little Retrenchment, and to make use of the Guns they had taken to defend it.  Under this Situation, the Enemy, when drove into the inward Fort, were expos’d to our Fire from those Places we were possess’d of, in case they offer’d to make any Sally, or other Attempt against us.  Thus we every Moment became better and better prepar’d against any Effort of the Garrison.  And as they could not pretend to assail us without evident Hazard; so nothing remain’d for us to do, till we could bring up our Artillery and Mortars.  Now it was that the General sent for the thousand Men under Brigadier Stanhope’s Command, which he had posted at a Convent, halfway between the Town and Monjouick.

There was almost a total Cessation of Fire, the Men on both Sides being under Cover.  The General was in the upper Part of the Bastion; the Prince of Hesse below, behind a little Work at the Point of the Bastion, whence he could only see the Heads of the Enemy over the Parapet of the inward Fort.  Soon after an Accident happen’d which cost that gallant Prince his Life.

The Enemy had Lines of Communication between Barcelona and Monjouick.  The Governor of the former, upon hearing the firing from the latter, immediately sent four hundred Dragoons on Horseback, under Orders, that two Hundred dismounting should reinforce the Garrison, and the other two Hundred should return with their Horses back to the Town.

When those two Hundred Dragoons were accordingly got into the inward Fort, unseen by any of our Men, the Spaniards, waving their Hats over their Heads, repeated over and over, Viva el Rey, Viva.  This the Prince of Hesse unfortunately took for a Signal of their Desire to surrender.  Upon which, with too much Warmth and Precipitancy, calling to the Soldiers following, They surrender, they surrender, he advanc’d with near three Hundred Men (who follow’d him without any Orders from their General) along the Curtain which led to the Ditch of the inward Fort.  The Enemy suffered them to come into the Ditch, and there surrounding ’em, took two Hundred of them Prisoners, at the same time making a Discharge upon the rest, who were running back the Way they came.  This firing brought the Earl of Peterborow down from the upper Part of the Bastion, to see what was doing below.  When he had just turn’d the Point of the Bastion, he saw the Prince of Hesse retiring, with the Men that had so rashly advanc’d.  The Earl had exchang’d a very few Words with him, when, from a second Fire, that Prince receiv’d a Shot in the great Artery of the Thigh, of which he died immediately, falling down at the General’s Feet, who instantly gave Orders to carry off the Body to the next Convent.

Almost the same Moment an Officer came to acquaint the Earl of Peterborow, that a great Body of Horse and Foot, at least three Thousand, were on their March from Barcelona towards the Fort.  The Distance is near a Mile, all uneven Ground; so that the Enemy was either discoverable, or not to be seen, just as they were marching on the Hills or in the Vallies.  However, the General directly got on Horseback, to take a View of those Forces from the rising Ground without the Fort, having left all the Posts, which were already taken, well secur’d with the allotted Numbers of Officers and Soldiers.