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the Grenadiers all yesterday and the night before. We were fortunate enough to have but three or four men touched. Captain Nelson was wounded by stones in the face. It is feared he will lose one of his eyes. My batman was knocked down by my side by rubbish and a good deal bruised; the ball struck a heap of stones close to us. The General and everybody is eager to advance. It is evident that the closer we are to them the less troublesome we find them.

i$th July.—The breach in the Mozzello is not yet practicable. It is expected to be so this night or tomorrow. They have been so successful with their ricochet firing as to dismount two guns. We, however, lose but few men. The town has been on fire once or twice. The duty in the trenches is done by regiments; the reserve is considered as two regiments. The right wing goes with me, the left with Major Brereton. Lord Hood continues to hover round us eager to have his name in the capitulation. General Stuart, by his firm behaviour, keeps him in order. Several of his actions prove him to be a mean fellow.

i&th July.—Last night I returned from the trenches, where I had been the day and night before. The breach in the Mozzello is practicable: one man only was killed during my twenty-four hours, though the fire was pretty constant. The General was down for several hours with me. He complains with much reason of the heads of the Engineer and Artillery Departments, who have retarded him in his operations. I have been with him this whole day. The attack on the Mozzello is fixed for to-morrow at daylight. I am to storm it at the head of the Grenadiers; the whole arrangements are so good that the business must succeed. We move from our camp at eleven, i.e. in half-an-hour. A battery is now being built considerably nearer the town. It is to open upon the left of the town at the same time that the troops advance.

igth July.—The different corps were assembled at their