[Footnote 119:  The baggage and part of the servants were sent by sea to Gibraltar.]

[Footnote 120:  “This sort of passage,” says Mr. Hodgson, in a note on his copy of this letter, “constantly occurs in his correspondence.  Nor was his interest confined to mere remembrances and enquiries after health.  Were it possible to state all he has done for numerous friends, he would appear amiable indeed.  For myself, I am bound to acknowledge, in the fullest and warmest manner, his most generous and well-timed aid; and, were my poor friend Bland alive, he would as gladly bear the like testimony;—­though I have most reason, of all men, to do so.”]

[Footnote 121:  The filthiness of Lisbon and its inhabitants.]

[Footnote 122:  Colonel Napier, in a note in his able History of the Peninsular War, notices the mistake into which Lord Byron and others were led on this subject;—­the signature of the Convention, as well as all the other proceedings connected with it, having taken place at a distance of thirty miles from Cintra.]

[Footnote 123:  We find an allusion to this incident in Don Juan:—­

    “’Tis pleasing to be school’d in a strange tongue
      By female lips and eyes—­that is, I mean,
    When both the teacher and the taught are young,
      As was the case, at least, where I have been,” &c. &c.
]

[Footnote 124:  The postscript to this letter is as follows:—­

P.S.  “So Lord G. is married to a rustic!  Well done!  If I wed, I will bring you home a sultana, with half a dozen cities for a dowry, and reconcile you to an Ottoman daughter-in-law with a bushel of pearls, not larger than ostrich eggs, or smaller than walnuts.”]

[Footnote 125:  The following stanzas from this little poem have a music in them, which, independently of all meaning, is enchanting:—­

    “And since I now remember thee
      In darkness and in dread,
    As in those hours of revelry,
      Which mirth and music sped;

    “Do thou, amidst the fair white walls,
      If Cadiz yet be free,
    At times, from out her latticed halls,
      Look o’er the dark blue sea;

    “Then think upon Calypso’s isles,
      Endear’d by days gone by;
    To others give a thousand smiles,
      To me a single sigh,” &c. &c.
]

[Footnote 126:  The following is Mr. Hobhouse’s loss embellished description of this scene;—­“The court at Tepellene, which was enclosed on two sides by the palace, and on the other two sides by a high wall, presented us, at our first entrance, with a sight something like what we might have, perhaps, beheld some hundred years ago in the castle-yard of a great feudal lord.  Soldiers, with their arms piled against the wall near them, were assembled in different parts of the square:  some of them pacing slowly backwards and forwards, and others sitting on the ground in groups.  Several horses, completely