however, stopped by circumstances not in the power of the British Commander to control. The ships, which in the morning had been separated from the main body of the Spanish fleet, were now able to make their approach; two fresh ships also, which had not appeared in the action, bore down from windward, and two of the flying ships tacked about to support their chiefs. These circumstances, therefore, with the lateness of the hour, and the necessity of securing the prizes, determined the conquering Admiral to bring to. A little after four in the afternoon, the signal was made to this effect; and a strong line was formed for the protection of the prizes and disabled vessels. The enemy's fresh ships, on approaching, opened a fire on the covering ships; but though superior in number, and fresh for action, they contented themselves with a few irregular broadsides, and left the British Admiral to sail off triumphantly with his prizes, which the reader will remember amounted to four; viz. two, the Salvador del Mundo, and the San Josef, of 112 guns; the San Nicholas of 84, and the San Isidro, of 74 guns. The Spanish Admiral, which was greatly the object of attention to the British ships, was rendered a perfect wreck; her firing had ceased before the close of the action, and some even affirm, that she had struck her colours. The loss of the British in this engagement, in killed and wounded, was exactly 300 men. The loss of the Spaniards which were captured, amounted to 693; and the ships which escaped must also have suffered considerably. "So important a victory with so decisive a disparity of force, is, perhaps, unparallelled in our naval annals. The ability displayed by the Commander, was only to be equalled by the valour and adroitness of the seamen; indeed, we have been informed by an eye-witness, that the fire of the British was superior to that of their opponents, in the proportion of five or six to one, during the whole of the action; and the expenditure of ammunition was consequently beyond example. The Culloden, it is said, expended 170 barrels of powder; the Captain, 146; and the Blenheim, 180. The Spaniards fought bravely, but with little skill; and it is but fair to remark, that their fleet was ill-equipped, and very indifferently manned, and in no respect fit for action; their flag-ship had not more than sixty or eighty seamen on board; the rest consisted of impressed landmen, or soldiers of their new levies. "As the port of Cadiz had been their original destination, and as many of their ships were disabled, the Spaniards manifested no inclination to renew the action, but took shelter in Cadiz, where they have ever since remained blocked up by the victorious Admiral. Soon after the news arrived of the engagement, Sir John Jervis was created a British Peer, by the title of Lord St. Vincent, in allusion to the place where this extraordinary victory was achieved." For this victory Sir John Jervis was rewarded with an Earldom, being created BARON JERVIS of Meaford, in the county of Stafford, and EARL OF ST. VINCENT, to him and the heirs male of his body, by patent dated June 23d, 1797. He afterwards obtained a patent for a VISCOUNTY, with a collateral limitation, being created by patent dated April 27th, 1801, VISCOUNT ST. VINCENT of Meaford, in the county of Stafford, to him and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default, to William Henry Ricketts, Esq. Captain in his Majesty's navy, son of Mary Ricketts, by William Henry Ricketts, Esq. late of the Island of Jamaica; which said Mary Ricketts is the sister of the said John, Earl of St. Vincent, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue, to Edward Jervis Ricketts, Esq. Barrister at Law, another son of the said Mary Ricketts, by the said late William Henry Ricketts, and brother of the said William Henry Ricketts, the said other son of the said Mary Ricketts, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue, to Mary, Countess of Northesk, daughter of the said Mary Ricketts; and after the decease of the said Mary, Countess of Northesk, and in default of such issue, as well of the said John, Earl of St. Vincent, as of the said William Henry Ricketts, and Edward Jervis Ricketts, as aforesaid, to the heirs male of the body of the said Mary, Countess of Northesk, lawfully begotten. In March, 1801, when the reins of Administration were committed to Mr. Addington, the Earl of St. Vincent was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. In this situation, his Lordship introduced various extensive reforms, of which the expediency has been differently considered by opposite parties. Mr. Pitt said, "I admire the uncommon valour, I extol the vast renown, the the glorious achievements of Lord St. Vincent. To him we are highly indebted for shedding extraordinary lustre on our national glory." But Mr. Pitt, at the same time, expressed his opinion, that "between his Lordship as a Commander at sea, and his Lordship as First Lord of the Admiralty, there was a wide difference."h Gifford's Life of Pitt, IV. 699. His Lordship had afterwards for some time the command of the Channel fleet. His Lordship married at Southweald, in Essex, his first cousin, Martha, daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Parker; but bas no issue. Titles. John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent, Viscount St. Vincent, and Baron Jervis, of Meaford. Creations. Earl of St. Vincent, and Baron Jervis, of Meaford, by patent June 23d, 1797; and Viscount St. Vincent, of Meaford, April 27th, 1801. Arms. Sable, a chevron Ermine, between three martlets, Or. Crest. A demi-Pegasus issuing from a wreath. Supporters. On the dexter side, an eagle grasping in his left talon a thunder-bolt; on the sinister side, a Pegasus charged on the wing, with a fleur-de-luce. Motto. THUS. Seat. Rockets, Essex. 1 Mr. Clarke, in his late splendid Life of Lord Nelson, makes the following mention of his Lordship: "With the reputation, which Sir John Jervis had gained in the various gradations of the service, was united a thorough knowledge of the politics of the British Empire and of Europe, and a keen discrimination of the real character and abilities of those officers who served under him. Naturally of an ambitious disposition, and professionally a strict disciplinarian, he despised the trammels, and sometimes, perhaps, forgot the feelings, which repress common minds; and being determined strictly to execute the important duties entrusted to him, he resolved that every person in the fleet should rigidly do the same." Clarke's Life of Lord Nelson, I. 241. a THIS family of Cadogan was of great honour and antiquity in Wales, as the writers of the Welsh history and their genealogists attest; being descended from Kehdlyn, Prince of Powis, and Reinger, daughter and heir to Tydyr Trevor, Prince of Ferley, whose grandson, Kydwgan, Lord of Radnor, with his three sons, defended his territories against King Henry I. From whom in lineal descent, was THOMAS CADOGAN, Valectus Corone, as he writes himself in his last will and testament, dated June 12th, 1511, and the probate is dated on July 12th following. He therein orders his body to be buried in the church of Dunster; and bequeaths to the church of the Blessed Mary of Penrise, his best tunick, and to Lewis Cadogan, one of his gowns. The residue of all his goods, chattels, &c. he bequeaths to Christian his wife (whom he makes his sole executor), and to William Cadogan, and John Cadogan, his sons. Which WILLIAM Cadogan was of Croftney, and Frostrey-Arch, in com. Monm. Esq. and by Anne his wife, daughter of George Arnault, had issue two sons; William, of Croftney, and Henry. HENRY was seated at Llanbeder, in the county of Pembroke; and having married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Stradling, a younger son of the Stradlings of St. Donat's-castle, in Glamorganshire, bad issue, WILLIAM, born at Cardiff, February 5th, 1601; he went over to Ireland with the Earl of Strafford, and taking to a military life, was, in 1641, a captain of horse; and, in 1649, being a Major, was (as Sir Richard Cox observes in his History of Ireland), sent a Ex Regist. Fettiplace, q. 18, in cur. l'iærog. Cant. from Dublin with a party to discover the enemy, and to slacken their march; and did memorable service, not only in destroying the country about Teeroghan, but in cutting off a great many of the enemy. He likewise engaged those wicked traitors, Phelin Oneile, and Owen O'Rowe; and, being very serviceable in the reduction of Ireland, was constituted governor of the borough and castle of Trim, in that kingdom; in which post he died on March 14th, 1660-1, and was buried at Trim, where a monument is erected to his memory, with the following inscription: Hic juxta conditæ sunt exuviæ clarissimi viri Gulielmi HENRY, his son, who was a counsellor at law, died on January 13th, 1713-14, and was buried at Christ-church, in Dublin. He married Bridget, daughter to Sir Hardress Waller, Knt. by whom he had two sons, William, first Earl of Cadogan; and Charles, second Lord Cadogan; also a daughter, Penelope, married to Sir |