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lath July, to tette the tomcats' of dm forces tette empley-
cd in Portugal and Spain, and that hieuteuant.Gentral Sir
hl. Durrerdsras In hemeood in command, he sailed w.th the
. first fair wind hunt (tuealtnr on the 'nth of August, com-
municated with Leyden)Ringwood off Cadiz, and on the 19th,
with Admiral Si- C. Cuttou off the Tague, from about be re-
ceived information of the army wider Sit A. Wellesley, then
landed in Portugal, and also that Brigadier-General Ad:laud,
with his brigade, 'Wu On the roam, heoking Ger an opine tu.
uity of joining him —Sir 11. Paleyne, • a siting along the
coast with an intention of mak:ng Menden'' Bay, Ilea' il of
thin action of the 2 !et ; and that Sir 11. Lorrainl wait arrived ;
thin dateradued him to make fur lloceira Pay, v. here trans-
ports were at anchor. tie landed iu Nlaceira flay early in
tbir r„renocon of the r:;;r1, 111.1t1.t.jell 14 Villleit3, about two
miles and a quarter ehstabt, and after a short eurivereation
with his owe prenteeesurs in command, whose instreetions
%ere those by which he was to act, Li. ordered the artily to
'watch early In the morning of the nod, undoubtedly as sum
as it could be put to motions after his anneal.
It appeals that in this situal,mi of Ohre's, the French (:e-
-neral Kellerman arrived about noon of the sad at V ire,
with proposals for a sulprrr.on If arm?, it" order to settle a
Seibutiee Convention fur the emenution of Portugal by the
French army. Licutruant.ticticrals Sir Ilarry Iturcard and
Si, Arthur trellealee nssieted the t:onnittainlet of the Forces
listlitiebsciveiviis thin took place on this 'object, and it ap-
pendage to slim, under all circumstances, as conrioatioling a
force actiog iu alliance with the Sovereign of Portugal, and
combating in their ions country iiriu whence we then de-
rived. nu material assistance), moms' an enemy in of•tual
preasersion of their capital, their fortresses, and, in a military
punt nfriew, of their kingdom, 11131 11 r 0,1101,11630 or Cain-
I triakion, If the opportunity offered, shah eliould speedily
end butomeably expel the French army berm Portugal, WM
eaproicot and 14v:sable. A rensatiou of arum was agreed
upon, !It terminate at forty-eight bones 'office. The leading
art:: ea of n Convention wtkr also settled, and Geueral le el-
itiniant returned towards Lisbon, about nine at night, with
the mirtrninent stated in the e10,11117/224/0 of the IGth of
September, but tint to be considered as effectual without the
concurrence of Admiral Sir C. Calton.
Early on the 2ad,in the moronic, Lieut.-Cul. Murray,
Quarter-Master-General, set out with the propustel aerie.
meat, to procure the toncerreirce of the Admiral, add re-
turned 111 the eight of (be tiethorith Sir Charles Cutioa's
answer, that he conlel Pot acireete, but that he would cuter
tutu treaty with the Russian Admiral
It appears thnt Sir Charles Cotton having declined to
san-b.••. the Russian article, the Conunatokr of the Forces
mortised the armistice is end, and determined 00 sending
Lieut -Colonel Murray to annunuee the recommencement of
hostilities, at the end of forty-, ight hours, iu under, if Ge-
neral Junto chose it, th it we might trout on the remaining
articles as a barite. This Of had powers to treat without
delay. Ile haul the Caminander of the Forces' letter of the
enth, and certain ,lemoramda of Sir Arthur Wellesley, us
lei : before the Board, which obeyed the exact footing en
which he wits to net, an also General Kellerinan's seutiwents
03 the Hueeian qstestion. Lady on the 27th communicatiou
was bad frolic General Junot and Lieut.-Colonel 31 urray ,
that s treaty was in a.fitstion, which was :instil-red. .
• • It appears that when the pioposed treaty (ratifin d by Cr-
aerte au...0 4 the i.th Angora, was brought by Ctlillll^ol
, D14)11410. 011 11f 119111, to !wad-quarters at flaniathai, an
•M -t ileuts..3e-Gcneni, (liorranl, Moore, Hope, Fraser,
llieng% ) acre prininit, Lard Paget excepted •shreame nut I
tong teinauesly eninisoued). The prupiecil treaty ware hoe. I
over, termalle dieeneecl. Sfientes of proposed alteratioes
wereasisen by Sir A. II ellseloy, as laid hett.,s i;ee /10:Ittl,1114.1
. the Conammieler of the Forces has 110 reason to believe Mat
So J. !.I..iise, et ally of the !Seine iirtint-t:enersts that came
with I i li, enetwomed 1111 y direapprobatiou of the state add
terms cif the negociatieni.
The treaty wish the ollerations purposed war re-transmit-
ted to Limit...Cul. ni Limy.
It appears wh.-n the treaty coatladenl by L:.•nt.manbro-
keel Murray, 'iam the mdin, was liniment by Loue to Tenet
Vedras on the 3111 fur rainiest...ea' the Lirmwentit-Grarrais
' present were convemeal, and Sir A. Wellesley was sent tin.
Lord Paget, st hie wars at a distance, did ant come, nor did
Sir A. Wellesley, his roil, •. but in` nimehril that morning.--
The oilier Liestenant-Generals met, (Purified, ,ifentire
Fewer, Hope ;) the Wtreatioas made ha Lieutenant-(.l°ml
Murray were apprised, and the treaty them ratified by the
Coninuauder of She I.OITe.A, (Sir il.D3ll)mple,) with the ap-
probation of the Lient.-temierale presort.
Noose of the articles of the treaty of the oath, before ob-
jected ILI by the Lecutenaabtremerale, "tele altered in that of
the aurih, and some other good antral:ohs hail beers hornier',
not h,fore suggested A comparisun of the trio!) of therreth,
aril that ratdell, will shine the: wheat iota.
'lire 'meting of the Lientenanat-tie iterate, Pio Commander
of the fences did 1101 call 01' cmieider as regular councils of
war. Ile sought to benefit from their talents and expert.
titer, by consulting tireal on esigent cases, and by pursuing
the measure he might himself 41.;,,,:a most for tine good of
1 00( nlnje.ty'S service, atter availing liiinselluf the &dean-
, tage lo toigh, draw tutu their reasoninge, and he doors not
rtrollect 'fr. It was any eLssentiesit opinion on the Jllll. RS 10
the bitdicat mu of the Coueention.
It appears that Sir J. Moore'. corps bawling arrived at
',roads co bay so the oath of August, began to diet inbark 1
that they re-miabockerl, and arrived off tfaceira Buy un the
rill', ; that from the :sth to the >loth, they lauded under •
kriorideralelle difficulties., 011.1 successively joined the army at
turns Vedrns .
• It aopears that moor of the principal solvantnyce to arim
from the Cu ovinit:on were, in the contemplation of ths Ge.
' mesh.-
- That it immediately ',berated the kingdom of Curtain!
Gunn the itentimen of the Frem-h, then, by resteririg to the
rishabetants their capital and f retresse,, tlieir principal en-s-
-ports, their [14111.01141 liberty, properly, re•ligioa, mid este-
Wished tioe.-rnine lit.
That it relieved a great talent 14 Spanish frontier from all
apprehensions „f as comity, and the a Inde of Spain Lion flint
of heroic an enemy behind theist, sail allusive! all marts of
Spans to take more.effective ineuares for ita general iblener;
as welt as fee emitted Portugal immediately to contribute for
their mutual support.
That it eiiahleul the British army immediately to enter
nate, If required. by central reales, while it tiairspented
the ['leach force to IA ter, distant part of their own coaet, far
removed limo the Spanish froirtier.
That it iiiimediately 'element vain Spenjah tat...neva, nod
writ them to the defence of Catakosia t it ale" released nom
the Portlier... 4. frontier another burly if stems Ninntiah trooper.
The Porting'', se army also beca.ue disposable foe the coot.
WWI cause.
To the taco of war and Iraneporto, which at this season of
the yt sr, with grunt eillically, eneold keep their station teen,
thv roast, anti on • bow. prearure the sepplim and opera-
tidos of the army depended, the opening or the Titans a-
ft:M.9 immediate shelter.
It is farther wised lay the eSeirrals, is nine?' more tittle'
rideable, that if the tPlitly Iriol twee required to lay down
their 1011111,, and aorrettsirr pro...ours eat tar, they would not
Laue tllllllll/1.11 hilt ifileiren t ustrennty, 'het they worent
have retired upon Lisbon, re ~hit red ley mom It nesians, who
most Wore lo co thus comp, ltini to Share their fate ; and in
We temp ersrs att-re, of the, city, 11.1Utb Cil:111101y and de-
struct, t must hare ohm ri.
Also, that nsalSifill of the /tension See t, and of the boat.
awl Alma,: it, the 1 aims, the meivege of the river was Ll-
./, oil to thaws; flier they could hare ileferseled, for a cots,-
&rige time, its 1..1.! Rank, and prevented the orennatent
of thee Tagus by our Rent i that, %ids the meting Orr trees 4
Alentrjo in thr it poneseion„, they rowid hare pmtmeted e
di etruetive war, 10 114, 14141 &tr. at 01 Portugal unit the
1 114140 1,441.-, 10 fi11:1101111,1111•10111111 I.ot the greater pint
of the Beitieh 4161, iv tlw svaenetunicr of the year, and ',these
drileulties and Wears, in such uprodoen, oasts have been
very cousiderable.
. Ii ',piaci, that the forts as the Tagus were taken pos.
oewipparf uni the Std 01Se/41.'0Kr, by the British troupe, and
the -04: .... Own open( .1 to our slitimusg . flint 011 the tilt
tbenitroor ti I its right at St. JiOttee's, mid its left oo the
WOO* .nf Lee-his : that au the nth or nth, a Britieh corps
tvarehed Mt., ileum:, to 1112010 the teaseptinity of that cite
4a--::•F the ; are a taboo vf the emus, who were all mot all'
14.Necrt the last Myriam, poroireely detaiiied, before the end
vt the mindh, n it part of the British army was then actualiy
On to near tuoards the Spanish (testa r.
. It 11y11-12f11, i 1,711 Miriam the din ismme, and alltruassla,
dmi.i.; /lir ts. ru!ion of the Coneeution, mach firmness as.
..lece re AM :1141.144 the ptilitemoras aid item pretatieur it the

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enemy; every stipulation being itstilztud to ids fair, honour-
able, and grammatical wirai...m.c, and the Freu I, not allowed
In carry off, hut obliged It, Itispir::o, plunder, w Lich they
Lffected to ciiiisider irk private propeiti.
It anicais, that pains were taken to misrepresent and
raise a clamour against this Coloration; but
a hen it was generally Inne.vit, nod its effects kit, the people
of Lisbon, and of the enuatry, seem to have expressed their
gratitude and thaels far the benefits attending it.
It has been urged hi Sir Hew Dalrymple, aunt alireved by
Majmeleneral Slimmer, that its Egypt, in t sot ..titer the
victory of the gist of March, the French having thrown their
whole force into Alexandria and Grind Cairo, about io,uuo
teen is each place), that at the siege of Alexandria, in An-
gina, the comitry was in the full timsessiou of lb: British
anti Torts ; the garrison, cut of from every poseibiltly of
relief, and could only huts hi Id out some days, whet. a
capitulation was granted to it, September the 2d, as favour-
able as the Convention of Ciiitra to the army of Joiliot (of
24 „line French, and tiooo Russians), and perfectly similar in
all the chief articles of uteri, baggage, artillery, convey:race,
eLr ; also, that the acme t rots had heels previously granted
to the garrison of Cairo, under touch the same enema-
stances By these two Conveatious, or capitulations, above
gee nun i'reark mum:dell Egypt, nod the Ihmisli army Ins
left chemise:di. for oilier purposes.
Ou the whole it appears, that the operations of the army
ander kir Arthur Wellesley, from his landing iu Thoidetto
Cay the ist of August, until the conclusion of the action at
V ira, the ,2i,t of .4 ugust, were honourable and
sue( essful, and tooth MI might be e.7.peeted from a distill-
gnislied Ceueral, ut the fiend of a Ileitish army a ta,nou
men, aregatenled eta the-'2Oll and 2 tat to t7,tmn, deriving
only some small ant froth a Plartugilese CUrpfl (Minn lille11;,
mud monist whom an enemy, nut exceeding ta,tutu men its
the field, was oi•posell ; awl this before the arrival of a very
considerable eitsf-reement from Eaglaiml, milder Lieutenuut-
Ormeral Sir John Monte, which, however, did incite mid
join the army, from the Vali to the aath of August.
It appears a peunt ea which no evidence adduced can ena-
ble tile Retard to prononnee, with confidence, whether or not
• poraoit r the battle of the 2111 have been eili-
cations nue eau 'be Duard feel confident to determine no
the expedience of a fora crd movenieut to Torres V-dram,
when Sir Harry Runnel had stated weighty eoesiderations
against such a itir:mrre. Further, it is to hi, observed, that
so many collateral eireurnstanct.s could sot be Xueiwo in the
intaneat of the enemy's re; iii !se, as atterwarda lieeaine clear
to the army, and have been represented to the Board. abut
(nlaid, ring the extraordinary circumstances under which
tiro new Commanding Generals tont ell from the ocean, gad
joined the army (the oar (luring, and the other immediately
after, a bat tie, and those successively superseding each other,
and both the original Cummearlerl/4within the spate (421
hours%, it is nut eurpriaine. that the army was nut carried fur-
ik Bra, until the second day after the action, Crum the acres'.
city of the Generals being acquainted w ith the actual state
of things, and of their army, and peeve:hug accorilionly.
It appears that the Convention of Cline:4in all its pro-
gress mid concha, en, or at least all the principal articles of
it, were nut ohjeuteil to hy the five distinguished Lire Lamm-
Generale "of that army 3.14 other General °diem who were
on that sort me, ahem we have had an opportunity to CIL3-
Blaine, have also coucarred in the grealativaatages that wens
immediately to the country of Portugal,to the army
mid ant's., stud to ill, to-::real soviet, by the eunclasiou of the
(bur at at that time.

Id a r:ons..leration of all circumstances, asset forth in
this Report, ue.ntt humbly submit 'tour opiiiiim, that no
further ini:itary i'r.. seediatt is necessary uu ike Sabi,Ct.—
Becalm., 'mown ter so.ae Ili us may differ in our sentiments
..,pealing liar tinier: Gillis t'oliveution, in the relative situ-
anon Ilbe two armies, it is oar unanimous alerbration,
that maquestionatile zeal and firmness appear throughout
to. lone been exhibited Iry Lient-Gamerals Sir llew
oiple, Mir Darr: Siirrard, and Sir Arthur tVelles!ey, as
wel as that the ardour and gallantry of the rent of the °di-
cers and soldiers, on every occasiou aiming this expedition,
have done Gamine to the letiopi. and reflected lustre on
YUMA' Hiklesty's arms. All which is moat dutdolly std.:Mite&
(Signed) DAVID DUNI/AS, General.
IIiD)IRA, General.
PETER CRAIG, CCM val.
H P. ATI' FIELD, t;enerai.
PEMBRI)KE, Lieut.-Gen.
G. NUGEN
214 nec. tsos. UL. NICOLLS, Bent.-Gen.
Judge-Advocate-General's Office, Dee. 27. tans,
In conseeptenre of the following letter from his Royal
flightless the Commander iit-Chicf, to General Sir lhrvid
litidits, as President, viz.--
Horse Gourds, Dee ,21, 1a t.
Sin—The Jailee-Advoratit-11;eneral Lavine delivered to
one to Le laid prime Nis Alajesty, the several papers and
&traumata, coutui ll ill all the examinations and proceediu7s
takeu before the Ihni;dl of luquiry, of which you are the
President, together ash your report and opinion upon the
whole Or the late opmatious of Ilia Majesty's foreeti in P.m_
legal, as remarried with the Armistice and subsequent t
ventinn of (Infra, I Oink it iaemuherit me a., to sinie In
)011, that although the report is fully iletailed, and is erectly
explanatery of nil the transactions an they appeared in evi-
dence before you ; yer arum a due rousider dion of the whole
matter, it err; aisily appear% that youropiiiionMpun the con-
ditions of the Aritnatier and Cuisveution, what, the winds
of Ilia Slajealy'r warrant evprensly intuit,, should be strictly
examined, inquired iota, mid reported upon, has been al-
together omitted.

I feet it my duty, therefore, to rain your attention to their
two principal features. of :his important eve., the Ai sni•dire
and Conventiots; and to desire that you may he pleased to
take the same again into your stimit s-rissusetossidt Patina,
RIM PIII4 to 111 V typhoon which yus bare alrtatly g.ven
ripsit the other maids submitted to ;tote munisatoun nod
impiiry, *Miller, under all the c.rtunistances whieh appear
in 1.1 Metier before you, on the relative mtuatiusi of the two
arnino, OM the 22d of August, taus, it is your opinion that
as Aritosts-e was advisable ? awl ii v., whether the terms of
that Armistice were 1.11111 as 41111Aill lot M.ve been 3grrr.l
wpm. ? and * 'tether, mars a like cousiderstiun of the rela-
tive situation of the Me aruli,s, sialmequeut to the Armistice,
and when all the British Am.. is were lathiest, it is your sipb
Mott that a Convention Mall advkahle and if so, whether
the triaist.uf that Convetstion were such as might to hare
Ir'en sward upon
am the more desirous that you should resume the con-
sideration ut I.ti polo's, the .treni4ie. 3.1.1 CoOVI.II-
- as it app. ass upon the rare of your Iltsport, that s Miro--
mice of upwiau etists aitiong lie Methuen ut the limits!,
which may proloitny produce a dissent from themujerity upon
114:1•C very 111.11,1i.o11•. VOU will be ples,d, therefore, to
shah e of tlw Menilwes Naas, be 44 Aiifferrlll upwiou
fro m the troths up uu these two tmestins, to record upon
the lace of the isruteelkags their reasons fur saeh dissent.
I au', Sir, rcs,
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Geis. Sir D. Itulidas, fist. Connusiitier..ll• 4. bief.

The Timid earl this der ■t the Judge-Advocate (enerars
(Wire, utter. the 11414 i letter butt lox astr(ll reui, the-) agreed
Ow the eh,n.l I, poi to each .4 the
of the Huard:—

Apionre. 1)o ).on, or do you Ditar;•,r*.
Ll.4;ets. N walk t•ot approve ..d.thel Earl .%ion
14 -lien Kir 'lent Aren•suce os enn-
Earl of Pern'.n.ke 0.04 A the Ad
Lord Henthtir!J f :in. Is"., to •
Cieneral ( rn.:g the reloti*e sous-
Geo. Ste D. 'Janda& 11.111 of t'au too
arsons)
Appner. r Do )Lf, tnr J., yna Diotoprner.
Lt •Gen.Sirl; Nugent 'sot :.pprove 1.1.-Grob. Nicol%
Gen LnrA IlcAtlinti.l the Co.avtulitm as r..', retotaroky
ticurrai (',.oz concluded upon Lati of Moira.
tiro. S,r D. pendia tkc 3: :4 of Aog
is tlne re la-
(1.1 ...tuaoue of
the too-A:4.3.sta!
(Signed) t/A VI 1.) DUP. DAS, Virsi,lent.
%1" reamou fin cLasseicrOT the Aras.atice 111 r.4.l,rsabll on
the old of Aagnst, ran, bPintyv the caelry Inotire-n atee b.
retire, after toe bettle of the 61, reel take up a stron7z tto •
tensiro putoll'o3. 01a. Itilt;f)LL:i. L. U.
thiok, considering 11w treat'con ..(17•11. foreafron
loc List •ctspestsion v 15.n41/04 to the dotiottaC ulf

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the Contention, added to the defeat the enemy had sa:
fered, Sir Slew Dalrymple was fully entitled In lute to,. h..,
upon more favourable terms. 01. MCOLLS, 1,. to.
il
I approve of the Armistice, after a due consi.,eratina of
the relative situation or the twe intuit v, oar the evening of 1
the old of August, but I calmer( fully approve et the t
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whole of the Convention, aster a flue cot:oiler:thou of th:
relative situatiou of the ties armies at that time; b.:cense
it does nut appear to me, that, in the progriss of the ne-
rrairiation, Ptlifie.Mli stress wits laid repot' the gram advan-
taging w hick had resulted, or wire likely to result, fiGue
the former successful operatiunc.of the Blitisli Ana, in the
field, Dora the conaldernble reiuitinvesnents which had joined
it, siderequent to the eigningsuicement of the nertitlrtit,%,
frmu the cause in it h gib the British army woe ere:igen li: mg
the cause of Porto ::il, tibias guru real reason to crthon
upon the good will, if nut 'won the active assistance, of the.
,„,,jurity of the harabilmos ; and, also, from the: unusual
ri,itiliin•bs which, as it appears to cue, wan maiiiferted by
Ilriocal Junta to enter into negotiation, and by Ilse French .
licloi•i:itoc to accede t• titans as (ht.). were piopmed, rad to
such construction as Lirut.-tieneral 'ill' plea' 011rVITIrit lint
Ujinil them in some ivatunrcs, where they might have Lunn
41 tail l'OnCe' of interpretation. 1 therefore think it probable,
for Die above reasons, that if lass favourable terms to the ... 'i,' ,
'French army had been insisted upon, they would hate
been acceded in. PCNIBROIi IL, Lieut.-Gent rat.
I feel' less inikaardnese io nheynig tli, order to de •
ornaments on the nature of the COlnfel.ii"qe, tire to • I 1
lt Lave arud w joined in the tribute id a?pr.o due i. -r
4.
rraretr to the °Meets. euurernod. My upiinuo, therefore,
is only optuaral to their's on a question et Jaitenrect, where t )
their talents tire likely In have ...Mellen more weight, as to
render thg • priMaseue of my diferenee, iii.m on that point,
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somewhat painful'. The duty Is, liewtivee. imperious on nit
nut tee disguise or rphili:y the &deletions w hen 1 bate minx - 1
during this itonatigasion.
A. Arrotetiee simply 'urea not hare beret oblertimable.
became. Sir Hew Dalr;iiipie, expectiue hourly the arrival ref
Sir John Moore's divasion, might tee mitre adeautarre for
hinix.dr it' a short riirpe.:siuli of huttiiiiirti, than what the
Ferrel, could draw fin., it. lilt as the Armistice involved,
and in fact established the whole principle of the Cutiveation.
I cannot separate it from the hit,r)*.
Sir A. WcUengley has stated, that he considered bye force,
at the einumeaireinteigt of the march from the Mondrgo
River, as autfwiciit to drive7the French front their piraitiou•
on the Tutus. Taal force is eulialtunitly joined by 3:,1111re
40(n) Ilritisli troops, owlet. dlenerais Atietrellier and Ai kland.
The Freud. make an ottani: with their whole damnable
strength, mid are repulsed with henry loss, thou4l but a
part of the British array in iirogizht into action. It is ilitli•
cult to cone:tine that Ow prospects wh:ela Sir A. 10, eliesley ii
entertained could be unfavourably altered by these event%
oven bud not the certainly off' speedy reinforcenieuts to the
British army vitiated.
It is urged, that lied the Crench beta pushed to extre- ~.
filly, they would have crosier/ the Tagus, and Lace rtrti.
trailed the campaign in each a manner as to lime frustrided
the more important view of the British General's-um...tin
seindivi4 succours into Spain. .4
ILn measure waist have been eq sally feasible fur the
French, if no rietoey had been ontaintd over Damsel bat I
confess that the chance of such au sttampt seems tea. as-
sumed ' probabilit- Sir Dew Daley- -

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calls
..ty. _ _ notices
what hc calls " the critical •
and en.inwrassed Mate of hood,"
•Isefore that General has heel pre,sail by the British arms, ;
and, in expla,ittiois of that ti.pref3loll, observes, that the
Gummier of Dupont, the existence of the victorious
Spanish army in Andalusia, whirls cut off the rar..,t
of the French array in that direction, and the univer-
sal iinstihty oil. the Purtitgut.se, made the Fit melon of
J *nut one of grcat distress. Vie, temptation for the mos.
lotion of the war into Alentijit presents itself from this
picture : our ducat any other representation give gruitisdl
to suppose that Joust could have cuatemplatzd the
IIiC3SUII: as holding forth Any prospect but ultimate ruin,
atter nitwit prcliiiiinity distress and .I:sir:arr. The strodgmat
of all proofs at 011611011, Wm *elation',
the very month.; afire tb..l.attle of V inteira, to 'willow.. the
ctatuatiou of Portugal ; a giro *lnch sel&ciently iiiitieni,ll
that he was mansetbsil he c..uld sot only' make au titre :n.4
defeiu:e, but could nut even prolong the contest to tol,c dos
chance of accidents. lie serum, linked, to hare lean with-
out lay real resource.

It ap- - .
pears in erid...tee, that of the tr.sups left by hint in
I.isbon and the riain, a considerable prit:tortion were of ter,
doubtful quality. 'those troops, on wieee fidelity he could
cost e, u.u3 !RAW cli.lea)•ci by II sigma defat, and they
acre a...soiltic that they had no onecanst to look to front
abroad. To the fle.ttolt fieuerals ot,was known, when the
A rno:st lee wee granted, that i tato %MN nutter Sir J. !•futire.
as Atoll us the 3d and 45:41 re4liommts 3f foot, with the title
dragoon., might he immediately ere:toned upon , awl at.
though much adoantaae hail uot bee* Mateo from the 'Por-
ta:nese troops, their .upport, :mot the general violent I- of the
country agahod the Frcaels, CeikUtOt be Lid out of this cat
culativu.

The dist, city of forre and of cireumshtoces was th^n such
as could leave 110 dilate that the issue most be En...M1.41.k Iti
I 16 tint unlit advertence to the ditfieu:tws urged us :mi-
sdate to occur in fiirtii.,li:•l4 the British army with bread.
Hot, tontine smile the eliviury soluttoo, that sett a tempo-
niry privation is not ruinous to an army, where cattle can he
procured in the room& k it.ticalty cannot he well plead.
eJ, if admission is to he en to the apt...illation, that Ilia
heavy C 3111141111 neer s,.:,ry for battering frit SI. iulirtw and
CIIII4IICP, were to le• gut ashore in the tia” of the Rock of
host. The question then eiders to tliss-•-whether the Cow.
veution did its has been asserted) seen:, all the objects
acre propased in the Expedition if it did tint, it was
not what Ilia ](ajesrs a.s entitled to expect from the rela-
tive situation of the two meitii,s.

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I humbly coureite it to Io been erroneous to et-card the
emancipation of Purina' horn the french. as the sole sat
the lir Weird object of the rapedititet. I,' p.m whatever ter-
ritory we eunieuil with the Freueh, it enit.t h,: a prominent
*Nevi in the strugyttlr• to (Snarl, their resources, and to
so r-
riw thei► mums of jointing an, ar thuee %slum, Cati,e s r ate
Auppurting. This .c, nu ti have benne" lath• considered an
the l'ouveutiva, that toe I[lllllll appear to lane r•tricated
donors a,my rims' a situation of infinite distriss, in shirk
it was wholly out of ily, nut to hate brought it in a state
of entire equipment, into immediate currency, iu 3qu irtet
kW, Whfrt• It must interfere with our sit,ed urgent and tote •
restinc convents.
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Had it hero impracticable to rc-duce the French armv to
lay down its areas tineunditionally, still ati obligation oat
toiret re for a *verified tune might hare bees, insisted 'Too,
sir Belleade might hare beert prescri'red as the plate at which
they should tw landed, in order to prevent the possibility of
their rend. wring (at least for a long lime) thiaritors em
pluyed fur the subjugation of SV4ill: Nn Laps a st.olicer
eon tit:rat than the moat of those terms resents
Opetitisi relative to the British arms was of the hightst
iss-
portancr, as it might inflective the confidence of the Spa-
niards, or invite the natioas groaning mailer the yoke uf
France, to appeal to this comas y, audio coo rate with it for
their et !menace. The advantages ought, therefore, t., La, .:
been more than usually great, which should he deemed ‘11:"
Orient to hatanee the objection of granting toe very edit lor
army, hopeless to eircumstauces, and broken in spirit,
tenors as might argoe that notwokstauditig ids dispardi in
nemturs, it was still formidable to its victors. No oilcan
Cages seem to heretical' gained thAt weold not have etiaa;ip
followed from forcing them...my to a more marked animus-
' . 'flee grim of IMKn to sending stweuuni into Spam
cannel lw admitted as a plea: tremnise it appears that no se•
rangements fur the reception of our humps is Spana had been
eartertskett p,r s 44/411h) and this is • iambi
r. 3,1114 ion 41thlterplelli
The rtll.o'.lltlllll 111 Egypt, shirts has been reivanceil SS a
parallel Cate, appeals to mare inapplicable. No object toryui.d
the thslad_inent of Its I rends freer Ezypt was the,, so
lo the present Inatome, the .rperatioe of the
teurentwi upon the stfici• sf Spain le I a cot.ii.!erinotin of
primary intzr:wi : %rid iti :hat view, the inevitaloe effete of
some of the aetw'es sot tin itself to my nodular Italie he sam-
tsrisl
I trust that them reasons ail% sinilieste tae from ilia
charge of presinotAion, us thAlll3l4llllilig an opinion cortre
diet,. y fo that pri .Iss.cd I..usi r..l7eettl:e
°Mims fm, eleit if the sea 'or be emesittaily creoncour.,
if they are caticiesis* to my mod se I must eaLsci
"Ants them it, la it is a necessary cuuseteseass
that I truest ii.sappeuie Coot eui
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