An
Account
of
Sir
George
Rook's
Arrival
in
the
Chanel
with
the
Fleet
under
His
Command
.
Published
by
Authority
.
Whitehall
,
April
24.
1696.
THIS
Evening
came
in
an
Express
from
Sir
George
Rooke
,
Dated
on
Board
His
Majesty's
Ship
the
Queen
,
the
22th
of
this
Instant
April
at
Six
in
the
Morning
,
being
then
Nine
Leagues
South
South
East
off
the
Lizard
;
He
left
Cadiz
the
30th
of
March
,
with
about
190
Sail
of
Men
of
War
and
Merchant
Ships
,
which
are
all
safely
arrived
in
the
Chanel
;
and
when
he
writ
these
Letters
he
was
making
the
best
of
his
way
towards
Spithead
.
He
had
received
no
account
of
the
French
Fleet
's
having
yet
passed
the
Streights
.
The
Letters
from
Plimouth
of
the
21.
give
an
Account
,
That
His
Majesty's
Ship
the
Anglesea
,
Captain
Callwell
Commander
,
had
brought
in
a
French
Privateer
of
18
Guns
and
120
Men
,
belonging
to
St.
Malo
,
which
he
took
the
18th
Instant
,
about
45
Leagues
S.
W.
from
Scilly
;
and
that
11
Sail
of
Merchant
Ships
passed
by
Plimouth
that
Morning
for
the
Downs
,
who
came
from
Kinsale
under
Convoy
of
the
Weymouth
and
the
Ruby
;
Four
of
these
Ships
belonging
to
London
,
and
being
bound
home
from
the
West-Indies
.