t was agreed
that the Spanish army should march out over the breach with the
honours of war, they were obliged, after the capitulation, to
make a breach for them to go over, none having been made by the
besiegers. The General, with whom he finds much fault (in the
ninth volume) for disobeying his orders and making false
movements, was Victor Allen, but he said he treated him with
great leniency, and so he did his officers on all occasions, and
was as forbearing and indulgent with them as it was possible to
be.

[20] [Mr. Allen, an accomplished literary inmate of Holland
House, the author of a work on the 'Royal Prerogative,'
and himself an occasional contributor to the 'Edinburgh
Review.']

[21] [The intention of the Government was that if any
accident befell the Duke of Wellington, General Sir
Thomas Graham, afterwards Lord Lynedoch, should take
the command of the British forces in Spain. This
appears from the _Memoir of Lord Lynedoch_, published
in 1880, by Captain Alexander Delavoye.]

[Page Head: THE BATTLE OF SALAMANCA.]

All the movements and operations before the battle of Salamanca
were to the last degree interesting. The Duke was anxiously
waiting for some advantageous occasion to attack Marmont, and at
last it arrived; he saw it happen, and took his resolution on the
spot. He was dining in a farm-yard with his officers, where (when
he had done dinner) everybody else came and dined as they could.
The whole French army was in sight, moving, and the enemy firing
upon the farmyard in which he was dining. 'I got up,' he said,
'and was looking over a wall round the farm-yard, just such a
wall as that' (pointing to a low stone wall bounding the covert),
'and I saw the movement of the French left through my glass. "By
God," said I, "that will do, and I'll attack them directly." I
had moved up the Sixth Division through Salamanca, which the
French were not aware of, and I ordered them to attack, and the
whole line to advance. I had got my army so completely in hand
that I could do this with ease, and in forty minutes the battle
was won--'quarante mille hommes battus en quarante minutes.' I
asked him if it was true that he and Marmont had subsequently
talked over the event of the battle, and that Marmont had
asserted that his orders had been disobeyed, or that this
movement of which the Duke took advantage would not have be