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Annual Register, vol. xlix., p. 779.

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For copies of the several Orders in Council, see Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, vol. x., p. 126, and Annual Register, vol. xlix., pp. 745, 746, 754.

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Las Cases, tom. iii., p. 220.

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From the rank of a simple gentleman of the royal guards, Godoy had, through the Queen's influence, been raised to the highest dignities. "There was no jealousy in the Queen's attachment to this minion; she gave him one of the royal family in marriage, but the private life of the favourite continued to be as infamous as the means whereby he had risen. It is said, that there was no way so certain to obtain promotion, as by pandering to his vices; and that wives, sisters, and daughters were offered him as the price of preferment, in a manner more shameful than had ever before been witnessed in a Christian country." – Southey, History of the Peninsular War, vol. i., p. 79.

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De Pradt, Mémoires sur la Révolution d'Espagne, p. 15.

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Southey, vol. i., p. 87.

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This treaty, together with a convention dependent on it, was signed the 27th, and ratified by Napoleon on the 29th of October.

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Las Cases, tom. iv., p. 347.

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Proclamation from Alcantara, Nov. 17.

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"As if they had been desirous of provoking the Portuguese to some act of violence which might serve as a pretext for carrying into effect the threats which Junot had denounced, they burnt or mutilated the images in the churches, and threw the wafer to be trodden under foot." – Neves, Historia de la Guerra contra Nap., tom. i., p. 196.

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"Not a regiment, not a battalion, not even a company, arrived entire; many of them were beardless boys, and they came in so pitiable a condition, as literally to excite compassion; foot-sored, bemired and wet, ragged, and hungered, and diseased." – Neves, tom. i., p. 213.

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"Her family was from Corsica, and resided in the neighbourhood of mine; they were under great obligations to my mother, not merely for her benevolence towards them, but for services of a more positive nature." – Napoleon, Las Cases, tom. iv., p. 349.

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"The House of Braganza has ceased to reign in Portugal, and the Emperor Napoleon wills that this fine country shall be governed entirely in his name, by the general-in-chief of his army."

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The edict imposing this contribution was dated from Milan, Dec. 23.

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Southey, vol. i., p. 155.

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"Fallen from his dreams of royalty, and trembling for his life, he was ready to make any sacrifice which might procure him the protection of France." – Neves, tom. i., p. 313.

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And author of an heroic poem on the Conquest of Mexico.

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Las Cases, tom. iv., p. 198; Southey, vol. i., p. 188; Savary, tom. ii., p. 144.

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"So far from being opposed to it, M. de Talleyrand even advised it. It was he who dictated all the preliminary steps, and it was with the view of promptly carrying the measure into effect, that he so urgently pressed the conclusion of peace at Tilsit. He was the first who thought of the Spanish expedition; he laid the springs which it was necessary to bring into play to complete the work." —Mémoires de Savary, tom. ii., p. 139.

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Mémoires de Fouché, tom. i., p. 313.

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"I am sure of Alexander, who is very sincere. I now exercise over him a kind of charm, independently of the guarantee offered me by those about him, of whom I am equally certain." – Fouché, tom. i., p. 315.

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Memoir of the Queen of Etruria, p. 70; Southey, vol. i., p. 193.

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Southey, vol. i., p. 196.

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Southey, vol. i., p. 201.

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"Maria Louisa," said Charles to the Queen, in the presence of Cevallos and of all the other ministers of state, "we will retire to one of the provinces, and Ferdinand, who is a young man, will take upon himself the burden of the government." – Southey, vol. i., p. 206.

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