FOOTNOTES1The Chaplain-General Gleig has in one of his publications contradicted this fact, on the authority of a German Chelsea-pensioner, who affirms, according to Mr. Gleig, that it was he who awakened Sir Arthur, and that he was cool and collected. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who assured me that it was not only a German officer, but a titled one; a Baron; and that he was anything but cool or collected. The name had escaped his memory at the time, but he made frequent attempts to recover it, and said several times that he was a Baron. The two authorities may be weighed by those who are fastidious.2General Brennier published a denial of this fact; but it may well be imagined that a short sentence uttered at such a moment by a prisoner wounded and highly excited, would escape his recollection. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who not only caught the words at the time, and questioned the other prisoners as to their value, but drew from them a conclusion on which to rest a great counter movement.3Now Marquis of Londonderry.4Lieut.-General Sir Loftus Otway.5Marquis of Anglesey.6The present Lord Hardinge.7A writer, or rather writers in theQuarterly Review, for there were two of them, indulging in the graceless effrontery of assertion so common with anonymous critics, treated these reasons for halting with ridicule, calling them imaginary, and affirming that they were unknown to the General-in-Chief! My authority however was that very General-in-Chief. The Duke of Wellington not only gave me verbally a description of his motives and proceedings on this occasion, but supplied me with written notes, from which and from a memoir received from Marshal Soult, and information derived from Colonel Waters and other officers engaged, my narrative was composed.8My authority for this colloquy is a written communication from Marshal Jourdan.9In a recent work upon the war in Algeria, written by General Yusuf, a French Zoave, evidently a man of great military talent, a march of sixty miles in twenty-six hours by a French detachment is recorded, and by an English writer has been compared with this of the light division. But the French soldier does not carry more than two-thirds of the weight an English soldier carries, and Yusuf does not say how many stragglers there were; moreover the light division had previously made a march of twenty miles with only a few hours to rest, or rather to wash and cook: their real march was therefore eighty-two miles.10Now Sir Charles Rowan, Metropolitan Police.11This altercation, though public and known to the whole division, has been ridiculously denied by the writer of Picton’s life.12For this anecdote my authority was Colonel D’Esmenard, Ney’s first aide-de-camp, the officer employed. He said Massena was in bed, and spoke to him through the door.13This forcible expression, now become common, is generally supposed to be an original saying of the late Lord Melbourne; but it is not so. It was first employed by the Spanish government in a manifesto, to characterise the battle of Baylen, and Lord Melbourne adopted it without acknowledging its source.14Lord Lynedoch.15Now Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. M‘Lean.16General Sir A. Barnard.17Lieut.-General Brotherton.18Lord Londonderry.19Now Lord Seaton.20All Phillipon’s views and preparations are taken from his original journal of siege in manuscript.21Now Lieut.-General Sir C. Smith.22Now Lord Gough.23General Sir G. Napier.24Now Major-General Shaw Kennedy. Captain Nicholas when dying, told the story of this effort, adding that he saw Shaw, while thus standing alone, deliberately pull out his watch and repeating the hour aloud declare that the breach could not be carried that night.25Now Serjeant-major at the Tower.26For this council of war, and the opinions, I have the personal authority of Marshal Jourdan.27For the Duke’s secret views here I have his own authority.28The details of this curious event were told to me by the Duke of Wellington.29The conception and execution of this movement has been repeatedly given to Picton. Erroneously so. My authority is the Duke of Wellington.30Now Sir W. Reid, Governor of Malta.31Now Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimea.32For this fact Marshal Soult is my authority.33In my original work, misled by false information, I said the soldiers of the 92nd were all Irish: but their Colonel, McDonald, afterwards gave me irrefragable proof, by a list of names, that they were Scotchmen.34All these conjectures and proceedings are given on the Duke’s personal authority.35For this fact I had the authority of a French colonel of artillery.36The facts as here stated were supplied to me by the Duke of Wellington.37Memoirs of Captain, now Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, Gentleman-at-Arms.38Colonel Havelock, since killed in the Punjaub at the head of the 14th Dragoons.39This plan and the reasons for it are taken from MS. notes written by the Duke of Wellington in reply to my inquiries.40Soult has been foully and falsely accused of fighting at Toulouse, knowing that the war was over, and the slander was repeated by Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lords, when the Marshal was minister in France. The Duke of Wellington, with a generous warmth, instantly rose and truly declared that Soult did not know, and it was impossible he could know, of the Emperor’s abdication when he fought the battle.
FOOTNOTES1The Chaplain-General Gleig has in one of his publications contradicted this fact, on the authority of a German Chelsea-pensioner, who affirms, according to Mr. Gleig, that it was he who awakened Sir Arthur, and that he was cool and collected. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who assured me that it was not only a German officer, but a titled one; a Baron; and that he was anything but cool or collected. The name had escaped his memory at the time, but he made frequent attempts to recover it, and said several times that he was a Baron. The two authorities may be weighed by those who are fastidious.2General Brennier published a denial of this fact; but it may well be imagined that a short sentence uttered at such a moment by a prisoner wounded and highly excited, would escape his recollection. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who not only caught the words at the time, and questioned the other prisoners as to their value, but drew from them a conclusion on which to rest a great counter movement.3Now Marquis of Londonderry.4Lieut.-General Sir Loftus Otway.5Marquis of Anglesey.6The present Lord Hardinge.7A writer, or rather writers in theQuarterly Review, for there were two of them, indulging in the graceless effrontery of assertion so common with anonymous critics, treated these reasons for halting with ridicule, calling them imaginary, and affirming that they were unknown to the General-in-Chief! My authority however was that very General-in-Chief. The Duke of Wellington not only gave me verbally a description of his motives and proceedings on this occasion, but supplied me with written notes, from which and from a memoir received from Marshal Soult, and information derived from Colonel Waters and other officers engaged, my narrative was composed.8My authority for this colloquy is a written communication from Marshal Jourdan.9In a recent work upon the war in Algeria, written by General Yusuf, a French Zoave, evidently a man of great military talent, a march of sixty miles in twenty-six hours by a French detachment is recorded, and by an English writer has been compared with this of the light division. But the French soldier does not carry more than two-thirds of the weight an English soldier carries, and Yusuf does not say how many stragglers there were; moreover the light division had previously made a march of twenty miles with only a few hours to rest, or rather to wash and cook: their real march was therefore eighty-two miles.10Now Sir Charles Rowan, Metropolitan Police.11This altercation, though public and known to the whole division, has been ridiculously denied by the writer of Picton’s life.12For this anecdote my authority was Colonel D’Esmenard, Ney’s first aide-de-camp, the officer employed. He said Massena was in bed, and spoke to him through the door.13This forcible expression, now become common, is generally supposed to be an original saying of the late Lord Melbourne; but it is not so. It was first employed by the Spanish government in a manifesto, to characterise the battle of Baylen, and Lord Melbourne adopted it without acknowledging its source.14Lord Lynedoch.15Now Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. M‘Lean.16General Sir A. Barnard.17Lieut.-General Brotherton.18Lord Londonderry.19Now Lord Seaton.20All Phillipon’s views and preparations are taken from his original journal of siege in manuscript.21Now Lieut.-General Sir C. Smith.22Now Lord Gough.23General Sir G. Napier.24Now Major-General Shaw Kennedy. Captain Nicholas when dying, told the story of this effort, adding that he saw Shaw, while thus standing alone, deliberately pull out his watch and repeating the hour aloud declare that the breach could not be carried that night.25Now Serjeant-major at the Tower.26For this council of war, and the opinions, I have the personal authority of Marshal Jourdan.27For the Duke’s secret views here I have his own authority.28The details of this curious event were told to me by the Duke of Wellington.29The conception and execution of this movement has been repeatedly given to Picton. Erroneously so. My authority is the Duke of Wellington.30Now Sir W. Reid, Governor of Malta.31Now Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimea.32For this fact Marshal Soult is my authority.33In my original work, misled by false information, I said the soldiers of the 92nd were all Irish: but their Colonel, McDonald, afterwards gave me irrefragable proof, by a list of names, that they were Scotchmen.34All these conjectures and proceedings are given on the Duke’s personal authority.35For this fact I had the authority of a French colonel of artillery.36The facts as here stated were supplied to me by the Duke of Wellington.37Memoirs of Captain, now Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, Gentleman-at-Arms.38Colonel Havelock, since killed in the Punjaub at the head of the 14th Dragoons.39This plan and the reasons for it are taken from MS. notes written by the Duke of Wellington in reply to my inquiries.40Soult has been foully and falsely accused of fighting at Toulouse, knowing that the war was over, and the slander was repeated by Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lords, when the Marshal was minister in France. The Duke of Wellington, with a generous warmth, instantly rose and truly declared that Soult did not know, and it was impossible he could know, of the Emperor’s abdication when he fought the battle.
1The Chaplain-General Gleig has in one of his publications contradicted this fact, on the authority of a German Chelsea-pensioner, who affirms, according to Mr. Gleig, that it was he who awakened Sir Arthur, and that he was cool and collected. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who assured me that it was not only a German officer, but a titled one; a Baron; and that he was anything but cool or collected. The name had escaped his memory at the time, but he made frequent attempts to recover it, and said several times that he was a Baron. The two authorities may be weighed by those who are fastidious.
1The Chaplain-General Gleig has in one of his publications contradicted this fact, on the authority of a German Chelsea-pensioner, who affirms, according to Mr. Gleig, that it was he who awakened Sir Arthur, and that he was cool and collected. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who assured me that it was not only a German officer, but a titled one; a Baron; and that he was anything but cool or collected. The name had escaped his memory at the time, but he made frequent attempts to recover it, and said several times that he was a Baron. The two authorities may be weighed by those who are fastidious.
2General Brennier published a denial of this fact; but it may well be imagined that a short sentence uttered at such a moment by a prisoner wounded and highly excited, would escape his recollection. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who not only caught the words at the time, and questioned the other prisoners as to their value, but drew from them a conclusion on which to rest a great counter movement.
2General Brennier published a denial of this fact; but it may well be imagined that a short sentence uttered at such a moment by a prisoner wounded and highly excited, would escape his recollection. My authority is the Duke of Wellington, who not only caught the words at the time, and questioned the other prisoners as to their value, but drew from them a conclusion on which to rest a great counter movement.
3Now Marquis of Londonderry.
3Now Marquis of Londonderry.
4Lieut.-General Sir Loftus Otway.
4Lieut.-General Sir Loftus Otway.
5Marquis of Anglesey.
5Marquis of Anglesey.
6The present Lord Hardinge.
6The present Lord Hardinge.
7A writer, or rather writers in theQuarterly Review, for there were two of them, indulging in the graceless effrontery of assertion so common with anonymous critics, treated these reasons for halting with ridicule, calling them imaginary, and affirming that they were unknown to the General-in-Chief! My authority however was that very General-in-Chief. The Duke of Wellington not only gave me verbally a description of his motives and proceedings on this occasion, but supplied me with written notes, from which and from a memoir received from Marshal Soult, and information derived from Colonel Waters and other officers engaged, my narrative was composed.
7A writer, or rather writers in theQuarterly Review, for there were two of them, indulging in the graceless effrontery of assertion so common with anonymous critics, treated these reasons for halting with ridicule, calling them imaginary, and affirming that they were unknown to the General-in-Chief! My authority however was that very General-in-Chief. The Duke of Wellington not only gave me verbally a description of his motives and proceedings on this occasion, but supplied me with written notes, from which and from a memoir received from Marshal Soult, and information derived from Colonel Waters and other officers engaged, my narrative was composed.
8My authority for this colloquy is a written communication from Marshal Jourdan.
8My authority for this colloquy is a written communication from Marshal Jourdan.
9In a recent work upon the war in Algeria, written by General Yusuf, a French Zoave, evidently a man of great military talent, a march of sixty miles in twenty-six hours by a French detachment is recorded, and by an English writer has been compared with this of the light division. But the French soldier does not carry more than two-thirds of the weight an English soldier carries, and Yusuf does not say how many stragglers there were; moreover the light division had previously made a march of twenty miles with only a few hours to rest, or rather to wash and cook: their real march was therefore eighty-two miles.
9In a recent work upon the war in Algeria, written by General Yusuf, a French Zoave, evidently a man of great military talent, a march of sixty miles in twenty-six hours by a French detachment is recorded, and by an English writer has been compared with this of the light division. But the French soldier does not carry more than two-thirds of the weight an English soldier carries, and Yusuf does not say how many stragglers there were; moreover the light division had previously made a march of twenty miles with only a few hours to rest, or rather to wash and cook: their real march was therefore eighty-two miles.
10Now Sir Charles Rowan, Metropolitan Police.
10Now Sir Charles Rowan, Metropolitan Police.
11This altercation, though public and known to the whole division, has been ridiculously denied by the writer of Picton’s life.
11This altercation, though public and known to the whole division, has been ridiculously denied by the writer of Picton’s life.
12For this anecdote my authority was Colonel D’Esmenard, Ney’s first aide-de-camp, the officer employed. He said Massena was in bed, and spoke to him through the door.
12For this anecdote my authority was Colonel D’Esmenard, Ney’s first aide-de-camp, the officer employed. He said Massena was in bed, and spoke to him through the door.
13This forcible expression, now become common, is generally supposed to be an original saying of the late Lord Melbourne; but it is not so. It was first employed by the Spanish government in a manifesto, to characterise the battle of Baylen, and Lord Melbourne adopted it without acknowledging its source.
13This forcible expression, now become common, is generally supposed to be an original saying of the late Lord Melbourne; but it is not so. It was first employed by the Spanish government in a manifesto, to characterise the battle of Baylen, and Lord Melbourne adopted it without acknowledging its source.
14Lord Lynedoch.
14Lord Lynedoch.
15Now Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. M‘Lean.
15Now Lieut.-Gen. Sir A. M‘Lean.
16General Sir A. Barnard.
16General Sir A. Barnard.
17Lieut.-General Brotherton.
17Lieut.-General Brotherton.
18Lord Londonderry.
18Lord Londonderry.
19Now Lord Seaton.
19Now Lord Seaton.
20All Phillipon’s views and preparations are taken from his original journal of siege in manuscript.
20All Phillipon’s views and preparations are taken from his original journal of siege in manuscript.
21Now Lieut.-General Sir C. Smith.
21Now Lieut.-General Sir C. Smith.
22Now Lord Gough.
22Now Lord Gough.
23General Sir G. Napier.
23General Sir G. Napier.
24Now Major-General Shaw Kennedy. Captain Nicholas when dying, told the story of this effort, adding that he saw Shaw, while thus standing alone, deliberately pull out his watch and repeating the hour aloud declare that the breach could not be carried that night.
24Now Major-General Shaw Kennedy. Captain Nicholas when dying, told the story of this effort, adding that he saw Shaw, while thus standing alone, deliberately pull out his watch and repeating the hour aloud declare that the breach could not be carried that night.
25Now Serjeant-major at the Tower.
25Now Serjeant-major at the Tower.
26For this council of war, and the opinions, I have the personal authority of Marshal Jourdan.
26For this council of war, and the opinions, I have the personal authority of Marshal Jourdan.
27For the Duke’s secret views here I have his own authority.
27For the Duke’s secret views here I have his own authority.
28The details of this curious event were told to me by the Duke of Wellington.
28The details of this curious event were told to me by the Duke of Wellington.
29The conception and execution of this movement has been repeatedly given to Picton. Erroneously so. My authority is the Duke of Wellington.
29The conception and execution of this movement has been repeatedly given to Picton. Erroneously so. My authority is the Duke of Wellington.
30Now Sir W. Reid, Governor of Malta.
30Now Sir W. Reid, Governor of Malta.
31Now Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimea.
31Now Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in the Crimea.
32For this fact Marshal Soult is my authority.
32For this fact Marshal Soult is my authority.
33In my original work, misled by false information, I said the soldiers of the 92nd were all Irish: but their Colonel, McDonald, afterwards gave me irrefragable proof, by a list of names, that they were Scotchmen.
33In my original work, misled by false information, I said the soldiers of the 92nd were all Irish: but their Colonel, McDonald, afterwards gave me irrefragable proof, by a list of names, that they were Scotchmen.
34All these conjectures and proceedings are given on the Duke’s personal authority.
34All these conjectures and proceedings are given on the Duke’s personal authority.
35For this fact I had the authority of a French colonel of artillery.
35For this fact I had the authority of a French colonel of artillery.
36The facts as here stated were supplied to me by the Duke of Wellington.
36The facts as here stated were supplied to me by the Duke of Wellington.
37Memoirs of Captain, now Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, Gentleman-at-Arms.
37Memoirs of Captain, now Lieut.-Colonel Cooke, Gentleman-at-Arms.
38Colonel Havelock, since killed in the Punjaub at the head of the 14th Dragoons.
38Colonel Havelock, since killed in the Punjaub at the head of the 14th Dragoons.
39This plan and the reasons for it are taken from MS. notes written by the Duke of Wellington in reply to my inquiries.
39This plan and the reasons for it are taken from MS. notes written by the Duke of Wellington in reply to my inquiries.
40Soult has been foully and falsely accused of fighting at Toulouse, knowing that the war was over, and the slander was repeated by Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lords, when the Marshal was minister in France. The Duke of Wellington, with a generous warmth, instantly rose and truly declared that Soult did not know, and it was impossible he could know, of the Emperor’s abdication when he fought the battle.
40Soult has been foully and falsely accused of fighting at Toulouse, knowing that the war was over, and the slander was repeated by Lord Aberdeen in the House of Lords, when the Marshal was minister in France. The Duke of Wellington, with a generous warmth, instantly rose and truly declared that Soult did not know, and it was impossible he could know, of the Emperor’s abdication when he fought the battle.