[_H_]This being represented to the Admiral, Orders were given for all Boats of the Squadron to be ready at Midnight (manned and armed) to go to surprize the _Barradera_ Battery, and the Command given to Captain _Boscawen_[_I_], in which they happily succeeded, spiked up all the Guns; burnt the Carriages, Platforms, and Guard-house; destroyed the Magazine, and took several Prisoners[_K_]. The next Morning, as soon as it was Day, the Enemy from _Boccachica_ began to fire warmly at the Bomb-Battery, (as if they were angry at what happened the Night before) though without doing them any particular Damage; and as they were sensible of the Usefulness and advantageous Situation of this Battery, they set busily about repairing some Part of it, and on the 20th had built up some Embrazures and mounted two Guns, and fired them on the Bomb-Battery again, which the Admiral observing, ordered the _Rippon_, a sixty Gun ship, to go and anchor as near it, as possible, and keep firing on it to prevent the Enemy's working on it any farther[_L_], so that all the next Day the Army was in a State of Tranquillity, and on _Sunday_ the 22d their grand Battery of twenty Guns being finished, about eight o'Clock in the Morning began to play very briskly on the Castle, as did the Bomb-Battery, and thirty or forty Cohorns and Royals planted on the Platform behind the Cannon[_M_], which the Enemy returned as briskly from the Castle, the four Ships[_N_] (Don _Blass_'s in particular) _St. Joseph_'s, and some few Guns from the _Barradera_, so that the Work was warm on both Sides. On the 23d the _Boyne_, _Suffolk_, _Tilbury_, _Prince Frederick_, and _Hampton Court_, were ordered in against _Boccachica_ to cannonade[_O_]; but the _Boyne_ having anchored so far to Leeward, as to lie exposed to the whole Fire of the Enemy's Ships, and _St. Joseph_'s Battery, was much shattered, and ordered off again that Night. The _Prince Frederick_ and _Hampton Court_, sharing the Fire of the Enemy, that had been employed against the _Boyne_, were also much shattered by Morning, when they were likewise ordered to come off; the former having lost her Captain, and both many Men killed and wounded. The _Suffolk_ and _Tilbury_ happening to anchor well to the Northward, lay battering till the next Evening (and with some Success, particularly against the Breach) when the Admiral sent Orders for them to draw off. The Army now began to look on the Breach as accessible, but the Guns in the _Barradera_ Battery, being able to annoy them in their Attack, a Representation thereof was made to the Admiral, who immediately directed the _Princess Amelia_, _Litchfield_, and _Shoreham_, to go in, and anchor as nigh it as possible, and sent the Boats of the Squadron again mann'd and arm'd, under the Command of Captain _Watson_ to destroy it[_P_], which they did effectually, and with scarce any Opposition; the greatest part of the Guns in _Boccachica_ Castle being now dismounted, the Army thought