[296] See Wellington Dispatches, x. p. 88 and ix. p. 615.
[297] See Wellington to Forjaz, Dispatches, ix. p. 353.
[298] See Wellington to Bathurst, ibid., ix. pp. 461-2.
[299] Wellington to the Prince-Regent of Portugal, Dispatches, x. pp. 284-7.
[300] Wellington to Stuart, ibid., x. pp. 342, &c.
[301] See Meneval’s Mémoires, iii. p. 317.
[302] It was generally known in London next day. See Sir G. Jackson’s Memoirs, iii. p. 447.
[303] Liverpool to Wellington. Supplementary Dispatches, vii. pp. 502-3.
[304] Lord Liverpool doubted whether Prussia or Austria would move. Prussia might stir, if only she was sure that Austria would support her. But ‘the councils of Vienna at this time are abject.’
[305] Though on February 17 Wellington heard of the departure northward of the 7th (Polish) Lancers, and some squadrons of Gendarmerie belonging to the Army of the North. But this was too small a move to serve as the base of a deduction. Dispatches, x. p. 125.