The English appeared before it on the 11th, two days after they had taken San Bartolomeo.

Nelson's advice was, that it should instantly be carried by assault; but Nelson was not the commander; and it was thought proper to observe all the formalities of a siege.

Ten days were wasted before this could be commenced.

It was a work more of fatigue than of danger; but fatigue was more to be dreaded than the enemy; the rains set in; and could the garrison have held out a little longer, diseases would have rid them of their invaders.

Even the Indians sunk under it, the victims of unusual exertion, and of their own excesses.