Select passages from the diary and letters of the late John Blackader, Esq.

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charges, and carried me through, to the
praife of his grace. The Lord is merci-
ful alfo to our regiment, for we have not
had a man either killed or wounded thefe
twenty-four hours in the trenches.
10. We came fafe out of the trenches
this moining. I went to bed and ilept
till evening, and it was well I did
fo, for I was ordered in again at night to
the trenches with two hundred grenadiers
to fuftain our lodgements. And here
again I obferve the loving kindnefs and
mercy of God to me ; for about an hour
before I came into the trenches, the ene-
my fprung a mine upon that raveline
where my pod was to be, and overturn-
ed all our lodgement, killing and blow-
ing up a good many men.
We foon recovered our lodgement, and
made up our works. We expected that
it would be a troublefome night, and that
the enemy would difpute every foot of
ground with us, as indeed they have hi-
therto done, but we were mercifully dif-
appointed, for they quitted all the rave-
lines entirely to us, and we had not a more
quiet and peaceable night fince the fiege