_Lord Castlereagh to general Sherbrooke, January 12._ “Sir John Cradock will be directed to comply with any requisition you make for horses for your guns, or any other species of supply the service may, from time to time, require.” * * * * * No. VI. SECTION I.--MISCELLANEOUS. _Captain Morgan, Lusitanian Legion, to sir J. Cradock, Lisbon, January 19, 1809._ “I left sir R. Wilson very critically situated, occupying a pass on the Agueda. Sir Robert is wholly unsupported; he has been advised by colonel Guard to fall back; and, from his information, he imagines that sir John Moore is withdrawing his troops through Gallicia. On the other hand, he has received _positive orders from you_[9] _to defend the frontiers_, and pressing letters to that effect from the bishop of Oporto.” _Sir J. Cradock to lord Castlereagh, 30th January._ “The regency and the bishop of Oporto are not pleased at his” (sir R. Wilson) “quitting the bounds of Portugal.” _Ditto to Ditto, 6th March._ “I had a letter from sir R. Wilson, from Ciudad Rodrigo (24th February), wherein he says, that many French prisoners state their expectations that the French army will retire behind the Ebro. Sir Robert’s own persuasion is _that the French will retire altogether from Spain_.” SECTION II. _General Cameron to sir J. Cradock, Lamego, January 16._ “I have collected several detachments of recovered men belonging to sir J. Moore’s army, whom I found scattered in all directions, without necessaries, and some of them committing every possible excess that could render the name of a British soldier odious to the nation.” _Sir J. Cradock to admiral Berkely, March 16._ “There are about one hundred and twenty persons confined on board the _Rosina_, whose conduct has rendered them a disgrace to the army.” SECTION III. _Captain Brotherton to sir J. Cradock, Oimbra, Head-Quarters of Romana, February 21._ “The marquis of Romana seems to think that the serious _intention of the enemy is to retreat from Gallicia_ altogether; and even that he will find much difficulty _in extricating himself_. I must confess that _I am not so sanguine_; and I judge that the present retrograde movement from the Minho is more with an intent to advance from Orense on Montalegre, and in this direction.” _Captain Brotherton to sir J. Cradock, March._ “I still believe Romana had intention to fall back on Chaves, and join himself to the Portuguese army. _His troops had been much vexed by the unfriendly conduct of the Portuguese_, and a cordial co-operation was not to be expected; but that he should separate altogether is what I neither could expect nor conceive. He suddenly informed me of his resolution to retreat to Bragança. He had just received a letter from Sylveira, which he also answered to that effect, and which created no small surprise, as a plan of operations had already been settled between them.”