The King arrived at Lisbon on Thursday, and was received
by King Carlos and his people with a cordiality which was in no way merely ceremonial, but of the heartiest kind. On the quay where King Edward landed are to be seen the fallen marble columns which form the fitting memorial for that most appalling of human catastrophes,—the great earthquake of 1755. But on Thurs- day we do not doubt that the historic associations which were uppermost both in the minds of the visitors and their hosts were those of the Peninsular War, when Lisbon was always full of British officers and soldiers, and when the Tagus was never without British battleships. Never, perhaps, in history has a friendly foreign nation been so familiar with a uniform not its own as was Portugal with our " red-coats " during the struggle with Napoleon.
