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Note 1, page 520, col. 1.

The second day was that when Martel broke
The Musselmen.

Upon this subject Miss Plumptre relates a remarkable anecdote, in the words of one of the sufferers at Lyons. «At my entrance into the prison of the Recluse I found about twelve hundred of my fellow-citizens already immured there, distributed in different apart

ments. The doom of four-fifths of them at least was

Lanspisadoes.

Soldiers.

Marriners.

Women and children.

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All which amount to 41,124 persons; which number is not so great, considering the long siege, sickness, and the cold winters upon the sea coast, in so cold a climate, fighting against the elements. It is unknown what number died in the town, the which is thought much less, for that there were not so many in the town, who were better lodged, had more ease, and were better victualled. »GRIMESTONE'S Hist. of the Netherlands, p. 1317.

<< The besieged in Ostend had certain adventuring soldiers whom they called Lopers, of the which among other captains, were the young captain Grenu, and Their arms which they bore captain Adam Van Leest. were a long and a great pike, with a flat head at the neather end thereof, to the end that it should not sink too deep into the mud, a harquebuse hung in a scarf, as we have said of Frebuters, a coutelas at his side, and his dagger about his neck, who would usually leap over a ditch four and twenty foot broad, skirmishing often with his enemy so as no horseman could overtake them before they had leapt over the ditches againe.» Ib.1299.

considered as inevitable: it was less a prison than a fold, where the innocent sheep patiently waited the hour that was to carry them to the revolutionary shambles. In this dreary abode, how long, how tedious did the days appear! they seemed to have many more than twenty-four hours. Yet we were allowed to read and write, and were composed enough to avail ourselves of this privilege; nay we could sometimes even so far forget our situation as to sport and gambol together. The continued images of destruction and devastation which we had before our eyes, the little hope that appeared to any of us of escaping our menaced fate, so familiarized us with the idea of death, that a stoical serenity had taken possession of our minds: we had << In remembrance of the long siege of Ostend, and been kept in a state of fear till the sentiment of fear was lost. All our conversation bore the character of this the winning of Sluce, there were certaine counters made disposition it was reflective, but not complaining; it in the United Provinces, both of silver and copper, the was serious without being melancholy; and often pre-on the other the towns of Rhinberk, Grave, Sluce, Arone having on the one side the picture of Ostend, and sented novel and striking ideas. One day, when we were conversing on the inevitable chain of events, and the irrevocable order of things, on a sudden one of our party exclaimed that we owed all our misfortunes to Charles Martel. We thought him raving; but thus he reasoned to prove his hypothesis. Had not Charles Martel, said he, country conquered the Saracens, these The town of Utrecht did also make a triumphant latter, already masters of Guienne, of Saintonge, of Perigord, and of Poitou, would soon have extended their peace of Coyne both of gold and silver, where on the one side stood the siege of Ostend, and on the other the dominion over all France, and from that time we should have had no more religious quarrels, no more state dis-siege of Sluce, and all the forts and havens, and on both sides round about was graven,

putes; we should not now have assemblies of the people,
clubs, committees of public safety, sieges, imprison-
ments, bloody executions.' To this man the Turkish
system of
government appeared preferable to the revo-
lutionary regime; and, all chances calculated, he pre-
ferred the bow-string of the Bashaw, rarely drawn, to
the axe of the guillotine, incessantly at work.»

Note 2, page 520, col. 2.

That old siege.

<< It is uncertain what numbers were slain during the siege of Ostend, yet it is said that there was found in a commissary's pocket, who was slain before Ostend the 7th of August, before the yielding thereof, divers remarkable notes and observations, and among the rest

denbourg, and the forts of Isendyke and Cadsant, with this inscription round about, Plus triennio obsessa, hosti rudera, patriæ quatuor ex me urbes dedi. ARno 1604. Ostend being more than three years besieged, gave the enemie a heap of stones, and to her native

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four townes.

Jehovah prius dederat plus quam perdidimus.'
Ibidem, 1318.

Note 3, page 521, col. 1.

Many a rich vessel from the injurious sea
Enter the bosom of thy quiet quay.

These lines are borrowed from Quarles;-the passage in which they occur would be very pleasing if he had not disfigured it in a most extraordinary manner.

Saile gentle Pinnace! now the heavens are clear,
The winds blow fair: behold the harbor 's neer.
Tridented Neptune hath forgot to frowne,
The rocks are past; the storme is overblowne.
Up weather-beaten voyagers and rouze ye,
Forsake your loathed Cabbins; up and louze ye

Upon the open decks, and smell the land:
Cheare up, the welcome shoare is nigh at hand.
Saile gentle Pinnace with a prosperous gale

To the Isle of Peace: saile, gentle Pinnace, saile!
Fortune conduct thee; let thy keele divide
The silver streams, that thou maist safely slide
Into the bosome of thy quiet Key,

And quite thee fairly of the injurious Sea.
QUARLES'S Argalus and Parthenia.
Note 4, page 521, col. 1.
Bruges.

Urbs est ad miraculum pulchra, potens, amæna, says Luigi Guicciardini. Its power is gone by, but its beauty is perhaps more impressive now than in the days of its splendour and prosperity.

M. Paquet Syphorien, and many writers after him, mention the preservation of the monuments of Charles the Bold, and his daughter Mary of Burgundy, wife to the Archduke Maximilian; but they do not mention the name of the Beadle who preserved them at the imminent risk of his own life. Pierre Dezutter is this person's name. During the revolutionary frenzy, when the mob seemed to take most pleasure in destroying whatever was most venerable, he took these splendid tombs to pieces and buried them during the night, for which he was proscribed and a reward of 2000 francs set upon his head. Buonaparte, after his marriage into the Austrian family, rewarded him with 1000 francs, and gave 10,000 for ornamenting the chapel in which the tombs were replaced. This has been done with

little taste.

Note 5, page 522, col. 1.

That sisterhood whom to their rule
Of holy life no hasty vows restrain.

The Beguines. Helyot is mistaken when he says (t. 8. p. 6,) that the Beguinage at Mechlin is the finest in all Flanders; it is not comparable to that at Ghent, which for extent and beauty may be called the Capital of the community.

Note 6, page 522, col. 2.

Alost

Where whilome treachery stained the English name.

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this kind of treachery have long since ceased even to be suspected. During the long wars in the Netherlands, nothing was more common than for officers to change their party,-considering war as a mere profession, in which their services, like those of a lawyer, were for the best bidder.

Note 7, page 522, col. 2.

Then saw we Afflighem, by ruin rent.

This magnificent Abbey was destroyed during the Revolution,- -an act of popular madness which the people in its vicinity now spoke of with unavailing regret. The library was at one time the richest in Brabant; «< celeberrima,» Luigi Guicciardini calls it, adeo quidem, ut quod ad libros antiquos habeatur pro locupletissima simul et laudatissima universa istius tractus.»> The destruction of books during the Revolution was deplorably great. A bookseller at Brussels told me he had himself at one time sent off five-andtwenty waggon-loads for waste paper, and sold more than 100,000lb. weight for the same purpose! In this manner were the convent-libraries destroyed.

Note 8, page 523, col. 1.

Assche, for water and for cakes renowned.

The Flemish name of these said cakes has a marvel

lously uncouth appearance,―suyker-koekxkens,-nevertheless they are good cakes, and are sold by Judocus de Bisschop, at the sign of the Moor, next door to the Auberge la Tête-de-Bœuf. This' information is for those whom it may concern.

Note 9, page 523, col. 2.

When Belgian ears were taught
The British soldier's cry, half groan, half prayer,
Breathed when his pain is more than he can bear.

One of our coachmen, who had been employed (like all his fraternity) in removing the wounded, asked us what was the meaning of the English word O Lord! for thus, he said, the wounded were continually crying out.

was nearer.

Note 10, page 524, col. 1.

Brabant in all her cities felt the sound.

Note 11, page 524, col. 1.

Here Castanaza reared a votive fane.

The following dedicatory inscription is placed over the portico of Waterloo Church.

In 1583, the English garrison of Alost being mutiThe battle of the 18th was heard throughout the nied for their pay, the Ganthois did not only refuse to whole of Brabant, and in some directions far beyond it. give it them, but did threaten to force them out, or else It was distinctly perceived at Herve; and I have been to famish them. In the mean time the Prince of Parma assured, incredible as it inay seem, that it was perceived did not let slip this opportunity to make his profit at Amiens. The firing on the 16th was heard at Antthereby, but did solicit them by fair words and pro-werp,-not that of the 18th, though the scene of action mises to pay them; and these English companies, not accustomed to endure hunger and want, began to give ear unto him, for that their Colonel Sir John Norris and the States were somewhat slow to provide for their pay, for the which they intended to give order, but it was too late. For after that the English had chased away the rest of the garrison which were of the country, then did Captain Pigot, Vincent, Tailor, and others, agree to deliver up the town unto the Spaniard, giving them for their pay, which they received, thirty thousand pistolets. And so the said town was delivered unto the Spaniard in the beginning of December, and filled with Wallons. Most of these English went to serve the Prince of Parma in his camp before Eckloo, but finding that he trusted them not, they ran in a manner all away.»> GRIMESTONE, 833.

It is one proof of the improved state of general feeling in the more civilized states of Europe, that instances of

D. O. M.

Et D. D. Josepho et Annæ

Hoc Sacellum

Pro Desiderata Dominiis Catholicis

Caroli 2. Hisp. Ind. Regis Beig. Principis Prosapia
Fran. Ant. Agurto Marchio de Castanaca Belg. Guberntor.
The a in Gubernator has been left out, either by the
mistake of the workmen, or for want of room.

Carlos II of Spain, one of the most wretched of men, married for his first wife Marie Louise, Lewis the Fourteenth's niece. A curious instance of the public anxiety that she should produce au heir to the throne is pre

served by Florez in his Memorias de las Reynas Catholicas. When she had been married two years without issue, this strange epigram, if so it may be called, was circulated:

Parid bella Flor de Lis

En affliccion tan estraña:

Si Paris, Paris á España,
Si no Paris, à Paris.

The

Florez describes the dress of the bride at her espousals it was a robe of murray velvet embroidered with fleur de lys of gold trimmed with ermine and jewels, and with a train of seven ells long;-the princesses of the blood had all long trains, but not so long, the length being according to their proximity to the throne. description of a Queen's dress accorded well with the antiquarian pursuits of Florez; but it is amusing to observe some of the expressions of this laborious writer, a monk of the most rigid habits, whose life was spent in severe study and in practices of mortification. In her head-dress, he says, she wore porcelain pins which supported large diamonds, -y convertian en cielo aquel poco de tierra, and at the ball after the espousals, el Christianissimo danzó con la Catholica. These ap

pellations sound almost as oddly as Messrs Bogue and Bennett's description of St Paul in a minuet, and Timothy at a card-table.

Regiment bave erected this
Monument in commemoration
of the fall of their
Gallant Companions.

Το

the Memory

of

Major Edwin Griffith,
Lt. Isaac Sherwood, and

Lt. Henry Buckley

Officers in the XV King's Regiment of Hussars

(British)

who fell in the battle of

Waterloo,

Jun 18, 1815.

This stone was erected by the Officers
of that Regiment,

as a testimony of their respect.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

The two following are the epitaphs in the churchyard:

D. O. M.

Sacred to the Memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Fitz Gerald, of the

Aux manes du plus vertueux des hommes, généralement estimé et regretté de sa famille et de ses amis, le Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Fitz Gerald, de la Garde du Corps de sa Majesté Britannique, tué glorieusement à la bataille de la Belle Alliance, le 18 Juin, 1815.

Second Regiment of Life Guards of bis Britannic Majesty, who feli gloriously at the battle of La Belle Alliance, near this town, on the 18th of June, 1815, in the 41st year of his life, deeply and deserved. This poor Queen lived eight years with a husbandy regretted by his family and friends. To a manly loftiness of soul, be united all the virtues that could render him an ornament to his whose mind and body were equally debilitated. Never profession, and to private and social life. were the miseries of a mere state-marriage more lamentably exemplified. In her last illness, when she was advised to implore the prayers of a personage who was living in the odour of sanctity for her recovery, she replied, Certainly I will not;-it would be folly to ask for a life which is worth so little. And when toward the last her Confessor inquired if any thing troubled her, her answer was, that she was in perfect peace, and rejoiced that she was dying,-« en paz me hallo Padre, y muy gustosa de morir. She died on the 12th of February; and such was the solicitude for an heir to the monarchy, that on the 15th of May a second marriage was concluded for the King.

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R. I. P.

D. O. M.

Ici repose le Colonel
De Langrehr, Commandant
le premier Bataillon de
Bremen, blessé à mort à
la bataille de Waterloo,
le 18 Juin, 1815, et enterré
le lendemain, àgé de

40 ans.

R. I. P.

Lord Uxbridge's leg is buried in a garden opposite to the inn, or rather public-house, at Waterloo. The owner of the house in which the amputation was performed considers it as a relic which has fallen to his share. He had deposited it at first behind the house, but as he intended to plant a tree upon the spot, he considered, that as the ground there was not his own! property, the boys might injure or destroy the tree, and therefore he removed the leg into his own garden, where it lies in a proper sort of coffin, under a mound of earth about three or four feet in diameter. A tuft of Michaelmas daisies was in blossom upon this mound when we were at Waterloo; but this was a temporary ornament: in November the owner meant to plant a weeping willow there. He was obliging enough to give me a copy of an epitaph which he had prepared, and which, he said, was then in the stone-cutter's hands. It is as follows:

Ci est enterrée la Jambe de l'illustre, brave, et vaillant Comte Uxbridge, Lieutenant General, Commandant en Chef la Cavalerie Angloise, Belge, et Hollandoise; blessé le 18 Juin, 1815, à la memorable battaille de Waterloo; qui par son heroisme a concours an triomphe de la cause du Genre humain, glorieusement decidée par l'eclatante victoire du dit jour.

Note 13, page 524, col. 2.

When Marlborough here, victorious in his might, Surprised the French, and smote them in their flight.

on the 18th, and Blucher on the 19th. The coachmen had told us that it was an assez bonne auberge; but when one of them in the morning asked how we had passed A detachment of the French was entrenched at Wa- the night, he observed that no one ever slept at Geterloo Chapel, August 1705, when the Duke of Marlbo-nappe,-it was impossible, because of the continual rough advanced to attack the French army at Over passing of posts and coal-carts. Ysche, and this detachment was destroyed with great slaughter. (Echard's Gazetteer.) The Sieur La Lande says, « on donne la chasse à un parti François qui etoit à Waterloo.» Marlborough was prevented by the Deputies of the States from pursuing his advantage, and attacking the enemy, at a time when he made sure of victory. Hist. de l'Empereur Charles VI, t. 2, p. 80.

Note 14, page 525, col. 1.

Mount St John,

The hamlet which the Highlanders that day
Preserved from spoil.

The peasant who led us over the field resided at this hamlet. Mont St Jean was every thing to him, and his frequent exclamations of admiration for the courage of the Highlanders, in particular, and indeed of the whole army, always ended with a reference to his own dwelling-place: «< if they had not fought so well, Oh mon Dieu, Mont St Jean would have been burnt.»>

This was an intelligent man, of very impressive countenance and manners. Like all the peasantry with whom we conversed, he spoke with the bitterest hatred of Buonaparte, as the cause of all the slaughter and misery he had witnessed, and repeatedly expressed his astonishment that he had not been put to death. My house, said he, was full of the wounded:-it was nothing but sawing off legs and sawing off arms. Oli my God, and all for one man! Why did you not put him to death? I myself would have put him to death with my own hand.

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Note 18, page 529, col. 1.

The Cross Roads.

It is odd that the inscription upon the directing-post at Les Quatre Bras, (or rather boards, for they are fastened against a house,) should be given wrongly in the account of the campaign printed at Frankfort. The real directions are,

de pte ver St Douler
de pto ver Genappe
de pte ver Marbais
de pte ver Frasné

spelt in this manner, and ill cut. I happened to copy it in a mood of superfluous minuteness.

A fat and jolly Walloon, who inhabited this corner house, ate his dinner in peace at twelve o'clock on the 16th, and was driven out by the balls flying about his ears at four the same day. This man described that part of the action which took place in his sight with great animation. He was particularly impressed by the rage, the absolute fury which the French displayed; they cursed the English while they were fighting, and cursed the precision with which the English grape-shot was fired, which, said the man, was neither too high nor too low, but struck right in the middle. The last time that a British army had been in this place, the Duke of York slept in this man's bed,-an event which the Walloon remembered with gratitude as well as pride, the Duke having given him a louis d'or.

Note 19, page 529, col. 2.

Oh wherefore have ye spared his head accurst. Among the peasantry with whom we conversed this feeling was universal. We met with many persons who disliked the union with Holland, and who hated the Prussians, but none who spoke in favour or even in palliation of Buonaparte. The manner in which this ferocious beast, as they call him, has been treated, has given a great shock to the moral feelings of mankind. The almost general mode of accounting for it on the Continent, is by a supposition that England purposely

let him loose from Elba in order to have a pretext for again attacking France, and crippling a country which she had left too strong, and which would soon have outstripped her in prosperity. I found it impossible to dispossess even men of sound judgment and great ability of this belief, preposterous as it is; and when they read the account of the luxuries which have been sent to St Helena for the accommodation of this great criminal, they will consider it as the fullest proof of their opinion.

Note 20, page 530, col. 1.

And now they felt the Prussian's heavy band. Wherever we went we heard one cry of complaint against the Prussians, -except at Ligny, where the people had witnessed only their courage and their suf

At the Roy d'Espagne, where we were lodged, Wel-ferings. This is the effect of making the military spilington had his head-quarters on the 17th, Buonaparte rit predominate in a nation. The conduct of our own

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