Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: An English brig of fixteen guns Was taken by thefe ftupid dons, Page 14. And this unufual thing, a prize Line 28. Our hopes uplifted to the fkies? 1- 29- 'I he little fleet that watch'd the bay, Came in to keep St. James's day; p. 15.1.10. For on a holiday 'tis right, 1. ii, 12. That Catholics fhould pray, not fight But whilft our (hips delay'd their cruifing, The Englifh brought the ugly news in Of Rodney's triumph; from the Rock Of guns our ears receiv'd the fhock; For Elliot thought, a gallant action l. 30. Deferv'd a mark of fatisfadlion Soon after this, four Englifli knaves 1. 31, 32. Deferted, and inform'd us, flaves Of hope and fear?that Elliot's troops p. 16.1.i, 2, 3. Of provender had 16ft all hopes. Which rais'd our fpirits, made us gay, And think all fighting only play. Then d' Arfon made us move fo fwift, p. 21.1. 5. His barrels and his bags to lift, 1. 6. That in one night, his epaulemenC 1. 7. Was form'd fo thick, fo long, fo ftrong, The fame Chevalier d'Arcon, who invented the floating batteries, executed an epaulement (which he planned) within the fpace of four hours, in the dark part of the night, between the ifth and i6th of Auguft, 1782 . It was called by him the Parallel Battery, but more properly by Sir George Elliot, the Sappe Volante, from the rapidity of the execution: It was loiotoifes in length, and ten feet in heighth and breadth, formed of facks and barrels, brought to the fpot and filled with the (and found there: I have feen his own account of the difhubution of employment among fo great a number of men (viz. 17,000) and which proves, that he had a clear head to calculate the wwk, foas to prevent confuiion, Page 21. line 8. That fure, if Elliot and his men 1. 9. Could ever be alarm'd, 'twas then? ...