FOOTNOTES:[103]See,page 229, the proclamation of Louis XVIII to the French people, dated Cambray, the 28th June, 1815.[104]Seelord Bathurst’s dispatch of the 7th July, and the Duke’s answer of the 13th,Gurwood, vol. XII, page 557.[105]Seethe duke of Wellington’s dispatch to lord Bathurst of the 8th July. (Gurwood, vol. XII, page 549,) detailing a conversation which took place with the duc d’Otrante at Neuilly, on the night of the 5th July; the whole of which turned upon a recommendation given by the duc d’Otrante, that the king should give ageneral amnesty.[106]“As well as the duke of Wellington recollects, there is in the war department a letter from the prince d’Eckmühl to marshal St.-Cyr on this subject, in which he urges every argument against the proclamation of the 25th July, excepting the 12th article of the convention of Paris.”[107]Scott.[108]La Haye-Sainte.[109]Seethecovering of this book.[110]Gneisenau was the chief of the Prussian staff. He was at once the life and soul, main-spring and working head of their army.[111]At Leipsick, Napoleon selected his own position, and there he chose a field with a defile over a morass, a mile and a half broad, which probably was the principal cause of his defeat.[112]Several ladies were on the field on the morning of the 19th, going about like ministering angels tending the wounded. How truly in this instance do Scott’s lines picture the soft sex!“O woman! In our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!”[113]Brother to sir John Macdonald, the adjutant-general at the Horse-Guards.[114]I wish I were as positive of every part of my narrative. E.C.
[103]See,page 229, the proclamation of Louis XVIII to the French people, dated Cambray, the 28th June, 1815.
[103]See,page 229, the proclamation of Louis XVIII to the French people, dated Cambray, the 28th June, 1815.
[104]Seelord Bathurst’s dispatch of the 7th July, and the Duke’s answer of the 13th,Gurwood, vol. XII, page 557.
[104]Seelord Bathurst’s dispatch of the 7th July, and the Duke’s answer of the 13th,Gurwood, vol. XII, page 557.
[105]Seethe duke of Wellington’s dispatch to lord Bathurst of the 8th July. (Gurwood, vol. XII, page 549,) detailing a conversation which took place with the duc d’Otrante at Neuilly, on the night of the 5th July; the whole of which turned upon a recommendation given by the duc d’Otrante, that the king should give ageneral amnesty.
[105]Seethe duke of Wellington’s dispatch to lord Bathurst of the 8th July. (Gurwood, vol. XII, page 549,) detailing a conversation which took place with the duc d’Otrante at Neuilly, on the night of the 5th July; the whole of which turned upon a recommendation given by the duc d’Otrante, that the king should give ageneral amnesty.
[106]“As well as the duke of Wellington recollects, there is in the war department a letter from the prince d’Eckmühl to marshal St.-Cyr on this subject, in which he urges every argument against the proclamation of the 25th July, excepting the 12th article of the convention of Paris.”
[106]“As well as the duke of Wellington recollects, there is in the war department a letter from the prince d’Eckmühl to marshal St.-Cyr on this subject, in which he urges every argument against the proclamation of the 25th July, excepting the 12th article of the convention of Paris.”
[107]Scott.
[107]Scott.
[108]La Haye-Sainte.
[108]La Haye-Sainte.
[109]Seethecovering of this book.
[109]Seethecovering of this book.
[110]Gneisenau was the chief of the Prussian staff. He was at once the life and soul, main-spring and working head of their army.
[110]Gneisenau was the chief of the Prussian staff. He was at once the life and soul, main-spring and working head of their army.
[111]At Leipsick, Napoleon selected his own position, and there he chose a field with a defile over a morass, a mile and a half broad, which probably was the principal cause of his defeat.
[111]At Leipsick, Napoleon selected his own position, and there he chose a field with a defile over a morass, a mile and a half broad, which probably was the principal cause of his defeat.
[112]Several ladies were on the field on the morning of the 19th, going about like ministering angels tending the wounded. How truly in this instance do Scott’s lines picture the soft sex!“O woman! In our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!”
[112]Several ladies were on the field on the morning of the 19th, going about like ministering angels tending the wounded. How truly in this instance do Scott’s lines picture the soft sex!
“O woman! In our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!”
“O woman! In our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!”
“O woman! In our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!”
[113]Brother to sir John Macdonald, the adjutant-general at the Horse-Guards.
[113]Brother to sir John Macdonald, the adjutant-general at the Horse-Guards.
[114]I wish I were as positive of every part of my narrative. E.C.
[114]I wish I were as positive of every part of my narrative. E.C.