The ancient and modern history of Gibraltar. With an accurate journal of the siege of that fortress, Feb. 13 to June 23, 1727. Tr. from the Spanish

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Page 60 - That, if fuch a promife was ever made, he du ft aver, that it was conditional, and made void and invalid by the king of Spain's refufing to comply with the conditions, on which it was made ; and that, whenever the performance of that promife was...
Page 54 - Vienna ; and if time shall evince that the " giving up the trade of this nation to one power, " and Gibraltar and Port Mahon to another, is " made the price and reward of imposing upon " this Kingdom a Popish Pretender, what an in" dignation must this raise in the breast of every
Page 169 - ... shall be allowed to go to the coast of Perigil, and any person so doing will be fired upon both from the forts of the mountains and the trenches. Article VI. No person whatever shall be permitted to go into the country without a passport from the captainBARBAROUS PUNISHMENT. 211 general of the Spanish army or of the lieutenantgeneral on duty in the trenches : and all correspondence shah* be forbidden by sea as well as by land.
Page 10 - M&ja to fend over firft with Julian, and the two princes attending him, only a fmall detachment of his forces, and to form a notion of that count's fincerity from the reception thofe Arabs ihould meet with in Spain.
Page 19 - DTItK>EL. ubi fup. p. 263, ?64, 271, 443, 444. tain, that his horfe Orelia, and enfigns of royalty, were found in a miry place, frequented by fwine and other filthy animals, tho' the enemy fought for his body in vain. With regard to count Julian, he is faid to have foon met with the proper reward of his villainy ; the Arabs, according to a proverb received amongft us, loving the treafon, but hating the traitor. His wife they ftoned to death, threw his fon...
Page 19 - Roderic committing to their con» dudt the wings of the army, though they had already manifefted their finifter intentions towards him, they went over to the enemy in the heat of the action ; upon which, a total rout immediately enfued. The Arabs purfued the flying Goths with fo much ardour, that the greateft part of them were killed either in the battle or the purfuit.
Page 50 - Spain, it was formally declared, " that the con" tinuance of the alliance, and of " the commerce of England with " Spain, depended abfolutely on the ** Immediate reftitution of Gibraltar.
Page 56 - power, enable your majefty to af...
Page 168 - The the town, without any correfpondence with the troops of the army; who, till new orders, fhall continue to mount the trenches, without committing any hoftilities.

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