[557] Moore to Castlereagh, Oct. 9, 1808.
[558] Castlereagh to Dalrymple, Sept. 2, 1808.
[559] It is fair to this distinguished officer to state that his dispatches and letters show no trace whatever of the irascible and impracticable temper that has been attributed to him. They are most sensible, cautious, and prudent, and not at all what might have been expected from the hero of the story of ‘the lad that was chained to our Davie.’
[560] The 7th and 10th Hussars apparently on Nov. 7, the 15th Hussars on Nov. 12. See Baird to Castlereagh, Nov. 8 and 13, 1808.
[561] Napier, i. 347.
[562] It is to be remembered that Baird’s cavalry would not have been up till Nov. 20-25, owing to its tardy start from England. Nothing could have been more unlucky.
[563] At the skirmish at Rueda on that date.
[564] See the letters from Spanish officers in the Madrid Gazette for Dec. 19, 1808.
[565] See the Dec. 5 Bulletin, and the inspired articles in the Madrid Gazette for Dec. 14.