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MEMOIR OF JOHN HUNTER. 
my was Imt small, compareil 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 ye.tr, 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 ; hut, 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. 
IMr 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 Plunter 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 his unequalled industry did not Hag 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 wbich he was ever after held by 
the Army — by the prominence which, in his lec- 
