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laft fummer I had the honour of commanding a great ship, yet I was but a young Seaman; and therefore only advised him to confult with CLEMENT the captain of the Greyhound, who by right alfo was to be principally regarded in his own fhip. Captain CLEMENT was fent for, and presently consented to a thing which he thought not only reasonable but neceffary to prevent delays or mistakes: which made the General, according to his accustomed civility, ask my consent to hang up in the fhrouds one of the colours of my own regiment that hap pened to lie then on the deck; faying that he chofe fuch a fort of fignal, as more proper for him to make use of, than any of those which belonged to the Sea. But it had not been fet up half an hour, when both of us fitting together on the quarterdeck, heard a bullet whizzing over our heads, and another in the fame manner presently after; at which we began to think cannon bullets that came fo near a little worth the minding; but were extremely furprized to perceive they came from the Admiral.

By this time Captain CLEMENT was alarmed alfo ; and he confirming the General's apprehenfion of Prince RUPERT's difli

king his fignal, was fent immediately to explain the occasion of its being fet up, and to receive the Prince's orders either in that or any thing else, which should instantly be obeyed.

BUT the Prince in the mean time fent Lieutenant WHITLY with his positive command to pull down the flag;

who arriving on board the Greyhound juft after Captain CLEMENT had been fent away, it was thought fo impoffible for the Prince to remain unfatisfied after he fhould hear CLEMENT about it, that WHITLY was defired to return with this respectful answer, That if his Highness continued in the same mind after hearing the occafion from Captain CLEMENT, the flag fhould be taken down immediately. But the Prince, feeing WHITLY's boat come from the Greyhound without the flag's being taken down, and Captain CLEMENT juft arrived on board him, in great anger orders him to be clapp'd into the bilboes, without fo much as hearing either him, or his meffage: and commanded his Gunner to fink the Greyhound immediately if the flag was not taken down.

IN fuch a cafe of extremity, the Voluntiers of quality on board the Prince took

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the liberty of interpofing a little, and conjured him to have only the patience of letting some of them go presently to the Greyhound, in order to prevent any misunderstanding; confidering that fome allowance might be made for a mistake in a land-officer and a stranger. It was not hard for perfons of that rank (among whom was the Earl of CARLISLE, a Privy Counsellor, and what was more, a great friend of the Prince's) to be connived at in going immediately on board the Greyhound and it was as easy for them to persuade us all immediately to pull down our flag rather than be funk. But neither they, nor I, who was a little concerned with him in the ill usage, were able to pacify the General; who interpreted all this harsh way of proceeding, as coming from an old pique in Prince RUPERT, who was too well-bred otherwife to ufe an old acquaintance and a foreigner in fuch a bru tal manner, as he called it.

THE Court was inclined before, not to be over-partial to Prince RUPERT, who feem'd as jealous as any body of its growing arbitrary by any great fuccefs over Holland, though himself was Generaliffimo against it; and I was obliged to write an ac

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count of it to the King 'fo plainly and impartially, that all the Prince's complaints on his fide were infignificant; which, added to his jealousy of the Court, incited him to command away all the land-forces to Tarmouth; where they lay incamped all fummer by the fea-fide, without being ever reimbarked, or able to do the leaft fervice. Monfieur DE SCHOMBERG obeyed, but took no leave of the Prince, and ingaged me prefently to carry him a challenge after the expedition was over; which the King prevented, tho' not out of kindness to either of them: For as he was unfatisfied with the Prince's conduct that fummer, fo Monfieur DE SCHOMBERG's popularity, among the difaffected gentlemen in the country, was unjustly represented to his prejudice by fome Papifts there, who took his affable fort of behaviour (which he thought neceffary in a ftranger, intending to fettle here) for a factious defign of complying with the country Party.

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THIS was the caufe of the Duke of MONMOUTH's advancement for the Duke of YORK, esteeming his forwardness and inclination to the war, thought him the fittest perfon to be fet up againft SCHOMBERG,

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from whom he was now perfectly alienated; and fo made his court to the King at the fame time by recommending his beloved Son to be at the head of our military affairs, which himself hoped to influence still by that means. Yet SCHOMBERG's staying here, to which he was inclined by his difpofition as well as religion, had been an invincible obstacle to all these designs; if the disgust he took at being refufed the Garter, had not foon contributed to his leaving us; which favour it feems he had long defired, tho' fo privately, that I happened to receive the promise of it in his camp at Tarmouth, without having the leaft imagination that my General had been my rival; who refented it a little the more, because it was then bestowed on one who was but a Colonel under him. Thus all things concurr'd with the Duke of MONMOUTH'S ambition, as foon as Prince RUPERT was out of favour, and the Duke of YORK out of capacity, by reason of the late Test against Papifts.

THERE was yet one thing more, which in exactness I must not omit, that much contributed to this young man's advancement; I mean the great friendship which the Duke of YORK had openly profeffed to his Wife,

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