BATTLE OF WATERLOO. A dismounted Life Guards-man fighting a Cuirassier whom he stew and wede off with his horse. that the sight of her there would only have embarrassed and distressed him; she therefore advanced slowly towards Brussels all the night; the way choaked with all sorts of conveyances, waggons, and horses; multitudes of native fugitives on the road, flying into the forest; and numbers of the wounded working their painful way, dropping at every step, and breathing their last. Many persons were actually killed by others, in the desperate efforts of the latter to remove impediments to their escape; and, to add to the horrors, the thunder and rain continued with unremitting fury. Twelve miles further this young woman marched, during the night, up to her knees in mud, her boots worn entirely off, so that she was bare-footed. Still, however, she was unhurt, and continued to advance; and, although thousands lost their baggage, and many their lives, she safely entered Brussels in the morning without the loss of a single article. In a few hours after her arrival, the roar of the artillery announced the commencement of that sanguinary contest, in which she knew her husband to be engaged: but, after a day and night of agonizing suspense, she was amply rewarded by finding herself in his arms on the 19th, he unhurt, and she nothing the worse. DISAPPOINTED BELGIANS. An opulent inhabitant of Brussels felt so confident that Buonaparte would ultimately prove victorious, that he actually prepared a splendid supper for him on the 18th, and similar preparations were made, by other persons, for his principal officers. It seems, also, that, in the papers found in the imperial carriage at Gemappe, there was a list of twenty inhabitants of Brussels, whose names were communicated to the French troops, as persons who were to be exempted from the general pillage. By the good providence of HIM, however, "who ruleth in the armies of Heaven, and among the nations of the earth," the hopes of these disloyal Belgians were frustrated, and the plans of the usurper were rendered abortive. FRATERNAL AFFECTION. A serjeant in the Coldstream Guards, near the close of the battle of Waterloo, earnestly solicited the officer commanding his company, for permission to retire from the ranks for a few minutes; the latter expressed some surprise at this request; but the serjeant said, "Your honour need not doubt of my immediate return." Having, at length, obtained permission, he flew to an adjoining barn, to which the enemy in their retreat had set fire, and from thence bore on his shoulders his wounded brother, who he knew lay in the midst of the flames. Having deposited him safely for the moment, under a hedge, he returned to his post in time to share in the complete discomfiture of the enemy. It is said, that this brave fellow now enjoys a freehold estate of ten pounds per annum, given to him by the Rector of Framlingham, in Suffolk, for his truly heroic and affectionate conduct. SINGULAR ENCOUNTER. While the hostile armies were engaged in a series of desperate charges, a British officer, pressing on to keep up his men, felt a Frenchman throw his arms about his legs, earnestly imploring his protection. The person addressed, was too much occupied to pay immediate attention to the supplication; but the wounded man, entwining his grasp still more closely, and imploring mercy for the love of God, the officer put back the soldier who was about to plunge his bayonet into the breast of the unfortunate sufferer, who remained on the ground. In a short time, his preserver was in a situation of similar distress: he was struck by a grapeshot, and, when scarcely supporting himself to the rear, he again passed the Frenchman, who was then sitting up, gazing at the awful conflict: they exchanged silent looks, and parted, to remain in utter ignorance of each other's fate, though the one had been the object of a service rendered by the other, the most important that man can perform towards his fellow creature. THE ENSIGN'S COAT. A serjeant of the third battalion of the First Guards, having mentioned, in a letter to his wife, his waving an officer's coat, and cheering the men in a critical moment of the battle, a gentleman made some inquiry respecting the circumstance; and the serjeant, in a subsequent letter, adds the following particulars: "When the French hundred and fifth regiment advanced up the low ground, their cannon, at the same time, raked us with grape, canister, and horse-nails; and our line, at two different times, was so shattered, that I feared they would not be able to stand: in fact, I was for a moment afraid they must have given way; and, if they had, it would have gone hard with the whole line, as our third battalion and the rifle-battalion of the King's German Legion were the manœuvres of the day. Our officers exerted themselves to the very uttermost, as also the serjeants. Major-general Maitland, Colonel Lord Saltoun, Colonel Reeve, and Brigade-major Gunthorp, were in the front of the square, in the hottest part of the contest Our loss, at this time, was tremendous. At this juncture, I picked up | THE NINETY-SECOND HIGHLAND REGIMENT. Ensign Pardo's coat, which was covered with his blood, This gallant regiment, when reduced to little more lying on a horse. The ensign, who belonged to our than a hundred men, threw themselves over a hedge battalion, was killed, and stripped by the plunderers directly against a mass of the imperial guard. The during some of our manoeuvres. I stepped about latter stood till the Scotch came close up to them, when twenty-five paces before the line, and waved the coat, these terrible adversaries looked each other full in the cheering the men, and telling them that while our offi- face, while they coolly levelled their muskets. After cers bled, we should not reckon our lives dear. I did some firing, the ninety-second made the final charge this a second time, when the Imperial guards came up with the bayonet. The French guards stood still; but against us, and I believe it had its desired effect. I it was but for a moment: before the steel reached thought if any thing would stimulate the men, this them, they had turned their backs, but too late to would be effective. An officer having just sacrificed avoid its effects. At this juncture the Scotch greys his life for his country's safety-ours were pledged poured in upon the enemy; took fifteen hundred prifor the same. The men fought with all their might; soners, and, as an eye-witness observes, "actually and, in half an hour, as I mentioned, we cut the hun- walked over the French." dred and fifth regiment to pieces, and took one stand of colours. Had I known, however, that the coat would have been mentioned farther than to my wife, I should not have inserted it; but let that fact have been mentioned by others, as I do not like to commend myself." ARDOUR OF SOME SCOTCH OFFICERS. One of the Scotch regiments was for some time unemployed by any colunin of the enemy, though exposed to a smart fire of round shot. The young officers, perceiving the forty-second and some other battalions to THE FARMER'S WIFE OF MONT ST, JEAN. be warmly engaged in charging the French, contemAll the inhabitants had fled from the village of Mont plated their own inactivity with feelings of impatience. St. Jean previous to the action, and even Waterloo was "It will be the same now," they exclaimed, "as it aldeserted; but in a farm-house, at the end of the village, ways has been! There will be a fine noise in the newsone woman remained during the whole of the day, shut papers about the forty-second regiment, but the deuce up in a garret, from which she could see nothing, and a word respecting us!" Some of their seniors reminded without any means of gaining intelligence of what was them that they would probably have enough of it before passing, while the troops were fighting man to man, the day was ended;—a remark which proved prophetic; and sword to sword, at the very doors; while shells as this regiment suffered most severely, and of those were bursting in at the windows, and while the cannon-gallant youths who expressed this noble ardour, the balls were breaking through the wooden-gates into the greater part were stretched lifeless on the field before farm-yard, and striking against the walls of the house. the evening. This woman was the farmer's wife: and, when asked what motive could induce her to adopt such extraordinary conduct, she replied with great simplicity, that she had a great many cows and calves, and poultry, and pigs-in fact, that all she had in the world was there; and that, if she left them, they would be destroyed. THE SCOTCH GREYS, The Scotch greys made several charges that were perfectly romantic: "Those brave fellows will be entirely cut to pieces," said some of the British generals, when viewing them; "a mere handful of men, plunging into vast solid masses of French cavalry!" It was observed by a French marshal to some distinguished officers at Paris, that the British were the only troops in the world that could be trusted in lines against columns; as they would stand or advance, two deep, against a mass some yards in thickness, THE TWELFTH LIGHT DRAGOONS. This regiment, which was stationed near the Prince of Orange, made several gallant charges upon the enemy; and nothing enabled the French dragoons to resist them but their cuirasses. In the account of so much intrinsic valour without cover or artifice, against so much iron, it is easy to decide where honour would award the balance. Many brave men were sacrificed to the iron armour which shielded the French, and the taffeta flags which frightened the horses. THE COWARDLY COLONEL. A regiment of light-horse volunteers, belonging to a continental city, and peculiarly distinguished by their gay appearance, were ordered, in the battle of Mont St. Jean, to support a charge made by the British upon the enemy's cavalry. Their colonel, however, shewed |