Guatemozin was now Emperor of Mexico

and had learned the inability of his troops to face the Europe ans in the open field. He remained within the city, which Cortez besieged; and, on Aug. 13, 1521, surrendered, and the whole of its vast empire became subject to the crown of Spain. Cortez disgraced his triumph by putting the brave Guatemozin to a cruel death, an act of which he is said to have afterward deeply repented. ‘The domestic enemies of the conqueror of Mexico had, meanwhile, been busy in their intrignes against him at the Spanish court, and in 1528 Cortez returned to Spain to face his accusers. He was coldly received, though with apparent honor; and he could not prevail on Charles V. to continue him in the governorship of Mexico. He returned to America in 1530, a powerful and wealthy noble, but without public authority. He now signalized himself in the arts of peace, in the skillful culture of his ample estate, in the introduction of the sugar-cane, and the importation of merino sheep into the province, He made also several brilljant and important voyages of discovery along the Californian and other eoasts of the Pacific. In 1540 he finally returned to Spain, where he was treated by his sovereign with unpracious at. He died near Seville, Dec. 2, 1547.