V. Sir Gilbert Talbot's Narrative of the Earl of Sandwich's Attempt upon Berghen in 1665: Communicated by Henry Ellis, Esq. in a Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. President

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On the last evening of the Society's meeting I had the honor to communicate to your Lordship a Narrative of the Venetian tender of Assistance to King Charles the First in his Civil Wars, written by Sir Gilbert Talbot. I have now the honor to lay before the Society another Narrative by the same hand, relating to the unfortunate Attempt upon the Dutch Ships in the Harbour of Berghen in Norway, by a Detachment from the Earl of Sandwich's Fleet, in 1665. A copy of it is preserved in the Harleian Manuscript, N^o 6859. It shows very distinctly with whom the scheme of seizing the Dutch ships originated, and gives the true history of a defeat which has been represented in different lights by our Historians, of whom Hume is probably the most at fault. He ascribes to the King of Denmark a larger share of perfidy than was his due.