284 THE REPUBLIC OF RAGUSA
engagements succeeded in landing an army and 84 guns. The Ragusans sent envoys to him with presents, and, it is said, ships and ammunition, in recognition of which he strictly respected the Republic’s territory. On August 7 an assault was delivered, and the first line of defence broken; on the 10th a second took place, and the Governor, Don Francisco Sarmiento, surrendered with his few survivors. According to Razzi1 they were all put to the sword; but Professor Stanley Lane Poole says that the capitulation was honourably respected.2 Three thousand Spaniards fell in the siege and 8000 Turks (50,000, according to Razzi).
  Ragusan trade was now in a somewhat depressed condition owing to these various disturbances. Many Ragusan ships in the Spanish service had been lost in the expedition to Algiers,3 and the pirates under Dragut Reis wrought much havoc among their ships elsewhere. While the Emperor Ferdinand was invading the Hungarian provinces occupied by the Turks, the Ragusan factories there suffered considerably; and the land trade was disturbed by the depredations of the Sandjakbeg of the Herzegovina. In 1544 the bankruptcies at Ragusa amounted to 80,000 ducats.4 In 1545 peace was made between the Sultan and the Christian Powers, and the former issued severe injunctions to the Algerine corsairs not to molest ships flying the Ragusan flag. In the somewhat quieter period which followed there was a partial
    1	Razzi, lib. ii. cap. xv.
   2	The Barbary Corsairs, p. 105.
   3	According to Engel (§ 45), out of 13 Ragusan vessels 7 were lost, and at I sola di Mezzo alone there were 300 widows.
    4	Razzi, ii. xvii.