third; just after that, the man that stood next to me on my left hand had his left arm shot off by a nine-pound shot, just above his elbow, and he turned round and caught hold of me with his right hand, and the blood run all over my trousers; we was advancing, and he dropt directly. After this, was ordered to extend in front of all our large guns, and small arms was firing at the British lines in our rear, and I declare to God, with our guns and the French guns firing over our heads, my pen cannot explain any thing like it; it was not 400 yards from the French lines to our British lines, and we was about 150 yards in front of ours, so we was about 250 yards from the French, and sometimes not 100 yards; so I leave you to judge if I had not a narrow escape of my life. As I just said, we now extended in front; Boney's Imperial Horse Guards, all clothed in armour, made a charge at us; we saw them coming, and we all closed in and formed a square just as they came within ten yards of us, and they found they could do no good with us; they fired with their carbines on us, and came to the right about directly, and at that moment the man on my right hand was shot through the body, and the blood run out at his belly and back like a pig stuck in the throat; he dropt on his side; I spoke to him; he just said, Lewis, I'm done!' and died directly. All this time we kept up a constant fire at the Imperial Guards as they retreated, but they often came to the right-about and fired; and as I was loading my rifle, one of their shots came and struck my rifle, not two inches above my left hand, as I was ramming down the ball with my right hand, and broke the stock, and bent the barrel in such a manner that I could not get the ball down; just at that time we extended again, and my rifle was no use to me; a nine-pound shot came and cut the serjeant of our company right in two: he was not above three file from me, so I threw down my rifle and went and took his rifle, as it was not hurt at the time. We had lost both our colonels, major, and two eldest captains, and only a young captain to take command of us; as for Colonel Wade, he went to England about three weeks before the battle. Seeing we had lost so many men and all our commanding officers, my heart began to fail, and Boney's Guards made another charge on us; but we made them retreat as before, and while we was in square the second time, the Duke of Wellington and his staff came up to us in all the fire, and saw we had lost all our commanding officers: he, himself, gave the word of command; the words he said to our regiment were this,- 95th, unfix your swords, left face, and extend yourselves once more; we shall soon have them over the other hill;' and then he rode away on our right, and how he escaped being shot God only knows, for all that time the shot was flying like hailstones. This was about four o'clock on the 18th June, when Lord Wellington rode away from our regiment; and then we advanced like Britons, but we could

not go five steps without walking over dead and wounded; and Boney's horses of the Imperial Guards, of the men that was killed, was running loose about in all directions. If our Tom had been a little behind in the rear, he might have catched horses enough to had a troop or two like Sir John Delapole. Lord Wellington declared to us this morning, that it was the hardest battle that he had ever seen fought in his life; but now, thank God, all is over, and we are very comfortable in Paris, and hope we shall remain here and have our Christmas dinner in Paris, for London cannot compare to it. I hardly know how to spare time to write this, for I want to go out about the city: it is four o'clock, and the letters go off at five; but I must say a little more on the other side:-We was all very quiet in quarters till the 15th June, when the orders came all at once, at twelve o'clock at night, for every man to be ready in one hour, and march at one o'clock: there we was all in a bustle, and off we goes, and it was not light, there was no moon: the orders was, that the French was making different movements on our left, about twentytwo leagues from us; mind the days of the month.-I say this day, the 16th, we marched till eleven o'clock that night, which was twenty-two hours' march for us the first day, and we walked thirteen leagues in that time, or thirty-nine English miles; being dark, General Clinton ordered us to lie down on the road-side for two hours: so we halted, and every man got half a pint of real rum to keep up his spirits. We set off again at ten o'clock in the morning on the 17th June, and marched nine leagues, about four o'clock in the afternoon; then we were in front of the enemy, but the rain fell so hard that the oldest soldiers there never saw the like in their life. I really thought that heaven and earth were coming together. There were a few shots fired on both sides that night, but the guns would not go off. off. We were on one long high hill, and the French on another, facing us; there was a large wood behind us, and Lord Wellington told us to get wood, and make us large fires and dry ourselves, and get our guns fit by day, as the enemy could not hurt us. So we made large fires, and they were about four miles in length; and when the French saw it, they did the same, and it was one of the most beautiful sights I ever saw; and the next morning, as soon as it was light, we went at it dingdong, and drove all before us, till yesterday, the 7th July, that we entered Paris: but ever since the 15th June, till 7th July, we have only laid down on the ground with our clothes on; so leave you to judge if I am not fatigued out.

"Blücher rode by the side of Lord Wellington yesterday, when we entered Paris. As we was on the advance after the French army, every town we came to the people was all fled to Paris, and had taken away what they could; the British, Prussian, and Russian army, broke their houses open, and plundered what was most good,

and set fire to some. Wine was more plentiful than water, for all their cellars was full of wine, the same as Tucker's is full of cider, and that was the first place the soldiers broke open. I have often been in cellars, and what wine we could not drink and carry away, broke in the heads of the casks and let it run about. We marched through towns as large as Exeter, and not a person to be seen, but all locked up and window-shutters fastened."

ARMY OF OBSERVATION.

Respecting this corps it ought to be known, as it was then of the utmost importance, and now affords a proof of more premeditation and ability than most writers have allowed to Buonaparte on that memorable occasion, and produces a notable addition to the numberless instances of admirable foresight of our consummate Commander, that on the evening of the 17th of June, Buonaparte having determined upon the attack of the position of Waterloo, sent a column of five thousand cavalry to make a détour, and if possible to gain, unseen, either the Enghien or Braine-le-Comte roads to Brussels; that, during the attack of the 18th, they might get in our rear, and surprise Brussels. This able manœuvre, which might have been attended with the worst of consequences to our cause, considering the state of the country, the position of our army, and the composition of our good friends who fought by our sides-this able manoeuvre was frustrated as follows:-The 6th British (consisting of the 35th, 54th, 59th, and 91st Regiments) and 6th Hanoverian Brigades arrived at Braine-le-Comte on the evening of the 17th. Part of the above-mentioned cavalry were discovered hovering about, and on the morning of the 18th, at four o'clock, these two brigades received orders to make a rapid movement to the rear, and take up a position so as to cover Brussels on the side above-mentioned. Accordingly, a position was taken up about an English mile S.S.W. of Halle, commanding both the Enghien and Braine-le-Comte roads to Brussels, which met nearly at that point. So great was the importance attached by the Duke of Wellington to this position, that though the brigades near it were several times hard pressed, he would not allow the two brigades to quit that position during the day. The cavalry, although they endeavoured to get to Brussels by the Halle road, did not attack at that point; but they were of no use to Buonaparte on the 18th. The position of the two brigades above mentioned may be traced (on a good map) running from the forest of Soignies, almost parallel to a small rivulet which passes through a straggling village of the name of Tubize, and ought to be shown on the extreme right of our lines in the plan of Waterloo. These brigades, joined by the 4th British brigade, consisting of the 14th, 23d, and 51st Regiments,