( 7 ) 



The knowledge of the great import- 

 ance of giving fo early and unexpected 

 a blow to the Spaniards, determined the 

 captain to make the fliortefl way to the 

 point in view ; and that rigid adherence 

 to orders from which he thought him- 

 felf in no cafe at liberty to depart, begot 



in him a flubborn defiance of all diffi- 

 culties, and took away from him 



thofe apprehenfions, which fo juflly 

 alarmed all fuch as, from an igno- 

 rance of the orders, had nothing pre- 

 fent to their minds but the dangers of 

 a lee-fliore*. 



* Captain Cheap has been fufpecled of a defign of going 

 on the Spanifh coaft without the commodore -, but no 

 part of his condul feems to authorife, in the leaft, fuch a 

 fufpicion. The author who brings this heavy charge 

 againft him, is equally miftaken in imagining that captain 

 Cheap had not inftru&ions to fail to this ifiand, and that the 

 commodore did neither go nor fend thither, to inform him- 



et C 



felf if any of the fquadron were there. This appears from 

 the orders delivered to the captains of the fquadron, the 

 day before they failed from St. Catherine's (L. Anfon's 

 Voyage, B. I. C. 6.) ; from the orders of the council of 

 war held on board the Centurion, in the bay of St. Julian 



B 4 (C. 7.) 



