The attack seaward was completed by the _Acre_, 100, _Curacoa_, 30, _Tribune_, 30, and _Sphynx_, 6, opening on the central battery; while the _Hannibal_, 91, _Dauntless_, 24, and _Terrible_, 21, assailed that on the spit.

To this storm of shot and shells, the Russians could not reply long.

In the spit battery, the sand falling through between the logs, displaced by shot and shells, choked the embrasures, and blocked up the guns.

In the fort, the light wooden buildings were in flames at an early hour; then the walls began to crumble before the balls which came from every quarter, front, flank, and rear; and as the guns were disabled successively, the return became feeble, until few were in condition to be fired, the central redoubt alone discharging single guns at long intervals.

The Russian commander, however, made no sign of surrender; but the admirals, seeing that his fire had ceased, and further defence was unavailing, hoisted the white flag at 1.35 P.M., upon which the works were given up on honorable terms." "The garrison consisted of about fourteen hundred men; their loss is differently stated,--the French admiral says eighty wounded,--another, forty-three killed and one hundred and fourteen wounded." "The English suffered the least, having but two men wounded; besides two killed and two wounded in the _Arrow_, by the bursting of her two 68-pounder Lancaster guns." "The superiority of the allied vessels in number and calibre of ordnance was very decided; they must have had at least six hundred and fifty pieces in play, chiefly 32-pounders, and 8-inch shell guns, with a fair proportion of 68-pounders and mortars, besides the 50-pounders of the French floating batteries.