ipal object of the movement.

By the greatest exertions, this battery was completely constructed,
without discovery, within three hundred yards of the Mozello, an hour
before day-break: a signal gun was then fired from it, for the troops to
advance. Covered, in their approach, by two field pieces, they
proceeded, with a cool and steady confidence, and unloaded arms, towards
the enemy; forced their way through a smart fire of musquetry; and,
regardless of live shells thrown into the trench, or the additional
defence of pikes, stormed the Mozello: while the Royal Irish regiment,
with two pieces of cannon, equally regardless of opposition, carried the
enemy's battery on the left, and forced their trenches, without firing a
shot.

The possession of these very important posts, which the troops
maintained under the heaviest fire of shells, shot, and grape, induced
an offer to consider such terms as the garrison of Calvi might incline
to propose.

An unfavourable answer, however, being returned, the navy and army once
more united their efforts; and, in nine days, completed batteries of
thirteen guns, four mortars, and three howitzers, within six hundred
yards of the town. These opened with so well directed a fire, that the
enemy were unable to remain at their guns; and, in eighteen hours, sent
proposals, which terminated in a capitulation, and the expulsion of the
French from Corsica, on the 10th of August, after a siege of fifty-one
days.

The above account of the reduction of Calvi is extracted from the
dispatches of the military commander in chief, and affords a very good
idea of the siege.

Lord Hood, who arrived off Calvi on the 27th of June, where he continued
during the siege, in his dispatches to the Admiralty, writes--"The
Journal I here transmit from Captain Nelson, who had the command of the
seamen, will shew the daily occurrences of the siege; and whose zeal and
exertion I cannot sufficiently express--or, of that of Captain
Hallowell--who took it by turns to command in the advanced battery,
twenty-four hours at a time: and, I flatter myself, they, as well as the
other officers and seamen, will have full justice done them by the
general; it is, therefore, unnecessary for me to say more on the
subject."

What Lieutenant General Stuart did say, respecting Captain Nelson's
wonderful exertions and consummate skill, on this occasion, however,
instead of doing him fuller justice, was sufficiently moderate, and ver