A Full and True ACCOUNT OF A Great rencontre BETWEEN AN ENGLISH and FRENCH-Man of War, Near the PORT of Kingsale in Ireland: WITH A RELATION of the Taking of the said French-Vessel, full of Irish Officers and Soldiers, and bringing Her into Biddiford-Haven, in the West of England.  

licenced according to Order.   
THough the unreadiness of our own and the Dutch-Fleet, this year has given occasion of boldness to the French-Privateers, and rendered some few of our Colliers and their Small-Vessels to be apprehensive of the Rapacious insolences of their Pickaroons; yet of late we have made a shift to kerb their Sauciness, and make them many times pay for their Encroachments: the weightiness of our Affairs, which force many of our Vessels to and from Ireland of late, has caused to be very vigilant on those Coasts, and when any Vessel approaches, if they find it any way feasible, they are sure to accost and whip her away into some of their Ports, which usage has not only made our Merchants cautious, but our frigates resolute to suppress their Petty-fogging Robbers; accordingly one of our frigates of Forty Guns, crusing about the fifteenth of this instant upon the Coasts of Ireland, made up to the Harbour of King-Sale, and upon information that a French-Pickaroon lay in that Harbour, the Captain haled a small Fisher-Boat aboard him, and with a little persuasion and a competent reward engaged him to go in and pretend to the governor of the Fort, that an East-India Merchant-Man distressed with the Weather, and for want of Provision, was coming in and begged the favour of Fresh-Water and Victuals for his Money.  
The governor and Garrison were almost out of their Wits, for the Joy of this( as they reckon) so gallant a prise, and immediately Man out with the best of the Garrison, the small Vessel that lay under the Fort; our frigate thereupon, seeming to mistrust their Safety, presently hoist Sail, and make to Sea, which embolden the Irish Adventurers, and make them eager in the pursuit: The Captain of the frigate, who before had muzzl'd and drawn in his Guns, when he brought them to his Bow-tacks, and gets between them and the Port, and then showing them a Broad-side ready bent without resistance, Boards them; and secures the Prisoners, whereof many are Officers, he brought the Vessel into Bidiford, a small Port in the West of England.  
Upon discourse with the Prisoners, they confirm the great Defeat of the Irish by the Protestants of London-Derry in the North of Ireland: And further add, That in the last Sally upon the Papists, amongst the considerable Persons that were killed, Colonel Ramsey was one; Lord Netterville, and some Others, were taken Prisoners, and brought into the Town. That which was reported of Tyrconnel's being Wounded and dangerously Ill, proves to be nothing but the Black Jaundice, of which he has been long Sick.   

LONDON, Printed by W. Downing. 2689.