monument erected to the Hanoverians, which is in a dilapidated cordition, and the inscription nearly effaced.* After viewing around as the varied positions, we crossed over the chaussée near La Haye Sainte, and ascended to the monument erected to Sir A. Gordon. brother to Lord Aberdeen. The inscription is more perfect, and wil be found in page 296. We did not enter Hougomont, but walked to the right, to the vast green mound surmounted by the Belgic Lion, erected near the spot where the Prince of Orange was wounded to the memory of the Belgians who fell in the battle: to construct this vast pyramidical mound the earth, for nearly a yard thick, has been removed from the British position, which, consequently, was much more formidable than it now appears We entered a sort of court-yard, by a fee to the guardian, and inscribed our names in the visitors' book, one of which is annually filled with the names of several thousand visitors: the room is decorated with prints of Napoleon, &c. &c. The sympathy of the people about were clearly with him. On our asking the guide why no portrait of Wellington or memorial of his deeds was to be found, he gave as a reason that one was dead and unfortunate, and that we Englishmen had our Duke always with us. However, he might have answered, with those who so wisely placed over the architect of that great temple in which it is decided our great and lamented Commander is for ever to repose, this simple but expressive memorial,

"Si Monumentum requiris, Circumspice."

And this should always be the answer to those who look for a monument of Wellington at Waterloo.

This mound is 200 feet in height, and is ascended by a flight of steps, assisted by a rope to steady the visitor. On a day such as that of our visit it was most needed; the ascent was certainly not an easy one. The view from the summit is very extensiveHougomont at our feet; La Belle Alliance, where Buonaparte stood; Planchenoit, where the Prussian monument is erected; Wavre, and every other point of interest, are easily identified. To those who are not equal to the task of visiting each position in detail, the summit of the mound forms the best point of view possible.

The French army, when passing through Belgium to the siege of Antwerp in 1830, sadly mutilated this monument of their national humiliation. They endeavoured, with ropes, to pull the lion from his elevated position; they were not, however, enabled to effect their wish, probably from the remonstrances of their officers, who knew full well that, destroy as they might the monuments, the name and fame of Waterloo would ever endure.

* Vide page 298.

The soldiers damaged the teeth and claws, and attempted to break off the tail, and thus ended their impotent efforts.

Our guide, Pierson, was, he informed us, pressed into their service to procure ladders to aid this futile attempt.

The main building, or château of Gomont, has been removed; the out-buildings show the marks of the devastation done by the shower of missiles so long received against them. The walls still retain the loop-holes made for its defence by the British. The most strenuous efforts were made by the French to possess this key to our position. Their efforts were in vain; the gallantry and perseverance of our troops at this fearfully-contested point can never sufficiently be praised.

We descended the mound, and continued our walk along the crest of the British position, Pierson at each point naming the regiment or event which rendered it famous; he was full of anecdotes, and loud in praise of the French gallantry: "they fought like lions"-they had the best of the battle for a long period, till the Prussians arrived; then Lord Wellington "say to his troop, 'Orpgarde-anattemme,"" which, according to him, finished the

affair.

We had not time to walk over the French lines, we therefore returned to Mont St. Jean, which was in the rear of the British position, and was used as a hospital for the wounded. The church at Waterloo is rather a handsome building, consisting of a dome with a lantern over, with a Grecian portico; the interior contains monuments to several English officers." We successfully resisted the offers of our guide to visit the tomb of the Marquis of Anglesey's leg, and other blandishments which he held out, and having gratified our curiosity by a most interesting and exciting, although in some points imperfect, view of this memorable battle-field, we bade adieu to the village of Waterloo and returned to Brussels.

* Vide page 296 for the inscriptions.

MILITARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL

NOTICES OF THE FALLEN HEROES.

DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.

"To record the virtues of the departed brave" is a pleasing though painful task to survivors; and the pen is never, perhaps, exercised with more immediate advantage or future benefit than when paying a due tribute to the worth and excellence of those with whom Providence has adorned society for a time, and then by some sudden event has swept them away and left their image alone to memory.

At the head of these may be placed His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick-Oels, who was killed on the spot by a wound in his side, whilst fighting gallantly at the head of his troops. His remains were brought to Brunswick near midnight, on the 22d of June, accompanied by the physician and servants of his household. Several thousand persons went to meet them. At a mile distance from the town the horses were taken from the hearse and drawn by the people to the palace. This prince had put his army, amounting to 14,000 men, in mourning ever since his father's death, and made his soldiers swear never to leave it off till they had avenged the insult offered to his father's tomb by the French.

FREDERICK WILLIAM, Duke of BRUNSWICK-WOLFENBUTTLE, OELS, and BERNSTADT, was the fourth and youngest son of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttle, who died on the 10th of November, 1806, at Ottensen, near Altona, in consequence of the wound which he received at the unfortunate battle of Jena. He was doubly allied to the illustrious house which sways the British sceptref-his mother being the

Buonaparte refused this noble character burial among his ancestors.

The seven sons of William, the younger Duke of Brunswick-Lunenburg, furnished the most striking instance of fraternal affection. The right of primegeniture had not yet been introduced into the dukedem, and the death of each reigning prince had till then given occasion to a division of power, which must in the end be the means of considerably weakening the grandeur of this sovereignty, Immediately after the death of their father, which happened in 1611, the seven brothers resolved to make a regular family convention, in virtue of which it should no longer be permitted to dismember in future the ducal domains; but, on the

sister of George III., and his sister the unfortunate Queen Caroline, wife of George IV. He was born on the 9th of October, 1771, at the time when his father was still hereditary prince; but already highly honoured by the princes and people of Germany, on account of his exploits in the Seven Years' War and the attachment of Frederick the Great to his brave companion in arms. The whole north of Germany was suffering, in that unhappy year, the horrors of famine from a failure of the harvest. Brunswick was besides oppressed by the disorder of the finances, from which there was no relief, except through the hereditary prince. He thought it his duty to give, in his own family, the example of the economy which he wished to introduce into his country. This generous resolution, and the numerous military and state affairs which occupied the time of the hereditary prince, did not fail to influence, in some measure, the education of his sons. Frederick William being the youngest, his future elevation to the sovereignty could not be calculated upon in his education: but whoever observed him and his way of life, not only what immediately surrounded him, could not help believing him destined for something great. His large and ardent eye added the expression of energy to the mildness that was announced by the mouth and other features; a finely-formed forehead and a Grecian nose completed his agreeable countenance. His form was elegant, yet muscular; and he hardened himself against the fatigues of war, eagerly pursuing the exercises which are considered as its image. It has been often remarked, that the most lively minds are the fondest of the abstruse sciences: thus, the Prince took great delight in mathematics. His education was, upon the whole, much the same as that of his brothers, who were but a little older than himself, till the military profession, for which he was destined, required an appropriate course of instruction. When he arrived at maturer years, and became a sovereign, he regretted the want of a more extensive education.

In 1785 he was nominated successor to his uncle, Frederick Augustus, Duke of Oels and Bernstadt, in case he should die without issue; an arrangement which was confirmed by Frederick the Great and his nephew, Frederick William II., as sovereigns of Silesia.

The Prince, in his sixteenth year, went to Lausanne, accompanied by M. Langer, who held the situation of librarian at Wolfenbuttle, and who had, a few years before, attended his

contrary, to unite them under that part of their posterity to whose rule they might hereafter fall. They agreed, at the same time, that one out of the seven should marry, and that they would draw lots to determine who should be the prop of their house. They all agreed to this proposal, and the lot fell upon Duke George, the youngest but one: his elder brothers affectionately embraced him, and strictly observed every article agreed upon. The posterity of this George are now in possession of the throne of England.

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brother, the hereditary prince, to the same place. After a residence of about two years in Switzerland, the Prince immediately commenced his military career. He was appointed captain in the regiment of infantry then in garrison at Magdeburgh, commanded by Lieutenant-general Langefeld, governor of that place, who died in 1789; a regiment which previously had for its chief the Prince's great uncle, the hero of Crevelt and Minden.

The Prince here devoted himself with the whole ardour and perseverance of his soul to the duties of his profession, and was rapidly promoted; the army divided its attentions between him and Prince Louis of Prussia, at that time a promising young hero like himself. How did his father delight in him! with what transport did he see himself honoured in the person of his son, on whose breast the star of the Black Eagle blazed! How did he rejoice at the encomiums which the youth, then only nineteen years old, received on being promoted to the rank of major! Thus Frederick William began his career, surrounded by the remembrance of the great examples of his house-of the lionhearted Henry, who served his emperor and friend, and, after he had lost all through him, still preserved a heart for him; of the accomplished Julius, who disregarded money where art or science were in question, and yet always had more money at his command than other princes of his time; of the high-minded Christian, who was still a knight when the days of chivalry were no more, and who understood how to derive more advantage from his defeats than others from their victories; of that illustrious commander Ferdinand, whom the great Frederick sent instead of an auxiliary army to beat the French, and lo! what the king had said was done; and, lastly, of Leopold, who had just ended his sacred vocation in the service of humanity in the waves of the Oder. The Prince, whose mother was sister to the King of England, and whose grandmother was sister to Frederick the Great, lived and formed himself in those recollections and in the love of his father, brave as a Henry, and noble as his brother Leopold had been.

In the war with France, which commenced in 1792, the Prince accompanied the Prussian army. He gained experience; and the military talents and intrepidity which he more and more developed were conspicuously displayed by him on every occasion. This courage, this buoyant sense of youthful energy, which banished every idea of personal danger, impelled him, in several instances, beyond the bounds of prudence. On the 27th of November in the last-mentioned year he incurred the most imminent danger of his life, in a skirmish which took place in the village of Etsch, near Wurges. He here received his first honourable wound, from the effects of which he did not recover till after a considerable time. His father, whose permission he had obtained to be present