mine, and disposed all things, with great care, for springing it the morrow-morning, and for mounting afterwards to the breach. There were ten soldiers killed, and about twenty wounded,

In the evening, the Marquis de Lambert, and the Sieur de Ru bantel, relieved the posts of the trenches on the right with two bat talions of Navarre, and the Sieur de Josseaux relieved the posts on the left with the battalions of Vaubecourt, of Conti, and Auvergne. During the night, according to the orders of the Marshal de Crequi, we made all the preparatives necessary for the attack, which was to be made the morrow-morning upon the counterguard; and things were disposed with so much prudence, that never any action was begun and continued with better order, less confusion, more con stancy, and greater success. At break of day, the Marquis de la Freseliere put the batteries in so good a state, that the cannon of the besiegers played incessantly for two hours. The Sieur de Vigny caused also the batteries of the mortar-pieces to be ordered with so much care, that the bombs, which fell without discontinuation into the bastions, tormented the besieged. At the same time, the troops which were to be employed upon this attack, marched to the ren dezvous, assigned them by the Marshal de Crequi; who, notwith standing his indisposition, and an incision, which had been made in his leg the day before, caused himself to be carried to the head of the trenches, that he might there be nearer at hand to give his orders, and might put more life into what was to be executed. The grena diers of Vaubecourt were destined to attack the right side of the counterguard of the bastion of Barlemont, after the mine should have had its effect, being seconded by the two companies of grenadiers of Piedmont, and by an hundred men of the regiment of Vaubecourt, which had, at their head, the company of grenadiers of the regiment of Auvergne, The grenadiers of Conti were commanded to attack a redan, ruined by our cannon, on the left side of the counterguard, being backed by two companies of grenadiers of Normandy, one of the Royal, and an hundred men of the regiment of Conti. The two companies of the grenadiers of Navarre were appointed their post on the left-hand of the attack of Conti, over-against the buttress of the bastion of Barlemont, being seconded by the companies of grenadiers of the marine of Bourbonnois, and of Rovergue, with an hundred men of that regiment. Each regiment, in a body, was to support its attack, except that of the grenadiers of Navarre, which was main, tained by the battalion of Rovergue.

The labourers were ranked in three troops, with the engineers, to be ready to march when the detached troops should have seized on the breaches; and it was in fine resolved, that, as soon as the second mine was sprung, they should march by the ways which were shewn them. All things being thus disposed, about four in the morn ing, all the troops, that were at the foremost posts, were caused to withdraw from the trenches, to the end they might be out of the fall of the ruins, which the mine might make. The miners were also made go out of their hole; and there were left only the pikes, planted

with the colours, and some soldiers, to hinder the enemy from know. ing the design of the besiegers.

28th. About seven in the morning, the mine was sprung, and its effect was very considerable. Nevertheless, the ascent of the coun terguard, and the other works, was so rough and difficult, that the detached men, who attacked at the same time, that the enemies might not have leisure to retrench themselves, were obliged to scram. ble, and thrust one another, to get to the top of the breach.

The troops being advanced to seize on the breaches, and make lodgments there, according as it had been proposed, those, which marched first, extended themselves under the bastion on the left, where were thrown at them a great number of grenadoes. The others, which followed them, extended themselves along the curtain, and the bastion on the right, at the foot of the breach; after which they ascended together with much order, to the top of the breach, to settle themselves there. But those, who advanced to the end of the cur tain, which joins the bastion on the left, met with a vigorous opposition, At the same time the enemy sprang two mines in this place, which obliged the commanded men to retire to preserve themselves; but, having presently recovered the right-hand of these mines with the other troops, they chased thence the besieged, and began on all sides to settle the lodgments, by means of abundance of faggots, which were incessantly brought thither. The troops, which were in the bastion on the left, to resettle themselves there, were disquieted by the grenadoes, which the besieged cast also from the side of the ditch. But we caused them to be driven by some officers and soldiers, as far as the wall, which is on the left, that goes down from the place to the ditch, and flanks the bastion of Barlemont, where they laboured to retrench themselves.

The besieged, in their retreat, set on fire a little magazine filled with bombs, grenadoes, and powder, whereby many of the besiegers were killed or wounded. Four companies of Spanish foot defended the counterguard, and the other works, which are joined thereunto, were defended by detachments. They made so obstinate a defence, that our troops, though using their utmost endeavours, had, for half an hour, much difficulty to get possession of the top of the breach; the place of itself being very high, and the ruins of the mine not being solid enough to make it firm. But, after a fierce charge of musquets and grenadoes, our men so vigorously disputed the matter with the sword's point, that the enemy was, with much loss, driven from this post; and many Spaniards, who would not ask quarter, were cut in pieces. Some carried on, with an extreme desire of sig nalising themselves, went as far as the ditch of the place. The lieu tenant of the grenadiers of Rovergue, followed by ten or twelve, bore up with great constancy, against the charge of forty masters; and the greatest part of the horse was killed, and the rest put to flight by help of the firing of the grenadiers, which were in the counterguard. The commandant was also killed by the Count de Mailly, who went to meet him, having seen him advance his sword on high. Our men would have made a lodgment near the ditch, over

against the right-hand front of the bastion; but the extraordinary firing of the besieged, which killed us some men, obliged them to take the resolution, to retire along the battlements of the wall. The besieged had placed three little pieces on the terraces, covered with trees, on the side of Grondt, having judged, that they should be attacked thereabouts; and the troops, which they played upon in the flank, were very much incommoded by them; as also, by the ord nance, which they had on the flank of the bastion, opposite to that of Barlemont. There was not for five or six hours any intermission of firing. We lost twenty or five and twenty officers, with about three-score and ten soldiers; and there were many wounded, amongst whom, was the Chevalier de Megrigny, and the Sieur de Marny, engineer. The captains of the grenadiers of Bourbonnois and Conti were killed. The Sieur de Sainte Marthe, captain of the grenadiers of Auvergne, and the Sieur de Castillon, captain of Navarre, were wounded. The Marquis Bourlemont, brother to the Duke d' Atri, was slain. The Duke de Choiseul was wounded with the shiver of a bomb, above the left eye, whereof he died some days after; and the Vidame de Laon, son to the Count du Roy, was wounded with a musquet shot through the body, both of them giving testimonies of a singular courage.

The Prince de Conti, and the Prince de la Roche sur Yon expos ed themselves to the greatest danger, with a valour worthy their birth, and the last received on the stomach a blow with a stone. All the volunteers signalised themselves there, particularly, the Prince de Tingry, the Marquis de Crequi, the Count de Luz, the Count d'Estrees, the Marquis de Thiange, the Marquis de Nogent, and the Marquis de la Batie. The Duke of Grafton, and the Duke of Northumberland, his brother, and many other English lords, who came to the siege in quality of volunteers, signalised themselves on this occasion.

The Sieur de Vauban, marshal de camp, was one of the first in the counterguard, and gave there with his ordinary sufficiency or ders, very beneficial for the security and continuation of the lodgments, which were made there.

All the foot, which were at this action, acquitted themselves very well of their devoirs; and many soldiers made themselves be taken notice of.

It was necessary, after the effect of the mine, and the lodgment built upon the counterguard, to make a descent into the ditch. The Count du Plessis, lieutenant-general for the day, undertook this care with all the success, that could be expected.

He made the ditch be viewed; he killed, or put to flight, all the enemies that were found before him; and afterwards caused the lodgments to be made, notwithstanding all the effects of the besieged, who cast, from above the bastions, a prodigious quantity of grenadoes, bombs, and fire-works upon the workmen and soldiers. He received, under the elbow, a blow with the glancing of a grenado, which made him for some time unable to stir it. He ceased not to continue present, at the work of the lodgment, till such time

as it was extended from the gate of the gallery of the counterguard, which leads to the ditch, as far as the bastion of Barlemont, which made fifteen toises. Two hours after, he put the miners to work in two places, one upon the right, towards the point of the bastion, and the other on the left, drawing towards the flank, the enemy not being able to incommode them.

The works were continued the 30th, and the 31st, with much success; and we will give you the particulars thereof, in the following relations.

May the 29th. In the evening, the Count du Plessis, lieutenant general, mounted the fifth time the trenches; and made the descent of the ditch, with very good success.

30th. In the morning, we attacked the third division of the castle of Old Munster; and made ourselves masters of it, after some resistance of the enemies. They soon quitted this work to retire upon the rampart, hoping, by their fierce firing, to hinder our men from lodging there. About two in the afternoon, a company of the grenadiers of Rovergue, one of Languedoc, and two of fuzeliers, supported by a battalion of that regiment, wholly carried this castle. The besieged had raised behind the division a battery of three pieces. We could not go to them, above seven or eight abreast; and we were exposed to the shot of the place. Nevertheless, they abandoned this post, near half an hour before the besiegers came against it, and left there their cannon all charged. Our men made afterwards many winding traverses, to lodge themselves safely upon the brink of the ditch; where they extended themselves, as much as the groundwork could permit. An engineer, and fourteen or fifteen soldiers, were killed upon this ocasion, and there were about forty wounded. About five, in the evening, the enemies quitted the half-moon of the counterguard, which they still held at the great attack. The general officers of the guard, having been advertised thereof, thought fit, before they seized this work, to send some men by the breach, which was at the point of the counterguard, to see whether there were no mines, and to open those, they should find there. There were happily discovered under the counterguard the trains of thir teen or fourteen toises of mines, which were all charged. We took thence the powder, and we detached workmen to make a lodgment, which exteriorly embraced all the parapets. We delayed to put people into the half-moon, till we had had time to search the mines, which was done the following night. We found there two pieces of cannon, which the enemies had left, and we judged thereby, that fear had made them retire from this half-moon. The Sieur Parisoc, Major of Cambray, engineer, was wounded with a piece of a grenado, on the stomach, as he was setting the miner to the bastion of the place.

30th. In the evening, the Sieur de Toyeuse, lieutenant-general, the Sieur d'Erloc, and the Marquis de Nesle, relieved the trenches with two battalions of the marine, and two of the Queen's. We finished, during the night, a battery of two pieces of cannon, which had been begun upon the counterguard on the left; and we carried

on by the mine-work about twenty toises of a trench, drawing from the counterguard to the curtain, which is on the reverse of Paffendal.

31st. We continued to work to make the descent of the ditch; and to erect a battery of three pieces of cannon on the same ditch, which were to play with another battery of seven pieces, which had begun, in the morning, to fire briskly against a bastion, which remained before the besiegers, to hinder them, from entering the place. We wrought also, upon all that was necessary for the springing several mines, to the end, to give afterwards the assault, in case the enemies shewed no design to yield.

But the Prince de Chimay, knowing that the town was no longer defensible, and seeing himself pressed by the principal officers of the garison, and by the townsmen, to prevent the misfortunes, which befal a place, taken by assault, caused, June the 1st, a parley to be beaten, and demanded to capitulate. Hostages were soon sent on both sides, and all acts of hostility ceased. The Prince de Chimay desired a truce for some days, that he might send to Bruxelles, to represent to the Marquis de Grana the extremity wherein he was: he added thereunto some other requests; but the Marshal de Crequi thought not fit to grant him any of them. The truce was thus broken, and, the same evening, the besieged and the besiegers began to fire upon one another.

2d. We perceived a white cloth, whereby, the townsmen would declare, that they would no longer defend themselves, nor shoot any more. But the garison ceased not to fire at us with their musquets, all the night; and our men fired also briskly both their musquet and cannon, to answer them.

3d. The firing of the besieged diminished by degrees till ten o'clock, when they intirely left off to shoot and appear. They were above half an hour in this condition; and, in fine, seeing that the besiegers erected in the ditch a battery of four great pieces, they made appear at the attack, where the Prince of Conti was, some men who made a shew of desiring to speak. We could scarce make them leave firing on our side, that we might hear them, They said, that the besieged had beaten a parley on the side of the castle; and desired that we would not level our cannon. They were answered, that the besieged should beat the parley on the side where they caused the battery to be erected, and that they should cease working. They said, they expected a drum; in the mean time the work was discontinued, and, in fine, the drum arrived. He cried out, after he had beaten, that they had made this call to capitulate. Some time after the hostages were brought to the guard of the trenches, where the Prince de Conti was; and he sent them to the Marshal de Crequi, who sent also his into the town. The deputies arrived afterwards at the camp with the articles of capitulation, which the Prince de Chimay demanded. There was one in favour of the deserters of our troops, for whom the besieged demanded an amnesty; and another to obtain four pieces of cannon, which were not granted.