Every where our sailors had fought with admirable intrepidity, but their experience was not equal to their courage, and they were crushed by the superiority of their adver saries in seamanship and the service of the artillery. The Fougueux, commanded by one of the bravest officers of the navy, Captain Baudoin, succumbed in a few minutes, overwhelmed and dis abled by the formidable batteries of the Temeraire. Almost at the same time Magon was killed on the Algesiras, which was on fire, and whose ma9ts fell with great noise, while the English rushed on board in the middle of the flames. In the rear, where the Spanish vessels we£e in greater numbers, Gravina received a death-wound on his flag ship. The San Juan Nepomuceno, the I Monarca, the Argonauta, succumbed succes sively, under the attacks of Collingwood's division, and, after them, eight vessels sur rendered to the enemy; the rest slowly withdrew to Cadiz. In the centre the Bucentaure atill remained with the San- j tissima Trinidad. The unfortunate Ville neuve, who saw with grief the realisation of the disaster that he had so often predicted, hoped not to survive it; but he had to witness it to the end—death would not take him. Tlaced at the point by which Nelson's column penetrated, he was exposed successively to the fire of eleven English vessels, which killed or wounded nearly 300 of his men ; all his masts fell one after the other, and in falling they obstructed the starboard battery, the only one by which he could damage the enemy. All resistance then becoming use less, lie purposed to lower a boat and go in it to another ship to continue the fight, but his boats had been dashed to pieces by the fall of the masts. He hailed the Santissima Trinidad to ask her for one, but his cries were lost in the horrible tumult of this scen6 of destruction. He surrendered to the English to save the rest of his crew." The French Admiral's End. Villeneuve was well aware that he did not bask in the sunshine of Napoleon's favor, and to him the issue of the battle meant more than the loss of a fight—it meant the loss of everything, and it broke his spirit. 