unsupportable," and complaiued that he had been "openly defamed and causelessly condemued;" but as Drake had sentenced him in contumaciam, and as the formal docmnent which Borough styleel "wine answer touching an objection against me for the coming away of the Lion," though enclosed with the letter to BurghIcy, has not been preserved, it is now impossible to sift all the merits of the case. We know, however, that, thanks to Burghley's good offices, the affair was smoothed over, and that in 15 Borough cormhanded the galley Bonacolia against the Armada. Early in April the squadron saileel from ]"lymouth. On the 16th, when off the mouth of the lIondego, it fell in with two Iiddelbm'g traders, and frmn them learnt that at Cadiz there were enonuous supplies of provisions and ammunitiou, ready to be sent to Lisbon, where the Armada was collectiug. Passing Lisbon, therefore, Drake steered for Cadiz, and arrived off the town on April 19th. He at once drove in, under shelter of the castle, six galleys which made a show of opposing him, and then, boldly entering the bay, sank o took about a hundred vessels, chiefly laden with stores and ammunition. Most serious among the Spanish losses were a galleon of 1200 tons, belonging to the Marquis of Santa Cruz, and a richly freighted Ragusan merchantman of 1000 tons, mounting 40 brass guns. The whole brilliant operation was performed with insignificant loss in the space of a day and two nights, and the comparative ease with which it was can'ied to a conclusion cannot have failed to give Drake and his companions an encom'agdng assurance for the future. Froin Cadiz, which he quitted on the lst, Drake ravaged the coast westward as far as ('ape St. Vincent, where he surprised the castle aud three neighbouring works. His inethods were stern and perhaps a little barbarous. He regarded not only the military forces of Spain, but also Spanish fishermen and their nets, as legitimate ,,bjects on which to wret[k his vengeance; but he effectually attained the end which he had in view, and most thoroughly in- timidated the enemy. So much, indeed, was this the case that when, on arriving off (_'aseais, at the mouth of the Tagus, he formally invited the lXlarquis of Santa Cruz to come out and engage hiln, the distinguished vanquisher of Strozzi neither accepted the challenge nor adopted any measures for stopping his opponent's

further depredations. l)rake therefore took and plundered or