Of those who fell at Trafalgar, the names of Alcalà and Churruca seem to be remembered with peculiar affection. The latter is referred to by Arriaza also, and seems to have been an officer of great skill and bravery in his profession, as well as of most amiable qualities in private life. Alcalà was an officer of very superior attainments. He was author of a learned Treatise on taking Observations of Longitude and Latitude at Sea, published at Madrid, 1796. With the copy of this work in my possession, there is bound up an unedited treatise of his original manuscript, ‘On the Trigonometrical Calculation of the Height of Mountains.’ He has already been referred to in Note 2. The Spanish navy is at the present day much distinguished for the superior attainments and character of the officers, as well as in former years. In addition to the poet Arriaza, they have to boast of the late learned Navarrete, one of the most eminent and industrious writers of our times, principally on scientific subjects connected with his profession, geography, hydrography, and voyages, though in various biographical works he has extended his labours to the memory of poets and others, as well as the naval heroes of his country: see his memoir in Ochoa, vol. ii. p. 586, copied from one by the Bishop of Astorga. 28. Page 164. “Yet fell ye not, ye generous squadrons.” No empero sin venganza y sin estrago, Generoso escuadron alli caiste: Tambien brotando à rios La sangre Inglesa inunda sus navios. Tambien Albion pasmada Los montes de cadàveres contempla Horrendo peso à su soberbia armada. Tambien Nelson alli, Terrible sombra, No esperes, no, cuando mi voz te nombra Que vil insulte à tu postrer suspiro; Inglès te aborrecì, y hèroe te admiro. Oh, golpe! oh, suerte! El Tàmesis aguarda De las naves cautivas El confuso tropel, y ya en idea Goza el aplauso y los sonoros vivas Que al vencedor se dan. Oh suerte! El puerto Solo le verà entrar pàlido y yerto: Ejemplo grande à la arrogancia humana, Digno holocausto à la afliccion Hispana. The two poems from Quintana are at pages 16 and 93 respectively of the fourth edition of his works, published in 1825. 29. Page 170. “The Conde de Toreno.” This able and enlightened statesman was born at Oviedo in 1786, and died at Paris in 1845. His work, on the ‘Rising, War, and Revolution of Spain,’ is one well deserving of the fame it has attained, having been translated into all the principal languages of Europe. 30. Page 170. “The celebrated Pacheco.”