[140] Toreno, iii. p. 100.
[141] See vol. ii. p. 168.
[142] Toreno says that the mistress of the Duke of Infantado was implicated in the negotiation, after he had become a regent, but that he himself had no treasonable intentions, being a staunch supporter of Ferdinand.
[143] See Villa Urrutia, i. p. 13 and ii. pp. 355-9.
[144] The best and most recent account of all this, explaining many contradictions and some insincere suppression of fact in Toreno’s great history, is to be found in chapter ix of vol. ii of Señor Villa Urrutia’s Relaciones entre España y Inglaterra 1808-14.
[145] See vol. iv. p. 240.
[146] Early in 1812, however, Wellington once more spoke of requiring Souza’s retirement from office. Dispatches, ix. p. 88.
[147] Wellington to Charles Stuart, April 9, 1812. Dispatches, ix. p. 48.
[148] Napier (iv. p. 212) says that Portugal raised 25,000,000 cruzados this year. I cannot understand this, comparing it with Soriano de Luz, iii. p. 523, which quotes 12,000,000 cruzados as the total receipt of taxes for 1811. Does Napier include loans, and the inconvertible paper issued by the government?
[149] See complaints of the Conde de Redondo, the Portuguese finance minister, in Soriano de Luz, iii. p. 520.