"Your honour need not doubt of my immediate return." Permission being given him, 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 helpless 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 victorious pursuit of the routed enemy: we need scarcely add, that the superior merit of this gallant non-commissioned officer was thus established.

About two years since, Buonaparte gave an Italian nobleman a list of his intended exploits: the first was the subjugation of all the northern powers; the invasion of Britain was to follow; his intention was then to bring under his power the dominions of the Grand Signior; after which he would proceed to the conquest of Africa, and at last of the Chinese empire. He had already employed an architect to draw the plans of two new cities, one to be built in Asia, the other in Africa, and both to be called Napoleon.

A very sensible writer has remarked, who was in the field of Waterloo just after the battle, how much the varied character of the men was distinguished by their amusements; that on the part of the French, playing cards, the most trifling letters, verses, &c. &c., with books of the worst tendency. But not so with the English whose pockets were ransacked, or with the Hanoverians; with the latter, it was observable the quantity of books of devotion in German that were found. A correspondent found in the field an unfinished letter of an English soldier to a female friend, dated 17th June, in which he gives her an account of the battle of the 16th, and that he had escaped, evidently leaving it open to send when the day was over. The direction being written, it was taken up and forwarded, with a note in explanation of its being found.

Thursday, January 18, 1816, being the appointed day for a general thanksgiving, on the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the day was selected in London for the ceremony of lodging the eagles, taken from the enemy at the battle of Waterloo, in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. The ceremony was conducted with perfect order; and associated as it was with the duties of religious worship, the memory of the contest in which the trophies were won, and the sight of the brave veterans who had survived its carnage, the influence it produced was not of an ordinary nature. A brigade of the Guards formed on the parade, in St. James's Park, at nine o'clock, of which, one company, consisting of a captain, three subalterns, two serjeants, and eighty-four privates, all of whom were at Waterloo, were appointed an escort to the eagles, and took post opposite to Melbourne House. detachment of the Royal Artillery was also on the ground, and

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two bands attended in their state clothing. Soon after ten the Duke of York proceeded to the parade, and a very large assemblage of officers, decorated with the several insignia they had been invested with. The usual duty of the day proceeded, and after the trooping of the colours had taken place, the detachment that had been selected was escorted to the tilt-yard by the two bands, and received the eagles; the detachment then presented arms, the bands playing the "Grenadiers' March," and proceeded round the square in ordinary time. The eagles appeared somewhat of a larger size than those captured in the Peninsula; they were richly gilt, and bore the number of the battalions to which they were attached. The silk colours appended to them were about the size of our cavalry standards, and splendidly embroidered with a profusion of gold fringe, and a number of inserted bees, stars, &c. But the most interesting part of the ornaments was the laurel wreath, enclosing, in letters of gold, the inscriptions emblematic of French renown-Austerlitz, Essling, Eylau, Jena, and Friedland. These names, still memorable, once to us the subjects of mournful reflection, now seemed to mock the ambition they formerly flattered. They gave to the conquerors an impressive lesson on the inconstancy of Fortune, when the register of the successes of those who triumphed at Austerlitz, Jena, and Friedland, served to signalize their defeat, displayed as the prize of the heroes of Waterloo. The trophies were carried by serjeants of the 1st and 3d Regiments, and, on reaching the colours of the Grenadier regiment, were lowered to the ground, while the former, with "Lincelles, Corunna, Barossa, and Waterloo," emblazoned in gold, majestically waved; and the troops, with the spectators, instantaneously gave three loud huzzas, with the most enthusiastic feeling. The detachment still continued to proceed with the trophies, and on reaching the centre of the parade facing the Horse Guards, wheeled on their right, and marched to Whitehall Chapel. The serjeants with the eagles entered the body of the chapel as soon as the first lesson was read by Archdeacon Owen, the chaplain-general. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Gloucester were in the royal pew, and the chapel was extremely crowded. The escort entered by the two doors, in equal divisions, the band playing, and marching up to the steps of the communion-table, when they filed off to the right and left. As soon as the band had ceased, the two serjeants bearing the eagles approached the altar, and fixed upon it their consecrated banners. After the Litany, a voluntary was played; and at the conclusion of the Communion-service, which was read by the chaplains of the chapel, the Rev. Mr. Jones and the Rev. Mr. Hewlett, the 100th Psalm was sung by the whole congregation. After the customary blessing, the band played "God save the King," the whole congregation standing. The ceremony was wit

nessed by a great multitude of people, among whom was a considerable number of persons of distinction and fashion.

FRENCH OFFICER'S ACCOUNT.

A faithful and detailed Relation of the final Campaign of Buonaparte, terminated by the Battle of Mount St. John, otherwise called of Waterloo, or of La Belle Alliance. By an Eye-witness.

"Fas mihi quod vidi referre."

The landing of Buonaparte at Cannes operated as a thunderbolt upon every honest and truly patriotic Frenchman; upon all, in a word, who sincerely wished the repose and welfare of their country. In fact, they could expect from this event nothing but disastrous results, already announced by a civil war which appeared inevitable.

Nevertheless, by a concurrence of circumstances as extraordinary as unforeseen, the imminent danger towards which we were precipitated was for a while lulled. Who could credit it?— this man, pursued by the general hatred of a nation, on which he had drawn every scourge, found in its bosom a mass of people disposed to assist his most culpable projects.

The whole army scandalously broke their oaths of allegiance to the best of kings, even turned their arms against him, and forced him ere long to abandon his capital. The well-disposed part of the kingdom had the mortification of seeing Buonaparte arrive even at Paris, and arrive too in some degree triumphantly. No sooner did he re-appear than he employed every means to deceive those people whom he had already pressed under his iron yoke, for the purpose of extorting from them yet greater sacrifices, and plunging them into an abyss of misery from which they could only rise with himself.

Meanwhile, through his myrmidons, he caused the most injurious and absurd reports to be circulated against the king, while he kept in alarm the holders of national lands; and, to attach to his cause a numerous class of citizens he had so long oppressed, affected to follow their principles. He proclaimed with loud effrontery that he was in perfect understanding with Austria, of which the speedy arrival of Maria Louisa would furnish the happiest proof.

Shaken by such positive assurances, France resigned herself, for some time, to the flattering hope of avoiding that war she had

*Relation fidèle et détaillée de la dernière Campagne de Buonaparte, terminée par la Bataille de Mont Saint-Jean, dite de Waterloo, ou de La BelleAlliance. Par un Témoin oculaire. Revue et corrigée. Paris, J. G. Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, Rue du Pont de Lodi, No. 5, près le Pont-Neuf. 1815.

herself declared against all Europe, by once more receiving, and in despite of treaties, the man she had for ever proscribed. Even those thinking Frenchmen whose ideas had not been misled either by self-interest or false notions of independence, still sought to create to themselves illusion, and wished to believe Buonaparte incapable of such atrocious deceit. Restrained by an ignorant and enthusiastic multitude, they could only offer their silent vows for the salvation of their country.

Thus, by perfidious insinuations, by lies artfully fabricated and more impudently supported, Buonaparte succeeded in restoring to France the confidence he stood in need of, to engage her in the contest he was preparing. Thus, to the eternal shame of the nation, the constant Disturber of its repose, the Devastator of Europe, the Monster to whom France owes all its misfortunes, at the moment when he resigned the people to a host of new enemies his very name had roused to vengeance, even at that moment he was in some measure hailed as their Deliverer.

He declares his wish for peace! He invokes the treaty of Paris-not to legitimate his rights to supreme power, which were already sufficiently consecrated by his bayonets- but he calls an assembly of the people, of whom he exacts no other services, nor imposes other obligations, than to proclaim the war he brings a national one. Thirsting for vengeance, and a slave to the same ambition by which he had already fallen, he dreams but of victory and conquests; and if he succeeds so far as to persuade the nation he still respects her, he only manoeuvres to render her the instrument of his mad projects. Impatient to figure once more on the horrid scene of battle, anticipating the moment when, restored to power, he may command even over death itself, he urges with incredible activity the formation of his armies.

At every quarter troops were embodied, organised, and dispatched to the frontiers. In a few days France is transformed into a vast camp. While a first and numerous army moves towards Belgium, others are collected in Alsace, in Lorraine, Franche-Comté, at the foot of the Alps, and under the Pyrenean mountains.

The powers of Europe knew too well the character of this perfidious man to deliberate one moment on the part they had to take. Declarations issued from the Congress of Vienna to announce their determination. The intercourse from France was most carefully intercepted, while innumerable armies were approaching its frontiers.

There was nothing to be hoped from the mediation of Austria; and all Europe rose up to hurl from his throne, a second time, the man whom rebellion and perjury had just placed there, and who dared again brave it by threats of fresh aggression to force its acknowledgment of him.

During these movements, the deputies of the departments assembled at Paris to assist at the Champ de Mai, where the vain and absurd formality of examining the votes on his Additional Act of the Constitutions of the Empire was to be performed. There, among a great number of upright and learned men, were found many names the Revolution had stamped with an infamous celebrity; and a crowd of military men without resources, and incapable of other political views than an exclusive preponderance founded on their sabres. Into such hands were committed the destinies of France; and the Acte Additionel, that audacious system of despotism, was ratified by men who, with the words. of freedom in their mouths, were only the interpreters of their master's will. The undigested opinions of a few thousand individuals from that class of people, the least qualified to be invested with deliberative power, and the greatest proportion from an ignorant, undiscerning soldiery, was impudently adopted as the expression of the national will. France, compressed by terror, and treated by its own army as a conquered country, was compelled to receive those laws which consecrated its servitude.

Meanwhile the French armies concentrated on the frontiers; that of the North, the most numerous of them all, occupied at the beginning of June extensive cantonments, par échelons, in the departments of the North and the Aisne. Its head-quarters were at Laon. It occupied Valenciennes and Maubeuge. Its right communicated with the army of the Moselle, and its left was covered by Lisle. Chiefly composed of old soldiers, the enthusiastic spirit of this army was intense in favour of Buonaparte. This army lived on the best possible terms with the people about the Aisne, who, beholding in this war a national one, sought only to preserve their country from fresh invasions, and set themselves with avidity to the construction of such fortifications as were conceived necessary for their defence.

The National Guards were armed at a moment; and the whole populace testified their intention of rising in mass on the approach of the enemy. The same spirit was manifested in all those departments of France which had been invaded in 1814, with the exception of that of the North, who openly avowed contrary sentiments, and did not dissemble their dislike to the presence of these troops. They could not draw from thence a single military resource, and the National Guards peremptorily refused to march. The army counted on the effective co-operation, at the moment of hostilities, of all the inhabitants generally; and the latter, persuaded that the Allies had only been able to enter France throgh a succession of treasons, had an entire confidence in the army. The latter, therefore, awaited in self-security the commencement of the campaign; but, impatient for battle, vented their spleen against the tardiness of the Allies.