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bard the Town from the Sea, as our small Store of Shells and the Weather will permit.
THE 20th a Demand was made for more Shot, and we call’d together the English Flag-Officers, and came to the Resolution, To Supply the Batteries with all the 24 and 18 Pound Shot in the Fleet, except 40 founds.
The 22d the Prince of Lechenstien and the Earl of Peterborow’s having desired at the Request of his Catholick Majesty, that the Town of Lerida might for its Security be furnish’d with about Fifty Barrels of Powder, and a further Supply of Shot being demanded for the Batteries ashore, it was consider'd at a Council of War, and we came to the following Resolutions.
I. To furnish 50 Barrels of Powder for Lerida, and to send so many more 24 and 18 Pound Shot ashore as would reduce the English to 30 Rounds; as likewise to be farther Assistant upon timely Notice.
The 23d at Night our Breach being made, and all Things prepared for an Attack, the Town was again Summon’d, and they desired to Capitulate, and Hostages were exchang’d; on our Side Brigadier Stanhope, and on the Enemies the Marquiss de Rivera; and all Hostages ceas'd.
The 26th his Catholick Majesty having secret Notice given him, that the Garrison of Tarragona would surrender upon Shew of a Design of Cannonading or Bombarding the Place, the Antelope, Garland, and one of the Bomb-Vessels, were sent thither, with Orders to take with them the Roebuck and Phœnix, and to Summon the Place, and require them to proclaim the King, and send their Magistrates to pay Obedience to his Majesty.
The 27th the Canterbury came to us from Lisbon. The First Instant, at a Council of War, we came to the Resolutions.
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