51G ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



your commerce, paralyzed your 

 industry, for the sole purpose of 

 sending into your country articles 

 of her own manufacture, and 

 making you lier tributaries. What 

 does she do at present, that you 

 should embrace the unjust cause 

 which has roused the whole of the 

 continent against her? Slie de- 

 ceives you respecting the issue of 

 a campaign in which she seems de- 

 termined to incur no risk. She 

 puts your battalions in advance, 

 as if your blood was to reckon for 

 nothing. She is prepared to 

 abandon you when it will suit her 

 interest, however disastrous the 

 consequences may be to you; and, 

 to complete your misfortunes, and 

 her insatiable ambition, she sends 

 her ships into your ports to trans- 

 port to her colonies such of you 

 as may escape from the dangers to 

 which she has exposed you on the 

 continent. Does not the conduct 

 of her army l^efore Ciudad Rod- 

 rigo sufficiently explain to you 

 what you are to expect from such 

 allies? Did they not encourage 

 the garrison and the unfortunate 

 inhabitants of that fortress, by 

 deceitful promises; and did they 

 discharge a single musket to assist 

 them ? Again : lately have they 

 placed any of their troops in Al- 

 meida, except a commander, who 

 is put there to invite you to as ill- 

 judged a resistance as that of Ciu- 

 dad Rodrigo ! What ! is it not an 

 insult to place one Englishman in 

 thescaleagainstGOOOofyour coun- 

 trymen? Portuguese! be no longer 

 deceived. Thepowerful sovereign, 

 whose laws, strength, and genius, 

 receive the grateful praises of so 

 many nations, wishes to establish 

 your prosperity. Put yourselves 

 under his protection. Receive his 

 troops like friends, and you will 



find security both for your persons 

 and property. You are not igno- 

 rant of the miseries of war ; you 

 know that they extend to every 

 thing that is most dear to you, — 

 your children, relatives, friends, 

 property, private and political lives. 

 Come to a determination, then, 

 that will secure to you all the ad- 

 vantages of peace. Remain quiet 

 in your habitations ; attend to 

 your domestic affairs, and consider 

 those only your enemies who ex- 

 cite you to a war, by every event 

 of which your country must suffer. 

 The Marshal Prince of Essling, 

 commander in chief of the ar- 

 my of Portugal. Massena. 



Ciudad Rodrigo, Aug, 1, 1810. 



3. Lord Wellins'ton's Proclama- 

 lion to the Portuguese. 



Lord Viscount Wellington, 

 marshal general, &c. 



The time which has elapsed 

 during which the enemy has re- 

 mained on the frontiers of Portu- 

 gal, must have proved to the Por- 

 tuguese nation what they have to 

 expect from the French, The in- 

 habitants of some villages have 

 remained in them, confiding in 

 the promises of the enemy, and 

 hoping that, by treating the ene- 

 mies of their country well, they 

 might conciliate and mollify them, 

 and inspire them with humane 

 sentiments: that their property 

 would be respected, their females 

 preserved from brutal violation, 

 and their lives secured. Vain 

 hopes ! The inhabitants of these 

 submissive places have suffered 

 all the evils which a cruel enemy 

 could inflict ; their property has 

 been plundered, their habitations 



