mated infused itself into his officers and his army; nor was it without favourable influence upon his allies. As the contest warmed, the whole country seemed to recover something of its ancient spirit under the guardian genius of a single man. Even Lisbon looked less like a city of merchants than a military school; and when the garrison was called away to the army, its towers and strongholds were defended by British marines; and others assisted in working the guns in the batteries. The banks of the Tagus along the British right were flanked by armed launches, and seven sloops of war were cruising; and on another side a double line of fortifications, mounted with heavy artillery, and manned by a body of 3000 seamen, presented an impregnable front to the enemy. Yet at this period the ominous voice of the Opposition in England was heard devoting Lisbon itself to approaching destruction. "The campaign," it said, “would be renewed in February with such an accumulation of force on the part of the enemy, as must make even the protection of Lisbon hopeless, much less the deliverance of the Peninsula."

END OF VOL. I.

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.