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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<HEAD>ACCOUNT OF A GREAT ENGAGEMENT Which hapned between the <HI>Engli&s;h Squadron,</HI> under the Command of Vice-Admiral <HI>HERBERT,</HI> and the whole <HI>French Fleet,</HI> near the Coa&s;t of <HI>Ireland,</HI> on the <HI>First</HI> of <HI>May,</HI> 1689.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="allowance"><HI>With Allowance.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HIS Maje&s;ty's Naval Forces having taken the Seas, under the Command of Vice-Admiral <HI>Herbert;</HI> In order to Curb the In&s;ults of the <HI>French,</HI> and to hinder their Attempts upon the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland, &amp;c.</HI> After &s;everal Suc|ce&s;sful Enterprizes, and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing the <HI>French-Capers</HI> and <HI>Privateers,</HI> re&s;cu|ing &s;everal Prizes they had taken and were carrying into their Harbours, Braving the Naval Forces of the <HI>French-King,</HI> with a &s;mall number of Ships in his chief Harbour, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And re&s;olute to pro&s;ecute the Glorious War again&s;t the Di&s;turbers of <HI>Chri&s;tendom:</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> under&s;tanding the <HI>French</HI> were gotten to Sea, under the favour of the Night, and contrary Winds that hindred ours for &s;tanding in, or bearing up with them, and mi&s;tru&s;ting they made for <HI>Ireland,</HI> they &s;tood to that Coa&s;t to prevent their Landing any Forces to Di&s;tre&s;s the <HI>Prote&s;tants.</HI> On the Fir&s;t of <HI>May</HI> In&s;tant, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> got &s;ight of them lying in the Bay of <HI>Bantree</HI> in the <HI>We&s;t</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> near the County of <HI>Kerry,</HI> and re&s;olving forthwith to enter the Bay and Attacque them, the Wind unluckily Chopt about, and blew hard at <HI>We&s;t North-we&s;t,</HI> &s;o that we could not but with abundance of Difficulty turn into the Bay.</P>
<P>But re&s;olving by any means to get in to them, with Nine of our Ships, the Admiral him&s;elf leading them, they Advance; which the <HI>French</HI> perceiving, with full Sail before the Wind, they make up and meet us. The <HI>French</HI> Fleet con&s;i&s;ted of Twenty Nine Sail of Men of War, be&s;ides Tenders; Ours but Nineteen in the whole, whereof Five on|ly could fully come up to Engage. Our Admiral had immediately &s;even of their be&s;t Ships upon his Quarter, and the <HI>French</HI> Admiral lying on the other Broad-&s;ide of him, but notwith&s;tanding the Inequality, our brave Admiral never &s;tirr'd off the Quarter-deck encouraging his Men, both by his Orders and Example; the re&s;t of our Ships that could come up, charging them Board to Board, di&s;charging their Broad-&s;ides, Grappling, and couragiou&s;ly Fighting on the Decks, thundring in their Vollies of Small Shot, Killing their Men in great number, and renting their Sails, Ma&s;ts, and Rigging, thereby very much Di&s;abling them, continuing re&s;olutely Engaged till Night parted them: And al|though the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> much inferiour in Number, and wanting the Weather-gage, which greatly hindred them, did not gain the Advantage they otherwi&s;e might undoubtedly have had, yet nothing was wanting that might te&s;tify their continued Gallantry and Bravery, and to &s;hew the <HI>French</HI> that they are not to di&s;pute with them the Soveraignty of the Ocean. As to the Particulars of the Lo&s;s on either &s;ide we are wanting; however it Reported on all hands, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> have not lo&s;t one Ve&s;&s;el: Yet under the favour of Engagement, the <HI>French</HI> having Landed a few Men, retreated, di&s;pairing notwith&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+ing the advantage of their number, of any an&s;werable &s;ucce&s;s, though our Admiral &s;olves to &s;tick clo&s;e to them. And in a little time we doubt not (under God) to ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> good the Ju&s;tice of our Cau&s;e, and pull down the Pride of that Antichri&s;tian Mona<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> who has &s;o long di&s;turb'd the Peace of the whole Chri&s;tian World.</P>
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