[60] These were the two bomb-vessels Meteor and Lucifer. The Magnificent 74 came up the same day, but after the evacuation of the Trinity.
[61] St. Cyr does not say so (p. 50), but only that the Spaniards imagined that it was done deliberately. Belmas (p. ii. 453) asks if it was not irritation on the part of the British. Arteche does not repulse the silly suggestion, as he reasonably might (iv. 270).
[62] Belmas, ii. 454, and Vacani, ii. 315, agree in these figures.
[63] Berthier to St. Cyr, Burgos, Nov. 13. ‘Si Roses tarde à être pris, il faut marcher sur Barcelone sans s’inquiéter de cette place, &c.,’ and much to same effect from Coubo, Nov. 16 [wrongly printed in St. Cyr, Nov. 10].
[64] St. Cyr to the Emperor, Nov. 17, from Figueras.
[65] May 30 to Dec. 10, 1809.
[66] See vol. i. p. 331.
[67] St. Cyr, Journal de l’Armée de Catalogne, p. 58.
[68] St. Cyr says that Napoleon falsified his report, when reprinting it in the Moniteur, and put 150 instead of 50 rounds per man, to disguise the risk that had been run (p. 58).
[69] Cf. Cabanes, with Arteche, iv. 276.