[316] Milnes?
[317] Mr. R. Campbell came over in the Revenge, man-of-war, with the deputies who had arrived to ask for English assistance against the French. Napoleon invaded Spain late in 1807, and set up his brother Joseph on the throne. This was too much for the amour propre of the Spaniards; they rose in arms, and in every town occupied by the invader outbreaks of the most ferocious description took place.
[318] Solano was Governor of Cadiz. The French fleet consisted of five ships of the line and one frigate, which had escaped to that port after Trafalgar, and had lain there ever since. They were forced to surrender a fortnight later to the Spaniards, as they were unable to leave the harbour on account of Lord Collingwood’s fleet, which was waiting for them outside.
[319] Don Gonzalo O’Farrill (1754–1831), Spanish General, who sided with Joseph Bonaparte, and became his War Minister.
[320] At Madrid on May 2 Murat put a large number of people to death without trial for supposed participation in riots which had taken place there that day.
[321] The French General, Count Pierre Dupont, who was in command of the French forces in Andalusia. He was defeated by Castaños at Baylen in July 1808, and forced to lay down his arms with 18,000 men.
[322] The Duke of Infantado was implicated, as Lady Holland relates, in the supposed plot of Ferdinand, Prince of the Asturias, against his father, Charles IV, in October 1807. The whole conspiracy was looked upon in many quarters as a device of Godoy’s to ruin his rival Escoiquiz. The Duke accompanied Ferdinand to Bayonne the following April, and after his master’s deposition offered his services to Joseph Bonaparte. On the first favourable occasion, however, he turned against him and was given a Spanish command.
[323] The picture was painted in 1763, and is now at Mount Stuart, Lord Bute’s residence in the Isle of Bute.
[324] Second daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, and sister of Charlotte, fourth Duchess of Richmond.
[325] At Baylen.