4.74, THE GREAT SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. 
night, and set on fire the palisades at Bayside. 
On the 12th he writes: “About 1 a.m. came the Gun Boats &. and 
staid till 3. They have a Mortar Battery at the Hast End of the 64” 
(the 64 gun batterv of the besiegers lay north-east of the gardens on 
the North Front about the centre of the Neutral Ground according to 
a plan he gives of it, and appears to have had two long divisions in it 
containing respectively 42 and 22 embrasures) “to play on the Rock 
Gun, and they divide their fire at the heights and Grand Battery, shot 
by day, shells by night. About noon arrived in the Bay a Fleet of 
about 40 and odd Sail of the Line, French and Spaniards with a few 
Transports &c. so that the Bay is nearly full of them.” 
His entry for the 18th of September, the day on which the great 
attack was made, runs as follows :— 
“ast night the Dons threw from about 70 to 130 shells per Hour, 
and several People wounded &e. About 4 past 9 a.m. Ten Junk Ships 
came and anchored off the King’s Bastion, and to the northward at a 
Distance of about 1000 yards, but 2 of them remained further off than 
the Rest, they were commanded by a Rear-Admiral, and fired a great 
deal into the water, that being a new way of making Breaches. They 
appear Rigged like Polaises. The Brilliant and Porcupine scuttled. 
Kilns having been erected to heat the shot, about noon we began to 
fire them. About 5 P.M. one of the Junk Ships apparently on fire, 
and about midnight they ceased firing and were most of them in 
Flames, having thrown up signals of Distress three or four Hours 
before, and gave our gun boats a fine opportunity, had they chose to 
have profited by it. Their Batteries kept a very heavy fire on the 
Town, &c., and the Extremity of the Lines East End of the Queen’s 
Battery at Willis’s and Caroline’s are rendered almost useless, and the 
Line Wall from the Demi Bastion to Montagu’s much wounded, with 
the merlons of Grand Battery and the King’s Bastion. The Remains 
of the Houses knocked about and the Town full of Rubbish. A Bomb 
Ketch anchored without the Junk Ships and kept firing on the Town. 
Captain Reeves! Artillery lost his arm and died, Captain Groves? of do. 
burnt by an ammunition Chest blowing up, Lieuts. Godfrey? and 
Whetham wounded.” 
The entry for the 14th is a very long one, the longest apparently in 
the whole diary. It commences: ‘“ About midnight our Gun Boats 
got out and began firing on the Junk Ships. About 4 a.m. three of 
the J. Ships blew up, our G. Boats having been on board and brought 
what they could, wounded men, &., away. About 10 a.m. two more 
blew up, in short, all are blown up, except two that burnt down, and 
one that there is hopes of saving. Numbers of the Spaniards were 
blown up in Vessels, some that would not leave them, and others that 
were so wounded they could not get out. The Prisoners are 12 Officers 
and 844 men.” He continues: “The Colours of the Admiral, who was 
Morino, were brought to the South Parade, and exposed, to the ex- 
1 Kane’s List, No. 427. 
2 Kane’s List, No. 187. 
3 Kane’s List, Ne. 608. 
