Kerguelen’s voyage to the north. . 801 efcort a fleet of fourteen merchant veffels to Havre, went on board a frigate of twenty, eight guns, and with M. Forbin under his qrders of fixteen guns, they met with two Englilh fljips of forty-eight and forty-two guns, and fought them fufficiently long to give time to the convoy to purfue its courfe ; but, both wounded, one hundred and forty men difabled, and their veffels complete wrecks, they were taken. The lofs of the Englilh veffels was fo great, that the command of their veffels devolved to a boat- fwain’s mate, all the officers being killed in the engagement. The two French captains efcaped from prifon fome time afterwards. The fir ft fitted out a veffel and made many prizes. Fie entirely deftroyed the filhery of the Dutch, and made a defeent in England near Newcaftle, with feven frigates, burnt there two hundred houfes, and carried back booty to Dunkirk of the value of fifty theufand livres. Some days after he failed again with three frigates, cruifed in the North, where he took a Dutch fleet, efcorted by three veffels of war, fought the latter, took one, and put the other two to flight, after having greatly damaged them. He came back to Dunkirk with the whole fleet, laden with wheat, barley, iron, pitch, &c. France having purchafed a large quantity of wheat in the north in 1694, M. Bart was ordered to go and convoy the fleet, confiding of a hundred and odd fail of veffels. This fleet failed under efcort of three Swediffi and Danifh fhips, and was taken near the Texel on the twenty-eighth of June, by the commodore Hidde Vries, commanding a fquadron of eight fhips of war; but the twenty-ninth of June, M. Bart falling in with it, attacked the Dutch with fo much bravery, that in lefs than half an hour the commodore was taken, commanding a veffel of fifty-eight guns, another of fifty, and a third of thirty- fix were captured, as well as the five others much fhattered, which betook themfelves to flight and efcaped. He retook the whole fleet; he conduced to Dunkirk the three veffels and thirty of the merchantmen, the reft made for their deftination in different ports of France. The commodore died of his wounds fhortly after his arrival. This fervice rendered to France at a time of extraordinary fcarcity of wheat corn, engaged his majefty to ennoble M. Bart, who had been honoured with the crofs of St. Louis, fome time before for other exploits. The eleventh of Auguft 1695, the enemy with one hundred and fourteen fail under the orders of Admiral Barclay, attempted to bombard the town, they fent in feveral fire-fhips loaded with combuftibles for burning the forts andjettys; but they were driven back by the well fuftained fire of the forts, and by the vigilance of M. Derlingue, who commanded in the harbour, and went out with feveral boats to grapple the fire- fhips, launched againft the forts and jettys, and conduct them to ftations where they might burn out, without doing any injury. M. Bart commanded at Fort Efperance, M. de St. Claire at Chateau Verd. The enemy threw more than one thoufand two hundred bombs, and a number of carcaffes between eight o’clock in the morning and feven in the evening without doing any damage : ten bombs fell in the Rifban, they killed an officer there ; another bomb which fell in Fort Verd, did no more than di£ its grave; one of the enemy’s frigates having grounded on a bank at low water, M. Derlingue went with his boats to it, and made prifoners of its crew, in fpite of the firing pf the enemy. This expedition was expenfive to the enemy without profit. The preceding year they made a fimilar attempt. In 1C96, M. Bart failed from Dunkirk, and took a Dutch fleet in the north, of one hundred and fix fail; fixty-one of which he ranfomed, after carrying by boarding five veflels of war, which convoyed the fleet. He was made Chef d’Efcadre in 8697 5 and failed the fifth of September, with fix veffels and a frigate to tranfport the Prince de Conti to Poland, notwithftanding an enemy’s fquadron fuperior in number, which VOL. I.' 5 k could

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