The uselessness of the artillery, the breaches of the fort, the attacks of the English, all combined to force the retreat of the garrison, "in the midst of scenes of blood and atrocious murders." We will close this account with the following extract of a speech of the Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, Feb.

4, 1841: "He had had," he said, "a little experience in services of this nature; and he thought it his duty to warn their lordships, on this occasion, that they must not always expect that ships, however well commanded, or however gallant their seamen might be, were capable of commonly engaging successfully with stone walls.

He had no recollection, in all his experience, except the recent instance on the coast of Syria, of any fort being taken by ships, excepting two or three years ago, when the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa was captured by the French fleet.

This was, he thought, the single instance that he recollected, though he believed that something of the sort had occurred at the siege of Havana, in 1763.

The present achievement he considered one of the greatest of modern times.