From Paris of the 24th, that count Tholouze, with 30 men of war, was before Barcelona, with ammunition and provisions for the French troops, who had beseiged it by land, and open’d the trenches the 6th on the side of Moutjoui; that the garison was 8000 men, had made 2 vigorous sallies, wherein the beseigers own they had 150 men killed: on the 13th they began to batter fort Montjoui, designed to storm it in 3 or 4 dayes, and hope to be masters of the town the beginning of May. Letters from Amsterdam say the French have lost already above 1200 men before it, by 2 attacks made on their army by the Miquilets from the mountains, who have assured king Charles by frequent skirmishes will soon make the enemy weary of the seige; that his majestie was in the town, and kept a communication open with the country. That the earl of Gallway had obliged the duke of Barwick to retire, and that he was gone to beseige Alcantara. And from Brussells, that an expresse from Paris had brought news to the elector of Bavaria, that fort Montjoui had surrendered to the French; but that sir John Leake had defeated count Tholouze.
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