[719] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. pp. 18-19, June 23.
[720] Ibid., p. 20.
[721] Supplementary Dispatches, viii. p. 22.
[722] Wellington to Murray, July 1, Dispatches, x. p. 487.
[723] Dispatches, x. p. 495, to Lord Bathurst, July 2.
[724] To the same, Dispatches, x. p. 496.
[725] To O’Donoju, Minister of War, Dispatches, x. pp. 492-3; to Castaños, x. p. 475; to Lord Bathurst, x. pp. 473-4.
[726] ‘We and the powers of Europe are interested in the success of the War in the Peninsula. But the creatures who govern at Cadiz appear to feel no such interest. All that they care about really is the praise of their foolish Constitution.... As long as Spain shall be governed by the Cortes, acting upon Republican principles, we cannot hope for any permanent amelioration.’ Dispatches, x. p. 474, Wellington to Bathurst, June 29.
[727] Wellington to Henry Wellesley, Dispatches, x. p. 491.
[728] Dispatches, x. pp. 523-4.