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 BUTLER. 290 Cadiz by sea and land. This plan was now put in exe- cution; and the Duke of Ormonde, with an immense fo sailed with Admiral Sir George Rook, on the intended expedition, on the first of July; and on the 8th of the same month were obliged to put into Torbay, on account of contrary winds; but on the same day month the whole fleet made the rock of Lisbon; and, after having held several councils of war, the Duke gave orders for landing the troops on the 15th ultimo, which orders were strictly obeyed; and every battalion acting with great bravery, they drove the Spaniards before them in all directions. Upon landing his grace gave the strictest orders, upon pain of death, that the inhabitants should in no ways be plundered; and then marched the army against Port St. Mary; but these orders were very ill obeyed, for botlh the soldiers and sailors, being both thirsty and fatigued, got to the wine cellars, where they drank plentifully, and immediately both commenced plundering, nor was it in the power of their officers to prevent them. Afterwards his grace went to Vigo, where he took and burnt several of the enemy's ships, and brought away an immense booty ; the galleons that were then in the harbourt, being very richly laden. He sailed with Sir George Rook, on the 19th October, for England; leaving behind him Sir Cloudesley Shovel, with about twenty ships, to watch the station. On the 7th of November following he arrived in the Downs, and the same day landed at Deal. He arrived in London the next morning, where he was received with great and deserved marks of favour by her majesty, and with the loud acclamations of the populace. On the 14th of the same month the queen commanded a public thanks- giving for the late victories, and announced her intention of attending divine worship in St. Paul's Cathedral for that purpose on the 15th of December. In 1708 his grace was appointed lord-lieutenant of Ire- land, and on the 20th of May left London for Chester to embark for that station; where, after having filled the high station to which he was appointed to the satisfaction