As he did not send an immediate answer, the admiral began to bombard the city, and the inhabitants compelled him to surrender at discretion.

The greater part of the garrison enlisted themselves in the service of Charles.

The deputies of the states being assembled by the marquis d'Alconzel, acknowledged that prince as their sovereign, and agreed to furnish his army with thirty thousand sacks of corn, which were accordingly transported to Catalonia, where there was a great scarcity of provisions.

Major-general Stanhope having planned the conquest of Minorca, and concerted with the admiral the measures necessary to put it in execution, obtained from count Staremberg a few battalions of Spaniards, Italians, and Portuguese; at the head of these he embarked at Barcelona with a fine train of British artillery, accompanied by brigadier Wade and colonel Petit, an engineer of great reputation.

They landed on the island about ten miles from St.Philip's fort, on the 26th of August, with about eight hundred marines, which augmented their number to about three thousand.