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cines all gone; tliat however Giaours were too ob-stinate ever to surrender, so that the only way wasto exterminate them all, and take care they get nofurther succour.

True or false, what cared the pashas? Butthey told it to their troops to encourage them.The two in spite of former disagreements, agreedagain against the Christians. Mustapha undertak-ing St. Michael with Senglea, and Piali, Borgo—dividing their efforts for the second assault beforedawn on Tuesday, August 7th.

Then amongst several others fell regretted by allChristendom one of the rarest and most able cap-tains in the whole Spanish army. But both Mus-tapha’s assault and Piali’s, though exceeding bloody,were unsuccessful. 1

Our cavalry from Citta Vecchia made a diversionon the enemy’s rear; and after one more tremen-dous struggle, in which every grade, order, con-dition, and each sex exerted themselves herocially,the day was won. As soon as all was quiet, thegrand master hastened to the church to hear TeDeum sung for our new victory. To cull an indi-vidual from the vast number of infidels then slain,probably the worthiest and best-conducted personin Islam, to say a great deal, was the Bey of

1 Bosio : par. ii. 629.