafing more Annuities at 16 Years Purchase. The Egj ha Company propofed to advance 1,200,000 1. for the Service of the War, if they might have their Tera enlarged to the Year 1726, c tenting themfelves with the faz: Intereft they already received for the two Millions they formerly a vanced, which was comply'd with and enacted accordingly. And the General Mortgage, as it was called, that is, divers Duties at the CuftomHoufe, was continued from 1712 to 1714, for a Loan of 729,760 which compleated the Sums voted.

On the 3d of February the Commons having taken into their Confideration the State of the Army in Spain in the last Year, and Mr. S. John, Secretary at War, giving an Account of the Provifion made for that Service; the House refolv'd, That it appear'd that of the 29,395 English Forces provided for by Parliament for the Service in Spain and Portugal in the Year

there