before it had produced any material damage. The Juno, although she had been admirably placed by her commander, came off with very little damage, and without any loss.

The battering from the height on shore had been as unsuccessful, as that from the ships, till some additional pieces were mounted, and hot shot used ; when one of the latter, falling among, and setting fire to the bass-junk with which, to the depth of five feet, the immensely thick parapet was lined, induced the garrison, 33 only in number, and of whom two were mortally wounded, to call for quarter. The tower mounted one 6 and two 18 pounders ; the carriage of one of which had been rendered unserviceable in the course of the cannonade. These guns had been brought on shore from the French frigates, when they retook the tower in October, 1793. There was a furnace for heating shot, and the garrison had about forty 6 and one hundred and thirty-five 18 pounder charges left at the time of surrender. It is but justice to Ensign Thomas le Tellier and his men (four of whom were seamen) to acknowledge, that they proved themselves skilful artillerists, and maintained their post until it was no longer tenable.

The following detailed account of what damage the Fortitude suffered by the fire from the tower is, indeed, the best encomium that can be passed upon the little garrison within it. Two 18-pound shot through the centre of the mainmast, and nine main shrouds shot away. One of the lowerdeck port-timbers cut through, and all the sill of the port carried away. One of the quarterdeck ports cut down to the deck. The heels of the fore topgallantmast and fore topmast, and the cap and cross trees shot away. The spare main topmast and jib-boom cut through. Some shots in the hull, but none under water. A great part of the running rigging and blocks shot away, and most of the topmast-backstays ; also, as already stated, three lowerdeck guns dismounted.

The next post to be attacked was the Convention redoubt, mounted with 21 pieces of heavy ordnance, and considered as the key of San-Fiorenzo. By the most surprising exertions of science and labour, on the part of the officers and men of the navy, several 18-pounders and other pieces were placed on an eminence of very difficult ascent, 700 feet above the level of the sea. This rocky elevation, owing to its perpendicularity near its summit, was deemed inaccessible; but the seamen, by means of blocks and ropes, contrived to haul up the guns, each of which weighed about 42 hundred weight. The path along which these dauntless fellows crept would, in most places, admit but one person at a time. On the right was a descent of many hundred feet; and one false step would have led to eternity: on the left,