[276] Roughly correct: the joint force of the Castilian and Estremaduran divisions in October 1812 was 8,000 men with the colours—there were some 7,000 men in dépôts and garrisons.
[277] In November the 3rd Army had about 5,000 men with the colours, 3,000 in dépôt: the 2nd, 7,000, excluding the guerrilleros of the Empecinado and Duran.
[278] Two days later Wellington sent Carvajal a definite instance of this friction. The Civil Intendant of Old Castile had collected a magazine for the benefit of the garrison of Rodrigo. The Captain-General had seized it, and used it to support his own staff. Dispatches, ix. p. 623.
[279] Wellington to Carvajal. Dispatches, ix. pp. 604-5.
[280] For the exact text of the reply see the Spanish Minister of War’s letter. Supplementary Dispatches, xiv. pp. 170-1.
[281] See Supplementary Dispatches, vii. pp. 529-30 and 546.
[282] Wellesley to Castlereagh. Supplementary Dispatches, vii. p. 530.
[283] They were the Duke of Infantado, Admiral Villaviciencio, and Señors Ignacio Rivas, Mosquera, and Villamil. The last two were reputed very anti-British.
[284] This Act had been a great demonstration of the ‘Liberales’, and they were desirous of punishing certain canons and bishops who had refused to read it publicly in their cathedrals; an odd parallel to the case of James II and the Seven Bishops in English history.
[285] Including the presentation of a thundering letter from the British Prince-Regent: see H. Wellesley to Wellington, July 28, Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 160 and ibid., p. 188.