A LETTER From on Board Their Majesties Fleet NEAR USHANT, July the Twentieth, 1689.
Giving an Account of the good Condition of it, and of the taking of some French Ships with LETTERS from IRELAND.
Licensed and Entered according to Order.
HAving this Opportunity, I thought it convenient to let you understand how the Affairs are with us here: We have been accrusing some days off this Harbour, and have used all means to induce the French to come out and fight us, but all will not do; although yesterday our Admiral commanded fifteen Men of War, with four Fire-ships, to go into the very Road of Brest, and put up the Flag of Defiance, yet notwithstanding they would not offer to stir. Our Fleet is in a very good condition, and well mann'd, wanting nothing but the Enemy to come out; for we are able to fight any Navy in the World. Our Fleet consists of above Eighty Sail, Twelve of which carrys Flags (viz.) five English, and seven Dutch, and three more are daily expected. Some days since we took a small Vessel going from France to Ireland; they pretended at first to be Protestants making their Escape, but upon strict Enquiry they were found to be otherwise; and upon search we found a Packet of Letters under the Coat of the Mast, which discovered the whole Intrigue. They are English, Scotch, and Irish, who had been for some time in the French King's Service, and were going to the late King in order to be preferred.
Yesterday we took a small French Man of War coming from Waterford; it should have carried Thirty six Guns, but they had but Eighteen, they having left the rest in Ireland: They had a Pacquet of Letters from the late King James going to the French King: The Captain of the said Ship reports, that the late King declares, That all the Nobility of England have left King William, and that Scotland hath unanimously declared for him: He gives out at Dublin, that as soon as the French Fleet is arrived in Ireland, he will go with Ten thousand men into Scotland, and so to England. But I do not doubt, but by the Blessing of God, that we shall be able to prevent ever their coming thither. Again, he says. That the pretended Parliament have passed an Act, for giving the late King James 20000 l. per Month, for Thirteen Months: As also another Act, that all Religious shall pay their own Clergy: He comfirms the Defeat near Enniskelling, and the taking of the 20000 l. and that London-Derry holds out, and makes a brave Resistance, and have lately taken ninety Head of Cattel from the Enemy: He adds, That the Bishop and Dean of VVaterford were barbarously murthered, and several of the Servants wounded; and that the Differences and Jealousies between the French and Irish grow greater and greater; and he does verily believe, That upon the landing of an English Army in that Kingdom, several of the Native Irish will revolt, being already weary of the French Yoke. This is all at present from
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