. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . erJovellanoss leadership gained a firmer position, had put the provincialjuntas within narrower limits, and had concluded a fi)nnnl treaty withEngland (Januarv 14), and although, owing to the liberality with whichthe colonies manifested their patriotism, it found itself unexpectedly inpossession of abundant pecuniary resources, nevertheless the oppositionin its own bosom, between the old absolutist and the reform parties,besides rendering its authority, which was assailed on many sides, moreand more unte
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . erJovellanoss leadership gained a firmer position, had put the provincialjuntas within narrower limits, and had concluded a fi)nnnl treaty withEngland (Januarv 14), and although, owing to the liberality with whichthe colonies manifested their patriotism, it found itself unexpectedly inpossession of abundant pecuniary resources, nevertheless the oppositionin its own bosom, between the old absolutist and the reform parties,besides rendering its authority, which was assailed on many sides, moreand more untenable, made it impossible also to secure an energeticprosecution of the war and any improvement of the indolent andcorrupt administration. Thus the favorable occasion remained unim-proved. While the junta boldly brought forward excessive demandson the liberality of the British cabinet, it still refused it that advan-tage—the relaxation of the monopoly of commerce—which would haveopened in the Spanish colonies a new market to English manufactures, s THE ENGLISH IN SPAIN IN 1S09. 161. Fig. 32— Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Welliugtou. From a coppur-plate engraving by (1769-1842); painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). then excluded from the continent. The Spaniards refused also to allowthe admission of an English garrison into Cadiz, lest this important placeshould be converted into a second Gibraltar. No wonder that in Eng-VoL. XVII.—u 1G2 TUE FALL OF NAPOLEON. land enthusiasm for tlie heroic Spaniards essentially abated, and that theTory ministry in its opposition to the wild uneliaining of popular forcesordered Wellesley to eonfine himself to the defence of Portu<;ai. It istrue ii(! suffered himself to be moved by tlic prayer of the Central Juntato exiend aid to (Jenerul Cuesta in an expedilioii to Estremadura, fromwliich they anticipat<d s])len(li(l results; but when the 2)onipous Sjyaniard,iiofwithstandint;all warnin<:;s of the experienced field-
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