The accounts from Gibraltar of the progress of the fever
are extremely distressing. The following are some details. • On the 11th October, there were 771 cases, 109 of them new ; 344 were serious ; convalescents, 210. Since the 10th September, there had been 2377 cases, and 454 deaths. Gloomy as the official accounts are, the private letters say that the " deaths are under-rated one half." Four of the medical attendants have died. The fever had got among the troops to a dreadful extent, particularly the Forty-second Regitnent. The military have been forbidden to enter the town. The Governor has issued an order that two carts should be stationed at certain points, and proceed through the streets at stated periods to take up the dead bodies at the doors of the houses—coffins are out of the question. The situation of those encamped on the Neutral Ground was very wretched. The fears of the Spaniards in the adjacent provinces were so
great, that the Governor was made acquainted with their resolution, that unless he prevented the small smuggling vessels from leaving the Bay, they would cut off the supply of provisions for the garrison. General Don had in consequence issued a proclamation, prohibiting all boats under 40 tons burthen from leaving Gibraltar without a pass. At Malaga, it is stated that three of those smugglers were taken, and their bodies burnt to prevent infection, and as an example to others. On the Cadiz side seven met the same fate.
The sympathies of King Ferdinand himself have been affected by all this calamity ; and he has placed at the disposal of the Go- vernor,_ten thousand loads of corn ro an equal quantity of flour, to relieve the sufferers.
