[315] The British expedition to Copenhagen in September 1807, which resulted in the seizure of the Danish fleet and the bombardment of that city. Canning had private information of the secret clauses of the Treaty between Napoleon and Alexander at Tilsit. His refusal to produce papers which would incidentally have brought his secret agent to light, coupled with what they considered his shabby behaviour in joining the Tory Government, caused him much odium amongst the Whigs. [316] Milnes? [317] Mr. R. Campbell came over in the _Revenge_, man-of-war, with the deputies who had arrived to ask for English assistance against the French. Napoleon invaded Spain late in 1807, and set up his brother Joseph on the throne. This was too much for the _amour propre_ of the Spaniards; they rose in arms, and in every town occupied by the invader outbreaks of the most ferocious description took place. [318] Solano was Governor of Cadiz. The French fleet consisted of five ships of the line and one frigate, which had escaped to that port after Trafalgar, and had lain there ever since. They were forced to surrender a fortnight later to the Spaniards, as they were unable to leave the harbour on account of Lord Collingwood’s fleet, which was waiting for them outside. [319] Don Gonzalo O’Farrill (1754–1831), Spanish General, who sided with Joseph Bonaparte, and became his War Minister. [320] At Madrid on May 2 Murat put a large number of people to death without trial for supposed participation in riots which had taken place there that day. [321] The French General, Count Pierre Dupont, who was in command of the French forces in Andalusia. He was defeated by Castaños at Baylen in July 1808, and forced to lay down his arms with 18,000 men. [322] The Duke of Infantado was implicated, as Lady Holland relates, in the supposed plot of Ferdinand, Prince of the Asturias, against his father, Charles IV, in October 1807. The whole conspiracy was looked upon in many quarters as a device of Godoy’s to ruin his rival Escoiquiz. The Duke accompanied Ferdinand to Bayonne the following April, and after his master’s deposition offered his services to Joseph Bonaparte. On the first favourable occasion, however, he turned against him and was given a Spanish command. [323] The picture was painted in 1763, and is now at Mount Stuart, Lord Bute’s residence in the Isle of Bute. [324] Second daughter of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, and sister of Charlotte, fourth Duchess of Richmond. [325] At Baylen. [326] Afterwards better known as Count Torreno. He was a member of the first Cortes at Cadiz, and had to leave Spain at Ferdinand’s return. He lived in Paris until 1820, when he came back to Spain. [327] Manuel Freyne (1765–1834), general, who served with distinction throughout the war. He refused employment under Ferdinand. [328] From Spain, where he went as Ambassador early in 1809. He succeeded Canning as Foreign Secretary.