But even, should any one be so insensible as to question this, he will not at all events deny, that the French ought to have been dealt with as having put on a double character.

For surely they never considered themselves merely as an army.

They had dissolved the established authorities of Portugal, and had usurped the civil power of the government; and it was in this compound capacity, under this twofold monstrous shape, that they had exercised, over the religion and property of the country, the most grievous oppressions.

What then remained to protect them but their power ?--Right they had none,--and power! it is a mortifying consideration, but I will ask if Bonaparte, (nor do I mean in the question to imply any thing to his honour,) had been in the place of Sir Hew Dalrymple, what would he have thought of their power ?--Yet before this shadow the solid substance of _justice_ melted away.
And this leads me from the contemplation of their errors in the estimate and application of means, to the contemplation of their heavier errors and worse blindness in regard to ends.

The British Generals acted as if they had no purpose but that the enemy should be removed from the country in which they were, upon _any_ terms.