and his Division; and on the _Monday_ following the
Admiral with the rest of the Squadron (leaving behind him the
_Falmouth_ and _Litchfield_ to bring up the Transports;) but the Land
Breeze failing, and a great Swell rolling down, obliged them to anchor
at the _Keys_ (where the _Augusta_ drove ashore, and beat off her
Rudder, and great part of her Keel.) On the 28th the Admiral weighed
Anchor, and plied up to Windward, and the 31st joined Sir _Chaloner
Ogle_ and Mr. _Lestock_ with their Divisions off _Port Morant_, and the
Day following was joined by the _Falmouth_, _Litchfield_, and
Transports. _February_ the 7th the Fleet made Cape _Tiberoon_ on the
Island _Hispaniola_, and off there was joined by the _Cumberland_,
Captain _Stewart_, from _Lisbon_, (who had been separated from the
Fleet in the Storm the 1st of _November_) and the next Day the _Wolf_
Sloop came into the Fleet[_A_] and brought with her a _French_ Sloop.
The 13th the Fleet anchored at the Isle of _Vache_, about two Leagues
to the Westward of _Port Louis_, where they stayed but four Days,
having gained Intelligence the _French_ Fleet was divided, and sailed
(the Marquis _D'Antin_ and twelve Sail being gone for _Old France_, and
Mr. _Rochefieulle_ and six Sail for _Petit Guavas_) upon which the
Fleet went and anchored in _Tiberoon_, _Donna Maria_, and _Irish_ Bays,
to Wood and Water; and on the 25th sailed from thence, when the
_Weymouth_, _Experiment_, and _Spence_ Sloop, were dispatched ahead
over to _Carthagena_, to sound _Punta Canoa_ Bay, for the safer
anchoring the Fleet, which arrived there the 5th of _March_ in the
Evening; and three Days after the same Ships, together with the
_Dunkirk_, were ordered by the Admiral down off _Boccachica_, to sound
and see if the Fleet might safely anchor there, and how near Ships
might come to batter the Forts of _St. Philip_ and _St. Jago_; and so
soon as the Admiral had received the Reports from the Commanders of
these Ships, a Council of War was held, wherein it was resolved to send
three eighty Gun Ships, the _Norfolk_, Captain _Graves_, the
_Shrewsbury_, Captain _Townsend_, and the _Russell_, Captain _Norris_,
to batter the Forts abovementioned; the _Princess Amelia_, Captain
_Hemmington_, to fire against the Fascine Battery, and the
_Litchfield_, Captain _Cleveland_, against the little Battery of
_Chamba_; (but these two last the Enemy had abandoned) and accordingly
the 9th in the Morning they weighed Anchor