The perverse part of my guy took me over an instant I also knew in an instant hush, cornered in the depths of my being. Can they all say the same? After this moral battle Malespina saw with joy because he was alive, and with shame because I was hurt, and I still remember with pride that I made efforts to show these two feelings. Poor mistress mine! How great would be his anguish at the time! My heart always ended full of goodness, I’d run to Vejer and said, “Miss Dona Rosa, your D. Rafael is good and healthy. “

The poor Malespina had been transported to Santa Ana from Nepomuceno, also captured vessel, where such was the number of wounded, it was necessary, he said, not to distribute all perish of neglect. As father and son exchanged the first greetings, devoting a few words to the absent families, the conversation turned to the battle, my master told him what happened in the Holy Trinity, then added:

“But nobody tells me where Gravina fixed point. Have you taken prisoner, and retired to Cadiz?

The general replied Malespina said a horrific fire on Defiance and Revenge. Neptune have aided and abetted the French, and the San Ildefonso and San Justo, our, but the enemy forces were doubled with the help of Dreadnoutgh, the Thunderer and Poliphemus, after which all resistance was impossible. Finding himself the Prince of Asturias with all the rigging cut, without sticks, riddled with bullets, and having been wounded General and Major General Gravina Seat, decided to abandon the fight, because resistance was senseless and the battle was lost. In other spars brought Gravina signal withdrawal, and accompanied by the San Justo, San Leandro, mountaineering, Indomptable, the Neptune and the Argonauts, went to Cadiz, with the penalty of failing to rescue the San Ildefonso , which has been in the hands of enemies.