Zinzendorf and Moras are as good as our own, and with our English dragoons make up in all near two thousand.

But the whole depends upon leaving them a retreat without interruption.
"Dear Jones, prove a good dragoon, be diligent and alert, and preach the welcome doctrine to your Miquelets, plunder without danger.
"Your friend, PETERBOROUGH." The two letters fell into the hands of Las Torres, and so artfully had the capture been contrived, that it never occurred to him to doubt the truth of these mendacious documents.

Orders were instantly given to prepare for a march, and almost at the same time two events occurred in the siege works which caused confusion of the troops.

Several mines had been unskillfully sunk and charged; one of these prematurely exploded and destroyed forty of the workmen.

The remaining mines Colonel Jones contrived to swamp by turning the course of a brook into them, thus rendering them harmless.