[682] Intercepted dispatch from Marmont to Berthier of August 5th, printed in Supplementary Wellington Dispatches, xiii. p. 690.
[683] Mémoires, iv. p. 55.
[684] See Wellington to Lord Liverpool, Dispatches, vii. p. 115.
[685] D’Urban in his diary often harps upon this project.
[686] ‘We should meet in Andalusia the whole force which lately obliged us to raise the siege of Badajoz, with the addition to it of the force which was left before Cadiz.... An attempt to relieve Cadiz would certainly not succeed.’ Dispatches, vii. p. 118.
[687] From the same letter to Lord Liverpool, Dispatches, vii. 118.
[688] See the all-important dispatch of July 18, in which these three points are set forth. Dispatches, vii. 118.
[689] Dispatches, vii. 184: ‘I should imagine that the reports have some foundation.’ August 9th.
[690] Dispatches, vii. p. 194. August 14th.
[691] By August 21st he has heard that the 5th Léger and other new regiments from the interior of France are over the Pyrenees. Dispatches, vii. p. 215.