[265] Cf. Thiébault, Napier, and some curious details given in the _Annual Register_ for 1808, with Proby and Beresford’s Report. [266] For previous acts and plans of this shameless person see Thiébault, iv. 151-3. [267] Report of General Beresford and Lord Proby to Sir Hew Dalrymple after the evacuation. It was no wonder that the resentment of the Portuguese was so great that the last French who embarked could only get away under the protection of British bayonets, and that many of those who straggled or lingered too long in remote corners of the town lost their lives. The wild fury of the Lisbon mob surprised the British officers who were charged with the embarkation[268]: they knew little of what had been going on in the capital for the last nine months, and could not understand the mad rage displayed against the garrison. [268] For the tumults and murders at the embarkation see Col. Leslie’s _Military Journal_, pp. 66-76, and Col. Wilkie’s _English in Spain_, p. 16. But finally the last French bayonet disappeared from the streets of Lisbon, and the populace, with no object left on which to vent their fury, turned to illuminations, feasts, and the childish delights of fireworks. They did not show themselves ungrateful to the army of liberation; all the British officers who have described the first weeks after the evacuation of Lisbon, bear witness to the enthusiasm with which they were received, and the good feeling displayed by their allies[269]. It was only in the highest Portuguese quarters that dissatisfaction was rampant: the Bishop of Oporto, General Freire, and the Monteiro Mor, had all suffered what they considered an insult, when their consent was not asked to the Convention of Cintra, and made no secret of their anger against Dalrymple. But it does not seem that their feelings affected any large section of the people. [269] See Col. Steevens’ _Reminiscences_, pp. 54, 55; Col. Wilkie, p. 14; Col. Leslie, pp. 65, 66.