. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. nd four fourth-rates, with severalsmall craft. ^ Two third-rates, nine fourth-rates, four fifth-rates, one sixth-rate, and a had also a Dutch contingent under Eear-Adm. van der Dussen. * Jean Bernard Desjeans, Baron de Pointis, born 1645 ; present at the battle ofBeachy Head; commanded a French squadron in the West Indies; was Rear-Admiralof the centre at Malaga; died 1707. ^ De Pointis, when he reached the Bay, found there, and destroyed, the Terror,bomb. Commander Isaac Cook, on October 17th. 1704.] LEAKE AND DE
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. nd four fourth-rates, with severalsmall craft. ^ Two third-rates, nine fourth-rates, four fifth-rates, one sixth-rate, and a had also a Dutch contingent under Eear-Adm. van der Dussen. * Jean Bernard Desjeans, Baron de Pointis, born 1645 ; present at the battle ofBeachy Head; commanded a French squadron in the West Indies; was Rear-Admiralof the centre at Malaga; died 1707. ^ De Pointis, when he reached the Bay, found there, and destroyed, the Terror,bomb. Commander Isaac Cook, on October 17th. 1704.] LEAKE AND DE POINTIS. 405 four a bri-antine of fourteen, a fireship of sixteen, a storeship ladenwith bombs, etc., a tartan, and two vessels which had been takenfrom the English. All these were run ashore and destroyed by then-crews Another frigate of thirty guns and a tartan which gotout of the Bay, were chased and taken. The heavier ships of DePointis had sailed some days earlier to Cadiz, and were at the timerefitting there. Leake was kept well informed of their movements,. SIB JOHN LEAKE, KT., ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET.{From Fabas mezzotint after the portrait by Sir G. Kneller (1712).) and knowing that, although he had been shghtly reinforced sinceRookes departure, he was still of inferior sti-ength, he was caretulto make such dispositions as would prevent him from being m turnsurprised. Instead of remaining in the Bay he stood off and on tothe eastward of it, keeping the Eock always in sight. Early mDecember he had the satisfaction of watching two convoys ottransports, one in charge of the Autelope, and the other m charge 406 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1705. of the Newcastle,^ come in safely, and disembark about two thousandtroops and a quantity of stores. Then, feehng that the fortress wasin a position to take care of itself for some httle time to come,and that his ships needed refitting and cleaning, he sailed onDecember 21st for Lisbon. On his passage thither he saw^ nothingof the en
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