[252] Napier, i. 225.
[253] Evidence of Wellesley before the Court of Inquiry (Proceedings, pp. 87-91).
[254] Foy, iv. 352, and Thiébault.
[255] Article 1 of the armistice mentioned ‘his Imperial and Royal Majesty, Napoleon I,’ though this formula did not recur in the Convention, which only spoke of the ‘French Army.’
[256] The full text will be found in the [Appendix].
[257] For the strange way in which Junot utilized this permission for his personal profit, see [page 281].
[258] Wellesley to Mr. Stuart, Sept. 1, 1808 (Well. Disp., iv. 121).
[259] Dalrymple’s Memoir of the Affairs of Portugal, p. 66.
[260] Dalrymple says that he signed the armistice so soon after landing, and with such an incomplete knowledge of the situation in Portugal, that he did not know that Freire’s army was anywhere in his neighbourhood (p. 65).
[261] Better known, from his court office, as the Monteiro Mor, which answers to our ‘Master of the Horse.’