“I am about to proceed on the service on which I have been ordered, and it shall be my endeavour to acquit myself with the same zeal by which I have ever been actuated when employed in the service of my country. The communication which it has been thought proper to make to his majesty cannot fail to give me pleasure; I have the most perfect reliance on his majesty’s justice, and shall never feel greater security than when my conduct, my character, and my honour, are under his majesty’s protection.
“I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
(Signed) “JOHN MOORE.
“To the Right Honourable Viscount Castlereagh.”
[28] Note.—These two words are added in Napoleon’s own hand-writing.
[29] Note by the author.—This calculation was made under the supposition that general Avril had joined Dupont.
[30] On ne comprend pas dans ces celculs les garnisons de Pampelune, St. Sebastien, Vittoria, Tolosa, Bilbao, &c.: il n’est pas question non plus de l’armée de Catalogne.
[31] The extract which follows this letter furnishes a curious comment on this passage.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
In [Note No. XXV] in the Appendix, horizontal parentheses have been replaced by a vertical bar |.