[ Sept. 1.] The Campagne being now far spent, and this being like to be the last Camp before we separated into Winter Quarters, the Army had Orders to put down their Tents, and to make Ba∣racques or Huts of straw, which at this time was to be found in great abundance about this place; for no Army had incamp∣ed near it for many Years. The same day the Prisoner, of which we have given an account in the March from Sombref to Nivelle, that was taken in one of the Ammunition Waggons with a lighted Match, was burnt alive, after he had first his Right hand cut off, and flung into the fire; he was put to the Torture to confess his Ruin, and was found guilty by the Court-Marshal of designing to blow up our Powder Waggons; I have not yet seen the Copy of the Sentence, and so I cannot give a farther account of his Crime, and of the Persons by whom he was set on; I have only heard that it was the Marquis de Grammont. We had such an Accident in the Campagne of 1691. the Evening that we returned from Beaumont to the Camp at Court Sur Heure: The thing was undertaken by one of the Dutch Traine; he actually set fire to Two Bombs, which put the whole Army into an Alarm, and if the Gunners had not hazarded themselves very much, to fling them out of the Waggons, it would in all probability have set all our Am∣munion Waggons on fire; he underwent afterwards the same punishment at the Camp of St. Gerrard; his Right hand was cut off, and burnt before his face, and was himself afterwards burnt alive with a small fire, which he indured with a great deal of constancy.
The Third, an Ensign of King James his Irish Guards left the Enemies Camp, and came over to our Army; and the same day one Pierce Oliver, that had been a Sergeant in the Dragoons of Valencar and Native of Tournay, was hanged near the Ele∣ctor of Bavaria's Quarter: He had deferted the Spanish Service, and went over to the Enemies, where he turned Partisan; he