AN IMPARTIAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CONDUCT OF THE SEVERAL POWERS OF EUROPE, ENGAGED IN THE LATE GENERAL WAR: INCLUDING AUTHENTIC ACCOUNTS OF ALL THE MILITARY AND NAVAL OPERATIONS; FROMT HE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE CROWNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN, IN 17391749 |
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Page 433 - ... stores on board would meet with great difficulty. On the 24th of November, therefore, Mr. Anson sent one of his officers to the Mandarine, who commanded the guard of the principal gate of the city of Canton, with a letter directed to the Viceroy. When this letter was delivered to the Mandarine, he received the officer who brought it very civilly, and took down the contents of it in Chinese, and promised that the Viceroy should be immediately acquainted with it; but told the officer, it was not...
Page 426 - ... so considerable, that they began to fall into great disorder, especially as the general, who was the life of the action, was no longer capable of exerting himself. Their embarrassment was visible from on board the commodore.
Page 434 - English at the fire, and their trustiness and punctuality elsewhere, was the general subject of conversation amongst the Chinese : And, the next morning, many of the principal inhabitants waited on the Commodore to thank him for his assistance...
Page 427 - Centurion, and had observed how slenderly she was manned, and the large proportion which the striplings bore to the rest, could not help expressing themselves with great indignation, to be thus beaten by a handful of boys.
Page 204 - Gloucester's man, and got before him to the commodore, who, on hearing this happy and unexpected news, threw down his axe with which he was then at work, and by his joy broke through, for the first time, the equable and unvaried character which he had hitherto preserved...
Page 426 - ... time the galleon's decks lay open to her top-men, who, having at their first volley driven the Spaniards from their tops, made prodigious havoc with their small arms, killing or wounding every officer but one that ever appeared on the quarter-deck, and wounding in particular the general of the galleon himself.
Page 80 - Subftance of the Letter being fully what was required, he hoped it would be fufficient for that Night. It was two Hours paft Midnight when the Conful...
Page 424 - ... were constantly moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management he was enabled to make use of all his guns ; and instead of firing broad-sides with intervals between them, he kept up a constant fire without intermission...
Page 429 - Spain were at war, they had proposed to themselves the taking of the Centurion, and had bore down upon her with that view, but that the event had been contrary to their hopes ; however, they acknowledged that they had been treated by the Commodore much better than they believed they should have treated him had he fallen into their hands. This...
Page 210 - ... of the ship for a day, he wrote a permit under it, and delivered it to one of his attendants, directing him to see that quantity sent on board early every morning ; and this order, from that time forwards, was punctually complied with.