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bombardment on that post till next 

 morning. The works suffered much. 

 The number of men killed and dis- 

 abled was considerable. The wea- 

 ther was rainy, and the consequent 

 fatigue great. 



At two o'clock in the morning of 

 the l/th the enemy, who liad every 

 advantage in assembling and sudden- 

 ly advancing, atta.:kcd the fort in 

 ^reat force. Although no part of 

 this temporary post was such as 

 could well resist determined troops, 

 yet, for a considerable time, it was 

 defended; but, on the enemy en- 

 tering on tiic Spanish side, the l)ri- 

 tish quarter, commanded by captain 

 Conoll)', of the 18th regiment, could 

 not be much longer maintained, 

 aiotwithstanding several gallant ef- 

 forts were made for that purpose. 

 It was therefore at last carried, and 

 the remains of the garrison of 700 

 men retired towards the shore of 

 B:ilaguier under the protection of 

 the other posts established on those 

 heiglits, and which continued to be 

 f-tintly attacked by the enemy. As 

 this }K)ii'L,ionof Balaguier was a most 

 esien'aal one for the preservation of 

 the harbour, and as we had no com- 

 mnnioalion with it but by water, 

 2200 men had been placed there for 

 some time past. On the night pre- 

 , ceding the attack, 300 more men 

 Lad been sent over, and on the morn- 

 ing of the l/th 400 were embarked 

 btill farther to support it. 



When the tiring at Balaguiar 

 •jcased, we remained in anvious sus- 

 pence as to the event till a little be- 

 Jbre day-light, when a new scene 

 opened, by an attack en all our posts 

 on the mountain of Fharon. The 

 entniy were repulsed on the east 

 iide, wl-.irre v/as r.ur principal force 

 of about 700 men commai.ded by 

 i. ::.ost diMiiiguish'-'d ofiicer, ttic Pied- 



Voi. XXXVI. 



montese colonel de .lermagnan, 

 whose loss we deeply lament ; but 

 on the back of the mountain, near 

 1800 feet high, steep, rocky, deam- 

 ed almost inaccessible, and which he 

 had laboured much to make so, they 

 found means, once more, to pene- 

 trate between our posts, which oc- 

 cup.ed an extent of above two miles, 

 guarded by 450 men, and, in a very 

 short space of time, we saw that 

 with great numbers of men, they 

 crowded all that side of the moun- 

 tain which overlooks Toulon. The 

 ])articulars of this event I am not 

 yet enabled to ascertain, but I have 

 every reason to think that they did 

 not enter a British post. 



Our Jine of defence, which, as I 

 have mentioned, occupied a cir- 

 cumference of at least 15 miles, and 

 with points of which we had only a 

 water communication, being thus 

 broken in upon in its two most es- 

 sential posts, it became necessary to 

 adopt decisive measures, arising from 

 the knowledge of the whole of our 

 actual situation. A council of the 

 flaj; and general officers assembled. 

 Tliey determined on the impracti- 

 cability ot restoring the posts we had 

 lost, and on the consequent propri- 

 ety of the speedy evacuation of the 

 town, evidently, aud by the report 

 of the engineers and artillery offi- 

 cers, declared untenable. Mea- 

 sures of execution were taken fro-n 

 that moment. The troops were 

 withdrawn from the heights of Bala- 

 guier without much interruption 

 from the enemy, and in the cven- 

 insT such posts as necessarily depend- 

 ed on the possession of Pharon were 

 successively evacuated, and the 

 troops drawn In towards Toulon. 

 The forts D'Artigues and St. Ca- 

 therine still remained, together with 

 the posts of Sableltes, Cape Brun, 

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