Note 456 — SECTION XXI: CHAPTER III

The authority for this statement is the Portuguese renegade General Pamplona, who served on the Marshal’s staff. See p. 155 of his Aperçu sur les campagnes des Français en Portugal. Pamplona adds that Ney refused to take the present of a large telescope, which Masséna sent him as a propitiatory gift. A less certain authority says that the Marshal caught in the street a plunderer with a barrel of butter, and another with a chest of wax candles, and let them off punishment on condition that they took them to his own quarters! Soriano da Luz, iii. p. 198.