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of Candileja. In these articles the author severely criticizes the defences of Port 
Mahon under the existing conditions of naval warfare, and suggests remedies, 
The November number winds up with a translation of part of my article in the 
January number of the ‘“ Proceedings ”’ for this year on “ Ancient British guns in 
the Artillery Museum at Madrid.” This was found amongst the papers of the 
Jate Lieut.-Col. D. Felipe Arana of the Artillery, and has been completed by the 
editor of the Memorial. The paper in question is a kindly notice of my article, 
the only special remark made being that two of the guns, Nos. 3 and 4 in the 
catalogue which are mountain guns on their carriages, were captured from the 
British troops on the occasion of their unsuccessful attack on Santa Cruz de 
Tenerife on July 25, 1797. 
In my paper I remarked that I had not seen any guns which appeared to have 
been taken from the English in war. As the editor points out, there were these 
two guns there, but from a feeling of delicacy they were not pointed out to me at 
the time of my visit. 
I take this opportunity of thanking my Spanish Artillery comrades for their 
invariable courtesy to me on the many occasions when I have been in their 
country and in correspondence with them. 
There is also a friendly notice of my recent précis of Lieut.-Col. Gabriel Vidal’s 
article on the “‘ Employment of Artillery in Cuba.” 
In the January number for 1896 Lieut.-Colonel D. Gabriel Vidal continues to 
discuss the desirability of having horsed rocket batteries for the campaign in Cuba, 
and in an interesting article, which is to be continued, he deals with the proposed 
establishment and armament of these batteries. 
He is strengthened in his conviction of the necessity for these, from the fact 
(which he bears out by quotations from the Press) that the Cuban Insurgents had 
actually provided one of their filibustering expeditions which are being organized 
by the rebel leader Collazo, with war rockets made of aluminium, on the system 
invented by one Captain Couspiere—this expedition was fortunately frustrated. 
