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Poverty - by James Platt

having gotten out her stores, etc. The English fleet arrived, bringing with them the San Joseph, 120, San Salvador, 120, Pytchly, 80, St. Isidore, 74, Admiral Jervis having fallen in with the Spanish fleet of thirty-seven sail of the line and frigates, whilst he had fifteen sail of the line and frigates. By skilful manoeuvring he succeeded in breaking their line, and capturing the four ships named above. Commodore Nelson, in the Captain, 80, succeeded in capturing two, boarding the San Joseph through the quarter gallery or W.C., and seizing the guns run them in. He boarded them crying, " Victory or Westminster Abbey," then turned them round, so as to rake the deck fore and aft. They surrendered at once.

There is a well-known picture representing Nelson receiving the Spanish officers' swords on the quarter deck of the San Joseph, and William Fearing, one of his bargemen, receiving them and putting them under his arm. John Sykes was his coxswain when he was in command of the inner squadron blockading Cadiz. The Spanish gunboats having annoyed