six pence, his brother executor generously spent the remaining half crown among his comrades in honour of the testator. He had prayers said over him, and by a parson too, being a man of substance. Had he being a poor rogue, he might have been flipped in without, or, at most, been obliged to an amen-man for it, as was often the case.

An ironic comment, very typical of Defoe. The poor, unfortunately, would continue throughout the centuries to be always with us - even till today and not just in Gibraltar

A plethora of pictures and engravings depicting the 13th Siege of Gibraltar were published during the early years of the eighteenth century. Many were simply the products of fertile imaginations ( Christian Freidrich von der Heiden )

Renault, theVolunteerMany of our cannon proved bad, and some burst. By the last several of our people were wounded, and one killed on the spot. But none of these accidents, nor sickness, nor the fire of the enemy, would prove so kind to one gentleman among us as to give him that release he owed afterwards to his own hand. This was one Renault, a volunteer.He had, to his great misfortune, escaped death from his country's enemies only to meet it himself. His money being all gone, and every application for relief proving ineffectual to answer his expense, he went from the company he had spent the last shilling in, though in so merry a disposition that 'twas impossible they could suspect anything of his design, and retiring to