ABSTRACT
First published in the early summer of 1809 as an Appendix to Wordsworth's pamphlet, Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal, to each other, and to the Common Enemy, at this Crisis; and specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra: the whole brought to the test of those Principles, by which alone the Independence and Freedom of Nations can be Preserved or Recovered (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme). The pamphlet, a direct reaction to events in the Peninsular War, is 216 pages long, De Quincey's Postscript comprises the final 10 pages. The latter was not revised or republished during De Quincey's lifetime, though minor departures in detail can be found in Wordsworth's text as a result of the 'variant' copies generated by the extraordinarily perplexed publishing history of Cintra.
