It rested on the shoulders of an amiable man who was better suited to the ease of Naples than to the Herculean toils of Madrid.

Napoleon now saw the magnitude of his error.

On July 1st he bade Soult leave Dresden at once for Paris.

There he was to call on Clarke, with him repair to Cambaceres; and, as Lieutenant-General, take steps to re-establish the Emperor's affairs in Spain.

A Regency was to govern in place of Joseph, who was ordered to remain, according to the state of affairs, either at Burgos( !) or St.Sebastian or Bayonne.
"All the follies in Spain" (he wrote to Cambaceres on that day) "are due to the mistaken consideration I have shown the King, who not only does not know how to command, but does not even know his own value enough to leave the military command alone." And to Savary he wrote two days later: "It is hard to imagine anything so inconceivable as what is now going on in Spain.