Her ragged and starving soldiers often mingled with the crowd of beggars at the doors of convents, and battled there for a mess of pottage and a crust of bread.
Russell underwent those trials which no English commander whose hard fate it has been to cooperate with Spaniards has escaped.

The Viceroy of Catalonia promised much, did nothing, and expected every thing.

He declared that three hundred and fifty thousand rations were ready to be served out to the fleet at Carthagena.

It turned out that there were not in all the stores of that port provisions sufficient to victual a single frigate for a single week.

Yet His Excellency thought himself entitled to complain because England had not sent an army as well as a fleet, and because the heretic Admiral did not choose to expose the fleet to utter destruction by attacking the French under the guns of Toulon.