Were this removed, troops could enter, by the sewer, into the priest's wine cellar.
"The priest, being promised a large sum of money, set to work.
First, he laid a complaint before the governor that the sewer was choked with filth, which might be a source of disease to the town unless removed; and to do this, it was necessary that the grating should be taken down.

Being altogether unsuspicious of evil, the governor granted his request.
"As soon as the grating was removed, Eugene despatched eight miners, who crossed the moat at night, made their way up the sewer, and opened a communication between it and the priest's house.

When all was ready, four or five hundred picked grenadiers entered, and were concealed in the house of the priest, and other adherents of the emperor.
"Eugene set two strong bodies of picked troops in motion.

The one was to enter by the Saint Margaret gate, which would be seized by the force already in the city.

This column consisted of five thousand men.