Officers and Men. Lloyd’s Dragoons, now 3rd Light Dragoons (detachment.) 275 Foot Guards, the Grenadier and Coldstream 755 Sir H. Bellasis’s now 2nd Foot 834 Churchill’s 3rd ” 834 Seymour’s 4th ” 834 Columbine’s 6th ” 724 O’Hara’s, 3 companies 7th Royal Fusiliers 313 Erle’s 19th Foot 724 Gustavus Hamilton’s 20th ” 724 Villiers’s Marines, 5 Companies. 31st ” 520 Fox’s Marines 32nd ” 834 Donegal’s 35th ” 724 Charlemont’s 36th ” 724 Shannon’s Marines 834 ---- 9653 Dutch Regiments commanded by Major-General Baron } Sparre and Brigadier Pallandt } 3924 ------ 13,577 Colonel Villiers’s Corps of Marines, now the THIRTY-FIRST regiment, soon after its formation was thus called upon to supply five Companies for embarkation for active service on board the fleet destined against Spain: these Companies embarked in the latter part of May from Plymouth, and proceeded to join the fleet at Portsmouth, from whence the expedition sailed to Cadiz in the month of July, 1702. The armament appeared off Cadiz on the 12th of August, and the Duke summoned the place; but his terms being refused, he landed on the 15th at the Bay of Bulls, between Rota and Fort St. Catherine, under great disadvantages and a well conducted opposition: he marched upon Rota, where the horses and stores were disembarked, and in two days afterwards he advanced to the town of St. Mary. Rota was retaken by a _coup-de-main_, and the British garrison of 300 men was captured. The attempt on Cadiz failed; the troops were re-embarked, and sailed from Cadiz on the 30th of September. In alluding to this expedition, Bishop Burnet remarks,--“It is certain our Court had false accounts of the state the place was in, both with relation to the garrison, and to the fortifications; the garrison was much stronger, and the fortifications were in a better state, than was represented.”