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 mortars, I submit to your lordship if we had better get our 10-inch sea mortars fitted in land beds. Pray lend us all the spades and iron shovels from the ships; the tools those country people have, work too slow for us. Nine – We gain ground daily. If we can complete the trench to-night, for two batteries of four guns each, I think, with the mortars, to bring the governor to his senses. The difficulty is, to get the workmen to stand a little fire. July 27th, 2 – The French sent out this morning, in their usual way, demanding protection for the patriots; I answered, inadmissible, and offered the terms of St. Elmo, and to include Gaieta in the capitulation. They desire until to-morrow morning, to hold a council. July 28th, – I have the honor to enclose your lordship a copy of the capitulation. I had gone too far before your letter reached me, at midnight, to insist on Gaieta. The governor offers, if His Sicilian Majesty will let that garrison take their arms, he will give orders for its immediate evacuation. July 29th, – There are immense quantities of powder and fine ordnance. Colonel Gams has just sent me word, that he is obliged to form a hundred stratagems to get clear of the Calabrese; these vagabonds have killed sixteen of their officers within this month.”

In his official letter, Captain Troubridge expressed himself much indebted to Captains Benjamin Hallowell and James Oswald, to whose abilities and exertions he attributed the reduction of Capua in so short a time, “as they staid night and day in the field to forward the erecting of the batteries.” Lieutenant Lowcay was also highly praised. The ordnance, &c. taken at this place amounted to 118 pieces of cannon, 12,000 muskets, 414,000 musket cartridges filled, and 67,848 pounds of gunpowder in casks. In Gaieta, which fortress surrendered by capitulation on the 2d of August, were found 58 battering brass guns, 12 iron ditto, 2 brass field-pieces, and 19 mortars for ramparts.

The subsequent expulsion of the French republicans from the Roman territory has been noticed in, and. On the termination of these arduous operations. Lieutenant Lowcay was sent by Captain Troubridge, from Naples, in an open boat, to Palermo, with despatches for Nelson, and the different colours which had been taken from the enemy. The latter he had the honor of presenting to His Sicilian Majesty, and received in return a valuable diamond ring.

The Culloden continued in the Mediterranean until the