Last efforts of the besieged 190 D. Pedro Maria Ric goes out to treat with Marshal Lasnes 192 Capitulation 194 Farther conditions asked, and refused 196 Conduct of the French 198 Treatment of the prisoners 198 Palafox compelled by threats of death to sign orders for delivering up four fortresses 201 He is sent into France 202 Demands of the French 203 Lasnes makes his entrance 204 Baseness of the suffragan bishop 204 Language of the French upon their triumph 206 Decree of the Central Junta 206 Address to the nation 208 Honours decreed to the inhabitants of Zaragoza 211 Falsehoods of the French government 212 CHAPTER XIX. Portugal threatened by the French 214 Preparations of the English for evacuating Lisbon 214 Address of the Portugueze Regency to the nation 215 State of public feeling at Lisbon 216 Marshal Soult ordered to enter Portugal from Galicia 218 Difficulty of providing for the French army 219 His confidence of success 220 Combined plans of the French 220 Vigo and Tuy occupied by the French 221 Preparations for crossing the Minho below Tuy 221 Failure of the attempt 223 Soult marches by way of Orense 223 Romana rouses the Galicians 224 Opinion of his strength 225 Villages burnt by the French 226 Intended plan of co-operation between Romana and Silveira 226 Difference between Marshals Soult and Ney 227 Rout of Romana’s army 228 The French remove their sick and wounded to Monterrey 229 Situation of Chaves 230 Silveira retires from Chaves 231 Some mutinous officers resolve to defend it 232 Surrender of Chaves 232