[731] Belmas gives the same number, probably copying Le Noble.
[732] Jourdan’s Mémoires, p. 126.
[733] Fantin des Odoards, p. 201.
[734] See Marshal Jourdan’s very judicious remark on Soult’s bulletins in his Mémoires militaires (p. 127). ‘His first dispatch was not that of a general who imagined that he had been successful.’
[735] The inscription was to run: ‘Hic cecidit Iohannes Moore dux exercitus Britannici, in pugna Ianuarii xvi, 1809, contra Gallos a duce Dalmatiae ductos.’
[736] St. Chamans calls him ‘un vieux faible et sans moyens, mené par une espèce de courtisane.’ Mr. Stuart (in a note to Vaughan) describes him as an ‘unscrupulous old rascal.’
[737] Cf. for their losses the Parliamentary Papers for 1809 (pp. 8, 9), and Beamish’s History of the German Legion.
[738] In fairness to the government Castlereagh’s dispatches, 92-105 in the Parliamentary Papers for 1809, should be carefully studied.
[739] Moore to Castlereagh, from Astorga, Dec. 31, 1808.
[740] See the arguments stated on [pp. 554-5].