THE COA Being the principal Scene of Action in Spffman Geod Guadalquivi Lucar Chepiona 人 ATLANTIC Ft St Catalina Xerez Cartinga celaures The Porpoises CADIZ Puntal/Fort Meridian of Cadiz, Longitude 6. 40 West from London. Cadiz Harbour Suaco Buerto Real la de Leon TS.Pedro or S.Petri Caracea fal del Are Chiclan Plain of Chicla TBermesa 1811 Heights of Bar Torre de Barrosa to Miles Chronicle for May 1811. Europa Point ape Ceuta Illustration of the Seat of War. ILLUSTRATION OF the seat of war. ITINERARY FROM FALMOUTH TO seville through liSBON AND ELVAS. . WE left Falmouth in January 1809, and took our place in the packet for Lisbon. We set sail about sunset (January 2d), having a moderate breeze from the north-west, which continued all day. At twelve o'clock on the following day the favourable, wind died away, and soon afterwards it blew with much power from the south-west. It continued in this quarter till the 7th, when the breeze increased to a gale, which very much annoyed the passengers not accustomed to this element. We handed all sails one after another, and at last lay too under the main and mizen stay sails. The sea was most tremendous, and the night we passed would not be much envied by a London citizen. On the morning of the 8th (Jan.) ǎ wave broke over us, and most considerably added to our confusion and alarm. We were soon compelled to strike our top-gallaut masts, and were about to strike our top-masts, when the gale gave symptoms of abating, and which finally did not disappoint us, though it still continued in an adverse quarter. We continued with these adverse winds from the 8th to the 21st, during all of which time we scarcely made any way, and nothing could be more disagreeable than our voyage. No one can have an idea of the unpleasantness of beating about without making any progress. The sailors are accustomed to it, and pay no regard to it, as it all reckons in the day, as they express it. But to a landsman it is most horrible. We made the coast of Portugal about sunset on the 23d, between Aveiro and Cape Mondego. The coast appears high and rough. On the afternoon of the 25th we made Cape Fisseraow; at day-break on the 26th saw the Burlings a-head, and on the 27th the rock of Lisbon. On the following day at day-break we took a pilot, and on the 29th of January 1809, a period full of melancholy recollections to those who honour the virtues of Sir John Moore, landed in Lisbon. I shall say nothing of the state of Lisbon at this period, because I do not wish to expose a people to ridicule who have since de Illustration of the Seat of War. ILLUSTRATION OF THE SEAT OF WAR. ITINERARY FROM FALMOUTH TO SEVILLE THROUGH LISBON AND ELVAS. WE left Falmouth in January 1809, and took our place in the packet for Lisbon. We set sail about sunset (January 2d), having a moderate breeze from the north-west, which continued all day. At twelve 'clock on the following day the favourable, wind died away, and soon afterwards it blew with much power from the south-west. It continued in this quarter till the 7th, when the breeze increased to a gale, which very much annoyed the passengers not accustomed to this element. We handed all sails one after another, and at last lay too under the niain and mizen stay sails. The sea was most tremendous, and the night we passed would not be much envied by a London citizen. On the morning of the 8th (Jan.) a wave broke over us, and most considerably added to our coufusion and alarm. We were soon compelled to strike our top-gallaut masts, and were about to strike our top-masts, when the gale gave symptoms of abating, and which finally did not disappoint us, though it still continued in an adverse quarter. We continued with these adverse winds from the 8th to the 21st, during all of which time we scarcely made any way, and nothing could be more disagreeable than our voyage. No one can have an idea of the unpleasantness of beating about without making any progress. The sailors are accustomed to it, and pay no regard to it, as it all reckons in the day, as they express it. But to a landsman it is most horrible. We made the coast of Portugal about sunset on the 23d, between Aveiro and Cape Mondego. The coast appears high and rough. On the afternoon of the 25th we made Cape Fisseraow; at day-break on the 26th saw the Burlings a-head, and on the 27th the rock of Lisbon. On the following day at day-break we took a pilot, aud on the 29th of January 1809, a period full of melancholy recollections to those who honour the virtues of Sir John Moore, landed in Lisbon. I shall say nothing of the state of Lisbon at this period, because I do not wish to expose a people to ridicule who have since de |