PRINTED FOR WILLIAM BLACKWOOD; AND OLIPHANT, 1816. PREFACE. THE following pages are a part of a series of notes, written during a tour through Holland, Flanders, and France, in July, August, and September last. The publication of them in the present form was suggested by a persuasion of the interest of every circumstance connected with Waterloo; and by a feeling that my own estimate of that wonderful field, however high before, has been incalculably exalted by my visit to its scene, and my intercourse with many of its gallant soldiers. Bold would the writer be who should presume to think, that any thing originating with himself, |