[326] 5th and 17th from Elvas, 22nd from Abrantes.
[327] All these movements are taken from the elaborate tables in D’Urban’s Journal for these days.
[329] Letter in the D’Urban Papers.
[330] See the Life of Surgeon-General Sir Jas. McGrigor, pp. 284-96. I have before me, among the Scovell papers, Grant’s original signed parole as far as Bayonne, witnessed by General Lamartinière, the chief of Marmont’s staff. It was captured by Guerrilleros in Castile, and sent to Wellington. Accompanying it is the General’s private letter, commending Grant to the attention of the French police, with the explanation that he was only not treated as a spy because he was captured in British uniform, though far in the rear of the French outpost line.
[331] Wellington to Graham, Castello Branco, April 18, Dispatches, ix. p. 70.
[332] Marmont to Berthier, Fuente Guinaldo, April 22 [original intercepted dispatch in Scovell Papers]: ‘J’ai eu la plus grande peine à faire arriver mon artillerie sur la rive droite de cette rivière. Les ponts que j’avais fait construire sur l’Agueda ayant été détruits par les grandes crues d’eau, et n’ayant pas la faculté de les rétablir, je n’ai su d’autre moyen que de la diriger par les sources de cette rivière, et les contreforts des montagnes.’ The wording of Wellington’s intercepted copy differs slightly from that of the duplicate printed in Ducasse’s Correspondence of King Joseph, viii. pp. 404-10.
[333] Intercepted dispatch in the Scovell Papers, Fuente Guinaldo, April 22, quoted above.
[334] See Marmont’s Mémoires, iv. p. 202. Jardet’s long report to Marmont was captured on its journey out to Salamanca from Paris, and lies among the Scovell Papers.
[335] King Joseph had been prepared for the formal proposal by a tentative letter sent off to him about three weeks earlier, on February 19, inquiring whether it would suit him to have Jourdan as his Chief-of-the-Staff, supposing that the Emperor went off to Russia and turned over the command in Spain to him. See Ducasse’s Correspondence, ix. p. 322.