{129} In the great action off Cape Trafalgar on 21st October 1805, the _Leviathan_, seventy-four guns, under Captain Bayton, was next to the _Victory_. After passing through the enemy’s line she dismasted her opponent, raked the _Santissima Trinidad_, and passed on to the _San Augustin_, one of seven coming to surround her; this ship was silenced in fifteen minutes, and the crew of the _Leviathan_, making her fast with a hawser, towed her into the English Fleet with the English Jack flying. The French ship _L’Intrépide_ had by distant firing cut into the sails and rigging of the _Leviathan_, but three more British ships coming up, _L’Intrépide_ was, after a noble resistance, also compelled to surrender, and was set on fire by the _Britannia_. The crews were landed at Portsmouth and transferred to Norman Cross, where they were received on 8th January 1806. One was Corporal Jean De la Porte, whose name appears as the maker of signed straw marquetry pictures, and to whom are attributed many other unsigned pictures of the same character. Mr. Jean De la Porte is spoken of as an officer; had he been of that rank he would not have been in the prison, but out on parole. He was a Petty Officer, and would be in the Petty Officers’ prison. He was confined at Norman Cross for nearly nine years, and during this long captivity his artistic skill and taste must have enormously mitigated his suffering. {131a} _On Horn and Tortoiseshell_, by H. Akin, late Secretary of the Society of Arts, London. _Journal of the Franklin Institute_, _London_. Series vol. xxvi., pp. 256–9. 1840. {131b} I have a drinking-horn, given to me by the daughter-in-law of the man for whom it was made, engraved with his name—J. Bates—surrounded by a floral pattern.—T. J. W. {133a} This art was practised by amateurs in the 18th century. In 1875 an attempt was made to reintroduce the work. “Mosaicon, or Paper Mosaic,” W. Bemrose, jun. (Bemrose & Sons, 10, Paternoster Buildings, E.C., and Irongate, Derby.)