86 MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 



my was but small, compared with that arising from 

 sickness, the great fatigues of the siege, and the 

 want of refreshment, bringing much disease along 

 with them. 



In the following year, hostilities commenced with 

 Spain, and powerful succours were dispatched to 

 the aid of Portugal. A small garrison being left in 

 Belleisle, the greater part of the troops were con- 

 veyed to the Peninsula, and fresh reinforcements ar- 

 rived from Britain, which enabled the army to cope 

 with their powerful antagonists. The Spaniards, 

 with 8000 French auxiliaries, invaded Portugal at 

 three distinct points simultaneously ; but, after very 

 considerable success, and the capture of many towns, 

 they were repulsed at all points towards the close 

 of the campaign, so that they had not much to eva- 

 cuate at the peace in November of the same year 

 Mr Hunter continued with the army after termina- 

 tion of hostilities, and did not quit it till 1763. 



Few situations could have been more honourable 

 than that filled by Mr Hunter in these campaigns, and 

 few men were ever better qualified to discharge its 

 important duties He brought all his stores of know- 

 Ledge, and all his acute powers of mind, to bear on the 

 (subject, and hia unequalled industry did not flag when 

 engaged in his country's service. The most ample 

 proofs of his zeal, and the success attending it, were 

 subsequently afforded by his career in London by 

 the estimation in which he was ever after held by 

 the Army by the prominence which, in his lee 



