ips did."

Though the account inclosed in the above letter is in a considerable
degree anticipated by the more copious and general narrative of Colonel
Drinkwater, and in some measure by the letters of the commander in
chief, the circumstance of it's having been written by the heroic
commodore himself will be a better apology for inserting it, than any
that could be offered by his biographer for it's omission.

_A few Remarks relative to the Proceedings of his Majesty's Ship
Captain, on board of which Ship Commodore Nelson's Pendant was
flying on the 14th of February 1797._

WRITTEN BY THE COMMODORE.

"At one P.M. the Captain having passed the sternmost of the enemy's
ships, which formed their van, and part of their centre, consisting
of seventeen sail of the line, they on the starboard, we on the
larboard tack, the admiral made the signal to tack in succession;
but, perceiving all the Spanish ships to bear up before the wind,
evidently with an intention of forcing their line, going large, and
joining their separated divisions, at that time engaged with some
of our centre ships, or flying from us--to prevent either of their
schemes from taking place, I ordered the ship to be wore; and,
passing between the Diadem and Excellent, at a quarter past one
o'clock, was engaged with the headmost, and of course leewardmost,
of the Spanish division. The ships, which I knew, were the
Santissima Trinidada of one hundred and thirty-six guns, San Josef
of one hundred and twelve, Salvador del Mundo of one hundred and
twelve, San Nicolas of eighty; there was another first-rate, and a
seventy-four, names unknown.

"I was immediately joined, and most nobly supported, by the
Culloden, Captain Troubridge. The Spanish fleet, not wishing, I
suppose, to have a decisive battle, hauled to the wind on the
larboard tack, which brought the ships abovementioned to be the
leewardmost and sternmost ships in their fleet. For near an hour, I
believe, but I do not pretend to be correct as to time, did the
Culloden and Captain support this not only apparently, but really,
unequal contest; when the Blenheim, passing between us and the
enemy, gave us a respite, and sickened the Dons. At this time, the
Salvador del Mundo, and San Ysidro, dropped astern; and were fired
into, in a masterly stile, by the