[Footnote 1: Malta.]
[Footnote 2: Captain Lefebure, R.E.]
[Footnote 3: Captain Lefebure, R.E.]
[Footnote 4: The sight of our Westminster Bridge greatly astonished
one of the Sicilian servants on our return to England. “Cospetto,” he
exclaimed, “and they pretend they could not make a bridge over the
Giarreta!”]
[Footnote 5: Not unlike the Portland stone.]
[Footnote 6: “Don’t fire! don’t fire! With the bayonet! with the
bayonet!”]
[Footnote 7: Yesterday I met Sir Sidney Smith upon the field, and he
asked me to dinner on board.]
[Footnote 8: Calabria.]
[Footnote 9: Captain Lefebure, R.E.]
[Footnote 10: Captain Lefebure was killed at the assault on Matagorda,
near Cadiz, in 1810.]
[Footnote 11: I saw these despatches.--CHARLES BOOTHBY.]
[Footnote 12: Lieutenant Edward Gould, a great friend.]
[Footnote 13: Augusta, on the east coast of Sicily.]
[Footnote 14: Lieutenant Edward Gould, R.E.]
[Footnote 15: It may interest the reader to know that the Sir Brooke
Boothby here mentioned was the father of Penelope Boothby (whose
portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds is so well known). She was his only
child, and died when six years old, in the year 1791.]
[Footnote 16: Gustavus IV.]
[Footnote 17: This hasty summons meant that he was to proceed at once
_via_ Ystad and Helsingborg to England to rejoin Sir John Moore.]
[Footnote 18: The editor has seen precisely the same effect before
sunrise in Scotland, over the Ochils near Crieff.]
[Footnote 19: Sir Henry Dalrymple.]
[Footnote 20: The horse recently purchased.]
[Footnote 21: Afterwards General Sir John Burgoyne.]
[Footnote 22: A few miles south of Sanagun.]
[Footnote 23: Mulcaster.]
[Footnote 24: Guard or watchman.]
[Footnote 25: Appendix.]
[Footnote 26: It was by his father’s desire that Captain Charles
Boothby entered the Army instead of preparing for Holy Orders, and this
intensified the anguish in parting with his son throughout the war, as
was often stated by Captain C. Boothby in later years.]
[Footnote 27: Said to be the proudest man in France.]
[Footnote 28: See Appendix.]
[Footnote 29: The continuation of the Journals of Captain Charles
Boothby will be found in _A Prisoner of France_, already published by
Messrs. A. and C. Black.]
[Footnote 30: Written to a French General at Reggio.]
[Footnote 31: Written off the coast of Sweden.]
[Footnote 32: Extract from the _Narrative of the Campaign of the
British Army in Spain Commanded by His Excellency General Sir John
Moore, K.B._, etc., etc., etc. By James Moore, Esq. Published 1809.]
[Footnote 33: French army over 20,000.]
[Footnote 34: British army about 15,000.]
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