Love for the Prince Regent as a man, mingled with pity for the demented Queen, held the populace of Lisbon in tearful silence as the royal family and courtiers filed along the quays, followed by agonized groups of those who had decided to share their trials.

But silence gave way to wails of despair as the exiles embarked on the heaving estuary and severed the last links with Europe.

Slowly the fleet began to beat down the river in the teeth of an Atlantic gale.

Near the mouth the refugees were received with a royal salute by the British fleet, and under its convoy they breasted the waves of the ocean and the perils of the future.
The conduct of England towards Denmark and that of Napoleon towards Portugal call for a brief comparison.

Those small kingdoms were the victims of two powerful States whose real or fancied interests prompted them to the domination of the land and of the sea.