THE 



NARRATIVE 



JOHN BYRON. 



HE equipment and deftination 



of the fquadron fitted out in 



the year i 740, of which com- 

 modore Anfon had the command, being 

 fufficiently known from the ample and 

 well-penned relation of it under his di- 

 re£lion, I fhall recite no particulars that 

 are to be found in that work. But it 

 may be neceffary, for the better under^ 

 ftanding the difaftrous fate of the 

 Wager, the fubjeA of the following 

 Iheets, to repeat the remark, that a 



OF THE HONOURABLE 



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