owledged loss of the
Spaniards, however, said to be only twenty-three killed, and
thirty-eight wounded, may be considered as not a little apocryphal.
Indeed, no reliance can be placed on their numerical exactness; for the
Fox cutter is asserted, by them, to have contained three hundred and
eighty men, instead of one hundred and eighty; and Rear-Admiral Nelson
is said to have lost his right arm, when in his boat, and before
landing, which obliged him to re-embark on board the Theseus, with the
other officers who accompanied him badly wounded, on the 23d, instead of
on the 24th.

This pamphlet informs us, that Captain Bowen, of the Terpsichore, who
was killed, had first proposed the attack of Santa Cruz to Admiral Sir
John Jervis; which he represented as very easy, having previously cut
out of that bay the Spanish frigate, Prince Ferdinand, from the
Philippine Islands. His chief pilot was a Chinese, taken out of his
former prize, who was also killed on the present occasion.

Lieutenant Robinson, of the marines, badly wounded, was properly
attended in the Spanish hospital. A copy of Captain Thompson's orders
had been found on him, by Don Bernardo Collagon; a brave and most
gallant Spanish youth, who had, sword in hand, defended his country with
great spirit, and was so generous and humane to the unfortunate wounded
enemy, that he is said to have actually stripped himself of his shirt to
make bandages for the wounds of the English. Great humanity, indeed, was
shewn to all the wounded; who were carefully re-embarked, many of them
in a dying state, immediately after the capitulation was signed. The
Spanish governor generously regaled all the English troops with bread
and wine, before they went into their boats, and invited the principal
officers to dine with him that day. This, however, they politely
declined; fearing some irregularity among their soldiers, from the
effects of the wine: but agreed to wait on the governor next day. They
accordingly did so: when, instructed by Rear-Admiral Nelson, they
offered, in his name, to take charge of the governor's dispatches for
the Spanish court; and he thus actually became the first messenger of
his own defeat.

In the mean time, he returned thanks to the Spanish governor, for his
great care of the sick and wounded, by writing him the following letter;
dated on board his majesty's ship Theseus, opposite Santa Cruz de
Teneriffe, July 26, 1797.

"SIR,

I cannot take my