f this Battery,
they set busily about repairing some Part of it, and on the 20th had
built up some Embrazures and mounted two Guns, and fired them on the
Bomb-Battery again, which the Admiral observing, ordered the _Rippon_,
a sixty Gun ship, to go and anchor as near it, as possible, and keep
firing on it to prevent the Enemy's working on it any farther[_L_], so
that all the next Day the Army was in a State of Tranquillity, and on
_Sunday_ the 22d their grand Battery of twenty Guns being finished,
about eight o'Clock in the Morning began to play very briskly on the
Castle, as did the Bomb-Battery, and thirty or forty Cohorns and Royals
planted on the Platform behind the Cannon[_M_], which the Enemy
returned as briskly from the Castle, the four Ships[_N_] (Don _Blass_'s
in particular) _St. Joseph_'s, and some few Guns from the _Barradera_,
so that the Work was warm on both Sides. On the 23d the _Boyne_,
_Suffolk_, _Tilbury_, _Prince Frederick_, and _Hampton Court_, were
ordered in against _Boccachica_ to cannonade[_O_]; but the _Boyne_
having anchored so far to Leeward, as to lie exposed to the whole Fire
of the Enemy's Ships, and _St. Joseph_'s Battery, was much shattered,
and ordered off again that Night. The _Prince Frederick_ and _Hampton
Court_, sharing the Fire of the Enemy, that had been employed against
the _Boyne_, were also much shattered by Morning, when they were
likewise ordered to come off; the former having lost her Captain, and
both many Men killed and wounded. The _Suffolk_ and _Tilbury_ happening
to anchor well to the Northward, lay battering till the next Evening
(and with some Success, particularly against the Breach) when the
Admiral sent Orders for them to draw off. The Army now began to look on
the Breach as accessible, but the Guns in the _Barradera_ Battery,
being able to annoy them in their Attack, a Representation thereof was
made to the Admiral, who immediately directed the _Princess Amelia_,
_Litchfield_, and _Shoreham_, to go in, and anchor as nigh it as
possible, and sent the Boats of the Squadron again mann'd and arm'd,
under the Command of Captain _Watson_ to destroy it[_P_], which they
did effectually, and with scarce any Opposition; the greatest part of
the Guns in _Boccachica_ Castle being now dismounted, the Army thought
proper to entertain the Enemy's Ships, by widening five or six
Embrazures of their Battery, and playing some Guns on them, which the
Ships as civilly returned, 'till N