_Gentleman's Magazine_
for 1762, xxxii. 205, 321, 411).] So that there is English reinforcement
got ready, men, money; an English General, Lord Tyrawley, General
and Ambassador; with a 5 or 6,000 horse and foot, and many volunteer
officers besides, for the Portuguese behoof. [List of all this in
Beatson, ii. 491, iii. 323;--"did not get to sea till 12th May,
1762" (_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1762, p. 239).] In short, every
encouragement to poor Portugal: 'Pull, and we will help you by tracing.'

"The poor Portuguese pulled very badly: were disgusting to Tyrawley, he
to them; and cried passionately, 'Get us another General;'--upon which,
by some wise person's counsel, that singular Artillery Gentleman, the
Graf von der Lippe Buckeburg, who gave the dinner in his Tent with
cannon firing at the pole of it, was appointed; and Tyrawley came home
in a huff. [Varnhagen van Ense, GRAF WILHELM ZUR LIPPE (Berlin,
1845), in _Vermischte Schriften,_ i. 1-118: pp. 33-54, his Portuguese
operations.] Which was probably a favorable circumstance. Buckeburg
understands War, whether Tyrawley do or not. Duke Ferdinand has
agreed to dispense with his Ordnance-Master; nay I have heard the
Ordnance-Master, a man of sharp speech on occasion, was as good as
idle; and had gone home to Buckeburg, this Winter: indignant at the many
imperfections he saw, and perhaps too frankly expressing that feeling
now and then. What he thought of the Portuguese Army in comparison
is not on record; but, may be judged of by this circumstance, That on
dining with the chief Portuguese military man, he found his Portuguese
captains and lieutenants waiting as valets behind the chairs. [VARNHAGEN
(gives no date anywhere).]

"The improvements he made are said to have been many;--and Portuguese
Majesty, in bidding farewell, gave him a park of Miniature Gold Cannon
by way of gracious symbol. But, so far as the facts show, he seems to
have got from his Portuguese Army next to no service whatever: and, but
for the English and the ill weather, would have fared badly against his
French and Spaniards,--42,000 of them, advancing in Three Divisions, by
the Douro and the Tagus, against Oporto and Lisbon.

"His War has only these three dates of event. 1. May 9th, The northmost
of the Three Divisions [ANNUAL REGISTER for 1762, p. 30.] crosses the
Portuguese Frontier on the Douro; summons Miranda, a chief Town of
theirs; takes it, before their first battery is built; takes Braganz