On March 90, the gentry were apprehensive and asked me to intervene, or at any rate to try and stop bombardment © from the big guns. Accordingly letters were written to the two commanders-in-"chief to ask them for the sake of humanity if possible to avoid bom-parding the city with heavy guns. Whether this appeal had anything tw do with it or not, I cannot say, but at any rate big guns were not weed on the city and I am getting
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