FOOTNOTES
[1] The importance which was at that time attached to it led the Archbishop Pierre de Marca to remark cujus momenti sit Dartosa in bello Hispaniensi; quæ cum sita sit in trajectu Iberi, latam aperit viam ad faciendam irruptionem in reliquas Hispaniarum regiones, unde ex hujus urbis deditione ingens Maurorum Sarracenorumque metus. Marca Hispanica, 294.
[2] On the one side La España reconocida a la intrepidez Britanica, on the other Alianza eterna.
[3] They gave four dollars for the measure of rice (for example), which at Port Mahon would have produced only half a dollar.
[4] When this practice was discovered, and some of them searched in consequence, a mortar was found in one of them. These boats had forfeited all claim to indulgence, in the first year of the war, when they boarded a British prize, and carried her in.
[5] Se preciaba de buen tirador, y se divertia en esto. Diario de Tortosa.
[6] Major Von Staffe (340–2) dates this affair in November, instead of the following month. If there could be any doubt between his authority and that of Eroles’s dispatch, this circumstance would determine it.
[7] No era imaginable frustrase mis calculos, atendida la circumspeccion con que se formaron, la exactitud de los datos, y el valor de la tropas; pero casualidades funestas, que no pueden entrar en la prevision de un gefe superior, que fia una parte de sus esperanzas á la suerte, y á manos subalternos, hicieron inutiles mis tareas. Thus he expresses himself in his official dispatch.
[8] The French officers, who went on board the frigate after this affair to propose an exchange, walked along the main deck, where some of the wounded were lying between the guns for the sake of the air, and with a spirit perfectly worthy of the cause in which they were engaged, and the character they had acquired in it, asked them insultingly when they would be pleased to pay them another visit on shore!
[9] No account (as far as I can discover) of this disgraceful action was published by the Spanish Government. There was no longer the same magnanimity in relating its misfortunes as in the days of the Central Junta.