Note 317 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 5)
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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.