[146] Arteche, iv. 472, and Lejeune, i. 179.
[147] Their names can be found on p. 494 of Arteche, vol. iv.
[148] In Lejeune, i. 194-5, will be found a most picturesque account of the interview of the French envoy with the fever-ridden and despairing Junta, almost hysterical with rage and shame, but accepting the inevitable.
[149] It is notable that there was not a single churchman among them, though there were eight among the thirty-three members of the Junta. The clergy represented to the last the fighting section.
[150] Lejeune, in his interesting narrative of this interview, says that he saw one of the deputies pore over the map and recognize his own house among the mined buildings; he crossed himself five or six times, and cried in accents of bitter grief ‘Ah la Casa Ciscala.’ The name of Don Joachim Ciscala does occur among the eleven signatures, so the story is probably true. Lejeune, i. 198.
[151] Lejeune, i. 202.
[152] Von Brandt, Aus meinem Leben, pp. 43-4.
[153] For details, see Arteche, iv. 512-3.
[154] Lannes to Berthier, March 19, 1809.
[155] It seems quite clear that the ‘1,500 men in hospital’ which Belmas mentions on ii. 327 is a misprint for 15,000. For his own figures show that (p. 381) there were 13,000 invalids six weeks earlier, and before the deadly street-fighting had begun. How many died we cannot say, but Suchet in April had only 10,527 men present in nineteen battalions (Mémoires, i. 331), with eight more battalions ‘on command,’ which would give another 4,000. Von Brandt (p. 50) carefully says that the total of 3,000 dead does not include ‘the thousands who perished in hospital.’