save them from capture. The Spanish flagship San Felipe, a ship of 1500 tons' burden, blew up and, by her explosion, destroyed two or three craft that lay near her. So rapidly did the flames make progress that the Spaniards, hving fired their vessels, often had no time to take to their boats, and, throwing themselves into the water, would have pcqshcd, had they not been taken up by the English. Numbers, however, were drowned.

Two ships only of any importance were tdcn, the S Mateo and the St .4d'cs, galleons of 1900 tons. These were saved by the exertions of the Lord High Admiral and Sir Thomas Gerard, and for several years afterwards they figured in the English mvy as the St. Mtt]co and the St..ltd'eo. All the rest, except those which escaped by way of the canal, were smk, btu'nt, or (h'ivcn ashore.

While these events were in progress, the Dutch contingent gallantly attckcd and carried lVuntal, nd Essex soon afterwards landed: eight hundred men a league from the city, with a vicv to storming it on the lud side. But first Sir Conyors Clifford, Sir Christopher I31ount, and Sir Thomas Gerard were dispatched with a party to Suaco to destroy the entrance to the canal by vhich the furtive ships had cscpcd, and to cut the bridge in order to prevent the arrival of succours from the mainland.

hVhcn these measures of precaution had been casa'led out, Essex advanced upon Cadiz. The ton was fortified on the south by means of a wall running across the i.land, and from this wall the enemy kept up a troublesome fire upon the English. But it is probable that the wall was cnfiladcd by the guns of the English ships in the port, aud that it could not have been held easily. A body of about five hundred Spaniards outside the vall retired precipitately, and was so closely followed up that the attackers almost succeeded in entering with it. Sir Francis Yore, at the head of a small body, was one of the first to reach the gate; and while he was forcing it, another party, led by some young military officers, scaled the wall. In a few moments the English were i the naa'ow streets. From the fiat roofs of the houses the inhabitants aided those of their friends who still struggled below, by flinging

Created Baron Gerard in 1;-)3. IIt w:m at the time a colonel of the land firces. He died in U;18. It may be of interest to add Illat he rettU'llCd home in the ,qt.

The landing-place, according to Monstn, was commanded by Pttutal Fort, but the garristn proml,tly abatdoned that work. M,nson alo declares that Essex landed

without Howard's privity.