FOOTNOTES
[1] Malta.
[2] Captain Lefebure, R.E.
[3] Captain Lefebure, R.E.
[4] The sight of our Westminster Bridge greatly astonished one of the Sicilian servants on our return to England. “Cospetto,” he exclaimed, “and they pretend they could not make a bridge over the Giarreta!”
[5] Not unlike the Portland stone.
[6] “Don’t fire! don’t fire! With the bayonet! with the bayonet!”
[7] Yesterday I met Sir Sidney Smith upon the field, and he asked me to dinner on board.
[8] Calabria.
[9] Captain Lefebure, R.E.
[10] Captain Lefebure was killed at the assault on Matagorda, near Cadiz, in 1810.
[11] I saw these despatches.—Charles Boothby.
[12] Lieutenant Edward Gould, a great friend.
[13] Augusta, on the east coast of Sicily.
[14] Lieutenant Edward Gould, R.E.
[15] It may interest the reader to know that the Sir Brooke Boothby here mentioned was the father of Penelope Boothby (whose portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds is so well known). She was his only child, and died when six years old, in the year 1791.
[16] Gustavus IV.
[17] This hasty summons meant that he was to proceed at once via Ystad and Helsingborg to England to rejoin Sir John Moore.
[18] The editor has seen precisely the same effect before sunrise in Scotland, over the Ochils near Crieff.
[19] Sir Henry Dalrymple.
[20] The horse recently purchased.
[21] Afterwards General Sir John Burgoyne.
[22] A few miles south of Sanagun.
[23] Mulcaster.
[24] Guard or watchman.
[26] It was by his father’s desire that Captain Charles Boothby entered the Army instead of preparing for Holy Orders, and this intensified the anguish in parting with his son throughout the war, as was often stated by Captain C. Boothby in later years.
[27] Said to be the proudest man in France.
[28] See [Appendix].
[29] The continuation of the Journals of Captain Charles Boothby will be found in A Prisoner of France, already published by Messrs. A. and C. Black.
[30] Written to a French General at Reggio.
[31] Written off the coast of Sweden.
[32] Extract from the Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain Commanded by His Excellency General Sir John Moore, K.B., etc., etc., etc. By James Moore, Esq. Published 1809.
[33] French army over 20,000.
[34] British army about 15,000.
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