oil was divided among the conquerors caused
much ill-feeling, and not unnaturally. Lord Albemarle took to himself
L122,697 10_s._ 6_d._, and an equal amount was bestowed upon Admiral
Pocock. Lieutenant-General Elliot and Commodore Keppel had L24,539
10_s._ 1_d._ each. To a major-general was given L6,816 10_s._ 6-1/2_d._
and to a brigadier-general L1,947 11_s._ 7_d._ A captain in the navy had
L1,600 10_s._ 10_d._, and an army-captain, L184 4_s._ 7-1/4_d._ And so
the sums went on decreasing, until there were paid to the private
soldier, L4 1_s._ 8-1/2_d._, and to the ordinary seaman L3 14_s._
9-3/4_d._ The profit as well as the honor of the expedition all went to
the leaders. What made the matter worse was, that the distribution was
made in violation of rules, which were not formed to favor "the common
file," but which would have done them more justice than they received at
the hands of Pocock and Albemarle. After all, no worse was done than
what we see daily happen in the world, and the distribution appears to
be a practical satire on the ordinary course of human life.

Lord Albemarle was severely censured in England for his manner of
assailing the Havana, it being held that he should have attacked the
town, which was in an almost defenceless condition, whereas the Morro
was strong, and made a good defence, which might have led to the failure
of the expedition, and would have done so but for the circumstance that
no hurricane happened. But the general public was satisfied with the
victory, and did not trouble itself much about the manner in which it
had been gained. It was right. Had General McClellan taken Richmond, how
many of us would have listened to the military critics who should have
been so kind as to show us how he ought to have taken it? Judging from
some observations in Horace Walpole's "Correspondence," the English,
though surfeited with victory, were much pleased with their Cuban
conquest. Sir Joseph Yorke, writing on the 9th of October, ten days
after the news had reached England, says,--"All the world is struck with
the noble capture of the Havana, which fell into our hands on the Prince
of Wales's birthday, as a just punishment upon the Spaniards for their
unjust quarrel with us, and for the supposed difficulties they have
raised in the negotiations for peace." Those negotiations had been
openly commenced in less than a month after the fall of the Havana, and
some weeks before news of that brilliant event