[695] Letter of August 4 in Sidney’s Life of Hill, p. 210.
[696] Soult to Joseph, August 8, Paris Archives (lent me by Mr. Fortescue).
[697] Soult to Joseph, Seville, August 12, in Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. pp. 67-8.
[698] There had been such intrigues between the King and persons in Cadiz (see above, [p. 140]), but they had been opened by Napoleon’s own advice, in order to sow seeds of dissension among the patriots.
[699] The point of this insinuation is that Bernadotte and Joseph were brothers-in-law, having married the two sisters Clary.
[700] Printed in Joseph’s Correspondence, ix. pp. 68-70.
[701] Minus four companies left at Tarifa.
[702] Two from the 2/95th, those of Cadoux and Jenkins.
[703] Skerrett in his dispatch (Wellington, Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. p. 108), speaks of attacking San Lucar with 800 men: but this was not his whole force.
[704] Toreno (iii. p. 151) and other historians tell the tale how Downie, finding that none of his men had followed him, though they had reached the other side of the cut, flung back to them his sword, which was the rapier of the Conquistador Pizarro, presented to him by a descendant of that great adventurer. It was caught and saved, and he recovered it, for he was left behind by the French a few miles from Seville, because of his wounds. They stripped him and left him by the wayside, where he was found and cared for by the pursuing Spaniards.