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we to drive foes from the parapets to whom abreach had given ingress! How often to root upbanners they had planted! Enough that the de-fence of Borgo was worthy of St. Elmo’s. Butended differently! Gallantly did our turcopoliercommand his foreign companions; and troops forthat post of England had one of the two pashas 1for assailant personally on Friday, 3rd of August,and there naturally fought whatever Englishmenwere in Malta at that time, belonging to the orderor not. At least those two already named; andprobably some few others, whose names are lost.According to a Spanish soldier, who deserted andbecame a renegade, there remained now but fivehundred combatants alive in Borgo ; and these ex-tenuated and wounded, every one of them. Hestated that the rest of the population consisted ofsuperannuated persons and children and women,the sick, the dangerously wounded, and the blindor lame; that nearly all the ammunitions wereconsumed; that by the grand master’s orders nomore cannon were fired, except in cases of inevit-able necessity; preserving the powder for the har-quebusses; that of war pikes and wildfire there wasno more; all broken or bent, and badly ironed, tnedi-

1 Piali, the Admiral, and perhaps more formidable thanMustapha.