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 By EDWARD V E R N O N, E^; 
 
 VICE AD MIR A L of the Blue, 
 
 AND 
 
 Commander in Chief of his Majejifs Ships and 
 ^elfeh in the W e s T-I n d i e s. 
 
 c T T ^ ^ Majefty*s Ships defigned for the pre- 
 fent Expedition being now in a Readinefs 
 
 T'^ 9/r C H A L o N E R O G L E, Rear-Admiral of the 
 Blue Squadron of his Majejifs Fleet. 
 S I R, 
 
 H 
 
 JL Jl to proceed to Sea, agreeable to my ge- 
 neral Orders for their being ready as this Day ; 
 r And as the Difficulties of the Channel for our 
 Q getting to Sea, make it highly imprudent to at- 
 
 1 tempt doing it together ; 
 
 You are hereby required and direded, to detach 
 
 , two Ships of your Divifion to Sea, with the iirft 
 
 3 Detachment of Tranfports that General tVentworib 
 
 g Ihall fend you Advice are ready to proceed to Sea ; 
 
 2 and to detach two more Ships of your Divifion, 
 ui with fuch as fhall be ready to proceed on the fe- 
 ]\ cond Day ; and to go out with the Remainder of 
 < your Divifion on the third Day ; ordering thofc 
 
 Detachments that have prcceeded you to be work- 
 ing to windward under an eafy fail, to colledl them- 
 felves together under Tellows, or Morant Bay, till 
 you come up with them, for proceeding with 
 them, with an eafy fail, to our firft Place of ge- 
 
 B neral 

 
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 neral Rendezvous in Donna Maria Bay : Which 
 Rendezvous the Colonel of the Train, and the 
 Agent of the Tranfports, have both of them my 
 Orders to deliver to the refpedive Storefhips and 
 Tranfports under their Orders ; and it is to be de- 
 li ver'd fealed up, for being open'd only in cafe 
 of Separation. And you will give the faid Ren- 
 dezvous to the commanding Officer of the feparate 
 Detachments of your Divifion : And you know the 
 next Rendezvous that is to be given, in purfuance 
 of our laft general Council of War. 
 
 As I fhall be following you myfelf the next Day, 
 and leaving Orders with fome of my Divifion to 
 bring up the remaining Ships after us, I fhall foon 
 join you ; or you will have a fhort Retreat to me, 
 in cale of meeting any fuperior Squadron of the 
 Enemy. 
 
 All Spanijh Ships or VefTels that you fliall meet 
 with, you are to ufe your utmoft Endeavours to 
 take, fmk, burn, or deftroy. 
 
 And as to the daring and unauthorized Attempts 
 of the Subjects of any Nation to cover and protect 
 the Ships, Peifons, or EfFe6ls of his Majefty*s 
 Enemies the Spaniards i you are to take care to 
 prevent the lame, and to feize the faid Spaniards 
 Ships, Perfons, or Effeds, wherever you fhall find 
 the fame on the Seas *, as you will the Ships and 
 VefTels of any Nation whatfoevcr, that you fhall 
 meet with attempting to fupply his Majefty's Ene- 
 mies the Spaniards with contraband Stores, for their 
 being further proceeded againfl according to Law : 
 Taking care to give particular Diredions, for fe- 
 curing the Papers and Effeds of all Ships or Vef- 
 fels fo taken or feizcd, from all manner of Plunder 
 and Embezzlement. 
 
 But on meeting any of the Guarda Cojlas of his 
 mofl Chrifiian Majefty, you are to prefcrve with 
 
 them
 
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 them that good Correfpondence that ought to^ 
 fubfift between the Subjefts of Princes in Amity 
 with each other. For, &c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne in Port Royal HzrhovoTy 
 Jamaica^ this 2 5thof7f, 1741. 
 
 E. Vernon. 
 
 ^0 Captain R e n t o N e of the Rippon. 
 By, ^c, 
 
 YO U are hereby required and direded, with his 
 Majefty's Ship the Rippon under your Com- 
 mand, to put to Sea with all poflible Expedition, 
 and make the beft of your Way to windward ; and 
 to get up into a proper Station for cruizing to 
 windward of St. Jago, for intercepting the Trade 
 of the Enemy going to or coming from that Port, 
 and obferving fuch other Diredions as you have 
 my verbal Orders for. And the Seahorfe being un- 
 der my Orders to cruize off there to the loth. 
 of July, you are to look out for her in the faid 
 Station, as you may expeft to meet Intelligence 
 from her, for your better Government in the Execu- 
 tion of my Orders. And on meeting with her, you 
 are to deliver Capr. Allen my Orders for putting 
 himfelf under your Command, and to continue 
 him cruizing under your Orders, as beft fhall an- 
 fwer the due Execution of the Service you are or- 
 dered upon ; either by keeping him off St. Jago 
 and yourfelf further to windward of Walthenam 
 B^y, or porting him other wife, as you fhall judge 
 moll expedient from the Intelligence you may 
 receive. 
 
 All Spanijh Ships and Veflels that you fhall meet 
 with, you are to ufc your utmoft Endeavours to 
 take, fink, burn, or deftroy. 
 
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 And as to the daring and unauthorized Attempts 
 of the Subje<5ls of any Nation, to rover and protect 
 the Ships, Perfons, or Effects of his Majefty*s 
 Enemies the Spaniards \ you are not to permit the 
 fame, but to feize the faid Ships, Perfons, or Ef- 
 fects of his Majefty's Enemies the Spaniards^ where- 
 ever you fhall find the fame on the Seas ; as you 
 will the Ships and VefTels of any Nation, that you 
 fhall meet with going to fupply his Majefty's Ene- 
 mies the Spaniards with Contraband Stores, for 
 their being further proceeded againft here accord- 
 ing to Law. 
 
 , But on meeting with any of the Guarda Cojias 
 of his moft Chriftian Majefty, you are carefully to 
 preferve with them that good Correfpondence that 
 ought to fubfift between Officers in the ServicQ 
 of Princes in Amity with each other. 
 
 And you are to continue cruizing a little to 
 windward of Walthenam Bay, to the 30th Day of 
 July next, or your looner receiving further Or- 
 ders from me by fome of my Cruizers in the faid 
 Station. For which this Ihall be your Warrant. 
 
 Given under my Hand, on board his Majefty's 
 Ship the B(ryne^ in Fort Royal Harbour, Jamaica^ 
 this 2 5th of JunCy 1741. 
 
 e:v. 
 
 To the Hon, General Y/eut wort h. 
 SIR, 
 
 HIS Majefty's Ships defigned for the prefent 
 Expedition being now in a Readinefs for the 
 Sea, agreeable to my Orders to them to be ready 
 as this Day, I could not omit the firft Opportunity 
 of . acquainting you with it. 
 
 And as the Difficulties of the Channel for our 
 going out, make it nectary to proceed to Sea by 
 
 Detach-
 
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 Detachments, Sir Chaloner O^le has my Orders for 
 detaching two of his Divifion to Sea, as Convoy to 
 the firft of our Tranfports, or Storefhips, that you 
 Ihall fignify to him your having in a Readinefs to 
 proceed with them. And he will detach two more 
 the fecond Day, and go out himfelf with thofe that 
 are ready the third -, as I propofe to do myfelf the 
 fourth Day with my Divifion, leaving only behind 
 us one Ship, as Convoy to whomever you may not 
 have ready to proceed with us then. 
 
 And I believe you will agree with me, in think- 
 ing we cannot too foon proceed, to avail ourlelvcs 
 of the Alarm that may be given his Majefty's Ene- 
 mies, by the Appearance of the large Fleet under" 
 Convoy of Mr. Le0ock*s Squadron towards the 
 Hffvanna : And the fooner we are going, the longer 
 Time we (hall have to ad: in before the Rains come 
 in upon us. 
 
 And Capt. Rentone has my Orders for proceed- 
 ing to Sea before us to-morrow, for making all 
 neceflary Obfervations, as I nryentioned to you that 
 I intended. 
 
 With my bed Wifhes for Succcfs to our joint- 
 Endeavours for his Majefty*s Service, I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, June 25, 1741. XoUT Mqfi OkiHefU, 
 
 Humble Servant^ 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To the Hdn. General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AFTER congratulating you on our Forces 
 having hitherto got io fafely into the Sea, 
 without any ill Accident ; I fend this Letter by 
 Capt. Tr^(7r, to let you know I dcfign, as I -formerly 
 acquainted you, to fail my fetf to-morrow, with 
 
 the
 
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 the Remainder of my Divifion that are in prefent 
 Condition for proceeding. And as it is lb necef- 
 fary for us to be at the Head of our Forces as foon 
 as poffible, and to keep together, I am perfwaded 
 you are very ready and defirous of faiUng at the 
 fame Time : And if there fhould be any of your 
 Tranfports or Storefhips that may require any 
 longer Delay, if you will pleafe to advife me of it, 
 as I have fome Ships that will follow me foon, I 
 will leave all the neceffary Orders with them, for 
 taking them under their Convoy and bringing 
 them after us. 
 
 When I refleft on the prodigious Sum this Ex- 
 pedition has coft our Royal Mafter, and how high 
 the Nation has carried their Expectations from it, 
 I cannot but be animated with a Zeal to exert the 
 utmoft of my Abilities, to anfwer the Expediation 
 of our Royal Mafter and the Nation -, and am per- 
 fwaded you are animated with the fame Zeal, and 
 will look with a juft Refentment on all who fhall 
 ihew any Want of it. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 J^oynf, June 30, 1741. Your mofi Obedient, 
 
 Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AFTER congratulating you on our being got 
 fafe out into the Sea without any Accident, 
 with our great Ships, and through that hazardous 
 Channel (which I chink a good Providence, and 
 a happy Omen of our future Succefs -,) I fend this 
 to deiire you would return me, by the Bearer, the 
 Papers I left with you for your Perufal, as I have 
 a View of making a further Ufe of them, as a Key 
 
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 to my future Enquiries, to avail ourfelves ^11 we 
 can of the happy Providence of having in our 
 Hands fo many proper Perfons to enquire of. 
 
 I am giving Orders now to Capt. Cleland, to- 
 take under his Care, Prote<5bion and Convoy, the 
 Leewardmoft of our Tranfports and Storefliips, 
 that we way advance a little fafter, to get up with 
 the main Body of thofe fcnt to Sea before us. 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 Boy fie at Sea, July 2, Tour mo ft Obedient, 
 
 *74^' Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To Captain Cleland, of the Worcefler. 
 By, ^c. 
 
 YO U are hereby required and direded, to come 
 with an eafy Sail after us, for keeping under 
 your Care, Prote<5lion and Convoy, the Leeward- 
 moft of our Tranfports and Storefhips, and con- 
 ducing them fafely to the firft Place of our general 
 Rendezvous, (which you have had delivered you 
 open, and they have received like wife) off Cape 
 Donna Maria. And after getting them there, if 
 you don't find me there, or other Orders from me 
 by fome of my Cruizers, you are then to proceed 
 with them to my fecond Place of general Rendez- 
 vous (which you have received feaPd, to be open*d 
 there j) and to give them there Orders conformable 
 to it, for knowing where to come, if by any Acci- 
 dent they fhould lofe Company with you. And 
 this you are ftridlly in joined to take all poffible 
 Care in, as you muft expecft to anfwer, at your 
 Peril, for any Difappointment that may arile to 
 the Expedition through any Careleflliefs or Remifl- 
 nefs in you, or your Officers; whom you will 
 
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 give the ftridbeft Orders to, for being careful in 
 their relpe6tive Watches ; and you will carry a 
 Top Light, for their keeping Company with you, 
 and making all the proper Signals to them by 
 Day and by Night *, and repeat my Signals while 
 we are in View, that they may obferve your being 
 appointed to take Care of them. For, ^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne^ at Sea, this 2d of 
 July, 1 741. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AS I am going to fend Capt. Broderick, in the 
 Sborebam, to Jamaica, who is juft returned 
 from his Cruize off Carthagena, I have fent an 
 Officer to wait on you for any Letters you may 
 have to fend to Jamaica by him. He found every 
 Thing lying in the Condition we left it in, having 
 had the Opportunity to obferve it, by his fending 
 his Lieutenant in at Boca Grande, and fo by Cajiillo 
 Grande, to the Town, with fome Prifoners I had 
 promifed the Vice Roy the RemifHon of to him : 
 But they ftopp*d the Boat before it reached the 
 Town, and defired the Officer to go back to Caf- 
 alio Grande, and wait there for the Anfwer to my 
 Letter. Whilft he was there, he had the Opportu- 
 nity to obferve they were loading Stones from the 
 Ruins of that Caftle, to carry to Carfhagena -, and 
 he learnt by a Negroe that fpoke Englifh, that 
 they were employed in new Works, which they 
 were raifing at Hemini, expelling another Vifit 
 from us. He looked in at Boca Chica likewifc, 
 And found Things juft as we left them, only a 
 Guard placed at the Ruins of Boca Chica Caftle, 
 
 After congratulating you on our happily being 
 got fo far in our Way that we may foon hope to
 
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 be aifembled, for proceeding to Walthenaffi \ I fend 
 you, inclored, the Examination, taken in.Wnring, 
 oijohn Drake, who is fo well acquainted with the 
 Road from thence to St. Jago. And as that is an 
 open Town, and the Accefs to it fo plain and clear 
 from thence, I cannot but flatter rnyielf we have 
 a very eafy and fure Game to play. I am fully 
 perfwaded that ther^ is no way to begin it with 
 Succefs but from thence ; and I think it is fo fure 
 of Succefs, that I mention it lb, that you may 
 think of giving neceffary Orders for preparing 
 your recovered Men to be ready for embarking, to 
 come to us on the firft Orders. I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyncy off the Navajfa^ ToUT moji Ohe^eUt, 
 
 >/ri2, 1741. Humble Servant, 
 E. V. 
 
 To cS/> C H A L O N E R O G L E. 
 
 S P'R, 
 
 AFTER congratulating you on our having got 
 our Flock up in fo fair a Way, I am glad to 
 acquaint you, I have likewife had the Pleafure to 
 have my Cruizers join me, both from Carthagena 
 and Leogane : And as they bring nothing very ma- 
 terial, mall defer acquainting you with Particulars 
 till, I have the Pleafure of feeing you next. 
 
 But having drawn up the Information from the 
 Perfbn I have had fo long on board, in Writing, 
 to fend it to the General to-day, and to let him 
 fee how very prafticable it is to come to St. Jago 
 from JVahhenam *, I fend you now inclofed a Copy 
 of it. 
 
 And having got fome further Informations by 
 means of a Prifoner from thfcnce, I think we have 
 all the Lights we want, and fhall be glad to chat 
 over Particulars with you. 
 
 C I intend 
 
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 I intend now only to gather together what we 
 have of our Flock, and to proceed direftly with 
 them to Walthenam : But want to fee Wallace, to 
 know if he has yet dehvered qut our fecond Ren- 
 dezvous for Walthenam Bay, which, if not done, will 
 be neceflary to be done firfl -, and then I will leave 
 Capt. T^ent to cruize for a fhort Time off Cape 
 Donna Maria, for picking up all Stragglers, and 
 bringing them after us. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 Boyne, ofF the Navafa, Tour moji Obedient, 
 
 July I z, 1 741 . Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 P. S. Capt. Allen brought me fixty-four Pri- 
 foners from St. Jago the Evening you failed. Pray 
 order your People to be careful in repeating my^ 
 Signals. 
 
 Declaration of Jo liti Drake, Mariner. 
 
 HE was taken, going from the Bay of Honduras 
 to New England, by a. Spanijh Schooner, about 
 thirteen Years ago, and carried into Trinidado ; 
 where he ftaid about a Week, and then went to 
 Puerto del Ppncipe, in order to get a Paflage to 
 Jamaica : But finding he could get a very com- 
 fortable Living there by fifhing, he remained and 
 followed that Employment about ten Years, fome- 
 times at Puerto del Principe, fometimes at Bayamo, 
 Atid fometimes at St.Ja^o : From whence he went 
 to Punto d* Enemigo, a Place about feven Leagues 
 to windward of Guantinam, v/here he lived about 
 two Years by hunting, paying one Don Jofipb 
 Muftilier (a Prieft) theXhird of whatever he killed. 
 He is very well acquainted with all tlie Coaft, 
 and as far as about five Leagues within Land, 
 
 from
 
 from St.Jago to the faid Punio d* Enemigo. Guan- 
 tinam is a fine large Harbour, about two or three 
 Leagues broad, and has a Frefti- Water River run- 
 ning into it on the Leewardmoft Side 5 up which 
 River for about a League there is four or five Fa- 
 thom Water, and on the Larboard Side the King's 
 Salina. Further up, the Water fhoals, but in fuch 
 a Manner that this Ship's Longboat can very well 
 pafs about three or four Leagues ; farther than 
 which even a Doree cannot pafs, being only Ankle 
 deep. About two Leagues from the King's Salinay 
 upwards on the Starboard Side, are two other Sa- 
 linas^ from which Salinas to a Village called Santa 
 Catalina^ containing about an hundred Houfes and 
 one Church, it is eight Leagues. The Inhabitants 
 arc Indians and Mulaitoes, who live by hunting and 
 raifing of Stock. This Village of Sania Catalina 
 lies in the direft Road from St. Jago to Baraccoat 
 it being from St. Jago to Santa Catalina thirteen 
 Leagues, and from Santa Catalina to Baraccoa thirty 
 Leagues ; and he has himfelf walked from Santa 
 Catalina to St. Jago in twelve Hours. The Road 
 from the Barkadier to Santa Catalina is about two 
 Leagues along the River Side; from thence a 
 good open Road for about two Leagues more, 
 when there is a fine large Savanna for about two 
 Leagues more ; and the remaining two Leagues, 
 the Road is likewifc good and open, you every now 
 and then meeting with a Crawle or Cattle-Pen. 
 From Santa Catalina to St. Jago., the Road is for 
 the moft part woody. Hills and Dales ; but, in the 
 narroweft Part, fo broad that ten Men may very 
 well go a-breaft; and every here and there you 
 will fee a Crawle or Cattle-Pen, and find three or 
 four Rivulets in the Pafllxge. In the dry Seafon 
 of the Year, which is from Obloher to JunL\ all 
 
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 thefe Roads are very good, and, even in the rainy 
 Seafon, paflable without much Difficulty. 
 
 'The foregoing Account I affirm to he true^ to the 
 beji of my Knowledge. Dated on board his Majcfty^s 
 Ship the Boyne, July lo, 1741-. 
 
 ^yitf>efs, John Drake. 
 
 Thomas Watfon, 
 William Rogers. 
 
 Declaration <?/ Henry Cavelier. 
 
 HE was Carpenter of an AJfiento Brigantine, 
 feized in the Port of St. Jago about twenty- 
 three Months ago, and, with all the reft of the 
 Crew, made a Prifoner. Whilft there, he was em- 
 ployed at Morro^ EJirella, and Santa Catalina Caf- 
 tles, making- a Shed for the Engliflj Prifoners at 
 work to lie under, repairing three Canoas, making 
 one hundred and fifty Hodds, fifty Rammers for 
 ramming and levelling the Batteries, a large Wheel 
 for boring fome honeycombed Guns, cutting down 
 Timber in the Mountain about a League and a 
 half off, making nine Carriages, Doors and Door 
 Frames for the Bread-Room, two Doors for the 
 intended Powder - Room , and fundry Coopers 
 Tools. 
 
 At the Entrance of the Port, on the Starboard 
 Side, is a low Battery called the Punto^ which has 
 two 12 Pounders and three 6 Pounders, and orie 
 Gun (i 4 Pounder) at the Entrance below, point- 
 ing to the Road which leads from the Bay where 
 you land. About half way up the Hill, by Steps, 
 IS another Battery, called Plataforma Grande^ front- 
 ing the Sea, with eight 42 Pounders and two 1 8 
 Pounders ; with , feven Caves thereon for lodging 
 Soldiers and Provifions, the Weftermoft of which 
 is for a Powder-Room, and the Eaftermoft for a 
 
 Cook
 
 Cook-Room. The Powder-Room is partition'd 
 from the reft by the folid Hill, but all the others 
 are flufh, without any Partition at all. The En- 
 trance into thefe Caves is about ten Feet wide, and 
 they are dug into the folid HSll. Higher up, is ano- 
 ther Battery, which has two honeycombed Guns, 
 4 Pounders, and a Ciftern which will contain about 
 two or three thoufand Gallons of Water. Higher 
 up, is another fmall Platform, with a little Ciftern 
 to contain about nine or ten Hogfheads of Water ; 
 this Platform has no Guns. Higher up, is ano- 
 ther Platform, about twenty Feet from the Top of 
 the Hill, which has ten Guns, 4 Pounders, two of 
 them Brafs ; three of thefe Guns point to the Sea, 
 all the reft to the Land. Under this Platform is 
 the Entrance into the Morro Caftle. Above, thro* 
 a Gate about ten Feet wide, about fixteen Feet from 
 the Gate, is a dry Mote, about fixteen or eighteen 
 Feet wide, and as many deep , and about fixteen 
 Feet from this Mote, is another, about eleven Feet 
 wide and as many deep, with a Draw-bridge over 
 each. 
 
 The Eftrella has a Battery of 1 8 Pounders, and, 
 about twenty Feet below, a fmall Battery of three 
 Guns, 1 8 Pounders, both fronting the Entrance of 
 the Port ; and on the fime level with the ten-gun 
 Battery, is an Angle fronting crofs the Harbour, 
 which has itvtw Guns, 4 Pounders, none of them 
 mounted, the Carriages not being made when he 
 came away. This Ejhella is cafily furprized, fe- 
 veral Paths leading to the Top thereof, from 
 which you will fire down upon all the laid Batte- 
 ries, or even knock the Men on the Head with the 
 Stones from the Top : The Eaftermoft Side is 
 open, and without any Defence. The Ejhella once 
 gained will command the Punio^ the Weftermoft 
 
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 End of Plataforma Grande, and the Top of Morro 
 Caflle. 
 
 A little to the Northward of the Efirella is ano- 
 ther little Battery, called Santa Catalina, which has 
 two 1 2 Pounders lying almoft level with the Wa- 
 ter, and fronting the Entrance of the Port j this 
 Battery, with twenty Men only, may be eafily fur- 
 prized and taken at any Time. 
 
 About a League and a half to windward of this 
 Morro Caftle, is a little Battery, called Juraguacita, 
 which has four Guns, and a Mote round it ; he 
 was not nearer than one hundred and fifty Yards to 
 it, fo cannot give a more particular Defcription 
 thereof. 
 
 About four Leagues and a half farther, to the 
 Eaftward, is another Battery of eight Guns, called 
 Juragua Grande, which he was informed of by the 
 Engineer and fundry Spaniards, but never faw it 
 himfelf. 
 
 Between this Battery and the City, about Mid- 
 way, he has been informed, there is another, built 
 on a rifing Ground, which is faid to mount fixteen 
 Guns -, but cannot tell any thing of it from his 
 own Knowledge. 
 
 The foregoing is a true Information, to the heji of 
 wy Knowledge. Dated on board his Majefly*s Ship the 
 Boyne, this nth Day of July, 1 74 1 . 
 
 ^itnefs, Henry Cavelier. 
 
 Thomas Watlon, 
 W. Rogers. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AS I fee moft of our Flock in fight, I purpofe 
 foon to be making fail for Walthenam ; and 
 have made the Signal for all Mafters of Merchant 
 Ships, and for all the Mafters of the Tranlports 
 
 and
 
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 and Storefhips coming to receive their fecond Ren- 
 dezvous in fValthenam Bay ; leaft Mr. Wallace and 
 Major hewis Ihould not have had an Opportunity 
 to deliver out tbofe they had in Orders from me. 
 But as none of the Mafters feem to take any No- 
 tice of the Signal, I fhould be glad, ifo you have 
 ^y Signal they will take more Notice of, that you 
 will be pleafed to make it, and give Walthemm 
 Bay for the next Place of Rendezvous to them, in 
 Cafe of Separation. 
 
 ThePerfon whofe Information I fcnt you, I have 
 on board , and he will be ready at your Service. 
 I think no Man living could have had greater Op- 
 portunities for being acquainted with the Roads in 
 thofe Parts, than one ranging in them for his JUive- 
 lyhood for fo long a Time. I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, ofF t\icNavaJfa, XoUT mofi Obedient, 
 
 July II, 1 74 J . Humble Servant^ 
 
 E.V. 
 
 To ^/r Ch A LONER Ogle. 
 SIR, 
 
 T Hough I made the Signal Yefterday for Maf- 
 ters of Merchant Ships, and have repeated 
 it torday, yet not one Mafter of Tranfport or 
 Storefhip has come to it, to receive Orders for our 
 fecond Place of Rendezvous in JValtbenam Bay, 
 which I defign now putting for a? fpon as we have 
 any Wind. 
 
 I have difpatched away the Tilhury and the Lud- 
 low Caftle, of my Divifion, for Donna Maria, for 
 picking up all that may have draggled that Way, 
 and bringing them to us in fValthetiam Bay ; and 
 have given Orders to the Princefs Louifa and Expe- 
 riment, of your Divifion, for going to the Ships 
 
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 to Leeward of us, to get them together, and bring 
 them to us there Hkewife. 
 
 And I made the general Signal for all Captains 
 now, that, in Cafe of Separation, every one may 
 colledl together thofe near him, and bring them 
 to the faid'general Rendezvous in Walthenam. 
 
 And as loon as they are come to the Signal, I 
 will make fail to lead with my Divifion ; and de- 
 fire you would bring up the Stern moft of them 
 with your Divifion, that we may all get to our 
 general Rendezvous as foon as may be : And I 
 have ordered the Kent to take under her Care and 
 Tow the Tranfport that made the Signal of Dif- 
 trefs, and to bring her to Walthenam Bay. 
 
 Captain Allen has joined us this Morning ; he 
 left Port Royal on Wednefday laft, but no News 
 from England fince our failing. 
 
 But the Rofe Man of War lately convoy'd from 
 Carolina fome Ships ^ixhRice for the Fleet, which 
 he faw in fight of Jamaica, and then returned to 
 his Station, and they are fafe arrived in the Harbour. 
 
 I long to fee our Flock aflembled at our general 
 Rendezvous, that we may be doing ; and am, 
 
 S I R, 
 Boyne, ofF the Navaja, Tonr moft Obedient^ 
 
 July I i, 17^1. Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To Sir Cu A LoUiKO Ghz. 
 S^IR, 
 
 AFTER congratulating you on our good 
 Landfall yeflerday, and fair Proved: of get- 
 ting our Fleet in to-day ; 
 
 As I am perfwaded you are entirely of Opinion 
 with me, that we Hiould lofe no Time in advanc- 
 ing and getting a Footing on Shore ; and as I un- 
 
 derftand
 
 [21 ] 
 
 derftand our rmali VeflTels can get above the Salinas, I 
 am going to difpatch Cdi'gt.ForreJi in, in the Bomb- 
 Ketch, to take the Command of thofe firft de- 
 ligned to get up as high as they can go , which 
 are, his Bomb-Ketch, my Brig Tender and Sloop, 
 the Bomb Tender from my Divifion, and Captain 
 Ormond Tompfon in his Firefhip, from your Diviiion. 
 And I fhall fend my Company of Americans on 
 board thofe of my Divifion, and defire, as foon as 
 you get in, you would fend your Company of Ame- 
 ricans on board the Firefhip of your Divifion, to 
 go up in her, and follow the Orders they fhall re- 
 ceive from Capt. Forrefi or Capt. Watfon \ but to 
 follow the Bomb-Ketch, and to take Capt. Forreft*^ 
 Orders where to place his Ship. 
 ' And as Capt. Stevens, in the other Firefhip of 
 your Divifion, has been here as Lieutenant of the 
 Sheernefsy I would have you make his Signal di- 
 redlly ; and order him to make all the Sail he can 
 in dire<5Hy, and to anchor his Firefhip, as foon as 
 he gets in, on the Leeward part of the Channel, 
 going in ; and to hoift his Jack at his M^in-top- 
 mafl Head, to fhew he is there to buoy the Channel 
 for them ; and I will give the fame Orders to 
 Capt. Barnard, of my Divifion, to anchor with his 
 Firefhip on the windward Part of the Channel, 
 for our Flock's going in between them. 
 
 And as foon as we are in, I defire you would 
 make the general Signal for the refl of your Cap- 
 tains, and give all the Ships of the Line Orders 
 immediately to fend their Barges mann'd and 
 arm'd, to come under my Stern, and go under the 
 general Command of Capt. Watfon i fand Captain 
 Dennis may Command thofe of your Divifion, if 
 you think proper ;) and to fend, befides, an Eight- 
 Oar*d Boat or Yawl, with a Mate in it, to repair 
 diredly on board the Bomb- Ketch, and follow the 
 
 D Orders
 
 t 22 ] 
 
 Orders of Captain Forreft, for towing his Flotilla 
 where he fliall dire6l them. 
 
 If the Uncertainty of the Weather had not pre- 
 vented me, I intended you a Vifit, as you are con- 
 fined ; and fhall do myfejf that Pleafure as foon as 
 we are in : And I have iffued thefe general Orders, 
 as you are not perfedlly recovered, which I heartily 
 willi you. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, off Walthenamy YoUT mofi Obedient^ 
 
 Ju/y iS, 1741. HumMe Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 P.S. I have fent Orders to the Superbe for cruiz- 
 ing for ten Days off this Harbour, and fent the 
 Montague Ordtts by him to cruize for ten Days off 
 St. Jago ; fo, if he be near you, order him to go 
 to the Superbe for his Orders. 
 
 To General W^ntworth. 
 S I A, 
 
 I Have received yours this Morning, but cannot 
 fend you John Drake, as you defired ; he being 
 gone early this Morning, with my Captain and the 
 Boats, to reconnoitre, and advance our fmali Vef- 
 fels as far as they can go in their Way to the In- 
 dian Town of Santa Catalina : But he will refturn 
 with my Captain this Night, and fhall be ready to 
 attend t)ie Council of War we are to hold to- 
 morrow Morning, as you agreed on lafl Night % 
 and as you have his Information in Writing, I ip- 
 prehend yoju will have fufficient Matter for your 
 Council of War's Information this Morning. And 
 I fend you inclofed the Copy of the Carpenter's 
 Information, as you defire ; and you may have him 
 perfonally to-day, if you defire it : But I have not 
 
 fent
 
 [23] 
 
 fent him now, as he does not pretend to anjr 
 Knowledge of the Road by Land. 
 
 I think the Informations fo plain and clear, and 
 the Execution fo eafy, if it be but fet about with 
 Chearfulnefs and Good-will, that I cannot entertain 
 the leaft Doubt of Succefs. I hope we fhall be all 
 equally animated with a Zeal to difcharge our Duty 
 to his Majefty and our Country, and to anfwer 
 their Expedlations from fo expenfivc an Expedi- 
 tion \ and ^then I am perfwaded it will be fuccefs* 
 fill, and that we Ihairfoqn be Matters of the Har- 
 bour of St. Ja^o, and all the Eaft End of this 
 Ifland ; which, in my Apprehenfion, is better 
 fituated) and mofe advantageous, in all Views, for 
 our Royal Mailer to be polTefTed of, than th^ 
 Weftern Parts of it, with tht Havanna. ' " " ' 
 
 I hope it will pleafc God we fhall avoid^^Iittmg 
 on the Rock of Difcord, the only Difficulty I ap- 
 prehend, as I think, if this be but heartily fet 
 about, it can never fail of Succefs., I mu ,, 
 
 Boyne, in Walthenam Har- XoW mofl Ohdiettty -"^'\ 
 
 hour, 7/j? I ^ 1 74^ Humble Servant, " * 
 
 ii iY m il ' I, J , 11 I I . I I I if ^ i i 'm i II i I I I b 
 
 * To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AFTER the unanimous Refolutions of our 
 lafl Council of War, for the Forces getting 
 up to the Village of Catalina with the utmoft Ex- 
 pedition, and ror advancing to attempt to furprize 
 and take the Batteries above the Morrt Caftle, if 
 the Approaches to them are found practicable for 
 his Majefty's Forces -, that every thing in our 
 Power might be done to comply with the principal 
 
 D 2 > ''"'-- -View
 
 View of his Majefty's Inftrudions, that of pofTef^ 
 fing ourfejves of the Ifland of Cuba j 
 
 What fell from you yefterday on board the 
 Cumberland, exprefTing your Diffidence of being 
 able to proceed further, could not but greatly fur- 
 prize us, and give us great Concern ; to hear from 
 you, how much Unwillingnefs was exprefled by 
 fome of your Officers, for proceeding on this 
 Expedition. 
 
 And we cannot, on this Occafion, both in re- 
 gard to our Duty to the Crown and Friendfliip to 
 you, but feafonably lay before you the fatal Confe- 
 quences, that may refult to all Officers that fhall 
 fhew a Reludance to comply with his . Majefty's 
 Inftrudions, and Ihall by their Behaviour and Ex-; 
 ample encourage others to do fo ; as we thihk,' m 
 the military Term, this approaches too near to 
 Mutiny. 
 
 And tho' this may take its firft Rife in the pri- 
 vate Paffions of fome Officers, who had rather 
 return to Britain than continue longer in Service 
 in a Climate not agreeable to them j^ yet we fear, 
 the not giving an early Check to "this Temper 
 among fome of your Officers, may draw a Refent- 
 ment on you, whofe Duty, it may be judged, was 
 to have early fupprcfled it. 
 
 We cannot but mention to you, that Reports 
 were fpread before the Fleet's failing irom Jamaica, 
 that Refolutions were taken againft the Army's 
 landing on this Ifland ; which the Difcourfes of 
 fome of your Officers fince, have given but too 
 much Grounds to fufpedt there might be fome 
 Foundation for-, and what fell from you yefterday 
 gives us the greater Reafon to apprehend it. 
 
 And as Combinations to defeat the main View 
 of his Majefty's Inftrudlions, are of the moft cri- 
 minal Nature, we cannot but hope there are none 
 
 fuch
 
 [ 25 ] 
 fuch, tho' fuch Grounds are given to fufpeft it. 
 But as fuch might afFed the Lives, as well as the 
 Commiffions, of all who fhould fall into them, we 
 cannot but give it you as our Advice, early to 
 iexert yourfelf, in giving all poflible Difcouragemcnl;. 
 po what may prove fo fatal to them. 
 ./We think the Execution of all propofed an^ 
 agreed to in our laft Refolutions, may be very 
 cafily effected, if it be but heartily fet upon, with 
 the fame Chearfulnefs and Good-will as was ex 
 preffed in the unanimous Refodution of our faid 
 laft General Council of War. 
 ' And as we cannot, in regard to the Honour of 
 our Royal Mafter and the Intercft of our Country, 
 but think it our Duty to advife your early to fup^' 
 prefs this evil Spirit in fome of your Officers :. So 
 we hope you will accept this Advice, as our una- 
 nimous Sentiments of Friendfhip to you, as well 
 as Regard to our Duty to his Majefly ; as we feaf 
 the Effc6ts of this Condu6t would principally revert 
 on you ; which as we fhould be heartily conceroed 
 for, fo we thought this feafonable Advice to you,* 
 to be on your Guard againft it, the befl Inftance 
 we could give of our friendly Concern for your 
 Honour and Interefl. 
 
 And hoping you will accept it as fuch, we are, 
 
 Cumherlandy in Cumberland Your mod Obedient^ 
 Harbour (formerly call'd ^^^^/^ Ser<vant5, 
 
 Walthenam) on the South r? x r 
 
 Side of Cuba, Julyii, ^' VIRNOW, 
 
 1741. C. Ogle ; \ 
 
 '-" ^rm^ 
 
 To Lieutenant Thomas Stvrton. 
 
 YO U are hereby required and directed, to take 
 under your particular Care and Conduft John 
 
 Drake,
 
 
 [ 26 ] 
 
 "Drake^ Manner *, and as he is the only Guide we 
 have for Ihewing the Forces the Road from where 
 ou are to St. Jago^ through the Village of Cata- 
 Tina^ you are to take particular Care for his Prefcr- 
 vation, and not to cxpofe him to the Enemy's 
 Fire, as far as it can pofTibly be avoided. 
 
 And as it is but too apparent, that a fhamef ul 
 Backwardnefs has appeared in forne, to proceed 
 with that Zeal and Chearfulnefs they ought in the 
 Execution of his Majefty's Orders ; it cannot but 
 be apprehended, there are fome might even b^ 
 glad our Guide Ihould be deftroyed, to give them 
 the Colour of wanting a Guide to condud them j 
 though, if they are once fliewed the Road they 
 are to proceed in, even that :wouJ^ be but a 
 Pretence. 
 
 But that they may not have that, I have put 
 the faid John Drake, Mariner, under your particular 
 Care and Conduft -, and you are to chook out ten 
 Men from the Brigantine under your Command, to 
 ferve under you as a Guard for the faid Guide \ 
 and in your Abfence, to leave the Brigantine under 
 the Care and Command of Lieu,tenant Lowtber^ 
 for giurding that Poft, and fcouring the Country 
 round with her Guns ; diredling him to obey the 
 Orders of his fuperior Officers, Capt. Forrefi being 
 appointed to command the whole Flotilla, and 
 Captain Tompfon to command under him at the 
 upper Barcadier. 
 
 , And as I have ordered Capt. Watfon to acquaint 
 the General to-day with the Orders you have for 
 taking the Guide under your Care and Proteftion, 
 and you having my Orders to obey General Went- 
 worth*s Orders, in attending with him, to dire6t 
 them in the Road they have to march towards the 
 Village of Catalina^ and afterwards to St.Jago, <x 
 the Batteries above the Mono Caftle (for which I 
 
 wUl
 
 t*7l 
 
 "Win fend you ahaddrtibharGmde, after tfieir Ifav- 
 ing advanced bcyx)nd the Village of Catalina :) 
 You are, accordingly, hereby required and direded, 
 whenever GtrvtraXWmtworth fhall defire or dire(^ 
 you to fhew any Part of their Forces the Way 
 they are to pafs to the faid Village of Catalina^ or 
 '%x.Jago and the Batteries, to attend with yoUr 
 Party and the Gu^de, ^s aforefaid, to direft them 
 in the Way ; and never to let the faid Guide be 
 from under your Care and Cuftody. For,^r. > 
 Given on board the Boyne in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (formerly called Walthenam) on the South 
 Side of C^^, this 24th of 7/y, 1741. 
 
 : rjiT.:. ? . E..V. 
 
 Ij"!'" ' ' i m ^.i - i ' ".. I 'I ! !-" ! * i" f^"ii f*>Wfrt 
 
 ^^f^ 1 R, -.- r, .. t-f- -..H,-'! ,.', ! fK; '-i t 
 
 1 Heartily congratulate you on the Succefs of your 
 firft advanced Party, by the Enemy's flying be- 
 fore them without fo much as exchanging a Shoe 
 with them -, which was what I always expefted. 
 And I am fure you will find, that Delay will be 
 the moft dangerous Enemy you have to deal with 
 as that will ;giv'e the Enemy Time to be pfeparing 
 againfl you , ^herdas their being attacked where 
 'they did not' expedt it, leaves them entirely open 
 'and <lefencelefs for the prefent. I hope you will 
 find the Village to afford ready-built Houfes fuf* 
 ficient to fhelter the Army, and fave them the 
 Trouble of building Hutts ; and I apprehend you 
 may eafily make that Village your general Maga- 
 zine for your Provifions ; and they will have the 
 Mortification to find, that all their pafl Labours 
 were loft, in fortifying the fore Door, when they 
 had left the back Door open and defencelefs. 
 
 I con-
 
 [28] 
 
 I congratulate you likewife on Captain Durei^s 
 being arrived, with all your Surgeons and Medicine- 
 Cheits, and having brought the News that Mr. 
 Wallace is coming up with the Deptford and Mtnay 
 and all the People and Stores that were faved out 
 of the Ship j Captain Davers having, according to 
 my Orders, fent a VelTel to Movant Keys, to lave 
 ^hat was to be faved of that Wreck. 
 
 I have ordered Capt. Forrejl to get my Brig Ten- 
 der and Bilander as high up as there is Water for 
 them, and to get my Sloop cleaned for carrying 
 our Difpatches to his Grace the Duke of Newcajile^ 
 as it is abfolutely neceflary his Majefty fhould be 
 informed as early as pofTible of the Refolution of 
 our laft general Council of War, for giving fuch 
 further Orders as his Majefly may judge necelTary 
 on the Occafion. And as Ihe will foon be ready, 
 and will be the moft expeditious of any I can fend, 
 I muft beg the Favour that you would get your 
 Letters ready to go by her as foon as pofTible. 
 I intend being up to-morrow, when we may fix 
 the Day for her failing. 
 
 And as foon as Captain Allen arrives, whom I 
 expedt every Day, I will get him ready for going 
 away with your general Letters to the Governors 
 of the Northern Colonies, purfuant to the Refolu- 
 tion of the laft general Council of War, 
 
 And heartily wifhing you much Honour, and 
 his Majefty fuitable Succefs from this Expedition, 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland ToUT mojl Obedient, 
 
 Harbour. Cuba, HumbU Servant, 
 
 July 26. 1741. ^ y^ 
 
 'To
 
 [ 29 ] 
 ^0 General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 IT was with great rleafur^ J ftceived yours laft 
 Night, with the agreeable Account of your 
 advanced Party having proceeded lo fuccefstully, 
 and having got good Quarters at Don John 
 Cavalier OS, in the midil of a fertile Country. I 
 moft heartily congratulate you on fo fuccefsful a 
 Beginning , and think Major Dunjler has adted 
 very prudently, in advancing no further till your 
 fuftaining Party joined him, as his firft Party was 
 of but two hundred ; and hope, on their joining 
 him, you will foon have Advice of his reaching 
 the Village, where, I apprehend, he cannot be too 
 foon fupported with greater Numbers ; and hope 
 he will meet there Mules and Horfes, to facilitate 
 the getting all neccffary Provifions after them with 
 all poflible Expedition. 
 
 And I believe. Sir, you will think it proper 
 to be difperfing your Manifefto from thence, to 
 try what Effed it may have in drawing fome of 
 the Inhabitants in to fubmit themfelves to his 
 Majefty*s Government j but I believe the moft 
 efFedual Argument will be civil Ufage. 
 
 As they met the Boats Sails in their Way, I 
 think it is very apparent they proceeded in the 
 right Road the Enemy retired by. 
 
 Heartily wi filing you profperous Succefs, and 
 much Honour from this Expedition, I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland 2'our mojl Obedient^ 
 
 Harbour, July 28, ^^^^/^ Servant, 
 
 74'. E. V. 
 
 p. S. With your next Letters to Major Dunjler, 
 
 be pleafed to forward mine to Lieutenant Sturton, 
 
 and to dired my Men with him having their 
 
 Share in all Supplies of Provifions. 
 
 2
 
 , [ 3 ] 
 
 To Lieut. Tho. Sturton, of the Boyne. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have received yours of the 27th with much. 
 Pleafure, and was very glad to hear you had 
 met with fuch good Quarters and fome neceflary 
 Refrefhments at Don John Cavalkros ; and think 
 your meeting the Boats Sails in your Way, a good 
 Evidence that you are in the right Road to the 
 Village 5 and think Major Dunjier has ^6ted very 
 prudently, in refolving not to advance further till 
 the fuftaining Party joined you. 
 
 And as the next Supply of Provifions comes 
 from your Command of my Brigantine, you will 
 have a good Title to your Share of it ; and hope 
 in the Village you will meet with Mules and 
 Horfes, to facilitate fending the Supplies to you 
 there. 
 
 You cannot lay a greater Obligation on me, 
 than by a particular Care of your Guide. And 
 pray, on all Occafions, encourage a humane Treat- 
 ment of the Inhabitants, to engage them to remain 
 quietly in their Houfes, and fubmit to his Majefly's 
 Government; and I hope the Major has the 
 GeneraPs Manifeftos to difperfe on his Arrival at 
 the Village. 
 
 With a firm Confidence in your prudent Con- 
 duft, I am, 
 
 B&vne, in Cumberland Har- nr^ ^ i . ii o 
 
 hour, July 28. 1 741, Tour humble Servant 
 
 in the Morning. E. V. 
 
 < To General Wentworth. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 F T E R heartily congratulating you on the 
 ^ happy Change I hear of, in an univerlal Satif- 
 fadion exprefTed by all ypuf Officers and Men, 
 
 from 
 
 A"
 
 f 3' ] 
 
 from the pleafing Frofpe<5t of Succefs in this Expe- 
 dition -, I fend this to acquaint you, your Army 
 Surgeons and Medicine-Chefts will all be to-day 
 on board one of the Tranfports in the River, as 
 you defire. 
 
 And as I would difpatch my Sloop away as foon 
 as poffible, I have ordered my Officer, who brings 
 you this Letter, to receive yours that are to go by 
 her, if they are ready. 
 
 And as I propofe to difpatch a Firelhip to Ja- 
 maica^ for a Supply of Provifions and Stores being 
 fent me, as foon "as I receive my Letters from 
 thence by the Tork^ whom I daily expeft here ; I 
 defire you would likewife fend me your Letters for 
 Jamaica as foon as you can, as I hear you foon 
 defign to be advancing yourfelf, which I am pleafed 
 to hear. 
 
 And if you want any Supply of Provifions from 
 thence, it would be proper to order fome of the 
 beft failing Tranfports to be entirely cleared for 
 their going to Jamaica to fetch it ; for which they 
 fhall have a proper Convoy, whenever you defire 
 it. 
 
 I was pleafed to hear you had got a further 
 Supply of Horfes for accommodating your Officers ; 
 and, with my beft Wifhes for a flowing Series of 
 good Succefs to his Majefty*s Arms under your 
 Condu(fl, I am, 
 
 S 1 R, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland U^t- Tour mofi Obedient y 
 
 hour, July 29,1741. ^^^^^^/^ Sei-vant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 E 2 To
 
 [ 32 ] 
 
 ^0 his Grace the Duke oft^******. 
 
 My Lord Duke, 
 
 MY laft to your Grace was of the i8th of June^ 
 from Port Royal Harbour, by Commodore 
 Lejiocky whom we had the good Fortune to get 
 fafe into the Sea, with all the Remainder of his 
 Squadron (except one of the Bomb-Ketches, that, 
 having been to careen, could not be got ready fo 
 foon) on the 20th of June ; a good Part of them 
 being got out the Day before. And he being to 
 collect his Fleet together at Blewfields, to compleat 
 their Watering there, I got the Terrible Bomb- 
 Ketch to Sea the 24th, and heard fince, that fhe 
 joined him before his failing from Blewfields, on the 
 26th oi June. 
 
 Having got all my Ships in readinefs for the 
 Sea that I propofed for the prefent Expedition, I 
 thought it neceffary to advife Mr. Wentworth of it 
 by Letter of the 25th of June, which I fend your 
 Grace inclofed a Copy of, and likewife of my Or- 
 ders to Sir Chaloner Ogle of the fame Date. And 
 the General fending me word by Mr. Wallace, the 
 Agent of theTranfports, that about fixteen of the 
 Tranfports would be ready to fail on the 28th, I 
 ordered him to go and advife Sir Chaloner Ogle of 
 it, who would take Care to detach fome Ships of 
 his Divifion out with them -, for our dangerous 
 Channel made it a requifite Difpofition, that we 
 fhould get to Sea by Detachments. On the 26th 
 I detached Capt. Rentone to Sea in the Rippon, for 
 reconnoitring before us, as I mentioned my Inten- 
 sion of doing in my Letter to Mr. Wentworth of 
 the 25th. 
 
 The Superhe and Kent failed on the 28th with 
 fuch Tranfports as were then ready to fail with 
 them, which were but {^vtw Sail. 
 
 And
 
 [33] 
 
 The Montague and Princefs Louifa failed the next 
 Day (the 29th) and with them failtd about nine- 
 teen Sail. 
 
 And Sir Chaloner Ogle, with the reft of his Divi- 
 sion, put to Sea the next Day, and about eight 
 Sail more 5 and the fame Day I advifed the Ge- 
 neral of my Intentions of faihng the next Day ; 
 and I fend your Grace inclofed a Copy of my Letter 
 to him of the 30th of Juney with his Anfwer. 
 
 And the fame Day came into Port Royal Har- 
 bour the Seahorfe^ Captain Allen^ that had been 
 cruizing off St. Jago, with a Return to my Letter 
 fent by him to the Governor there, propofing an 
 Exchange of Prifoners, and with fixty-four Englijh 
 Prifoners, among which was Mr. Cock, the South- 
 Sea Company's Fa6lor there. The good Succefs 
 of this Attempt, that I made to procure the beft 
 Intelligence I could from thofe Parts, at fo feafon- 
 able a Time, makes it neceflary I fhould now in- 
 clofe to your Grace a Copy of the Orders I fent 
 Captain Allen out with, and a Copy of my Letter 
 to the Governor of St. Jago, with the Spanijh Go- 
 vernor's Anfwer j and 1 fend you likewife inclofed 
 a Copy of the Jew*s Journal, whom I fent as my 
 Spanijh Interpreter, to carry the Letter to the Go- 
 vernor, and of another Piece of Intelligence Capt. 
 Allen brought me, being Advices he had received 
 by Mr. Cock. I am in Hopes that the Spani/h Men 
 of War therein mentioned, may, with their Trea- 
 fure, either fall in the Way of Captain lOiowles, or 
 Mr, Leftock : And I could rather hope the latter ; 
 for as our Ships muft expedl to be well Ihattered 
 in fuch a Rencounter, the others would be far 
 diftant from any Relief, and muft get thro* the 
 Gulph as well as they could, as they would be in 
 no Condition to ply up to come hither. 
 
 On
 
 [ 34] 
 On the firft Day of this Month of July^ I thank 
 God, I got fafe to Sea myl'elf, and General Weiitivorth 
 with me in the Grafton^ with the reft of my Divi- 
 fion under Orders for failing with me; except the 
 other Bomb-Ketch, which I have likewife got ca- 
 reened, and by Hiifting a good deal of Plank in her 
 Bottom, have, I hope, got her in a Condition to 
 ferve in this Expedition ; and (lie came out and 
 joined me the 2d of July^ and alfo the Ordnance 
 Storefhips, that being a Branch in which there 
 has been the moft Dilatorinefs and Negligence 
 throughout our whole Expedition. 
 
 Not having Time or Leifure for examining our 
 releafed Englijh Prifoners, that were brought into 
 the Harbour but the Evening before I failed, I 
 take them all to Sea with us, for cxprefling their 
 Gratitude to his Majefty, to whom they owe their 
 prelent Releafement, by doing what may be in their 
 Power to favour the Succefs of this Expedition. 
 But Mr. Cock I examined myfelf, with the General, 
 before our failing; and not finding he could be 
 materially ferviceable to us, I left him behind. 
 
 By the Jew*^ Narrative of what the Governor 
 told him, if it be true, our firft Place of general 
 Rendezvous in Donna Maria Bay is luckily very 
 well chofen, both for our having the earlieft Ad- 
 vice at it, and being at hand to make the beft Ufe 
 of it ; which was one View I had in it, as well as 
 being affured of being well to windward of our 
 Port before we ftretchM over for it ; as falling to 
 Leeward of our Port, might, by a Lee Current, 
 have defeated our whole Expedition, as well as 
 given the Enemy an unnecefTary Alarm to prepare 
 for us. 
 
 Some Ships I have been oblig'd to leave behind 
 through Crazinefs, that muft take up Time to re- 
 pair ; fome through Sicknefs \ andothers, to borrow 
 
 their
 
 35 ]1 
 their Men, to compleat for Semce the Ships F 
 carry out with me : And I have left Capt. Da'Oef's^ 
 in the Suffolky a -good Officer, to command in iny^ 
 Abfence, under the Orders I fend your Grace in 
 clofed a Copy of. 
 
 And for being ready to avail myfeif of-any chance 
 Opportunity for writing to your; Grace, I begin my 
 Letter upon my firfl: coming to Sea, where I havtf- 
 moft Leifure for it ; for though that be riot the- 
 mofl liable Element, I may fay atprefenc, it-h- 
 there that I have moflRefl:. 
 
 On the nth of July I' was joined by Capt. Bro- 
 derick in the Shorebam ; and L fend your Grace irt^^- 
 clofed a Copy of his; Letter tome, informing riit^^ 
 of his Proceedings and Remarks at Carthagenay''^ 
 and I fend you likewife inclofed Copies of the Vfid^^ 
 fcveral Letters he brought me from ^his Excellency ' 
 Don Sibafiian de EJIava^xbe Spanifi'Viccroy, and of 
 one from my Brother Admiral, Don Blafs de Lezo. 
 On the 1 2th I was: joined by the Tilbury, Capt. 
 Dent^ from Leogane^ off the NavaJJa : And I fend 
 your Grace inclofed a Copy of the Letter he brought 
 me from his Excellency M. Larnage, by which I 
 was forry to karn that Captain Draper, in the Wolf 
 Sloop, was certainly Ship wreck*a on the Caicos 
 Bank ; but I cannot yet learn what became of the 
 Captain and the reit lof the Men, and fo am -yet 
 in fome Hopes he found Means to get home fafe ' 
 to your Grace, with my Letters of the 24th of- 
 February lafb. And having a verbal Meflage, by 
 Captain Dent, from M, Larnoge, (of his having an 
 Inclination to fend us fome Deferrers, but that his 
 Humanity would not allow his delivering them up 
 with6ut AlTurancc of their Pardon) giving aHandfe " 
 for it, I have difpatched Capt. Allen thither again, 
 with the Letter I fend* you a Copy of inclofed, to 
 try to get thofe Deferters, and to keep an Eye on 
 
 what
 
 [36] 
 
 what may be pafling in thofe Parts ; where, youi* 
 Grace will obferve, they talk in a pacifick Stile, 
 tho* the Governor of St. J ago told the Jew^ he 
 had Advice from thence that they had declared 
 War with us. 
 
 ; Captain Allen joined me from Port Royal the 
 13th, which Place he left the 8th of July\ but 
 there were then no Advices from England fince our 
 failing, tho* my laft from your Grace was of the 28th 
 of February laft. 
 
 I fend you likewife inclofed a Copy of the In- 
 formation of John Drake, Mariner, relating to the 
 Roads between Walthenam and St. J ago -, and I 
 have other material Informations, that fully per- 
 fwade me of the eafy Pradicability of fucceeding 
 in an Attempt for being Matters of St. Jago, and 
 of the Eaft End of this Ifland, if it be but entered 
 on with Chearfulnels and Good- will, which I will a 
 take Care fhall not be wanting on my Part. And ' 
 in Walthenam I fhall have his Majefty*s Ships and 
 Tranfports in a fafer Harbour, in cafe of a Hurri-^-^ 
 cane, than if we were caught in one in Port Royal '[ 
 Harbour, as we are now coming to the Hurricane 
 Seafon of the Year ; and I fhall even be more in 
 the Way of fecuring our Trade from the Enemy's 
 Privateers. And, I thank God, I have not yet 
 heard of their having taken fo much as one Brittjh 
 Ship in my Diftri6ts, or any of the Coafting Trade 
 of the Ifland, fmce my being in Command here. 
 
 My Informations in regard to all the new 
 Works they have been making at the Morro 
 Caftle, and to guard the Entrance of the Harbour, 
 I have from a Carpenter, who has been kept at - 
 work amongft them ; fo that I think all my In- ' 
 telligcnce very well founded. And I believe the 
 Court of Spain will find their Remittances to come 
 vaftly fhort of their Expectations, from the Ap- 
 plications
 
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 plications of their Treafure to fupport the Expencc 
 of the numerous Works they have been ere<5ting 
 in different Parts, and will have to eretft, and to 
 fubfift the Numbers of Militia drawn together irx 
 many Parts , befides the Scarcity of Proyifions, from . 
 their thus draining the Country of thofe that fliould 
 carry on the Culture of their Land, for raifing 
 Provifions for their Subliftance. 
 
 I fend your Grace likewife inclofed a Letter I 
 received in the Vice Roy*s Packet jfrom Carthagena^ 
 from a Spanijh Gentleman who was formerly Pri- ' 
 foner with. us (as he mentions) and coming Paffen- 
 ger in a Dutch Ship from Curafao, was, as he fays, 
 taken, by two Privateers, with your Grace's PafP 
 port } which thofe lawlefs Libertines would pay no 
 Regard to, but obliged him and his Comrade to 
 ranlom themfelves for a Thoufand Pieces of Eight. 
 And as they are out of my reach to call them to 
 an Account, I thought it proper to fend this Letter 
 to your Grace, and one of their Dutch Paffports ; 
 and in the Duplicate of it (hall come the Captains 
 of the Privateers Receipt to the Dutch Captain for 
 the thoufand Dollars ; to which they have figned 
 their Names, William Richardfon^ and James Love i 
 and this Letter calls their Sloops the yf^, and the 
 Royal Anne. ' 
 
 I am glad I can acquaint your Grace that I hap- 
 pily got into this Harbour of IValthenam on the 
 1 8th of July^ with forty-one Sail of Tranfports 
 and Storefhips, and with his Majefly's Ships and 
 Tenders, fixty-one Sail in all ; and was pleafed to 
 find we were poflefs'd of the fineft Harbour in the 
 fFeJi' Indies^ where there is Room for all the Ship- 
 ping in the Thames^ and where we are very fecyrc 
 even againft a Hurricane ; and as it deferves fomc 
 Diftind:ion, I have honoured it with the Name of > 
 Cumberland Harbour, from one of his Royal \ 
 F t^ighncfs I
 
 ,. ^38.3 
 
 Highnefs the ibiike^s Titles, who has given us the 
 pleafing Hopes of ferving at Sea under the Com- 
 mand of a Prince of the Blood Royal. 
 
 As I was poflefs'd of a good Pilot for the Har- 
 bour, I loft no Time in making the beft Ufe of 
 him, having detach'd before me Captain Forrejl 
 ifi the Bomb-Ketch, one of my Firefhips, my Bri-^ 
 gantine and Sloop Tenders, and the Bomb Tender, 
 putting this Flotilla under Captain Forreji's Orders, 
 who enter'd the Lagoon going up to the Salinas, 
 with Part of them, that Evening. And by Day- 
 break the next Morning, I difpatch*d all the Barges, 
 mann'd and arm*d, under the Command of Capt. 
 Wat [on (my Captaiin) and order'd all the Yawls to 
 follow, to help to tow the Flotilla as high up as it 
 was navigable for them ; and he return'd the 19th 
 at Night, after having pofted the Sloop as high 
 up as the upper Salinas, and the Bomb-Ketch an<t 
 my Brig Tender as high as the lower Salinas, juft 
 above which was a Bar, on entering the Frelh- 
 Water River, on which was not more than nine 
 Feet Water. 
 
 And Capt. Watfon having advanced fme Miles 
 higher up the Frelh- Water River with his Boats, 
 above the upper Barcadter, he landed and march*d 
 up a Hill, where he had a Profped: of a fine openr 
 Country for feven Leagues (as he judg'd \) and faw 
 a Houfe that the Guide faid was very near the 
 Village of Catalina, mention'd in his Information, 
 which he faid lay in a little Valley ; and he having 
 found all he view'd exactly to agree with the faid 
 Information ; I fummon'd a General Council of 
 War next Morning {July the 20th -,) and I fend ' 
 your Grace inclofed a Copy of the unanimous Re- 
 folution of faid General Counciil of War. And 
 there being mention'd in it (befides the Information 
 of John Drake, Mariner, in regard to the Pra(^i- 
 
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 [ 39 J 
 
 cablenefs of the Road) the Information of Hefoy 
 Cavelier, Carpenter, in regard to the Facility of 
 being Mafters of the upper Batteries guarding the 
 Harbour of St. Jago -, I have likewife fent your 
 Grace inclofed Copies of that, and of Capt. Ren- 
 tone's Report, mentioned alfo in our faid general 
 kefolution ; and the Copy of a Letter that I wrote 
 to General Wentworth on the 19th oijuly^ in An- 
 fwer to one defu-ing I wpul4 fend John Drake ^o 
 
 By taking every Thing out oF^nij^^rfg rertder 
 and Bomb Tender, they have hove them both over 
 the Bar, and then taken all in again, and got them 
 up to the upper SalinaSy to the Sloop : So there is 
 a great Command of Fire from their Guns, to 
 fcour the Country round them, and fecure a fafe 
 landing to the Army, without fo much a5 the Ap^ 
 prehenfion of any Moleflation. 
 
 We had one Boy wounded by a Shot from fomc 
 fkulking Spaniards the firll Day, on their marching 
 to the Top of the Hill ; and one Man kill'd, and 
 one wounded by them the next Day ; but v/e have 
 neither fecn nor heard any thing of them fince. 
 
 On the 2ift the fForcefier ca.mQ in here with one 
 of our miffing Tranfports. On the 2 2d the Tilbury 
 came in here, and brought with her five Tranfports 
 and one Storefhip, which fhe pick*d up otF Cape 
 Dona Maria, where I fent her in queft of them, and 
 we have now forty -nine Tranfports and Storefliips j 
 and all but one of them, that drew too much 
 Water, are got up within the Lagoon ; and thofe 
 that drew leaft Water were difpatch'd in firfl, and 
 many of them are got as high up as juft below 
 Captain Forrejl in the Bomb-Ketch, who lies at 
 the lower Earcadier , for they had nothing that 
 could be lighten*d to get over the Bar of the 
 Frcfh- Water River, but one Schooner, which is 
 F 2 got
 
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 gbt to my Brig Tender, Bomb Tender and Sloop,' 
 that are polled at the upper Barcadier. 
 
 On the 24th arriv'd here the Strombolo Firelhip, 
 / Captain Dure II, whom I had difpatch*d away from 
 the NavaJ/a for Jamaica^ for fetching up to us the 
 Dircftor of the Army Hofpital, the Army Surgeons, 
 and their Medicine-Chells. On having an Account 
 brought me that the Lynn Hofpital-Ship was ftill 
 there, and knowing (he was fuch a leewardly Ship 
 that there c(wld be no Rehance on her getting to 
 ^vindward at all, I offer'd the General a Ship to 
 fetch them, which he accepted of 3 and fhe has 
 brought up twelve of the Army Surgeons and 
 Afllftants, and all the remainder of their Medicine 
 Chefts, that were not brought up by their Surgeon 
 General, who came up to us by the Seahorfe, 
 Captain Mien , and Mr. Cathcart, the Dire(5bor of 
 their Hoipital, told Captain Durell he llaid behind 
 to purchafe Neceflaries for the Hofpital, which he 
 foon would be following him with. He brought 
 "me an Account of what, as far as I can learn, is 
 the only mifllng Tranfport, which is the Vere 
 Pink ; on board of which was Mr. Wallace^ the 
 Agent of the Tranfports, to whom I delivered 
 Orders at Sea on the 7th in the Evening, for his 
 jfTuing out o\ir fecond Place of Rendezvous to the 
 Transports, being then four Leagues to windward 
 of the Eaft End of the Ifland of Jamaica : But by 
 what I can judge, they contriv'd to get Shipwreck*d 
 that very Night on PorS Morant Keys ; which muft 
 have been through the CarelcfTnefs of the Mafter, 
 in not obferving to tack when I made my Signal 
 for it, at two in the Morning on the 8th, And con- 
 fidering how little Regard they all paid to Signals, 
 every one ranging after his own obftinate Will, I 
 can attribute it to nothing but God's good Provi- 
 dence, that we have not loft more of them ; for 
 
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 [ 41 ] 
 
 flie greateft Care of a Commanding Officer will be 
 of little Avail to thofe who will pay fo little Re- 
 gard to Signals. The Lofs is the more felt for 
 the Abfence of Mr. Wallace^ who is a very ex- 
 perienced diligent Officer in his Poft : But we Ihall 
 now foon have him with us by the Deptford^ or Mtm 
 Firefhip, which he has fent Word he* would come 
 by, with all the Men and Stores that were faved; 
 which were fetch'd from thence by a Veflel I had 
 fent Orders to Capt. Davers to fend out to them, 
 having heard by my Brig Tender that fhe had feen 
 fome Shipwrecic'd Men on thofe Keys , and I do 
 not hear there were above five Men drowned on 
 this Occafion. 
 
 The Troops have been landing fince their get- 
 ting in. The General pitched on his firft Place 
 for Hutting his Troops, right againft where my 
 Brig Tender was polled ; which, finding we had 
 Water for her, I have got two Leagues higher up 
 the River ; and the Bilander drawing lefs Water, 
 we have got her a Mile higher ; But the General 
 finding the firft Place pitch'd upon low, and that 
 it would have been damp with the Rains, loon re- 
 folved to move higher, and has got a little above the 
 Schooner, that was the Veffel of the leaft Draught 
 of Water we had. 
 
 We having on the 25th fent out a Detachment 
 of a hundred of the American Troops and a hun- 
 dred Blacks, I ordered Lieutenant Sturton from my 
 Ship, with ten Men from my Brig Tender, to take 
 the Guide under his Care, and to accompany them. 
 
 And on the 26th at Night, I received from Ge- 
 neral Wentwortb an Account of their Succels , the 
 Enemy's firft advanced Guaid flying before them 
 without fo much as exchanging a Shot with them, 
 and leaving them eleven Horfcs, fome of their 
 Ammunition, and a good deal of jerkVl Beef. 
 
 Thefe
 
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 Thefe Horfes were a feafonable Supply to mount 
 our Officers. They took likewife three Spanifii Let- 
 ters, from the Governor of St. J ago to the Com- 
 manding Officer of the Militia of thefe Parts ; 
 which being fo exceedingly weak and ridiculous, 
 I cannot omit fending your Grace Copies of them, 
 for your Amufement. 
 
 On the 27th I fct out from the Ship by 
 Day-break, to view all my advanced Guards my 
 felf, and give all the neceflary Orders on the Spot, 
 for the more regular landing the reft of the 
 Troops, and fending their Supplies of Provifions 
 and Stores after them. And I thought it the moft 
 beautiful Profpeft I ever faw, to row five Leagues 
 up a navigable River, of about a hundred Yards 
 wide all the Way, with green Trees on both Sides 
 appearing like a green Fence, bordering both Sides 
 of the River for the moft part; for from the 
 Mouth of the River to where my Brig Tender lies, 
 I take to be good five Leagues ; the Bilander lies 
 about a Mile higher, and the Schooner half a Mile 
 higher than her. From thence I rowed in my 
 Boat about half a Mile higher than the upper In- 
 campment, to come at the Foot of fome Hills, 
 which, I faw, I could have a full View of the 
 Country from -, and then landed, with my Boat's 
 Crew for my Guard, and reconnoitred the Country 
 from the Tops of thofe Hills, on one of which the 
 General's advanced Guard was placed that Morn- 
 ing -, and it gave me great Pleafure to have fo cx- 
 tenfive a View, over what appear'd to me the fineft 
 Plains I had ever feen in the Indies^ and watered, I 
 think, with a River the fartheft navigable for Ships 
 that I ever heard of I then vifited the General in 
 his prefent Encampment, which is an open rifing 
 Ground, by the Frefh- Water River Side, and as 
 beautiful a Situation for a Town a^ this Country 
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 I 43 ] 
 
 ^n afford, with a fertile Soil behind it. I walked 
 through a Pen for catching their Cattle, between 
 the Hills and their Camp, and faw feveral Parcels 
 of Horfes ranging round me, which I hope their 
 Blacks will foon find Means to catch. I made it 
 dark before I could return, it being two Leagues 
 from where I ride in the Line of Battle with my 
 Capital Ships, for Security of this beautiful and fei 
 cure Harbour, to the Mouth of the River, which 
 is jufl on the Leeward Entrance into this Harbour. 
 And the General having entitled his Camp 
 George -Stadt, I have honour'd this beau- 
 tiful River with the Name of her Royal High- 
 nefs the Priiicefs of JVales, calling it the River 
 Augusta. 
 
 After fo agreeable Profpefts of the Day, I was 
 pleafmgly awak*d at one in the Morning on the 
 28 th, with a Letter from the General, and one 
 from my Lieutenant, of the 27th> from the ad- 
 vanced Party, with an Account of their uninter- 
 rupted Progrefs till their Arrival in fuch fertile 
 Plains ; and I fend your Grace inclofed a -Copy 
 of my Lette*- from Lieutenant ^/wr/<7. ..! -^v: 
 
 I think myfelf pofted here, not only in a happy 
 Security againft ail Apprehenfiohs of Hurricanes^ 
 b\it in the befl Situation that could be chofcn for 
 S^ufity of the Trade of his Majefty's Subjedls, 
 and the annoying that of his Majcfty's Enemies : 
 Which I (hall endeavour to poft my Cruziers to 
 the beft Advantage for, and for having early Intel- 
 ligence of any Motions of the Enemy ; who, by 
 our Situation here, will be cut off from any Com- 
 munication with their Neighbours the French^ from 
 whence they receive their InteHigence and Supplies. 
 
 And thinking it now high Time our Royal 
 Mailer fhould have the earliell Information of our 
 prefent Situation, I have got my Sloop careen'd 
 
 and
 
 [44] 
 nd dean*d in the River Augujia, arid Capt. Forrefi 
 will fbon difpatch her down to me, for fend- 
 ing my Difpatches to your Grace by her (that I 
 think will bring them fooneft to your Hands) by a 
 Nephew of my Wife's, whom I fend to ride Ex- 
 prefs with them. This Sloop was a fmall Privateer 
 commanded by one Hall^ that I hired into the 
 Crown's Service fo long ago as December laft, ha- 
 ving a View in it to get into my Hands the ma- 
 rooning Part of his Crew, that I knew were well 
 acquainted with thefe Parts ; and this John Drake, 
 the Guide, was one of them. For this Affair has 
 been long in my Thoughts, though it has but fo 
 lately broke out into Execution, and, I thank God, 
 a fuccefsful one ; and I think this Spot the belt 
 chofen one for a Briii/h Settlement of any in this 
 Ifland, and am glad to find the Americans begin 
 to look on it as the Land of Promife already. 
 
 I fend your Grace likewife inclofed a Copy of 
 my Letter to the General of the 26th, to advife 
 him to have his Letters ready to go by her, and 
 that the Seahorfe fhould foon be got ready for carry-^ 
 ing his Letters to the Governors of the Northern 
 Colpnies. 
 
 The Boats Sails, mention'd to be retaken by 
 our advanced Party in thofe inland Houfes, were 
 the Sails of two of our Longboats, who, on the 
 firft of our advancing up the River, had, without 
 any Officer with them, or Orders, feil'd Ibme 
 Miles above my advanced Guards, till they were 
 fired upon thro' the Bufhes fi-om a high Bank, 
 where they had one Man kili'd and one wounded ; 
 upon which, they put alhore upon the oppofite Side 
 of the River, and ran down to my Sloop to in- 
 form them of it, and Captain Dennis march' d up 
 with a Party of Men as foon as he had Advice of 
 it ; feut being ibme Miles above him*^ they had 
 
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 145] 
 
 fcurnt the j^oats, and carried off the Sails, long be- 
 fore he could get up thither , but all that Plunder 
 of theirs is now retaken, even to the Longboat's 
 Enfign, mention'd in the Governor of St. Jago*i 
 Letters. 
 
 I can bring a twenty-gun Ship for careening, 
 with Eafe, clofe to the Banks of the River -, and 
 I think I have found a convenient Part of the 
 Harbour, that, with a little Wharfing, I fhall 
 be able to bring a fixty or a feventy-gun Ship 
 to careen at it > and we have large Timber for 
 Piles growing clofe to the Water Side, at the 
 River I water my Ships at, lying two or three 
 Leagues a|>ove where I lie in Line of Battle with 
 our fix Capital Ships, on the Weather Side of the 
 Harbour ; where we cannot be furpriz*d, being the 
 two eighty-gun Ships that Sir Chaloner and I have our 
 Flags on board of, and the four feventy-gun Ships, 
 our fcconds , tor all the reft will be kept out a crui- 
 zing, or. preparing to relieve thofe that are fo, 
 and on any Enemy's coming, may place themfelves 
 in the Van and Rear of our Line , and I am raifing 
 a little Redoubt to keep a Guard at, to cover our 
 Men in the Watering at the River I water the 
 Fleet at, which is four or five Leagues diftant 
 from the Mouth of that the Army is landed in, 
 tho* both running into the fame Harbour. 
 ' As to the Sloop Tender my Nephew comes in, 
 the Owners of her living in Rhode IJland, and the 
 Hiring and Account of what has been advanced 
 being kept by the Storekeeper at Jamaica^ make 
 it neceffary fhc (hould be order*d back thither 9 
 and her Crew are all borne as part of the Comple- 
 ment of this Ship, as I judg*d that the moft frugal 
 Management for his Majefty's Service. 
 
 I live in hopes it cannot be long now before I 
 
 fliall have the honour of hearing from you, my 
 
 G laft
 
 [ 46 1 
 
 lafl from your Grace being of the 28th of Fehrudry, 
 now above five Months ago. 
 
 I Ihall always carefully ftudy to govern myfclf, 
 to the beft of my Judgement^ for our Royal 
 Mafter*s Service : But it cannot but be an anxious 
 thing to a Commanding Officer, to be long with- 
 out knowing whetlier he has judg'd rightly of the 
 Tenour of his Inftrudtions, which is mygreateft 
 Ambition, and Ihall be my fludious Care. I am. 
 My Lord Duke^ 
 
 Bcyne, in Cumberland Xour Grace* S moft 
 
 on ihe s'omb'sTdc Okdient, Humble Servant, 
 
 of Qiha, July 29, E. V. 
 
 1741. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 I Received yours laft Night by Mr. Littleton, with 
 the agreeable News of your advanced Party ha- 
 ving got the Village without meeting any Re- 
 fiftance, finding it entirely abandoned by its In- 
 habitants. And I heartily congratulate you on the 
 uninterrupted Flow of Succefs in their Proceedings, 
 by all flying before them, and not daring fo much 
 as to make the leaft Refiftance, tho', you obferve, 
 tlic Narrownefs of the Path gave them the beft 
 Opportunity for it. But here is neither a Hannibal to 
 Command, nor Troops of any Service or Experience 
 to obey ; and you fee by Experience, they fly like a 
 Flock of Sheep before you. And, I take it, you are 
 now got pafl the moft dangerous Part for their hav- 
 ing any Opportunities of Arabulhing you ; aDanger, 
 in my Apprehenfion, eafily avoided, by fmall ad- 
 vanced Parties of your Blacks, ufed to brulhing 
 the Woods, advancing before you to the Right 
 
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 t 47 i 
 and Left. And, I remember, my Prifoner, the 
 Spanijh Boy, Izquerda^ whofe Intelligence Colonel 
 Cochran puts his Faith in, told me, before I fent 
 him to you, that from the Village to the Town of 
 St. JcLgo^ it was all Camino Real; which it ftands 
 to Reafon it Ihould, as that was the Road from 
 thence to Barracao, as well as to this Place. ^i .^ 
 And though the Guide has not carried them jn- 
 the diredb Path from your Camp, it is very plain 
 he had a very good general Notion of it, by carry- 
 ing them firft to the Houfes where the Longboats 
 Sails were lodged, which was, to be fure, the direct 
 Road they retired : By the Spanifh Boy Izquerda 
 I underftood, the fecond Houfe was that of the 
 Governor of St. Jago*s Don ^ixoie. Captain Pedra 
 Guerra : And by my Officer's Letter I find, they 
 are gone in a ftreight Line from us, as he has 
 feen our Flag on the fame Point of the Compais 
 that both your Camp and the Village are from us j 
 which makes it manifeft they are in the right Way. 
 And the three Letters you fent me, from the Go- 
 vernor of St. y ago to Capt. Pedro Guerra (one dated 
 the 19th of July, our Stile, another the 2otli, and 
 the third the 2 2d) make it clearly manifefb, that 
 his Meffengers were much lefs than twenty-four 
 Hours in bringing his Letters from St, J^go to 
 your Camp-, for we came in but the i8th in the 
 Evening, and the 19th he anfwers the Letter he 
 had from Capt, Pedro Guerra, giving him an Ac- 
 count of our Arrival i and the next Day anfwers 
 his fecond Letter : Which arc inconteftible Proofs 
 that John Drake has not reprefented the Diftance 
 nearer than it is. And if a Perfon was even to 
 walk in Woods near his own Houfe, that he had 
 not frequented for fome time, he would be liable 
 to ramble out of his Way, and that once done in 
 a Wood^ it is not eafy to recover. But that Dan- 
 G 2 ger
 
 [ 48 ] 
 
 ger is over now, fmce even Izquerda agrees it is 
 Camino Heal from that Village. 
 
 The flying of their Women and Children to St. 
 Jago, can bring nothing there butTerror and Conr 
 fufion, and increafe their Straitnefs of Provifions ; 
 and to follow this Terror, once begun, clofe at the 
 Heels, gives, in my Apprehenfion, the beft Prof- 
 ped of Succefs : And I think the greateft Danger 
 you have to run the Rifque of, is what may arife 
 from Delay, and giving them Time to recover 
 from their firft Fright, and even for preparing 
 (what you find hitherto there have been only vifi, 
 onary Apprehenfions of) Ambufcades. 
 
 I remember the Guide's Account was, that the 
 Way from the Village to St. J ago was through a 
 Notch of the Hill we fee here, which lies diredly 
 in a Line over the Village, according to the Ac- 
 count I have of the Bearing of the Village from us ; 
 and, I apprehend, cannot be far from the Village. 
 And I imagine that from that Hill, as it is high, 
 they cannot fail of feeing St.Jago : And as there are 
 higher Grounds on each Side the Road, over that 
 Notch of the Hill, I apprehend Parties of Blacks, 
 fent firll to the higher Grounds on each Side of 
 that Road, would be an Ambufcade upon any that 
 ihould be attempting to lie in Ambufcade againft 
 you there, as they could fall down upon the Back 
 of them. And as I think Delay the moft fatal 
 Thing that can happen to you, I cannot but think 
 it my Duty, both in regard to the Crown and 
 yourfelf, to caution you againft it. 
 
 ,1 was pleafed to hear by Mr. Littleton^ they had 
 got about a hundred Horfes in a Pen ; and would 
 not ftop him for my Letter, from carrying you Hal- 
 ters for them as foon as he could .: But as you have 
 Jorty-eight Ships under your Orders in the River, 
 they can much fooncr fupply you with any Thing 
 
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 [49] 
 ef that kind you may want. I fcnt you my Ad- 
 vice, by Mr. Littleton, to order every one of them 
 to be preparing two large Canvafs fpreading Pokes, 
 fuch as the Pedlars travel with, with their Goods 
 in Boxes, which hang on each Side the Horfe, the 
 Canvafs being fingle over the Horfe*s Back. And 
 that they may carry the more, I think the Blacks 
 ftiould be ordered to lead them on foot, and no 
 one be permitted to ride them ; and each Ship 
 might fyrnifh a Tarpawling, for a Sumpter-Cloth 
 over them, to cover them from the Rain, for fe- 
 curing the dry Provifions. And for the Meat, the 
 empty Cafks might be carried by the Negroes after 
 them, for putting the Meat up again into them ; 
 with a Cooper from fome of the Tranfports, to 
 head them, whenever you come where you would 
 have them lodged for Stores. 
 
 And when you are advanced fo far, as to be fure 
 pf the Time when you can appear, to attempt the 
 furprizing of the Batteries above the Morro Caflle, 
 the EJirella, and St. Qatalina, (mentioned to be 
 eafiiy.praflicable in the Information you have of 
 Henry Cavcliery Carpenter ;) I will take Care to be, 
 either myfelf or Sir Chaloner Ogle, off the Mouth 
 pf the Harbour, to do all that (hall be found to be 
 pra(5blcable to be attempted. 
 
 And I- believe you will agree with me, that a 
 few chofen Men are better to make the Attempt 
 with, than very large Bodies, that require fuch 
 large Supplies of Provifions going with them. 
 
 As to fecuring your Camp you are now in, a 
 fmall Number may be fufHcicnt for that, and you 
 may with eafe land all your Field Pieces there for 
 its Security , which Captain Fotreji, I will anfwer 
 for him, will foon render eafily pra(5^cablc for you, 
 if you defire it. " "**'', ^^ ' 
 
 '' ' And
 
 [ 5 ] 
 
 And I find the Village, for a Pofl of Commu- 
 nication, is likewife very eafily fecured, as Mr. 
 Sturton writes me that the River runs in an El- 
 bow half round it, and likewife agrees with Drake's 
 Information, tha,t the Village lies near the fame 
 River, though not navigable to it : But this is a 
 fine Supply of Frefh Water for thofe pofted there. 
 I have reconnoitred all the Coafls of this Har- 
 bour, from the Mouth of the River you are up, 
 to that my Ships arc watering at, which is five 
 Leagues ; and can plainly perceive, no one can 
 come to attack your Camp that Way ; and believe 
 there are no Inhabitants to do it Eaftward of this 
 Harbour. And I am raifing a Redoubt, to fccure 
 our watering at that River, and Hiall afterwards be 
 trying to find fome Communication with your 
 Camp from thence, which will ferve to put it in 
 the greater Security from all Surprize. 
 
 You cannot but he fenfible, that the Security 
 of your Army and all your Tranfports, depends on 
 our being in a Condition to defend this Harbour 
 from any Enemy coming by Surprize on us : And 
 you know the Force they have under Don Rodrigo 
 de Torres, which may eafily come here, by going 
 through the Gulph, and coming to the French 
 Ifland of Hifpaniola. And if Mr. Gray^s Advices, 
 "which I fent you, fhould be true, and a Squadron 
 Ihould come to join them from France, the Fate of 
 this Expedition mufl be tried by a Sea Combat, 
 and our Defeat would be your certain Ruin. 
 
 And befides, as I propofe being off the Harbour 
 to fecond your Attempt all I can, the remaining 
 Americans on board of us would, in my Apprehen- 
 . fion, be moft in the Way on board of our Ships, 
 even for throwing them afhore on the Batteries to 
 windward of the Morro, if pra6ticable, on your -ap- 
 pearing off there. So that, in all Lights, I cannot 
 
 but
 
 [ 5> ] 
 
 but think them^ for the prefcnt, beft pofted here ; 
 both for the Security of your Army, and feconding 
 all Attempts on the Metro Caftle : And I am per- 
 fwaded, on Refle(5lion, you will think fo too, and 
 approve of their remaining here. For fotne of our 
 Ships are near a hundred Men fhort of Comple- 
 ment already, and we have but^ 6ur fix Capital 
 Ships to be depended on for being in Harbour, 
 as the reft muft be kept in conftant Employment 
 in Cruizing, fome to Block up the Harbour, and 
 the others for watching the Motions of the Ene 
 my's Squadrons from all Parts, which I have them 
 at prefent conveniently pofted for. "^ 
 
 Your Letters were difpatch*d for Jarmica yef- 
 terday by Captain Barnard^ and juft before he 
 fail*d (tho* after my Letters were feal'd up) I had 
 a Line from Capt. Forreft, of the advanced Party 
 being arriv*d at the Village ; fo I had the Pleafurc 
 of fending by Capt. Barnard a. verbal Account of 
 it to Governor Irelawney. 
 
 I have difpatch*d the Tork^ Captain Cotes^ away 
 ioxLtoganey with the Vice Roy o^ Mexico* s Retinue 
 (being twenty-feven) and fixteen mort Spani/h Pri- 
 soners, that defir*d to be fet at Liberty there ; and 
 eight more I fent by Captain Broderick to Car- 
 tbagena, and the Spanijh Lawyer by Captain Allen 
 to Leogane\ in all, fifty-two. And confidering 
 that of thefe many were Officers and Gentlemen,; 
 I think, according to the Ufage of War, thefe 
 are more than an Exchange for the fixty-four rc- 
 leas'd from St. J ago : So that I ftiall think of re- 
 leafmg no more at prefent -, and fhall be glad of 
 your Opinion, if you do not think it a full Eii*-- 
 change, according to the Rules of War. 
 
 I believe you will now think it proper, to try if 
 you cannot engage any of your Prifoners to dif- 
 
 perfe
 
 t 52 ] 
 
 perfe your Manifeflos, to try what Effects they 
 may have. 
 
 I am glad I can acquaint you, that Captain Allen 
 is come into the Harbour, who fhall be ready 
 to proceed with your Letters; tor the Governors of 
 the Northern Colonies, whenever you defire it, 
 i I have fent Capt. Chambers up with Capt. Watfon^ 
 who is come in from his Cruize off St. Jago^ in 
 cafe you might have any Qaeftions to afk him. 
 
 And with my beft Wifhes for the Profperity of 
 his Majefty's Arms under your Condud, I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 Boyne, Cumberland Har- Tour moji Obedient, 
 
 hour, Aug. 2, 1 741. Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 P. S. Be pleafed to forward my Letter to Lieut* 
 Slurton, when you write yourfelf. 
 
 21? General W e n t w o r T h. 
 : S I R, J .wi:!-;-' 
 
 I Have fenC you by Lieut. Littleton a Sample of 
 the Canvafs Pockets, that I think may be fer- 
 viceable to you for conveying the Provisions for 
 your Troops ; and on your approving it, I have 
 order*d him to leave it with Mr. Wallace, for his 
 having as many more immediately made as you 
 judge you may want. You will perceive by what 
 happen*d yefterday, in their attempting an Ambufh 
 where my fmall Guard of Sailors were, that it is 
 all a meer Jeft, and that they had more kill'd 
 than they kill*d of our Men ; tho* they catch*d one 
 of your Men eafing himfelf, whom they treated 
 with fuch Barbarity, that, if the Rules of War ad- 
 mit of it, I think fuch lurking Parties fhould have 
 no Quarter. I did not expe<5t my Lieutenant nor 
 my Guide in j but my Lieutenant fays it was Col. 
 
 Cockran'i
 
 [ 53 ] 
 
 Cockfan*s Order : But I fhall fend him back to his 
 Duty to-day under his former Orders, to attend the 
 Forces you order to advance to St. JagOy with the 
 Guide, and to fhew them the Way, whenever 
 you defire j and I am glad to hear they have fo good 
 a Road before them. 
 
 The Prize brought in yefterday came from Port 
 PaJJage the Middle of June, is a prime-failing 
 Ship, bought from the Privateers, to be fenc 
 to the Vice Roy of Mexico and Don Rodrigo de 
 Torres with Difpatches, which, he fays, he has 
 thrown into the Sea. She has 'twenty-four Guns, 
 and two hundred and twenty Men ; and God*s 
 good Providence deliver*d her into our Hands, 
 our Ship having a Gale of Wind to run up witji 
 her when fhe was becalm'd. 
 
 I fend you by Mr. Littleton the Tranflation of a 
 Letter, that gives fome Account of European News, 
 and I fend you the French News-Papers from Leo- 
 gane ; and cannot forbear, on all Occafions, repeat- 
 ing, that Delay, in niy Apprehenfion, is the only 
 Enemy we have to fear. 
 
 With my beft Wtfhes for Profperity to his Ma-. 
 jelly's Arms under your Conduft, I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland Hzx- Your mofi Obedient, 
 
 bour, Aug. 5, 1 741 . j^^i^i^ Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 7i? General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 THIS will be brought you by Lieut. Sturton, 
 who returns to his Command under my for- 
 mer Orders, of attending With ten Men, and the 
 Guide, John Drake, to fhew your advanced Parties 
 the Road from the Village to St. Jago^ and the 
 H Batteries
 
 [ 54 ] 
 
 Batteries above Morro Caftle, whenever they have 
 your Orders to proceed, and you let him know 
 your defire he fhould. 
 
 He has Jikewife, on board my Brig Tender, 
 Lieutenant Lowther under his Orders, who fpeaks 
 Spanijh very well, and may be otherwife of Service ; 
 and I cannot omit mentioning one of his Remarks 
 for difcovering Parties in the Woods, which is, 
 where-ever Carrion Crows, or other Birds, may be 
 feen hovering. 
 
 So that if you choofe Lieut. Lowther to com- 
 mand the Party inltcad of Lieut. Sturton, he has 
 my Orders to fend him, and to ftay to command 
 the Brigantine himfelf. 
 
 And this Detachment going with the Guide 
 may be of further Service to you, if you think of 
 having the two Pettereroes carried with the ad- 
 vanced Party -, and our Men probably may be beft 
 pradticed in making a proper Ufe of them. 
 
 With my beft Wifhes of Succefs to his Majefty's 
 Arms under your Condudl, 'Tarn, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland Har- Tour moft Obedient, 
 
 hour, ifland of Cuba, jj^^j^i^ Servant, 
 
 Aug. 5, 1 741. g y 
 
 Tb General Went worth. 
 SIR, 
 
 WE have taken into mature Confideration, to- 
 gether, your Letter to Mr. Vernon of the 5th 
 of this Month, which put us under an equal Sur- 
 prize with what fell from you on the 2 2d of July, 
 when we thought our Duty to his Majefty requir'd 
 our laying our Thoughts before you on that Sub- 
 jed, by our joint Letter of the 23d oi July. 
 
 ' And
 
 [ 5S] 
 
 ' And as in your Letter now, you mention your 
 fpecdily calling a Council of War, in which you 
 ihall come to a final Refolution , 
 
 Mr. Vernon^ who had communicated to me be- 
 fore all his Letters to you, thought it advifeable to 
 confult with me, what anfwer was proper to be 
 fent you to it 5 that tho' we have not a deliberative 
 Voice in your Councils of War, we might defire 
 you to communicate to them our Sentiments, be- 
 fore they come to forming any final Rcfolutions. 
 
 And having maturely confidcr'd the Letter you 
 mention to have recfeiv'd from Mr. Vernon, of 
 the 2d of Augufi, and the fubfequent Letters he 
 fent you of the 5th of Augufi, I cannot but join 
 with him in Opinion, that they contain very fea- 
 fonable and friendly Advices to you, and fuch as, 
 in our joint Apprehenfions, ought to be laid be* 
 fore your Council of War, together with our for- 
 mer Letters to you of the 23d of July, for theu* 
 Confideration, before they come to a final Refo- 
 lution (as you fay is intended,) for preventing pre- 
 cipitate Refolutions being form'd. 
 
 In this Letter you fay, it is not pofTible for any 
 Number of Men to fubfift many Days in the Part 
 of which they are at prefent poflefs'd \ which we 
 cannot conceive your meaning by, when you cxn. 
 fupply them with whatever Provifions they want ; 
 and the further you advance, you know, you com- 
 mand open Savannas full of Cattle for further Sup- 
 plies j as we are inform'd by Lieut. Sturton, who 
 advanced with the Guide and your Parties as tar aa 
 they had Orders from you for going. 
 
 Thefe Defiles you mention, have been march*d 
 thro', and none of thofe Difficulties met with that 
 you are fo full of Apprehenfions from ; and for-* 
 ward on from the Village, there is lels Reafon to 
 apprehend them, it being allowM to be CaminoReaL 
 Hi Ana
 
 [S6] 
 
 And as to your Apprehenfions from the Militia of 
 this Ifland, we cannot better lay before you how 
 groundlefs they gre, than by fending you the in- 
 clofed Informatiwi from Mr. Toller^ one of the late 
 releas^d Prifoners, whom your Council of War may 
 have to exapiine, if they defire it *, by which you 
 will fee, if you do but proceed vigoroufly, as de- 
 termined to fucceed, there is the moft promifing 
 Hopes of their revolting, and becoming willing 
 Subjeds to our Royal Mafter. 
 
 And as in Mr. Vernon's Letter he has already 
 aflur'd you, that he will either himfelf be off the 
 Port to meet you, or fend me with fuch a Detach- 
 ment of Ships as fhall be necelTary, for doing every 
 Thing that can be practicable by Sea, at the Time 
 you give him Notice you Ihall be ready to make 
 the Attack by Land upon the Batteries of the 
 Eflrilla and Santa Catalina (which are reprefented to 
 be fo eafily furpriz'd, in the Information you have 
 of Henry Cavelier^ Carpenter, who has been lately 
 employed at work in them ;) and as we fhall carry 
 with us the Americans remaining on board, to land 
 them at the Batteries to windward (if pradlicable) 
 to join you there, we cannot conceive how it is 
 poflible they can be better employ'd for your Ser- 
 vice, and the Succels of this Expedition. 
 
 We cannot likewife but be furpriz'd at your 
 faying, that your being landed in the Harbour of 
 St. Jago, or at the Batteries to windward of it, 
 were the principal Motives for your confenting to 
 this Undertaking ; when you know it was always 
 our declared Opinions, from the befl Advices we 
 had received, that fuch an Attempt was imprac- 
 ticable. But if we find it otherwise, you may rely 
 on our doing our Duty to the Crown. 
 
 Every thing appears to us moft providentially to 
 favour the Succefs of this Expedition, as, by Lieu- 
 tenant
 
 [ 57] 
 
 tenant Sturton^s Report it appears, with very little 
 Trouble even our Cannon may be advanced to the 
 Polls that your advanced Guards are now at. 
 
 And we apprehend, that, with proper Care about 
 it, you may be poffefled of what Horles you pleafe, 
 to carry your Provifions with you : But we think 
 the principal Attack, to be tried on thofe upper Bat- 
 teries, fhould be attempted fpeedily with a chofen 
 Number of Men, not to give the Enemy Time to 
 be preparing againft you. 
 
 We thought it our Duty to lay our Thoughts 
 thus feafonably before you, for your Council of 
 War*s knowing our Sentiments in time, before 
 their forming their final Refolutions, as you fay is 
 fpeedily intended. 
 
 With our beft Wilhes for the Profperity of his 
 Majefly*s Arms under your Condud, we are, 
 SIR, 
 
 Cumberland, in Cumberland Xour mofi Obedient^ 
 
 Harbour. South Side of ^^^^^^ Servants, 
 
 Cuba, Au7. 6, 1741. ^ ' 
 
 ^ ' '^ E. Vernon, 
 
 C. Ogle. 
 
 ^0 Captain R 1 n t o n e, of the Rippon. 
 By, ^c. 
 
 WHereas I think it of Importance to his MaT 
 jefty's Service in the prefent Conjun6lure, 
 to have a Communication immediately open'd be- 
 tween the Bluff to the Weftward of the River 
 where our Ships are watering, and the Incamp-' 
 ment on the Side of the River Augufia \ 
 ^ You are hereby requir'd and direfted, to take with 
 you a Detachment of thirty Men of Capt. Pepper'*^ 
 Company, now on board of you, with the faid Cap- 
 tain (who has my Orders to obey your Command 
 on the faid Service;) and a further Detachment of 
 
 twcnry
 
 [ 58] 
 
 twenty American Forces, under one of their Offi- 
 cers, from the Montagu and Ludbis) Cajile (whofe 
 Captains you will (hew my Orders to, for their 
 making the faid Detachments of twenty Men each 
 accordingly) to be landed, for marching under 
 your Orders, by Day-break to-morrow Morning, 
 at the Bluff to the Weftward of the River : From 
 whence, together with 20 Seamen, (with Hand- 
 Bills, for clearing the Underwood where neceflary, 
 and armed with Sword and Piftols only, as you will 
 have a fufficient Number of Mufqueteers from the 
 Detachments of AmericanYvoo^s) you are to march 
 very leifurely, for opening your Communication 
 with the faid Encampment on the River Augufia. 
 
 And you will order it, if you can, to march in 
 three open Files, for better difcovering any At- 
 tempts to Ambufcade you, having a Lieutenant to 
 command the Party that advances before your Sea-^ 
 men for cutting the Underwood, and he having a 
 Serjeant with a Detachment of his Men before him. 
 And as the Way is not judged to be above four or 
 five Miles difVance, and they need only clear the 
 Underwood for making an open Way to be (ttn 
 through, I apprehend it can eafily be done in a 
 Morning , and Orders fhall be fent for the De-r 
 ^achment being vidualled on board my Brigantine, 
 and, if the Way is found tirefome, to reft there 
 for returning next Day. 
 
 And as Troops in a Wood cannot be formed in 
 a regular Order, you will difpofe your Officers in 
 the beft Manner, for commanding the refpedtive 
 Detachments ; and let them not m^rch with their 
 Mufquets fhouldered, but refted on their Arms, to 
 prevent Surprizes, and be the readier to receive an 
 Enemy. And give this general Order to all com- 
 manding the feveral Detachments, to fland their 
 Ground, and face their Enemy wherever they ap- 
 pear.
 
 [ S9l 
 
 |)car, and to defend themfelves as becomes bold Bri- 
 tons, and giveTime to your other Parties to come up 
 to fupport them \ inculcating this general Maxim to 
 them, that facing one's Enemy is the beft Security, 
 and turning one's Back to them is abandoning one's 
 felf to fure Deftrudion -, an Order I judge not im- 
 proper for new-raifed Troops. And for all other 
 Orders found neceflary, I rely on your approv'd 
 Judgment and Refolution. For, ^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har- 
 bour, (^c, this 6th oi Aiigufi, 174I' 
 
 To Captain Forrest, of the Alderney Bomb. 
 
 By, IBc. 
 "11 / Hereas I have ordered Captain Rentone^^ ^ith 
 a Detachment of Marines and Seamen, to 
 open a Way of Communication to-morrow Morn- 
 ing, between the Bluff to the Weftward of the 
 River our Ships Water at, and the general En- 
 campment ; 
 
 For his better Guidance in fo doing, you are 
 hereby required and direded, to take with you a 
 Detachment of thirty Men, from the Bomb-Ketch 
 under your Command, and my Brig Tender, and 
 to take Poft with therii early to-morrow Morning 
 upon the Hill juft above the Camp, where Lieu- 
 tenant Taylor made his Bonfire yeflcrday Evening : 
 Which you are accordingly to renew to-morrow 
 Morning, to fcrve for a Guidance to Capt. Rentone 
 in his moving towards you. And you will from 
 thence keep a good Look-out towards the faid 
 Bluff (where a Fire is likewife ordered to be kept^ 
 they being reckon'd to bear neareft E. N. E. and 
 W.S.W. of each other*, ) to obferve that no Parties 
 of the Enemy be moving that Way to annoy them ; 
 in which Cafe, you are to move to fuftain them, 
 
 taking
 
 t6o] 
 
 taking Care to fend the General immediate Notici^, 
 ^d defire he would detach out Forces to fuftain 
 you; and you will acquaint the General, if ftirring, 
 or the Commanding Officer, with the Orders you 
 have. 
 
 And defire of them from me, that they would 
 fend out Orders to their advanced Guards and Cen- 
 tries, to acquaint them of it, and give out the 
 fame Words to the Centries (for preventing Mrf- 
 takes) as I have ordered for our Party. 
 
 Which are, for thofe challenged to anfwer to 
 the Centries, or Party challenging, in thefe Words, 
 Great Marlborough's Glory ; and the Cen- 
 try, or Party challenging, to anfwer. Victory. 
 For, ^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (forinerly called JVaUhenam) on the South Side 
 oi Cuba, x.\i\s 6t\i oi Augufty 1741. 
 
 To Mr. Wallace. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have this Evening receivM your Letter j and was 
 glad to hear Provifions were fent on board the 
 Borfetjhire for the one hundred and forty-one Spanijh 
 Prisoners you defire for the Tranfports, which I 
 fhall make the Difpofition for fending on board of 
 her on Tuefday Morning. 
 
 I was glad to hear you were clearing Tranfports 
 to fend for Provifions for the Army ; and as you 
 fupply Provifions to the Army, pray order it to 
 clear fome for the Fleet too, as I muft defire the 
 General to fpare me fome of them "(I believe j 
 to fetch Supplies for us. Pray contrive that 
 thofe defign'd for both Services may be good 
 Sailors, that they may the more fpeedily ply up to 
 windward to us > and I have defigned a Ship for 
 
 Convoy,
 
 r 61 ] 
 
 Convoy, that l)iall be. ready to fail whenever flie is 
 defired. 
 
 I am fure thole Bags will do for carrying Provi- 
 iions, and the Weight be nothing to a Horle, pro- 
 vided no one be fufFer'd to ride them *, and a little 
 long Grafs laid upon the Horfes Backs under them, 
 will make them lie eafier and cooler to them than 
 a Pack-Saddle. I am, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland /v ' / 1 1 n 
 
 Harbour, Qiba, Tour humble Ssrvant, 
 
 ^"g- 9' i74- E. V. 
 
 ^0 Capt. Forrest, of the Alderncy Bomb. 
 SIR, 
 
 Lieutenant Porter brought me laft Night a large 
 Packet from the General, which I have not yet 
 had time to read over this Morning ; but having 
 caft my Eye on the Refolution, I fee plainly it is 
 againft advaiKtng any further. 
 
 And if that be the Cafe, I apprehend there can 
 be no occafion for Lieut. Lowther and his Party, 
 with my Guide, cotntinuing any longer abfent on 
 board the Brig Tender. -" 
 
 I would, therefore, defire you immediately to 
 wait qn the GeneraJ, to know whether he is de- 
 firous he flxould qpntinue with his advanced Party 
 any longer : And if he does not, as it was only 
 for his Service and at his Defire that he was fent, 
 pray do you lend him Orders to return, with the 
 next Orders the General fends that way , and fend a 
 Meflenger of your own with your Orders to him, 
 by the next Party that goes that way. And pray 
 tranfad thefe Orders yourfelf, as I rely on your 
 Prudence for the carc;ful Execution of them. 
 
 I * * '"'^" ^- I was
 
 [ 62 ] 
 
 i was pleasM to hear you found fo fliort and 
 good a Road back to the Camp. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 Cutnberland Harbour, Tour very btimhk Servant, 
 
 Jug. lo, 1741. E. V, 
 
 P. S. Deliver the inclofed to Lieut. S fur ton in 
 your Way. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 S T R, 
 
 IT being laft Night that your Letter of the 9th 
 was brought, with the inclofed Refolutions of 
 your Council of War, and the Reports of feveral 
 of your principal Officers, and the Examination of 
 a Spaniffo Prifoner, there was no Opportunity for 
 their being fooner taken into Confideration than 
 to-day. 
 
 We have read them over together attentively, 
 and having obfervM in your Letter, that you had 
 communicated to your Cuncil of War all the fe- 
 veral Advices given by us to you, as (in our Opinions) 
 mod for his Majefly's Honour and Service, and 
 your own , and having confider'd that, notwith- 
 flanding, your Council of, War have, in their faid 
 Refolutions, declar'd, 
 
 "That they cannot march anyBodyof theirTroops 
 " further into the Country, without expofing them 
 ^' to certain Ruin ; and that they are firmly of 
 "Opinion, that their advancing with their Army 
 " to St. JagOy in their prefent Circumflances, is 
 " impradficable.'* 
 
 As the Operations of the Army are, by his Ma- 
 jefty's Inflru6l:ions, left under the particular Di- 
 reflions o(-a Council of War of your own Officers \ 
 after their liaving in luch a manner deliver'd their 
 Opinions, it would ill become us to be giving our 
 
 Opinions
 
 [63] 
 
 Opinions in fuch Matters, that his Majefty's In- 
 ftrudions had left to the particular Deliberations 
 of your Council of War. 
 
 But we may obferve to you. Sir, that a good 
 Part of thefe Objections are founded on the Dif- 
 ficulty of an Army*s marching from hence to 
 St. Jago with Cannon , which is what we never 
 conceiv'd to be neceflary. .^r .,, l:--'^ 
 
 But had it been found pra6licable," on your firft 
 landing, for a chofen Detachment of a thoufand 
 Men,, with a thoufand Negroes to have gone with 
 them for carrying a Week*s Provifions, to have 
 tried if thofe upper Batteries, of the Eftrella and 
 Santa Catalina, could not have been furpriz*d and 
 taken with Facility, as was reprefented in Henry 
 Cavelier*s Information ; (which would have been but 
 the Experiment of a Day ;) we apprehend the Fate 
 of St. Jago might have been tried and determin'd 
 before now : And if the Forces had not found that 
 Facility in furprizing them as was reprefented, they 
 would have had fufEcient Provifions tor their Retreat 
 to the Camp. And as, on their fucceeding, we fliould 
 have been one of us at hand to have endeavour*d 
 to have pufh-d into the Harbour, the Town of 
 St. Jago, and all the reft, would have fallen of 
 Courfei the Town being an open Town, that would 
 have been under the Command of our Guns. And if 
 this Method had been thought proper to have been 
 purfued, we apprehend they would not have had 
 Time for amending their former Overfights, by 
 taking fome Care to fecure the back Door ; whereas, 
 from all former Informations, they had only been 
 providing to fecure the fore Door, the Entrance 
 4nto the Harbour. 
 
 We flatter ourfelves, that in our former Advices, 
 
 we have a(5led with a finccre Regard for his Majefty** 
 
 ][ionour and Service, and a friendly Gopd^will tp 
 
 I 2 yours.
 
 [64] 
 
 yours. And we are determined, with our beft Care, 
 to cultivate a good Underftahdiiig \vith you, and 
 liich as are in Chief Command, agteeably to his 
 Majefty's Inftruftions , which we defire you will 
 afllire the other General Officers of-, as tnfcy have 
 done us, in the general Refolution you fent the 
 Copy of inclbfed. 
 
 With our beft Wiflies for the Profperity bf his 
 Majefty's Arms under your 'Condud, we are, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 $oyne, m CamlTerland Harbour ^our mofi Ohedienty 
 (formerly c^\VAWahhenam) ' . ;^^^^/^ Servants^ 
 
 on the bouth bide of Qiba, -i- *r 
 
 Jug. lo.^y^x. KVerno^I. 
 
 C. Ogle. 
 
 j^ 
 
 7i> (7^^r^/ W 1 1* T w o u T ft. 
 S I R, 
 
 YOURS of the 1 1 th, mentioning your having 
 communicated to the Members of your Council 
 of War ours of the loth, was brought by Lieut. 
 Pearfe this Morning, and we foon after rhtt to take 
 it into Confideration. 
 
 And it was with Pleafure we obferv'd your men- 
 tioning the Members of your Council of War join- 
 ing with you, in afluring us that nothing, on your 
 Parts, will be wanting to cultivate the good Cor- 
 refporidence fo ftrongly recommended by his Ma- 
 jefty ; and which we gave you, as was our Duty, 
 the like Aflurance of on ours. 
 
 And we flatter ourfelves, all our Advices to you 
 will appear to all impartial Men, to have had no 
 other Motive than his Majefty's Honour and Ser- 
 vice (to the beft of our Judgements) and a friendljf 
 Concern for yours. 
 
 And as you are defir'd by the Gentlemen of your 
 Council of War, to haVe a General Council of 
 
 War
 
 [ 65 ] 
 
 War held, to conlider of what is mofl proper w 
 be done in the prefent Circumftanccs, we very 
 , readily confent to what you defire ; and that yom 
 and the principal Officers of your Army may not 
 be cali'd far from your Camp, we have agreed 
 to be on board the Vefuvius Firefhip, Capt. Tomfbn, 
 to-morrow Morning before eight o'Clock, and to 
 bring our two Senior Captains with us ; and the 
 Signal fhall be made for the faid General Council 
 of War, on board the fald Firelhip, by eight 
 o'clock at fartheft. We are, 
 
 SIR, . . 
 
 Qanheriand, in Cumher- ToUT Itt&ft Obeditftt-ij^^ ^ 
 
 Und Harbour, G^, f/?^w^/^ Servants^ '-"-I 
 
 ' COgle."^ 
 
 ' ' .,nw > 
 
 31? General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 CAptain Hopkins brought me your Letter of the 
 1 2th yefterday in the Evening, on board the 
 Vejuvius Firefhip, in the River Augufta ; and I 
 defir'd he would be on board the Seahorfe this 
 Morning, and Capt. Allen fhould have his Orders 
 to fail with him this Afternoon. Capt. Allen has 
 had his Orders, as you defir'd, with the AfTurances 
 of PrOteftion for all Ships or VelTels coming with 
 Recruits or Provifions for the Army , but we have 
 heard nothing further of Captain Hopkins, which 
 I thought proper to advife you o 
 
 And an Information in relation to Col. C u 
 
 coming to my Hands, that will, I am perfwaded, 
 furprize you as much as it did me, I thought it 
 for his Majefty's Service, early to tranfmit a Copy 
 of it to you, as thinking it, in our prefent Cir- 
 <jumftances, of a criminal Nature : And 1 doubt 
 
 not
 
 [66 ] 
 
 not but you will take early Meafures to prevent 
 Shipping off Mules or Horfes, when they are fo 
 much wanted for his Majcfty's Service. I am, 
 S I R, 
 
 Boyue^ In Cumberland 2'our Moji Ohdicnty 
 
 Harbour, i^c. Humble Servant, 
 
 - ^g- H. 1741- y 
 
 ^0 Captain Forrest, of the Al^erney Bomb. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have fent you inclofed a Copy of Lieutenant 
 Lxvther*s Journal, and Captain Chambers*s Re- 
 port and Obfervations, for the General, according 
 to ray Promife to him ; and an Order to Lieutenant 
 ^tnnes to return to his Duty : And I defire you will 
 go up to the Camp, and deliver them both yourfelf 
 into their refpeftive Hands^ witli my Service to the 
 General. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 j^oyne, in Cumberland Harbour, Xour bumhk Servanty ; 
 pilay Juguji i<^, 1741. .^ E'Vi 
 
 To Mr. Thomas Innes, Firft Lieutenant of the 
 Grafton. 
 By, ^c. 
 "llZHereas the Seairity of the Army will in great 
 ^^ meafure depend on the Fleet's being able to 
 jnaintain its Poll in this Harbour, againft any 
 Force the Enemy can bring j who, we know, car- 
 ried with them from Cartbagena twelve Ships -of the 
 Line, under Don Rodrigo de 'Torres, for the Havanna, 
 and had three Ships of the Line there before : 
 
 As I judge it neceflary, for our fupporting our- 
 felves againft any fuperior Power, to throw up fome 
 Batteries, both on the Eaft Point of tl;e Harbour^ 
 
 an4
 
 and the little Ifland above us ; and as you think 
 yourfelf to have fome Judgment as an Engineer : ^tj 
 You are hereby required and directed, immedi- 
 ately to repair to your Duty, as Firft Lieutenant of 
 his Majcfty's Ship the Grafton^ I defigning to try 
 what Judgment you have in that Way, by your 
 preparing me a Plan for fuch Batteries as I fhall 
 give you Direflions in, and drawing a Scheme how 
 your faid Plan is to be executed ; by which I Ihall 
 foon be enabled to judge of your Capacity that way* 
 . But if General Wentworth fhould have fo little 
 Confidence in the Engineer he has, as to think 
 your Service as an Engineer of Confequence to him, 
 and ihould have an Inclination to appoint yoii 
 fuch ; if you chufe ferving the Crown under him 
 rather than in the Poll you are in, I Ihall be ready 
 to oblige the General v/ith yourDifcharge, if he and 
 you requeft it, as you know our Service admits no 
 Sine-Cures , and I fhall then commit fuchWorks to 
 the Care of others. And upon fight of this Order, 
 you are immediately to repair to your Duty. ; 
 Given on board the Boyne^ in Cumberland Mar-^ 
 hour, ( formerly called JValthenam ) on the South 
 Side of Cuifa, the 15th of ^ugufiy 1741. 
 
 " ' ' "^ ' . "; .'.v!; 
 
 u\. 'To General Went w a il th. k-, tisud 
 
 -uS IR, ' . -t ,-.; 
 
 BEING defirous to tranfmit your Letters tO 
 your Hands as foon as I can, I difpatch them 
 to you before I have read all my Letters. 
 
 But finding two Paragraphs in Captain Daveri^% 
 Letter, relating to the Norway- Merchant Tranfport,. 
 and Ly7in Hofpital-Ship, I have drawn out Extracts 
 of them for you, that you may give the Orders ia 
 the Affair that you think proper i and I cannot but 
 agree with Captain Davers, that it would be proper 
 to difcharge them from the Service. * , 5 
 
 '-ni ^ For
 
 [68] 
 
 For were the Lynn Hofpital-Ship here, (he could 
 h& of no Service to you, as fhe draws too much 
 Water for getting her into the River Augujia ; fo 
 that flie muft lie in the Harbour within us, which I 
 take to be at Icaft ^tvcn Leagues from your Camp, 
 which would render her of no Service to you as an 
 
 Hofpital-Ship. And I t;ike Mr. C- /'$ Soli- 
 
 citoufnefs about her, to be in regard to other Mer- 
 chandize on board, that might not be fo fervice- 
 able to the Army ; well knowing he has made ufc 
 of his Majefty's Tranfports for his private Service, 
 by my having figncd Bills of Exchange for near 
 feven thoufand Pounds, for French Bj -andies by him 
 fold to the Agent Viftuallers for the Fleet, and de- 
 livered from the Tranfports ; and aU the Medicine- 
 Chefts and the Surgeons are already arrived. 
 
 I fend you likewife inclofed a Cjopy of the Re- 
 port from the Matters of the two Tranfports, ia 
 
 regard to Colonel C 's Negotiations for Ihip- 
 
 ping off Mules and Horfes for j/atnaica j which I 
 thought the more proper, as you will obferve that 
 they were to go now with the Tranfports going for 
 Provifions. 
 
 The Convoy to go with thef e Tranfports, when- 
 ever you have them cleared fo r fending them, has 
 been for fome Days pad read y, being Capt. Hore 
 in the Ludlow-Cajlle. I flioulci be glad to have two 
 of them for bringing up the Provifions for the 
 Fleet, and to know the Time you think you fhaJl 
 have thofe Tranfports ready f or failing for Jamaica^ 
 1 that I may have all my Letters and Orders ready 
 io go by the Convoy. 
 
 I am glad I can acquaint you, that Part of the 
 <f?argo of Captain Tr^t/^^r's Prize, taken off Rio La 
 Hachay is Cloathing for three thoufand Sailors and 
 ff vc hundred Soldiers, on board Don Rodrigo de 
 1, orres's Squadron at the Havarma^
 
 [ 69] 
 
 I hear of no Englijh News later than the News* 
 Papers of the 8th of May ; but am dilpatching 
 Captain Hervey to Leogane to-day, for trying what 
 News we can pick up among them. 
 
 I fent one of my Lieutenants to reconnoitre hoW 
 far the River is navigable for Boats above your 
 Camp, which I find to be about three Miles higher; 
 which is half a Mile higher up the River than your 
 advanced Party firft crofs*d it : So that Provifions 
 can eafily be conveyed by Boats to the other Side 
 of the River, at that firfl Crofling the River; which 
 I thought it material to inform you of. 
 
 The Augufta with her Tranfports was feen off 
 here at Sea laft Night, and I hear they bring you 
 feventy-five Men in the miffing Tranlport, and^ 
 one hundred and fixty-two of your recover*d Men 
 in the other two Tranfports. I am, 
 ^ IR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumber landHsxhoMTy Tour tnoft Obedient^ 
 
 Cuba, Juguft 17, 1 741. Humble Servant^ 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To General Wentworth, 
 SIR, 
 
 VOURS of the 17th was brought me laft 
 -' Night; and I have been this Morning to re- 
 connoitre the Eaftern Entrance into this Harbour^ 
 where I intend erecting a Battery, if you can affift 
 us from your Ordnance Stores, for laying the 
 Platforms. I then faw two of your Tranfports, and 
 have given the neceflary Orders for their being 
 piloted up the River to you, as you defire; and 
 whenever you will plcafe to fend your two white 
 Prifoners down, they Ihall be recewid on board my 
 Ships, as you defire. 
 
 K I wag
 
 [7] 
 
 I was glad to hear you had taken effeflual Mea- 
 fiires, to prevent the Shipping off for Jamaica fuch 
 Horfes and Mules as have already been fecured for 
 the Service of the Army. 
 
 In all the Advice given by me and Sir Chaloner 
 Ogle, I can afllire you, we had nothing in View 
 but the Honour and Profperity of his Majefty's 
 Arms, and, of confequence, yours, who had the 
 Chief Command of his Army. 
 
 I hope the Gentlemen of your Council have had 
 no other Views in the Advice they have given you ; 
 and where one of them appear'd to me to have 
 felfilh Views, I thought it my Duty early to advife 
 you of it. 
 
 And you will find in me an Inclination, at all 
 Times, to maintain an amicable Correfpondence 
 with you. I am, ' 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumherland Har- YoWT mofi Obedient^ 
 
 bour, Aug. 1 8, 1 741. Humble Servant^ 
 
 E. V, 
 
 To General Wentworth: 
 SIR, 
 
 I Received yours of the i8th laft Night, by 
 which I find Mr. C / does not reprefent 
 
 Things truly to you. You know, Sir, when I 
 found the Army*s Medicines and Surgeons were 
 left behind, I offer'd you a Ship to fetch them 
 with Expedition to you, which was done accord- 
 ingly, well knowing the Lynn Hofpital-Ship to be 
 a heavy Ship, that could not be depended upon to 
 be got here in time ; and I was not, therefore, for 
 having their coming depend on fuch a Contin- 
 gency as getting a heavy Leewardly Ship up to 
 windward. But I believe, as we are ftationed 
 
 and
 
 [ / ] 
 
 and my Cruizers pofted, Mr. C^ /, and his Lymi 
 too, might have come, as to any Danger from an 
 Enemy, with as much fafety as any Man can walk 
 from the Royal Exchange to IVeJiminJier \ and no 
 Officer of mine would have given him any Impedi- 
 ment, if he could have found Men to fail her, as 
 they are chartered to do. 
 
 Since there feems fo much Time wanting to 
 credt this Magazine, I muft beg the Favour of you 
 to order Mr. Wallace to clear the Provifions out of 
 the Traniports you defign to fend to 'Jamaica^ for 
 your Provifions and ours, into other Tranfports, 
 that they may fail as foon as polTible ; as I ftopp'd 
 the Convoy for going with them, and want her 
 to be going with fuch neceflary Orders as are 
 wanting to be fent to Jamaica. And I fhould 
 be glad to know, as foon as I can, of the certaia 
 Day they can be ready. 
 
 If you have any Soldiers you fufpe<5l of defign- 
 ing to defert, and you fend them, as we are (hort 
 of Complement, they Ihall be received : But I 
 can't think their only being Irijhmen a fufficient 
 Inducement for it. Your firft advanced Party was 
 made up, to a very few Men, of the Americans y 
 I fent up in my Flotilla a hundred Blacks j and as 
 to the Company from this Ship, I know they were 
 moftly compo^d of Irijhmen, and fome of them 
 Convids : Yet, by the Report of Capt. Wajhington^ 
 their Captain, they all went on the Service with 
 great Chearfulnefs, and are all return*d according 
 to your Orders, without a Man deferting ; and they 
 were conccrnM to be recallM, and expreiVd them- 
 felves defirous of going again. And for the fmal) 
 Party of my Men that their Ambufh endeavour'd 
 to furprize, the Man of mine that was lb much 
 wounded, and behaved himfelf fo gallantly (as did 
 all of that fmall Party) was one Hugh Machara, an 
 K 2 Irijhman :
 
 [7=>1 
 
 Jrijhmnn : And as he is difabled from getting his 
 Bread, I have made him Cook of this Ship for it. 
 I think any thing of a general national Refiedion 
 (hould be ftiidioufly avoided, which you will be fo 
 good as to excufe me in a friendly mention of. 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Btyyne, in Ctmhr/an J Hzrboar, Tour mojl Obedient^ 
 Cuba, Jug. \(), 17 ^u Humble Servant^ 
 
 E.V. 
 
 ^0 General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have reccivM yours of the 19th; and Unce you 
 fay the Storehoufe will be ready to receive Pro- 
 vifions the latter End of this Week, as that will 
 make fo fmall a Difference, I willingly acquiefce 
 in what Mr. Wallace gives his Reafons for, for the 
 Service of the Crown : But hope he will contrive 
 to have them all in a readinefs for failing before 
 the Middle of next Week, and fliould be glad to 
 know the certain Day they can be ready. 
 
 The beft Intelligence I have fent me being con-, 
 tained in two Letters, one from Csipt, Bofcawen and 
 the other from Mr. Gray, I fend them to you to 
 penife, by Captain Hore, who is to convoy the 
 Tranfports to Jamaica ; and I fend you likewife in-r 
 clofed the Letter I had from Governor Trelawney,, 
 by Mr. Hodgfon ; and fhould have fent you by him 
 my Letter, but that I imagined he had writ to you 
 to the fame purport. Thefe Letters you will pleafe 
 to return me when you have perufed them. 
 
 And I have direded Mr. Hodgfon to affure you, 
 tliat if you approved of lending a Detachment of 
 i. hundred Men with him, as the Governor defired, 
 
 I would
 
 [73 ] 
 
 I would readily /end a Man of War to convoy 
 them, and protect them there for fome time. 
 
 You will fee by Mr. 1relawmy*% Letter, he pro- 
 pofes making Mr. Hodgjon Governor of Raiati 
 Ifland, and giving Land, as an Encouragement, tq 
 fuch as will go there. 
 
 And I doubt not but, with your Leave, there 
 would be Voluntier Officers and Men ready to go 
 with Mr. Hodgfon^ with a View of fettling there, 
 that Ifland being reputed very fertile ; and it is cer- 
 tainly well fituated for proteding our Logwood 
 Trade -, and the fecu ring it, would not only be fer- 
 viceable in that refpeA, but keep it from being a fu- 
 ture Receptacle for Pirates, as it was twenty Years 
 ago : So that I can't but give it as my Opinion, that 
 fuch a Settlement would be of National Service. 
 And if you approve of detaching a hundred Ame- 
 ricans thither, I will fend a twenty-gun Ship to 
 convoy them, and to cruize off there for fomeTime 
 for their Proteftion, before (he returns to bring us 
 fome certain Accounts of their Succefs, and how 
 thofe fettled on the Mo[quUo Shore, and the Log- 
 wood-Cutters in the Bay, approve of it, and are 
 inclin*d to come in and fupport it. I am, 
 
 S 1 R, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland Harbour, ToW moji Obedient^ 
 
 Cuba, Jug. 2^,1-^1. Hj^ji,ig Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 7b General Win t worth. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have jufl now received yours \ and ^^as forry to 
 find the Stores of your IVain fo fliorr, that we 
 can expeft no Affiftance from it i fo mult turn our 
 Thoughts to do as well as we can witliout. 
 
 I was
 
 [74] 
 
 I was glad to hear you found the Enemy's Party 
 fuch as I always reprefented them to you, that 
 they would not ftand the Teft with thofe that 
 pulh'd them heartily. 
 
 As to what you mention of a Robbery on board 
 the Tranfports , as they are under your Jurifdidion, 
 I look on them as moft properly under your Cog- 
 nizance, I never having had any particular Orders 
 in regard to them. And were I to hold a Court 
 Martial on it, it muft be from the Party robb*d 
 lodging his Complaint, and fwearing to it before 
 tlie Judge Advocate, and appearing perfonally as 
 an Evidence on the Trial. And confidering they 
 have not been direded by Authority to be under 
 my Jurifdiftion, I am in fome Doubt as to pro- 
 ceeding criminally againft them , and as they are 
 under your Orders in all other Refpeds, I think 
 this fliould not be turn*d over to me. 
 
 The Augufia being a clean Ship, faiPd yeftcrday 
 to cruize on the Spamjh Privateers cruizing on our 
 Trade from the Northern Colonies, and is out of 
 the Reach of any Orders from me. I am, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne in Oimherland -yj,^^ ^^a Qhedient^ 
 
 5^'": ":: liurnbU Servant, 
 
 in the Evening. E. V. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 IReceiv'd yours of the 2 2d late in the Evening, 
 when I was with Sir Chaloner Ogle on board his 
 Ship, aad communicated to him then Governor 
 Trelawney^s Letter (which you had returned me) 
 and the foul Draught of my Letter to you ; and 
 found him entirely in the Opinion of Governor- 
 I'relawney and me, that what hi^ Excellency pro- 
 posed
 
 [ 75 ] 
 pos*d was much for his Majefty's Honour and 
 Service, for fecuring fo valuable a Trade to his 
 Subjedls as that of the Logwood Trade -, befides 
 the Profpedt of opening frefh Branches of Trade 
 into the Province of Guatimalay that may prove 
 very beneficial to the Nation. 
 
 Governor Trelawney, we think, has fufficiently 
 ^ven his Opinion, by being the Propofer of the 
 Undertaking ; and as we both agree in thinking 
 it right, you have the Opinion of the major Part 
 of the Council, that (as you mention) his Majefly 
 has nam*d in his Inftruftions. 
 
 Finding there are like to be further Delays in 
 getting the Tranfports ready, I hope you will be 
 pleafed to order it fo, that they may be ready to fail 
 by Monday the laft of this Month , and I will delay 
 the Convoy till that Time : "When we ihall have 
 the Satisfaction of feeing the Augufi Moon over, 
 which has at different Times been fatal to J amaicay 
 three Hurricanes having happen*d on the 28th of 
 this Month, 
 
 I fent you early on Sunday Morning the May 
 Magazine, as you defir*d j but had not Time for 
 anfwering your Letter fooner. 
 
 I fear, as you do, that our Affairs are not in 
 the befl Situation at home ; and by what I can 
 perceive from the publick Papers fent us, it appears 
 to me, that their Expectations at home are, that 
 vigorous Proceedings on our Parts fliould put them 
 in a better, by diftrelTuig the Spaniards all we can 
 here, to make them cry out for a Peace at home. 
 
 Our not having any Publick Letters fincc the 
 28th o^ February, can't but give me fome Uncafi- 
 nefs, as well as you -, and I am taking all the Care 
 I can to fifh out for the earlieft Intelligence from 
 the French, as we are much better polled here to 
 watch all their Motions than afc Jamaica. 
 
 Ana
 
 / 
 
 [ 76 ] 
 
 And as I defign fending another Exprefs, for 
 having his Majelty inform'd of the Situation of 
 Affairs here, about the fame Time (Tuefday the ift 
 of September) whether we hear from home or not ; 
 I give, you this early Intelligence of it, defiring 
 you will have your Letters ready againft that 
 Time. I am, 
 
 Boyne.'wi Cumberland /, ' n r\T i' 
 
 Harbour, Cuba, ^^ur moji Ohedietit, 
 
 Jug. 2 3, 1741. Humble Servant, 
 
 in the Evening. E, V . 
 
 To Gemral W e n t wo r t h. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have received yours of the 28th; and am glad 
 to hear that tjfie Tranfports will foon be ready 
 for failing, as the Convoy has long been. And 
 having fent previous Orders to Captain Davers to 
 be preparing every thing for their difpatch back on 
 our Parts, I can venture to anfwer for it, no Delay 
 will arife on our Side -, and if Mr. Campbell does 
 but give a like difpatch to your Orders, I doubt 
 not but we fhall foon have them here again. 
 
 My Sloop has been to reconnoitre the Coafl be-, 
 tween this and the Aquadores, within thefe few 
 Days, clofe under the Shore, and much nearer than 
 any Ship can be ventured ; and found it all an Iron 
 Shore, and no Anchor Ground in it in any part ; 
 fo your Informers in regard to any Bay between 
 this Place and that, have entirely mifmformed you. 
 
 I have waited for the Difpatch of this Convoy, 
 for executing perfonally my Intention of viewing 
 the Mouth of the Harbour : Not that I have the 
 the lead Doubt of the concurrent Teftimonies of fo 
 many experienced Officers, whofe Reports you have 
 ikewife had; but that I maybe the better enabled 
 
 to
 
 t 77 ] 
 
 to give our Royal Mafter Satisfa6:ion, in cafe his 
 Majefty fhould think it proper t6 alk me any 
 Qaeftions about it. But I intend going as a Paf- 
 fenger, without any Flag flying ; and Ihould be 
 very glad if you would fend any Officer of your 
 
 Army to accompany me, except. Colonel C- n, 
 
 whofe Reprefentations made to you already, are 
 not held by me en Odeur de Saintete. I am, 
 
 SIR, ' ' 
 
 Soyfif, in Cttmherland Hzrhovir, ToUT niofi Obedient, 
 
 Cuba, Aug. 29, 1 741 . ' ' ; Humble Servant, 
 
 P. S. I defire you will be pleafed to fend your 
 Letters for England by Tuefday Morning next, the 
 Time appointed, for difpatching an Exprefs with' 
 ihem, in my Letter of the 23d Inftant. 
 
 To General Wiif TWO SLTH. 
 SIR, ^ ''- 
 
 CAptain Forreji having brought me the annexed 
 Account, I judge it for his Majefty*s Service 
 immediately to communicate the fame to you by 
 him, not doubting but you will take fuiih Meafures 
 in it, as you think will- be moft conducive to his 
 Majefly's Service. ' 
 
 And the Convoy being juft now come in frcm^ 
 England, I have likewife tranfmitted you by him 
 fuch Letters as are already come to my Hands for 
 you, and will do the fame by any movt that ima/ 
 be brought me for you, lam, . .: , ^ ^ v. v. 
 
 S I R, ' X''^'^-^' 'l 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland Harbour, Tour mojl Obedient ^ ''^ 
 
 , Qtka, Jiug. 3P, J74I. Humbk Servant. '^ 
 
 .;//.;.'] :::-: - : .;. V. 
 
 .;."->. ; . jvi\'.j>l cm .. 
 
 ;^i L To
 
 ^0 General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 ' I '' H E Ships from England coming in late laft. 
 A Night, gave only time for fearching for what 
 Letters there might be for you : And finding only 
 two, that feemed from private Hands only, I fent 
 you, by Captain Forreji, by Letter from his Grace 
 the Duke of Newcajile^ as he mention'd in it his 
 not having Time to write to you, and defired I 
 would make you his Compliments ; with which 
 Captain Forreft was difpatch'd to you, together 
 with a Letter accompanying the Copy of a Re- 
 port he brought me, of material Difcoveries made 
 by his Men, that I judged of Importance to be as 
 early as polTible communicated to you. 
 
 After his being gone I opened my other Letters, 
 and find thofc of moft Importance to be two, (one 
 of the 23d oi May, and the other of the 21ft of 
 June) from the Right Ifon. Sir Charles JVager. 
 And though they are writ to me in a friendly 
 Style, as he has the Honour of being of the Re- 
 gency, and is judged to be in the Secret of Affairs, 
 I believe you will think his Judgment in thefe 
 Things pf no Imall Confequence. And a^ I have 
 Ipng held his Judgment in high Efteem, an4 think 
 no one has taken more Pains to be informed of the 
 Sipyatipp of Affairs in this Country ; I could not 
 l^ut thipik it of Confeqviepce to communicate them 
 XQ ^\x ^Moner Pgky and take his Opinion, both 
 upon them and the Reports fent you by Captain 
 Forreji, and alfo upon my pwn Obferyations on 
 perfonally reconnoitring moft Parts of this exten- 
 five Harbour and the Country round it, and the 
 Reports .tji^t have been made by judicious Officers, 
 erpplpyed for opening Communications between 
 the two Rivers, and frequently paffmg and repaf- 
 fing them. 
 
 .1 By
 
 [ 79 ] 
 
 By thefe it appears plainly manifeft, that a few 
 Miles, by the Bordei's of Open Salinas^ there is an 
 even open Road for marching Troops, without the 
 leaft Apprehenfions from Defiles, or Ambufcades i 
 and by the Report fent you, it is but three Miles, 
 by a very good Path through Woods pretty clear 
 of Underwood, where you can fee every Way 
 about you, to come into the open Savanna, where 
 they faw fuch Numbefs of Horfes grazing ; and 
 which, from the beft Judgment we can form, 19 
 the Eaftern Part of the Savannas where Colonel 
 Cdckran advanced to, called Guantanamo and Santa 
 Catalina, lying between the two Rivers, theWeftern 
 Part being where he Was, near the River you are 
 encamped by. 
 
 And as it manifeftly appears to us, that it is the 
 EXpedation of our Royal Mafter, the Legiflature, 
 and the Body of the Nation, that the utmoft Ef- 
 forts Ihould be exerted in thefe Parts, to diftrefs 
 the Spaniards wherever we can ; and as fo judi- 
 cious a Perfon as Sir Charles Wager, has lo plainly 
 pointed out thefe Parts as very proper for it in his 
 Apprehenfion , 
 
 We think it our Duty, in regard to the Honour 
 and Intereft of our Royal Mafter, to reprefent to 
 you on this Occafion (though out of our Province) 
 that it appears eafily pradicable to us, to have a 
 Bdy of your beft Troops to undertake the En- 
 trance into the Savanna at the Weftern End of it, 
 as above defcribed ; and to march quite through 
 the faid Savanna (the Grafs of which is no where 
 faid to be above five or fix Inches high) up to the 
 former Poft, at the Houfes by the River Side, in 
 which you would have an open Field, in our Ap- 
 prehenfion, for furprifing and cutting off any Par- 
 ties of the Enemy that may be lurking there, and 
 may make yourfelves again Mafters of fuch rich 
 L 2 Savannas
 
 [ 8oJ 
 
 Savannas full of Cattle -, and taking Pofl again at 
 thofe Houfes, foon open yourfeJf a fecure Commu- 
 nication with your prefent Camp : Which would be 
 a good Advance towards diftrefling the Enemy, and 
 ' be a feafonable Relief to your own Army, bcfides 
 the Honour done to hisMajefty'sArrhs, that would 
 principally redound to your Credit. 
 
 As all this appears clearly to us in the Light we 
 have reprefented it to you, we flatter ourfelves, you 
 will receive this our friendly Advice ft) you, as the 
 Refult of our Zeal for oui: Royal Mafter's Honour 
 and Service, and a good will to yours. We are, 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumb'erland Tour mofi Obedient, 
 
 Harbour, Cuba, -i,^.i-.- Uumbk Servants, 
 ^"S-^'>'^^'' ^ ^ , E. Vernon, 
 
 n ./- C. Ogle. 
 
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 To his Gface the Duke of 1<1 ***** *. 
 My Lord Duke, 
 
 MY laft to your Grace was of the 29th o^July, 
 from this Harbour. On the 30th the Tork 
 join*d me, with the Vice Roy of Mexicans Retinue 
 from Jamaica, whom I had ordcr*d up hither, to 
 exchange againft the Prifoners releas'd from St, 
 Ja^o ', but finding they chofe rather to be landed 
 at Leogane and to hire a Sloop and take a PafTage 
 from thence to La Vera Cruz, I immediately clos*d 
 with their Requell, and fent them, and fuch others 
 as defir'd it, up thither in the Tork, judging the 
 releafing them there mod for his Majefty's Service ; 
 and the more efpecially, as it gave me fo fair a 
 Pretence for continuing a watchful Eye on their 
 Motions. She fail*d with them {ox Leogane the ift 
 of Augufi ; and the fame Day I fent my Orders for 
 Jamaica by the Firebrand Firefhip.
 
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 ,, The 24 oiAuguJi the Seaborfe came in here from 
 Jjcogane -, and I lend your Graqe inclofed a Copy 
 of the Letter he brought me from the Marquis 
 .^.Larnage. .t"-iill 
 
 , pn the 4th o^ 4ugufi the JVorceJier, one of ftiy 
 Cruizers, came in here with a Spanifh Man of War, 
 of twenty-four Guns and two hundred and twenty 
 Men, that failed the 29th of June froni Port Paf- 
 fage^ with Difpatches for the Vice Roy of Mexico 
 as he fays, which, according to his Orders, he 
 thi:ew overrboard before he was taj^en j and he be- 
 lieves he was to have return'd with Money. And 
 as, probably, he had likewife Orders for tjie Spaniff} 
 'Admiral Don Rodxigo de Torres at the Havanndf, 
 .,l:his intercepting him, I hope, may prove of great 
 Advantage to his Majefty's Service > not only 'in 
 difappointing the Uetum of the Money by hiitj, 
 ,but likewife depriving them of Orders how to con- 
 dud then^felves. All the private Letters mention 
 her as a prirne Sailor, and advife all their Friends 
 to come Paflengers in her, for their greater Secu- 
 rity, fome mentioning that fhe has failed five 
 Leagues in an Hour. And I find by others, Ihe 
 was the Privateer that took our two 'Turkg Ships i|i 
 the Channel, and that the Crown of Spain bought 
 her for this Service, on her being reported fo good 
 a Sailor. Bat God's good Providence made us a 
 Prefent of her, our Ship having a Gale of Wind 
 to run up with her, when flie lay becalmed under 
 Cape Nicoloa. On the 5th I difpatch'd the IVur- 
 cejler to Sea to her former Station. 
 
 On the 9th arrived here the Deptford z.nd JEma 
 Firefhip, with a Vidualler, v/ith Wine and Oil for 
 the Fleer, from Gibraltar , but the Wine is very in- 
 different, and I fliall order the imnx-diate ifTuinc: 
 of It, to prevent more of it from decaying, fomc 
 being quite decayed already. 
 
 By
 
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 By the Deptford I had a Letter from Captain 
 yohn ^revor^ of the Defiance, of his having taken, 
 off Rio la Hacha, a Ship under French Colours, of 
 three hundred and fifty Tons, twelve Guns, and 
 fifty Men, called the Providence, laden with Beef, 
 Pork, Flour, Brandy, Wine, Bar Iron, and fome 
 dry Goods, bound for Carthagena ; which he 
 fuppofes to be one. of their Regifter Ships from 
 CadiT;. 'i '^''"^ ' 
 
 On the i2th the iJ^>w eame in' that had the 
 Blacks on board, which were caft^away in the Ver.e 
 Pink. ^ ^'^i'^-' -'" ' i ^^'^* ^^ Eiv/-5n c.^---: 
 
 ' And 1 ani cohcb^ned, that I arh how obliged, 
 from the different SenViments of the Officers in his 
 Majefty's Sea and Land Service, to tranfinit your 
 '6race Copies of all that has pafTed fince my lafV, 
 rthat the whole may clearly appear, for his Majefly 
 tb form his Judgment on ; as I think this is the 
 fairefl way of laying thefe different Sentiments be- 
 fore your Grace, for our Rc^l Mafl:er*s Infor- 
 mation. ^}^ :' 
 
 I iliall only mention Here^-'that I mufl begin 
 with a Copy of what I willingly omitted fending 
 in my lafl, but which is now become nectffary, be- 
 ing a Copy of a joint Letter from me and Sir Chti- 
 loner Ogle to General Wentworih, of the 23d of 
 July, 1 74 1. 
 
 A Letter from General Wentw$rtb to me of the 
 24th oijuly, 1 74 1. 
 
 Another, o^ July /^i, 1741. 
 
 Another, of Augu^ i, 1741. 
 
 A long Letter from me to General Wentvmrth^ 
 o^ Auguft 2, 1741. 
 
 Two other Letters from me, of Augufi 5, 1741. 
 
 A Letter from General Wentworth to me, of 
 Auguji 5, 1 741. 
 
 A joint
 
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 A joint Letter from me and Sir Chaloner Ogle 
 to General Wentwortb, (with a Copy of a Letter 
 from Mr. Toler to me) of Augufi 6. 1741. 
 
 A Letter from General Wentworth to me, (inclo- 
 fjng a Copy of the Refolution of their Council of 
 War of the 8th) oi Auguft 9, 1741. . 
 
 A joint Letter from me and Sir Chaloner Oglt 
 to GtntnH fFeniivorfb, of Augufi 10, 1741. 
 
 A Letter from General Wentworth to me, of 
 Auguji II, 1 741. 
 
 A joint Letter from me and Sir Chaloner Ogle 
 to the General, of Augufi 12, 1741. 
 
 On the i3tb of Auguji I fummoned a General 
 Council of War onboard the F^^;/j Firefliip, in 
 the River Augujia, as the General had denred ; 
 where I had firft read by the Secretary, as Intelli- 
 gence received fince our laft General Council of 
 War, 
 
 A Declaration ot Miguel Perez, Captain of a 
 Sloop from St. JagOy and a Refident there, of 
 Auguji II, 1741. 
 
 A Declaration of Manuel de la CruZy a free Ne- 
 
 groe, and Refident of St.Jago, oi Auguji 12, 1741. 
 
 Captain Allen*s Account of what pafled at Mar* 
 
 quefs de Larnage's Table at Leogane, of Auguji 12, 
 
 1741. 
 
 Captain Chamher*s Report and Qbfervations oa 
 his Cruize off St. 7^^^, of Auguji 11^ 1741. 
 
 Mr. T^y/^r's Letter to me, of Auguji 7, 1741. 
 
 Mr. Macneiil*s Remarks on the Roads betweeiv 
 the General's Camp and Guanianamp, of Auguji 1 3, 
 1741. 
 
 Lieutenant Sturm's Account of his March from 
 the Camp, between the 25th of July and the 4th 
 of Au^uh-t 1 74 1. 
 
 Lieutenant il^;/Z>^r*s' Journal between the 6th 
 ;jnd I2th of .^//g/?, 1741. 
 
 Copies
 
 Goples of all which, but Captain C/&^;^^j*s Re- 
 port and Lieutenant howther*s, Journal, I delivered 
 the General. 
 
 After which, I obferved to the Council of War, 
 that Capt. Perezes, and Manuel de la Cruz*s Accounts, 
 were a full Proof of what Drake^ the Guide, had 
 afferted, of the Conveniencies to be found in the 
 Road from the Village to St. Jago ; and that the 
 Governor of St. y^^c's Letters were likewife a full 
 Proof he had not erred in his Account of the Dif-- 
 tance ; and Experience fhewed, he had been right 
 in his Accounts to the Village : And that, though 
 tjie Refolutions charged him with an Error in the 
 Road between the Village and St. Jago, it had ap-; 
 
 jieared that Colonel C n (on whole Report they^ 
 
 were faid to be principally founded) had never 
 advanced himfelf even fb far as the Village , fo 
 that his could only be Reports at fecond hand, 
 from Spani/h Prifoners. And I obferved, that their 
 faid Refolutions went no farther than declaring, 
 " they thought it imprafticable to advance further 
 " into the Country :" Which, I thought, left the 
 latter part of our unanimous general Refolution 
 ftill in its firft Force, 1)1%. " to get up to the Vil- ' 
 ** lage of Santa Catalina with the utmoft Expedi-, 
 '^ tion, and at all Events to fecure that, and -a^ 
 *' Communication with this Harbour, as a probable 
 " Foundation for fecuring a Footing in this Ifland, 
 " for waiting for further Succours to enable them 
 " to compleat the Redudion of it ;" which, as 
 they had yet refolved nothing againfl it, we could 
 not but hope they would flill purfue. And I added, 
 that, for my part, though I found their Council of 
 War had been in another Sentiment, I Ihould die^ 
 in the Opinion, that a thoufand chofen Men, with, 
 a thoufand Blacks to have . carried Provifions for 
 thenn, might in three Days hav^ i^(}v^nged, to try
 
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 if Itirprlfing the EJirellaznd Santa CatalinaB^ttcrlci^ 
 Were pra<Slicable j and had fufficient Time and Pro- 
 vifipns for their Retreat, if they had found it other- 
 wife : By which the Fate of St. Jago might, in my 
 Apprehenfion, have been determined long before 
 now. But I did not pretend to advance my Opi- 
 nion for a Rule to theirs, which I hoped, for their 
 Sakes, they might be right in, though it appeared 
 quite otherwife to us of the Sea. 
 
 And as his Majefty's Inftrudions gave us no Au- 
 thority to deliberate in what Manner they were to 
 a(5t by Land, after foggefting our Thoughts, art! 
 kaving with them Copies of the new Evidence we 
 had produced* we could only^exhort them to what 
 they had declared an equal Inclination for ; to do 
 the utmofl in their Power for his Majefly's Ho- 
 nour and Service ; which they afTured us, was their 
 Intention ; and we then civilly feparated, without 
 thinking any new Refolutions necelTary to , be 
 formed. 
 
 Capt. Chamhers*s Report and Obfervations, and 
 Lieutenant Lowthcr'% Journal, that were read at the 
 Council of War, I fent Copies of to the General 
 on the 15th oi Auguji^ not having had Time for 
 having them copied fooncr. 
 
 The 14th at Night anchor'd in the Harbour's 
 Mouth the Tork from Leogane : And I fend your 
 Grace inclofed a Copy of the Letter I received by 
 her from the Marquefs de Lamage ; and finding 
 they are expeding Advices of a general War, 1 
 Ihall embrace the Opportunity I have, of fending 
 a French Sailor he has demanded, by Capt. Hervey 
 of the Superbe^ to continue keeping an Eye on their 
 Motions, and endeavour at obtaining the earliejft 
 Advices from thence. 
 
 I fend your Grace like wife inclofed. Copies of a 
 Letter from the General of the isth, acquainting 
 
 M me
 
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 me Captain Hopkins had his Difpatches ready to 
 proceed to North America ; and of one from me to 
 the General, of the i4thi with the Information in- 
 
 clofed relating to Colonel C- n. And Captain 
 
 Allen advifing me on the 15th in the Morning, 
 that the Officers were come on board with the Ge- 
 nerals Letters, I ordered him to put to Sea (pur- 
 fuant to my former Orders) for New Tork, as foon 
 as the Sea Breeze came in ; and he put to Sea the 
 i^th o^ Auguji in the Morning accordingly. 
 The 1 6th I detached Captain Cotes in the Tork^ 
 to fupply the Station off Rio la Hacba, left by Capt. 
 Trevor on taking the Regifter Ship from St. Se^ 
 hajiianh. This Ship proves to have Cloathing and 
 Provifibns for Don Rodrigo de Torres'?, Squadron, 
 and Iron Work for Ships which they are building 
 a;t the Havanna^ and will turn out a rich Prize ; 
 and all the Spanijh Papers were found concealed in 
 a Beam of the Ship, hollowed for that purpofe. 
 
 On the 1 7th I detached the Superbe, Capt. Hervey^ 
 to Sea for Leogane^ (as I mentioned my Intentions) 
 principally to keep a watchful Eye on our Neigh- 
 bours at this critical Juncture. And I fend your 
 Grace incloied Copies of a Letter from me to the 
 General, jof the iahle Date, informing him how 
 far I had found the River navigable for Boats above 
 his Camp ; as hkewife of one I received from him, 
 l)f the fame Date, and my Anfwer to it of the 
 1 8th i with one from him of the fame D^te, which 
 I thought proper to add, to ihew we have pre- 
 ferved a civil Correfpondence, agreeable to his Ma- 
 jelly's Inftruftions, though we have happen*d fo 
 widely to differ in our Sentiments on the Execution 
 of them. And not to tire your Grace, I 'fhall 
 ChOofe to'ftop from giving you any further Copies 
 IDf our Letters, as judging thefewill be fufficient for 
 'exj)Iaining our different jScntiments, for the prefent. 
 
 The
 
 1 87 ] 
 
 The Augufia came in with three Tranfports from 
 Port Roy m thQ 1 8 th, and in them aReeruit of two 
 hundred and fifty- fix Men for the Army; and as 
 Ihe is a clean Ship, I difpatch her to Sea, tq try if 
 we cannot dcftroy the Spanijh Privateers that cruize 
 on our'Traxle from the Northern Colonies, from 
 Port Franfois, where they fit put to cruize on us j 
 no vej-y friendly ^6t o^ our Neighbours to 
 permit them to do lb ! ; '-^ M.>>;>i4u3 i^jnic^d :i:i-VA 
 
 And Lieatenant Hodgpm^iWm^ beeA difpatchM 
 hjthef* in the Augufta^ with Letters for the Ge- 
 neral iirid ^'ijne, from his Excellency Governor Trt- 
 /^Z;^_y ; I thought it neceffary to fend your Grace 
 inclofed (as I have done) a Copy of Governor 
 *l!relawnefi\JtXXtr to- me, of the 27th oijulyy 
 together with a Copy of my Letter to General 
 Wentwotth (on fending him inclofed my Letter 
 from Governor l^relu'voney -y) General Wentworth*s. 
 Anfwer to that Letter, of the 2 2d of Augujl ; and 
 my Reply to him of the 23^d oi Auguft^ after ha- 
 ying advis*d with Sir Chahner Ogle upon it.' 
 
 I have thrown up a little Fort, with a wet Ditch 
 about it, and fix*d fome of our Patereroes in it, 
 for covering our Boats in their watering, at the 
 River r water my Ships from ; and have open'd 
 Views thro* all the Woods about it. And I am 
 now going to cut Timber for Platforms for a 
 Fafcine Battery, that I have projeded for defend- 
 ing the Entrance of the Harbour, finding we can 
 have no Supply of Stores from the Army Ordnance 
 Stores ; and by the Help of Lieut. Innes^ one 0^ 
 our Sea Engineers, all is projefted for it. But I 
 Ihall delay Execution (further than preparing Ma- 
 terials ;) as judging, if Advices fhould arrive of a 
 French War, I fhould be of Opinion for moving 
 that Way without a Moment*s Lofs of Time * 
 which we are admirably well polled for. 
 
 M 2 By
 
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 By a Tempeft of Thunder and Lightning, finde 
 our being here, the Prince of Orange (one of my 
 feventy-gun Ships) had her Fore-top-maft cut in 
 two, and her Fore-maft fo Ihiver'd as to be unfer- 
 viceable : But we have patch'd her up, for the 
 prefent, with Jury Mafts, and, I thank God, have 
 met with no other Accident here ; and this Augufi 
 Moon being ended, I think we are paft the mdil 
 dangerous Part of the Scafon for Hurricanes. 
 
 I make no Doubt but even our remaining here 
 puts the Enemy to great Expences, as probably 
 they are drawing Troops from the Havanna to 
 St. Jago^ which we are not much above the Tythe 
 of the Diflance from that they are ; and it may 
 even prove an Obftrudtion to Don Rodrigo de 
 Torres* s leaving the Ha<vanna for Europe., if he 
 fhould have had any fuch Orders : And if he 
 thinks proper to come here, he Ihall be heartily 
 Welcome, as I think myfelf well pofted to re- 
 ceive him. 
 
 General Wentworth., I doubt not, has acquainted 
 your Grace with the Purport of his Letters to the 
 Governors of the Northern Colonies, which he has 
 not communicated to me : But as I gave him 
 early Notice to be preparing his Difpatches, I am 
 perfwaded you will have al! Particulars from him. 
 
 As I judg*d it for his Majefty's Service to fend 
 your Grace frequent Accounts of our Situation, in 
 the prefent Conjun<5lure, I determin'd, on closing 
 my Letter with this Month of jiugufi., to forward 
 them to your Grace by one of my Firefhips, Capt. 
 Boyce^ and to fend, with this, the Duplicate of 
 my laft Letter to your Grace of the 29th of July 
 . from this Harbour. 
 
 The Convoy is to fail from hence with the 
 cjear'd Tranfports, for our Supplies of Proviflons 
 
 from
 
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 fcomjamaka, on the ift or 2d of September ^ as 
 
 they Ihall be ready. 
 
 And wifhing thefe Accounts a Ipeedy Arrival 
 
 to your Grace's Hands, and that I may foon have 
 
 the Pleafure of hearing from you, as the beft 
 
 puidance fof our future Condud: j I am, 
 
 *^^^:,', ,^. ^:^y My Lord Duke, 
 
 Voyntf in Gtniherland Xour Grace* S ffioft 
 ^^n^ahh^f] Z)n;e^/^^, and mofi 
 on the South Side of Ohsdient, Humble Servant, 
 
 Cuba, 4ug. JO, 1 74 1 . E. _ Yl 
 
 To his Grace the Duke of ^ ***** *, 
 My Lord Duke, 
 
 SINCE clofmg my Letter to your Grace of the 
 30th o^Auguft^ the Tilbury, one of my Cruizers 
 on the South Side oi Hifpaniola, having met the 
 Convoy coming with our Storefhip and Viduallers, 
 has brought a Part of them in here, purfuant to 
 my Orders. By which Occafion I have the Favour 
 of your Grace's Letter of the 24th of May, from 
 Claremont ; and am extremely obhg'd to your 
 Grace, and all my Lords Juftices, for the obliging 
 J^oticc they h^ve taken of my Endeavours faith- 
 fully and diligently to difcharge my Duty to hit 
 Majefly, to the beft of my Ability. And 1 beg 
 you to aflure their Excellencies, I fliall, on all Oct 
 cafions, ftudy to deferve tlie very favourable Opinion 
 they have conceived of me , tho', I am very fcn- 
 fiblc, I am more indebted for that to their Ex- 
 cellencies favourable Acceptance of my Service, 
 than to my own Abihties. 
 
 I am greatly a Debtor to your Grace's favourable 
 Opinion, of my being beft enabled to fcrve his 
 Majefty in thefe Seas. But were my Abilities as 
 great as your Grace's Friendfhip for me inclines 
 
 you
 
 { 9 } , 
 
 you to Imagine t^ein, vain muft be all my At- 
 tempts, if unequally yoked to fuch as are to con- 
 tribute to the Execution of them. 
 
 The mapy Lettqrs I feve formerly, and now 
 ^hink ipyfejf QUig*d to tranfmit to your Grace, 
 will fully explain this to you : And I aflure.your 
 Grace, no Man in Britain, tho' not acquainted 
 with Lord Cathcart but in his general Charadlc^ 
 more fincerely mourns the JLcSTs his Majefty's Ser- 
 vice had in him. For tho' I believe my Collegue 
 may be an honefl:, well-meaning Gentleman, no- 
 thing has appear*d to me, to fet him in the Light 
 of an experienc'd General. And all his Counfellors 
 have appear'd .to me to be actuated by fuch general 
 Principles, as ferve to manifeft to me their Diipo- 
 fition to returning home, and fearing to furpil^i 
 Occafions for their longer Refidence here, to be i 
 governing Principle with them. 
 
 Sir Charles Wager having honour'd rne with two 
 private Letters, in which I found my ielf happily 
 4n the fame Sentiments with him, I confqlted Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle upon them, wjiofe Sentiments and 
 jfnine have happily concurr'd in every Thing : And 
 for a laft Effort, I fend your Grace a Copy of the 
 joint Letter, which we thought it for his Majefty's 
 Service to write to Mr. Wentworth, the 31ft of 
 Anguft, when I fent him Sir Charles Wage f& Let- 
 ters to perufe, by Capt. Watfon (my Captain;) who 
 brought his Thanks in return for that Civility. 
 And I flatter myfelf Sir Charles will be fo good as 
 to excufe it, from a Perfwafion that his Majefty's 
 Service was my only Motive in it. 
 
 Now I have open*d to your Grace what lies 
 Jieavieft on my Mind, I muil add, I am under a 
 Promife to the beft of Wives, to return to her 
 as foon as I could ; and the Hurry I left England 
 in, your Grace may eafily imagine, ipakes my 
 
 Return
 
 Return neceltary for my private Affiurs ; befidei 
 the realbnable Hopes I might entertain, of having 
 a Relief from the labouring Oar, as we fay at Sea:. 
 But when I have laid this before your Grace* t 
 juftify my R&queft for being reliev*d, I beg Leave 
 to add, that the Service of his Majefly and rhy 
 Country, will, I hope (as they always ought) be 
 the reigning Principles in my Breaft : And re- 
 ferring the above Confideratibns to my Lords Juf- 
 tices Prudence, they will always find in me a wiiw 
 ling Mind, to conform to whatever theyjudge moft 
 for his Majefly's Honour and Service. 
 
 To manifeft hbw frivolous their Pretences of 
 Defiles and Ambufcades have been, I am glad I 
 can acquaint your Grace, before I clofe this Letter, 
 that Capt. Burward of fFblfe's Grenadiers, that Was 
 fent out with a Party only of one hundred Soldiers 
 and fifty Blacks, advanced again to the Houfes 
 they deferted at Guantanamo ; when the Spanijh 
 Guard there all fled before them, left their Papers 
 Tupon the Table, and forty Cattle jJenn'd ; ahd h6 
 brought in with him feven Horfes atcouti^ed, an4 
 fome of the Calves, as they could not drive th6 
 reft. So I hope they will be encouraged to heart^ 
 Grace, and return to fecure that Ppli at feaft, iii 
 an open Country, wnere they olnnot be furpri^'d, 
 their Numbef-s, with the Blacks, beitlg above fouir 
 thoufand and three hundred Men. 
 ^ I have difpatch'd the Convoy to Jamaica t6 
 bring a Supply of Provifions to the Army, and 
 have fecur'd a Part of the Viduallers from En^dnk 
 here, to prevent the Danger of wanting any from 
 a Delay in their Return. And as foon as I havfe 
 difpatch*d my Letters away for yoiir Gradr, b|^ 
 Capt. Boyce^ in the JEtna Firefhip (Capt. Barnard 
 not returning in Time) I will flip out to recon- 
 jiojtre the Entrance into tlie HarboUt of St. Jap> 
 
 myfcif.
 
 t9i] 
 
 myfelf, in the Orford^ Capt. Mayne ; buf Hiall Icare 
 my Flag flying here, and the Squadron under Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle's Command, in my Abfence. I am. 
 
 Soy.,, in Cumberland -^ ^^^^ ^^^> 
 
 Harbour (formerly Tour Grace's moft 
 
 call'd Walthenam) "Devoted, and moji 
 
 on the South Side of Obedient, Humble Servant, 
 
 Cuba,Sept.z,i-j^\. ^ ^ 
 
 P. S. Lieut. Rich is gone home in the Primefs 
 Amelia, at his own Requeft. 
 
 1^0 General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 Y OURS of the I ft Inftant (owning the Re- 
 * ceipt of mine of the 30th of Augufi, and of a 
 joint Letter from Sir Chaloner Ogle and me, of the 
 31ft of Augufi) was brought to my Hands laft 
 Night ; and having communicated it to Sir Chaloner 
 this Morning, and advis'd with him upon it ; 
 
 We heartily congratulate you on the Succefs bf 
 Capt. Burward, with his Party fent to Guantanamo, 
 And as you fee, tiio' fo long after that Poft being 
 deferted, he met neither Ambufcades nor Enemies, 
 to take Advantage from any Defiles, we hope you 
 will not think them well founded Objeftions ; and 
 that you will think that Poft ought to be regain'd 
 and maintain'd, and the Village too, with fuch due 
 Care and Precaution as your Experience leads you 
 to judge necelTary ; for this very good Reafon, in 
 our Apprehenfion, that your maintaining yourfelves 
 at theVillage, is cutting off all the Communication, 
 at once, between St. J ago and Baraccoa, and, in our 
 Apprehenfions, fccuring us the PolTeflion of the 
 whole Eaft End of the Ifland. And this feems to 
 us to be the more neceflary, as you fay their Let- 
 ters
 
 [grl 
 
 ters mention the Reinforcement they are fending 
 frem the Havanna, being intended to be feot firft 
 by PerioFoes to Barraccoa. We arc, 
 
 SIR, 
 Qtmberland Harbour, XouT moft Ohedietity 
 
 Seft.i,\T\i. Humble Servants, 
 
 E. Vernon, 
 
 C. OCLE. 
 
 2*<? $ Ch A L O N E R Og L E. 
 
 TH O* the Reports made to us by feveral ex- 
 perienced Officers, fully convinced us both, 
 of the Impradlicubility of forcing a Paflage into a 
 Harbour of fo narrow an Entrance as St. J^go, 
 unlefs the Batteries lying above the Morro Caftle 
 had been firft furpriz'd and taken ; 
 
 Which, I apprehend, would have been an eafy 
 Matter, if the Attempt had by Mr. Wentworth and 
 his Council been thought proper to be undertaken 
 on our firft Arrival here, as I fhall always think^it 
 ought to have been : 
 
 Yet, under a Concern for having fo little done 
 where nothing has appear*d to oppofe the Progrefs 
 of fo large a Force as has been landed here, I have 
 determin*d, on this my firft Leifure for it, to go 
 myfelf to view the Entrance into the faid Har- 
 bour i that, from my own Obfervations, I may be 
 the better enabled to inform our Royal Maftcr in 
 all Particulars. 
 
 And yoy are hereby required and dire(5ted, to 
 take upon you the Charge and Command of all 
 his Majefty*s Ships in this Harbour, during my 
 Abfence, and until my Return, which fhall be with 
 sdl pofTible Expedition. 
 
 N And
 
 [94] 
 
 And as by our laft Advices it feems moft pro- 
 bable, our Orders may be for Eftablifhing ourfelves 
 on this Ifland, and pufhing on the Succefs of his 
 Majefty's Arms with the utmoft Vigour ; 
 
 You will give all the neceflary Orders, for fup- 
 plying Capt. Rentone with the Sawyers and Car- 
 penters he may ftand in Need of, for preparing 
 the Timber for the Batteries on the projedbed 
 Works on the Point, for defending the Entrance 
 of the Harbour : And alfo for fupplying Lieut. 
 Innes with fuch a Number of proper Workmen as 
 can be found in our Ships, for the cutting and 
 preparing Picquets and Falcines for the faid Work : 
 Giving the flridlefl Orders for the Prefervation of 
 the Men's Healths, that no Work be carried on of 
 any Kind when there is no Breeze, and that only 
 fuch a moderate Number of Hands be employ'd at 
 a Time, as can be lodg*d and ihelter'd in the two 
 Houfcs ereded for that Purpofej that Sicknefs 
 may not be introduced amongft our Men through 
 Want of a due Care of them. 
 
 And for the Encouragement of thofe employ'd, 
 let them know, a moderate Allowance will be paid 
 them for their Labour , which, when exercis'd 
 with Prudence, is found rather contributing to 
 their Health than otherwife. 
 
 In all other Events that may happen, you will 
 govern yourfelf by your approved Experience, to 
 the befl of your Judgement, for his Majefty's 
 Service. For, i^c. ^ 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, \ in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (formerly call'd Walthmam) on the South 
 SideofC^, this 3d of iS^^/^w^^r, 1741.
 
 \ 
 
 [95 
 
 sr<? General Wentworth. 
 
 I Received yours of the 2ifl: of Septemher, this 
 Morning \ in which you acknowledge the Re- 
 ceipt of the joint Letter from me and Sir Chalonet 
 Ogkj of the 3d of September. 
 
 I find. Sir, you take fome Exception to an Ex* 
 preffion there, of deferting a Poft, as having a dif- 
 ferent Senfe from leaving a Poji : But I believe you 
 will agree they both mean the fame Thing, that 
 the Poft is leff^ or abandon* d^ which I Ihall always 
 think might have been maintain'd. And had the 
 Poft at the Village been fo too, as that is, by all Ac- 
 counts, the only Village there is in the Road between 
 St. J ago and Barraccoa, it is reafonable to think 
 you would thereby have cut off the Communication 
 between St. Jago and Barraccoa^ and, of Courfe, 
 been Mafters of this Eaftern End of the Ifland, 
 and had, at leaft, the plentiful Plains of GuantanamOy 
 to haye furnifliM Cattle for fupplying your Army 
 with frefti Provifions. And beyond the faid Vil- 
 lage, there are faid to lie the much more extenfivs 
 Savannas of Santa Catalina, full of Black Cattle, 
 and where they milk tlieir Cows and makeCheefe, 
 I confefs the abandoning Guantanamo gave me 
 great Uneafinefs ; but it was only from a juft Con- 
 cern for the Honour of our Royal Mafter*s Service. 
 
 And I do think, if Col. C -n had no Orders 
 
 for abandoning that Poft, that he will be hardly 
 able to juftify that Condud to have been for. iiis 
 Majefty*s Honour and Service. I' ,.-l^^^'v 
 
 I have put your Spanijh Letters into the Hands 
 of my Tranflator, to fee what can l^e learnt ih)m 
 them Material. .,: - ."' 
 
 I cannot think of appointing any Convoy, fof 
 any Part of tlie Negroes being fent back to Ja- 
 maica^ till, previoufly, a Council of War may have 
 N 2 i"dg*d
 
 [96] 
 
 iudg'd it for his Majefty's Service that it fliould 
 be fo. 
 
 But whenever you and Brigadier Blakeney defire 
 a Council of War to be held, for confidering of 
 Governor Trelawney^s Propofal, for detaching an 
 hundred Americans to Rjitan Ifland, it Ihall be held 
 when and where you may defire , as I know Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle will be willing to oblige you, in 
 meeting on board the Firelhip in the River, which 
 he thinks he can venture to do. 
 
 I beg the Favour of you, Sir, there may be no 
 Communication between us for the future by Mef- 
 fage, bat by Letter ; which will be the belt Record 
 of what palils between us : But if, by any Hurry, 
 an Aid de Camp fhould come with a Meflage, I 
 am determin'd, for the future, he fhali put that 
 Meflage in Writing, and fign his Name to it : 
 And I will return my Anfwer, in like Manner, in 
 Writing. I am, 
 
 S I Ry 
 
 Boyne, in CumberlandHzxhonr, ToUV moji Obedient^ 
 
 September zzy 1 741. Humhk Servant, 
 E. V. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Received a Letter from you without Date laft 
 Night, acquainting me, that you and Brigadier 
 Blakeney would be on board the Firefhip by Eight 
 o* Clock to-morrow Morning, for taking into Con- 
 fideration the Propofal made by his Excellency Go- 
 vernor Trelawney, for fending an hundred Americans 
 to Ratan Ifland. 
 
 Sir Chaloner Ogle and I will not fail of being 
 
 there to meet you, to take the fame into mature 
 
 Confideration in a regular Confultation ; though 
 
 you are very well informed of our Opinions con- 
 
 iiL'o'J* ' - curring
 
 [ 97 ] 
 
 curring with Governor Tre!awney*s already : And we 
 fhall be ready to take into Confideration any other 
 Matter that you judge it for his Majefty's Service 
 to have our Opinions on. .. j. 
 
 As to your inclofed Memorial from Captain 
 Pepper, I have to acquaint you, that in the Re- 
 doubt I had raifed for fecuring our Boats in the 
 Watering our Ships at the River, I ordered Capt, 
 Rentone^ who commanded in the upper Part of the 
 Harbour, to put, a fmall Garrifon in it of a Serjeant 
 and twelve Men, and four Seamen capable of playing 
 and managing the four Patereroes I had mounted on 
 it J who have a very good Houfe in the Middle of 
 this little Redoubt, that is flirrounded with a wet 
 Ditch. And I had ordered Capt. Rentone to have the 
 Serjeant and twelve Men relieved every twenty-four 
 Hours : But on his acquamting me that they ra- 
 ther chofe to continue there, as liking better to be 
 there than aboard a Ship, I told him, when that 
 was the Cafe, he might oblige them in it. And 
 Capt. Pepper, whom I have accidentally met with 
 at different Times, never mention'd to me any 
 Ground of Complaint that he thought he had 5 
 which, I believe. Sir, you will allow, he ought 
 firft to have done. In the Day Time there is no 
 Duty expelled from them, and one Gentry is fuf- 
 ficient at a Time on Duty in the Night, to keep 
 a Look-out that they be not furprized , and ha- 
 ving long been aitting Timber for the Platforms 
 of the Fafcine Batteries that I am ereding for the 
 Defence of this Harbour, the Redoubt has now a 
 fine, open, clear Air all round it. And now I 
 have Hated thefe Fafts to you. Sir, I cannot doubt 
 but you will think Captain Pepper*s Memorial as 
 irregular, idle, and trifling, as I do. I am, 
 
 SIR 
 
 (formerly called H^althe- ^ OUrmJiObcdtcnt, 
 
 nam) on the South Side Humble Servant, 
 
 oi Cuba, Sept. z\y >74'- 1^- ^'
 
 . [98] 
 
 To General "Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 AS there is now^ Month paft fince our fending 
 our laft Letters for England^ 2in6. as I am per- -^ 
 fwaded of the Impatience they will be under of 
 hearing frequently froni us in our prefent Situation ; 
 ^"1 am preparing, at all Events, for fending one 
 df my unlheath'd Fifeihips home, with our Let- 
 ters to them, the Beginning of next Week i and 
 defire you will be pleafed to get your Letters in a 
 readinefs to go by her. 
 
 I likewife fend you inclofed a Copy of the Re- 
 folution of our lafl Council of War, held on board 
 the Vefuvius Firefhip : And arri, 
 
 ^oyne, in Cumberland Harbour, o 1 K^ 
 
 (formerly called Walthenam) Tour mofi Obedient^ 
 
 on the South 8ide of Cuba, Humble Servant, 
 
 OSiober 1, 1741. E V. 
 
 P. S. Two of the Six-pounder Carriages, with 
 the long Shafts belonging to them, that had drove 
 quite out of your River, arid afterwards on Shore 
 on the Weftef n Side of the Hdrbour, having been 
 difcover'd by an Officer of the Tilbury, Boats were 
 fent for them, and ^hey are now on board the Til- 
 bury, ready to be delivered to whom you fhall be 
 pleafed to dired. E. K 
 
 To General WentWorth. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have receivM yours of yefVerday ; and in regard 
 to the Iri^ defcrting from the American Regi- 
 ment, I believe. Sir, you may remember, I long 
 fmce alTured you, all that you fufpefted fhould be 
 received on board of his Majefly*s Ships whenever 
 you fent them to mc -, which may ferve to re-place 
 the Men on board the Jugujia^ that you mention'd
 
 I 99]- 
 
 to me after flie was failed; and which I intend 
 fending to you on her Return from her Cruize^ 
 which will be out the iQth Inftant* . -^ 
 
 And I muft mention to you one Circumftance ; 
 that one of the Men fent on board Captain Rentone 
 on fufpicion of defigning to^ desert,; l^jd it was that 
 he might not appear as an Evidence againft an Of- 
 ficer for defrauding his Men of their Money \ for 
 if any fuch Difcontents are given* l^hat may ocpifion 
 Pefertioh too. . -. . . ii .u-H : i: .ij i'.' ir;!;r> 
 I will fen4 to Captain ^^fr/^'t<j be t^xs&A'm 
 what you defire, of permitting none of the Sat- 
 ling S16ops to pafs him without your Permiffion; 
 though I am perfwaded he would carefully have 
 obfcrved it, from. the general Orders he has from 
 me already. 
 
 I was at the Redoubt at the other River yefterday 
 in the Afternoon, to fee how our Workmen go 
 on there, in preparing Timber for the Batteries I 
 am erefting, for defending the Entrance into the 
 Harbour , which, I can now perfonally afllire you,' 
 is very open and airy all round it. And judging 
 that Side qI the River where the Fort is, to be an 
 ililand formed by two Branches of the River, I 
 have for % long Time had fome of my Officers and 
 Men at work in clearing from both Mouths ot 
 the River upwards, to come ajt the mj^in Branch, 
 where they feparate to make it an IQand ; which 
 \ve have not yet beqn able to effed. jln which they 
 have palTed Orange Groves, that jn^ke -me judge 
 thofe Parts to have been fettled formerly, though 
 now deferted;i and left to run into a State of Na- 
 ture again. ^ . ..:^A 
 And I was informed by Captain /?^/^?f, t-hat 
 one of the rambling Americans met a few Plantane 
 Trees in his Ramble, and had three Branches of 
 (hem with him j but never heard of any Appear- 
 ance
 
 anceof aPlaritltlon, which he would not have fallecf 
 mentioning to me, if he had thought there had 
 been one. And the Mailer of this Ship, who is 
 at work in clearing up the Rivers, has my Orders, 
 to give me an Account, whenever he meets with 
 any Thing like a Path leading to the Rivers. 
 
 The Boyne and Grafton lie very near each other, 
 and the Spanijh Boy Izquerda^ my Pnfoner, will be 
 equally at your Call, and ready for your Service, in 
 either of them : But if you are more particularly 
 defirous he fhould be on board the Grafton than 
 the Boyne, I have no Objedlion to it. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumberland Hzxhovx, Tour ntoji Obedient^ 
 
 Cuba.oaoberz, i-i^x. Humbk Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 to General Went wo r t h. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have receiv*d yours of the 3d ; and the Princefs 
 Lout fa is come down this Morning, and fhall 
 fail for Jamaica on Ttiefday, with the Tranfport un- 
 der her Convoy, with the Invalid Blacks for Ja- 
 maica. And I have wrote to Captain Davers to 
 difpatch the faid Tranfport back to you with all 
 poflible Expedition, under Convoy of the Brifiol^ 
 as foon as Mr. Trelawney fliall have got the one 
 hundred Independents ready to come hither by 
 her i and I prefume you have wrote to him to 
 hailen it all he can. 
 
 And as I intend difpatching Captain Barnard to 
 England, with our Difpatches, on Wednefday, I defire 
 you will fend your Letters to go by her, down to 
 him on Wednefday Morning, at fartheft. 
 
 I have no Objedion to your exchanging three 
 Aiifericans for the three Marines on board Captain 
 
 ^ Cottrell^
 
 t 101 ] 
 
 X^oUerellf who fliall havemyOrd^s,tocomp5y,ivi|i 
 it, as you defke. \ ^. Vj;^ v.. ;' -: : ''.,;[ I 
 
 The Men orderM on board the Jugujia -wtT^ 
 order*d there by Capt. Davers, to enable him tp 
 get his Ship, being a dean Cruizer, in Condition 
 for keeping the Sea ; and was put to Sea from 
 hence before your making any Application for 
 them ; but when fhe comes in, you will have them. 
 I know of no Offence committed by the Captain 
 of the Augufta in it ; and his Majefty's Service has 
 not yet fufFer*d thro' your Want of them, as no 
 Enemy have yet ever made "their Appearance to 
 moleft you. T 
 
 And I have fcnt the Spanijh Boy, Izquerda, oh 
 board the Grafton, where there are no other Spanijh 
 Pf ifoners, as you defire. I am, 
 
 nam) on the South Side HumbLe Uruanty ; ; 
 
 KiiCuhay OJI. 4, 1 74 1. E. y. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 JUST at Sun fetting I received yours of the 3d; 
 and fhall fend the inclofed to Captain Cotierdl, 
 who can befl give an Account what Truth there 
 may be iii it ^ and he has my Orders already for re- ' 
 ceiving three able Americans, for the three Marines. 
 And if there be but a like Number of able Men 
 fent, with a proper Officer to command them, I 
 fhall have no Objedion to the Exchange, whether 
 the Complaint be real or imaginary. 
 
 I have got the Convoy with the returned Blacks 
 to Sea to-day, for Jamaica. 
 
 My Difpatchcs will be made up to-night for 
 England^ and the Fircfhip is to fail to-morrow -, fo 
 
 O pray
 
 [ 102 ] 
 
 pray don't fail to let your Letters be down here 
 to-morrov/ Morning. 
 
 I hear the Men that want to come to you are 
 
 Jrijh 5 do not they want to come in order to 
 
 defert ? I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 Boyne, Cuia, YouT mofi Obedient, 
 
 O^h-^ny- Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V. 
 
 fto his Grace theDukeof N * * * * . 
 
 My Lord Duke, 
 Ty/I Y laft to your Grace were of the 30th of 
 *^^ Augufi and 2d of September, from this Har- 
 bour -, Duplicates of which will accompany this. 
 
 On having difpatched the Convoy to Jamaica, 
 as well as my Letters to your Grace, I put to Sea 
 in the Orford, to reconnoitre the Entrance into the 
 Harbour of St. Jago (as I mention'd my Intention 
 of doing) on that firil Leifure for it. I had with 
 me there the Deptford, that was cruizing off there ; 
 the Montague I carried out with me, and my Sloop 
 Tender, which, on my coming off there, I fent 
 nearer in, with a Letter from me to the Governor 
 of St. J ago of the 3d of September, for the Sloop 
 to fend afhore to the Morro Caftle by his Boat 
 with a Flag of Truce ; a Copy of which Letter I 
 fend your Grace inclofed. And you will obferve 
 by it, that one View, befides a nearer Inlpedion, 
 was to have procured the Releafe of Capt. Wyllis^ 
 by whom I hoped to have learnt fome mrther In- 
 telligence of their prefent Situation. I had Capt. 
 Durell in the Sloop, befides one of my Lieutenants, 
 for making the beft Obfervations they could, and 
 for Captain DureWs Iketching out a Draught of it. 
 So that We had a fair Opportunity of making our 
 v...'u-vi L^i 01 V. ^-^1. ,i Qbjervations; 
 ' *-^
 
 [ 103 ] 
 
 Obfervations ; and we had carefully done the fame 
 on the Coaft down thither, the two Harbours 
 Mouths being but twelve Leagues afunder, upon j^ 
 W. S. W. T S. Courfe ; upon the unanimous Re- 
 ports of all my Officers, that the attacking St. J ago 
 by Sea is impraflicable. . 
 
 The Harbour's Mouth of St. J ago lies in a deep 
 Bite, the Land to the Weftward of the Morro 
 Caftle trending far out to the Southward, I judge 
 about S.W. b S. which occafions much more Sea 
 in that Bite, than in the open Channel without it. 
 And I found, as it had been reported by others, 
 that tho* you have a frefh Sea Breeze in the Offing, 
 yet when you come within four or five Miles of 
 the Land, the Wind begins to die away, and the 
 Swell throws you wholly on upon the Lee Shore, 
 to the Weftward of the Harbour. And as it is all 
 an Iron Shore, and no Anchorage off it, no Ship 
 dares approach too near, without being fecure of 
 a leading Gale to lay it off again. And my Sloop, 
 who had brought the Morro Caftle N. b E. found 
 herfelf under that Apprehenfion j and they were 
 obliged to get to their Oars, and found it a hard 
 Talk, in three Hours rowing againft the Swell, to 
 gain one Half-Mile, for getting into the Sea Breeze 
 again. So that it is not a fafe Harbour for even 
 a friendly Ship to frequent, and Experience ftiews 
 they have never frequented it much. And, as I 
 apprehend, they muft run in clofe to the Shore to 
 windward of the Harbour's Mouth, and fo drive 
 down clofe under the Morro Caftle, and drop an 
 Anchor there, and then warp in. 
 
 I had the fame Bearings of the Morro Caftle as 
 the Sloop, about five Miles off; but the Wind 
 failing, I did not dare to venture nearer, for fear 
 of not clearing the \jtt Shore : And that was not 
 far enough to Leeward to open the Eftrella Battery, 
 
 O 2 that
 
 [ 104 ] 
 
 that lies on the Eaftern Side, jufl: above the Morra 
 Caftle ; fo that I could not, in that Bearing, even 
 fes the Entrance of the Harbour open ; which 
 mufV, by the high Lands on each Side appearing 
 fo near each other, be exceeding narrow. And, 
 to be lure, you mull make good a N.N.E. Courfe^ 
 or more Eaftcrly, to lleer in with the Channel ; 
 and as a conllant Swell fets ftrong to Leeward, 
 muft lie up much more Eafterly, tor making that 
 Courfe good. Had it appeared to me a practicable 
 Scheme in any light, vexed with a Condudl that 
 appeared to me unaccountable in the Genera], I 
 believe I Ihould have been as fool-hardy a? any one 
 could have wilhed me : But I could not relolve to 
 throw his Majelly's Ships away againll the Rocks, 
 without the leaft Appearance of Succefs. ' 
 
 The bad Weather coming on foon after, drove 
 
 ^. me, in the Orford, up as high as Point a Bacoe, 
 ^n the SoiKh Side oi Hifpaniola. And there I fell 
 in with a Brijiol Ship and Schooner, , bound home 
 from Jamaica^ that told me a Piece of very agree- 
 able News, of the Weymouth and Jerfey being fafely 
 arriv'd in Port Royal Harbour, as alfo the Ludlow- 
 Cafile, that I had detach'd from hence with her 
 Convoy of Tranfports, fent for our Supplies of 
 Provilions and Stores. And he inform'd me like- 
 wife, that the former had chafed a Sloop alhore to 
 Leeward of the Havanna, that was bound from the 
 Havanna to Porta Belh ; and by the Letters they 
 found on board of her, had learnt, that Don Rodrigo 
 
 ^de Torres*s Ship, (the Spanijh Admiral) was fet on 
 Fire by Lightning, and had blown up afterwards 
 in that Harbour. And I have had fince the fame 
 Advices brought me from Leogane by Capt. Hervey^ 
 whom I found here on my getting back into this 
 Harbour (on the 17th at Night) after great Variety 
 of bad Weather, but, I thank God, without any
 
 [ iS ] 
 
 ill Accident to the Ship I was in. But the Deptford^ 
 whom I had met at Sea the Day beforc,came in the 
 Day after me, by my Orders, he having acquainted 
 me his Ship was become very leaky ; and, on a 
 Survey, I have been oblig'd to fend her to Jamaica^ 
 for careening to repair her Damages ; and, fof want 
 of better Conveniencies, am oblig'd to diredt two 
 fixty-gun Ships to careen by one another ; a bad 
 Shift being better than -none at all, in Caies^ of 
 Neceflity. - -.-/rri 
 
 And as many of our Ships are become ^o crazy^ 
 I muft beg Leave to remind your Grace, there is 
 an abfolute Neceflity that the crazy Ships and un- 
 iheath*d ones fhould be order*d home, before they 
 arc quite ruin*d by a too long Delay, and by our 
 being in an Incapacity here to give them the ne- 
 cefTary Repairs. 
 
 I fend your Grace inclofed. Copies of the Go- 
 vernor of St. Jago*s Anfwer to my Letter of the 
 "19th oi September, N. S. and of my Reply to it of 
 the 2 ift of September, fent him by the Chefier, gone 
 to cruize off his Port. By which you will fee, I have 
 gratified him in his earned Requeft of fending him 
 Capt. Perez , who being one that has been ufed tp 
 trade with the Englijh, I hope to fee him here again 
 fobn, as a Volunteer for that Purpole. And I have 
 direded him to affure the Hunters, that whatever 
 Cattle they bring in t fell us, they fhall be furc 
 of honourable Treatment, and being well paid for 
 them ; it being what we Hand much in Need of, 
 to check the Scurvy, that makes great Ravages 
 amongft our Men at prefent. But we have hutce4 
 our fick Men, and take all poffible Care of them, 
 and do furnifh them with frcfh Fifh and Mountain 
 Cabbage, which is fome Relief to them. 
 
 I fend your Grace likewife inclofed, a Copy of 
 the Letter I had by Captain liervey, on my Re- 
 turn,
 
 [ 166 ] 
 
 turn, from the Marquis de Larnage, of the I2th 
 of September, N. S. 
 
 And the next Letters I muft trouble your Grace 
 with Copies of, are, two from General IVentwortb 
 to me, of the 21ft and 23d of September, and my 
 Anfwers to them, of the 2 2d and 24th of the 
 fame Month. 
 
 On the 25th we met at a Council of War, on 
 board the Vefuvius Firefliip, in the River Augujia ; 
 and after mature Deliberation, came to an unani- 
 mous Refolution to comply with Governor 'Tre- 
 iawney's Rcqueft, of fending one hundred Ameri- 
 cans to Raian Ifland, With fix Months Provifions. 
 But Mr. Wentwortb defiring to have other Things 
 taken into Confideration before we drew up ouf 
 Refolutions in form, which I thought ought to 
 be previoufly confider'd of in a Council of War of 
 Land Officers, he acquiefced in it, and we ad- 
 jburn'd our final Determinations to a future Meet- 
 ing on I'uefday the 29th of September. 
 
 \ am in fome Pain for the Sheernefs, a clean 
 Ship, that fhould have join'd rne long before 
 now, from "Porf Antonio ; and am not without Fears 
 <!)f what may have happened at Jamaica, the Wea- 
 ther having a very bad Afpeft towards Jamaica, 
 when I was off Cape Tiber on, about the 14 th of 
 September ; which makes me impatiently long to 
 hear from them. 
 
 Having got the Spanijh Papers trandated, which 
 Mr. Wentworth fent me, that were taken by Capt. 
 Burrard in his late Excurfion to Guantanamo, I fend 
 your Grace inclofcd a Copy of them. And by the 
 Return of a Party commanded by Captain fVebb^ 
 that came from Guantanamo the 25 th of September 
 in the Morning, it appears they arrived there with- 
 out meeting any Ambufhes in their Way thither ; 
 but law a Spanijb Guard a little beyond it, who ran 
 
 away
 
 [ 107 ] 
 
 away upon their firft Appearance. Thefe Letters, 
 in my Apprehcnfion, manifcft, that if Matters had 
 been vigoroufly pufhed on at our firft Arrival, we 
 fiiould not have failed of all the Succefs we could 
 have defired ; and that even our very Continuance 
 here, has very much harrafTed them, and put thein 
 to very confiderable Expences. O 
 
 On the 29th we met according to our Adjourn- 
 ment, and Mr. Wentworib delivered me a Copy of 
 the Refolution of their Council of War of the 26th 
 of Sept ember y which I fend your Grace inclofcd a 
 Copy of. And it having been read to us, we had 
 our former Refolutions, and what was judged 
 proper to be added, drawn up in form ; and I lend 
 your Grace inclofed, a Copy of the Refolution of 
 Dur faid Council of War of the 29th of September, 
 At our firft meeting on the 25th, Mr. fVent- 
 worth fuggefting, that the Sicknefs was daily in- 
 creafing amongft his Forces, and that, if they 
 ihould be much more diminifhed by Sicknefs, the3fr 
 ihould not even be able to maintain themfelves in 
 their prefent Encampment ; I hinted to him, that 
 as Sir Charles fVagei^s Letter had mention'd there 
 were Thoughts of fending a Reinforcement of two 
 thoufand Men, and as we might daily expert to 
 hear from England^ I was perfwaded he would not 
 think it proper to entertain any fuch Thoughts till 
 we received our next Advices from England. And 
 I fuggefled to him, that, whenever either the Ad- 
 vice of a French War, or any other Reafon, might 
 make it necefTary to embark the Forces, it would 
 be advifeable to have a good Communication cut 
 on the Camp Side of the River, from the Camp to 
 where the Bomb-Ketch lies, for covering the Boats, 
 whenever it fhould be judged neceflary to re-em- 
 bark the Cannon and Baggage i and that being 
 done, the Forces muft march from the Camp to 
 
 the
 
 t 'o8 ] ' 
 
 the Bomb-Ketch, for their being fafcly re-embark*d 
 there under the Command of the Cannon from the 
 FlotUla and Tranlports. He faid Mr. Blakeney had 
 already advifcd that : And I anfwcred, that I was 
 very glad to find, what I had recommended to 
 him, had the Approbation of fo experienced an 
 Officer as Mr. Blakeney. And at our meeting on 
 the 29th he affur'd rfie, they had determined on 
 opening the faid Communication. 
 
 I took notice likewife at our firft Meeting, that 
 the Copy of his Letter to the Governors of the 
 Northern Colonies (that he had firft fent to me the 
 2 2d of September) was not conformable to the Ad- 
 vice given him by the Council of War of the 20th 
 of July ; to which he anfwered, as he looked on 
 that as Advice only, he had not judg'd that the 
 Situation of our Affairs allow*d him to conform to 
 it in all particulars. 
 
 I fet out before Day on the 29th of September^ 
 for making Mr. Wentworth a Vifit, and viewing 
 his Camp with him, before our meeting at the 
 Council of War. And the Ground being clear'd 
 about it, I thought it both a very beautifijl and 
 healthful Encampment j and an eafy Afcent to the 
 Hills furrounding it, made it, in my Apprehenfion, 
 very ftrong by Nature. And I viewed with him 
 all the Entrenchments made on thofe Hills, for co-- 
 vering his Camp to the Land Side, from whence 
 his Cannon could fcour the Country round ; and 
 he has the River for his Barrier on the other Side. 
 And as no Enemy can approach him, without be- 
 ing fubjeft to all the Inconveniencies that he ap- 
 prehended to be a juft Reafon againft their advanc- 
 ing into the, Country, there is the fame Reafon to 
 think it ftiould be equally imprudent for the Ene- 
 my to attempt to approach him \ and it is certain, 
 Km Nji.-^-' --- ir%.-t: r-'^?-'^' ';,'-"'v''-~- not
 
 [ri09 ] 
 
 not fo much as any of their Parties have thought 
 proper to attempt it yet. 
 
 And that your Grace may fee I have not been 
 wanting in looking out for the frelheft Advices 
 from you, I fend you inclofed a Copy of the Orders 
 I have fent Captain Ckland to Sea with, which are 
 conformabJe to the former Orders given to my 
 Cruizers in that Station. 
 
 Your Grace's laft Letter of the 24th oi May 
 mentioning, that you hoped foon to have ah Op- 
 portunity of writing to me more fully -, and Sir 
 Charles Wager* s Letter mentioning, there were fome 
 Thoughts offending a Reinforcement of two thou- 
 fand Land Forces to thefe Parts ; and other Let- 
 ters, to private Hands,, even mentioning that the 
 Tranfports were taken up for thofe Forces ; arc to 
 me very reafonable Inducements to think that we 
 ought not to part with the good Footing we have 
 here, till wc hear from your Grace, or have fome 
 certain Intelligence that fuch an Intention is en- 
 tirely laid afide. For were they to come foon, as 
 the dry Seafon will be fetting in with the Norths 
 in the latter End of this Month (which would be 
 a healthful Seafon for European Conftitutions) I 
 cannot think we can be better polled for beginning 
 the Redufbion of this Ifland, than we are at pre- 
 fent, nor have a better Seafon of the Year for it. 
 But I think it eafily difcernible from what hai 
 paiTed, that if no Reinforcements fpcedily arrive, 
 or certain Accounts of their being coming, I ihall 
 not be able to prevail with my Colleague to continue 
 here much longer. 
 
 Moll of his Majcfty's Ships, I have already in- 
 formed your Grace, are in a very fhattered Condi- 
 tion, by being kept pretty conllantly bulking in 
 the Sea, without convenient Opportunities of giv- 
 ing them the neceflary Repairs j fo that the crazy 
 
 P Ships
 
 Ships, and the unfheath'd Ships, there will be an 
 abfoiuteNeGeffity of fending home, fo as to have a 
 Summer Paflage -, for the crazieft are too bad to 
 bear a Winter Paflage, and the unfheath*d ones 
 will be ruined if they are kept much longer here, 
 and fome of them are now too leaky to be trufted 
 in a Winter Paflage -, and all are ' fo reduced by 
 Sicknefs, as not to have Men enough to carry them 
 home, without the Afiifl:ance of the Land Forces. 
 And fliould the American Regiment be fettled at 
 Jamaica, or elfewhere, which I judge would be mofl: 
 for his Majefl:y*s Service, the other Troops would 
 be but barely fufficient to man his Majefl:y's Ships 
 for carrying them fafe home, and there would be 
 " no further need of Transports, but fuch as might 
 be judged necefl^ary for accommodating the Offi- 
 cers. And I defiie your Grace would have Orders 
 fent, th/t the Forces to return may be ordered 
 into the Men of War, to enable them to go home 
 in a Condition of Defence. 
 
 And as the greater Number of the Ships mull 
 abfolutely go home in the Spring of the Year, I 
 hope it will be judged no unreafonable Requeft, 
 that I Ihould command them home, efpecially as 
 his Majefty has here fo experienc'd an Officer as 
 Sir Chaloner Ogle, who is well acquainted with thefe 
 Seas, to take the Command of what are to remain. 
 
 On the 3d of O^ober I had Advice, by a Sut- 
 tling Sloop from Jamaica, that failed from thence 
 the 23d of September, that the Ludlow-Cajile, with 
 the Convoy of Tranfports from hence, was ar- 
 riv'd fafe at Jamaica, and was to fail in a Week 
 after him. 
 
 And he brought an Account of the Shoreham 
 having taken a Spani/kYtfCd with twenty thoufand 
 Pieces of Eight, off Carthagena -, and that the 
 Spanijh Admiral, Don Blafs de Lezoy was faid to 
 
 have
 
 [ III 1 
 
 have died there. And he confirm*d the Weymouth's 
 znd Jerfey^s fafe Return to Port Royal -, and faid 
 they had a hard South dX Jamaica on the 14th of 
 September, but had not fufFer'd much by it in their 
 Shipping J but that they had fuffer'd at the Lee- 
 ward IJlands, feveral Ships having been blown from 
 thence in a fhatter*d Condition, to take Refuge at 
 Jamaica : But having no Letters myfelf from any 
 one in Jamaica by him, I cannot fend your Grace 
 any further Particulars. But he having met the 
 Chefter at Sea, cruizing off St. Jago, I fend your 
 Grace inclofed a Copy of the Letter Capt. Lang fent 
 me in by him, from the Governor of St. Jago, ia 
 Anfwer to mine fent him with the Flag of Truce^ 
 with the five Spanijh Prifoners. . , >'/; 
 
 Judging your Grace would be impatient to hear 
 from us frequently, fo as to be able to judge 
 what was to be expefted, I thought it for his 
 Majefly*s Service to fend one of my unfheath'd 
 Firefhips, commanded by Capt. Barnard, to carry 
 your Grace the certaineft State of Affairs I could 
 fend you. And having given Mr. Wentworth 
 previous Notice of my Intentions the Beginning of 
 lafl Week, your Grace will have his Letters by 
 the fame Occafion. I am, 
 
 %,, in Cumberland ^ ^'^^ ^^^'r , 
 
 Harbour (formerly Tour Grace's mojt 
 
 call'd Walthenam) Devoted, and moft 
 
 on the vSouth Side of Obedient y Humble Servant, 
 
 Cuba,OJl.^, 1741. j7^ y^ 
 
 P. .V. Capt. Davers difpatching up one of my 
 Firefhips, which came in yellerday in the After- 
 noon, I fend your Grace inclofed a Copy of the In-r 
 telligence fent me by Capt. Knowles, extraded out 
 of , Letters in the Spanijh Sloop be took } and 
 I am forry my Cruizers under his Orders had the 
 Misfortune to mifs the Rcgifter Ships> mention'd 
 P ? to
 
 to be arrlv'd at La Vera Cniz ; but apprehend 
 from this Account, they got there before the for- 
 mer got to their Stations. 
 
 By Letters to Capt. Davers from the Captain of 
 the Augufia, I find, he has been very bufy in 
 ferretting about the Spanijh Privateers from Port 
 Francois ; but as they have that Refuge fo near, 
 they have efcap'd in there, and probably are moft 
 of them French on board : And I will, in my 
 next to the Marquis de Larnage^ complain of this 
 PartiaHty in their Favour. 
 
 And I have the Pleafure to hear, the Sheernefs^ 
 which I was in Pain for, got fafe to Port Royal 
 Harbour, tho' much fhatter'd, and with Jury- 
 Mails; and to hear we might foon expeft the 
 Return of our Convoy here from Jamaica. 
 
 I have fent likewife two Catalan Soldiers, that 
 defcrted at Carthagena, one of which Mr. IVent- 
 worth made Ufe of as a Guide at his Attack 
 on St. Lazarus. I have order*d them Tickets for 
 their Service while on board here, for fubfifling 
 them when releas'd , but Captain Barnard has my 
 Orders, not to fet them on Shore till he knows 
 your Grace's Pleafure, whether you would have 
 them fent up firfl, to have their Examinations. 
 
 Oiiober 6, 1 741. E. K^ 
 
 to General Wentworth. 
 S I R, 
 
 I Have fent you by Cdjpt. Broderick the Letter you 
 fent me, from Serjeant Elder to Captain i/-^/, 
 with Captain CottereWs Anfwer to it, annex*d ; by 
 which you will fee, the Man himfelf owns all he 
 hi^s faid to be a Lye, by the Atteftation of his own 
 Officer, as well as of Capt. Cotter ell and his Officers ; 
 ^ad you will fee they think, as I do, that the Man's 
 '^ ' principal
 
 ["3] 
 
 principal Inducement was, to have an Opportunity 
 to defert. 
 
 And I am perfwaded. Sir, when you have read it, 
 you will think Capt. H / deferves fome Mark of 
 your DIfpleafurc, for prefuming to put into your 
 Hands fuch a Complaint before he had taken Care 
 to inform himfelf of the Truth of it ; and that you 
 will take the Notice you think proper, of their 
 Complaint againft him for want of Payment and 
 NecefTaries. 
 
 Capt. Wafhington^ who was here from Col. Cope^ 
 to have an Account of the particular Difpofal of 
 the Americans on board our Ships, had from me a 
 particular Account of them, as he defir'd; and 
 you know. Sir, their making a Confufion, by 
 fending them on board by Detachments from 
 each Company, was their own handy- work. 
 
 I fend this Letter by Captain Broderick^ as he 
 comes lateft from Jamaica ; from whence I cannot 
 learn, that there^are any Letters from England later 
 than June laft , but there arc Reports even of fix 
 or eight thoufand Men being to be fent here. 
 
 The Dutch Ship, with Wine from Malaga^ fays, 
 that three of Mr. Haddock's Cruizers had, in the 
 Streights Mouth, in the Night, the like Ren- 
 punter with three French Men of War as Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle's Cruizers had here ; in which the 
 French had one of their Captains kill'd, a young 
 Marquis ; and that he faw them put afhore feventy 
 wounded Men at Malaga. 
 
 He heard likewife, that Sir John Norris had d^- 
 tach*d five Men of War to Port St. Jndero, that 
 i\ad burnt there five Spanijh Privateers and five 
 Merchant Ships. 
 
 And it is faid, ten thoufand of our Forces were 
 tranfported, and had join'd his Majelly, who was 
 
 at
 
 at the Head of thirty thoufand Men, of his own 
 Forces knd Auxiliaries. 
 
 And I fend you a Letter I have receiv'd from 
 the Marquis de Larnage (that you will pleafe to re- 
 turn me by Capt. Broderick) which will, I am per- 
 fwaded, convince you, as it does me, that this was 
 not the principal Motive of \ the Meflenger's coming 
 here. But I have invitee! him to dine with me 
 again to-day, when I fhall put into his Hands my 
 Anfwer to his Excellency's Letter, that waiting for 
 that may not be a Pretence for his longer Conti- 
 nuance here. I -am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Jtoyne, Oa. 9, 1741. Tourmofi Obedient, 
 
 Humble Servant, y 
 E. V. 
 
 ^0 Captain Long, of the Chefter. 
 
 WHereas his Excellency theMarquefs de Larnage, 
 Governor and Lieutenant General of the 
 French Leeward Iflands, has fent me, by one ohi$ 
 Guarda Cojia Sloops (the Tempete) a civil Letter, 
 with the Return of two Englijh Seamen and a Boy, 
 Deferters from the Tork -, which he mentions to 
 have been the only Intent of fending her. But, as 
 you will find by the annex'd Information of the fiid 
 two Englijh Seamen, there is juft Ground, at leaft, 
 to fufped, that Capt. Olivier, the Captain of In- 
 fantry that commands her, has other Views ; from 
 the Contraband Cargo of Iron and Arms mention*d 
 in the faid Information to be brought on board t^ 
 Spaniards, and in a Spanip Boat , and further, from 
 the Conduit of the faid Capt. Oli'^ier, whofe En- 
 quiries privately amongft lome of our Men, and 
 
 avoiding
 
 avoiding our Officers, have had too much the Air 
 of tranfading the Part of a Spy upon us here. ' 
 
 This, in regard to doing all in our Power td 
 preferve an exact Neutrality with them, has beeii 
 thought proper to be overlooked, if they proceed 
 no further toward the Execution of what mayjuftly 
 be fufped:ed to be the faid Captain*s Intent, viz^ 
 to throw the faid Succour of Iron and Arms into 
 St. Jago : ' ^ ^ i 
 
 And I have myfelf told the faid Captain, that 
 as we looked upon St. Jago to be invefted by us, I 
 hoped he had no Thoughts of moving that way ; 
 which he aflured me he had not, but fhould ftretch 
 over direftly to Cape Dona Maria. 
 
 On taking the whole maturely into Confidera- 
 tion with Sir Chaloner Ogle^ it was judged advifeable 
 by us, that I (hould fend you the particular Orders 
 following, for your Government in it. 
 
 And you are accordingly hereby required and 
 diredled, in cafe you meet the faid Guarda Cojia 
 Sloop, called the Tempete, going into St. JagQ 
 (which appears by the Marquefs de Larnage*s Let-* 
 ter, and his own Confeffion, to be contrary xo his 
 Order;) you are, in fuch Cafe, to flop the faid 
 Guarda Sloop from going in, and to take out of 
 her the. faid Contraband Stores put on board her at 
 Lepgane by Spaniards ; and acquainting the faid Capt, 
 Olivier, that by the Rules ot War he can't be per- 
 mitted to go into the faid Port, you are to leav^ 
 ^him at free Liberty to go where he pleafes elfe. 
 For, &c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (formerly call*d PFaltbenam) on the South 
 SideofC^tf, this loth of O^okr, 1741. 
 
 E. V, 
 
 P. S. I would have you continue your Cruize to 
 the 30th Inftant, if you are not relieved fooner. 
 
 E.V.
 
 f "6 j 
 
 To General WENTwoRtH. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have receiv'd your two Letters, of the 9th and 
 loth of 06lober ; the former by the Officer that 
 brought the Detachment of Men you fufpefted of 
 * ' intending to defert, which are on board the Lyotty 
 as you defired. But having fuch full Proof, from 
 the Return made by Captain Cotterell and all the 
 Commiffion Officers on board the Ship (which I 
 lent to you) of the lying Reprefentation made by 
 Serjeant Elder, I could not have conceived that you 
 would have judged it proper, to give the leaft 
 Countenance to fuch who had the Infolence to at- 
 tempt fo grofsly impofing on you ; or to thofe 
 who prefumed to hand it to you without the leaft 
 Enquiry into it. And as Part of thefe Men, by 
 the laid Report, are reprefented under the fame 
 Circumftances as thofe you fent down, of defigning 
 to defert ; I could not judge it for his Majefty*$ 
 Service they fhould be fent. But I have given 
 Captain Cotterell Orders, to diftinguifh, in the Lifl 
 of thofe Men, thofe he fufpeds may defign to 
 deferti and thofe he does not % and the three Ma- 
 rines, and fuch as are not fufpeded to defign to 
 defert, and the Officer, fhall be fent with them : 
 And if you think it of Confequence, the Number 
 fhall be compleated out of others that may not 
 have given Occafion to fufpedt their Defign of de- 
 ferting. 
 
 As to the Care of our fick Men, I believe I may 
 venture to afTure you, as we have erected Hutts 
 for them, where they cannot defert, that your Care 
 of them at Camp cannot poffibly exceed ours here. 
 
 I was concerned to hear, fo fmall a Party as 
 twenty Negroes had been fent out, with an Officer 
 t>f their own only, without any other to dired: 
 thofe who cannot be expe6tcd to underfbmd much 
 
 Difcipline
 
 [117] 
 
 iDiicipline of themfelves ; but was glad to hear the 
 Officer's Folly, in being a Pigeon-Shooting inftcad 
 of minding his Orders, had no worfc Confequcnces 
 than falUng on himfclt only. 
 
 And as you fcem fixed in your Refolutions, of 
 advancing no further till you receive Succours from 
 England', I hope you will not take it amifs that I 
 fhould fuggeft my Thoughts in fuch Cafe, that it 
 would be beft, not to harrafs your Troops by any 
 long Excurfions of Parties, but to confine your 
 Views to ftrengthening your Camp, and opening a 
 Communication a-long-fide of the River, from the' 
 Camp to the Bomb-Ketch (as you was pleafed to 
 fay was Mr. Blakeney's Advice to you before I had 
 fuggefted my Thoughts to you about it;) for co- 
 vering the Embarkation of your Cannon and Bag- 
 gage, if a French War Ihould make your fudden 
 Re-embarkation neceffary. For, to be fure, the 
 only fure way of re-embarking the Troops, will be 
 by their marching afterwards in a Body down to 
 where the Bomb-Ketch and Tranfports lie, where 
 it can be done with great Eafe and Safety. 
 
 I am glad I can acquaint you, the French Officers, 
 that I think, as you do, were principally fent as 
 Spies upon us, are decamp'd, and put to Sea yef- 
 terday in the Afternoon. The Evening before, they 
 entered the River in the Dufk of the Evening : 
 But the firft of my Officers they came to pafs by. 
 Hopping them, to know whether they had any 
 Leave from me for their fo doing, at firft they faid 
 they had *, but on his defiring them to produce it, 
 they giving him an infolent Anfwer (faying it was 
 in their Codpiece, or Words to that cSc6t) he did 
 not permit their advancing : And finding I would 
 receive no Prefents from them, and, I believe, fuf- 
 pefting I had better Intelligence of their Defigns 
 and Proceedings than they wilhed f^r > they dined 
 
 d, with
 
 [ "8] 
 
 with Sir Chaloner Ogle yefterday, and came after- 
 wards to take their Leave of me, under fome vifiblc 
 Marks of Confufion. I was very glad to fee them 
 going, and had fent Orders before them, to watch 
 their Motions when they were out. 
 
 I only wait for the Convoy coming in, to receive 
 my Letters, for preparing all neceffary Orders to 
 be fent to Jamaica ; and defire you will, therefore, 
 get your Letters for Jamaica ready as foon as you 
 can. And if you will pleafe to fend them to me, 
 or on board the Vulcan Firefhip, I will give all ne- 
 ceffaiy Orders for their fafe and fpeedy delivery, as 
 you defire. Hoping the Pacquet from Jamaica^ 
 that I fent you Yefterday, came fafe to your Hands > 
 I am, 
 
 & J K 
 
 Bcyne, in Cumherjand jUrhont ^^^^ ^^^ OM'enf, 
 
 on the South Side of Cuba, Bumbk Servant^ 
 
 04t. II, 1741. E. V. 
 
 7<? General Went worth. 
 
 SIR,, 
 
 THIS waits on you to acquaint you, that to- 
 morrow, or next Day at fartheft, I fhall fend 
 the Defiance to Sea upon a Cruize, and order her 
 to touch at Jamaica in her way j therefore if you 
 have any Letters you want to have fpeedily con- 
 veyed thither, be pleafed to let me have them by 
 to-morrow Noon. But if they cannot be ready by 
 that Time, it will not be long before there will be 
 another Opportunity of writing thither. I am, 
 
 S I Ry 
 
 MoytteM Cumberland Xour moft ObediSitt^ 
 
 Jl^bour, Cuba. ^^^^^ Servnnf,
 
 [ 119 ] 
 
 To General Wbnt worth, 
 S I R, 
 
 Finding by your Letter of the 13th, that youf 
 Advices are the lame that we have, that, in all 
 Probability, the firft News we have inay t>e that 
 -of a French War ; 
 
 It was thought neceflary to take into mature 
 Deliberation v/ith Sir Chaloner Ogle, wh^t was pro- 
 per to be done on fuch an Event. 
 
 And we are clear in our Opinions, that w^ 
 ought not to lofe any Time in putting to Sea 
 with the fix Capital Ships, to take all the Advan- 
 tage we could for deftroying the Enemy's Ships 
 jjj.****<i^f****4|r**j ^j^^ ^Q leave behind 
 
 us a fufficient Convoy, for affifting and proteding 
 the Embarkation of your Army, and bringing 
 them up after us with all- polTible Expedition. 
 And we obferve, with Pleafure, it is your Opinio^ 
 as well as ours, to make them, in fuch Cafe, a^ 
 early a Vifit as poffible. 
 
 And as it would much facilitate the fpeedy and 
 fafe Re-imbarkation of the Cannon and Baggage, 
 to have the Path cut along the River Side from 
 the Camp to the Bomb-Ketch (which, it is judg*d, 
 a hundred Blacks might do in three Pays ;) we 
 beg Leave to fudged to you our Opinion, that it 
 cannot be too foon fet upon, as fuch Advices 
 would require all Things being difpatch'd with the 
 utmoft Expedition. 
 
 And as many of our Ships, for being in a 
 Condition for Service, will require being aflifted 
 with a Number of your Forces, that came hither 
 embark*d in Tranfports ; we agree with you, that 
 it would be right to eafe the great Expence to 
 the Crown on that Head, on all Occafions where 
 you find you have more Tranfports than you havq 
 Occafion for. 
 
 0^2 - M
 
 [ 120 ] 
 
 As we have no Views in the Advice we fend 
 you, but what appears to us mofl for his Majefty's 
 Service, we are perfwaded. you v;ill receive it in 
 eood part from us. We are, 
 
 Bopie, in Cumherland Totiv moji Obedient^ 
 
 Harbour, Cuba, Humbled erv ant s, 
 
 Od. 1 6, 1741. TT \r 
 
 '^ jbL. VERNON, 
 
 C. Ogle. 
 
 ^0 Capt. Forrest, of the Alderncy Bomb. 
 
 y former verbal Orders to you in regard to 
 the Tranfports, haying been too carelefsly 
 regarded by them, I have thought proper to re- 
 new them to you in Writing. 
 
 And you are hereby direfted, to require Mr. 
 JValkicc\ the Agent of the Tranfports, to fend fuit- 
 able Orders to each of them, for their careful Go- 
 vernment for the future \ giving him a Copy of 
 my Orders to you, for his Government therein, in 
 enjoining them duly to obferve them. 
 
 You are hereby required and dire6led,. to give 
 ftrift Orders to thofe 6f the Flotilla put under 
 your Commiand, every Evening to haul on board 
 the Planks, or other Communication they -may have 
 from their Ships to the Shore in the Day-time ; 
 and that they have Anchors laid out in the River, 
 to haul off to, upon any Enemy coming fuddenly 
 on them ; and that they keep their Guns loaded 
 with Ball for their Defence -, and give their re- 
 fpective Seamen a ftrict Injundlion, not to ramble 
 far from their Ships, under Pretence of Shooting, 
 or otherwife (that they may not carelefsly play 
 themfelves into the Enemy's Hands, as fome have 
 appear'd very near the Camp, well, mounted on 
 
 Horfcback;)
 
 Horfeoack ,) and to aflure the refpeftlve Maflfers, 
 that the Crown will anfwer for no Damages that 
 ihall accrue thro' Carelcflhefs. And you will order 
 a careful Guard to be kept on board the Flotilla, 
 and eftablifh proper Signals, for giving due Notice 
 of the Appearance of any Enemy. 
 
 And in Cafe of any Alarm being made in the 
 Night, that might require my fending Boats 
 mann'd and arm'd in the Night, you are to take 
 the Command of them upon you, and poft them, 
 for Service, on board fuch Ships as you fhall judge 
 moft proper for the Service of covering and pro- 
 tefting the reft. For, i^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (formerly calPd Walthenam) on the South 
 Side of Cuba, this i8th of O^ober, 174 1. 
 
 E. V. 
 
 To General Wintworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 UPON the Receipt of your Letter of the 17th 
 Inftant, I communicated it to Sir Chaloner 
 ' Ogle ; and we were glad to find you was deter- 
 mine to lofe no Time in clearing the Road along 
 the River Side, to the Bomb-Ketch. 
 
 But tho' we both agree with you in the Ap- 
 pearances there are of a French War ; yet, as we 
 have no publick Advices of it, we cannot think 
 our Surmifes, that a War may happen to break 
 out between the two Nations, a fufficient Motive 
 for aflembling a Publick Council of War. 
 
 To be fure. Sir, it will be right in you, to have 
 fuch an Event in your Thoughts, for making a 
 proper Difpofition whenever it fhould happen ; 
 and we make no Difficulty, Sir, in freely fending 
 you our Opinion upon it. 
 
 That
 
 f.if . V .? { 122 ] 
 
 That the firfl: Step Ihould be, clearing a Road 
 by the River Side, for fecuring a fafe Paflkge to 
 the Boats, in the Re-embarkation of your Cannon 
 and Baggage. 
 
 And that for the convenienter doing of that, the 
 commanding Officer of the Train (hou'd have your 
 Orders to be preparing a little Wharf, that their 
 Liongboats can lay their Sides to, for the convenient 
 ihippingoff the Cannon and Baggage; in whichCapt. 
 Forreji will afllft him with his Advice if he defires it. 
 
 And they being all fhipp'd off, that then the 
 whole Army fhould march in a Body from the 
 Camp, through the open Salinas^ to where the 
 Bomb-Ketch and Tranfports lie, where they may 
 ^o on board their refpedtive Tranfports with gre^t 
 Eafe and Safety. 
 
 r_ . We did not in our laft propofe any Draught 
 Trom the Army, for the firft Ships we might deem 
 tpr his Majefty's Service to put to Sea with ; but 
 "rather to make a Draught from them for the re- 
 maining Ships. 
 
 And upon your re-embarking, a fufficient Num- 
 ;ber fhould then" go on board of them, to fit them 
 for Service ; for which we apprehend there may 
 ^>e wanted near five hundred ; and that will be a 
 good Reafon for leffening the Number of Tranf- 
 ports. We are, 
 *- SIR, 
 
 Cuba, Ocioberi^, ly^u Humbk Servant s, 
 
 E. Vernoi*, 
 
 ^ /^l**, y. T^^n the firft: Advice you gave me of the 
 it)rders you had fent to General Guifey I fent Orders 
 ^tp Captain DaverSy by the Defiance, to write to Ge- 
 neral Gui/e, to defire he would let him know at 
 what Time he fhould have his Tranfports and 
 
 Forces
 
 [ 123 3 
 
 Forces ready to come, and that he would take Care 
 a Convoy fhould be ready for him againfl the Time 
 he Ihould defire it. i 
 
 -'n. 
 
 ^/ a Council of War held in the Camp in the Ijle of 
 C\ihAythe2iJiofOd:ohtt^ 1741. 
 
 WE the under- written Members of the Council 
 of War, having taken into Confideration the 
 Reprefentation of Vice- Admiral Vernon and Sir Cha- 
 loner Ogle^ that five hundred Men may be wanting 
 to be put on board the Fleet 5 do declare, that ia 
 Cafes of Neccflity, fuch as the Approach of the 
 Enemy's Fleet, or the Complement of his Majefty's 
 Ships of War being fo much weaken*d, as not to 
 be able to proceed to Sea without the AfTiftance 
 of the Land Forces, We are of Opinion that the 
 faid five hundred Men, or more, fhould be lent to 
 fupply his Majefly's Ships. At the lame Time, 
 we mufl recommend it to Mr. Vernon's Confide- 
 ration, that any confiderable Draught from our 
 prefent Force will reduce them fo low, that they 
 will be difablcd from undertaking any Thing of 
 Moment againft the Enemy , and do think it ne- 
 cefTary to fignify to him, that they are to be re- 
 turn*d whenever our Commander in Chief fhall 
 require it. And we conceive, that the detaining 
 any Part of the Land Forces on board the Fleet, 
 without his Confent, is contrary to the King's In- 
 ftrudions, and may be of great Prejudice to his 
 Majefly's Service. 
 
 We have further taken into Confideration our 
 prclcnt Circumflances, and fhould, we think, be 
 wanting in our Duty to his Majefly, if we did not 
 reprefcnt to Vice -Admiral Vernon, that we are 
 
 every
 
 t J24 ] 
 
 vrtry Day more and more convinced of the Im 
 pradlicablenefs (even were we to receive a ftrong: 
 Reinforcement) of advancing from our Camp by 
 Land to St. Jago ; and that, the rainy Seafon be- 
 ing over, our Contimiance^ in our prefent Situation, 
 cannot (as far as we judge) anfwer the End pro- 
 pos'd by his Majeiily in fending this Body of 
 Troops to the tVeJi^ Indies. 
 
 We are therefore of Opinion, that if the Forces 
 were to be landed in fome inhabited Part of this 
 Jfland, or elfewhere in the King of Spain's Do* 
 minions (fuch as may be agreed upon in the Prin- 
 cipal Council of War-,) the King*s Service would 
 in all Refpedts be more efFedually carried on, than 
 by our Continuance here in a State of Inaftivity, 
 which we think neither to be confiflent with the 
 Englijh Name, nor with his Majcfty's Service. 
 
 Tho. WentwortHi 
 B Will. Blakeney, 
 
 c; a. lowther, 
 
 ^ James Cockran, 
 
 - ' ' John Cottrell^ 
 
 Robert Fraser. 
 
 ^-x. 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 
 HAving this Morning receiv*d your Letter of 
 the 2 ift Inftant, with the inclofed Refolutioni 
 of your Council of War of the fame Date, I im- ' 
 mediately communicated them to a Council \ and 
 I fend you inclofed the unanimous Opinion of our 
 Council of War of this Day, upon having taken 
 the fame maturely into Confideration. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in OmbtrlanJ Ihxhonr ^^^^ ^j^ Obedient^ 
 
 * on the South Side of Cvha, Humble Serv^t, 
 
 OB. 22, 17^1. E. V.
 
 ^jf/ a Council of War, held on board bis Majefifs Ship - 
 \ ihe BoynQ, the 2id of OtiobcTy 1741. 
 
 WE the under- written Men;ibers of the Couhcil 
 of War, having had Jaid before us the Re- 
 folutions of a Council of War held in the Camp in 
 the Ifland of Cuba the 21ft Inftant (and fent to 
 Vice- Admiral f^ernon, in a Letter from General 
 fVentworth of the lame Date, likewile communi- 
 cated to us ;) 
 
 As alio the two Letters jointly fign'd by him 
 and Sir Chalomr Ogle, as their Opinion what might 
 be moft for his Majefty's Service, in cafe of any 
 fudden Advice of a War breaking out between us 
 and France i 
 
 We entirely agree in the Opinion given by the 
 Admirals, as moft conducive, in our Opinion, to 
 his Majefly*s Service in fuch an Event. '?. 
 
 And upon taking the faid Refolutions, and Ge- 
 neral iyentKvorth*s Letter, into mature Deliberation^ 
 as likewife his Majefty's Inftruftions, and the unar 
 nimous Relblution of our General Council of War 
 of the 20th of 7/y, 1741. (which Refolution being 
 (tr^ from hence by Exprefs on the 30th of July^ 
 now twelve Weeks paft, we may reafonably ex- 
 pe<5t every Day to know his Majefty's RoyafP^-? 
 fure upon it :) ^^^^ /T/i'i 
 
 We are unanimoufly of Opinion ndw,^"as' we 
 were then, that had this Attempt on St. J ago been 
 fet upon in the firft Week after our Arrival here, 
 by a thoufand chofen Men, and a thoufand Blacks 
 having advanced with a Week's ProvifionS (as 
 was then propos'd by Admiral Vernon) they would 
 have fuccecdcd in the Attempt ; nothing having 
 occurr'd to us fince to incline us to alter our Opi- 
 nions, which we think fupported by the Intelli- 
 R gcnce
 
 ( .26 1 
 
 gcnce procur'd from aJl the intercepted .V/5y5b 
 Papers. 
 
 - We have all of us ferved the CrOwn often in 
 'thefe Jimerican Seals, and his Majefty having judg'd 
 
 ; vs of Experience to ferve in this Expedition, we 
 :have always been forward to give our Advice in 
 
 : every Inftance wher6 we judg'd it for his Majcfty's 
 Service : Tho* by his Majefty's Inftruiflions it ap- 
 pears, the Admirals Orders were to be aiding and 
 allifting to my Lord Cat hearty in what Ihould be 
 jiidg'd proper to be undertaken; fo that the point- 
 ing that but was more properly to have arifen from 
 the General of the Ariny. But as our Experience 
 
 ..in thele Seas might be deemed to have given us 
 
 .fome more particular Knowledge, we are very 
 wiilig, on this and ail other Occafibns, to give 
 ur Opinion of the Prafticability, of what 3pan\lh 
 Places lie moft open to be attack*d. 
 
 Torto Belld we know to be an open Harbour, 
 .and as yet a dcfencelefs Town ; and the Troops 
 can be linded there for marching to Pamina, if 
 the Generals approve of that, after our having re- 
 ceived Advices that there is not an immediate 
 Probability of a French War : For till fuch Advices 
 arrive, it is our unanimous Opinion, we cannot be 
 better pofted for his Majefty's Service than we arc 
 at prcient. 
 
 And we know the Troops can be landed at Leo- 
 gane^ as we think they can at Petit Guavey (o its to 
 enter upon immediate Service without marching 
 fhro'aWood. But wc very well know, that to 
 get to Panama, they have much longer Marches^ 
 and thro* much lefs prafticable Paths, than to get 
 to St. JagOy an open Town, that they might (in 
 eur Appreheniion) with great Eafe have been 
 Maftets of j which, we conceive, would have been
 
 mod conducive to his'Mijeffy^s SfefvicCi and tkc 
 Honour of the EngUjh Name. ".'.Y^ 
 
 The Fleet, ii;i cafe there be rid /^iir^ Waf, can 
 likewife from hence carry the Forced %<iCaxthditnay 
 if the Generals think themf?Ives ftrong enough 
 to attempt it again. -But we know of no Race 
 clfe, but the inconfideraWe Barcadier (rather of 
 Intelligence than Trade) oi^Santa Martha,, that tlie 
 Troops can be landed at, to attack any ^paT0) 
 Place of Confequence, without the Trooi having 
 more Woods to march thro', an4 more pifficyky 
 of Accefs, thn to St. Ja^o. 
 ' -put if the Council of General Officers have fuch 
 Intelligence, that they can pioiht out to us any fuch 
 Place as they are defirous to be carried to, they 
 will always find in ys a Readinels to concur in 
 every TWng they can offer for his Majefty's 
 Service. 
 
 Given under our Hands on board his Majefty's 
 Ship the Boyne, in Cumberland Harljour (formerly 
 call*d IValtbenam) on the South Side of Cuhy the 
 22d of OMer^ 1 74 1 . <^ ' - * 
 
 e. OqLE, " J<ifoi^, 
 p. Mayh5, ' "'^- 
 '* ' Charles CoTtERECL, 
 
 WE the under-written, the principal Officers 
 of his Majefty's Land Forces ip the if^- 
 Indiesy cannot without great Surprize re;ld tivt 
 Refoiution of a Council of War held on board his 
 Majefty's Ship the Boyne the 2 2d of QMer, 1741, 
 compos'd of Sea Officets only ; who ha7e (as we 
 conceive, quite contrary to his Majefty's Inftruftions) 
 taken upon them to judge of, and to pafs Cenfurc 
 upon the Proceedings of his Majefty's Land Forces -, 
 R 2 and
 
 [ 128 ] 
 
 and likewife have afigmed the Authority of the 
 principal Council, nani*d exprefsjy by his Maje^y 
 yi his Inftrudions, for confidering and determining 
 what Enterprize fhould b.e undertaken. 
 ', We therefore declare, that as tl^e Refojution of 
 '^he /aid CJounpl of War relates tp Things not 
 properly coming u^ider their Cognizance, we do 
 not think it neceflary (tho* we have all poflible Re- 
 gard to. the particular Members in their refpedivc 
 Stations) to return any other Anfwer to the faid 
 Refolution. ,_ 
 Dated at the Camp, the 25th of OSfohr^ 1741. 
 ^ Tho. Wentworth, 
 
 Will. Blak^nzy, 
 , a. lowther, 
 
 James Cockran, 
 John Cottrell, 
 Robert Fraser. 
 
 sr<? General We n t w o r th, 
 SIR, ~ 
 
 I Have no News, to fend you, by the 'Prince Frede^ 
 rick's Arrival, "iyho comes to me in a bad Con- 
 dition. I would have difpatch'd her diredly for 
 England, but Captain Bofcawen reports her not even 
 fit for that : But as fhe muft go as foon as fhe 
 can be made fir, from hence or Jamaica, you will 
 be pleas'd to prepare your Letters for gqing by 
 her. V 
 
 . And as I am fending a Firefhip for Jamai(;a on 
 Monday next, I defire you would have any Letters 
 you intend fending by that Occafion, ready to go 
 by Captain Tomfon,, in the Vefuvius Firefhip, by 
 Monday Noon at farthcfl ; ' for the Ravages of the 
 Worms give me more Uneafinefs than |he reft of 
 ur Enemies. ..^-^..^.i,'^ 
 
 M I our
 
 [ 1^29 3 
 
 ' ' Your Army-Money that came by the Defiance^ 
 I am told, has been fent for 5 but if I had noi; 
 thought on it more than your Paymafter, it had 
 gone to Sea again in the Defiance. 
 
 And as the Superhe is now in Harbour, I hop& 
 he will take Care to get that Money out, before hij 
 Majefty's Service may require that Ship's going to 
 Sea again. 
 
 And if it is judg'd that any Application may be 
 wanting to be made to me upon it, that muft be 
 made to me in writing, for I cannot found Orders 
 upon verbal Meflages. 
 
 I have got my Ships all near compleated to a 
 four Month's Victualling, for proceeding to Sea 
 upon th^ firft Advices we may receive of a French 
 War, to make it neceffary ; and I make no doubt, 
 but on the Return of your Convoy, you have pro* 
 cured a fufficient Recruit for the Service of your 
 Forces. Which I thought proper to mention, that 
 you might, otherwife, think in Tim^, of fending 
 Orders for having more Provifions Ihipp'd fo be 
 fent to you, or fending Tranfports for them from 
 hence ; as with what have died, and what may be 
 wanted to fupply his Majefty's Ships, to be fure, 
 there may be many Ipare Tranfports. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 JBoyne, in Cumberland Harbour, Tour mojl Obedient^ 
 
 Qfia, Oa. 2^, ij^u Humble Servant^ 
 
 E. V. 
 
 -i) y*? G^wr^i Win T WORTH. ' ^'- 
 
 . S J R, 
 
 TT bfeing Night before Captain Lee brought m^ 
 
 - my Letters, who came in late in the Evening, 
 
 J could not difpatch him to you fooner than this 
 
 Morning. ... 
 
 " I liavc.
 
 [ ^30 ] 
 
 I have juft read over my Letter from his Grace 
 the Duke of Newcafile, with the Advice of a Re- 
 inforcement of three thoufand Men being faid to 
 be to fail from Cork fome time in laft Month, 
 which arc probably in their Way hither. When you 
 have had Time to read over your Letters, I doubt 
 not but you will agree with me, that a General 
 Council of War, agreeable to his Majefty*s Inftruc- 
 tions of the lotl^of July^ 1740!, fliould be held ; 
 which (hall be fummoned accordingly on any Day 
 you ihall defu-e \ or if you approve of coming, with 
 Mr. Blakeney with you, it can bq held whenever you 
 come, 
 
 I have had a flight Fit of the Gout lately, and 
 you know Sir Chaloner Ogle is a little lame : But 
 if you and Mr. Blakeney apprehend any ill Canf- 
 quences from your coming fo far, we will, if you 
 defire it, make the beft Shift we can to meet you 
 On board the Firefhip, juft below Captain ForreJi\ 
 Bomb-Ketch, on the Morning you ihall defire. 
 lam, 
 
 SIR, 
 SoyM, in Cumberland Harbour, 2''Qur mafk Ohedient^ 
 
 Cuba, oa. 26, 1 741. i/w^/(r Servant^ vj . 
 
 E.V. 
 
 To Captain Dennison, ef the Augufla. - 
 
 By, (^c, 
 Xl/Hereas I have Intelligence, of no lefs than 
 ^^ feven Regifter Ships lying ready to fail from 
 Cadiz, as foon as they can flip Mr. Haddock's Squa- 
 dron, fome of which would be attempting to 
 pafs under French Colours, and fome under Dnteh 
 Colours ; . 
 
 And whereas it is found by Experience, that eaf- 
 linjg on the Coaft (yf Rio La Hacha, to wtfKiwaFd ef 
 : : . Sanfa
 
 [ r^i ] 
 
 Santa Mariba^ for getting Intelligence, is tlie^com- 
 mon Courle of the Enemy's Ships bound for G?r- 
 tbagena or Porto Sello : 
 
 You are hereby required and difedled, to j^dt to 
 Sea to-morrow, and ftretch over diredtly^' for the 
 Spanijb Main^ as your falling to Leeward of your 
 faid Station there, will ftill put you in the Way of 
 intercepting any Thing going to, or coming from 
 Carthagena. And after making the Land, and 
 knowing whereabouts you are, you will make thfe 
 beft of your way for getting int your StatK)n to 
 windward of Rio La Hacha -, where you are to con- 
 tinue your Cruizing till the toth Day of Dirctmher 
 next. At the Expiration of which Tefm, or fooner 
 taking any confiderable Prize, that tnay require 
 your feeing her fafe into Port Royaly you arc to 
 return to the faid Harbour of Port BJtyal in Ja^ 
 ntaica, in order to refit your Ship, and get ready 
 for failing Ibr Englmd^ purfuant to fuch Orders as 
 you fhall receive from me after your Arrival at 
 Port Royal. 
 
 But on any confiderable Squadron of the Ene- 
 my difcovering itklf while you are on that Sta- 
 tion, or any very material Intelligence, you are to 
 endeavour at bringing me the earlieft Advices of it 
 here. 
 
 All Sfanijh Ships or Veffels you fhall meet with, 
 you are to ufe your utmoft Endeavours to take, 
 fink, burn, or deftroy. 
 
 And as to che daring and unauthorized Attempts 
 of the Subjects of any Nation, to cover and proted 
 the Ships, Perfons, or EfFafh of his Ma|efty*s 
 Enemies the Spmiards , you are not to permit the 
 fame, but to feize the faid Ships, Perfons, or Ef- 
 feds of his Majefty's Enemies the Spaniards^ yfYi^t- 
 ever yu fhall find the feme on the Seas ; as you 
 will <U1 Ships nd VefTcls of any Nation, that you 
 
 Ihall
 
 [ 132 ] 
 
 i^all meet with going to fu^ply his Majcfty's Ene^ 
 mies the Spaniards with Contraband Stores, for 
 their being further proceeded againft here accord* 
 ing to Law. For, y<r. 
 
 Given on board tlie Boyne, in Cumberland Har- 
 bour, Csff. this 26th of OMer^ i74i 
 
 E.V, 
 
 At a Council of War held on board his Majejiy*s Ship 
 the Boyne, on Wednefday 06t. 28, 1741. 
 
 THE Council of War being affembled, his Ma-' 
 jefty*s Inftrudions of the loth of July, 1740, 
 his Grace the Duke of Newcajik*s Letters to 
 Mr. Vernon and Mr. Wentworth of the 28th of 
 Augufi^ 1 74 1, one from Mr. Couraud of the fame 
 Date, and two from Sir Charles Wager of the iSth 
 and 2 2d of the fame Month, and fuch other In- 
 telligence as was come to Mr. Vernon's Hands, 
 were read. 
 
 And Mr. Vernon obferving, that his Majefty's 
 inftrudions direded him to be aiding and aflifting 
 to my Lord Cathcart in whatever Enterprize was 
 to be undertaken, defir*d Mr. Wentworth would 
 be pleafed to name which of the Places mentioned 
 in the faid Inftrudions he thought moft proper to 
 be attempted, for our mature Deliberation upon it. 
 
 But Mr. Wentworth deliring further Time to 
 confider of the Contents thereof, and of the pre- 
 fent Situation of Affairs, before we came to any 
 Refolution ; the Council of War adjourn*d their 
 final Determination till Saturday the 31ft Inftant, 
 as Mr, Wentworth dcfir'd. 
 
 Saturday Morning, the ^ijl of O^ober, 1741. 
 
 The Council of War being affembled according 
 to Adjournment, we began, agreeable to his Grace 
 
 the
 
 t^c Unk^ of Newca/ik*s Diredioos ia hi.5 Letter^ 
 above- mention'd, to take into mature Deliberation',, - 
 wjiether we. were. in dny Condition to, undcrtivke;ari , 
 Attempt upon the 7-/<3i^^^. v. r; *: .. -.,,0..^./' 
 
 And we were unanimously -of Opinion, ^ejh^^ 
 not a Force flifficient for.fuch' aii Attempt, ,4r,;hc?.* 
 North Seafon did not render all Approaches 16" ,^tj 
 Impracticable. j 1' 
 
 I .And we are unanimoufly of Opinion, . that tliia., 
 farqe Reafons are fubfifting both, in, regard to^^' 
 Fera Cn/z and Mexico. ' ' ,,; , \ :^t. j ' 
 
 In regard to Carihagena, "iho* the fIarb(Li^ be. 
 open, we are unanimoufly <?f Opinion, that- our 
 prefcnt Force is in no Sort proportion^ to fuch an 
 Enterprize. And even with the Addition of ^ the^ 
 Succours faid to be coming (in regard to the in-*' 
 creafing Sicknefs amongft the Troops now,,, and 
 what it may be naturally apprehended, from tho 
 Fatigues of a Siege in forni, may happen to frefli 
 Troops in that unhealthy Situation, deftituti? of 
 fufficient Supplies of good Water, as we hdve 
 found by Experience^ we canoot ti)ii^\ fpcjb, a^i ]L!n-^ 
 dertaking advifeable. ; ,-:i;qz-)1'?. ^::?V.' If-Yiiri 
 
 And in regard to Panama,, we unanimoufly agree,' 
 from the beft Advices we have teen* able to coiled, 
 that it is imtpradicable to advance; with Cannon tjo^ 
 Panama-, and it being a fortified Town, with above, 
 forty Pieces of Cannon mounted on the Ramparts, 
 and a fufficient Garrifon, we cannot think it prac- 
 ticable to attempt it without Cannon. ;, 
 
 And the.Council of .War finding themfclyes.^j 
 no Condition to attempt any. of the Places abovc-j^ 
 mention*d, and d^ily weighing the materiaf A'dr . 
 vices that are mention *d in' Sir C harks f Pager's 
 Letters, in regard-to the Apprehenfions of a French"^ 
 War i. (in which Cafe, the Attempt on any Place^to 
 Leeward of Jamaica, might expofe the faid Illand, 
 
 S " and
 
 [ m 3 
 
 and all our Trade, to become a Prey to tKem y 
 whofe Settlements lying to Windward of us, they 
 could make fudden Attempts on that Ifland, that 
 we could not return to prevent :) 
 
 We unanimoufly agree, that in our prefent Cir- 
 cumftances, we can do nothing better for his Ma- 
 jcfty*s Service at prefent, than to take the beft 
 Methods we can for fupporting ourfclves in our 
 prefent Situation, till the promised Succours arrive, 
 or we may fooner receive any other Orders from 
 his Majefty : As in this Situation, on Advice of 
 any fuperior Force of Enemies coming into thcfe 
 Seas, we fhall have a Retreat to Jamaica open to 
 us, for preferving that valuable Ifland to the Crown j 
 and wc cannot be better polled for proteding the 
 'I'rade of his Majefty*s Subjeds, and intercepting 
 that of his Majefty's Enemies. 
 
 And we do, accordingly, unanimoufly agree, to 
 proceed, in our refpeftive Provinces, to do all we 
 judge moft prudent for maintaining our Poft here, 
 and preferving a Communicati<m between the Fleet 
 and Army, till our receiving further Orders, or the 
 Arrival of the Succours : When vigorous Refolu- 
 tions nt^y be taken, fw advancing to make our- 
 felves Mailers of St. Jago^ and fecuring all the 
 Ifland of Quha to the Eaftward of it ; which we 
 apprehend to be the moft that can be done with 
 the promised Succours, when they arrive. 
 
 '-Given under our Hands, on board hisMajefty'is 
 Ship the Boym^ in Cumberland Harbour (formerly 
 call*d Waltbenam) on the South Side of Cuba^ the 
 3ifl of Oiiokry I'^^u 
 
 '" E. Vernon, 
 
 '-; ThO. WSNTWORTHj 
 
 C. Ogle, j 
 
 W. Blakenbt.
 
 X 135 ] 
 ^0 CapP.V^i L L I A M L t A, of the Bonetta SIoojk 
 
 WHereas it is of the utmoft Importance to his 
 Majcfty's Service, to keep a watchful Eye 
 on all the Motions of his Majefty's Enemies, for 
 the. preventing of Surprizals from them \ as Capt. 
 Cleland's Term of his Cruize is cjroir'd, and I have 
 |io one but you ready for the prelent to fupply his 
 Station ; (tho' you arc fpccdily intended for another 
 Service, as foon as we can have another Ship in 
 readinefs for fupplying the Station you are going 
 to;) 
 
 You are hereby required and direfted, to make 
 the bcft of your way to take your cruizing Station 
 between five and eight Lcaguej to the South-Eail 
 of Point a Bacoe^ lying to windward of Cape Tibe- 
 roon ; which, I judge, may be a very good Station 
 for intercepting any of the Enemy's Trade coming 
 that Way, or getting Advices of the Motions of 
 any of their Squadrons, and fc^r bringing me the 
 carlicft Accounts of them ; which you arc imme- 
 diately to do, upon difcovering any confiderabk 
 Force of his Majefty's Enemies. 
 
 And as I am expecting a conHderable Reinforce- 
 ment, that muft pafs by in Sight of your faid Sta- 
 tion , and as it is of the utmoft Importance to his 
 Majefty's Service, they Ihould not pafs by you un- 
 feen; you will carefully look out for them, for 
 delivering both to the Commander in Chief of 
 thofc Forces, and the Commanding Officer of 
 their Convoy, my Letters; that to the faid General, 
 advifing his coming to join us here direftly, and 
 my Letters and Orders to the Commanding Officer 
 of the laid Convov, dire<^g his coming here di- 
 re<a:ly with the faid Convoy. In which Cafe, you 
 are to accompany them, to condu6l them fafcly to 
 this Port, taking particular Care that you do not 
 S 2 fall
 
 [136] 
 
 fall to leeward of it. And if you iliould meet 
 any fingle VefTel coming Exprefs with Letters and 
 Orders for me, iV he does not apprehend the Con- 
 voy to be near coming, you will then likewife ac- 
 company him, for his fpeedy getting, here ; or m 
 cafe he does, fend an experienc*d Officer to condud 
 him here. il t > u ^l /. o^j 
 
 ' All Spanijh Ships or VelTels you fhaH meet with, 
 you are to ufe your utrnoft Endeavour to talce, 
 fink, burn, and dcftroy. ; ;i, ::, ^ 
 
 And as to the daring and unauthoriz'd Attempts 
 of the Subjefts of any Nation, to cover and proted 
 the Ships, Perfons, or Effefts of his Majefty's 
 Enemies the Spaniards -, you are in no Sort to 
 permit the fame, but to feize the faid Spaniards 
 Ships, Perfons, or Effeds, wherever you fhall find 
 the fame on the Seas *, and to C-ize all Ships and 
 . -^efTels you fliall meet with going to fupply his 
 -Majefly's Enemies the Spaniards with Contraband 
 Stores. 
 
 - But on meeting with any of the Guarda Cofias 
 of his moft Chriftian Majefty; you are carefully to 
 preferve with them that good Correfpondence that 
 ought to fubfift between Officers in the Sefvice 
 of Princes in Amity with each other. 
 
 And as you will be cruizing in the Way of the 
 /r^wf^ Trade, you are to ufe all friendly Offices 
 toward them, and direft your Officers not to har- 
 rafs or rummage any fuch French Ship's or VelTels, 
 as give you no juft Caufc of Sufpicion of their being 
 going with contraband Stores to any of the Spanijb 
 Ports. ;':rbr. 
 
 You are to continue Cruizing on the faid Station, 
 and on the Service afore-mention'd, till the 15th 
 Day of this prcfent Month, or your fooner being 
 relieved, or leaving it on theOccafion injoined you ; 
 at the Expiration of which Term, you are to make 
 ^' . the
 
 [ 137 ] 
 the beft of your Way for joining me here, and re-i 
 ceiving my further Orders. For, ^ff. 
 i Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har* 
 bour, (formerly called JValthenam) on the. South 
 Sideof C^, thi3.5jft,pf 0^^fr,;:WU ^ 
 
 To the Hon. the Commanding Officet of his Majejiy's 
 Land Forces cominz to the West I n d i je s. 
 
 SIR '' t'^ii'i'J \>i-V/ IL'CY iv :^ - '. 
 
 AS I fend you inclbfed a Copy of the^Reloru- 
 tions of our laft Council of War, held on the 
 Information fent us by his Grace the Duke of Neiv- 
 caftle, of the fpeedy Reinforcements intended to be 
 fent out to us ; 
 
 It is needlefs for me to add any other Induce- 
 ment to you. Sir, to engage you to confent to the 
 Commanding Officer of the Convoy's proceeding 
 diredly to bring the Convoy to join us here j as 
 going fo far to Leeward as Jamaica, would be the 
 moft fatal Incident that could happen to his Ma- 
 jefly's Service. 
 
 No one being named to us for the Command on 
 this Occafion, obliges me to^make Ufe of a general 
 Dircdion. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boynt, in Cumberland Tour moji Obedienty 
 
 Harbour, Cuba, f^^^^^i^ Servant, 
 
 ^ov. I, 1741. E. Y. 
 
 To the Commanding Officer of the Convoy coming out 
 with the Reinforcement. 
 By, (^c. 
 CEnding you inclofed a Copy of the Refolutions 
 ^ of our laft General Council of War, you will fee 
 how much it is for his Majefly's Service, that you 
 Ihould not lofe a "Moment's Time in coming to 
 
 join
 
 [ n^ ] 
 
 join me here with all your Convoy. And yon are, 
 therefore, on receiving thefe Orders, immediately 
 to acquaint the Commanding Officer of the Land 
 Forces with it, and defire his Confent for your pro- 
 ceeding accordingly ; which cannot be doubted of, 
 as I have fent him likewife a Copy of the faid Ge- 
 neral Refolutions of the Council of War. 
 
 And you are accordingly hereby required and di- 
 refted, upon the Receipt of my Orders, to make 
 the beft of your Way hither, with all the Tranf- 
 ports and Storelhips under your Convoy. And if 
 any be feparated from you, you will leave a Ship 
 to cruize for them, and bring them after you and 
 Captain I^a has my Orders for coming with you, 
 to pilot you hither, taking particular Care not to 
 jail in with the Land to Leeward of the Harbour, 
 for fear of a Lee Current. And as his Majefty's 
 Service requires it, you will ufe all poffible Dili- 
 gence in the due Execution of your Orclers. For,(=f<:. 
 
 Given on board the Boyn^, in CuinberJand Har- 
 l)0ur, Cub^i this lii oi November^ I74i' 
 
 E.Y. 
 
 Orders of the fame Tenour with thofe given to 
 Captain Lea of the Bomb Sloop, of the 31ft of 
 O^obery were this Day given and iffued to Captain 
 jillen of the Seaborfe, to cruize till the 15th of De- 
 cember, together with the foregoing Letter to the 
 Commanding Officer of his Majefly's Land Forces, 
 faid to be coming hither, and the Order to the 
 Commanding Officer of the Convoy coming out 
 ,Yi'ith them, this 6th of Novemkry 1741. E. V. 
 
 l^v^ 
 
 io!;.:;^ .. . 
 
 ,-,^ [.^ -To his Grace the Duke e^ N ***** *. 
 
 My Lord DukCy 
 
 MY lafl to your Grace was of the 6th of OSfoier^ 
 by the Pireband Firefhip^ Captain Barnard \ z, 
 
 Dojtlicatte
 
 [ 139 ] 
 
 Duplicate of which accompanies my prefent Letter 
 to your Grace. Which I chufc to begin in Time, 
 for going by the next Opportunity, which 1 apprc" 
 hend muft be by the Frince Frederick, Captain Bof- 
 iiawen^ when he arrives here, from the bad Accounts 
 they have fent me of her upon her late careening : 
 But' flie is not arrived this 21ft of OMer, when I 
 am beginning my Letter, which gives me Ibme 
 Uneafuiefs, as, by the iateft Accounts I have had, 
 I expeded her here much fooner. 
 
 On the 7th of OMer arriv'd hefe Captain Sro- 
 derick in the Shorebam, who has been cruizing off 
 Caribagem, and brought me a certain Account of 
 Don Blafs de Lezoh Death, and a Letter to me from 
 his Excellency the Vice Roy of Santa Fe^ which I 
 fend your Grace incbfed a Copy of; as likewife of 
 my Anfwer to it, which fully informs your Grace 
 of the Particulars of the Champana Prize, taken by 
 C^tain Brodick, being Part Bale-Goods of the 
 Cargo of the Galleons going for Monpos, and Part 
 Money j which together are computed at near four- 
 fcore thoufand Pieces of Eight Value. And I hav<e 
 fent the Shcreham off Cape Franfois, to cruize on 
 the Spanijh Privateers, that arc cruizing on our 
 Northern-Colony Trade, from that Port. 
 
 On the 8 th came in here a French Guar da Cofia 
 Sloop,, commjurded by Captain Olivier^ a Captain 
 of Infentry, that brought me here a Letter from 
 the Marquefs de Larnage^ that I fend your Grace in- 
 clofed a Copy of j and from the triing Contents, 
 and his Condu^ here, I am fully fatisfied his prin- 
 cipal BuHnefs was being^ a Spy on usw I gave my 
 felf little Concern for the Remarks he could make 
 on our Difpofition i but as he went privately in the 
 Evening to make a Vifit to ;he Camp, the hrft of 
 my Officers of the Flotilla that met nim, finding 
 he did nvt prejcend to have had any Leave from me, 
 .1 . cold
 
 [ HO ] 
 
 told him, without fuch Leave he could not admit 
 of his advancing further; To he was prevented going 
 there : And by a Letter from Mr. Wentworth af- 
 terwards, I found he was defirous he fhould not 
 come there. And he foon after took his Leave in 
 a Hurry and feeming Confufion, having, as I appre- 
 hend, had Advice, that I knew he had a Contra- 
 band Cargo on board i which, however, I had de- 
 termin*d not to take any Notice of in this HaN" 
 hour. I was glad he was going, and let him faif 
 accordingly on the lOth in the Evening, having, 
 on his dining with me on the 9th, given him 
 my Letter for the Marquis de Larnage, with my 
 Complaint againft the Governor of Port Francois^ 
 for the Countenance he gave to the Spani/h Pri- 
 vateers, in cruizing upon our Trade from thence i 
 a Copy of which comes likewife inclofed. And I 
 fend your Grace inclofed, likewife, a Copy of the 
 Inforrnation of the two Englijh Seamen he brought 
 me, of the Cargo he had for St. J ago ; and I had 
 difpatch*d Orders by my Tender Sloop to Captain 
 'Long of the Chejier, to have prevented his going 
 into St. Jago, and, on fuch an Attempt, to have 
 taken out of him his Contraband Cargo, and then 
 have left him to proceed as he thought proper J 
 But he went away, Lbelieve, fo full of Apprehen- 
 fions of his Defigns being difcover*d, that, by my 
 Cruizer^ to the windward of the Port 1 under- 
 ftood, he ftood direftly away for Hifpaniola. 
 ' And I am glad to acquaint your Grace, that the 
 whole Convoy of Tranfports I fent to Jamaica, 
 for the Ally's recovered Officers and Men, and 
 the Supplies of Proviftons and Stores, are all fafely 
 tirriv'd here, without any Accident by the Way.'^<^ 
 *' yh^ Montague return'd from her Cruize off Point 
 ^d'Sacoe on the 10th, and ihtAugufta from hers off 
 "Cape Fr^/:prV the nth, having chafed a Spanijh 
 ^#'' Privateer
 
 j^rivateer into Port Fran^ois^ and retaken a Prize, 
 from her, and alfo taken a Spanifh Carracca Ship, 
 of three hundred Tuns and fifty-three Men, which 
 ihe fent into Jamaica. This Ship came from the 
 Havanna the 5th of Auguft^ N. S. bound to the 
 Coali of Carraccas, but lofing her Maft in her 
 PafTage, was going to Cape Franfois to refit : But 
 the Governor of the Havanna, llraitenM for 
 Money, had, in the Spanijh Manner of borrowing, 
 taken out of her eighty thoufand Pieces of Eight, 
 to ferve the Urgencies of the publick Service ; by 
 which you may judge of their extraordinary Ex-, 
 pences. I fend your Grace inclofed, the Copy 
 of a Letter from the Governor of the Havanna to 
 the Governor of the Province of Carraccas, by 
 which you will have Information of the Spanijh 
 Admiral's Ship, the Invincible, being blown up in 
 that Harbour. And by what I can gather from 
 other Letters taken on board of her, I find Don 
 Rodrigo de Torres^ the Spanijh Admiral, fail'd from 
 Carthagena in the Sta Anna j and that they run that 
 Ship aground on the Rocks, in their going into 
 the Havanna, and had beat off Half her Keel, 
 for which fhey had been oblig*d to careen her : 
 That in the Invincible, a new Ship, built at the 
 Havanna, and never at Sea, there were blown up 
 four Millions of Pieces of Eight : That the Town 
 was deferted by every Creature whilft the Ship 
 was burning : That two Churches had been ex- 
 tremely damag*d by the Blaft, and the Dome of , 
 the Principal one muft be taken down to repair it: 
 And that, in general, all the Doors that were left 
 lock*d were found blown open, the Ship lying 
 within Piftol Shot of the Walls of the Town. 
 Some of our Letters from Jamaica mention, as 
 Advices from Carthagena, that there was an Ac- " 
 count there, that Admiral SpinoUy in the Europa, 
 
 T that
 
 t 142 ] 
 that went from the Havanna for La Vera Cruz to 
 fetch Money from thence, was loft, either in his 
 PafTage going, or Return : And other Letters on 
 board the Augujia's, Prize, mention the Vice Roy 
 of Mexkd*s being marched for La Vera Cruz, with 
 a large Body of Militia, to prepare for our Re- 
 ception thei*e. And I am perfwaded, whenever 
 they can remit their Treafure, the Crown of Spain 
 iffiW find fenfible Dedu6lions, from the great Ex- 
 pences they have put themfelvcs to. Don Rodrigo 
 de Torres had a narrow Elcape in his Boat, after 
 he got from his Ship ; and ill Fortune foUow'd 
 him in the next Ship that he hoifted his Flag on 
 board of, which had her Main-maft carried away 
 by a Clap of Thunder, in two Days after his 
 icom'ing on board : So that the fuperftitious Spanijh 
 Seamen are weary of him, as an unfortunate Com- 
 mander. And fome Letters mention his ftarting 
 up in his Sleep, and running out upon Deck, and 
 crying out, the Ship is haunted. But you will ob- 
 serve, the Spanijh General, Don Francifco de Guemes 
 y Horcajitas, flurs all over as flightly as he can. 
 
 Having Advice that the two Ships that got into 
 Carthagena were ibon bound home, I difpatch'd 
 the Defiance^ the cleaneft Ship I then had, to 
 cruize for them, between the Grand Camainos and 
 tape Corien'ies^ which I judge, in the North Seafor^ 
 to be both the moil jirobable and the fecureft Sta- 
 tion for her cruizing for them ; and the Augujia is 
 preparing for the Sea, -for taking the Station to 
 windward of Carthagena *, (for I have much Diffi- 
 culty to patch up Cruiz^rs, . to fupply all the Sta- 
 tions in which I am defirbus of cdrefufly watch- 
 ing all the Enemy's Motions ;) and I have fent 
 the i'ilbury to cruize upon all ' bound down the 
 Old Bahama Ch.2i.x\nt\ : So that I think tfiey cannot 
 well move any Way, but I will have a Chance for 
 
 them.
 
 [ '43 1 
 
 them, as long as I have Ships that c;;in keep the 
 Sea. 
 
 On the 1 8th in the Evening, the Chefter, that 
 is cruizing off St. Ja^o, fent in a Snow here, that 
 he met with off there, pretending to be bound to 
 Miffijfippi : But Capt. Long having obferv*d therrv 
 to be throwing Papers overboard, and fome Co- 
 lours from the Staff, judg'd to be Spanifh^ had the 
 good Fortune to pick up fome of the Letters, that 
 were not funk with a Weight ; which gave plain 
 Intimation of their being bound another Way, 
 and having taken in their Cargo at St. Sebaftian^^ 
 and Ferrol. That from Ferrol is all Quickfilver, 
 brought aboard by the King of Spam's Officers, 
 and ftow*d very carefully in the Hold, by Spanifh 
 Carpenters brought on board by them for that Pur- 
 pofe. And it appears further, fince Capt. Long*z 
 lending him in here, that the beft Goods of the 
 Cargo (as Gold and Silver Lace, Flanders Lace, 
 and fuch like fine Goods) were taken on board at 
 St. Sebajiian*s. And Mr. Daragory being faid to be 
 the Merchant (who has lately been detefted of 
 undertaking to convey Cloathing, Iron aqd Arms, 
 for the Spanifh Seamen and Soldiers of Don Rodrigo 
 de Torres'^ Squadron, when the Spanijh Papers anc} 
 Pafs were all found concealed in a hollow Timber) 
 That gave the ftrongeft Sufpicion that he was no\v 
 attempting the like good Office for the King of 
 Spain^ of conveying his Quickfilver to La Vera 
 -Cruz for him. And tho*, probably, he has thrown 
 into the Sea all his Spanijh Papers and his Pafs, 
 yet there appears fufficient Evidence to prove it, 
 even from his French ones.. And I fend your Grace 
 inclofed a Copy of the Orders found upon Captain 
 Behie^ commanding this Francois Snow, which fuf- 
 ficiently prove the fame : But he having cramm'd 
 it into his Fobb, fome Part of it was torn off 
 
 T 2 and
 
 [ H4 ] 
 and lofl:, which makes a Defeft in fome of the 
 latter Articles \ but the Remaining appear plain 
 enough. And there was found in a Tub of Salt, 
 a Letter from Daragory^ to Claret the Supercargo, 
 in which he mentions how the three thoufand and 
 nine hundred Quintals of Quickfilver might eafily 
 be ftow'd in three Veflels. It appears alfo that La 
 Reine des Anges loaded her Part at Ferroly and 
 faiPd before them ; and the St. Jean Baptiji they 
 left behind at Ferrol, to take in her Part : And 
 there having been three Wrecks fecn at Sea, in the 
 late flormy Weather, by the Sheernefs^ and one of 
 them a Snow ; as the Qiickfilver would make her 
 very labourfome in the Sea, if fhe was catch^d in 
 that Weather, La Reine des Anges might, as pro- 
 bably as any other, be one of them : And I hope 
 the St. Jean Baptiji may yet fall in the Way of 
 fome of my Cruizers. Your Grace has, inclofed, 
 the Copy of this Letter from Mr. Daragory to 
 Claret the Supercargo. 
 
 It is with Concern I am oblig'd to entertain your 
 Grace with the widely different Sentiments of the 
 Gentlemen of the Army and us ; which I think I 
 cannot do with more Impartiality, than by fend- 
 ing your Grace inclofed Copies of two Letters from 
 Sir Chaloner Ogle and me, of the i6th and 19th of 
 October, to General Wentworthy as our Advice to 
 him in cafe of having any fudden Intelligence of a 
 French War j all our Advices from Jamaica having 
 mentioned fuch an Incident as feemingly unavoid^ 
 able. Upon v/hich, he having thought prof>er to 
 fend me, inclofed in a Letter of the 21ft, the Re- 
 folutions of his Council of War of the fame Date, 
 on his communicating to them a Part of the faid 
 Letters , I laid their Refolutions before a Council 
 of my Officers (as he had done a Part of our Letter 
 befor? hisj) and fent him our Refolutions inclofed, 
 
 ' of
 
 [ HS ] 
 
 of the 2 2d : In anfwer to which, he fent me in- 
 clofed a Paper fign*d by them, of the 25th of Or- 
 toher^ cali*d their Sentiments on our Opinion : Co- 
 pies of all which come inclofed, for your fuller In- 
 formation. 
 
 My Engineer, Lieutenant Innes of the Grafton, 
 with her Seamen, has near compleated a very good 
 Fafcine Battery, being four Sides of a Decagon^ with 
 three Guns on each Side, defigned to be fupplied 
 from the lower-deck Guns of two of our largeft 
 Ships, which will be foifr thirty-two Pounders, and 
 eight twenty-four Pounders. And the Timber and 
 Plank is all cut here for the Platforms, and a great 
 Part of it got to hand, all ready to be laid down : 
 Which I delay a little for the firft Advices from 
 your Grace i in order to judge, whether a French^ 2X 
 might make it necefHiry to take other Meafures, or 
 our having certain Advices of Succours being fent 
 here, fhould make it proper to compleat it, for the 
 Defence of this Harbour, For having the Stuff at 
 hand, we can foon lay the Platform and mount 
 the Cannon ; and fhould it be neceflliry to move, 
 thefe Materials can be converted to the Ufe of the 
 Wharf that we are making for the careening our 
 Ships at Port Royal-, where fuch good Timber as 
 we have cut here, is very fcarce to be got. So 
 that there can neither be lofs of Time, or unne- 
 cefTary Expence, whether they be converted to the 
 one Ufe or the other. 
 
 On the 25th of OSlober in the Evening came in 
 here the Bonetta Sloop, with the long-wifli'd-for 
 Difpatches from your Grace, of the 28 th o^ Auguft, 
 And I cannot but be extremely fenfiblc of the great 
 Honour done me by my Lords of die Regency, 
 by their Approbation and good Opinion of my 
 ^eal for his Majefly's Service j which, to the bell 
 gf my Ability, I ihall always, with Pjei\furc, con- 
 tinue
 
 [ 146 ] 
 
 tinue diligently to txert^ k>v the Honour of our 
 Royal Mafter and Prolperity of our Country 5 
 both in regard to my Duty to his Majefty, and 
 preferving that, good Opinion which my Lords of 
 the Regency have fo highly honour'd me with. 
 
 I order'd Capt. Lea to wait on General ^entworth 
 very early the next Mcwning, with the Letters he 
 had for him from your Grace and others j and I 
 fent a Letter to him, in which I exprefs*d myfelf 
 perfwaded, that when he had read over his Letters, 
 he would be of Opinion with me, that a General 
 Council of War lliould be held , which fhould be 
 at any Time he fliould defire : And the Copy of 
 my faid Letter comes inclofed. He fent me for 
 Anfwcr, that Mr. Blakeney and he would be with me 
 on Wedmjday Morning, the 28th ; when we met at 
 a General Council of War accordingly, and we had 
 read to us your Grace's Letters to Mr, pyeniw&rih 
 and me of the 28th of Augvji, and a Letter from 
 Mr. Couraud of the fame Date. And to give the 
 Councl of War the beft Light I could, I took 
 the Liberty of communicating to them likewife, 
 two Letters I was honoured with from Sir Charles 
 Wager ^ of the i8th and 2 2d cA Auguft \ and two 
 Propofals that had been fent to hjm, the one from 
 Captain Lea of the Bonetta, and the other from 
 Mr. Daniel Campbell. And Captain Lea was called 
 in, and examined before us i as was Capt. Rentone -, 
 and Captain Allen^ who was lately return'd from 
 New-Tvrk, where he had been to carry the General's 
 Letters to the Governors of the Northern- Colo- 
 nies ; and the Officers he had fent them by. We 
 had then read his Majefly's lafl Inftru(5tions, of the 
 joth of 7/y, 1740 : And as, by them, I was, with 
 the Fleet, to be aiding and affifting to the Com- 
 mander in Chief of the Land- Forces, in any En- 
 terpnze this Council iljiould judge propereft to be 
 
 undertaken \
 
 [ '47 1 
 undertaken -, I defired Mr. Wtnlwvrth would be 
 pleafed to name which of the Places meiition*d ia 
 the faid Inftructions he thought moft proper to bt 
 attemptd, for our maturely deliberating upon it. 
 To which he faid, he Was not prepar'd for that 
 then, but defired We might adjourn to another 
 Day, before we came to any final Determinations* 
 And I defiring he would name the earliell Day he 
 thought proper, he pitched upon SalMrday the 31ft 
 of O^ober, and we adjourn*d the Council of War 
 to that Day accordingly ; and after their favouring 
 me with their Company at Dinner, we parted as 
 we met, very civilly. 
 
 On the 31ft of OSlohet the Council of War re* 
 affetnbled, according to their Adjournment ; and 
 Lieutenant Lowtirer w^ tailed in, and examined 
 before us, Mr. Wentworth having defired liis At- 
 tendance for that purpofe i as was likewife, after- 
 wards. Captain Rentone^ an *xperienc*d Officer m 
 thefe Seas. 
 
 And having firft calmly delibefated -on feveral 
 Propofak that Mr. Wenlworth d<;fired might -be 
 Gonfidered, for landing on the Leeward Parts of this 
 Ifland, Bayamo and 'Trinidado ; on their being lo, 
 he declared himfelf fully iatisficd they were ill- 
 grounded ami inipradicable. 
 
 The Counc'l of War then proceeded regularly 
 to take into Deliberation the "Several Places pro- 
 pos*d to us, in his Majefty*s Inftru6lians of the 
 roth of y^, 1740, in the Order therein diredbcd : 
 And after maturely deliberating on tliem, the 
 Council of War came to the uHanimousRefokitions 
 that I have fent your Grace inclofed a Copy of, 
 which, i hope, will aippear to be drawn cp -agree- 
 able to the Direftions in your Grace's \ti\ Letter 
 f the iM\ of iAiiguft laft. 
 
 And
 
 [ h8 ] 
 
 And after their favouring me with their Corffi 
 pany at Dinner, we parted very civilly as we met. 
 It was a great Pleafure to me, that at the fame 
 Time that I received your Grace's Letter of the 
 28th of Auguji, I receiv'd one from Commodore 
 Ledock, of the ift of September^ with the good 
 News of his fafe Arrival, with the Squadron I had 
 detach'd home under his Command. And I hear 
 by the Return of Captain Allen from New~Torky 
 that the leaky Bomb- Ketch got fafe to Bojion, where 
 they can foon give her a new Bottom. 
 
 As I know it to be proper for the unfheath'd 
 Ships to be difpatch*d home,l immediately gave the 
 necefTary Orders in it. And the Orford and Prince 
 of Orange are failed from hence, for the necefTary 
 refitting at Jamaica, and under Orders to proceed 
 home with all poflfible Expedition, under the Com- 
 mand of Capt. Davers in the Suffolk ; who is like- 
 wife to take with him the Prince Frederick, Captain 
 Bofcawen : The Dunkirk, Captain Cooper, who is in 
 befl Condition for the Sea, is under Orders to go 
 home Convoy to the Trade, or difcharged Tranf- 
 ports, that fhall be ready to fail with him : And 
 the Superbe, Captain Hervey, goes home Exprefs 
 with our Letters to your Grace. So there are four 
 ieventy-gun Ships, and two fixty-gun Ships, under 
 immediate Orders for proceeding to England with 
 all poffible Expedition. By my former Order to 
 Jamaica, the tVeymouth and Jerfey were to be en- 
 deavouring to careen by each other, and the Dept^ 
 ford was obliged to be careened at the Wharf; 
 (but *till my next Return from thence I cannot tell 
 what they have been doing in purfuance of thefe 
 Orders \) The Augujia is on a Cruize off Rio La 
 Hacha ; and the Brijiol I am daily expedting up 
 here with a Convoy homjamaica. And your Grace 
 may. be afTured thefe five Sail fhall be ordered home 
 
 as
 
 [ H9 ] 
 as they can be got in Condition for it, and, forcer- 
 tain, to be at home in time to be refitted for next 
 Summer's Service. 
 
 I muft now proceed to ftate to your Grace what 
 will be our remaining Force in thefe Seas i and 
 what that under the Command of Don Rodrigo de 
 Torres. Wz failed from Carthagena with twelve 
 Sail of the Line of Battle, and found in the Ha- 
 tjanna three Sail of Men of War of the Line, be- 
 fides the Vizara of 60 Guns, that was at ha Vera 
 Cruz : Which are, together, fixteen Sail of Men 
 of War of the Line j and I take them to be full as^ 
 good Ships, as the fix^en Sail that, it is faid^ will 
 be left under my Command. Of this Number, he 
 has certainly had one, the Invincible, blown up at 
 the Havanna ; and he is faid to have had the Europa 
 loft, between La Vera Cruz and the Havanna\ the 
 Vizara damag*d, by running a-fhore at La Vera 
 Cruz -, and the Sta Anna, in going into the Ha* 
 vanna, which they were endeavouring to repair by 
 careening. So that there are fourteen remaining, 
 and of them two are damag'd, which they are en- 
 deavouring to refit. And I have the Princefs Louifa, 
 that, I am fure, can only be refitted for going 
 home in the Summer ; and the Strafford, that they 
 begin to think now, by her careening, may be 
 made fit for Service again. 
 
 So the certain Ships for Service, are twelve and 
 twelve : And, as I apprehend, from the Numbers 
 of fpare Seamen they had out of the Men of War 
 and Galleons deftroy'd at Carthagena, they mult 
 be infinitely better mann*d than my Ships. And 
 when it comes to be confider'd, what different Ser- 
 vices we have to employ them upon ; then, I fear, 
 it will be found, the Superiority of Force will be 
 very greatly on the Side of the Spaniflj Admiral, 
 Don Rodrigo de Torres. 
 
 U For
 
 t '5 i 
 
 For my Orders being to cruize on their Trade, 
 and cut off all Communication, as far as I can, 
 between Old Spain and their American Dominions ; 
 I have, for the prefent, Cruizers in fix fevera! 
 Stations, fome of which are above two hundred 
 Leagues afunder ; viz. One to windward of Rio 
 La Hacha, for intercepting all coming from Old 
 Spain for Carthagena or Forto Bello ; one between 
 Cape Corientes and the Grand Camainos, for all 
 coming for I^ Vera Cruz or the Havanna^ from 
 Carihagena, or Porto Bello, or the Coaft of Car- 
 raccas't one for intercepting all going down to the 
 Havanna thro* the Old Bahama Channel on the 
 North Side of Cuba ; one cruizing on the Enemy*s 
 Privateers, and for tlie Protedtion of our Trade 
 from the Northern Colonics, to windward of Port 
 Franfois, where they have found Shelter and Pro- 
 te(5lion -, one to the South Eafl of Poinf a Bacor, 
 on the South Side of Hifpaniola, for protecting 
 our Trade from England, and lying in the Way to 
 meet the expcdled Succours, and to condu(5l them 
 here > ^^ one to cruize off the Harbour's Mouth 
 of St. Jago. And as fome mull be cleaning and 
 refitting at Jamaica, your Grace will eafily per- 
 ceive, that the Force remaining with my Brother 
 Admiral and me muft be very fmall. If at Times 
 we can have Seconds for us both, that will be the 
 moll ; and we mull, I believe, be often but with 
 five Sail of the Line between us. Whereas the 
 Spanijh Admiral, never keeping his Ships a crui- 
 zing, has his whole Force ready for proceeding 
 together upon whatever he may have Orders to 
 undertake : So that, till the promis*d Succours 
 arrive, I think we may be faid to be much the 
 .weak^. I am fure my Brother Admiral and I 
 are heartily difpos*d to ferve his Majeity to the 
 utmoft of our Power, with fucli Force as is put 
 
 under
 
 [ 151 ] 
 
 under our Command : But as the F'leet, thus re- 
 duced, will not require but one Admiral, I hope, 
 if I weather the Winter out with it, I may reafon- 
 ably expeft to receive your Grace's Orders to be 
 coming home in the Spring of the Year ; cfpecially 
 as his Majefty has fo cxperienc'd an Officer in 
 thefe Seas as Sir Chalorter Ogky to take this Cofn- 
 mand upon him. 
 
 I have three twenty-gun Ships (if they can all 
 be made fit for the Sea) and the Bonetta Sloop : 
 Of which, the Experiment (clean'd here) and the 
 Bonetta, are both defign'd to go on the Expedition 
 for attempting the Settlement on Ratan Ifland ; 
 and for Capt. Lea to fee what he can make of his 
 Advices about the River DulcCy and Province of 
 Guatimala : Which do not appear to us to be well 
 founded, particularly as to any Infurredion having 
 been amongft the Indians, and very far from any 
 News of their continuing fo. But I will give him 
 all the Opportunity he can defire, for colledbing 
 any certain Evidence about it j and I think, that 
 beginning with a Settlement at Ratan Uland, to 
 collefl fome of the Mufquito Indians there, and 
 fome of our Logwood- Cutters, would be the pro- 
 pereft Foundation for undertaking any Enterprize 
 that Way, whenever there fhould appear any En- 
 couragement 'to it. And in my Opinion, nothing 
 can be more neceflary for fecuring to us' the Log- 
 wood Trade j of which, I can^ already perceive, 
 the Dutch are going on apace to draw the principal 
 Advantage to themfelves. For tho* they are the 
 Subjects of his Majefty that tut it, they fell it to 
 any that go to fetch it -, and the Dutch are greatly 
 encreafing in their Traffick witli them, having 
 here a large Dutch Ship that brought us Wine, 
 that is going down to the Biy of Honduras, to 
 buy a Loading of Logwood of our Logwood- 
 U 2 Cutter?-,
 
 ] 
 
 [ '52 ] 
 Cutters, who account themfelves their own Mailer? 
 at prefcnt, and fubjed: to no Government. But a 
 Settlement at Ratan, prudently manag'd, I think, 
 promifes fair for the only Means of fecuring us 
 the Logwood Trade, and excluding other Nations 
 from reaping the Fruit of the Labour of his Ma- 
 jefty*s natural-born Subjedts. 
 
 Colonel Goochj your Grace will have learn'd from 
 your Letters by Commodore Lefiock, was returned 
 to his Government, with the difcharg'd American 
 Tranfports, that fail'd under his Convoy. And I 
 believe your Grace will have heard from him, and 
 on all Hands, that the American Forces have had 
 nothing to complain of from the Sea, and have 
 never exprefs'd themfelves dilTatisfied at being 
 employed on board his Majefty's Ships. 
 
 I think my Inclinations have been entirely coiix 
 formable, to what, I believe, was the principal 
 Motive of all the American Officers engaging in the 
 Service, the Hopes of being fettled in the JVeft- 
 JndieSy and in Cul^a preferably to all other Places, 
 But I have heard fome of them rnentioning many 
 Complaints they had to make of their Treatment 
 in the Army , and of the Difcontent exprefs'd by 
 fome of tht Europeans (as the Americans call'd them) 
 that they were to expofe their Lives for procuring 
 Settlements for the Americans. A jufl: Occafion of 
 Offence, I fhall, as your Grace defires, be very 
 cautious of ever giving them , and I hope that 
 will never be elleem*d a juft Occafion of Offence, 
 which they themfelves don't think fo. .-, ' 
 
 As the Affairs of the Army are not my PrOMl 
 vince, I have thought it my Duty to avoid men- 
 tioning any Thing of them, but where Ncceffity 
 and his Majefty's Service appear'd to me to r&^f 
 guirc it. * ;^.
 
 [ '53 ] 
 
 Captain Mayne, who now goes home Captain of 
 the Orford^ being the only one of our Captains 
 that ever was at St. JagOy your Grace from him 
 may be beft inform'd as to the Entrance into the 
 Harbour : And by this Occafion, 1 fend Sir Charles 
 Wager (as a Sea Officer, mod capable of judging 
 of what I have laid of it in my former Letters) %. 
 Sketch of it, as drawn by Capt. TiurelL 
 
 And if you think proper, your Grace may afk 
 
 Captain Mayne^ with whom B r L r came 
 
 a PafTenger in his Ship hither, whether he did not, 
 at leveral Times in our Way up here, liear the faid 
 Officer fay, the Army vjould not land in Cuba. 
 
 And if he did not hear him fay, after the Ge- 
 neral Council of War that v/as held on the 20th 
 of July, which he was a Member of, that the 
 Army would not move from their Encampment on the 
 River Side. 
 
 And if at other Times he had not faid, that the 
 Spanijh Forces were better Soldiers than hjs Majejiy's 
 Forces. 
 
 Reports of fuch Difcourfes were, to me. Grounds 
 of Sufpicion of fome form*d Cabal, that might 
 even compel Mr. Wentworth to adt under their 
 Direftion , though I do not pretend to point out 
 who it was composM of. But I think, a principal 
 Officer, throwing out Surmifes that have been verir. 
 fied, muft know fomething of the Matter : And 
 as it may be judg'd neceffary to be enquir*d into, 
 I thought it my Duty to mention this to youi" 
 Grace, as what may probably ferve as a Key to 
 fuch an Enquiry. 
 
 As to your Grace's compaffionate Concern for our 
 fickMen, I mofl- heartily fympathize with you j and 
 have already purfued your charitable Directions in the 
 Affair, by having had Perfons confbantly employed 
 in clearing our Ways up the ieveral Branches of thp 
 
 River
 
 [ '54 ] 
 River that tny Ships water at -, which we find to have 
 three Mouths, and in the Iflands formed by thofe 
 Branches, have found Supplies for them, from the 
 great Number of Cabbage-Trees they produce, and 
 the feveral Grovfes of wild Oranges, which prove a 
 moft feafonabie Relief in our prefent reigning Dif- 
 temper of the Scurvy. And we get them likewife 
 a Supply of frefh Fifh ; to which I have added a 
 new Regulation, of fupplying Rice, in lieu of all 
 Species of Salt Provifions, to thofe who have the 
 Scurvy ; to endeavour at attaining to an Alteration 
 in the Juices, by a total Difufe of Salt Provifions, 
 while they are fo affedted. And We have, befides, 
 erefted Huts, for conveniently lodging them a- 
 Ihore, and their having the Smell of the Earth, and 
 Opportunity of walking, by which they have man^ 
 of them reaped great Benefit. I am perfwadcd, a 
 Negleft of the Sick, or not giving them all the 
 Relief in my Power, will never be laid to my 
 Charge. I am. 
 
 My Lord Buke, 
 
 ioyne, in Cumherldnd ^'oUr Grace*S mojl 
 
 Harbour,^.. Nov. Bevoted, and mdfi 
 
 ^' *"'^''' Obedient. Humble SefvmL 
 
 E. V. 
 
 A Letter from Mr. fVentworth coming to my 
 Hands as I am clofing my Packets, I cannot omit 
 adding a P.iragraph of it, aS a Poftfcript to my 
 X-etter to your Grace. 
 
 r " If the Sicknefs increafes two 6r three Days 
 *' more, fo much as it has for a few Days paft, wfc 
 *' mull neceffarily come on board the Tranfports, as 
 " we fhall not have People to defend Our Cannon. 
 " I will write to you more particularly on that head 
 *' to-morrow." 
 
 General Went'-jDorthh Difpatches come now under 
 Cover with mine. 
 
 To
 
 [ 155 ] 
 
 To General Wsntworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 I Have this Morning recciv*d your Letter of t^e, 
 ^di with the inclofed which I now return you ; 
 and am heartily concern'd for the Account you. 
 give me, of the encreafmg Sirknefs amongfl: your 
 Troops. But as you mention it to be chiefly 
 Agues, I imagine that may proceed from the ilidr. 
 den Change of Air, on the Norths coming mi 
 s^nd believe that will not prove a fatal Diflemper 
 to them, though it may diiable them from Service 
 for the prefent. 
 
 The late Hears we have had, probably have put 
 them into a Way of lying as cool as they could at 
 Night, which muft now be carefully avoided, and 
 Care taken for their lying warm in the Night, as a 
 Guard againft the cool Air of the Norths. 
 
 The Dire(5lions you have given for fupplying 
 Mr. Z^w/J with Blacks, are fully fufficient, m my 
 Apprehenfion, for anfwering all Services he men- 
 tions in his Letter ; as none are properer to aflifl: 
 in rowing of Boats, and they are as handy as any 
 for over-hauling his Ordnance Stores. 
 
 As to your Weaknefs in the Camp ; for Peribns 
 to do Duty there, I will readily fpare you, froi^i 
 our Capital Ships, all the Americans or Marines that 
 we have fit for Duty, if you defire it. 
 
 But choie Ships that are for Service in cruizing 
 on the Sea, or preparing for Relief, are fo weak, 
 they cannot be fpared from them : Nor could we 
 venture at it from our Capital $hips, but that we. 
 are near enough to you, to have a Supply upon 
 any Emergency. Our Capita] Ships (which I am 
 going to poll anew for the Defence of this Har- 
 bour) arc but four; the two we have our Flag*, 
 flying in, and the two feventy-gun Ships. And 
 you know, the Security of the whole depends on 
 our being in Condition to defend the Harbour : 
 
 For
 
 1 156] 
 
 j^or which Purpofe I have erefled a good feattery for 
 twelve Pieces of Cannon on the Point, and propbfe 
 letting about erefting another upon Capt. Mayne's 
 Ifland, and to lay my four Ships in a Line a little 
 to windward of thofe two Batteries i which will be 
 a pretty good Line of Fire. 
 
 And as you know, befides thefe Works, I have 
 the Protection of the River I water my Ships at, 
 and cutting Timbef there for Platforms, on my 
 Hands ; and very weakly-mann*d Ships befides, and 
 my Men fickly too as your Troops are , there are 
 no Seamen can be fpared from our Ships, which 
 are upon the advanced Guard for the Security of 
 the whole. 
 
 ^ For by a Schooner brought in Yefterday, that 
 fliiled from the Havama five and twenty Days pad, 
 it appears, that Don Rodrigo de Torres was then at 
 the Havanna, with his powerful Squadron, all fi.tted 
 and ready for the Sea. 
 
 And you know. Sir, the Situation of both French 
 and Spaniards in Europe ; and that they had powerful 
 Squadrons ready for the Sea, that they may detach 
 this Way. And whenever they come, though met 
 by my Cruizers, I can have but very Ihort Notice 
 ' of them before they arrive ; fo that it is neceflary 
 for the Security of your Army, as well as of his 
 Majefty*s Ships, that I Ihouldbe kept in Condition, 
 on my advanced Guard, to proted the whole. 
 ' And when I have faid this, I am perfwaded you 
 will be thoroughly convinced, I have offered all in 
 my Power for your maintaining yourfelf in your 
 Camp ; which I look upon to be of the utmoft 
 Importance to his Majefty*s Service-, and it might 
 dtfeat the Succels of the cxpeded Succours, if it 
 Ihould be abandon'd. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Soyne, in Cumberland Har- 2'our inofl Obedient^ 
 
 "boor, ^c. AW. 4. 1741, Humble Servant, ^ 
 
 E. V.
 
 [ 'J7 ] 
 
 To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 IHave the Favour of yours of the 5th ; which it 
 gave me much Pleafure to receive, on finding 
 you determined in your Opinion, for not quitting 
 your prefent Poll while you have Men to maintain 
 it , and that you had hopes, as the Diftempers 
 your Men were feized with were principally Agues* 
 that many of them will recover ; which Bedding, 
 and otherwife contriving to have them lye warm in 
 the Nights, will) I believe, greatly contribute to. 
 
 And as, on Advice of aWar with France, it might 
 be nceelTary to re-embark fpecdily, for making 
 them a Vifit as foon as poffible i I fubmit it to 
 you, whether it might not be proper for Mr. L s 
 to be re-imbarking fome of his heavy Cannon, as 
 that probably cannot be wanted for the Defence 
 of the Camp , and indeed I never could well con- 
 ceive why he landed it at all. 
 
 Captain Rentone tells me, he has been to wait on 
 you, as you defired, for Ihewing you the Road for 
 coming to the Bay where he rides, from the 
 Camp J which, he fays, migh*: eafily be made a 
 very good Road, with a few Negroes. 
 
 You may remember, Sir, I mention*d to you 
 one Incident that might make it neceflary for the 
 ipeedy embarking a Part of the Troops from 
 thence, to aflift on board the Ships in the Defence 
 of this Harbour j which was, the Enemy's fud- 
 denly pufhing into this Harbour. For they would 
 then lye, in Adtion with us, between the River 
 your Tranfports ride in, and us, and ronfequently, 
 cut off all Communication that Way j which would 
 make it neceffary to fhip the Men off (for affifting 
 us) from that Bay j from whence they would 
 come fafely to us. 
 
 X The
 
 [ 'S8] 
 
 The Cbefter I Ihallfend for Jamaica on Monday^ 
 fo you will be pleafed to fend your Letters in time 
 to go by her : And Captain Long will have Orders 
 to take under his Convoy all the difchargcd Tranf- 
 ports that fhall be then ready to fail with him } 
 And what cannot get ready to fail with him, Ihall 
 be put under the Care of the next Ship I have oc- 
 cafion to fend that Way. 
 
 I fend you inclofed a Copy of the Intelligence 
 Lieutenant Low/z&^r has picked up from theMafter 
 of the Schooner, lately taken coming from the 
 Havanna -, by which you will fee there is good Rea- 
 fon for me to keep myfelf as ftrong as I can here, 
 with regard to other Services injoined me. 
 
 I took the Liberty, Sir, at our late Council of 
 War, to fuggeft to you my Opinion, that in your 
 prefent Condition, you are not to think of fending 
 away either Officers or Men yet, for the Service of 
 Recruiting j and I cannot but repeat to you. Sir, 
 my Advice, for your fufpending it, at leafl, till tha 
 Arrival of the Succours, or the next Advices from 
 England , which I think mofl for his Majefty*s 
 Service. And I will anfwer for it, they will get 
 to England near as foon, if not fooner, than by 
 your fending them away in the Tranfports now ; 
 as I fhall keep one of the befl unfheath'd Ships, for 
 going diredly with them. 
 
 As to the Memorial to you from the Wine-Sut- 
 kr, I do not look upon him to be within my Pro- 
 mife of Proteftion to thofe that come with Supplies 
 6f Provifions ; as that is fuch, that the Men's Healths 
 would be better prefcrved without it : Particularly, 
 his four Cargo, which has occafioned his lying here 
 fo long, is not fit to be drunk. And I hope you 
 will believe me. Sir, that if tliere had been any 
 Reafon on his Side, I fhould have hearkened to it. 
 
 I was
 
 f '59 ] 
 
 I was concern'd to hear of Mr. Blakeney's being 
 out of order ; and heartily wifh for his fpeedy Re- 
 covery, and for your Continuance in good Health, 
 which it has pieafed God fo wonderfully to blels 
 us both with. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumherlmd ToWT fHoft Obedient^ 
 
 Harbour, ^c Hwnble Servant, 
 
 ^ov. 6, 1 741. E V 
 
 Txi General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 UPON the Receipt of your Letter, with the 
 inclofed Refolutions of your Council of War, 
 and Opinion of your Surgeons, and the Letters 
 from Mr. Wallace relative thereto, fent me by Mr. 
 Wallace by your order ; 
 
 I could not but think it of Confequence to his 
 Majefty*s Service, immediately to advife with Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle upen them. 
 
 And we cannot but exprels ourfelves under a 
 hearty Concern, for your finding yourfelves under 
 a Neceflity of leaving the advantageous Poll you 
 are incamp'd in ; as we fear, on Refolutions coming 
 to be taken for returning to it again, it may coft 
 fome Men's JJves to regain it. 
 
 You, Sir, I find, think, that according to the 
 Advices I fent you, it may not be improbable, that 
 Don Rodrigo de 'Torres may think of moving this 
 Way j and that we ought to be putting ourfelves 
 in a Condition to receive him ; which is what we 
 always had in View, and we are now new-pofting 
 our Ships for that purpofe. For which Services, 
 and the many others we have (upon thefe Advices 
 from you) to be making Provifion in, it is im- 
 poflible for us to be fparing any of oirr few Long- 
 X 2 boats
 
 [ .60 ] 
 
 boats to be upon Service in the Re-imbarking ycur 
 Cannon and Baggage : And we are clearly of Opi-. 
 nion, you can have no Occafion for them, as the 
 Longboats, and other Boats from your Tranfports, 
 are more than fufficient for that Pqrpofe. And 
 that you may not want their Service, we cannot 
 but ahfolutely advife, that no Tranfports fhould 
 come out of the River 'till your Cannon and 
 Baggage is all re-embark'd ; which may be done, 
 (under the Direction of a prudent Officer, and 
 with the Affiftance of the Blacks to Man the Boats 
 of thofe that are weakly-handed) in a very fhort 
 Time. 
 
 And for the Diftribution of your well Men on 
 board our Ships, to aflift in the Defence of them, 
 we cannot but heartily agree with you in the Ne- 
 ceffity there may be for it ; but think that Difpo- 
 fition can be more properly made at a Leifure 
 Time for it, when the Tranfports have brought 
 them all out into the Bay. 
 
 So muft beg Leave to repeat our former Opinion 
 given you, that after the Re-embarkation of your 
 Cannon and Baggage, it would be proper for all 
 your well Men to be referv'd for your Rear-Guard, 
 and to march together in a Body dired:ly on board 
 fuch Tranfports as are referv^d for them ; which 
 will be but the Work of a few Hours. And we 
 believe you will agree with us, the well Men mufl 
 necefTarily be referv'd for fuch Service, for the 
 Security of the whole. 
 
 If you think the Affiftance of one of our Officers 
 may be neceffary to you, for tlie prudent Direflion 
 of the whole, we fhall be ready to fend you one, 
 on your defiring it. But in fuch Cafe, we hope 
 he will have a full Authority from you over all 
 the Officers of the Train, and others neceffary to 
 
 be
 
 [ '6. ] 
 
 be employ'd in it ; or elfe, their Cavils may dift 
 appoint the whole. 
 
 We thank you for the Direftions you have given 
 to the Tranfports, for receiving our Lumber, to 
 clear our Ships for Service. As the Chefier muft 
 fail to-morrow, for carrying the neceflary Orders to 
 be fent to Jamaica for ftrengthening ourfelves all 
 we can, we hope what Letters you may have for 
 Jamaica will be down by to-morrow Noon. We 
 are, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Boyne, Cumberland Xour mofi Obedient, 
 
 Harbour, lc. Humbk Servants, 
 
 Nov. 8, 1741. T? 17- 
 
 '^ L. VERNON, 
 
 C. Ogle. 
 
 'To General Wentworth. 
 SIR, 
 
 THIS Morning having brought in here Capt. 
 Perez, in a large Canoe, with nSpaniJkFhgof 
 Truce, from St.Jago ; fwhich Captain Perez was, 
 fomeTime fmce, fent from hence by Capt. Mofiyn, 
 with your Approbation, and at the Governor of 
 St. Jago*s Rcqueft, in Part of the Exchange for 
 the fixty-four Englijh Prifoners he had releas*d :) 
 
 We thought it proper, immediately to difpatch 
 Capt. Rentone to you, who was the Tranflator of 
 the faid Letter, with a Copy of his Tranflation 
 of it. 
 
 And as one feeming Part of the faid Letter, is 
 for procuring Wine for his own Table, we hav^ 
 judg'd, that (with your Approbation) the beft Way 
 of anfwering to that would be, to fend him a Pipe 
 of Wine for a Prefent, for the Ufe of his own 
 Table ; and to defire him, that he would permit 
 their Hunters to bring us in fome Beeves, for the 
 
 Ufe
 
 [ l62 ] 
 
 Ufe of our Tables ; which we fhall honourably pay 
 them for to their Satisfaftion ; and fhall be proud 
 to pleafure him with another Pipe of Wine, when- 
 ever he will favour us with letting us know it would 
 be agreeable to him r And to avoid faying any 
 Thing to that Part of his Letter, where he defir'd 
 a PafTport for the French Colonies. 
 
 But in regard to Exchange of Prifoners, to let 
 him know, we have an equal Regard to all who are 
 our Royal Mailer's Subjeds -, and fhall willingly 
 accept thofe taken by his Excellency Don Rodrigo 
 de Torres in his PalTage here, in the Exchange s 
 and that when they will lend us their Numbers, and 
 name a Place for the Exchange, we fhall be ready 
 to facilitate it all in our Power. 
 
 We are glad to hear you find your Officers fuf- 
 ficiently experienc*d for direfting the fhipping off 
 your Cannon ; and the Orders are given, as you 
 defir'd, for preventing any of the Tranfports 
 coming out of the River, till alF your Cannon and 
 Baggage are re-embark*d ; and the very flopping 
 the Tranfports, mention*d in Mr. lVaUace*s Letter 
 to have been difcharg'd, is, of itfelf, a larger 
 Supply of Boats, than we have for all the various 
 Ufes we have to apply them upon. We are, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Cumherland, m Qtmhsrland Har- jr^^^ ^a QJ^edient, 
 hour (formeny call d Walthe' u ij c. 4. 
 
 nam) on thJ South Side of ^^^^ Servams, 
 
 Cuba, Nov. lO, 1741. E. VERNON, 
 
 C Oglx. 
 
 P. S. We fliatl be glad to know your Sentiments 
 by the Return of Captain Rentone, 
 
 to
 
 [ i63 ] 
 
 To General Wentworth," 
 SIR, 
 
 IReceiv'd yours of the loth laft Night by Lieiit. 
 JVilliams ; and but juft before had an Account 
 from our Agent, Mr. Maynard, of fifty fick Men 
 being fcnt on board the St. Elizabeth^ one of the 
 Tranfports you had allotted us for bringing our 
 Provifions fromjamaica, which we have not yet been 
 able to clear. So that thefe Men are come to a 
 Ship without any Provifions on board, and lying 
 the fartheft diftant from the Camp , tho* I had 
 requefted the Favour of you (for giving the Dif^ 
 patch you defire) that you would be pleas'd to 
 put all your Men, for the prefent, on board the 
 many empty Tranfpoits you have in the River, to 
 be brought out into this Harbour in them : Where 
 they can be afterwards, at Leifure, fhifted into the 
 Dorfetjhire, Margaret, and St. Elizabeth^ that arc 
 riding here ; two with the Provifions for our Ships, 
 and the Dorfetjhire with all the Spanijh Prifoners, 
 which I have collefted there, on the Petition of all 
 the Matters of the Tranfports and Storefhips, to 
 enable them to fail their Ships when you have 
 embark*d your Forces : And they are there at their 
 joint Requett and Mr. ff^allace*B. And therefore, 
 for God*s Sake, let me defire you to prevent your 
 Officers from committing fuch Irregularities, artd 
 a6ting fo inconfiderately, as to throw all Things 
 into Confufion, and to occafion unnecefTary Delays, 
 by fending Men fuch a Diflanceoff to Ships not yet 
 ready to receive them, when they have fuch a Num- 
 ber of Ships at hand, that would greatly facilitate 
 Difpatch. 
 
 I have put two of our Longboats (tho* we can ill 
 fpare them, and, I am farisfied, under prudent Ma* 
 nagement you could not want them) under the 
 Orders of Capt. Renione, that he may give the ne- 
 
 ccflary
 
 [ i64 ] 
 
 ceiTary Direcbions with them for getting off your 
 Cannon , and he will readily give you his Advice in 
 any Thing you defire, being a prudent and ex- 
 perience Officer. 
 
 I fear Part of this Confufion and Delay is owing 
 
 to your M yL s : For by my Obfervations, 
 
 and my Accounts of his Proceedings, I am fatisfied, 
 that if his Majefty had lock'd him up in the 
 Tower, the Service had been better carried on, 
 and there had been much lefs Wafte and Lofs of 
 Stores. 
 
 . I have ftrengtheh*d the Flotilla by a Detachment 
 of Soldiers, and fhall take care to get our Provi- 
 fions out of your two Tranfports as fall as I can. 
 I am, 
 
 , SIR, 
 
 Boyne, Cumberland Xour mofi Obedient^ 
 
 Harbour, ^c. Uumhk Servant, 
 
 Nov. II, I74I. y 
 
 To Capt. Forrest, of the Alderncy Bomb. 
 
 FOR the better fecuring the Re-embarkation of 
 the Forces from the Camp j 
 You are hereby required and direded, to receive 
 on board his Majefty's Bomb-Veffel the Alderney 
 (under your Command) from the A^^/, a Lieutenant, 
 two Serjeants, two Corporals, a Drummer, and 
 twenty-four private Men, belonging to Colonel 
 Cooch's Regiment, and bear them for Viduals only 
 while they continue on board! For, (^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har- 
 bour (formerly call'd JValthenam) on the South 
 Side of Cuka^ this loth of November, 1741. 
 
 E, K 
 
 To
 
 [ '6s ] 
 
 rA'j ^^' '':' i' JC3L<.-r'5 -di hr.rj. :r- 
 \7'OU are hereby required and directed, to take 
 
 ^ the Command of the Flotilla upon yoii, fof, 
 covering the Tranfports, and preventing all Sur-/r 
 prizes in the River. And 1 have likewife order^cj, 
 the Boyne*s Longboat, and the Qmkr land's, witly> 
 an eight-oar*d.Boat, and a Lieutenant to each, to' 
 be attendant on your Orders^' for the fafe ancl^ 
 Ipecdy Re-enibarkation of the Cannon, fince the- 
 General is determin*d to leave his Camp. You ^re 
 likewife to give General PFentworib your beft Ad-*" 
 vice and Afliftance,- in every Thing where he ihallj 
 defire it of you..;^",;.:cy ,.; ,^ ^rj ^,,1;^^ 
 Thefe Boats are to be c3X^\cfor under your 
 Diredion only, I having fumcieritly experiehq'd 
 How improper M- r L j is to give OrderS: 
 in "any Thing regularly : And, by your Judgement, 
 ^d Experiences you will fupply all you find fur-* 
 ther necelfary for his Majefty's Service. For, C^<r. j^ 
 Given under my Hand, on board his Majefty's^ 
 Ship the Boyfje, in, Qumbsrland Harbour, Cuba^ thi^. 
 iith.of JVow/w^^r,. 174^,,,/,. ^; kfj , V 
 
 ifi 
 
 To Captain C h a i^ b e R Sj af the Montague. . 
 
 \X7Hereas it appear d by the V lew you took with 
 '^ me Yefterday (m our going up the River 
 Boyne as high as the Stone Quarries, and afterwards' 
 taking the Tour by Land from the Hills above the 
 Stone Quarries, down into the great Salina^ and 
 then to the River, by our Saw-Pit j) ' 
 
 That as the Redoubt we have built for theipfe-^ 
 fence of the Watering, is uponan Ifland, made by 
 the River*s branching out into two different Chan- 
 
 Y - nels
 
 t i66] 
 
 ncls befides that our Boats Water at (which makes 
 not only that Land th^ Redoubt is built upon, an 
 Ifland, but two more Ifknds are formed above it :) 
 And as the Enemy have no Canoes, or Craft of any 
 Hind, on that River, I think there is little Appre- 
 henfion that they can come to attack it on the Ifland 
 Side ; and by what we coujd obferve, I do not fee 
 they can have any Acqefs to it but by the Way 
 cut by us to the Salimi. which is none of the 
 beft : I do not fee but we may continue waterings 
 0\jr Ships fafely there as long as fliall be founds 
 cpnvenient, notwithftanding the Army's having 
 judg'd it abfolutely neceflary for them to reimbark 
 from their Camp on the River Augujlay by reafon 
 of the encreafing Sicknefs amongft them. 
 
 you are, therefore, hereby required and direfted,^ 
 to take upon you the Commijiid of all the Ships, 
 and Veflels in the upper Harbour, for the better 
 guarding and protedting our watering the Fleet and 
 Tranfports at the fajd River. And you will take 
 Care to enlarge your Garrifon in the faid Redoubt^ 
 to as many as can be conveniently lodged in the 
 f^d Redoubt ; and if you can have Provifion made 
 within it for lodging twenty Soldiers, befides a 
 Gunner's Mate and feven Seamen, for the Manage- 
 ment of the Pattereroes mounted there, it would 
 be well to have a Lieutenant of Soldiers pofted 
 to command in the Redoubt. But if, by reafon oj 
 the Straitnefs of it, there be no proper AccomtOQr 
 (Jation for a Commiffioo Officer there, then a Lieu- 
 tenant of Soldiers and ten M.en may lye at handf 
 on board the Sloop at the Mouth of the Rrver^ 
 for his being carried up by the large Canoe, to- 
 thi;QW himfelf into the Redoubt, and taJjLe the Com- 
 mand, on the firfl Alarm. 
 
 And you will, with all convenient fpeed, be 
 ^tting a Way from the Back of the Fort, to the 
 
 ncarcft
 
 [ '6/ i 
 
 peareft commodious PJace for a Landing in tli* 
 Bay without the River's Mouth, for your fending 
 Succours to them that way ftom the Shipsj upon 
 the firft Alarm being mide of an Enemy's Ap- 
 pearance. 
 
 You will continue a Guard-Boat, with an Of- 
 Hcer to command and regulate every Thing, daily 
 at the Watering Place ; and order that no Boats 
 come to water in the River but in the Day Time, 
 and none be permitted to go above the Guard- Boaf, 
 but fuch little Dories, as, by your Allowance, may 
 ^o for the hiorc convenleht procuring Cabbage, 
 or Oranges, for our fick Men : And the Officer 
 commanding the Guard-Boat, is to fee all Boats^ 
 out of the Rivet- by Night. bc\j: ' - .^^>^fh 
 For as no Encfchy can well crofs theRivcriri tfte 
 Night without Boats, and as they have none tff 
 their own, you muft be (Careful we do nbt aflift 
 thtirh with any ; and mjr Mafter, who comtrtands 
 on board the Sloop at the River's Mouth, has my 
 Orders to be aflifting to you with his Men, in cut- 
 ting the Way to the Harboiir on the Back of the 
 Fort. 
 
 And all who have occafioil for cutting Wood for 
 their Firing, muft be appointed to cut it only on 
 the Fort Side of the River. And you will permit no 
 Perfons to go on the other Side of the River, that 
 they may hot be in the Way of being fut-|)riied. 
 
 And when the Tranfports Boats may coirift to 
 Water there, ill Boats are to be ordered to bring 
 fome Arms with them, for their Defence; and 
 no one to be permitted to ramble from thehf; 
 that all poflible Difpatch may bfc gi^^en to what 
 they come about (watering their Ship.) And yob 
 will, frwn your own Experience and Obfervation^ 
 add fuch further Orders and Provifions as you lliall 
 judge ncceflary for the main End, of protedling 
 
 Y 2 and
 
 ^aid fccuring our fafe watering our-Ships from tho 
 Hiver Boyne. For, ^c. ' 
 
 i^ Given on board the Boyne ^ in Cumberland Har- 
 h^viv^ Cuba, this 13th of November, 1741. - 
 
 .^,r- ^: ' . - T 
 
 r To Captain RiUT 0^2, of iheRippon. 
 By,(^c. 
 
 HAving put the Flotilla under your Command, 
 I defire, when any of the Tranfports have 
 taken on board their Troops, and what elfe they 
 are to receive, and the General has no further Oc- 
 cafion to detain them for the Ufe of their Boats ^ 
 that you will fend the necefTary Orders to Captain 
 Pellat, to let them pafs into the Bay. And I would 
 have you acquaint the General with thefe Orders 
 :?that I have fent you. For, t^c. , - 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Har* 
 hour, i^c. this 13th oi November, 1741. 
 
 .1 :.;:/..,- E. V. 
 
 Memorandum;' :Be pleafed to let the General 
 know, that the Henrietta and St. Elizabeth Tranf^ 
 ports are quite cleared four Provifiohs. - 
 
 To. Mr. D E L A M o T T E, Majier of his Majefiyh 
 4.'. Ship the Boyne, now Commanding Officer on board 
 the Sloop Tender at the IVateriug P. lace. 
 By, (^c. -.-oT ,.] : . ; .. . 
 
 ."V7" O U are hereby required and direfted, to obey. 
 - all fuch Orders as you fhall receive from Capt. 
 .Chambers of the Montague, to whofe Care I have 
 .committed the fecuring our fafe watering our Ships 
 on the RivtrjB(?j^. 
 
 And
 
 [169] 
 
 i. And befides the Cofiimunication you have cut, 
 for landing Men to fuccour the Redoubt from the 
 Bay, in cafe of any Enemies appearing to moleft 
 'US J you will cut another Communication from the 
 Redoubt, to fome convenient Place a little within 
 -the Entrance of the River, for the fpeedier fuccour- 
 ing it from the Tender Sloop you are pofted in. *?! 
 ' And in fending your Dory up the River, for cut- 
 ting Cabbage or procuring Oranges for our fick 
 Men, order them not to frequent that Side of the 
 River next the Salinas but to procure them in the 
 Iflands lying above rfie Ifland the Redoubt is on, 
 if they can. 
 
 And you will moor your Sloop as near as you 
 ,can to the Mouth of the River, for the greater 
 Security of maintaining our Watering. For, i^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne, in Cumberland Harr 
 bout, Cuba^ this i^th of November, 1741. :'' 
 
 ;nr;oi;r :hvj\f ';"V '^r. 
 
 . . . .( . Vff I . 
 
 To GefteralW E KT wo SiTn,:"y^' 
 
 SIR, . . .; .' -{> 
 
 I Have this Afternoon received your*s of this Day's 
 Date, with a hearty Concern for the encreafing 
 :Sicknefs you complain of amongft your Forces. 
 .And. for the fending all fuch as you judge may 
 inquire being fent, to your Hofpital at Porl Royal, 
 for their Recovery, I will take Care a Convoy fhall 
 be ready to proceed with the Ti:anfports, with the 
 fick Men, on any Day you fhall defire ; and I think, 
 the fooner the bettcc, as they cannot want much 
 Water to carry them to yfZ7/7tf/V<?. ;^ 
 
 And I prefume you' will, at the fame Time, fend 
 the two hundred and forty-four Officers and Men, 
 mentioned to be defign'd to be fent home for the 
 Service of Recruiting ; and I liavc prepared Oruerx 
 
 for
 
 [ 170 ] 
 for Captain Trevor^ to diftribute oil the Subalferns 
 and private Men of that Number into the three 
 fixty-gun Ships going home, for their fpecdier 
 Arrival there, and enabling you to eafe the Crown 
 of the great Burthen of more Tranfports than are 
 neceffary, and for the better Defence of his Ma^. 
 jefty*s Ships, who go home very weakly-handed. 
 
 I believe. Sir, you may remember, it was your 
 <)wn Propofal, to have ftrengthen*d his Majefty*s 
 Ships here with five hundred Men from the Forces 
 under your Command, and to have let all the 
 Tranfports go for Jamaica ; but the next Time 
 you mention'd it, you thought they would not 
 amount to three hundred and fifty. Whatever 
 they are, I cannot but freely give you my Opinion, 
 That would be the beft Difpofition of all your 
 Forces in Condition for Duty, for his Majefty's 
 Service v and to difpatch the Tranfports away 
 with all the reft, under fuch Orders to Mr. Guife 
 as you think proper. 
 
 And my Reafons for it are, that your well Men 
 would put die Squadron of his Majefl:y*s Ships in 
 the beft Condition we could, for going to meet the 
 Reinforcement faid to be in their Way hither, and 
 for being in a Readinefs to ad with them^ agree- 
 able to fuch Inftrj6tions as his Majefly fhall feild 
 out by them. You have already experienc'd, 
 that Delay is the Ruin of all fVeJi-India Expe- 
 ditions : Whereas, by meeting them on the South 
 Side of Hifpaniolay wc Ihall be ready to enter upoii 
 immediate Adion againil the French, if a Wat* 
 ihould break out with them ; or mdy move off 
 direftly for Carthagma, if his Majefty's Orders 
 ihoukl diretft us thither, as has been rum6ur*d; 
 
 And if thefe Troops, as is to be prefum'dy ihould 
 be order*d under your Command, who are a prinw 
 cipal Perfbn of. the Council to direft their Pro- 
 '-^ ceedmgs \
 
 [ '7 ] 
 
 cccdings^ how fatal would it he ta his Majcfily's 
 Service, to have y(xi ahfent ! I cannot, therehore^ 
 but abfoluteiy give my Opinion againft your going 
 tcyjamaka^ as of the moft fatal Conieijuenqj- &a 
 'his Majefty's Service. lOfnif-^j Mrj<^ 
 
 If you defire a Council (^ War (agreeable to \i^ 
 Majefty*s Inftructions) of the four principal Offi- 
 c^ers, maturely to deliberate on this. Point, I will 
 call one any Day yow defire it, I; am, ^ . -v 
 
 pro *ij 
 
 Uoynf, in a,^/W Harboor ^-Qur moft Obedtenf^M 
 
 on the South Side of Cubi ^^^^ Servant^" 
 
 Nov. 23, 1 74 1. Er V,- 
 
 Tff General W en t w o it t ! .t*?' tofe*'ri 
 
 I Have receiv'd the Favour of yiotnr Later of thii 
 Morning ; and cannot but exprefs my hearty 
 Coocern for the melancholy Account you give of 
 the Sicknefs amongft your Forces. And t cannoc 
 but be the more uneafy, that yxm declare, you arc 
 quite difablcd from giving his: Msgefty's Ships any 
 manner of Afliftance. 
 
 But I anv forry to be oblig'd to add, I am very? 
 fer ftom agreeing with you, in^ the Necefllty for 
 your going to Jamaica', for I apprehend, your Di- 
 re^ions for the Care of the Side, may very well 
 bp executed by thofe you fend your Orders to for 
 it , as you have with you now the Diredoc of youc 
 Hofpital, and have Mr. Guifi at Japuika, to iec aU 
 your Orders put in due Execution. 
 
 And tho* no Part of your prefent Army may be 
 dcem'd by you in Condition to (bay, and aA under 
 your Orders ; yet, as there is a frefti Array coming 
 Out, which, it is to be prefiHnfd, will bring with 
 them all proper Officers to command the Forces 
 
 under
 
 [ *72 ] 
 
 ^nder you,- and a Supply of Ordnance Stores too ;. 
 ^.cartnoc, from the' Reafons. mentioned in my Let^. 
 ten to you yefterday, but continue to be of Opi-' 
 nion^ that it is moft for his Ma)efty*s Service you 
 fliould continue with the Fleet, 'till we ^eet either 
 the Forces, . or other Orders from his Majefty. 
 For the Reafons therein mention'd appeal" unan- 
 fwerable to 'ftie:, ' that for want of your Prefence, 
 who may be prefum'd to be a principal Director ia ' 
 their Operations, the Opportunities of doing his 
 Majefty the tnoft effcftual Sei-vices may be entirely 
 fruftrated. And if you think, it, therefore, proper, 
 td'take the Opinion of the Council of War, whether 
 you ought to go to Jamaica, or continue with the 
 Fleet, with fuc'h of your Forces as are in Condition 
 to a6t under your Orders ;", fiich a Council of the 
 four principal Officers (agreeable to his Majefty's 
 Inftrudions) "fhall be fummon*d, whenever yotf 
 defire. 
 
 But if you remain determin'd on going to Ja- 
 maica, I can only fay, I am forry for it, and can- 
 not give any Countenance to.it by an Order under; ^ 
 my Hand : But, without that. Captain Broderick^ . 
 who will command the Convoy, I am fure, will 
 give you the beft Accommodation he can. 
 .J And as we are fo reduced ourfelves, and at no 
 Certainty what Force we may meet with, I can 
 fpare no Seamen to either Tranfports or Storelhips> 
 for going to Jamaica\ who cannot want working 
 Hands for carrying them thither, from the Soldiers "* 
 on board, and the Blacks you have aflifted them 
 with ; befides near two hundred Spanijh Prifoners, 
 that I have fupplied them with, even when their 
 Afllftance was much wanted for his Majefty*s Ships 
 gping home. , , 
 
 ii But if you don't think you can fpare us any 
 Soldiers, I hope, at leaft, you will affift us with
 
 [ 173 ] 
 
 the three hundred Blacks that yoii have not wanted 
 to diftribute to theTranfports and Storefhips, who 
 may be materially neceflary to ad: witJi the Army 
 expeded : And I arh the more inclin*d to defire^ 
 it, as I have received an Intimation, that it will 
 not be eafy to procure the Return of any Blacks 
 to the publick -Service, after their once getting 
 back to Jamaka, 
 
 Tho* his Grace the Dxjk.t oi Newcajile fays, in 
 his Letter^ the Reinforcement is ordered for Ja^ 
 maica 5 yet I am pcrfwaded you will agree with 
 me, that in cafe of a French War, or even Orders 
 for the attacking Carthagena^ it would be moll for 
 his Majefty*s Service that we Ihould meet the faid 
 Reinforcement on the South Side of Hifpaniola, 
 for entering upon immediate Adion with them. 
 
 I am heartily concern*d for our different Sen- 
 timents : But I fhould think myfelf ill to deferve 
 that Confidence his Majefly has placed in me, -if 
 I did not give my Opinion clearly, on this Oc- 
 cafionj of what I judge mbft for his Majefty's 
 Service. lam,,. . . : ^ . 
 
 Boj>ne,i^c. Uov.'zJ^, \j\\. Tourmoft Ohedieni^ <,i 
 
 .: -ij . . . . Hitmble Servant^ "* 
 
 . .;. .V':>.--Ji5 . :.> r:/:u. / E. V. 
 
 p. S. I fend you inclofed a Copy of a Letter 
 
 from the Governor of St. Jago^ which I received 
 
 this Morning^ by Captain Perez. . ' / 
 
 E, V, 
 
 To his Grace the Duke c/ N ***** *. 
 '; My Lord Dukey ' ' .? 
 
 MY laft Letter to your Grace was of the 3d of 
 November^ irom Cumberlad Harbour, by the 
 5^^r^^, Captain Hervey {d, Duplicate of which ac- 
 Z companies
 
 t m- ] 
 
 ciompanles^thisj) which I concluded with A Para- 
 graph of" a Letter I that Day receivM from 
 General fVentworth^ which might fcrve as a Pre- 
 lude to what has fincc happen'd. Of which being 
 fomewhat apprchenfive, I wrote hipi the Letter 
 ci the 4th (which yoUr Grace has, inclofcd, a Copy 
 of;) and upon receiving from him the Refolutions 
 of his Council of War of the 7th, I immediately 
 took them into rtiature Confideration, with Sir 
 Chaloner Ogle ; and we wrote him a joint Letter of 
 the 8th (both which your Grace has, inclofed. 
 Copies of) that nothing might be wanting on our 
 Parts, to prevent an Incident fo contrary to the 
 Rcfolurions of our late General Council of War. 
 
 On the loth Captain Perez (mention'd in my 
 former Letters) arriv'd here in a Canoe, with a 
 Flag of Truce, and with a Letter to me from the 
 
 I Governor of St. Jago (which I fend your Grace in- 
 dofed a Copy of, as likewife of the joint Letter to 
 General Wentworth^ from Sir Chaloner Ogle and me^ 
 of the fame Day, indofing the faid Letter to him, 
 
 and defiring his Opinion on it.) And oh the nth 
 
 r I difpatch'd Captain Perez back, with my Anfwer 
 to the Governor of St. Jago (that I fend your 
 Grace inclofed a Copy of j ) chufing rather to 
 
 . make him a Prefent, than open a Correfpondence 
 Jbr him with our Neighbours, which, I apprehend, 
 was in gi^at Part his View. And I fend your Grace 
 likewife, inclofed, a C^y of lueh Intelhgcnce as 
 Mr. }iogers procur'd from the Spaniards that came 
 with the Flag of Truce, Mr. Rogers (whom I 
 have made a Purfer) having formerly refided at 
 St. Jago. 
 
 Finding Mr. Wentworth determine to rtioVse, I 
 ^ent the next Morning early as high up the Rivdr 
 Boyne, as my People as yet had been able to clear theh- 
 Way, ivhich R^ht be about three Leagues ; and 
 
 then
 
 r '75 ] 
 
 then afcending the Hills by the Stone Quarries, I 
 took a Tour round by Land, for forming the beft 
 Difpofition I cpuld for fecuring our watering our 
 Ships at theRiverjBijyz^^nQtwithftandingthe Army'^ 
 having judg'd it neceffary to abandon their Camp 
 on the River Augufta : And I fend your Grace in- 
 elofed a Plan of my Difpofition, in a Copy of the 
 Orders given to Captain CbamberSy whom I took 
 to accompany me in that View. I had before fent 
 a Reinforcement to ftrengthen the Flotilla, for 
 fecuring their Retreat ; and fent Captain Rentonc 
 up to command the Flotilla, for their more re- 
 gular and orderly Proceeding. 
 
 All the Cannon, Baggage, Provifions, and fick 
 Men, being embark'd, on Monday the i6th in the 
 Morning we difcern'd the Hutts of the Camp to 
 be on Fire, Mr. Wentworth having that Morning 
 march'd down with his remaining well Men, and 
 embark'd himfelf that Night on board his Ma- 
 jefty's Ship the Graf ion ; Cape. Renione remaining 
 with the Flotilla under his Command, for taking 
 Care of the orderly getting out of the Traniports 
 from the River into the Harbour; which, by the 
 Afliftance of the Captains of n^y Flotilla, and 
 Mr. Wallace the Agent for the Tranfports (an 
 aftive diligent Officer) was effeded gradually by 
 Friday the 20th ; all being then got out but my 
 Flotilla under Captain Rentone^ which remain'd to 
 clofe the Rear, neither Army nor Tranfports ha- 
 ving had a fmgle Shot fired at them by any on : 
 And on Saturday the 21ft the Flotilla came out 
 into the Harbour without any Interruption. 
 
 I am in daily Expectation of hearing again from 
 your Grace. But the governing Maxims of the 
 Council of General Officers, againft Forces march- 
 ing into a woody Country ('which fome ha-ve ex- 
 tended even fo far, a J to fay, th^-t JVoods Jhotild he 
 Z 2 ckar\i
 
 [ '76 ] 
 
 "ilear^d for. the March of an Army^ ' even ley on^Mufkn 
 Shoi of them) cuts o?i all Hopes of Hicceeding in 
 .an Expedition in thefe Counrries , which cannot 
 but give me great Uneafmefs. For unlefs other 
 Maxims are ellablifli*d, there is no Profpe6l of 
 Succefs in any Land Expeditions in the Spanifh 
 Territories, which, under fuch Maxims, muft be 
 deemed only burthenfome and unneceflary. 
 I Had the great 7//j C^Ar ever harbour*d fuch 
 Maxims for his Government, I am perfwaded he 
 had never conquer'd Britain. Or had the great 
 Duke of Marlborcugh, the renown'd General of 
 
 lour Age, entertain*d any fuch Maxims, he never 
 could have march*d the Confederate Army into 
 Germany, and preferv*d the Empire, or have 
 fought the glorious Battle of Malpiaquet. Which 
 makes me hope, if thefe Forces do come, it will 
 
 JJbe under the Condud of Officers that will govern 
 themfelves by Maxims fuited to a Country in tht 
 
 .State of Nature ; or that the Refolution for fend- 
 
 ,ing them will have been alterM : For under thefe 
 Maxims, they are not only unferviceable them- 
 
 Jklvts, but a Clog to the Proceedings of a Fleet. 
 
 I;,. The Tilbury^ in her Cruize, having taken -a- 
 Spanifn Schooner that came from the Havanna 
 about the 12 th o^OUoher, the Mailer of her re- 
 ports, that Don Rodrigo de Torres was then there 
 
 - with thirteen Sail of Men of War, eleven of them 
 of the Line of Battle i and that they had in each 
 Ship between fix and feven hundred Men, all 
 
 feady for the Sea, expefting Orders every Day. 
 
 . The nextThings in Courfe to inform your Grace 
 
 of, are two Letters from General Wentworth to 
 
 .mc, on the 23d and 24th o^ November, with my 
 
 Anfwers to them of the fam^ Dates ; which con- 
 
 taining the Reafons of our different Sentiments, 
 ., f^ii^Il be humbly fubmitted tq the Judgement of 
 
 our
 
 [ ^77 ] 
 
 our Royal Mafter , and come here inclofed to 
 your Grace, together with a Copy of Mr. ^f^enj^ 
 worth*% Letter defiring a Council of Witf.' "^^^^ 
 ; -On the 24th I receiv*d by Capt. 'Perez^ with aFIk^ 
 of Truce, a Letter of the 2d of December^ N. S. 
 from the Governor of St. Jago (which comes like 
 wife inclofed j) and with it he fent me twelve 
 horn*d Cattle and fix Hogs j the former of which 
 I have diftributed for the Relief of our fick Men. 
 -And I ihall return him a Horn-maker, a Spanijh 
 Friar, that the Tilbury took in a large Canoe, 
 -coming from Leogane for Baraccoa, with fome 
 Trifles in her; and I fhall remind him of his 
 Promife, of releafing Captain JVyllis as foon as he 
 can be at Liberty to do it. ; 
 
 On the 25th in the Morning we met at a Coiindl 
 of War. But as we entirely (as Sea and Land 
 Officers) differed in our Sentiments of what is 
 moft for his Majelly*s Service ; and they would 
 not admit of a cafting Vote in the Opinion of the 
 Senior General Officer, no Refolutions could be 
 form'd. So I can only fend your Grace a Copy of 
 the Minutes of our Proceedings, attefled by my 
 Secretary ; and acquaint you, that they determin'd 
 to return to Jamaica, and we to proceed to meet 
 the Reinforcement, after feeing the Traniports 
 difpatch'd under proper Convoys. 
 
 And as both the General's Reafons and mine 
 are fumm*d up in our inclofed Letters of the 23d 
 and 24th, I can only add my hearty Concern for 
 their being fo widely different. But at parting, I 
 told him, if I met the Succours, in cafe of a French 
 War, I fhould exhort the Commanding Officer to 
 join with us, in embracing the molt favourable Op- 
 portunity for doing Honour' to the Crown, and 
 Service to our Country : And if my Advice had 
 ^ny Weight with him, we \\ould not flip the mpfl: 
 
 favourable
 
 [ '7n 
 
 fat^ourable Opportunity that could be hoped for*, 
 as I fhould not fear our Royal Mailer's Cenfurci 
 for a Meafurc that appeared to me fo much for his 
 Honour and Service, though not within the Letter 
 of our Inftruclions. .1 
 
 ^ As I am forced to write in a hurry, for my 
 i^etters going by fome of the unflieath*d Ships 
 from Port Royal^ I have only to add, that nine 
 of them are under my Orders for proceeding 
 with all pofllble Expedition to England j and that 
 the Augufia and Brijlol (the only remaining two, 
 that are now out a cruizing) fhall, at the Expira- 
 tion of their refpedlive Cruizes, meet my Orders at 
 Jamaica for refitting, to go home with all pcflible 
 Expedition. So that I doubt not but the lateft 
 will get home within the Time ordered, for being 
 ready to be fitted for Service in the Spring of the 
 Year ; and I pray God fend them aU .fafc home, 
 nd within the Time defired. '^'' *'' 
 
 With my moft ardent Wiflies for a fpeedy hear- 
 ing from your Grace at this critical Jundurc, and 
 tin our crazy Condition (we having a general Sick- 
 >^efs to lament, as well as the General ;) I am, 
 
 -Boy^ne, in Cumberland MyJUrdBuh, 
 
 :.. Harbour (formerly ToUT Gracfs mojt 
 
 ?.. callM Wahbtnam) Devoted^ and 
 
 on the South Side of Obedient^ Humbk Servant^ 
 
 To General W e n t w o r Tik, ^* '-^ .-'' j-^ 
 .; SIR, " ' 
 
 I Send in by Captain Broderick, as you defire, an 
 Order to Captain Trevor , to fupply you with 
 the firft Ship or Veffel of his Majefty's that is in 
 readinefs for the Sea, to bring you up to join us ; 
 Your Perfon, as a principal Counfellor to dired the 
 .^.r';: Operations
 
 [ -^1^ \ 
 
 Operations of his Majefty's Forc when they ar-" 
 rive, being what I apprehend to be the principal 
 Point wanted : And the recovered Forces may be 
 lent for, wherever it may be determin'd to go. 
 
 There being Blacks belonging to the Fleet as 
 Seamen, if you would have me enquire after the 
 fevcn Blacks you mention as wanting, you will be 
 pleafed to fend me a Lift of their Names. I am,^ 
 
 Btpri, h "Cvt/iberiufid Har- T9r Pioji OhBieiti, ' ^^ 
 
 bour,^^. AW. 27. i 74. . Hunii>le Servant, 
 
 E.y. 
 
 I'd Captain "L on c^ of the Ch<:X\:er, '*-) 
 
 WHereas it is of the utmoft Importance to his 
 Majcfty*s Service, to keep a watchful Eye 
 on all the Motions of his Majc%*s Enemies at rhk 
 critical Jundurc.: ^-'-'^ > : / ^' t'v 
 
 And whereas Captain Allen, in the Seahorfe^ h 
 now under Orders of Cruizing between five and 
 eight Leagues to the S. E. ot JPoint a Bacse, (for 
 being in the Way of meeting the Reinforcements 
 ttwt are mention'd to liave been coming here, as 
 well as for interccpcing any of the Enemy's Trade 
 coming that Way, or for getting the earlicft Ad- 
 vices of the Motions of any of their Squadrons ; 
 and likewife with Letters from me, to be delivered 
 to ther Osmmanding Officers both of the Squa- 
 dron and Land Forces , which it is of the utmoft 
 Confequence to his Majefty*^ Service fhould. not 
 pafe by s :) Which Service he is under Orders of 
 .continuing upon till the i^th Day oi Dicember 
 next: . : 
 
 That you may ibc at hand before that Tinfty i 
 
 ^ibcceediiTinin O^oizing upon the ^^rememion*4 
 
 .,^ ..^>. X Service,
 
 t.8o] 
 
 Service, and likewile for meeting any Orders tlf^ 
 itiay be coming by Exprefs to me, for their fpeediefl 
 coming to my Hands : *^ 
 
 You are hereby required and dire<5led, to make 
 the bed of your Way for Tikroon Bay, where you 
 may compleat your Watering with grcateft Expedi- 
 tion, to be at hand for proceeding to cruize in thc:- 
 aforefaid Station, for the Service afore- men tion*dj"* 
 before the Expiration of his Term. And on your*^ 
 meeting with the Seahcrje^ you will give her Captairi 
 Orders for proceeding to Tiberoon Bay^ to recruit 
 his Watering, and then to Cruize olf there, for 
 joining me and giving me all the Intelligence he 
 may have met with. J 
 
 And the Face of Affairs being changed fince vnf^ 
 writing the Letters to the Commanding Officers 
 both of the Squadron and Land Forces, you will 
 now acquaint them, it is both my Defire and Or- 
 ders to them, that they fhould not proceed to Lee^ii^ 
 ward of Cape tiberoon, but give me Time to coma^^ 
 and join them there ; being fully perfwaded, that^ 
 our jundion there is of the utmofl Importance ta^ 
 his Majefty*s Service. And you will give them a 
 Copy of this Claufe from your Orders, figned by 
 you, together with the return*d Letters, that I hzw* 
 wrote to meet them by Captain Lea ; and prefs thtr 
 Commanding OfHcer of the Land Forces by nOL. 
 means to proceed further, but to give me the Opf 
 portunity of joining him there. 
 
 All Spanijh Ships and Veflels you fhallmeet with^ 
 you are to ufe your utmolt Endeavours to takefl 
 fink, burn or dellroy. 'r 
 
 And as to the daring and unauthoriz'd Attempts 
 of the Subjefts of any Nation, to cover and prote(9:H 
 the Ships, Perfons, or Efl?eds, of his Majefty's-I 
 Enemies the Spaniards, you are in no Sort to per- ' 
 mit the fame, but to feize the faid Spaniards Ships^ J 
 
 Perfons,
 
 Perfbhs, or Effects, wherever you (hail find the" 
 fame on the Seas ; as you will all Ships and 
 Veffels you fhall meet with^ going to fupply his 
 Majefty's Enemies with contraband Stores. 
 
 But on meeting with any of the GuardaCoJias of* 
 his moft Ghriftian Majefty, you are carefully to, 
 prefervewith them that good Correfpondence that, 
 ought to fubfift between the Officers in the Service 
 of Princes in Amity with each other. vii jt,.j,:H 
 
 And as you will be cruizing in the Way of the? 
 French Trade, you will ufe all friendly Offices to- 
 wards them, and direft your Officers not to harrafs 
 or rummage any fuch French Ships or Veffels, as 
 give no juft Caufe of Sufpicion, of their being 
 going with Contraband Stores to any of the Spanijh 
 Ports. . . 
 
 And you are to continue on this Service 'till the 
 31ft Day of December next, or your fooner being 
 join*d by me, or receiving other Orders by fome 
 o| my Cruizers : At the Expiration of which 
 Term, you are to return to Port Royaly for my 
 further Orders, if you fhall not receive them, 
 fooner. For, 6f<r. /..u-xt'I sjfi 
 
 Given on board the Boyne^ in CumberUni^'yh^J 
 
 hwiXy Cuba^ t\\\?> i^x\\ oi November y 1741. o; lo< 
 
 ^' E. f^u 
 
 itit iit ii.'iiSii'ii - fii. lij' 1^' jy I irtii I'rf'ifilill-*!--''' 
 
 .. ; ['r. {.- . ' . ! ' f .; v.- :'>ifon| 
 
 To his Grace she Duke of "N * * * * f,;iLno!j[ 
 My Lord Duke, /\ 
 
 MY laft Letter to your Grace was of the 26tk\ 
 of Novemhery from this Place. , :j .,4ai\ 
 
 The next Day General fVentworth went away 
 himfclf, with the fecond Detachment of Trans- 
 ports, leaving thofe that were moft helplefs for 
 me to detach after him \ and I difpatch'd aw^y a 
 third Detachjncnt, under Convoy of the Bomjb- .. 
 A a Ketqh
 
 [ l82 ] 
 
 Ketch and one of- my Firelhips, oa the. 28th :* 
 But there were two, the moft diftrefs'd, that were 
 oblig'd to be referv'd to go with the 'Tilbury^ 
 which I fliall detach to Sea with them to-morrow, 
 as 1 could not get her ready fooner,. Hie returning 
 pretty much fhatter'd in her Rigging, from s>i 
 Cruize. There go with her two Firefhips, toOf 
 fidkiy-to -^keep the Sea with me, and an emptyt> 
 Vidlualler, loaded with all the Timber and Plank 
 that I had cut here, to have lerv*d for the Plat- 
 forms of the Battery I had ere(5ted for the Defence 
 of this Harbour : And likewife the St. Jean Bapiiji^ 
 that has the Remainder of the Quickfilver from 
 Iterrol, fhe being fent in here by one of my Crui- 
 Zrs on the 27th, agreeable to what t had. men 
 tion'd to your Grace, that I was in Hopes forae of 
 my Cruizers would- meet with her. 
 , f have fince difcover'd all her conccaPd Spanijh 
 Papers, they being let down, ia two tarr'd Canvals*' 
 Bags, between the Timbers in the Midfhips of th 
 Ship. But as I am in a continual Hurry at prefent, 
 and think thefe Papers will come more authen- 
 tically before the Court of Admiralty for not- 
 being- open*d here, I fend them as they are", di- 
 recting the Commanding Officer to. be prefcht at 
 the opening them, to take Care of all State Papers 
 (if there fiiould be any of them, befides thole rer,. 
 lating to the clandeftine Proceedings, of conveying 
 the King of ^tf/;2*s Quickfdver for him under the 
 Cover of falfe Colours j) and if they are material 
 fr his Majefty's Service, I' have order'd them, toj 
 be immediately forwarded to me. - ' / ^^ 
 
 This happy Succefs will pi^v^ no fmalli Di(^- 
 pointment to his Catholick Majefty. For if (to-^ 
 gather with our having' taken the i^r^2p<5W and the' 
 St.janBaptifi) La Reine de^ Anges ihould have- 
 bcen Hiipwreck'd^ a"4s- probable fFom- what ti 
 * - "t * A men tion'd
 
 mention'd in my fbf rn^r ; then they have loft the 
 whole three thoufand nine hundred Quintals of 
 Quickfilver : Which is a Lofs to his Cathohck 
 Majefty of the fame Weight of Virgin Silver ; . as 
 they oblige their Subjedts in the Indies to take it 
 from his Majefty at that Price. This makes it 
 one of the bell Branches of the King of Spain's 
 Revenue ; and it is Death for any one but himfelf 
 to deal in it, to lay them under the Neceflity of 
 paying him the Price he fets upon it. 
 
 And I hear the great Expences they have been 
 put to, to fubfift the Number of People drawn 
 together at St.Jago^ has forced them upon the 
 wretched Expedient (put in Pradice by l^mgjames 
 in Ireland) of coining a Copper Money, which they 
 have ifTued for Dollars and Ryals, and oblig'd a 
 Currency of them, under Promife that the Vice 
 Roy of Mexico is to make them good to thofc 
 who have taken them. 
 
 " I fhall dilpatch in one of my Hofpitai Ships 
 with the worll of our own fick Men and the two 
 remaining Victuallers, on the 4th ; and with them 
 I fhall be oblig'd to fend in a clean twenty-gurt 
 Ship (the Experiment) that is likewife too ficidy 
 to keep the Sea with me. 
 
 And then, after fetting Fire to my Fafcine Bat- 
 tery, I will endeavour to put to Sea on the 5th, 
 with my Brother Admiral's eight Ships of the 
 Line, one Firefhip, and one Hoipiral Ship, in the 
 beft Condition we can put them into; and fhall 
 proceed to cruize to the Southward of Hifpaniola 
 (for meeting the Reinforcement, or the next Or- 
 ders from our Royal Mafter, or Letters Iroin your 
 Grace) with the fincercfl Inclinations for doing all 
 in our Power, for the Honour of the Crown, and 
 Service of our Country. 
 
 A a 2 I hope
 
 I "hope this witl arrive in Time to accompany 
 my Letters by Captain Knowles, with the fixty-gun 
 Ships i for, according to Capt. Davrs*s Letters, 
 he fhould be now at Sea with the three feventy-gun 
 Ships. I am, 
 
 Boyne, in Cumber/and My Lord Duke, 
 
 Harbour (formerly X'our Grace* s moft 
 
 ^J^he^fufrsfde J^evoted, and <n 
 
 of ^clbarDec. ' i! Obedient^ Humble Servant, 
 
 1741. E. V, 
 
 To his Grace the Duke of N * *_ * ,* *, 
 My Lord Duke, nni ra^rit iuq 
 
 MY laft to your Grace were, one bfthfe 2^ch 
 of November, by the Sboreham, aod one ot the 
 I ft o^ December, from Cumberland Harbour,' fent 
 to Jamaica (to go home by Captain Knowles, with 
 three of the fixty-gun Ships) by the tilbury, with 
 the laft of the Tranfports, that fail'd the 2d of 
 December. And on the 4th I difpatch*d iox Jamaica 
 one of my Hofpital Ships with the worft of our 
 fick Men, and the remaining VidluaUers, with the 
 Experiment, which was too fickly to keep t^ Sea 
 with us. ^'fx.'] -"4 
 
 2P On the 5th I detach*d the 'Tyger, Capt. Herbert, 
 yto (hew himfelf firft off St. Jago, in order to con- 
 ,,tinue them under the Apprehenfion of having Ships 
 cruizing off their Port ; and then, after ranging the 
 North Side of Jamaica, to fee that Coaft is not in- 
 fefVed by any of the Enemy's Privateers, to go to 
 Blewfields to compleat his Watering, and then pro- 
 ceed to fupply the Defiance's late Station, of cruizing 
 between the Grand Camainos and Cape Corientes. 
 i, And having referved a French Gentleman, taken 
 l\Ti the Spanijh Schooner from the Havanna, for the 
 better Pretence of fending to fpy what the Mar- 
 
 quef!^
 
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 queft de harnage has been doing at Leogeme ^nd 
 Petit Guave (as he has often done by me -,) I de- 
 tach*d the Ludlow Cajile with him for Leogane on 
 the 5th, fending^ Letter by Captain Stevens to the 
 Marquels de Larnage, to be delivered him at the 
 fame Time he presented that Gentleman to him : 
 And your Grace has, inclofed, a Copy of my Letter 
 to the Marquefs de Larnage, and of the Narrative 
 from the Journal that I fent him therewith*:^ tV 
 
 On the 6th I put to Sea mylelf from Cumberland, 
 with our remaining Squadron (of eight Ships of 
 the Line, a Firefhip, an Hofpi'-al Ship, and two 
 fmall Sloop Tenders) in the beft Condition I could 
 put them into, having an hundred Men upon 
 the fick Lift in my own Ship ; but I am in hopes 
 'we fliall be x)n the mending hand in that particUr 
 lar, by the Sea Air. 
 
 Three Days before my failing from Cumberland 
 Harbour, by a Sloop with Provifions from New- 
 Tork, I had a Letter from Governor Clark ; who 
 was pleafed to fend me an old Spanijh Pilot, who 
 he hoped might be of Service to us. And find^ 
 ing he was one of the King's Pilots at the Ha- 
 varma, and a very old Man (above Seventy) I had 
 his Examination taken, in regard to the Forces 
 X\ity had at the Havanna, and their Preparations 
 for the Defence of it -, which, I believe, is a pretty 
 genuine one ', and I have fent your Grace a Copy 
 of it inclofed. "^ '. 
 
 On the 8th I was joined at Sea by the Tork from 
 Jamaica, near Cape Dona Maria on Hifpaniola : 
 But he brought me no News from thence, only 
 that he failed a Day before Captain Davcrs was to 
 lail with the three unlheath'd feventy-gun Ships 1 
 which gives me the Hopes of meeting with him, 
 and fending the Duplicates of my laft Letters, and 
 my prefent Letter, to your Grace by him. 
 
 On
 
 r i86 ] 
 
 On the 9th, by a Sloop' from Yamjcal X re 
 ceiv*d a Letter of the 2d Inftant, from Captain 
 Dennifin of the Augufia (wrote off Port Morant^ iw 
 his Way to Port Royal Harbour) to acquaint me, 
 Ifhat very bad Weather and increafing Leaks had 
 pbliged him to leave his Station : And he will 
 meet at Port Royal, my Orders for refuting to go 
 home with all poiBble Expedition ; but having 
 much Work, and few Hands to do it, there cannoit 
 be that Difpatch I could wifh for. 
 
 I was in hopes of meeting Qaptain Davers, and 
 the three feventy-gun Ships, before now , or to 
 have heard they were paffed by. And I leave my 
 Letters on board the Hofpital Ship, for her cruizf 
 ing to meet him off Cape Dona Maria, and put* 
 ting them on board of him j as that will prove 
 the fpeedieft Opportunity for their coming to your 
 Grace's Hands 
 
 I have detach'd Captain Rentone^ in the Rippofty 
 to fupply the Station off Rio La tlizcha \ and fhall 
 now ply up further to windward, for lying in the 
 fair Way of the Reinforcements faid to be coming, 
 or meeting the frefheft- Advices from your GracCj- 
 for my future Government; which I very muchr 
 long for at this critical Conjundure : And as I 
 have fbme of my Cruizers up to windward of me, 
 l;hope they cannot pais by us. I am, 
 A^y Lord Diike, 
 , Tour Grace* s mojt \ 
 
 Jfnyne, at Sea, ofFCapeTi- Devoted, andObedienty 
 k^mn, Dec. 10, 1741. Humble Servant, 
 
 E. V;: 
 
 ro
 
 YOU are hereby required afid direified, ^Ithf 
 his Majefty*s Ship thte Seahorfe under ycMa* 
 Command, to make the-beft of* your Wa;^ for 
 ^ompleating your Watering ih Tiheroon Bay. 
 ! And whereas T am expecting the Sbeefnefs^ Cj^t/ 
 /if^^r^,, to'colne to join me there Verj^ fpeedity,^ afi(f 
 am under aii^ Uncertainty, Whetheir one of the^ 
 Traniports with Stores for the Fleer, may not come 
 wi<!h him : In cafe the Trarifport with Stores'' 
 coihes up with hirrt^ you Will put her undfer thfr 
 Care and Protidftion ot Captain Cotes in the 2^ork 
 ^hom I left riding- at anchor in Ifi/h Bay ,) ancF 
 acquaint him^ it is my Order, he fhould take he? 
 under his Cartr'and Proreftion there, or in Tiberooj^ 
 Bay, diliiiy Return to my appointed Rendezvous. 
 And you will give Orders to Captain Ward of the- 
 SBtehiefs, to be plying up to windward, to look 
 outj:arcfully for me, between the faid Rendezvous, 
 and Cape Al a Vela\ which he is to do the 25th 
 Inftant : Bdt not meeting rt'e^ before' that Time, he 
 is to come to look out for me in my faid general 
 R'etidezvOCiSi A Copy of whith; ahd rriy Cine of 
 Battle, yob will- have ready to deliver him, upbA 
 yar meeting' With him. ' ^ 
 
 A*id ^ oti Captain 'Stevens y ift tll6 LuMtHii C-aJtlS}' 
 coming to the faid Rendezvous, you will acquaint* 
 him, It IS- my Oi-'der, he fhould piit into I'lhe^-oon 
 or Irijh Bay,, as he can moft commodioufly and' 
 fafely ; and^tocbmpleat hiS'Watey-there, and con- 
 tinue- under the Oftlers of Captain Cotes till my 
 Retarrt.- But if he has procured any- rriaterial In* 
 teihgcnce, he ii to fend we the Account by you S' 
 Who are td make^tht^ beft of your Way to wind* 
 Wardi- for looking- out for ine, to- deliver- it,- as i^- 
 dtr^ed-abo^e tor- the .S^r^/ri-- - - i> - : - . 
 
 And
 
 t '88] 
 
 And Captain Douglafs in the Princefs Roydl Fiof* 
 pital Ship, on his Return from the prefent Service, 
 IS to compleat his Water, and to put himfelf undei* 
 the Orders of Captain Cotes. 
 
 And you are to give to Captain Cotes (or fend, if 
 you are not anchored in the fame Bay with him) 
 a Copy of thefe my Orders, figned by you as a true 
 Copy ; which he is hereby required to govern 
 himfelf by, till my Return to my faid Rendezvous.. 
 
 And when you are watered, you are to put tQ~ 
 Sea, and cruize in the faid Rendezvous for my Re-' 
 turn, and the Information of all coming to it. Buti 
 on Captain Cotes's meeting any Intelligence that he> 
 judges proper to be immediately communicated to- 
 me, you will follow his Orders, and make the beft' 
 of your Way for finding me out. For, (^c. 
 
 Given on board the Boyne^ at Sea, off Poiitt S 
 Bacoe^ the 15 th of December^ 1741. ^ 
 
 To Captain Long, of the Cheftcr. 
 By, ^c. 
 
 WHereas it may be of great Importance to his 
 Majefly*s Service, that neither the Reinforce-* ' 
 ments faid to be coming from England, nor any 
 Orders coming for me, fhould pafs by me unob- 
 ferved j 
 
 You are hereby required and direded, to make 
 the beft of your Way as high up as Cape Alia Vela^ 
 as the Current feems favourable for it ; and to 
 cruize to the Southward of that, under the former 
 Orders you have from me> to the loth Day of 
 'January next. At the Expiration of which Time^^ 
 you will look out for me, or Orders by fome of' 
 ray Cruizers, at the general Rendezvous appointed; 
 you ; and not meeting with any, make the beft 
 
 of
 
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 bf your Way for Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica^ for 
 receiving my further Orders. For, ^c. .;,^ 
 
 Given on board the Boyne^ at Sea, off the Ifle oP 
 A/by the i^th of December ^ J 741. 
 
 i '. ;.' T./ST ,-Mv>;. .^:i-S . >-...., , -*^ v^ ,^..~ 
 
 I ' I l i I 111 II m mmal^mtm^mmaHmamtaifm^m^ 
 
 ^0 General We n t w o r t h* -. a' vnn"* 
 
 SIR, ,?.:::: 
 
 IHave receiv'd yours of the 25th of December^ 
 with one inclofed without Date, fign'd by 
 you, Mr. Guife, and Mr. Trelawney, with your 
 Opinions for holding a General Council of War 
 as loon as we could, upon the Receipt of his. 
 Grace the Duke of Newcaftle^s Letters. 
 
 Capt. fVard deliver*d me thefe Letters on Sunday 
 Morning the 3d Inftant, as Sir Chaloner Ogle and 
 I were in our Way to Jamaica for holding the laid 
 General Council of War -, after having firll made 
 a flrong Detachment for going to cruize off Cape 
 Aha f^ela, for the Security of the Tranlports, that 
 I found were coming out with fo weak a Convoy 
 as two fifty-gun Ships and a forty-gun Ship with 
 four Bomb-Ketches. I know the French have no- 
 thing as yet in thefe Parts to annoy them i but 
 God knows what may be at Martiniq^ue. 
 
 As we are all agreed in the Expediency of hold- 
 ing a General Council of War as foon as may be. 
 Sir Chaloner Ogle and I will be in Spanifh Town on 
 the 7th Inftant in the Evening, for meeting you 
 and JVIr. Guife at Mr. Trelawney's on the 8 th 
 Inftant, by nine o*Clock in the Morning. And 
 we Ihlll take up our Quarters at Friends Houfes, 
 that Mr, Trelawney may have Accommodations fpr 
 you and Mr. Guife, 
 
 I will take care to have Captain La and Lieut. 
 
 Lowtber to attend the Council of W*r (pr. being 
 
 B b examined
 
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 cxamin'd j and defire you will give Orders for 
 Mr. David Campbell's Attendance on the Council, 
 and any one eWe you think proper, for giving In- 
 formation on the leverai Projeds that have been 
 tranfmitted to you ; and I have wrote to Mr. Tre- 
 lawney^ to have Mr. Hodgfon to attend us. 
 
 And as I conceive the drawing up our Realbns, 
 for or againft any Thing propos*d, muft neceflarily 
 draw our Proceedings into a great Length, I fliall 
 decline any longer acting as Secretary ; but think 
 it abfolutely neceflary we ihould have a Secretary 
 to attend us, to take Minutes, and draw up our 
 Proceedings andRefolutions in Form : And as they 
 ihould be kept a Secret, I cannot think of any one 
 fo proper for it as Mr. Attorney General, who is 
 a fworn Officer to keep fecret the Councils of the 
 Crown , and I have defir'd Mr. Trelawney to re- 
 queft that Favour of him. 
 
 I was exceedingly furpriz*d, upon reading Capt. 
 iTrevcr'i Letter, that you had prevailed on him to 
 give Orders, for the fick Soldiers of the American 
 Regiment being receiv*d into the Hofpital for our 
 Seamen at Pori Royal : An Order, I conceive, that 
 neither he nor I can juftify, it bringing fuch a 
 Charge OH the Navy, and which he may be liable 
 to have charg'd upon his Wages. 
 
 Whereas, Sir, you well know, you have an 
 eftablilh'd Hofpital for your Army, and much 
 more numerous Officers and Surgeons appointed 
 for the Care of it than we have, tho* we have a 
 greater Number Of Men to be taken Care of; and 
 you have likewife the ftrideft Orders, for the 
 American Regiment to be regarded in every Re- 
 fpedt as the other Forces your Army is compos*d 
 of, and have the large Town of Kingjlon to pro- 
 vide Quarters for them all in : Whereas we are fo 
 ftraiten'd in Port Royal, as not to be able to pro- 
 cure
 
 cure fufficient Lodgment for our fick Seamen. 
 And as this is fo inconfiftent with what his Grace 
 has recommended to us (an amicable Union in all 
 Things) I muft beg the Favour, Sir, you will 
 give immediate Orders for the fick American Sol- 
 diers, lent us to man our Ships, being receiv'd 
 into the Army Hoipital (agreeable to his Majefty's 
 Orders) whenever they have Occafion for it ; and 
 that you will, by Captain Trevor, let me know 
 where fuch as have immediate Occafion for it, 
 may be now fent accordingly, from. Q^r Ships 
 come in with us, and coming in. or1ih^<^- '^^ 
 
 I will do all in my Power, punfhially to comply 
 with his Majefty's Inftruftions ; and hope you will 
 give immediate Orders for removing this Stum- 
 bling Block, that I may leave the neceflary Orders 
 behind me in that Particular, before my going for 
 Spani/h Town. 
 
 I congratulate you on your late Recovery from 
 your Fever ; and, with my beft Wilhes for your 
 Health, I am, 
 
 SIR, ,^ 
 
 Soytie, in Port Royal JToUT tHoft Ohedienty ,1^ 
 
 nzxhQrxr,jamaica, Himbk Servant, :> 
 
 Jan. 5, 1741. jg^y^ 
 
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 [ 193 3 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 An Account of our March from the Camp at the 
 Upper Barkadier on Augufta River^ to the Village 
 pf Etteguava, and hack to the Camp. 
 
 Saturday, July 25, 1741. 
 
 THIS Morning about half an Hour pall 
 Nine, we fet out from the Camp, on 
 the Right Hand Side of the ^wtr Augufta^ 
 in Cumberland Harbour ( formerly call'd Walthenam \) 
 and about four Miles up, we crofs'd over to thie 
 Left Hand of the River (it being then near Noon) 
 and march'd about two Miles farther, and came 
 to a Hutt, where we ftopp'd to refreJh the Men, 
 and look about us. "We found the Spaniards had 
 not been long gone, for in the Fire we found 
 Plantains not half rpaftedj we likewife catch'd 
 eleven Horfes, one live Hog, and fopie jerk*d Pork ; 
 and found in the Wood near the Hutt about two 
 hundred ftnall Shot for Fuzees, and about ten 
 Pound of Gunpowder, and the Sails of one of 
 our Longboats that the Spaniards had deftroy'd. 
 About Four in the Afternoon we fet out again, 
 and foon crofs'd the River again to the Right 
 Hand, at a Place they call Hog Hole. In crofling 
 the River, there was a high Bank over-againft us. 
 On the Top of the Bank we faw a Hutt, and 
 march'd direftly up to it ; but before we could 
 get up, a Spaniard fired a Mufket and ran away. 
 Here there were feveral Paths, and we had the ill 
 Luck to take the wrong, which carried us, too far 
 to the Northward. Night coming on, we got up- 
 on
 
 on a Tniali Hill, and (laid there, 'till the next 
 Morning. 
 
 S u N D A Y, 7a/y 26, 1 741. 
 This Morning at Day Light wc fet out again in 
 order to find the River and right Path, and about 
 Nine o'Clock we came to the Riyer, and.crols'd 
 over to the Left Hand Side of it, and came to ano- 
 ther Hutt, where we found the other Longboat's 
 Sails, and the right Road. We ftaid here about an 
 Hour, and then fet out again j the Pilot was afk*d 
 if he knew where he was ; he anfwer'd, he did, and 
 told them, before we reach*d the Savanna we fliould 
 come to a Ruinat, (which we did.) The Path here 
 is very good, leading by the River Side till you 
 come to a Rivulet about two Steps over, and then 
 you go into the Woods again, and then you have 
 a plain fmooth Road 'till you come to the Savanna. 
 The Pilot told us, that juft entering into the Savanna^ 
 was a likely Place for an Ambufli (which we found 
 coming back.) We march*d about four Miles over 
 the Savanna,, and came to the Houfe, and took Pof-* 
 feflion of it about Half an Hour paft Three in the 
 Afternoon; this Houfe and Savanna belong to 
 Don Pedro Guarro, and are called Guantanamo. The 
 Pilot fhew*d another Houfe about two Miles and a 
 half from Guanianamo, over a fine Savanna, which 
 is call'd Cano Faco, belonging to Marcos Paries, the 
 River running between the Houfes; here Major 
 jyunjlon ordered fifty Soldiers, we with the reft of 
 the Forces ftaying at the firft Houfe. Here is 
 plenty of Cattle, Horfes, fome Shi^ep^aifdFjDwiv 
 and Water very near the Houfe, . .Lu^H l^^iS 3iid 
 
 Monday, July 27, .ly^t.'.!! 
 This Morning about Eleven o*Clock, an Officer 
 with a Guard of eight Men was fent with Letters to 
 the General \ by the fame OfHcer I wrote to the Ad- 
 miral.
 
 ['95] 
 miral. The Guard had not been long gone before 
 News was brought from Cam Vaco^ that they had 
 taken two Spaniards^ one very Old, the other a 
 young Man, who was going to his Captain Don 
 Pedro Guarro, who had a Company of fifty Men. 
 He hkewife told us, ' that Captain Marcos Parks 
 had another Company of twenty-five Men, guard- 
 ing this Part of the Country. We continued at 
 the firft Houfe. 
 
 Tuesday, JulyiZ^ 1741. 
 This Morning we fet out for the Village ofEftg' 
 guava^ leaving fifty Soldiers to take Care of the 
 Houfe, and called at the other Houfe called Cam 
 Vaco, and took fifty Men that were there with us, 
 which made us about a hundred and fifty Shot. 
 We march'd over a pretty fteep Hill and an ugly 
 ftony Road, and about Four o*Clock in the Afrer- 
 noon we enter'd the Village without any Refinance. 
 About two Miles before we came to the Village, 
 we met with a Lime-Kiln, and, a little Way from 
 that, with two Hog Crawls, with fome Hogs in 
 them. The Village Hands on a high Bank, the 
 River running half Way round it ; it confifts of a 
 few Hutts, and a Church about forty- five Poot 
 long and eighteen broad. Here we faw a Spaniard m 
 a Corn Piece ; he was purfued, dropp*d his Mufker, 
 and got away ; the Mufket was one'of our Ship*s 
 Arms. This Place is about N.W. from the Mouth 
 of U\t Harbour, diftant ten Leagues. In the Even- 
 ings and Mornings it is friirWeather, in the Middle 
 of the Day wc never miffed of Rain with l^hunder 
 and Lightning. Here is plenty of every Thing-, 
 but Bread Kind, the Plantains not being ripe. 
 
 Wednesday, July 2<)^ 1741. 
 This Afternoon we took a Negro Man with 
 three Lances and a Mufker, who had run away 
 
 from
 
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 f^om his Mafter*s Hutt with four more Negroes^ 
 they knowing our People were about. He is aL 
 poor filly Fellow^ like a ftew Negro. We con^ 
 tinued in this Village. *i 
 
 r 
 
 Thursday. July %o^ ^74^- 
 This Morning about Ten o*Clock an Officer was 
 fent to Guantanamo with a Guard of four Men, 
 with Letters to be forwarded to the General, and 
 one of mine to the Admiral. About Six o'Clock 
 in the Afternoon, we took another Negro Man, 
 who lives at St. Jago, a free Man. He had two 
 Hog-Spears and a Mafcheet, juft come from Hunt- 
 ing. He came through the Savanna called Sia. Ca- 
 tatina^ and finding no Body there, was going di- 
 redly to St. Jago. He feems to be a fenfible Fel- 
 low, but pretends not to know of any Parties of, 
 Spaniards being about. We fent a Party out this 
 Morning to look about them ; they found, about 
 one Mile and a half, fome moreHutts, Hogs, and 
 Fowls. There are feveral Hutts about this Place. 
 
 Friday, July ^i, 1741. 
 Weather as before ; we fent our Men out to get 
 Bread Kind ; very little to be found. 
 
 Saturday, Auguft i, 1741. 
 5 This Morning about Eleven o'Clock Lieutenant 
 Freeman arrived here from Cam Vaco^ with ten Sol- 
 diers, a Serjeant and Corporal, and twenty-four 
 5'^ggiige and Shot Negroes ; and gives an Account 
 of Lieutenant Withers and one Negro Man being 
 fhot, and fix Negroes more miffing, they meeting 
 voth an Ambufh at the Corner of a Wood between 
 the two Houfes called Cam Vaco and Guantanamo, 
 He likewife brought a Letter from Colonel Cockrany 
 (then at Guantanamo)' to Major Bunjiony to return 
 
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 to him with all Expedition. About half an Hour 
 pad Two o'clock in the Afternoon we ftt out 
 from the Village [EWeguava) and about Ten at 
 Night we got into Cam Vaco ; (it was fo dark in the 
 Wood that two Negroes were forced to go on 
 their Hands and Knees to find the Road -,) here we 
 laid all Night. 
 
 ' ^- '" ' * Sunday, Auguft 2, 1 74T. 
 ' This Morning about Eight o*Clock we fet out 
 from Cam Vaco^ and got to Guantanamo about half 
 an Hour pad: Nine, where we found Colond Cochran 
 with two hundred Soldiers (as I was informed. ) I 
 applied myfelf to him, as being the Commanding 
 Officer ; he told me he expefted to hear from the 
 General this Evening or the next Morning, and 
 then he believed he fhould go down, and that I 
 might go with him ; and that he had forwarded a 
 Letter! wrote to the Admiral from the Village. 
 About half an Hour pafl Six in the Afternoon, 
 Lieutenant - Colonel Whitford arrived from the 
 Camp with fifty Soldiers, thirty-two Shot Negroes, 
 and feventy-fix Baggage Negroes, with Provifions 
 (Bread and Brandy) for four hundred Men ; our 
 Men were ordered a Quarter of a Pint of Brandy, 
 and one Pound of Brem each. Here we (hid all 
 Night. 
 
 Monday, Auguji ^^ 1741. 
 This Day nothing remarkable, but tried to pen 
 Cattle and Horfes. Continued at this Place aft 
 Night. Our Men had fhort Allowance of Bread, 
 and a Quarter of a Pint of Brandy. The Colonel 
 afked me if our Men had got their Provifions for 
 to-morrow, for he fhould go by Day-break ; I 
 told him, I was afraid, if they had their Brandy 
 they would drink it to-night -, he then faid they 
 fhould have it in the Morning. 
 
 Cc Tuesday
 
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 Tuesday, Juguji 4, 1 741. 
 This Morning about Six o'CIock, we fet out 
 from Guantanamo, in order to march to the Camp ; 
 and about nine o*Clock, juft as we were enter*d 
 the Wood froin the Savanna, we were ambufh'd 
 by the Spaniards. They let the Soldiers pafs, and 
 moft of our Men. There was a Soldier eafing 
 himfelf behind us j the Spaniards fired firft at him, 
 and fhot him in the Breaft, and ran to him and 
 cut him thro* the Jaw-Bone, and one Side of his 
 Neck ; another cut thro* the Flefh of his Thigh 
 into the Bone; and another on his Side. Our 
 Men diredtly turn*d to the Spaniards, and kill'd 
 that Man and two more. As foon as they found 
 that, they ran away through the Woods. They 
 wounded one of our Men in both his Arms ; one, 
 after he was brought on board, was cut off clofe 
 ;o his Shoulder ; the Soldier lived about half an 
 Hour. We brought him on a Horfe about three 
 Miles, and buried him at a Hutt where we flaid 
 and dined. After Dinner we fet out again, and 
 about four o'CIock we arriv'd in the Camp. We 
 met the General a little Way out of the Camp, 
 who defir'd me to go to his Tent, and faid that 
 he fhould return foon, and that he had two Letters 
 from the Admiral to me ; I went to his Tent and 
 flaid 'till the General return'd, and receiv'd the 
 two Letters, and then took Boat and waited on the 
 Admiral. 
 
 T. Sturton. 
 
 ^
 
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 'The following are Tranjlations of three Letters from 
 the Governor of St. Jago de Cuba, to Capt. Peter 
 
 ? 'Guerra, dated the ^oth and ^iji of July, and the 
 2^/Auguft, 1741, N. S. ' 
 
 To Captain Peter Guerra. 
 
 TH E Bearer Balthazar arriv'd here at Eleven, 
 with an Account of feventeen Ships having 
 anchored in the Bay, and of eight being off the 
 Mouth of the Bay, and of two Sloops being got 
 into the River. And as it is natural to think they 
 are come to take Pofleflion thereof, it is abfolutely 
 neceffary you interrupt them, as much as is in your 
 Power, from proceeding higher up j and if they 
 fhould offer to land, you muft difpute their ad- 
 vancing at every Pafs, taking care to have proper 
 Men to obferve their Motions ; of which you are^ 
 to fend me immediate Notice, that I may fend 
 you fuflicient Succours. You are to take Poffeflion 
 of all the Paffes with fmall Numbers of Men, and 
 lie in Ambulh, that in cafe they fliould come up 
 the River, they may return hke Mad Men, and 
 not dare to land. 
 
 I have order'd all the Men to be affembled to- 
 gether, excepting thofe that are neceffary foj* 
 making Caffave and Curing Beef for them that 
 are in Junicon. \ 
 
 To attack this Place, they have no other Parj;, 
 but that Bay to come to an Anchor at. Therefore 
 it*s neceffary that you and your People ihould 
 maintain yourfelves in Sight of the B.iy, that it" 
 they ffiould offer to land you may afford them 
 good Diverlion ; which is what I exped from your 
 good Condudl and Knowledge of the Place. If 
 you want any Powder, fend a Party of Horfc^ 
 and a Perfon you can confide in, that they may 
 carry it, and Firelocks, if you fl\ould want any. 
 
 Cuba,. July 30, 1741. N. ^. C A X I G A L , 
 
 Cc 2. 'i;q
 
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 ^o' Captain Peter Gxterra. 
 
 I Have receiv*d your two Letters, by which I find 
 there are in that Bay and the Entrance thereot 
 fixty Sail, and obferve by them what ydu have 
 done, and of their having chafed your Boats twice 
 in the River ; and expedl from your Zeal and 
 Love to the Royal Service, that you will not only 
 impede whatever they may defign, but that by 
 your Cafe, with that of your People, Jrou will 
 obferve their Operations by Day and by Night, 
 and endeavour to learn if they have raifed any 
 Fortifications, giving me Notice of every Thing j 
 and don't lofe an Inftant of Time. 
 
 We have eight Sail in Sight off this Harbour. 
 By Amhrozio Lopex I have fent you twenty good 
 Mufkets, two Arroves [fifty Pound] of Powder, 
 three hundred Balls, and thirty Flints. 
 ^ I expc6l that yoii will not only hinder them 
 from burning your Hato [a Pen of Cattle,] but 
 even from putting a Foot on Shore i and take 
 care to obferve if they fortify themfelves or not. 
 
 ^^j Cuba, July jx, 1741, N. S. CAXiOAt. 
 
 i^U-jirQ - ' T<? Captain PetirGuerra. 
 
 .jJlt7ITH a great deal of Pleal'ure I receiv*d 
 
 ^^^^ yo"f two Letters of yefterday, in which you 
 
 ! fell, me you have beat away the Enemy, burnt two 
 
 iof their Boats, taken an Enfign, with fome Arms 
 
 and Baggage, and kill'd and wounded a great 
 
 many of them ; For which I give you and your 
 
 People a thoufand Thanks, expeding from your 
 
 Valour, Zeal, and Love to the King, that you 
 
 will hinder them from watering, and deftroy every 
 
 one that offers to put his Foot on Shore j^ or. to 
 
 fee them obliged to leave the Glory to you alone, 
 
 of having drove them inglorioufly away from this 
 
 Btty. And if, for your enjoying this Pleafure, you 
 
 Ihould
 
 [ 20I ] 
 
 fliould have Occafion for more Arms, Men, and 
 Ammunition, advife me of it, that, altho* I go 
 myfelf in Perfon, you may be aflifted. 
 
 You have already received by Amhrozio Lopez two 
 %Arroves [fifty Pound] of Powder, three hundred 
 Balls, and thirty Flints ; and if they are not fuffi- 
 ,cient, I will fend you what Quantity you pleafe. 
 .<; I have wrote to Father iV^/^/w to provide you 
 with Rum and Provifions, that you may have 
 fufficient of every Thing ; and take Car^ for I 
 confide entirely in you and your People. ' '-,; ^* 
 
 If any jEw^/^w^w Ihould happen to come Over 
 to you, give him good Quarters, and fend him 
 to me, that I may get fome Intelligence from him. 
 For I am perfwaded that they intend to fortify 
 themfelves at that Port ; of which you are to en- 
 deavour to get fome Account by all manner of 
 Means, fending Perfons that know the Place to 
 the very Bay, that they may fee and obferve whe- 
 ther they land on the little Ifland, or elfewhere ; 
 if they raife any Earth, and of every Thing they 
 do, give me Advice. And to the Perfon by whom 
 you fend fuch Advice, give your PalTport, that he 
 may get Horfes all the Way, for the greater 
 Difpatch. 
 
 Let all your People know, that if any of them 
 ihall plunder, or take any Thing from the Engli/h^ 
 all that he ihall fo pillage fhall belong to him, let 
 it be what Quantity it will. ^ '; ^ 
 
 I live fo fatisfied of Your*s and ybi^ 'Pet^p%*^ 
 Zeal, that they will be a Terror to the Enemy ; 
 and with fuch favourable Beginnings, I hope they 
 will leave Cuia with more broken Heads than they 
 did Cartaxcna,
 
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 To Admiral V z r n o n. 
 
 , Honoured SIR, 
 ' I ''H E Bearer of this is Don Miguel Perez, an 
 
 -' Inhabitant of St. J ago de Cuba, whom I beg 
 Leave to recommend to your Protedion. As he 
 is a Perfon praflifed in the Sea, he is able to give 
 a particular Account of the Place of his Nativity , 
 and I believe what he fays may be depended upon. 
 I am. 
 
 Honoured S I R, 
 Kingjion in Jamaica^ Tour moji Obedient, 
 
 7/yi8, 1741. Humble Servant, 
 
 Ja. Ord. 
 
 DECLARATION of Bon Miguel Perez. 
 
 HE is aCreol o^ St. J ago, has been many Years 
 Mailer of a Veflel out there, trading to dif- 
 ferent Parts of the Spanijh Main -, has a Wife and 
 Children in the faid City ; and was taken Prifoner 
 by an Englifh Privateer, off Zamba on the Coaft of 
 Cartaxena, about the 12th of September lad, and 
 carried into Jamaica, where he remained about ten ' 
 Months: 
 
 About eleven Years ago he had occafion to go 
 to Barracoa, in order to recover fome Debts ; and 
 fet out from St. Jago about Five in the Morning, 
 and got to Guaninicu (a Sugar Plantation belonging 
 to Padre Jofepb Mufiilier) before Noon, travelling 
 quite at his Eafe and Leifwre -, and believes it to be 
 about four Leagues dillance. From thence, next 
 Morning he fet forward, and got to Xagua (ano- 
 ther Sugar Work, belonging to Don Diego Mujlilier) 
 before Noon ; where he refted that Night. From 
 thence, next Morning he went for Savanilla, where 
 is. a large Pen of Hogs belonging to Don Jofeph 
 Jj)fada, and arrived, there the fame Night. From 
 
 thence^
 
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 thence, next Morning (being the fourth Day) he 
 fet out for Sta. Catalitia (a large Cattle- Pen belong- 
 ing to the Family of the Cavalleros) and arrived 
 there in the Evening : Thefe two laft Stages he lay 
 by from Nine in the Morning till about Three in 
 the Afternoon, hanging up his Hammock under the 
 Shade of the Trees, to avoid the Heat of the Sun. 
 From Sta. Catalina towards Barracoa, is a Place 
 called Tiguabos (difbnt about fix Leagues, to the 
 beft of his Judgment) where there is a Church, 
 and many Houles fcattered to and fro, inhabited 
 by Mulattoes and ordinary People *, and he knows 
 of no other Place in. the whole Road which can be 
 called a Village. He has always heard that the 
 faid 'Tiguahos is reckon*d twenty-five Leagues from 
 the City of St. J ago., and a tolerable good Road 
 the whole Way ; in fome Places broader and more 
 open than in others, but in all fo broad that Horfes 
 and Mules loaded can very well pafs ; which is the 
 only Carriage in the Country, except within about 
 two Leagues of the City, where they drive with 
 Wains and Oxen. There are wild Horfes, Cattle, 
 and Hogs, in plenty, the major Part of the Way, 
 and Rivers and Rivulets in abundance, with many 
 other Pens, Csfr. fcattered here and there near the 
 Highway. 
 
 He knows nothing of the Road from hence to 
 St. Jagq by Experience, but believes it mull be 
 much nearer to go by the Way of Guantanatno \ 
 which is a Cattle-Pen, belonging to Don Pedro 
 Guerm, from which Cattle-Pen this Bay, or Har- 
 bour, takes its Name ; and, he believes, may be 
 diftant from it about feven Leagues. 
 
 As to the Declaration of General Wentwortb, he 
 has read it, and allows it to be open and generous j 
 but before the Inhabitants can be fuppofed to give 
 into it, they will neccflarily expe<5l to perufe the 
 
 Terms
 
 [ 204 ] 
 
 Terms ; but the Confequence of that he cannot 
 anfwer for, and defires to be excufed giving his 
 Opinion : But, at the fame Time, fays, that he has 
 a Wife and Children, Father, Brother, and Sifters, 
 in the faid City , Ihould they accept of the Terms, 
 how is it poflible for him to part from them ? 
 
 And I Don Miguel Perez^ being entirely fatif- 
 fied as to the Interpretation of the faid Declaration, 
 twice read to me by Mr. Wiltiam Rogers, do affirm 
 the fame to be juft and true, according to the beft 
 of my Judgment. 
 
 Dated on board his Majefty's Ship the Boyne, in 
 Guantanamo Harbour, this nth Day of Auguji, 
 1741. 
 
 ^'iinefsy Miguel Perez. 
 
 Polycarpu'5 Taylor, 
 W. Rogen- 
 
 N. B. That Lieutenant Lowther (who refided 
 long with the Spaniards, has travelled much in their 
 Country, and been employed in cutting Roads for 
 them) fays, their computed Leagues are not two 
 Englifh meafured Miles. 
 
 Declaration of Manuel Jofeph de la Cruz, 
 a Free-horn Negro of St. Jago de la Cuba. 
 
 THAT he is perfectly well acquainted with 
 the Road from St. Jago to Tigmbos, which. 
 leads in the following Manner, viz. 
 
 From St. Jago to the Cuava, a Sugar Work 
 belonging to Don Francifco Rubukava j from thence 
 to Guaninicu, a Sugar Work belonging to Padre 
 Jofeph Mufiilier ; from thence to Xagua, a Sugar 
 Work belonging to Don Diego Muftilier ; from 
 thence to Agucate, a Cattle and Hog Pen, belong- 
 ing to Don Jofeph Palacios ; from thence to Sava^ 
 nilla^^ Cattle and Hog Pen, belonging to Don 
 
 - : '- " - Jofeph
 
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 Jofeph Lofada j from thence to MarcarejaSy a Cattle 
 and Hog Pen belonging to Don Diego Mujlilier ; 
 from thence to Tiguabosy where is a little Church 
 covered with Tiles, and about forty or fifty ftrag- 
 gling thatch'd Houfes, not in any regular order, 
 but all in fight of each othfer ; the Inhabitants 
 thereof being free Indians and Mulattoes. 
 
 He cannot venture to fay, how far diflant any 
 of the abovefaid Places are from each other ; but 
 is pofitive that it is accounted fifteen Leagues in 
 the whole, and that he has travelled the fame on 
 Horfeback in one Day and a Night. 
 
 He has often heard that there is a Cattle Pen, 
 called Sta. Catalina^ belonging to fome Brothers, 
 named Cavalier os \ and another belonging to Pedra 
 Guerra, called Gtiantanamo -, but does not knovr 
 exadtly where they lye. He never heard of any 
 Houfe called Cano Vaco, belonging to Marcos Paries^ 
 or any thing like the Name -, nor does he know, 
 or ever heard of, any Place or Pen whatever called 
 Etteguava. 
 
 So far as Tiguahos he knows very well, and no 
 farther i and will undertake to lead the Way from 
 thence to the faid City of St. J ago. He farther 
 faith, that there are wild Horfes, Cattle and Hogs, 
 great part of the Way, and fevcral Rivers and Ri- 
 vulets ; the Road in fome Places not fo good as 
 in others, but at all times, and every where, paf- 
 fable for loaded Mules and Horfes i which is the 
 only Carriage made ufe of above two Leagues dif- 
 tance from the City ; within which Compafs they 
 frequently ufe Wheel Carriages with Oxen. 
 
 Dated on board his Majcfty's Ship the Boyne^ ia 
 Cumberland ll3iiho\jii, this i2ih o{ Auguji, 1741. 
 
 ^ '>'>. The Mark "" of 
 
 W.R^^S: Man. JofephdTla Cruz. 
 
 P d Die LA"]
 
 [ 206 ] 
 
 Declaration of Sebaftian de Hkierdo, tahn 
 about five Months ago on the Coaji of Cartaxcna, 
 in a fmall Ship from St. Jago loaded with Sugar 
 and 'Tobacco. 
 
 HE is a Creol of the faid St. Jago^ and fays he 
 knows the Country and Roads perfedily well 
 from hence thither , that he went out with a Party 
 of Men commanded by Colonel Cockran, to Guan- 
 ianamo^ a Cattle Pen belonging to Pedro Guerra^ 
 which is four Leagues (or four Hours) diftance 
 from the Camp : That when there, Colonel Cockran 
 afked him many Queftions ; as, how far from 
 thence to St. Jago ? what fort of a Road ^ whether 
 there were Plantations or Houfes in the Way, and 
 Plenty of Water and Cattle } to which he an- 
 fwer*d, from Guantanamo to St. Jago was reckon'd 
 fifteen Leagues, the five firft of which were but 
 indifferent in the rainy Seafon, being wet and floppy 
 under Foot and not fo open as the other Ten ; 
 which is a good broad Road the whole Way, and 
 wide enough for fix Men to walk a-breaft : That 
 m the Way there were many Sugar Works, Cattle 
 Pens, and Vegas of Tobacco, with plenty of Water, 
 and wild as well as tame Cattle : That from Guan- 
 tanamo they went about a League farther in order 
 to view the Road, and upon their Return the Co- 
 lonel told him, that he was very well fatisfied with 
 his Intelligence, and believed he had told hini ilie 
 Truth. not) ^miX 
 
 , He has travelled from Guanlanamo to St. Jago 
 -it- foot in a Couple of Days, walking leifurely along, 
 and lying by the Afternoon and Night on the 
 Road : But fays, upon Occafion, he could reach 
 St.' Tnes (a Sugar Work belonging to Don Miguel 
 de las Cuevas, which is within a League of the 
 Town) in one Day, and that he has rode it, i^ii 
 one Horfe, in ten Hours^ ^ 
 
 i-a The
 
 [ 207 ] 
 
 The foregoing Declaration being interpreted, and 
 .diftindly read to me by Mr. William Rogers^ I do 
 affirm the fame to be juft and true. ^'*^^^\ ^ ^^ 
 
 Dated on board his Majefty's Ship "^cr^m^ in 
 Cumberland Harbour f this ift ot Sept ember y 1741. 
 
 Witntfs, 
 
 R. Swanton, Sebaflian de Hiciefdo. 
 
 W.Rogers. , V '' 
 
 DscLARATioN^/ Mr. Tolcr. 
 May it pleafe your Honour^ 
 
 HAving but fhort Warning allowed me, when 
 I reprefented to you the Situation of St. Jago^ 
 Byam, &c. with the Inclinations of the People, as 
 they ftand affedlcd at this prefent Jundure 1 give 
 me Leave to offer you this as a farther Account of 
 both. The Towns in general are made up of a 
 few rich Dons, who exercife their arbitrary Power 
 over a Multitude of poor People, who having no 
 Recourfe to any open Laws to relieve them out of 
 their unnatural and inhuman Behaviour towards 
 them, has brought them to an idle and effeminate 
 Courfe of Life, without any Hopes of Relief, ex- 
 cept what may be now expefted from the EnTliJb^ 
 whom they have long hoped for, and now daily 
 cxpeft, not only the poorer Sort, but Numbers of 
 higher Degrees of Life, which I have for a long 
 Time converfed with on that Head. Your Ho- 
 nour, I believe, will not fuppofe that their not 
 coming in to us before we fhew ourfelves refolved 
 to protect them, is any Reafon why they arc 
 not well inclined towards a Change ; their Lives 
 and Fortunes depending upon the bad or good 
 Succefs of the Enterprize. That there is a great 
 Number of People fcattered throughout this large 
 Ifland, is moft certain, the major Part of which 
 D d 3 is
 
 [ 208 ] 
 
 is now at the Havamia -, and I really believe that 
 that Town contains about half the Inhabitants of 
 the whole ; but let any Man live among thefe 
 People as long as I have, and he will readily fee 
 and know, how incapable they are of defending 
 themfelves againft a well-trained and contagious 
 People, as we for many Centuries paft have proved 
 ourlblves to be : I fay, for Men who are Strangers 
 to Arms, and bred up as wild as the Hogs they 
 devour (without any kind of Exercifes to create 
 man-like Difpofitions) can never be fuppofed to 
 Hand the leaft Attack of an Enemy. I fhall offer 
 fome fmall Account of the great Excellencies of 
 this Ifland (as flir as I know and have fecn) which 
 I believe will be enough to invite any Man to at^- 
 tempt the Conqueft. 
 
 I was fent from St. Jago to Byam with fixty-thr^e 
 Prifoners, to be kept there at the cheapeft rate if/ 
 we lived upon half a Bitt a Day, and haid Beef, 
 Pork, and Bread to fpare. 
 
 Thro' all the Country that I pad, the Savannas 
 were fwarming with Cattle, and the Woods with 
 Hogs, both tame and wild j the Land is good for Su- 
 gar Canes, which it produces, andTobacco of the bell 
 Kind in great plenty j Wheat and Rice grow well, 
 and all kind of Salleting and Pulfe in the greateft 
 Plenty that ever I faw, with Fruit of all Kinds that 
 thofe Indies afford. The Woods are full -of Ma- 
 hogony, Fuftick, SpaniJh'Elm, and Cedar, and fe-" 
 veral other Kinds that I am not acquainted with ; 
 Cotton grows wild, befidcs what is planted. The 
 Town of Covery has in it the richeft Copper-Mine 
 that is known, and they are daily at work upon 
 it ; it lies within three Leagues of St. J ago. The 
 whole Ifland is full of fine Rivers, and Harbours fit 
 for Tranfportation. This being all that came in 
 my View, can fay nothing of the great Tradt of 
 ' ' Land
 
 [ 209 ] 
 
 Land that leads to the Havama^ which I am told 
 tv exceeds what I have mentioned., 
 
 ; I return your Honour Thanks for the great Care 
 you have taken in procuring me and my Fellow 
 Prifoners our Deliverance out of the Hands of 
 thofe brutifh People, who by their ^Ithy Beha- 
 viour to each other, as well as their barbarous. 
 Ulage to Strangers, Ihew themfelves ripe for De- 
 ftrudlion. And 1 make no doubt of Succefs, if all 
 concerned ufe the fame willing Means that you do; 
 and what great or good Thing can be had without 
 fome Hazard or Pains ? Had not your Honour 
 fent for me, I Ihould have ofFer'd myfelf to you 
 upon this Occafion, with a hearty Will to ferve 
 either by Land or Water, as you /hall think fit. 
 I am 
 
 Witnefi* Tour ifioft humhk Servanty 
 
 X;Y''^V-,^, . ., . .\ W.TOLER. 
 
 W.Rogers. '''^"; ii -i -rrt: v 
 
 Oh board the Boyne, Auguft 1 7, 1 74 1 , 
 
 Captain Allen, of the Seahorfe, his Account of what 
 j>afs*d at M. Larnage'j Table at Hifpaniola. 
 
 SAturday the 25th of July ^ 1741, .being then in 
 Company with Monfieur Marquis ^^Z<<2r<a^^, the 
 French General of Hifpaniola^ he alked me where 
 I left Admiral Vernon and Sir Chaloner Ogle-, I told 
 him off the Navaffa, with about fifty or fixty Sail 
 of Tranfports. He afk'd if I knew where they 
 were defign'd , I anfwer'd no, that it was kept a 
 Secret. I believe, faith the Marquis de Lama^e, 
 the Admiral will go for St. Jago de Cuba, it being 
 a Place that will always ^ive you Gentlemen Englip 
 Trouble, on Account of their Privateers : But for 
 the Admiral*s attacking it by Sea, faith the Mar- 
 quis, I think it not pofiible, by Reafon of the 
 
 Narrownefs
 
 [ 210 ] 
 
 Narrownefs at the Entrance of the Harbour, and 
 the Winds that take your Ships aback in going 
 in : But, laid he, it' it is to be taken, it muft be by 
 Land. 
 
 Seahorfe, \n CumherUndihshow, E^ ALLEIf 
 
 Ca^^^, ^^, 12, !7fl. 
 
 Mr* Mac NeillV Remarks on the Road betwixt the 
 General's Camp and Guantanamo. 
 
 SOME Remarks of the Road betwixt the Ge- 
 neraPs Camp and the other. 
 
 The Diflance between botli being, to the beft 
 of my Knowledge, about fixteen Miles ; of which 
 there is five Miles of a Savanna^ which wants little 
 or no Clearance. The reft of the Road in general 
 is but narrow, but very level, and can be eafily 
 clear'd twenty Foot each Side of the faid Road, 
 with a little Trouble, 
 
 uiKguji 13, 1741. A. Mac Neill. 
 
 Lieutenant George Lowthcr*^ Declaration of the 
 iv i^tb <j^ Auguft, 1741. 
 
 fT*^'is fixtcen Miles from the Camp to Peter 
 Guerra's Houfe, call*d Guantanamo. 
 
 I jud^e a Road might be cut to Guantanamo 
 twenty Foot wide in five Days by three hundred 
 Negroes, I having had Slaves, and they always cut 
 twelve Yards Square each Day, and had due Time 
 to reft. 
 
 I believe if the Road were cut ftrelght, it would 
 (liorten the Diftance two Miles. 
 
 I never heard or knew that Colonel Cockran ad- 
 vanced in the Road from Guantanamo towards the 
 Village with the Httle Church, where Lieutenant 
 ^T'-"*-^. Sturton
 
 [2n] 
 
 Siurton Went v/Ith the firft advanced Guvird, above 
 one Mile, and that was in an open Savanna^ I 
 then being with liim. 
 
 Juguji 14, 1 741, G. LOWTHER, 
 
 Report of Lieutenant George Lowther, and John 
 Gibbins, Pilot, 
 SIR, 
 
 PUrfuant to your Order, thr 22d of Ju^ujt we 
 weigh*d and fail'd from Cumberland Harbour 
 in the Sloop Triton, and proceeded on our Voyage 
 to the Wcftward, coafting along Shore, to fee if 
 there was any Place for a Ship to anchor in be- 
 tween this and the Jquadores ; but could not find 
 any Place fit to anchor our Sloop in. ''- 
 
 About three Leagues to the Eaftward of th<* 
 yiquadores, there are three fmall Hills, callM by 
 tlie Spaniards the Attaos. Here Alexander de Vilnairfy 
 a Frenchman we had on board by Order, faid there 
 was a good Bay with anchoring Ground -, we flood 
 clofe into the faid Place, and founded with our 
 deep Sea Line, but could get no Ground with 
 eighty Fathom ; nor was there any Bay, but the 
 whole Coaft is an Iron-bound Shore, and fteep too 
 in all Parts. 
 
 From this Place we could fee the Fortifications 
 at the Aquadores, which we did intend to view in 
 the Morning; but Night coming on with bad 
 Weather and a great Sea from the South F^ft, 
 we made the befl of our Way to Cumberland Har- 
 bour, according to our Orders. "'^ 
 
 Sign*d on board his Majcfl)'*s Ship the Boytti^ 
 this 30th of Augujf, 1 74 1 . 
 
 ff'itnefs, G. LOWTHIR, 
 
 T.Watfoii, T. GiBBINS. ' 
 
 R. bwantou. 
 
 Bearings
 
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 Bearings and Diftances, as they were found to be ly 
 John Frafer, Majier of his Majejifs Skip Orford, 
 Capt. Perry Mayne Commander^ Sept. i8, 1741. 
 
 FROM Cape Mayze to Cumberland Harbour the 
 CourfeisW.S.W. ' W. diftant 29 Leagues. 
 From Cumberland Harbour to St. J ago the Courfe 
 isW. S.W. diftant 11 Leagues. 
 
 pr J. Fraser. 
 
 Mr. William Scott'^ Account of the Roady that he was 
 brought by from Barracoa to St. Jago de Cuba. 
 
 ON Monday the 24th of May^ 1742, I fet out 
 from Barracoa^ guarded by two Soldiers, who 
 were to condudt me to St. Jago. The Soldiers 
 both march*d on Foot with their Mufkets, but I 
 had a Horfe allowed rne, being very weak from a 
 late Sicknefs. Our Road lay chiefly over the 
 Mountains *till Thurfday Evening, when we came 
 to the Sea Shore on the South Side of the IHand. 
 We travell*d on by the Sea Side *till Friday 
 Afternoon, and then turn*d off to the Hills, over 
 which we continued our Journey untill eight 
 o'Ck)ck on. Sunday MoTnm^', (by their bringing 
 me by the Sea on the South Side of the Ifland, 
 I conceive they did not bring me the direct Road 
 to St. Jago.) In defcending this lafl Hill, I faw 
 the Opening of a very large Harbour, which the 
 Soldiers faid was Guantanam (and which we call*d 
 Cumberland Harbour.) We travelled the remaining 
 Part oi Sunday thro* large Savannas, well flock*d 
 with Cattle and Sheep, and lodg'd that Night at 
 a ruin'd Church that flood on a high Bank, near a 
 River that furrounded about two thirds of the Vil- 
 lage, which the Soldiers told me was the Village 
 that the Englijh had been at and defboy'd it. 
 
 On
 
 [ 213 ] 
 
 On Monday Morning (being the next DayJ we 
 crofs'd tiie River, which River the Soldiers told me 
 emptied itfelf into Guantanant (or Cumberla>id Har- 
 bour.) After crofling the River, we travelled thro* 
 Groves of Trees, where no Path appear*d ; the 
 Soldiers frequently notching the Trees with theirf 
 Mafcheets, which, they told me, was to know the 
 Way by another Time ; for, if I had not been 
 with them, they faid they could have gone a much- 
 nearer and better Road- Having traveled about 
 two Hours in this manner, we came to a Path 
 between two Hills, where two Men could walk 
 abreaft of each other , which Road, I think, might 
 very eafily be opcn'd, the Trees near the Road be- 
 ing but fmalJ. About eleven of the Clock we came 
 to the Bottom of a Hill, where the Path was" 
 narrower, and only fit for one to pafs at a Time : 
 But I think the Path might he made broader 
 without any great Difficulty. About Noon we got 
 to the Top of that Hill, where was a Fafcine Bat- 
 tery of eight Guns (of fix and four Pounders)- 
 which Battery they told me was ereded while our 
 Army lay encamped ; which was hkewife confirm'd" 
 to me, when I came to St. J ago, by Mr. John 
 Cray, who faid thofe Guns were brought in Cvts 
 from St. J ago. -'" '^^ 
 
 We traveli'd from the Fafcine Battery tKro* a 
 Cart Ro^ to St. Jago, each Side of the Way being* 
 full of Plantations. About four o' Clock we came 
 to a fmall Town with a large Church in it j from 
 whence we traveli'd thro* a fine Champian Country 
 to St.Jago, where we arriv*d on Monday E^/tmng, at 
 the Governor's Houfe. And I judge our Diftanc* 
 from the Fafcine Battery to the Town of St. Jag/p 
 might be about eighteen EngUJh Miles, and believe 
 the Diftance from the Village to the Fafeine Bat- 
 E e tcry
 
 [ 214 T 
 tcry might be about the fame ; and think k cduld 
 not be more, the Soldiers that accompanied me in 
 that Day's March having march'd it all on Foot, 
 as they had the whole Journey from Barracoa. 
 
 On my being brought to the Governor's Houfey 
 he fent me Prifoner to- what they call the Caftle ;. 
 which is a Square Stone Building, the lower Part 
 divided into Apartments for the Ufe of the Officers 
 and Soldiers, which have arch'd Roofs, and s 
 Platform over the Top of them, where there arc 
 eight Guns mounted, two on each Side of the 
 Square ; the chief Ufe of which, I was inforra'd, 
 was to Alarm the Country oa the Approach of an 
 Enemy. -''' 
 
 After being fixtecn Days in the Caftle, I had 
 the Liberty ot walking ,about the Town *, when I 
 was informed that the Soldiers, who condjLK3:ed me 
 to St. Jago^ were imprifon'd for bringing me to 
 the Fafcine Battery. The Town of St. Jago^ is 
 entirely open to the Country, without any manner 
 .-of Fortification. 
 
 ' Having the liberty of walking about the Town 
 -%here I pleas*d, I met with one Moniieur jlfhei^ 
 Captain of a French Sloop, whom I formerly was 
 acquainted with at Jamaica. Happenir^ to talk 
 of the Fortifications of the Harbour, he told mfi 
 that Nature had fortified it as nfiuch as Art } for 
 that whenever a Ship was coming, they had ^ 
 Launch with a Cable in her, ready to carry on 
 board of them as foon as they got to the Msor 
 Caftle ; for then the Eddy wind, that comes down 
 the Gully between the Movr Caftle and the Eftrdla^ 
 takes them aback, and would infallibly put them 
 on the Wcftern Shore, if they were not brought 
 up by that Cable, which is fiift to an Anchor on 
 -6to9 i 4hfi fii^ }^gXNH^ ifae two Cafiles 
 .^fnaib >(Dij.. :,at^ biif;J ly/o-iT.tijfii bu Which
 
 [2-5] 
 
 Which Account I found to be true, for Captain 
 AJheu carried me cwi board of his Sloop when the 
 Carracca Ships came in there, and I then obferv'd 
 chat the fecond Ship did not offer to come in, 'till 
 the firft Ship had dipt the Cable, and lail*d up 
 ihe Haiix)ur. 
 
 '. ' The above-mention'd Remarks, made by me on 
 the Road, and at St. Jago^ are true to the beft of 
 my Knowledge. 
 
 Sworn at Mincing-Lane, in ton- W. ScOTT. 
 
 ^ dotty the 7th Day of March ^ 
 '1742, before me 
 
 Robert Willimott, Mayor. 
 
 Paragraph of a Letter from Br. Hume, of Port 
 Royal, Jamaica, dated Jm. 16, 1742. 
 
 J Will pray your Permiflion to relate an Affair 
 that has happen*d here lince you left us , and 
 tho' Negroes are the Parties concern'd, yet as it 
 makes fo great an Impreffion on moft People's 
 Minds, and as the Story is told fo naturally, with- 
 out Art, and fo like naked Truth, I hope you will 
 excufe me for troubling you with it. 
 - ., About three Weeks ago, fix Negroes made their 
 fefcape from St. J ago de Cuba in a Canoe. They 
 belong*d all to Jamaica^ and had been taken in 
 Turtlers before you went to Cumberland Harbour. 
 They were employ*d on the Works at St. Jago all 
 the while our Army lay on the Ifland of Cuba. 
 Two of them, who are free Negroes, and very 
 fenfible rational Men, are very particular in de- 
 fcribing the Place and Fortifications. They af- 
 firm, that the Governor and principal Inhabitants 
 were conflantly in th& utmoft Dread, left our 
 Army Ihould march over Land and attack them ; 
 e 2 and
 
 [ 2l6 ] 
 
 and (O much were they perfwaded of this, that the 
 Governor and Grandees would not truft themfelves 
 to fleep in the Town or Forts, but went every 
 Night into the Woods. When Dunjion^ who, you 
 know, was Major of the Black Regiment, had 
 march'd into the Woods with a hundred Negroes, 
 the Governor and Town were in the utmoft Con- 
 ilernation, bi^lieving he was fo far in his Way to 
 attack them ; as he was then but fix Hours 
 March, and that no very bad Road, from the 
 Town. The Fellows affirm, and moft People 
 here are now of Opinion, that if Dunfion had 
 had one hundred Soldiers to his Blacks, and had 
 marched on, the Town as well as Forts would 
 have fallen into his Hands. There are many 
 other Particulars, which I forbear troubling you 
 with, as Dodor Fuller told me he would fend you 
 the full Examination of the whole Affair. For my 
 own Part, I give a moft implicit Faith to the 
 whole Relation, as the poor Negroes can have no 
 Party Principles, nor any other Inducement to 
 make them go from the Truth. 
 
 J. Hume. 
 
 ExtraEi of a Letter from Port Royal in Jamaica, 
 dated July 29, 1743 
 
 A Bout two Months ago Ten wounded Spaniards 
 fell under my Care. As they were all Inha- 
 bitants of St. J ago de Cuba^ I had the Curiofity to 
 afk them many Q^eftions relating to that Place. I 
 had heard many of the Land Officers infill much 
 on the Badnefsand great Length of the Road, be- 
 tween the EnzUJJo Camp and Town of St. J ago ; for 
 that Reafon I was very particular on that head; 
 
 but
 
 [ 217 ] 
 
 but could hear nothing of the terrible Mountains 
 and Bogs our Army ufed to talk of. I drew toge- 
 ther, in the Form of the inclofed Affidavit, what 
 my Patients had told me in many Converfations ; 
 and after they had perufed it, afked them if they 
 were willing to fwear to it ; to which they very 
 readily confented. They are very fedate, fenfible 
 Men, and are particularly acquainted with the Road, 
 having often traveled it. They tell me their 
 Countrymen are ftill at a Lofs to guefs, what it 
 was that kept the Englijh from marching on after 
 they landed. They ufed to fay merrily to one ano- 
 ther, they believed the Englijh were come to a 
 Hunting Match in their Woods, and not with any 
 hoftile Defign againft the Inhabitants. 
 
 I doubt not. Sir, but you are fufficiently pro- 
 vided with Credentials of this kind : But as thefe 
 People were under Arms the whole Time of the 
 Expedition to Cuba, and as they are very intelligent 
 Men, they muft be luppofed well acquainted with 
 the State of the Place, and Sentiments of the Ene- 
 my. Their Account of the Road efFeftually de- 
 molifhcs the mighty Mountains and huge Rocks, 
 the Lakes, the Marfhes, and the thick Woods, 
 which were given as Reafons* for the Impoffibility 
 of our Army's March, and were the Raw head and 
 bloody Bones of that Expedition. 
 
 Co;ly of a Depojition of Two Spaniards, Inhabitants 
 of St. Jago de Cuba. 
 Jamaica, ff. 
 
 Sebajiian Fiallo, 1 1 Nhabitants of St. Jago^ 
 Miguel Antonio de Flores. f A of the Ifland of C2j, 
 
 being duly fworn up- 
 on the Holy Evangclifls, fay, they were in the 
 aforefaid Town when the Englijh Army was landed 
 
 on
 
 [ 2l8 ] 
 
 on the Ifland of Cuka ; and that they were under 
 Arms during the whole Time of the Englijh En- 
 tampment there. The Diftance h^v^tcxi Cumberland 
 Harbour, and the Town of St J ago by Land, thefe 
 Deponents fay, is computed to be about twenty 
 Leagues ; that the Road in dry Weather is very 
 good, and eafy to be travelled by Horfc or Foot ; 
 and that it is neither mountainous nor fwampy. 
 
 Thefe Deponents further fay, that when the 
 News of the Englijh Army's being landed, reached 
 the Town of St. J ago, the Governor and Inhabi- 
 tants were in the utmoft Confternation, expedting 
 to fee them before ttheir Town every Moment; 
 tfpecially as their Fortifications were in no Repair, 
 nothing having been done to them from the Be- 
 ginning of the War to that Time. And thefe De- 
 ponents further fay, that the Spaniards had but 
 little Ammunition of any Sort ; fo that it was the 
 general Opinion, had the Englijh march*d foon 
 after their landing, the Town would have eafily 
 fallen into their Hands. 
 
 Thefe Deponents further make Oath, That when 
 ^ Party of the Englijh was advanced as far as the 
 Church of St. CatherinOy the Inhabitants of St. J ago 
 Xpe6led they were then fo far in their Way to at- 
 tack the Town ; and as the Road they had to 
 march was not worfe than that they had already 
 paffed, the Deponents fay, the Spaniards were fur- 
 prized they had not advanced. 
 
 The Deponents further fay. That they were un- 
 der no Apprehenfions from the Shipping, the En- 
 trance into the Harbour being very narrow, and 
 deep Water clofe to their Fortifications ; befides, 
 they had VelTels ready to fmk in the Mouth of the 
 Harbour, which would have made an Entrance into 
 at altogether impoflible, 
 Thefe
 
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 Thefe Deponents flirther fay. That fince the 
 Engit/h Fktt and Army left the IflandofC^^, the 
 Town of St. Jago has been reinforced both with 
 Men and Ammunition -, and that about four hun- 
 dred Workmen have fince been kept conftantly 
 employed in repairing their Fortifications. And 
 further thefe Deponents fay not. 
 
 ^Zlt{Zl Ta' '''Ja^^tT^ SebafiianRodriguesFiallo, 
 Iff Jamaica, /*;/ 26/>&o/ July, a^- ja^ j -ni 
 ,743. ^' ^* Miguel Antonio de Flores, 
 
 John Hume. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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 T)JGE 41 . lint 27. for We having, read He ha^ng. p. 78. 
 X /. 5. for by Letter, read my Letter, p. irg. /. 17 for 
 you are not to think, naJyo^ ought not to think. / 183. 
 /. 28. for Admiral's eight Ships, read Admiral and eight Ships. 
 p. 187. /. 32. for lend we, rtadifnid me. *. log. /. 26. for
 
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