IN TIME OP WAR. 2y?

tf this, two estimates should be made out; one for thedefence of the strongest front; the other, of the weakest ;that the Sovereign may determine which of the two he thinksproper to adopt.

r i2. 32 and 16 prs. are mounted in the body of the

place ; 12 and 8 prs. in the outworks that are large enoughto contain them : when the adjacent country is favourablefor making sallies, or constructing lines of counter-approach,some light 4 pounders are included in the inventory, it wasthe custom in the last century to place some pieces of largecalibre, resembling stone-guns or long howitzers, on theflanks, from which, when the assault was given, they firedcafe or grape-shot on the assailants : but these pieces arenow disused, since the besieger covers himself with epaul-ntents in the ditch and at the breach : instead of them, wefire round shot from heavy guns, to destroy, or at least retardthe construction of, the epaulments.

113. In fortified towns constructed on mountains or emi-nences, the embrasures are generally made of brick or stone,and ihe curtain furnished with guns, when it bears on anyposition favourable to the besieger; the number of guns mustin this cafe be regulated by the number of embrazures. Butwhen the parapet is formed of earth, the following is thedistribution of guns on each front : to or 13 tosses areleft on the faces of the bastions, and 6 from the angle of theshoulder to the flanked angle for the barbette batteries; theremainder is divided so, that there be never less than 20 feetbetween every two embrazures, to give room for the infan-try, whose fire, when the enemy comes within musquet shot,is the most effectual method of retarding his progress ; andwith less distance between the embrazures, the merlons wouldbe soon destroyed by the enemy’s artillery: the fame ruleshould be observed in opening embrazures in the outworks.

A few guns should be added to the above distribution, forthe barbette batteries on the other fronts, and for the flankscorresponding to the attack.

114. To determine the number of guns for the four facesof the ravelins corresponding to the attack, 10 or 13 tossesare allowed for the barbette batteries in the collateral rave-lins, and the remainder divided into equal parts with inter-vals of 20 feet for the embrazures; but in the ravelin onthe front of the attack, a greater space is left from the faliant

angle