[386] An extraordinary case of Abadia’s ill will occurred in this spring: a damaged transport, carrying British troops to Lisbon, having put in to Corunna to repair, permission was refused for the men to land: apparently it was suspected that they were trying to garrison Corunna.

[387] For all this Galician business see the Life of Sir Howard Douglas, pp. 120-60.

[388] See above, [p. 210].

[389] Chaves, Braganza, Miranda, Villa Real.

[390] Silveira already had Nos. 11 and 12, D’Urban brought up No. 1, which had not hitherto operated on this frontier.

[391] See Thiébault, Mémoires, v. p. 561.

[392] See vol. iii. pp. 486-7.

[393] See above, [p. 304]. The intercepted cipher is in the Scovell Papers.

[394] See Lord Wellesley to Lord W. Bentinck, December 27, 1811, in Wellington’s Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 249.

[395] Bentinck to Lord Liverpool, January 25, 1812, ibid., pp. 290-1.