heat of the action. This success
would probably have been attended with more, if circumstances, that
could not well be expected, had not retarded the march of sixteen
Portuguese battalions, and three regiments of cavalry.' [Old Newspapers
(in _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1762, p, 443).]

"Upon which--upon which, in fact, the War had to end. Rainy weather
came, deluges of rain; Burgoyne, with or without the sixteen battalions
of Portuguese, kept the grip he had. Valencia d'Alcantara and its
Magazine a settled business, roads round gone all to mire,--this Third
Division, and with it the 42,000 in general, finding they had nothing
to live upon, went their ways again." NOTE, The Burgoyne, who begins
in this pretty way at Valencia d'Alcantara, is the same who ended
so dismally at Saratoga, within twenty years:--perhaps, with other
War-Offices, and training himself in something suitabler than
Parliamentary Eloquence, he might have become a kind of General, and
have ended far otherwise than there?--

"Such was the credit account on Carlos's side: By gratuitous assault
on Portugal, which had done him no offence; result zero, and pay your
expenses. On the English, or PER CONTRA side, again, there were these
three items, two of them specifically on Carlos: FIRST, Martinique
captured from the French this Spring (finished 4th February, 1762):
[_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1762, p. 127.]--was to have been done in any
case, Guadaloupe and it being both on Pitt's books for some time, and
only Guadaloupe yet got. SECONDLY, King Carlos, for Family Compact and
fruitless attempt at burglary on an unoffending neighbor, Debtor: 1. To
Loss of the Havana (6th June-13th August, 1762), [Ib. pp. 408-459, &c.]
which might easily have issued in loss of all his West Indies together,
and total abolition of the Pope's meridian in that Western Hemisphere;
and 2. To Loss of Manilla, with his Philippine Islands (23d
September-6th October, 1762), [_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1762, xxxiii.
171-177.] which was abolition of it in the Eastern. After which, happily
for Carlos, Peace came,--Peace, and no Pitt to be severe upon his Indies
and him. Carlos's War of ten months had stood him uncommonly high."

All these things the English Public, considerably sullen about the
Cabinet-Council event of October 3d, ascribed to the real owner of
them. The Public said: "These are, all of them, Pitt's bolts, not
yours,--launched, or lying ready for launching, from that Oly