170 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



service. She is dressed like an 

 officer, and commands a battery : 

 she sits on horseback like a man ; 

 and, indeed you would not know 

 her from a man by her appearance. 

 Her husband was a captain, and 

 in that same battery was killed. 

 On seeing the Spanish soldiers 

 confused at the sight of their dead 

 captain, she instantly took the 

 command, and told ihem to mind 

 their duty and their country's 

 honour. She continued at the 

 same post for a week, and did not 

 even go to see her husband interred. 



The commander of the forces 

 gave her her husband's commis- 

 sion for her bravery.*'' 



At the close of the year, the 

 French, who had strong batteries 

 on every side had begun to throw 

 shells into Cadiz. Their shot and 

 shells could both reach the town ; 

 but the distance was so consider- 

 able that they produced little or 

 no effect. They had collected an 

 immense number of gun-boats, 

 and threatened a descent on the 

 Isle of Leon. 



* Extract of a letter from an officer of the 79th regiment received in Glasgow, 

 dated Isla dc Leon, May 18, laiO. 



