was first conquered, three hundred and one years prior to this period.

Such are the chief particulars of the Spanish account, as supplied by
Sir John Talbot Dillon's most respectable translation; and which places
in a very amiable point of view the characters of the respective
commanders.

On comparing the various accounts of this unfortunate expedition, there
are certainly some incongruities. In the numerous biographical memoirs
of Lord Nelson, either abridged or amplified from that in the Naval
Chronicle, it is stated that the rear-admiral "received his wound soon
after the detachment had landed." In these, too, it is added that,
"while they were pressing on with the usual ardour of British seamen,
the shock caused him to fall to the ground; where, for some minutes, he
was left to himself, till Lieutenant Nesbit, missing him, had the
presence of mind to return: when, after some search in the dark, he at
length found his brave father-in-law weltering in his blood on the
ground, with his arm shattered, and himself apparently lifeless.
Lieutenant Nesbit, having immediately applied his neck-handkerchief as a
tourniquet to the rear-admiral's arm, carried him on his back to the
beach; where, with the assistance of some sailors, he conveyed him into
one of the boats, and put off to the Theseus, under a tremendous, though
happily ill-directed, fire from the enemy's batteries. The day after the
rear-admiral lost his arm," concludes the Naval Chronicle account, "he
wrote to Lady Nelson; and, in narrating the foregoing transaction,
says--"I know it will add much to your pleasure, on finding that your
son Josiah, under God's providence, was instrumental in saving my life."

On the other hand, it seems remarkable that the Spanish relation of this
catastrophe positively pronounces him "to have lost his right arm when
in his boat, and before landing."

This, too, corresponds with the following short description of that
unhappy business; which, without any essential alteration as to facts in
it's transit, most assuredly proceeded from the ever to be revered
hero's own faithful lips.

The circumstance of so few boats hitting the mole with the rear-admiral,
who had appointed it as the general place of landing, after having been
baffled in his first design, proved fatal to the enterprise. By landing
in the surf, they lost their scaling implements; and Captain Troubridge
was not prepared instantly to storm the citadel, before the ap