I have received glorious news.

One of my partners told me that she had, just as she was starting for the ball, received a message from a cousin saying that a vessel had come into port from Genoa with sixteen brass twenty-four pounder guns, and a quantity of ammunition and stores, to enable Las Torres to commence the siege.

The stores were landed yesterday, and carts were collected from the country round in readiness for a start at daybreak this morning.

As these things will be even more useful to us than to the Spaniards, I mean to have them now.

Be as quick as you can.