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II. To Transport the Enemies Garrison by Sea, and leave a Winter Squadron in the Streights.
The 2d the Cruizer arrived here from England, and brought with her his Royal Highness's Orders of the 20th of August, for supplying the Ships of the States General with Provisions.
To Day his Catholick Majesty signified to me by Letters, that his good Subjects had seized the Fortress and Pass of Girone upon the Frontiers of Catalonia towards Provence,
The 3d in the Afternoon the Citizens of Barcelona rose upon the Garrison, and had certainly murdered the Vice-roy, and the Adherents of the Duke of Anjou, had they not desired the Protection of my Lord, and the Army, who presently marched into the City; and his Lordship took the Vice-roy and several others into his Protection, and carried them to his Quarters without the City, but could not hinder the pillaging and rifling a great many Houses of those that were Enemies to King Charles the Third. In the Evening his Lordship came aboard, and brought with him the Vice-roy, and several other Persons of Quality.
The 5th Captain Cavendish in the Antelope, with the Frigats and Bomb-Vessels, return’d to us from Tarragona where he summon'd the Town, and upon their refusing to surrender, fired some Guns and Bombs into it, and they put out a Flag of Truce, and Two of their Magistrates came aboard, and said they had secured the Governour and Place for King Charles the Third; and immediately a Captain of the King of Spain's, and Six Hundred Miquelets who were about it, entered the Town.
The Vice-roy fearing the incensed People, has desired the Garrison may be transported by Sea, and we are getting them aboard some of the Men of War that stay behind, and some of the Transports; they first of all desired
