[282] The petitioners ought in fairness to have stated that this was only made in the document setting forth the armistice, and not in the definitive Convention.
[283] Not, of course, the Eliot who had defended Gibraltar so well in 1780-3, but his son, the second Lord Heathfield.
[284] Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott, ii. 226.
[285] Burrard before the Court of Inquiry (Proceedings, pp. 115, 116, 135).
[286] Dalrymple before the Court of Inquiry (Well. Disp., iv. 178, 180, 181).
[287] He calls it ‘a laboured criticism, which nevertheless left the pith of the question entirely untouched’ (Napier, i. 249). I have printed Lord Moira’s plea in an Appendix, to show that it is well-reasoned and practical.
[288] The King’s Opinion on the Convention of Cintra, paragraphs 4, 5, and 6.
[289] The proceedings terminated Dec. 27, 1808. Wellesley took up the command at Lisbon on April 25, 1809.
[290] Napier, History of the Peninsular War, i. 90.