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Senec. Med.
The following Sheets contain an Answer to a Pamphlet, which appeared onthe Close of the last Session of Parliament, and is entitled, AnAccount of the Expedition to Carthagena.
To set that whole Transaction in the most clear Light, the Author haslaid before the Publick an exact and faithful Journal of the mostmaterial Occurrences, not only during the Troops being on Shore in theNeighbourhood of Carthagena, but from the Time of the Fleet's sailingfrom Jamaica; the Period from which the Author of the Pamphlet beginshis Relation.
The Notes are (as far as it was practicable) placed in the same Orderwith those in the Pamphlet; to which References are made, that theReader may (if he pleases to take that Trouble) compare each Note withthe Answer to it.[Pg ii]
Several Facts will be here found to be placed in a very different Lightfrom the same Facts, as they are described in the Pamphlet, and othersto be rejected, as absolutely false and groundless; but the Authorflatters himself, that he has advanced nothing which is not founded uponTruth, and such as can be supported by living Evidences, or byauthentick Records, whenever his Antagonist shall be pleased to layaside his Mask; otherwise, no Notice will be taken of any Reply, whichmay hereafter be published.
It was resolved in the principal Council of War[1] held at SpanishTown in Jamaica, that the whole Fleet should proceed to Windward, toobserve the Motions of the Squadron under the Command of the Marquisd'Antin; and that Capt. Dandridge should be sent before in theWolf Sloop to get Intelligence.
No Time having been lost in preparing to put to Sea; January the 22d,Sir Chaloner Ogle sailed with his Division out of Port-RoyalHarbour; Commodore Lestock the 26th, and Vice-Admiral Vernon the28th: The three Squadrons, having join'd January the 31st, made CapeTiberon, on the Coast of Hispaniola, February the 7th; the sameDay Captain Dandridge came into the Fleet. February the 8th, theAdmiral made a Signal for General and Flag Officers, and communicated tothem the Report he had received from Captain Dandridge,[2] viz."That he had, January the 30th, look'd into Port-Lewis, where hehad seen nineteen Ships of War; that one of them carried a Flag at theMain-top-mast Head, and another a broad Pendant;" which Report beingtaken into Consideration, it was resolved to steer directly to the Isleof Vache; where the Fleet arrived February the 12th, and cast Anchorat about two Leagues to the Westward of Port-Lewis.
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