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thro' disagreement about the manner oS barrack door upon the main ditch, and
execution ; their final resolution, he bursting providentially did no damage,
added, was to divide their army into though the place was crouded with
three columns, that if one were de- men wromen and children. We had
stroyed by our mines, they might make otherwise on this day one oS Lord
a Sresh attack in the lame place by an- Effingham's killed, and two oS CoL
other column. They added, that up- Riche's wounded.
wards of four hundred had been killed WedneSdav 26. A brisk and conin
the camp, as many wounded, and tinual firing was kept up on both fides,
a great number sick oS various diSor- when there Sell a greater number of the
ders. The night coming on, the ri- enemy's shells into the castle Square
gour of war feemed to slacken a little, than had done Sor the four preceding
by a flow firing on both fides, till a- days. At night one man was woundbout
midnight, when one of our shells ed at the works, and another by our
Sailing into a carpenter's yard, and own centinel, thro' the following missetting
a parcel of timber on fire, the take: The captain oS the Marlborough
enemy attempted to extinguish the guard having Sent a corporal with Sour
flame, which the garrison beholding, men to patrole upon the Outfide of
Snatched the occafion, and fired with the pallisadoes on their return, tho
great eagerneSs the rest of the night, centinel not knowing of the detachwhen
only one man of Col. hiche's ment, fired upon them as enemies,
Beg. was wounded. and wounded this unhappy friend in
Saturday 22. We heard great re- the thigh.
joicings in the French camp, upon Thursday 27. A shell Srom tho
account of a victory, as we afterwards enemy unhappily coming down achimlearned,
which the French admiral ney in the artillery barrack, and burstpretended
he had obtained over the ing, destroyed every thing in tho
British fleet We bad a sailor killed house except the people. During the
on the castle by a Splinter of a shell, night, the garrison kept a very brisk,
and five men wounded. Two women and the enemy a very flow fire. We
were also wounded in the castle by had the good fortune to have nonce
Splinters of a shell. either killed or wounded for 24 hours-
Sunday 23. A shell Srom the ene- Friday 28. The Serjeant major of
my falling at the door of our oil maga- the artillerydied of his wounds, and
aine, rolled down the steps and burst, one man was bruised at nigbt by the
without doing any other damage than Sall oS Some stones as he was at work.
dealing a cask oS oil. This day but nothing more remarkable baptwo
osour wounded expired, and one pened this day.
os Colonel Cornwall's was wound- Saturday 29. The enemy's fleet
ed- bore towards the harbour, when two
Monday 24 One oS our Sufileers oS them coming, as we imagined,
was wounded by the splinter oS a shell. within reach oS our gnns, the -cap-
1 owards night both fides fired but tain os the Anstruther guard ordered
rery Slowly, the enemy not throwing two 32 pounders to he fired at them.
above twenty shellst and no great shot on which they tacked and stand to Sea.
This was the only time we fired at
1 ueSday 25. A very brisk fire be- their fleet. The enemy continued a
^n on both Sides, which continued till flow, and the gartiSon a brisk fire,
rnon, the11 Slackened till about Sour, which dismounted two oS their guns
^ hen hotb sidc^ began ^ith incredi- at the Windmill battery, and one of
c Sury During this incessant firing, our shells alfo blew up a Small maga-
^e oS the enemy's shell leu into a zine. One of their shells falling into
She