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+Project Gutenberg's A Week at Waterloo in 1815, by Magdalene De Lancey
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+Title: A Week at Waterloo in 1815
+       Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She
+       Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey,
+       Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the
+       Great Battle
+
+Author: Magdalene De Lancey
+
+Editor: Major B. R. Ward
+
+Release Date: March 6, 2010 [EBook #31517]
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+Language: English
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+[Transcriber's Note: A table of contents has been added for the
+reader's convenience. Minor, obvious printer errors have been
+corrected without note. Numbers in brackets are footnotes, which are
+set forth below the paragraphs in which they appear. Numbers in
+parentheses appearing in the narrative are endnotes, which can be
+found in the Notes to Lady De Lancey's Narrative.]
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+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAM
+HOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED IN
+THE GREAT BATTLE
+
+
+EDITED BY MAJOR B.R. WARD
+ROYAL ENGINEERS
+
+
+LONDON
+JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
+1906
+
+
+[Illustration: Major William Howe De Lancey
+
+45th Regiment c. 1800.]
+
+
+     "Dim is the rumour of a common fight,
+     When host meets host, and many names are sunk;
+     But of a single combat Fame speaks clear."
+
+     --_Sohrab and Rustum._
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+INTRODUCTION
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+APPENDIX A--Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott
+  and Charles Dickens
+APPENDIX B--Bibliography of Lady De Lancey's Narrative
+INDEX
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+MAJOR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, 45th Regt. of
+Foot, c. 1800. _From a miniature in the possession
+of Wm. Heathcote De Lancey of New York_                 _Frontispiece_
+
+THE GOLD CROSS OF SIR WM. DE LANCEY, received
+after serving in the Peninsular War, with
+clasps for Talavera, Nive, Salamanca, San
+Sebastian, and Vittoria. _In the possession of
+Major J.A. Hay_                                           _Face p._ 10
+
+LADY DE LANCEY. _From a miniature after J.D.
+Engleheart_                                                   "     24
+
+PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF SIR WALTER
+SCOTT                                                         "     34
+
+PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHARLES DICKENS                "     36
+
+COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, _c._ 1813                 "     38
+
+MAP OF PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD OF WATERLOO                    "    110
+
+THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815                             "    113
+
+THE WATERLOO MEMORIAL IN EVERE CEMETERY                       "    118
+
+
+
+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at
+last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects.
+
+It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary
+history.
+
+The subject--a deathbed scene--might seem at first sight to be a trite
+and common one. The _mise-en-scčne_--the Field of Waterloo--alone
+however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play
+their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as
+Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they
+are incensed or crushed: For _Prosperity_ doth best discover Vice; But
+_Adversity_ doth best discover Vertue."
+
+As to the style, it will be sufficient to quote the authority of
+Dickens for the statement that no one but Defoe could have told the
+story in fiction.
+
+Its literary history is even more remarkable than either its style or
+its subject.
+
+It is no exaggeration to say of the narrative--as Bacon said of the
+Latin volume of his Essays--that it "may last as long as Bookes last."
+And yet it has remained in manuscript for more than eighty years. This
+is probably unique in the history of literature since the Invention of
+Printing.
+
+As regards the hero of the narrative, the Duke of Wellington once said
+that he "was an excellent officer, and would have risen to great
+distinction had he lived."[1]
+
+[Footnote 1: _Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington_, by
+Earl Stanhope, p. 183.]
+
+Captain Arthur Gore, who afterwards became Lieutenant-General Gore,
+alludes to him in the following terms: "This incomparable officer was
+deservedly esteemed by the Duke of Wellington, who honoured him with
+his particular confidence and regard."[2]
+
+[Footnote 2: _Explanatory Notes on the Battle of Waterloo_, by Captain
+Arthur Gore, 1817, p. 83.]
+
+His ancestors, for several generations, had been men of great
+distinction, and he undoubtedly inherited their great qualities in a
+very high degree.
+
+The De Lancey family is one of Huguenot origin, the founder of the
+family,[3] Etienne De Lancey, having fled from France at the time of
+the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
+
+[Footnote 3: In French annals the family can be traced back to the
+time of the Hundred Years' War. The first of the name, of whom there
+is any authentic record, was Guy de Lancy, Vicomte de Laval et de
+Nouvion, who in 1432 held of the Prince Bishop of Laon and Nouvion,
+villages and territories a few miles south of that city. See _History
+of New York during the Revolutionary War_, by Thomas Jones, edited by
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, vol i., p. 651, and _Dictionnaire de la
+Noblesse de France_, vol. viii., title "Lancy."]
+
+The following extracts treating of the family history are taken from
+Appleton's _Cyclopędia of American Biography_.
+
+The author of the articles, Edward Floyd De Lancey,[4] was born in
+1821, and died at Ossining, N.Y., on the 7th April 1905. At one time
+he held the position of President of the New York Genealogical
+Society, and has done a great deal of work in the field of historical
+research.
+
+[Footnote 4: For biographical sketch, _see_ Appleton's _Cyclopędia_,
+vol. ii., p. 130.]
+
+"Etienne De Lancey (great-grandfather of Sir William De Lancey), was
+born in Caen, France, 24th October 1663; and died in the city of New
+York, 18th November 1741. Having been compelled, as a Protestant, to
+leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (18th October
+1685), he escaped into Holland. Deciding to become a British subject
+and to emigrate to America, he crossed to England and took the oath of
+allegiance to James II. He landed in New York, 7th June 1686. His
+mother had given him, on his departure from Caen, a portion of the
+family jewels. He sold them for £300, became a merchant, and amassed a
+fortune of £100,000. He married Anne, second daughter of Stephanus van
+Cortlandt, 23rd January 1700. He took a prominent part in public
+affairs, representing the fourth ward of New York as alderman in
+1691-93, and was a member of Assembly for twenty-four years. While
+sitting in the latter body he gave his salary, during one session, to
+purchase the first town-clock erected in New York; and with the aid of
+his partner imported and presented to the city the first fire-engine
+that had been brought into the province. The De Lancey house, built by
+Etienne in 1700 upon a piece of land given to him by his
+father-in-law, is now the oldest building in the city of New
+York."[5] Mr De Lancey was buried in the family vault in Trinity
+Church, New York.
+
+[Footnote 5: Appleton's _Cyclopędia_, vol. ii., p. 129.]
+
+Three of his sons, James, Peter, and Oliver, left descendants.
+Descendants of the eldest son, James, amongst whom were included
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, the historian of the family, are resident in
+the city of New York, and also at Ossining, N.Y. Descendants of the
+second son, Peter, are now living in the county of Annapolis, Nova
+Scotia.[6]
+
+[Footnote 6: For further details of this branch of the family, _see_
+the _History of the County of Annapolis_, by Calnek and Savary, pp.
+339-344 and 499.]
+
+The third son, Oliver, grandfather of the hero of the present
+narrative, went to England after the Revolutionary War. No direct
+descendants of his in the male line would appear to be now living.
+
+The following is the account of his life as given in Appleton's
+_Cyclopędia_:--
+
+"Oliver, the youngest son of Etienne, was born in New York City, 16th
+September 1708; and died in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, 27th
+November 1785. He was originally a merchant, being a member of the
+firm founded by his father. He early took an active part in public
+affairs, and was noted for his decision of character and personal
+popularity. He represented the city of New York in the Assembly in
+1756-60, and served as alderman of the out-ward from 1754 till 1757.
+He was active in military affairs during the entire French War, and,
+in 1755, obtained leave from Connecticut to raise men there for
+service in New York, for which he received the thanks of the Assembly
+of his own province. In March 1758 he was appointed to the command of
+the forces then being collected for the expedition against Crown
+Point, and succeeded in raising the entire New York City regiment
+within ten days. He was placed at the head of the New York contingent,
+under General Abercrombie (about 5000 strong), as Colonel-in-Chief. In
+the attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 8th July 1758, he supported Lord Howe,
+and was near that officer when he fell mortally wounded. In November
+of the same year the Assembly of New York again voted him its thanks
+'for his great service, and singular care of the troops of the colony
+while under his command.' In 1760 he was appointed a member of the
+Provincial Council, retaining his seat until 1776. In 1763 he was
+made Receiver-General, and in 1773 Colonel-in-Chief of the Southern
+military district of the province. 'In June 1776,' says the historian
+Jones, 'he joined General Howe on Staten Island; and, had that officer
+profited by his honest advice, the American War, I will be bold to
+say, would have ended in a very different manner to what it did.' In
+September of that year he raised three regiments of Loyalists, largely
+at his own expense, of 500 men each, known as 'De Lancey's
+battalions.' Of these regiments a brigade was formed, and Colonel De
+Lancey was commissioned Brigadier-General in the Loyalist service. He
+was assigned to the command of Long Island, where he remained during
+the war. One of his battalions served in the South with great credit,
+under his son-in-law, Colonel John Harris Cruger, doing effective
+service in the defence of Fort Ninety-six against General Greene. In
+November 1777, his country-seat at Bloomingdale, on the Hudson, was
+robbed and burned at night by a party of Americans from the
+water-guard at Tarrytown, his wife and daughters being driven from the
+house in their night-dresses and compelled to spend the night in the
+fields, now the Central Park. Having been attainted, and his immense
+estates in New York and New Jersey confiscated, General De Lancey
+retired to England, where he resided in Beverley until his death. Of
+his four daughters, Susanna married Sir William Draper, while
+Charlotte became the wife of Sir David Dundas, K.C.B., who succeeded
+the Duke of York as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army."[7]
+
+[Footnote 7: Appleton's _Cyclopędia_, vol. ii., p. 132.]
+
+In the Life of Van Schaak, his decease is mentioned thus by a
+fellow-Loyalist: "Our old friend has at last taken his departure from
+Beverley, which he said should hold his bones; he went off without
+pain or struggle, his body wasted to a skeleton, his mind the same.
+The family, most of them, collected in town (London). There will
+scarcely be a village in England without some American dust in it, I
+believe, by the time we are all at rest."[8]
+
+[Footnote 8: _Loyalists of the American Revolution_ (Sabine), vol. i.,
+365.]
+
+Stephen, the eldest son of Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey, and
+father of Sir William De Lancey, was born in New York City about 1740;
+and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 1798. He was educated
+in England, and practised law in New York before the Revolutionary
+War, during which he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the "De Lancey's"
+second battalion. After the war he was appointed Chief Justice of the
+Bahama Islands, and subsequently was made Governor of Tobago and its
+dependencies. His health becoming impaired while he held the latter
+office, he sailed for England to rejoin his family. But he grew
+rapidly worse on the voyage, and, at his own request, was transferred
+to an American vessel bound for Portsmouth, N.H., where he died, and
+was buried a few days after his arrival.[9]
+
+[Footnote 9: The following is an extract from the Parish Register of
+St John's Church, Portsmouth, N.H.
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+"1798.           |  RECORD OF DEATHS.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Decbr. 6th       |  His Excellency, _Stephen De Lancy_, Governour of
+                 |  Tobago, who died, the night after his arrival
+                 |  in the harbour of this town, of a decline which
+                 |  had been upon him for six months, aged 50
+                 |  years."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Mr De Lancey was buried in the Wentworth tomb, in St John's
+Churchyard, where many of the Wentworth Governors of New Hampshire and
+their families are buried.--ED.]
+
+Sir William De Lancey, soldier, only son of the preceding, was born in
+New York about 1781,[10] and died in June 1815, in consequence of
+wounds received at the battle of Waterloo. He was educated in England,
+and early entered the British army. He served with great distinction
+under Wellington in Spain, and was several times honourably mentioned
+in his despatches.[11]
+
+[Footnote 10: This date agrees with the tradition handed down in the
+family with Lady De Lancey's narrative, to the effect that he was only
+thirty-four at the time of his death at Waterloo.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 11: _Vide_ Gurwood's _Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_,
+2nd edition, vol. iii., pp. 227 and 229; vol. v., p. 476; vol. vi., p.
+542. Sir Harry Smith, a soldier of soldiers--"inter milites
+miles"--speaks of him in his Autobiography as "that gallant fellow De
+Lancey." (_Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, vol. i., p. 266.)]
+
+[Illustration: THE GOLD CROSS OF SIR WILLIAM DE LANCEY.
+
+Received after serving in the Peninsular War.
+
+_In the possession of Major J.A. Hay._]
+
+At the close of the war he was made a Knight of the Bath. When
+Napoleon landed from Elba, Wellington, in forming his staff, insisted
+on having De Lancey appointed as his Quartermaster-General. The
+officer really entitled to the promotion was Sir William's
+brother-in-law, Sir Hudson Lowe;[12] but as Wellington had conceived
+a dislike for him, he refused to accept that officer in that capacity.
+The military authorities, however, insisted on his appointment, and it
+was only when Wellington made the promotion of De Lancey a _sine quā
+non_ of his acceptance of the supreme command that the former
+yielded.[13] Six weeks before the battle of Waterloo, Sir William
+married the daughter of Sir James Hall[14] of Dunglass, the Scottish
+scientist. His bride accompanied him on the Continent. On the second
+day of the battle[15] Sir William was knocked from his horse by a
+spent cannon-ball, and it was at first supposed that he had been
+instantly killed. Thirty-six hours afterwards he was discovered, still
+alive and in his senses, but incapable of motion, although without any
+visible wound. Notwithstanding the skill of the surgeons, and the
+tender care of his wife, he succumbed to his injuries nine days after
+the battle.[16]
+
+[Footnote 12: It was not till the 16th December 1815--six months after
+Waterloo--that Sir Hudson Lowe married Mrs Susan Johnson, sister of
+Sir William De Lancey. (_Dictionary of National Biography_, vol.
+xxxiv., p. 191.) See also _The Creevey Papers_, Third Edition (1905),
+p. 247.]
+
+[Footnote 13: "Wellington assumed command in the Netherlands early in
+April 1815, and Lowe, who had been acting as Quartermaster-General in
+the Low Countries under the command of the Prince of Orange, remained
+for a few weeks under him as his Quartermaster-General; but having
+been nominated to command the troops in Genoa designed to co-operate
+with the Austro-Sardinian armies, he was replaced in May by Sir
+William Howe De Lancey." (_Dictionary of National Biography_, art.
+"Lowe, Sir Hudson," vol. xxxiv., p. 191.) See also _The Creevey
+Papers_, Third Edition (1905), p. 247.
+
+The following extract of a letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens to
+Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Ghent, 8th April 1815, alludes
+to the hitch about Sir Hudson Lowe: "I shall communicate fully with
+the Commander-in-Chief upon the Duke of Wellington's wishes respecting
+his Staff.... As you were somewhat anxious about Sir Hudson Lowe, I
+must apprise you that he will not do for the Duke." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., pp. 42 and 43.) (_Cf._
+_The Creevey Papers_, Third Edition (1905), p. 289.)
+
+Evidently Sir Hudson Lowe was no more of a _persona grata_ to
+Wellington than he afterwards became to Napoleon!
+
+A letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens, who appears to have been
+acting at the time as Military Secretary to the Duke of York,
+Commander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards, written to the Duke of
+Wellington from London on the 16th April 1815, shows the high
+estimation in which the Duke held De Lancey's services:--
+
+"De Lancey is in town on his way to go out.... I told him the very
+handsome and complimentary manner in which you asked for his services,
+and assured him that nothing could be so gratifying, in my view of the
+case, to his military and professional feelings as the desire you
+expressed to me of having him again with you." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., p. 130.)
+
+That the Duke felt deeply the interference of Headquarters with his
+selection of Staff Officers is clearly shown by the following letter,
+written by him to Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Bruxelles,
+4th May 1815:--
+
+"To tell you the truth, I am not very well pleased with the manner in
+which the Horse Guards have conducted themselves towards me. It will
+be admitted that the army is not a very good one, and, being composed
+as it is, I might have expected that the Generals and Staff formed by
+me in the last war would have been allowed to come to me again; but
+instead of that, I am overloaded with people I have never seen before;
+and it appears to be purposely intended to keep those out of my way
+whom I wished to have. However I'll do the best I can with the
+instruments which have been sent to assist me." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., p. 219.)]
+
+[Footnote 14: See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xxiv., p.
+68.]
+
+[Footnote 15: On the 18th June, at Waterloo; the battle of Quatre Bras
+having been fought on the 16th.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 16: Appleton's _Cyclopędia_, vol. ii., pp. 132, 133.]
+
+There are several references to De Lancey's death in the "_Letters of
+Colonel Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B._, commanding the R.H.A. in the
+army under the Duke of Wellington, written during the Peninsular and
+Waterloo campaigns," edited by Major-General Sir Edward Sabine, R.A.
+On the 29th June Sir Augustus writes to Lady Frazer from Mons: "I
+regret to state that poor De Lancey is dead; so Hume, the Duke's
+surgeon, told me. He had opened the body; eight ribs were forced from
+the spine, one totally broke to pieces, and part of it in the lungs.
+Poor De Lancey! He is our greatest loss; a noble fellow and an
+admirable officer," p. 582.
+
+In connection with the foregoing, it will be interesting to compare
+the account of De Lancey's wound given in the _Dictionary of National
+Biography_:--
+
+    "The Duke of Wellington gave the following version of the
+    occurrence to Samuel Rogers: 'De Lancey was with me, and
+    speaking to me when he was struck. We were on a point of land
+    that overlooked the plain. I had just been warned off by some
+    soldiers (but as I saw well from it, and two divisions were
+    engaging below, I said "Never mind"), when a ball came
+    bounding along _en ricochet_, as it is called, and, striking
+    him on the back, sent him many yards over the head of his
+    horse. He fell on his face, and bounded upwards and fell
+    again. All the staff dismounted and ran to him, and when I
+    came up he said, 'Pray tell them to leave me and let me die
+    in peace.' I had him conveyed to the rear, and two days
+    after, on my return from Brussels, I saw him in a barn, and
+    he spoke with such strength that I said (for I had reported
+    him killed), 'Why! De Lancey, you will have the advantage of
+    Sir Condy in "Castle Rackrent"--you will know what your
+    friends said of you after you were dead.' 'I hope I shall,'
+    he replied. Poor fellow! We knew each other ever since we
+    were boys. But I had no time to be sorry. I went on with the
+    army, and never saw him again."[17]
+
+[Footnote 17: "Recollections of Samuel Rogers," under "Waterloo." From
+the article on "Sir William De Lancey," by H. Manners Chichester, in
+the _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xiv., pp. 304, 305.]
+
+The following is the extract from Wellington's official despatch of
+the 19th June, referring to De Lancey:--
+
+    "I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the
+    Adjutant-General, Major-General Barnes, who was wounded, and
+    of the Quartermaster-General, Colonel De Lancey, who was
+    killed by a cannon-shot in the middle of the action. This
+    officer is a serious loss to His Majesty's service, and to me
+    at this moment."[18]
+
+[Footnote 18: Gurwood, vol. viii., p. 150. _Cf._ _Letters of Colonel
+Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B._, dated Nivelles, June 20: "De Lancey
+is said to be dead: this is our greatest loss, none can be greater,
+public or private," p. 550.]
+
+At the end of the despatch there is a _P.S._ announcing the death of
+Major-General Sir William Ponsonby, followed by a second _P.S._
+couched in the following terms: "I have not yet got the returns of
+killed and wounded, but I enclose a list of officers killed and
+wounded on the two days, as far as the same can be made out without
+the returns; and I am very happy to add that Colonel De Lancey is not
+dead, and that strong hopes of his recovery are entertained."
+
+That the Duke felt keenly his severe losses in killed and wounded,
+especially amongst the members of his Staff, is shown by the following
+reminiscence of General Alava,[19] as told by him, two years after the
+battle, to Sir Harry Smith and his wife--the lady now immortalised by
+the name Ladysmith, emblazoned on the colours or accoutrements of
+thirty-five British regiments.
+
+[Footnote 19: A Spanish naval officer who served on the Staff of the
+Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Alava
+enjoyed the unique distinction of having been present both at
+Trafalgar and Waterloo. At the former battle he commanded a Spanish
+line-of-battle ship.--ED.]
+
+On the evening of the battle, "the Duke got back to his quarters at
+Waterloo about nine or ten at night. The table was laid for the usual
+number, while none appeared of the many of his Staff but Alava and
+Fremantle. The Duke said very little, ate hastily and heartily, but
+every time the door opened he gave a searching look, evidently in the
+hope of some of his valuable Staff approaching. When he had finished
+eating, he held up both hands in an imploring attitude and said, 'The
+hand of Almighty God has been upon me this day,' jumped up, went to
+his couch, and was asleep in a moment."[20]
+
+[Footnote 20: _Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, vol. i., p. 291.]
+
+The following is from General Alava's official report of the action:
+"Of those who were by the side of the Duke of Wellington, only he and
+myself remained untouched in our persons and horses. The rest were all
+either killed, wounded, or lost one or more horses. The Duke was
+unable to refrain from tears on witnessing the death of so many brave
+and honourable men, and the loss of so many friends and faithful
+companions."[21]
+
+[Footnote 21: From the _Supplement to the Madrid Gazette_ of the 13th
+July 1815, quoted in the London _Evening Mail_ of August 2 to August
+4, 1815.]
+
+The next morning, the Duke wrote the following note to Lady Frances W.
+Webster, dated
+
+     "BRUXELLES, 19_th_ _June_ 1815.
+
+     "Half-past 8 in the morning.
+
+     "MY DEAR LADY FRANCES,
+
+     "Lord Mount-Norris may remain in Bruxelles in perfect
+     security. I yesterday, after a most severe and bloody
+     contest, gained a complete victory, and pursued the French
+     till after dark. They are in complete confusion; and I have,
+     I believe, 150 pieces of cannon; and Blücher, who continued
+     the pursuit all night, my soldiers being tired to death,
+     sent me word this morning that he had got 60 more. My loss
+     is immense. Lord Uxbridge, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, General
+     Cooke, General Barnes, and Colonel Berkeley are wounded:
+     Colonel De Lancey, Canning, Gordon, General Picton
+     killed.[22] The finger of Providence was upon me, and I
+     escaped unhurt.--Believe me, etc.,[23]
+
+     "WELLINGTON."
+
+[Footnote 22: All the foregoing were on the General Staff of the Army
+or on the Duke's personal Staff.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 23: _Supplementary Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_,
+vol. x., p. 531.]
+
+Captain Gronow--a subaltern of the 1st Guards at Waterloo--gives us
+the following glimpse of the Duke and his Staff, on the morning of the
+18th, before the opening of the battle:--
+
+    "The road was ankle-deep in mud and slough; and we had not
+    proceeded a quarter of a mile when we heard the trampling of
+    horses' feet, and on looking round perceived a large
+    cavalcade of officers coming at full speed. In a moment we
+    recognised the Duke himself at their head. He was accompanied
+    by the Duke of Richmond, and his son, Lord William Lennox.
+    The entire Staff of the army was close at hand: the Prince of
+    Orange, Count Pozzo di Borgo, Baron Vincent, the Spanish
+    General Alava, Prince Castel Cicala, with their several
+    aides-de-camp; Felton Hervey, Fitzroy Somerset, and De Lancey
+    were the last that appeared. They all seemed as gay and
+    unconcerned as if they were riding to meet the hounds in some
+    quiet English county."[24]
+
+[Footnote 24: _Recollections and Anecdotes_, by Captain Gronow, p.
+186.]
+
+Colonel Basil Jackson, who in 1815 was a lieutenant in the Royal Staff
+Corps, attached to the Quartermaster-General's department (see
+Dalton's _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 38), gives the following interesting
+reminiscences of De Lancey on the 17th, at Quatre Bras, and during the
+retreat to Waterloo on the same day: "Some few changes were made in
+the disposition of the troops after the Duke of Wellington arrived on
+the ground, soon after daylight; arms were then piled, and the men,
+still wearied with their exertions of marching and fighting on the
+preceding day, lay down to snatch a little more rest. The Duke, too,
+after riding about and satisfying himself that all was as it should
+be, dismounted and stretched himself on the ground, very near the
+point where the road from Brussels to Charleroi crossed that leading
+from Nivelles to Namur, forming thereby the _Quatre Bras_....
+
+"I remained for some time at a short distance from the great man, who
+occasionally addressed a few words to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir E.
+Barnes, De Lancey, and others of his principal officers. He was then
+awaiting the return of Sir Alexander Gordon, who had gone off by the
+Namur road, some time between 6 and 7 o'clock, escorted by a squadron
+of the 10th Hussars. I had seen this detachment start at a round trot,
+but of course knew not the object of despatching it; which, as we
+learned afterwards, was to gain intelligence of Blücher's operations,
+whose defeat at Ligny we, that is, the army generally, were ignorant
+of, though the Duke was aware of it.
+
+"I availed myself of this period of quietness to go and examine
+particularly the ground which had been so hardly contested the day
+before....
+
+"Returning to the place where I had left the Duke when I set out on my
+ramble round the outposts, I found him still on the same spot; where
+he remained till Gordon and his escort came in with jaded horses, soon
+after 10 o'clock. On hearing his report, the Duke said a few words to
+De Lancey, who, observing me near him, directed me to go to Sir Thomas
+Picton, and tell him the orders were to make immediate preparation for
+falling back upon Waterloo....
+
+"Just as the retreat commenced (about noon), I was ordered off to
+Mont St Jean, where I was told I should meet the Quartermaster-General;
+accordingly I made for Genappe, and as the high road was by that time
+filled with troops, being, moreover, careless of the farmer's
+interest, I took a short cut through the corn-fields, in such a
+direction as enabled me to strike into that village about its centre.
+There I found sad confusion prevailing; country waggons with stores,
+ammunition tumbrils, provision waggons, and wounded men, choked up the
+street, so that it was impossible for any one to pass. Aware of the
+great importance of freeing the passage at a time when the retiring
+troops might be pressed by the enemy, I at once set to work to remedy
+the disorder that prevailed. Let the reader picture to himself Police
+Constable 61 C posted at the pastry-cook's corner where Gracechurch
+Street enters Cheapside, at a moment when those passages, together
+with Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Streets are blocked up by 'buses,
+drays, waggons, carts, advertising locomotives, private carriages, and
+dodging cabs, when that unhappy functionary is vainly striving to
+restore order and clear the ways, and he will have some idea of the
+difficulty I experienced in executing my self-imposed task. Happily, I
+was acquainted with some pithy expressions in two or three languages,
+which were familiar to the ears of those I had to deal with; and
+these, together with the flat of my sword, proved very efficacious in
+the end. While in the thick of this scene of tumult and confusion, I
+felt some one clap me on the shoulder, and on looking round saw Sir W.
+De Lancey. 'You are very well employed here,' said he; 'remain, and
+keep the way clear for the troops; I shall not want you at Waterloo.'
+Encouraged by my chief's commendation I redoubled my efforts, and had
+soon the satisfaction of seeing the defile free."[25]
+
+[Footnote 25: "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+_United Service Journal_ for 1847, Part III., p. 11.]
+
+"A week after the battle"--to quote again from the article by H.
+Manners Chichester in the _Dictionary of National Biography_--"De
+Lancey succumbed to his injuries, in a peasant's cottage in the
+village of Waterloo, where he was tenderly nursed by his young wife,
+who had joined him in Brussels a few days before the battle.
+According to another account, De Lancey was laid down at his own
+request when being conveyed to the rear, and so was left out untended
+all night and part of the next day. Rogers, in a note, states that he
+was killed by 'the wind of the shot,' his skin not being broken; and
+also that Lady De Lancey left a manuscript account of his last days."
+
+[Illustration: Lady de Lancey
+
+From a miniature after J.D. Engleheart]
+
+This manuscript account was written in the first instance by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.
+The original manuscript has been lost sight of. An early copy, which
+was made by Mrs Basil Hall, is now in the possession of their
+grand-daughter, Lady Parsons. Copies would appear to have been made by
+members of the family at various times; but the existence of the
+narrative was apparently not known to Edward Floyd De Lancey, the
+historian of the family in Appleton's _Cyclopędia_. Besides the copy
+of the narrative made by Mrs Basil Hall, another copy came into the
+possession of the poet Rogers. This copy is now owned by W. Arthur
+Sharpe, Esq., Highgate, N. Both the above versions--which contain only
+slight variations--have been consulted in the present edition of the
+narrative.
+
+Captain Basil Hall, R.N. (vide _Dictionary of National Biography_,
+vol. xxiv., p. 58), was a well-known author in his day, his best known
+work being _Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, published in three
+series between 1831 and 1833, and frequently reprinted since.
+
+In Volume II. of the first series, Captain Hall alludes to his first
+meeting with De Lancey. It occurred on board H.M.S. _Endymion_ on the
+morning of the 18th January 1809, when the British troops had all been
+safely embarked on the transports, the second day after the battle of
+Corunna.
+
+Basil Hall--then a lieutenant in the navy--and De Lancey[26] struck up
+a great friendship on the _Endymion_, and the former introduced his
+soldier friend after the voyage home to his family in Scotland. The
+marriage of De Lancey six years afterwards to Basil Hall's sister
+Magdalene was a result of this introduction.
+
+[Footnote 26: De Lancey was at this time a lieutenant-colonel and
+permanent assistant in the quartermaster-general's department (Army
+List, 1809, p. 323).
+
+His first commission as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons bore the
+date 7th July 1792 (Army List, 1793, p. 50), when he was only eleven
+years old.
+
+He was gazetted lieutenant in the same regiment on the 26th February
+1793, and was subsequently transferred to the 80th Foot.
+
+On the 20th October 1796 he was gazetted captain in the 17th Light
+Dragoons, of which regiment his uncle, General Oliver De Lancey, was
+then colonel.
+
+He obtained a majority in the 45th (or Nottinghamshire) Regiment of
+Foot on the 17th October 1799. He was by this time eighteen years of
+age, and up to this date had probably no connection with the army at
+all beyond drawing his pay and figuring in the Army List. Even now he
+does not appear to have joined his regiment until its return from the
+West Indies, a year or two afterwards (_Dict. Nat. Biog._, vol. xiv.,
+p. 305). His first uniform was probably that of the 45th Foot, and the
+portrait, forming the frontispiece of this volume, was in all
+likelihood painted on his first joining the regiment as a major in
+1800 or 1801.
+
+In the Army List of 1804 he is shown on page 31 as an assistant
+quartermaster-general. His actual regimental service can therefore
+hardly have exceeded two or three years. Until his death in 1815, he
+was continuously on the staff of the army in the quartermaster-general's
+department.]
+
+The following extract from Captain Basil Hall's _Fragments of Voyages
+and Travels_, gives an account of the first meeting of the two friends
+on board the _Endymion_, and of the dramatic circumstances under
+which Captain Hall heard the news of his sister's marriage, and of De
+Lancey's death at Waterloo:--
+
+"As we in the _Endymion_ had the exclusive charge of the convoy of
+transports, we remained to the very last, to assist the ships with
+provisions, and otherwise to regulate the movements of the stragglers.
+Whilst we were thus engaged, and lying to, with our main-topsail to
+the mast, a small Spanish boat came alongside, with two or three
+British officers in her. On these gentlemen being invited to step up,
+and say what they wanted, one of them begged we would inform him where
+the transport No. 139 was to be found.
+
+"'How can we possibly tell you that?' said the officer of the watch.
+'Don't you see the ships are scattered as far as the horizon in every
+direction? You had much better come on board this ship in the
+meantime.'
+
+"'No, sir, no,' cried the officers; 'we have received directions to go
+on board the transport 139, and her we must find.'
+
+"'What is all this about?' inquired the captain of the _Endymion_;
+and being told of the scruples of the strangers, insisted upon their
+coming up. He very soon explained to them the utter impossibility, at
+such a moment, of finding out any particular transport amongst between
+three and four hundred ships, every one of which was following her own
+way. We found out afterwards that they only were apprehensive of
+having it imagined they had designedly come to the frigate for better
+quarters. Nothing, of course, was farther from our thoughts; indeed,
+it was evidently the result of accident. So we sent away their little
+boat, and just at that moment the gun-room steward announced
+breakfast. We invited our new friends down, and gave them a hearty
+meal in peace and comfort--a luxury they had not enjoyed for many a
+long and rugged day.
+
+"Our next care was to afford our tired warriors the much-required
+comforts of a razor and clean linen. We divided the party amongst us;
+and I was so much taken with one of these officers, that I urged him
+to accept such accommodation as my cabin and wardrobe afforded. He
+had come to us without one stitch of clothes beyond what he then wore,
+and these, to say the truth, were not in the best condition, at the
+elbows and other angular points of his frame. Let that pass--he was as
+fine a fellow as ever stepped; and I had much pride and pleasure in
+taking care of him during the passage.
+
+"We soon became great friends; but on reaching England we parted, and
+I never saw him more. Of course he soon lost sight of me, but his fame
+rose high, and, as I often read his name in the Gazettes during the
+subsequent campaigns in the Peninsula, I looked forward with a
+gradually increasing anxiety to the renewal of an acquaintance begun
+so auspiciously. At last I was gratified by a bright flash of hope in
+this matter, which went out, alas, as speedily as it came. Not quite
+six years after these events, I came home from India, in command of a
+sloop of war. Before entering the Channel, we fell in with a ship
+which gave us the first news of the battle of Waterloo, and spared us
+a precious copy of the Duke of Wellington's despatch; and within five
+minutes after landing at Portsmouth, I met a near relation of my own.
+This seemed a fortunate rencontre, for I had not received a letter
+from home for nearly a year--and I eagerly asked him--
+
+"'What news of all friends?'
+
+"'I suppose,' he said, 'you know of your sister's marriage?'
+
+"'No, indeed! I do not!--which sister?'
+
+"He told me.
+
+"'But to whom is she married?' I cried out with intense impatience,
+and wondering greatly that he had not told me this at once.
+
+"'Sir William De Lancey was the person,' he answered. But he spoke not
+in the joyous tone that befits such communications.
+
+"'God bless me!' I exclaimed. 'I am delighted to hear that. I know him
+well--we picked him up in a boat, at sea, after the battle of Corunna,
+and I brought him home in my cabin in the _Endymion_. I see by the
+despatch, giving an account of the late victory, that he was badly
+wounded--how is he now? I observe by the postscript to the Duke's
+letter that strong hopes are entertained of his recovery.'
+
+"'Yes,' said my friend, 'that was reported, but could hardly have been
+believed. Sir William was mortally wounded, and lived not quite a week
+after the action. The only comfort about this sad matter is, that his
+poor wife, being near the field at the time, joined him immediately
+after the battle, and had the melancholy satisfaction of attending her
+husband to the last!'"[27]
+
+[Footnote 27: _Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, by Captain Basil
+Hall, R.N., 1831, vol. ii., pp. 367-371.]
+
+It was, as before stated, at Captain Hall's request that Lady De
+Lancey wrote the memorable Waterloo narrative.
+
+In order to satisfy the natural curiosity of friends--who had probably
+heard of the narrative in Captain Hall's possession--Lady De Lancey
+prepared an abridged version, in more general terms, and of a much
+more reserved character than the original account, written for her
+brother only.
+
+This condensed account was found amongst the papers of her nephew,
+General De Lancey Lowe, after his death in 1880. His widow published
+it in the _Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_ for 1888, p. 414.
+
+In some few instances this abridged account contains descriptive
+touches not given in the original narrative. These variations are
+given in the form of notes to the present edition of the narrative.
+
+Thomas Moore in his diary for the 29th August 1824 describes the
+circumstances under which Captain Hall lent him his copy of the
+narrative as follows:--
+
+"A note early from Lord Lansdowne, to say that Capt. Basil Hall, who
+is at Bowood, wishes much to see me; and that if I cannot come over
+to-day to either luncheon or dinner, he will call upon me to-morrow.
+Answered that I would come to dinner to-day. Walked over at five....
+Company, only Capt. Basil Hall, Luttrel, and Nugent, and an _ad
+interim_ tutor of Kerry's.... Hall gave me, before I came away, a
+journal written by his sister, Lady De Lancey, containing an account
+of the death of her husband at Waterloo, and her attendance upon him
+there, they having been but three months married. Walked home; took
+the narrative to bed with me to read a page or two, but found it so
+deeply interesting, that I read till near two o'clock, and finished
+it; made myself quite miserable, and went to sleep, I believe, crying.
+Hall said he would call upon me to-morrow."[28]
+
+[Footnote 28: _Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore_,
+edited by Lord John Russell, vol. iv., p. 239.]
+
+Earl Stanhope, in his _Notes of Conversations with the Duke of
+Wellington_, p. 182, writes as follows: "I mentioned with much praise
+Lady De Lancey's narrative of her husband's lingering death and of her
+own trials and sufferings after Waterloo. The Duke told me that he had
+seen it--Lord Bathurst having lent it him many years ago." This
+conversation took place on the 12th October 1839.
+
+The two most famous literary men to whom Captain Basil Hall lent the
+narrative, were, however, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.
+
+Sir Walter Scott writes under date Abbotsford, 13th October 1825, that
+his publisher, Constable, thinks that the narrative "would add very
+great interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris
+soon after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the
+most valuable and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war."[29]
+
+[Illustration: PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.]
+
+     "I never read anything which affected my own feelings more
+     strongly, or which, I am sure, would have a deeper interest
+     on [_sic_] those of the public....
+
+     "Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of
+     this heartrending diary, which makes me suppose a
+     possibility that after such a lapse of years, the
+     publication may possibly (as that which cannot but do the
+     highest honour to the memory of the amiable authoress) may
+     [_sic_] not be judged altogether inadmissible....--Most
+     truly yours,
+
+     "WALTER SCOTT."[30]
+
+[Footnote 29: Perhaps the _Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de
+Larochejaquelein_ of which four editions were published between 1814
+and 1817--one of the noblest and most touching of autobiographies--is
+the nearest parallel in literature to Lady De Lancey's narrative. The
+French Marchioness describes her experiences in Paris in 1789, and
+during the Insurrection of La Vendée in 1793.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 30: The complete letter will be found in Appendix A of this
+volume.]
+
+[Illustration: PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHARLES DICKENS.]
+
+The following is a transcript of the most remarkable passages in
+Dickens' letter:--
+
+     "DEVONSHIRE TERRACE,
+
+     _"Tuesday evening_, 16_th_ _March_ 1841.
+
+     "MY DEAR HALL, ...
+
+     "I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De
+     Lancey's narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not
+     have mastered it even then. One glance at it, when, through
+     your kindness, it first arrived, had impressed me with a
+     foreboding of its terrible truth, and I really have shrunk
+     from it in pure lack of heart.
+
+     "After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the
+     most wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours
+     in the evening--searching for some pictures I wanted to
+     build upon--I went at it, at about ten o'clock. To say that
+     the reading that most astonishing and tremendous account has
+     constituted an epoch in my life--that I shall never forget
+     the lightest word of it--that I cannot throw the impression
+     aside, and never saw anything so real, so touching, and so
+     actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am husband
+     and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General
+     Dundas, doctor and bedstead--everything and everybody (but
+     the Prussian officer--damn him) all in one. What I have
+     always looked upon as masterpieces of powerful and
+     affecting description, seem as nothing in my eyes. If I live
+     for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and then,
+     from this hour to the day of my death, with the most
+     frightful reality. The slightest mention of a battle will
+     bring the whole thing before me. I shall never think of the
+     Duke any more but as he stood in his shirt with the officer
+     in full-dress uniform, or as he dismounted from his horse
+     when the gallant man was struck down. It is a striking proof
+     of the power of that most extraordinary man, Defoe, that I
+     seem to recognise in every line of the narrative something
+     of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+     that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the
+     obstacles to getting on--the shutting herself up in her room
+     and determining not to hear--the not going to the door when
+     the knocking came--the finding out by her wild spirits when
+     she heard he was safe, how much she had feared when in doubt
+     and anxiety--the desperate desire to move towards him--the
+     whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+     their daily shifts and contrivances, and the lying down
+     beside him in the bed and both _falling asleep_; and his
+     resolving not to serve any more, but to live quietly
+     thenceforth; and her sorrow when she saw him eating with an
+     appetite, so soon before his death; and his death
+     itself--all these are matters of truth, which only that
+     astonishing creature, I think, could have told in fiction.
+
+     "Of all the beautiful and tender passages--the thinking
+     every day how happy and blest she was--the decorating him
+     for the dinner--the standing in the balcony at night and
+     seeing the troops melt away through the gate--and the
+     rejoining him on his sick-bed--I say not a word. They are
+     God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again, with
+     an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than
+     toast and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of
+     this paper, that its impression on me can never be told;
+     that the ground she travelled (which I know well) is holy
+     ground to me from this day; and that, please Heaven, I will
+     tread its every foot this very next summer, to have the
+     softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+     where it was acted.
+
+     "You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are
+     awakened by such things, they don't wear out....--Faithfully
+     yours,
+
+     "CHARLES DICKENS."[31]
+
+[Footnote 31: The complete letter will be found in Appendix A of this
+volume.]
+
+Many literary and artistic masterpieces have grouped themselves round
+Waterloo. One of the most striking passages in _Vanity Fair_ refers to
+an imaginary incident in connection with the battle. Sir Walter Scott
+once said that in the whole range of English poetry there was nothing
+finer than the stanzas in _Childe Harold_, commencing with the line--
+
+     "There was a sound of revelry by night,"
+
+and ending with the words--
+
+     "Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent."
+
+Tennyson's _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_ ranks as a
+funeral dirge with _Lycidas_ and _Adonais_. Napoleon's tomb in the
+Invalides may hold its own almost with the Tąj. Yet, when all is said
+and done, the fact remains that no hero of the battle, and indeed few
+victims of war, have ever received a more touching memorial than the
+one here set forth in the sight of all future generations of men by
+the love and the literary genius of Lady De Lancey.
+
+B.R. WARD.
+
+HALIFAX, N.S.,
+  _April_ 1906.
+
+[Illustration: COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY (_c._ 1813).]
+
+
+
+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+
+I arrived at Brussels on Thursday, 8th June 1815, and was much
+surprised at the peaceful appearance of that town, and the whole
+country from Ostend. We were billeted in the house of the Count de
+Lannoy, in the Park, which is a square of very beautiful houses with
+fine large trees in the centre. The Count de Lannoy was very
+attentive, and we had a suite of very excellent rooms, up four
+stories, which is the fashion in that country, I believe. It was
+amusing enough, sometimes, to see from our windows the people parading
+in the Park. I saw very little of the town, and still less of the
+inhabitants; for notwithstanding Sir William's belief that we should
+remain quietly there for a month at least, I have the comfort of
+remembering that, as there was a chance we might separate in a few
+days, I wasted no time in visiting or going to balls, which I did not
+care for, and therefore I never went out, except for an hour or two
+every afternoon, to walk with Sir William.
+
+The people in general dined between three and four, we dined at six;
+we walked while others were at dinner, so that literally I never saw
+anybody, except some gentlemen, two or three of whom dined with us
+every day--Sir William's friends, whom he brought to introduce to me.
+
+I never passed such a delightful time, for there was always enough of
+very pleasant society to keep us gay and merry, and the rest of the
+day was spent in peaceful happiness.
+
+Fortunately my husband had scarcely any business to do, and he only
+went to the office for about an hour every day. I then used to sit and
+think with astonishment of my being transported into such a scene of
+happiness, so perfect, so unalloyed!--feeling that I was entirely
+enjoying life--not a moment wasted. How active and how well I was! I
+scarcely knew what to do with all my health and spirits. Now and then
+a pang would cross my mind at the prospect of the approaching
+campaign, but I chased away the thought, resolved not to lose the
+present bliss by dwelling on the chance of future pain. Sir William
+promised to let me know as soon as he knew himself, everything
+concerning the movement of the army; and accordingly he gave me every
+paper to read, to keep my mind easy. After some consideration, he
+decided that upon the commencement of hostilities I should go to
+Antwerp, and there remain till the end of the campaign, which might
+last months. He wished me not to think of going along with him,
+because the rear of a great army was always dangerous, and an unfit
+situation for a woman; and he wished not to draw me into any scenes,
+or near any danger, more than if I had remained in England. He little
+thought I should be in the midst of horrors I would not pass again for
+any being _now_ living; and alas, the cautious anxiety he expressed
+that I should avoid being shocked, only made me feel more desolate and
+miserable when I found myself in the midst of most terrible scenes.
+
+Several other officers, on hearing that he designed to send me to
+Antwerp, fixed that their wives should go there too. It is a very
+strongly fortified town, and likewise having the sea to escape by, if
+necessary, it was by far the safest place; and being only twenty-five
+miles from Brussels, it added so little to the time of hearing from
+him, if separated, that I acquiesced cheerfully. After this was
+arranged, we never thought more about it, and enjoyed each hour as it
+passed with no more anxiety than was sufficient to render time
+precious.
+
+On Wednesday the 14th, I had a little alarm in the evening with some
+public papers, and Sir William went out with them, but returned in a
+short time; and it passed by so completely, that Thursday(1) forenoon
+was the happiest day of my life; but I cannot recollect a day of my
+short married life that was not perfect. I shall never get on if I
+begin to talk of what my happiness was; but I dread to enter on the
+gloomy past, which I shudder to look back upon, and I often wonder I
+survived it. We little dreamt that Thursday was the last we were to
+pass together, and that the storm would burst so soon. Sir William had
+to dine at the Spanish Ambassador's,(2) the first invitation he had
+accepted from the time I went; he was unwilling to go, and delayed and
+still delayed, till at last when near six, I fastened all his medals
+and crosses on his coat, helped him to put it on, and he went.(3) I
+watched at the window till he was out of sight, and then I continued
+musing on my happy fate; I thought over all that had passed, and how
+grateful I felt! I had no wish but that this might continue; I saw my
+husband loved and respected by everyone, my life gliding on, like a
+gay dream, in his care.
+
+When I had remained at the window nearly an hour, I saw an
+aide-de-camp ride under the gateway of our house. He sent to enquire
+where Sir William was dining. I wrote down the name; and soon after I
+saw him gallop off in that direction. I did not like this appearance,
+but I tried not to be afraid. A few minutes after, I saw Sir William
+on the same horse gallop past to the Duke's,(4) which was a few doors
+beyond ours. He dismounted and ran into the house--left the horse in
+the middle of the street. I must confess my courage failed me now, and
+the succeeding two hours formed a contrast to the happy forenoon.
+
+About nine,(5) Sir William came in; seeing my wretched face, he bade
+me not be foolish, for it would soon be all over now; they expected a
+great battle on the morrow; he would send me to Antwerp in the
+morning, and desired me to be ready at six. He said that though he
+expected it would be a decisive battle, and a conclusion of the whole
+business, he thought it best I should keep the plan of going to
+Antwerp, to avoid the alarms that he knew would seize everyone the
+moment the troops were gone; and he said he would probably join me
+there, or send for me to return the same evening. He said he should be
+writing all night, perhaps: he desired me to prepare some strong green
+tea in case he came in, as the violent exertion requisite to setting
+the whole army in motion quite stupefied him sometimes. He used
+sometimes to tell me that whenever the operations began, if he thought
+for five minutes on any other subject, he was neglecting his duty. I
+therefore scrupulously avoided asking him any questions, or indeed
+speaking at all.(6) I moved up and down like one stupefied myself.
+
+He went to the office, and returned near twelve,(7) much fatigued, but
+he did not attempt to sleep; he went twice to the Duke's; the first
+time he found him standing looking over a map with a Prussian
+general,(8) who was in full-dress uniform--with orders and crosses,
+etc.--the Duke was in his chemise and slippers, preparing to dress for
+the Duchess of Richmond's ball; the two figures were quite admirable.
+The ball took place notwithstanding the reveille played through the
+streets the whole night. Many of the officers danced, and then
+marched(9) in the morning.
+
+About two, Sir William went again to the Duke, and he was sleeping
+sound! At three the troops were all assembled in the Park, and Sir
+William and I leant over the window, seeing them march off--so few to
+return. It was a clear refreshing morning, and the scene was very
+solemn and melancholy.(10) The fifes played alone, and the regiments
+one after another marched past, and I saw(11) them melt away through
+the great gate at the end of the Square. Shall I ever forget the tunes
+played by the shrill fifes and the buglehorns which disturbed that
+night!
+
+At six in the morning, Friday the 16th, I went to Antwerp: Sir William
+gave me a letter to Captain Mitchell, in the Q.M.-General's
+department, requesting him to take charge of me. Accordingly, soon
+after we arrived I was settled in very comfortable apartments. I was
+at first for an hour in the inn,(12) and I lay down in a small back
+room. In the evening I sent my maid from the lodgings to get some wine
+at the inn; when wandering in the passage to find some English person,
+she opened the door of the room I had been in, and saw the body(13) of
+the Duke of Brunswick on the very bed.
+
+I was fortunate enough to have a room at the back, so shut in with
+buildings that I could not hear any noise in the streets. Sir William
+had made me promise to believe no reports, and not upon any account to
+move without his written order for it. I thought it was best not to
+listen to any stories, so I told my maid Emma not to tell me any, and
+to do her best to get no alarms herself. Captain Mitchell I found of
+great service; he is a very sensible and seemingly good-hearted man.
+There was a calmness in his manner which was of infinite use to me
+when I could not entirely get the better of fears but too well
+founded. Though he was afterwards oppressed with business, night and
+day, he never failed to come to me when he had heard any accounts he
+could depend upon. But I may say I never saw so much kindness, and
+softness indeed, as during that miserable time.
+
+The general and individual distress that rapidly followed the battles
+then fought, seemed quite to unman them; and one grew accustomed to
+see men weep, without their attempting to conceal it. The same evening
+the Town Major, Machel, called. He knew Sir William, and he brought a
+Mrs ---- to call. She very kindly asked me to go and visit her in the
+country about a mile. I was much obliged to her, but said I hoped to
+return to Brussels so soon that I should not have time. She apologised
+for Mr ----; he would have called on me, but the report I had brought
+of the marching of the troops had given him a great deal of business.
+The town was now very bustling, though when I arrived there was
+nothing but quiet. Captain Mitchell told me in the evening that the
+battle had taken place; that the English had gained a victory, but he
+believed there was to be more fighting. He promised to send me any
+letter, or if he heard of Sir William. I sat up late, but none came.
+
+On Saturday the 17th, Antwerp was truly a scene of confusion--by the
+servant's account, for I would not stir out of my room. Not one of the
+ladies who had intended to come to Antwerp at first, kept their
+resolution; and in consequence they got a great alarm, which was what
+my husband wished me to escape. There was a battle fought on Friday
+the 16th, near Brussels, and I was told the noise of the cannon was
+tremendous--the houses shook with it. It was distinctly heard at
+Antwerp; but I kept the windows shut, and tried not to hear. I only
+heard a rolling like the sea at a distance.(14) Poor Emma, urged by
+curiosity, stood in the street listening to terrible stories, seeing
+wounded men brought in, carriages full of women and children flying
+from Brussels, till she was completely frightened. She came and told
+me that all the ladies were hastening to England by sea, for the
+French had taken Brussels. I saw I must take my time to alarm her, and
+I said, "Well, Emma, you know that if the French were firing at this
+house, I would not move till I was ordered; but you have no such duty,
+therefore go if you like. I dare say any of the families will let you
+join them."
+
+Emma was shocked at my supposing she would be so base as to desert me,
+and declared that if she was sure she had to remain in a French prison
+for five years, she would not leave me. My reproof had all the effect
+I intended; for she brought me no more stories, and I am certain she
+never was frightened after, even when we were in far greater danger.
+
+Though I had little reason to expect a letter from my husband, I sat
+up late in hopes. At midnight, what was my joy to get a little note
+from him, written at Genappe,(15) after the battle of the 16th. He
+said he was safe, and in great spirits; they had given the French a
+tremendous beating. I wrote to him every day, and Captain Mitchell
+sent my letters, but they never reached him.
+
+On Sunday, Captain Mitchell told me he had heard the last effort was
+to be made. I cannot attempt to describe the restless unhappy state I
+was in; for it had continued so much longer than I had expected
+already, that I began to find it difficult to keep up my spirits,
+though I was infatuated enough to think it quite impossible that he
+could be hurt. I believe mine was not an uncommon case, but so it was.
+I might be uneasy at the length of the separation, or anxious to hear
+from him; but the possibility of his being wounded never glanced into
+my mind, till I was told he was killed.
+
+On Sunday the 18th June, there was to be a great battle. It began
+about eleven;(16) near three,(17) when Sir William was riding beside
+the Duke, a cannon ball struck him on the back, at the right shoulder,
+and knocked him off his horse to several yards distance. The Duke at
+first imagined he was killed; for he said afterwards, he had never in
+all the fighting he had ever been in seen a man rise again after such
+a wound. Seeing he was alive (for he bounded up again and then sank
+down), he ran to him, and stooping down, took him by the hand.(18)
+
+Sir William begged the Duke, as the last favour he could have it in
+his power to do him, to exert his authority to take away the crowd
+that gathered round him, and to let him have his last moments in peace
+to himself. The Duke bade him farewell, and endeavoured to draw away
+the Staff, who oppressed him; they wanted to take leave of him, and
+wondered at his calmness. He was left, as they imagined, to die; but
+his cousin, Delancey Barclay,(19) who had seen him fall, went to him
+instantly, and tried to prevail upon him to be removed to the rear, as
+he was in imminent danger of being crushed by the artillery, which was
+fast approaching the spot; and also there was danger of his falling
+into the hands of the enemy. He entreated to be left on the ground,
+and said it was impossible he could live; that they might be of more
+use to others, and he only begged to remain on the field. But as he
+spoke with ease, and Colonel Barclay saw that the ball had not
+entered, he insisted on moving him, and he took the opinion of a
+surgeon, who thought he might live, and got some soldiers to carry him
+in a blanket to a barn(20) at the side of the road, a little to the
+rear. The wound was dressed, and then Colonel Barclay had to return
+to the Division; but first he gave orders to have Sir William moved to
+the village;(21) for that barn was in danger of being taken possession
+of by the enemy. Before Colonel Barclay went, Sir William begged him
+to come quite close to him, and continued to give him messages for me.
+Nothing else seemed to occupy his mind. He desired him to write to me
+at Antwerp; to say everything kind, and to endeavour to soften this
+business, and to break it to me as gently as he could. He then said he
+might move him, as if he fancied it was to be his last effort. He was
+carried to the village of Waterloo, and left in a cottage, where he
+lay unheeded all night, and part of next day. Many of his friends were
+in the village, and no one knew where he was, or that he was alive
+even. It was by chance that an officer of the Staff Corps found him
+next morning, and sent to inform Sir George Scovell.(22) The evening
+before,(23) the Duke had written the despatches, and had inserted De
+Lancey as killed. Interest was made that he should alter them, when he
+was told that he had been carried off the field alive. Some kindly
+thought this might benefit me; but I was not so fortunate. Sad scenes
+were passing at Antwerp in the meantime.
+
+On Monday morning, Captain Mitchell, at nine o'clock, came to tell me
+that the last battle was over, and the French entirely defeated, and
+that Sir William was safe. I asked him repeatedly if he was sure, and
+if he had seen any of his writing, or if he had heard from him. He had
+not; but had read a list of the killed and wounded, and could assure
+me his name was not in it. Captain Mitchell was quite sincere; and was
+afterwards much grieved that he had added to the accumulation of
+misery, for this only made the dash down more severe. I now found how
+much I had really feared by the wild spirits I got into. I walked up
+and down, for I could not rest, and was almost in a fever with
+happiness, and for two hours this went on.
+
+At eleven a message came that Lady Hamilton wished to see me. I went
+down to the parlour, and found her and Mr James. I did not remark
+anything in her countenance, but I think I never saw feeling and
+compassion more strongly marked than in his expression. I then said I
+hoped Lady Emily was well. He answered that she was so, with a tone of
+such misery that I was afraid something had happened, I knew not what,
+to somebody. I looked at Lady Hamilton for an explanation. She seemed
+a little agitated too, and I said, "One is so selfish: I can attend to
+nothing, I am so rejoiced Sir William is safe."
+
+Mr James walked to the other end of the room. I did not know what to
+do. I feared that my gay voice grieved them, for I saw something had
+made them unhappy. Little did I think the blow was falling on my own
+unfortunate head.
+
+Lady Hamilton said, "Poor Mr James! He has lost a brother and I a
+nephew. It was a dreadful battle!--so many killed."
+
+I thought it cruel of them to come to me to tell all this to, when I
+was so merry; but I tried to be polite, and again apologised for
+appearing glad, on account of my own good fortune.
+
+Lady Hamilton said, "Did you hear from him?"
+
+"No, but Captain Mitchell saw the list, and his name was not in it."
+
+Mr James went out of the room. Lady Hamilton said, "He is gone to see
+it, I suppose," and then began to talk about the list, and what were
+the first names, and a great deal about whether I had any friends in
+that country, etc. She then asked what I intended to do if the
+fighting continued, and if I should go to England? I was a little
+surprised at these enquiries, but assured her I would not move until
+Sir William came or sent for me. She found me so obstinately confident
+that she began[32]...--and after a short time a suspicion darted into
+my mind. What a death-like feeling was that!
+
+[Footnote 32: Here there is a hiatus in the MS.]
+
+Lady Hamilton confessed she had written the list, and with a most
+mistaken kindness had omitted several of the names, Sir William's
+among the rest. A general had come from the field and named them; and
+she, knowing I was in the country, had left his out, fearing that I
+should be suddenly informed. But such information would not be
+otherwise than a shock whatever way it was told, and the previous
+account of his safety only tortured me the more. But it is needless to
+dwell upon it now; and though I believe she thinks I never forgave
+her, I now recollect only the motive, which was kind.
+
+My difficulty then was to find out, or rather to believe the truth.
+She assured me he was only wounded. I looked at her keenly, and said,
+"Lady Hamilton, I can bear anything but suspense. Let me know the very
+worst. Tell me, is he killed?"
+
+She then solemnly assured me he was only desperately wounded.
+
+I shook my head and said, "Ah, it is very well to say so. Yes, he must
+be wounded first, you know." And I walked round the room fast. "Yes,
+yes, you say so, but I cannot believe what you say now."
+
+She was terrified, for I could not shed a tear. She declared upon her
+word of honour that when General Alava left the field he was alive,
+but was not expected to live.
+
+This I felt sounded like truth, and I stood before her and said,
+"Well, Lady Hamilton, if it is so, and you really wish to serve me,
+help me to go to him instantly. I am sure Mr James will be so good as
+to hurry the servant. Oh, how much time has been lost already! If
+Captain Mitchell had but known, I should have gone at nine. Every
+moment may make me too late to see him alive."
+
+She was glad to try to do anything for me, and was going. I stopped
+her at the door, and said, "Now, if you are deceiving me, you may
+perhaps have my senses to answer for."
+
+She repeated her assurances, and I said I would send my servant for
+the carriage, which was at the Town Major's, if she would see anybody
+to get horses, and I was ready. She said she would offer to go with
+me, but she knew it would oppress me.
+
+I said, "Oh no, let me be alone," and I ran upstairs.
+
+No power can describe my sufferings for two hours before I could set
+out. Captain Mitchell requested a friend of his to ride forward to
+Brussels, and to gallop back with information of where Sir William
+was, and whether it was still of any avail for me to proceed: he was
+expected to meet us at Malines, half-way. We at last left Antwerp; but
+bribing the driver was in vain. It was not in his power to proceed;
+for the moment we passed the gates, we were entangled in a crowd of
+waggons, carts, horses, wounded men, deserters or runaways, and all
+the rabble and confusion, the consequence of several battles.(24)
+Every now and then we went several miles at a walk; and the temper of
+the people was so irritable that we feared to speak to them; and I had
+to caution my servant to be very guarded, because they were ready to
+draw their swords in a moment. Two men got on the back of the
+carriage, and we dared not desire them to get off; and this was no
+imaginary terror, as I afterwards experienced.
+
+When we were within a mile or two of Malines, the carriage stopped,
+and the servant said, "It is the Captain." I had drawn the blinds to
+avoid seeing the wretched objects we were passing. I hastily looked
+out, and saw Mr Hay.(25) When he saw me he turned his head away.
+
+I called out, "Mr Hay, do you know anything?"
+
+He hesitated, and then said, "I fear I have very bad news for you."
+
+I said, "Tell me at once. Is he dead?"
+
+"It is all over."
+
+I sank into the carriage again, and they took me back to Antwerp. When
+I had been a short time there, Mr Hay sent to know if I had any
+commands to Brussels, as he was going to return, and would do anything
+for me there. At first I said I had none, and then I sent for him, and
+asked repeatedly if he were sure of what he said; if he had seen him
+fall. He had not been in the action,(26) and of course was not near
+Sir William, "who was surrounded by Lord Wellington's Staff; but in
+the middle of the action he was struck in the breast by a cannon ball,
+and instantly fell. The Duke went and leant over him, and he died like
+a soldier."
+
+I then begged Mr Hay to make a point of seeing someone who had been
+near him; and if possible to learn if he had spoken, and if he had
+named me. Mr Hay promised this, and then asked if I would choose to go
+to England. I said: "Instantly." He then said if he had twelve hours
+to search the field once more--for his brother was missing--he would
+be ready to take a passage for me, and to accompany me if I chose. He
+said Lady Hamilton and Mrs B. were below, anxious to be of use.
+
+I said I greatly preferred being alone, and was always much better
+alone. About half an hour after, Mrs B. contrived to get into the
+room. I was terrified, and called out, "Go away, go away, leave me to
+myself." She prayed and entreated me to hear her, and then said if I
+was ill would I send for her. I said, "Oh, yes, yes; but the only
+thing anybody can do for me is to leave me alone." She was alarmed at
+my violent agitation and went away. I locked the outer door, and shut
+the inner one, so that no one could again intrude. They sent Emma to
+entreat I would be bled; but I was not reasonable enough for that, and
+would not comply. I wandered about the room incessantly, beseeching
+for mercy, though I felt that now, even Heaven could not be merciful.
+One is apt to fix on a situation just a little less wretched than
+one's own, and to dwell upon the idea that one could bear that better.
+I repeated over and over that if I had seen him alive for five
+minutes, I would not repine. At night Emma brought her bed into my
+room, as she feared I should be ill. Towards morning I fancied I heard
+a sound of someone trying to get into the room. I heard it a long
+while, but thinking it was somebody coming to visit me, I made no
+answer.
+
+About two hours after, the attempt was repeated. I said to Emma,
+"There is a noise at the door. Don't let Mrs B. in, or Lady Hamilton."
+
+She went, and returning in a few minutes said, "I am desired to tell
+you cautiously"--
+
+I said, "O Emma! go away. Don't tell me anything, any more."
+
+"Nay, but I must tell you. I have good news for you."
+
+"How can you be so inhuman! What is good news for me now?"
+
+"But--Sir William is not dead."
+
+I started up, and asked what she was saying, for she would make me
+mad. She told me that General M'Kenzie(27) was below, and had a
+message from Brussels, requesting him to inform me that Sir William
+was alive, and that there were even hopes of his recovery.
+
+I ran down to General M'Kenzie, and began earnestly to persuade him it
+must be impossible. I had suffered so much the day before, I durst not
+hope for anything now. His voice faltered, and his eyes filled with
+tears.
+
+He said, "Can you believe any man would bring such intelligence unless
+it were well-founded?" He then gave me a letter from Sir G. Scovell,
+who had seen an officer of the Staff Corps who had seen Sir William
+alive that morning, who was anxious to see me. He was attended by a
+skilful surgeon, and had been twice bled. This was dated Monday, seven
+o'clock, evening.
+
+I regretted the deal of time that had been lost, and said that
+yesterday morning was a long time ago; and was no argument for his
+being alive now; for it was often repeated in the letter not to raise
+my hopes. I then asked General M'Kenzie to assist me to get away.
+Unfortunately I did not say I had a carriage. He said he was going to
+Brussels, and would take me. I consented, and he went to get ready. I
+would not if I could, describe the state I was in for two hours more;
+then I lost all self-command. I would not allow Emma to put up my
+clothes, for fear of being detained. My agitation and anxiety
+increased. I had the dreadful idea haunting me that I should arrive
+perhaps half an hour too late. This got the better of me, and I paced
+backward and forward in the parlour very fast, and my breathing was
+like screaming. I went into the passage, and sent Emma to see if the
+carriage were coming; and then sat down on the stair, which was steep
+and dark. There General M'Kenzie found me. Whenever he learnt I had a
+carriage, he sent the horses he had; for his carriage was not ready,
+and would not be for some time. When he saw what a state I was in, he
+roused me in a most sensible manner.
+
+He said, "Lady De Lancey, consider what you are doing. You are
+exhausting your strength and spirits to no purpose, for your friends
+are endeavouring to forward your departure as soon as possible."
+
+I exclaimed, "Oh, I shall never be there. He may be dying at this
+moment."
+
+He took my hand, and said calmly and firmly, "My dear madam, why fancy
+evil? You know what dreadful scenes you may have to go through when
+you reach Waterloo. You will probably require all your courage, and
+must command yourself for his sake."
+
+I said no more, but quietly went to the parlour and remained
+waiting--such an immediate effect had his steady good sense on my
+fevered mind. I overheard him say, "No, do not at present; she is not
+fit for it." I was alarmed, and ran out; but I saw a lady retreating,
+and I was grateful to him.
+
+We left Antwerp between eight and nine, and had the same difficulties
+to encounter; but the road was not quite so much blocked up. General
+M'Kenzie said he would ride after us in an hour, in case we should be
+detained; he also sent a dragoon before, to order horses. When we were
+near Vilvorde, the driver attempted to pass a waggon, but the soldier
+who rode beside it would not move one inch to let us pass. The waggons
+kept possession of the _chaussée_ the whole way, and we had to drive
+on the heavy road at the side. My servant got off the seat to
+endeavour to lead the horses past. This provoked the soldier, and a
+dispute began. I was alarmed, and desired the servant to get upon the
+carriage again, which he did. A Prussian officer, enraged at our
+attempting to pass the waggon he was guarding, drew his sword, and
+made several cuts at the servant's legs, but did not reach him. He was
+preparing to get down again, but I looked from the opposite window and
+commanded him to sit still, and not to answer a word; or else to quit
+the carriage altogether. The driver now made a dash past the waggon,
+and the officer galloped after us and attempted to wound the horses.
+This made me desperate, and I ventured on a most imprudent action. I
+drew up the blind, and holding up my hands, I petitioned him to let
+us pass. I exclaimed that my husband, a British officer, was dying,
+and if he detained me I might not see him. It had the desired effect,
+for without seeming to have heard me, he slackened his pace and was
+soon far behind.
+
+When within ten miles of Brussels, the smell of gunpowder was very
+perceptible. The heat was oppressive. As we came within a mile of
+Brussels, the multitude of wretched-looking people was great, as Emma
+told me, for I was both unwilling and unable to look out. I was so
+much worn with anxiety that I could scarcely sit up. As we entered
+Brussels the carriage stopped, and I saw Mr Hay. I durst not speak,
+but he instantly said, "He is alive. I sent my servant to Waterloo
+this morning; he is just returned, and Sir William is better than they
+expected. I have horses standing harnessed, and you will soon be there
+if the road is passable, though it was not yesterday, for a horse."
+
+We were soon out of Brussels again, and on the road to Waterloo. It is
+nine miles, and we took three hours and a half. Mr Hay rode before us
+with his sword drawn, and obliged them to let us pass. We often stood
+still for ten minutes. The horses screamed at the smell of
+corruption, which in many places was offensive. At last, when near the
+village, Mr Hay said he would ride forward and find the house, and
+learn whether I should still proceed or not. I hope no one will ever
+be able to say they can understand what my feelings must have been
+during the half-hour that passed till he returned. How fervently and
+sincerely I resolved that if I saw him alive for one hour I never
+would repine! I had almost lost my recollection, with the excess of
+anxiety and suspense, when Mr Hay called out, "All's well; I have seen
+him. He expects you."
+
+When we got to the village, Sir G. Scovell met the carriage, and
+opening the door, said, "Stop one moment."
+
+I said, "Is he alive?"
+
+"Yes, alive; and the surgeons are of opinion that he may recover. We
+are so grieved for what you have suffered."
+
+"Oh! never mind what I have suffered. Let me go to him now."
+
+He said I must wait one moment. I assured him I was composed indeed.
+
+He said, "I see you are," with a smile, "but I wish to warn you of one
+thing. You must be aware that his life hangs on a very slender hold;
+and therefore any agitation would be injurious. Now, we have not told
+him you had heard of his death; we thought it would afflict him;
+therefore do not appear to have heard it."
+
+I promised, and he said, "Now come along." I sat down for an instant
+in the outer room, and he went in; and when I heard my husband say,
+"Let her come in, then," I was overpaid for all the misery.
+
+I was surprised at the strength of his voice, for I had expected to
+find him weak and dying. When I went into the room where he lay, he
+held out his hand and said, "Come, Magdalene, this is a sad business,
+is it not?" I could not speak, but sat down by him and took his hand.
+This was my occupation for six days.
+
+Though I found him far better than I expected, I can scarcely say
+whether I hoped or feared most at first; because I was so much
+occupied with gathering comforts about him, and helping him, that I
+had not time to think about the future. It was a dreadful but
+sufficient preparation, being told of his death; and then finding him
+alive, I was ready to bear whatever might ensue without a murmur. I
+was so grateful for seeing him once more, that I valued each hour as
+it passed, and as I had too much reason to fear that I should very
+soon have nothing left of happiness but what my reflections would
+afford me, I endeavoured, by suppressing feelings that would have made
+him miserable, and myself unfit to serve him, to lay up no store of
+regret. He asked me if I was a good nurse. I told him that I had not
+been much tried. He said he was sure he would be a good patient, for
+he would do whatever I bade him till he was convalescent; and then he
+knew he would grow very cross. I watched in vain for a cross word. All
+his endeavour seemed to be to leave none but pleasing impressions on
+my mind; and as he grew worse and suffered more, his smile was more
+sweet, and his thanks more fervent, for everything that was done for
+him.
+
+I endeavoured to find out from the surgeons the extent of the danger.
+They said that at present there were no bad symptoms, and after seeing
+him alive at all after such a wound they would not despair: and if
+the fever could be kept off, there was a great chance of his
+recovering. With this view they wished to bleed him constantly;
+wishing also thereby to make the recovery more complete. I knew they
+had no interest in me, and therefore would probably tell me the same
+as other people, so I continued to ask them after every visit what
+they thought; but when by watching the symptoms myself and also
+observing the surgeon's expression, I saw what I must soon prepare
+for, I did not tease them any more with questions, but tried not to
+give way, and endeavoured to keep up as long as it would be of
+consequence to him; for even after all hope was gone and the disorder
+increased rapidly, I felt that if by agitating him I should afterwards
+imagine I had shortened his life by one hour, that reflection would
+embitter my whole life. I have the satisfaction of knowing that I
+succeeded even better than I could have hoped; for toward the end of
+the week, when every symptom was bad, the surgeon (probably because I
+desisted from enquiring and did not appear agitated) doubtful what I
+thought, yet, judging it right to tell me, asked Emma if she knew
+whether I was aware of the danger or not. She assured him I had
+entirely given up hope for some time.
+
+I found Emma of great service. Her good will carried her through
+excessive fatigue while at Waterloo; and afterwards her excellent
+heart and superior judgment were quite a blessing to me. She told me
+she was thankful she had been at Waterloo, for it would do her good to
+see a little of what other people endured. She never before knew half
+the value of her peaceful, comfortable home in London, where the
+absence of miserable objects might alone be considered as a benefit. I
+can hardly express what I felt on returning to England, to see people
+surrounded with every luxury unhappy at the want of the smallest
+comfort. I can fancy no better cure for all imaginary evils than a
+week's residence at Waterloo.
+
+Noise did not disturb Sir William, fortunately, for the cottage was
+surrounded with roads.(28) One in front led to Nivelles, and every
+waggon going to and from the army, and all the wounded and prisoners,
+passed along that road. It was paved, and there was an unceasing
+noise for four days and nights. We were obliged to keep the windows
+open, and people used to pass close to that in his room, talking loud,
+and sometimes looking in and speaking; but he never took any notice. I
+never saw anybody so patient. The people to whom the cottage belonged
+were, luckily, favourable to our cause, or they would have tormented
+us a good deal; instead of which, I never met with such good nature;
+and though they never rested one moment helping the soldiers to water,
+and were constantly worn out with giving them assistance, we had only
+to tell them what to do, and they ran about to work for us. Their
+_ménage_, I must allow, was in a sad state.(29) There was a want of
+everything. I could not help thinking with envy of the troublesome
+abundance I had often seen in sick-rooms, when there was far less need
+for it. However, in a short time we got everything he required; and I
+have the greatest comfort in recollecting that there was not one thing
+which he expressed a wish for that we did not procure. I sent a
+servant instantly to Brussels with a list of things we wanted; and
+once I recollect something was brought which he had been very anxious
+for. Naturally enough, he was disappointed when he found it not so
+good as he expected; but I was quite struck with his endeavour to
+praise it, for fear I should be sorry. There was a languid melancholy
+about him at the same time that he was calm and resigned, which would
+have made the most uninterested person grieved to see him suffering,
+and with such sweetness. Emma once gave him some drink, and she told
+me that the tone of voice and his smile when he thanked her, was like
+to break her heart, for he was in severe pain at the time.
+
+He said the wound gave him no pain at all, but a little irritating
+cough caused excessive pain in his chest and side. As far as I could
+learn, the blow had affected the lungs, which produced inflammation
+and afterwards water in the chest, which was eventually the cause of
+his death. I suspect the surgeons had never much hope, but they said
+there was a chance if the inflammation could have been stopped. By
+constantly watching him, and gradually day after day observing the
+progress and increase of suffering and the elevated tone of his mind,
+along with fatigue and weakness, I was prepared for his final release
+in a manner that nothing but his firmness and composure could have
+effected.
+
+He had at first been laid in the outer room, which had two large
+windows to the road, and everyone saw in. This he did not like, and he
+made the people move him to a small room, about seven feet wide, with
+a bed across the end of it. They placed him so low and awkwardly in
+the bed, that when I first went in I thought his legs were hurt, for
+he could not straighten his knees. After a day or two, he got shoved
+up by degrees, and then could stretch his limbs. The bed was wretched,
+merely a wooden frame fastened to the wall, so that it could not be
+moved, which rendered it extremely difficult to bleed him, or to
+assist him in any way, as he could neither turn nor raise his head an
+inch from the pillow, or rather sack of chaff, upon which he was laid.
+This was so full of dust that it made him cough. I soon removed it,
+and got a cushion out of the carriage instead. We had a clean blanket
+from Brussels, and at first we put clean sheets on every day. But
+latterly he grew so restless that he preferred having only the
+blanket. I had purposely sent for a French cotton one, as I thought
+the flannel would tease him. The bed was made tolerable at least, and
+though I could not be pleased with it, _he_ was. He repeated more than
+once, "What a thing it was for you being in this country!" and I had
+the delight of hearing him say that he did not know what he would have
+done without me. He said he was sure he would not have lived so long,
+for he would not have been so obedient to anyone else.
+
+I found he had been the worse of seeing some friends who had called
+the first day I was at Waterloo, so I told the servant afterwards
+never to let anybody come into his room. I remember one day an officer
+called, and before he was out of sight I had his card converted into a
+teaspoon. Sir William never ate anything, except once or twice a
+morsel of toast out of the water. He drank a great deal of tea and
+lemonade. At first he had no milk to his tea, and he complained that
+it was very bad; but there was none to be got. I sent my servant to
+search for some, and he met some Prussian cows, and milked one, and
+brought a fine jug of milk. The different contrivances sometimes
+amused him. One day he wished to have the room fumigated. How was this
+to be done, without fire-irons, or indeed without fire? We put some
+vinegar into a tumbler, and Emma went with a large pair of scissors,
+and brought a piece of burning charcoal, and put it into the vinegar,
+and that made a great smoke. Every time we wanted anything warmed, or
+water boiled, Emma had to cross a court and make a fire, and then
+watch it, or someone would have run away with what she was cooking.
+Meantime I would call her ten different times, and this in wet or dry,
+night or day. I now regretted having brought so few clothes.
+
+The day I went to Waterloo, Sir William told me the Duke(30) had
+visited him in the morning. He said he never had seen him so warm in
+his feelings: he had taken leave of him with little hope of seeing
+him again, I fancy. The Duke told him he never wished to see another
+battle; this had been so shocking. It had been too much to see such
+brave men, so equally matched, cutting(31) each other to pieces as
+they did. Sir William said there never had been such fighting; that
+the Duke far surpassed anything he had ever done before.(32) The
+general opinion seemed to be that it had been a peculiarly shocking
+battle. Sir William said he never would try it again; he was quite
+tired of the business. In speaking of his wound he said this might be
+the most fortunate event that could have happened for us both. I
+looked at him for an explanation. He said, "Certainly, even if I
+recover completely, I should never think of serving again. Nobody
+could ask such a thing, and we should settle down quietly at home for
+the rest of our lives." The evening after I went to Waterloo, Sir G.
+Scovell said he would take something to eat, and after seeing me
+fairly established he would go to Headquarters. He wrote a copy of a
+return of rations, for which we were to send to Brussels; and also any
+other provisions must be got from thence, for the village produced
+nothing. He left two sentinels, for fear there should be any
+disturbances, and we might feel unprotected. One night there was a
+great noise of people quarrelling in front of the house; the windows
+had no fastening whatever, but they passed away without molesting us.
+I was a little more seriously alarmed another day. Some reports had
+reached us that the French were coming back, and were within nine
+miles. I thought it unlikely, but about eight in the morning all the
+waggons that had passed for two hours came back as fast as possible,
+horses trotting and men running. I was uneasy on Sir William's
+account: his situation was so helpless. I leant forward, to prevent
+people looking in and seeing him. I waited without saying anything, to
+learn the cause of this bustle. I found afterwards that it was merely
+the waggons had gone several miles on the wrong road, and were
+hurrying back to make it up.(33)
+
+From the time Sir G. Scovell left us, we scarcely saw anybody but the
+surgeons. It must add very much to the fatigue of their business,
+having to do everything for the wounded whom they attend. Mr
+Powell,(34) who attended most constantly to Sir William, and with
+evidently great anxiety for his recovery, was sometimes quite knocked
+up with walking many miles on the heavy road to the field and the
+cottages. He had some difficulty to consider me as a useful person. At
+first he used to ask me to tell the servant to come; but he learnt to
+employ me very soon.
+
+The night I went, Sir William desired me to take some rest, for I
+looked ill. A portmanteau bed had been brought for me from Brussels. I
+left him reluctantly, for I grudged wasting any of such precious time,
+but he would not hear of my sitting up. I had just lain down with my
+clothes on--for there was no blanket, and the floor was damp tiles. I
+heard him call to his servant, who slept at the end of his room on a
+mattress. I jumped up and went to him, and did not leave him again. He
+wanted some drink, which I gave him, and then sat down beside him. He
+slept and woke every half-hour. He was not restless, nor had he any
+pain, but he was constantly thirsty.
+
+On Wednesday he wished to have leeches applied to his side, where the
+bruise appeared. Mr Powell had no objection, and desired me to send
+for him when the leeches were brought from Brussels. I did so; but in
+the meantime, not knowing why he was sent for, I began as a matter of
+course to apply them. When he came, he apologised, and thanked me. I
+was not at first aware of how I was obliging him. He said he was very
+tired, and when he attempted to fix the leeches, he did not do it so
+well as I did. Next time they were to be applied, I asked if I should
+send for him. He said I was as good at it as any hospital nurse could
+be, and as he had scarcely had an hour's rest any night since the
+battle, he would be greatly obliged to me if I would take the trouble.
+Sir William alleged that I grew quite vain of my skill in tormenting
+my poor husband with these animals. The same day Dr Hume(35) called in
+passing to Brussels, for ten minutes. I was a little provoked at the
+gaiety of his manner; the gravity he assumed at Brussels would have
+been suitable to the present scene. Though Sir William never
+complained, he was serious, and seemed inclined to be quiet, and
+neither to speak much nor to listen. He generally lay thinking, often
+conversed with me, but seemed oppressed with general conversation,
+and would not listen when anyone told him of the progress of the army.
+His thoughts were in a very different train. Dr Hume's rapid, lively
+visit annoyed me much.
+
+I did not feel the effects of having sat up on Tuesday night till next
+night, but was resolved to fight against it. Sir William desired me to
+go to rest, as he had done the night before; but I only remained away
+till I had an excuse to return, and he always forgot a second time to
+bid me go. This was the only night I had real difficulty to keep
+awake; the noise of the carts assisted me a little. I counted the
+rushes of the chair, for want of occupation. Some people said, why did
+I not let my maid sit up; but that showed they did not understand; for
+if twenty people had sat up, it would have made no difference to me. I
+frequently rejoiced that I had no friend there who could exert
+authority to make me take care of myself, when my only wish was to
+keep up as long as he needed me.
+
+On Thursday he was not quite so well. Before this he had been making a
+gradual progress, and he could move about with more ease. He spoke
+much better than he did at first. His countenance was animated; but I
+fear this was the beginning of the most dangerous symptoms, and I saw
+that the surgeon now became uneasy at the appearance of the blood; and
+Mr Woolriche,(36) a very eminent surgeon, now constantly attended. He
+had come over once or twice before. General Dundas(37) called this
+forenoon. He stayed only a minute, as Sir William was not so well, and
+I was busy. After he was away, I recollected having neglected to ask
+him to send a blanket and some wine. I never had time to eat, and I
+always forgot to get wine--as I could take a glass of that and a bit
+of bread in a moment--and my strength was failing. I looked out and
+saw him still at the door. I went out, and there were a number of
+people, Sir H.D. Hamilton,(38) etc. I told General Dundas I had no
+blanket. "Bless me!" everyone exclaimed, "no blanket!" I said it was
+not of much consequence, as I never lay down, but the floor was so
+damp I was afraid my maid would be ill, and her help was very
+essential. I then asked for wine, both of which General Dundas sent
+down next day.
+
+That night I had no difficulty in keeping awake. Sir William was
+restless and uncomfortable; his breathing was oppressed, and I had
+constantly to raise him on the pillow. The pain in his chest
+increased, and he was twice bled before morning. He was very much
+better on Friday forenoon. Mr Woolriche told us that every day since
+the battle the people of Brussels sent down carriages to take the
+wounded to the hospital; from twenty to thirty private carriages came
+every day.
+
+On Friday evening Sir William was very feverish, and the appearance of
+the blood was very inflammatory. I had learnt now to judge for myself,
+as Mr Powell, seeing how anxious I was, sometimes had the kindness to
+give me a little instruction. About ten at night Mr Powell and Mr
+Woolriche came. While I told them how Sir William had been since their
+last visit, and mentioned several circumstances that had occurred, I
+watched them and saw they looked at each other. I guessed their
+thoughts. I turned away to the window and wept.
+
+They remained a little time, and I recovered myself enough to speak to
+them cheerfully as they went out. They lingered, and seemed to wish to
+speak to me, but I was well aware of what they had to say. I felt
+unable to hear it then, and I shut the door instead of going out. It
+was that night Mr Powell asked Emma if she knew what I thought. He
+desired to be sent for on the first appearance of change. At one in
+the morning he was in great pain, and as I raised him that he might
+breathe more freely, he looked so fixed that I was afraid he was just
+expiring. His arms were round my neck to raise himself by, and I
+thought we should both have been killed by the exertion. He asked if
+Mr Powell had not talked of bleeding him again. I said I had sent for
+him. He bled him then for the last time. From that moment all the
+fever was gone. Mr Powell said it was of consequence to keep him
+quiet, and if he would sleep calmly it would do him good. At four in
+the morning I was called out to see a surgeon sent from Mr Powell, who
+was ill in bed. He came to know how Sir William was. He had slept a
+little till three; but the oppression was returning. This surgeon told
+me he had been anxious to speak to me several times, to tell me that
+it was he who had first seen him on the field, and who had given it as
+his opinion that he might live. He was grieved indeed to think that it
+should fall to his lot to tell me that it was the opinion of the
+surgeons that if I had anything particular to say to Sir William, I
+should not delay long. I asked, "How long?" He said they could not
+exactly tell. I said, "Days or hours?" He answered that the present
+symptoms would certainly not prove fatal within twelve hours. I left
+him, and went softly into my husband's room, for he was sleeping. I
+sat down at the other end of the room, and continued looking at him,
+quite stupefied; I could scarcely see. My mouth was so parched that
+when I touched it, it felt as dry as the back of my hand. I thought I
+was to die first. I then thought, what would he do for want of me
+during the remaining few hours he had to live. This idea roused me,
+and I began to recollect our helpless situation whatever happened,
+and tried to think who I could inform of the circumstances. I was not
+long in deciding on General Dundas, if he could be found, and have
+time to come and take care of us both. I immediately wrote a long
+letter to him, telling him how I was situated, and begging that he
+would come after twelve hours. I said I hoped I should be calm and fit
+to act for myself; but as I had never been near such a scene before, I
+knew not what effect it might have upon me. I therefore explained what
+I wished might be done after all was over, with respect to everything.
+I then sent the servant with the letter and orders to find General
+Dundas, if he were within ten miles of Brussels. A few hours after, I
+had one line from him to say he would be at Waterloo in the evening.
+
+After I had sent the letter, I sat down to consider what I was to do
+next. Though Sir William was aware of his danger, I thought it my duty
+to tell him how immediate the surgeons seemed to think it. I knew he
+was far above being the worse of such a communication, and I wished to
+know if he had anything to say. I sat thinking about it, when he
+awoke and held out his hand for me to take my usual station by his
+bedside. I went and told him. We talked some time on the subject. He
+was not agitated, but his voice faltered a little, and he said it was
+sudden. This was the first day he felt well enough to begin to hope he
+should recover! He breathed freely, and was entirely free from pain;
+and he said he had been thinking if he could be removed to Brussels,
+he should get well soon.
+
+I then asked if he had anything to desire me to do, or anything to say
+to anyone. He reminded me of what he had told me had engrossed his
+thoughts when he imagined himself dying on the field. He said he felt
+exactly the same now. He felt at peace with all the world; he knew he
+was going to a better one, etc., etc. He repeated most of what he had
+told me were his feelings before--that he had no sorrow but to part
+from his wife, no regret but leaving her in misery.
+
+He seemed fatigued; and shutting his eyes, he desired me not to speak
+for a little. I then determined not to introduce the subject again,
+nor to speak about it unless he seemed to wish it, as I had done all
+that was necessary.
+
+In an hour or two he ate some breakfast, tea and toasted bread, with
+so much relish that it almost overcame me. He observed that I must
+have caught cold by sitting in a draught of air. I said I had. He felt
+so much better that I was anxious the surgeon should see him. He came
+in the evening. He was pleased to see Sir William free from pain, but
+said there was scarcely a possibility of its continuing so. He said he
+might linger a day or two, but that every symptom was bad. He advised
+me to keep him as quiet and composed as possible. I assured him no
+person had been in the room but the surgeons whom he had brought to
+consult; and I had sat beside him the whole day, scarcely speaking. I
+said I had told Sir William his opinion of his case. He said it had
+evidently not agitated him, for his pulse was quite calm. Mr Woolriche
+called in the afternoon; he was going to Brussels, and would do
+anything there we wished. We had nothing for him to do, and he was
+going when he repeated the question. Sir William looked at me
+earnestly, and said, "Magdalene, love, General Dundas." I answered,
+"I wrote to him this morning," and nothing more passed.
+
+Late in the evening, when we were as calm and composed as could be,
+and I was sitting and looking at him, and holding his hand as usual,
+Mr Powell and Dr Hume came. He was even more cheerful than before,
+paid a rapid, noisy visit, and away again. It disturbed our
+tranquillity not a little, but he is reckoned so skilful that we ought
+to have been glad to see him. He bade Sir William rouse up, felt his
+pulse, and said it would bear another bleeding yet, if necessary.
+
+The poor dying man raised his languid eyes, and said, "Oh no, I do not
+need it now; I am quite cool."
+
+Dr Hume said he had no wish to bleed him, but would like to have his
+limbs fomented. He shook his head. I asked him if he knew what it was.
+He said No, and would like to try. I asked Dr Hume if it would be
+advisable. He said he thought it might refresh him. He went out, and I
+followed to hear what he would say. He said to Mr Powell, "Why do you
+give up a man with such a pulse? with such a good constitution, too!
+You make them all sad and useless. It does no harm to be trying
+something."
+
+He named several things. "Put a blister on his breast, and leeches
+after, if the pain is great down the side."
+
+I looked at Mr Powell, doubting, as I depended most on his opinion, as
+his constant attention to the progress of the illness gave it most
+weight. I thought he looked sorry that my hopes should be renewed, but
+of course he said nothing.
+
+Dr Hume said, "Oh, don't fear, he won't desert the cause."
+
+I was angry at such nonsense, and said, "Be assured I do not fear that
+Mr Powell will desert us, but he said this morning there was no hope."
+
+"Nay," said he, "not quite so much as that: I said there was little
+hope."
+
+I went away, and left them to discuss it themselves.
+
+Sir William said he wished to try what Dr Hume was speaking of, and I
+went to order some boiling water to be prepared. I made the people
+understand that he wanted a great quantity in a tub. While I was
+speaking, Mr Powell returned. He had taken a turn with Dr Hume, and I
+fancy he had explained his opinion. He said he would go home and
+prepare a blister, and he believed we had leeches. I said, was it not
+a great pity to torment him. He said he would not pretend to say that
+he thought it could be of much consequence, but for this reason he
+advised me to do it: I was not aware, he said, how I should feel
+afterwards; and I might perhaps regret when it was too late, not
+having done everything which a physician of Dr Hume's eminence deemed
+advisable. He said that Sir William would not be at ease at any rate,
+and it would scarcely plague him; the fomentation would be pleasant to
+him, and I might take the blister off in six hours if he wished it.
+
+When I went to foment his limbs, I could not find a morsel of flannel.
+At last I thought of the servant's blanket, and tore it in two. Sir
+William said this was a most delightful thing, and refreshed him very
+much. He expressed a great wish to have a bit on his chest. I did not
+know what to do for flannel. I regretted now excessively not having
+brought a change of clothes; for I could have taken a flannel
+petticoat. This put me in mind of the one I had on, and I instantly
+tore a great piece out of it and put it into the tub. The cottagers
+held up their hands, exclaiming, "Ah, madame!" He said it did him
+good, and was delicious, unconscious where we had found the flannel;
+indeed he never was aware of the difficulty, for the tub was placed in
+the outer room.
+
+General Dundas came. Sir William heard me speaking to him, and asked
+who it was. I told him, and he asked if he was going to remain. I said
+he was. Sir William seemed gratified, but did not say anything. Surely
+no earthly feeling can be superior to such perfect sympathy.
+
+Sir William fell asleep, and I went out to see if there was anything
+for General Dundas to eat. He told me he had got a very good room
+upstairs, and was willing to remain as long as I wished. His only
+request was that I would not mind him any more than if he was not
+there, but send for him when I wanted him. I opened the door of Sir
+William's room and sat close to it, so as to hear if he moved or
+spoke. I sat down to coffee for the first meal I had, and talked over
+several things necessary to be settled with General Dundas. I could
+not speak above a whisper, my voice was so faint. He entreated me, if
+possible, to try and take some rest that night, for fear I should be
+ill before my husband could spare me. I promised. He then told me that
+Lady Hamilton had asked him to take me to her house when I returned to
+Brussels; and also the Count de Lannoy had prepared rooms, which he
+begged I would occupy as long as I pleased. I preferred going to the
+house we had been in before, and I thought I could be more entirely
+alone there than at any other person's house, which was what I wished,
+and knew would be best for me. I was struck when I did return to
+Brussels, with two marks of attention. I had a message from the
+Commissary to say that orders had been given that I was to draw
+rations and forage for as long as I stayed; and the other circumstance
+was this. On the letters I had sent from Antwerp I had neglected to
+write "private," which is necessary when writing to a person in
+office. I gave them up for lost, and was uncomfortable. After I had
+been three days at Brussels, they were all returned unopened from
+Headquarters.
+
+Sir William called me. I sat a short time beside him, and after I had
+prepared drink for the night I told him I was so very tired I would go
+and lie down for a short time, if he would allow my maid to bring the
+medicine which he took every four hours. He agreed, and asked if I did
+not always take plenty of sleep. I said, "Oh yes," and was going, when
+he said the pain in his chest was returning, and perhaps leeches would
+do some good. This was the only time I hesitated to oblige him, for I
+really could scarcely stand; but of course I proceeded to apply the
+leeches, and in a few minutes the excessive drowsiness went off; so
+much so, that when after an hour I went to lie down, I could not
+sleep. I started every moment, thinking he called me. I desired Emma
+to waken me if he spoke or seemed uneasy. She gave him the medicine.
+He looked at her, and asked where I was; she told him I was sleeping.
+He said, "That's right, quite right."
+
+The pain in his chest grew intolerable, and depending upon my being
+asleep he yielded to complaint, and groaned very much. Emma roused me
+and told me she feared he was suffering very much. I had slept half an
+hour. I went and stood near him, and he then ceased to complain, and
+said, "Oh, it was only a little twitch." I felt at that time as if I
+was an oppression to him, and I was going away, but he desired me to
+stay. I sat down and rubbed it, which healed the pain, and towards
+morning I put on the blister. Between five and six he ate some toasted
+bread and tea, about two inches of bread. Before he began he entreated
+me to take off the blister only for ten minutes, that he might eat in
+tolerable comfort. I said I would take it away entirely, and he was
+pleased. The doctor came about nine. He was breathing then with great
+difficulty, and there was a rough sound in his throat. Mr Powell said
+the only thing to be done was to keep him quiet as usual, and to
+prevent him speaking. He asked Mr Powell if he might rise, for he
+might breathe easier at the window, and he was so tired of lying in
+that bed. Mr Powell urged him not to think of it; he was not able; it
+would hurt him very much, etc.
+
+About eleven o'clock he sent me away for ten minutes, and with the
+help of his servant he rose and got to the other end of the room. I
+was terrified when I heard he was up, and called General Dundas, who
+went in and found him almost fainting. They placed him in bed again,
+and when I returned he was much exhausted. I opened the windows wide
+and shut the door, and sat by him alone, in hopes that he might go to
+sleep and recover a little. He slept every now and then for a little.
+He seemed oppressed with the length of the day for the first time. He
+asked repeatedly what o'clock it was; he often asked if it was three
+yet. When I told him it was near five, he seemed surprised. At night
+he said he wished he could fall upon some device to shorten the weary
+long night; he could not bear it so long. I could not think of any
+plan. He said if I could lie down beside him it would cut off five or
+six hours. I said it was impossible, for I was afraid to hurt him,
+there was so little room. His mind seemed quite bent upon it.
+Therefore I stood upon a chair and stepped over him, for he could not
+move an inch, and he lay at the outer edge. He was delighted; and it
+shortened the night indeed, for we both fell asleep.
+
+At five in the morning I rose. He was very anxious to have his wound
+dressed; it had never been looked at. He said there was a little pain,
+merely a trifle, but it teased him. Mr Powell objected; he said it
+would fatigue him too much that day. He consented to delay. I then
+washed his face and hands, and brushed his hair, after which I gave
+him his breakfast. He again wished to rise, but I persuaded him not to
+do it; he said he would not do anything I was averse to, and he said,
+"See what control your poor husband is under." He smiled, and drew me
+so close to him that he could touch my face, and he continued stroking
+it with his hand for some time.
+
+Towards eleven o'clock he grew more uneasy; he was restless and
+uncomfortable; his breathing was like choking, and as I sat gazing at
+him I could distinctly hear the water rattling in his throat. I opened
+the door and windows to make a draught. I desired the people to leave
+the outer room, that his might be as quiet as usual; and then I sat
+down to watch the melancholy progress of the water in his chest, which
+I saw would soon be fatal.
+
+About three o'clock Dr Hume and Mr Powell came. I must do the former
+the justice to say he was grave enough now. Sir William repeated his
+request to have the wound dressed. Dr Hume consented, and they went
+away to prepare something to wash it with; they remained away half an
+hour. I sat down by my husband and took his hand; he said he wished I
+would not look so unhappy. I wept; and he spoke to me with so much
+affection. He repeated every endearing expression. He bade me kiss
+him. He called me his dear wife. The surgeons returned. My husband
+turned on one side with great difficulty; it seemed to give much pain.
+
+After I had brought everything the surgeons wanted, I went into
+another room. I could not bear to see him suffering. Mr Powell saw a
+change in his countenance; he looked out, and desired Emma to call me,
+to tell me instantly Sir William wanted me. I hastened to him,
+reproaching myself for having been absent a moment. I stood near my
+husband, and he looked up at me and said, "Magdalene, my love, the
+spirits." I stooped down close to him and held the bottle of lavender
+to him: I also sprinkled some near him. He looked pleased. He gave a
+little gulp, as if something was in his throat. The doctor said, "Ah,
+poor De Lancey! He is gone." I pressed my lips to his, and left the
+room.
+
+I went upstairs, where I remained, unconscious of what was passing,
+till Emma came to me and said the carriage was ready, and General
+Dundas advised me to go that evening to Brussels, but I need not hurry
+myself. I asked her if the room below was empty. She assured me it
+was; and I went down and remained some time beside the body. There was
+such perfect peace and placid calm sweetness in his countenance, that
+I envied him not a little. He was released: I was left to suffer. I
+then thought I should not suffer long. As I bent over him I felt as if
+violent grief would disturb his tranquil rest.
+
+These moments that I passed by his lifeless body were awful, and
+instructive. Their impression will influence my whole life.
+
+I left Waterloo with feelings so different from those I had on going
+to it. Then all was anxious terror that I would not be there in time
+to see one look, or to hear one word. Now there was nothing
+imaginary--all was real misery. There now remained not even a chance
+of happiness, but what depended on the retrospect of better days and
+duties fulfilled.
+
+As I drove rapidly along the same road, I could not but recall the
+irritated state I had been in when I had been there before; and the
+fervent and sincere resolutions I then made, that if I saw him alive,
+I never would repine.
+
+Since that time I have suffered every shade of sorrow; but I can
+safely affirm that except the first few days, when the violence of
+grief is more like delirium than the sorrow of a Christian, I have
+never felt that my lot was unbearable. I do not forget the perfection
+of my happiness while it lasted; and I believe there are many who
+after a long life cannot say they have felt so much of it.
+
+As I expressed some uneasiness to General Dundas at having left the
+body with none but servants, Colonel Grant at his request went to
+Waterloo the same evening, and remained till it was brought up next
+day to Brussels. General Dundas then kindly executed all my orders
+with respect to the funeral, etc., which took place on Wednesday the
+28th, in the cemetery of the Reformed(39) Church. It is about a mile
+from Brussels, on the road to Louvain. I had a stone placed, with
+simply his name and the circumstances of his death. I visited his
+grave(40) on Tuesday, the 4th of July. The burying-ground is in a
+sweet, quiet, retired spot. A narrow path leads to it from the road.
+It is quite out of sight among the fields, and no house but the
+grave-digger's cottage is near. Seeing my interest in that grave, he
+begged me to let him plant roses round it, and promised I should see
+it nicely kept when I returned. I am pleased that I saw the grave and
+the stone; for there were nearly forty other new graves, and not
+another stone.
+
+At eleven o'clock that same day, I set out for England. That day,
+three(41) months before, I was married.
+
+M. De L.
+
+
+
+
+NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+
+Most of the following notes have been compiled by Mr T.W. Brogden, of
+the Middle Temple, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my
+indebtedness for his assistance in the preparation of this volume, and
+for his kindness in seeing the book through the press, during my
+absence in Canada.
+
+EDITOR.
+
+
+(1) "On Thursday the 15th June we had spent a particularly happy
+morning. My dear husband gave me many interesting anecdotes of his
+former life, and I traced in every one some trait of his amiable and
+generous mind; never had I felt so perfectly content, so grateful for
+the blessing of his love."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(2) General Alava, who was Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain to the
+King of the Netherlands.
+
+Sir William and Lady De Lancey were amongst the guests invited to the
+Duchess of Richmond's famous ball that night. See _Reminiscences of
+Lady de Ros_, p. 127.
+
+(3) "He turned back at the door, and looked at me with a smile of
+happiness and peace. It was the last!"--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(4) The Duke's house was at the corner of the Rue de la Montagne du
+Parc and the Rue Royale, and was next to the Hotel de France. The
+Count de Lannoy's house was at the south-east corner of the Impasse du
+Parc.
+
+(5) By 9 P.M. the _first orders_ had been despatched.
+
+Colonel Basil Jackson has the following recollections of his
+experiences on the evening of the 15th June: "I was sauntering about
+the park towards seven o'clock on the evening of the 15th June, when a
+soldier of the Guards, attached to the Quartermaster-General's office,
+summoned me to attend Sir William De Lancey. He had received orders to
+concentrate the army towards the frontier, which until then had
+remained quiet in cantonments. I was employed, along with others, for
+about two hours in writing out 'routes' for the several divisions,
+foreign as well as British, which were despatched by orderly Hussars
+of the 3rd Regiment of the German Legion, steady fellows, who could be
+depended on for so important a service. To each was explained the rate
+at which he was to proceed, and the time when he was to arrive at his
+destination; he was directed also to bring back the cover of the
+letter which he carried, having the time of its arrival noted upon it
+by the officer to whom it was addressed.
+
+"This business over, which occupied us till after nine, De Lancey put
+a packet into my hand directed to Colonel Cathcart--the present
+Earl--a thorough soldier, and highly esteemed by the Duke, who then
+filled, as he had previously done in Spain, the arduous post of
+Assistant Quartermaster-General to the whole of the cavalry.
+
+"'I believe you can find your way in the dark by the cross roads to
+Ninove,' said Sir William, 'let this be delivered as soon as
+possible.'
+
+"Proud of my commission, I was speedily in the saddle and threading my
+way, which I did without difficulty. My good nag rapidly cleared the
+fifteen miles, but ere reaching the above place, then the headquarters
+of the cavalry, I fell in with one or two orderly Dragoons speeding to
+out-quarters. I could also perceive lights flickering about in the
+villages adjacent to my route: indications which satisfied me that the
+German Hussar previously despatched from Brussels had accomplished his
+mission.
+
+"Here let me stop for a moment to commend the practice in our service
+of having plenty of well-mounted staff officers ready to convey orders
+of moment at the utmost speed. On the portentous night in question,
+several, chiefly belonging to the Royal Staff Corps, a body attached
+to the Quartermaster-General's department, were employed in conveying
+duplicates of the instructions previously forwarded by Hussars, in
+order to guard against the possibility of mistake. The omission of
+such a precautionary measure at the Prussian headquarters, on the same
+evening, was attended with disastrous consequences, for Blücher's
+order for Bulow's corps to unite with the rest of his army, being
+entrusted to a corporal, probably wanting in intelligence, he did not
+deliver it in time, whereby that corps, 30,000 strong, failed to reach
+Ligny and share in the battle."[33]
+
+[Footnote 33: "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+_United Service Journal_ for 1847, Part III., p. 3.]
+
+(6) "I entreated to remain in the room with him, promising not to
+speak. He wrote for several hours without any interruption but the
+entrance and departure of the various messengers who were to take the
+orders. Every now and then I gave him a cup of green tea, which was
+the only refreshment he would take, and he rewarded me by a silent
+look. My feelings during these hours I cannot attempt to describe, but
+I preserved perfect outward tranquillity."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(7) By 12 midnight, the _after orders_ had been despatched. With
+regard to the orders of the 15th and 16th June, including the
+"Disposition of the British Army at 7 o'clock A.M., 16th June,"
+attributed to Sir William De Lancey, see Gurwood, vol. xii., pp.
+472-474; _Supplementary Despatches_, vol. x., p. 496; Ropes'
+_Waterloo_, pp. 77-89; and Colonel Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890,
+pp. 144 and 257-263.
+
+(8) Doubtless, General Müffling, Prussian attaché at the headquarters
+of the Duke of Wellington. He accompanied the Duke to the ball, and
+next morning rode with him to Quatre Bras.
+
+(9) _I.e._, without changing their ball dress. Some of the officers
+were killed at Quatre Bras in their shoes and silk stockings. "There
+was a ball at Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's, that night
+(which I only mention because it was so much talked of), at which
+numbers of the officers were present, who quitted the ball to join
+their divisions, which had commenced their march before they arrived
+at their quarters, and some of them were killed the next day in the
+same dress they had worn at the ball." (Extract from a letter written
+by Colonel Felton Hervey shortly after the battle, and published in
+the _XIXth Century_ for March 1903, page 431.) See also Colonel
+Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890, p. 144.
+
+(10) "As the dawn broke, the soldiers were seen assembling from all
+parts of the town, in marching order, with their knapsacks on their
+backs, loaded with three days' provisions. Unconcerned in the midst of
+the din of war, many a soldier laid himself down on a truss of straw
+and soundly slept, with his hands still grasping his firelock; others
+were sitting contentedly on the pavement, waiting the arrival of their
+comrades. Numbers were taking leave of their wives and children,
+perhaps for the last time, and many a veteran's rough cheek was wet
+with the tears of sorrow. One poor fellow, immediately under our
+windows, turned back again and again to bid his wife farewell, and
+take his baby once more in his arms; and I saw him hastily brush away
+a tear with the sleeve of his coat, as he gave her back the child for
+the last time, wrung her hand, and ran off to join his company, which
+was drawn up on the other side of the Place Royale. Many of the
+soldiers' wives marched out with their husbands to the field, and I
+saw one young English lady mounted on horseback slowly riding out of
+town along with an officer, who, no doubt, was her husband. Soon
+afterwards the 42nd and 92nd Highland regiments marched through the
+Place Royale and the Parc, with their bagpipes playing before them,
+while the bright beams of the rising sun shone full on their polished
+muskets and on the dark waving plumes of their tartan bonnets. Alas!
+we little thought that even before the fall of night these brave men
+whom we now gazed at with so much interest and admiration would be
+laid low." (Mrs Eaton's _Waterloo Days_, p. 21.)
+
+(11) "I stood with my husband at a window of the house, which
+overlooked a gate of the city, and saw the whole army go out. Regiment
+after regiment passed through and melted away in the mist of the
+morning."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(12) "Le Grand Laboureur."
+
+(13) The Duke's corpse did not arrive at Antwerp till Saturday
+afternoon. See Mrs Eaton's _Waterloo Days_, p. 59.
+
+(14) "I went to Antwerp, and found the hotel there so crowded, that I
+could only obtain one small room for my maid and myself, and it was at
+the top of the house. I remained entirely within, and desired my maid
+not to tell me what she might hear in the hotel respecting the army.
+On the 18th, however, I could not avoid the conviction that the battle
+was going on; the anxious faces in the street, the frequent messengers
+I saw passing by, were sufficient proof that important intelligence
+was expected, and as I sat at the open window I heard the firing of
+artillery, like the distant roaring of the sea, as I had so often
+heard it at Dunglass. How the contrast of my former tranquil life
+there was pressed upon me at that moment!"--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+Southey, the poet, says that the firing of the 16th was heard at
+Antwerp, but not that of the 18th. It is an extraordinary but
+indisputable fact that the firing at Waterloo was heard in England.
+The _Kentish Gazette_ of Tuesday, 20th June 1815 (published therefore
+before any one in England, not even Nathan Rothschild himself, was
+aware that there had been a battle fought at Waterloo), contained the
+following piece of news from Ramsgate: "A heavy and incessant firing
+was heard from this coast on Sunday evening in the direction of
+Dunkirk." Dunkirk lies in nearly a straight line between Waterloo and
+the coast of Kent. What makes the matter still more extraordinary is
+the fact that Colville's Division, which, on the 18th, was posted in
+front of Hal, about ten miles to the west of the battlefield, never
+heard a sound of the firing, and did not know till midnight that any
+battle had taken place.
+
+(15) Wellington's headquarters on the night of the 16th June were at
+Genappe, two or three miles to the rear of the battlefield of Quatre
+Bras. He slept at the Roi d'Espagne. Blücher occupied the same inn on
+the night of the 18th.
+
+(16) The battle began about 11.35, though Wellington in his despatch
+states that it began about 10. Napoleon's bulletin fixes noon as the
+time. Marshal Ney said that it began at 1 o'clock. It is clear they
+did not all look at their watches.
+
+(17) De Lancey is supposed to have been struck about the time when the
+French batteries opened a fierce cannonade on the English centre,
+preparatory to the first of their tremendous cavalry attacks. This
+would make the hour nearer 4 o'clock than 3.
+
+He fell not far from the Wellington Tree, and close to the famous
+_chemin creux_ of Victor Hugo, in the immediate rear of which
+Ompteda's brigade of the King's German Legion was posted. The
+appearance of the spot is now entirely altered. The tree was cut down
+in 1818, and all the soil of the elevated ground on the south side of
+the _chemin creux_ was carted away to make the Belgian Lion Mound
+about 1825. A steam tramway now runs by the place.
+
+For a sketch of the celebrated tree, with Napoleon's guide, De Coster,
+in the foreground, see Captain Arthur Gore's _Explanatory Notes on the
+Battle of Waterloo_, 1817; and for another view of the ragged old tree
+as it appeared the day before it was cut down, see _Illustrated London
+News_, 27th November 1852.
+
+The map which faces page 110 is adapted from the plan of the
+battlefield of Waterloo, drawn in 1816, by W.B. Craan, Surveying
+Engineer of Brabant.
+
+The troops are shown in the positions occupied by them at 11 o'clock,
+A.M., just before the opening of the battle.
+
+On the map will be seen the position of the Wellington Tree, also the
+farm and village of Mont St Jean, to which village it is supposed Sir
+William De Lancey was carried, after he had received the fatal blow.
+
+The village of Waterloo is outside the map, some two miles to the
+north.
+
+[Illustration: Map of Part of the Battlefield of Waterloo]
+
+"The Duke had no fixed station throughout the day, and did not remain
+at this tree for more than three or four minutes at any one time. He
+frequently rode to it to observe the advance of the columns of attack.
+A deep dip in the main road prevented his going beyond it without a
+detour to the rear. It was here also that, the Duke having galloped up
+with the staff and using his glass to observe the enemy's movements,
+poor Colonel De Lancey by his side was struck by a heavy shot which
+slanted off without breaking either his skin or even his coat, but all
+the ribs of the left side were separated from the back."--Siborne's
+_Waterloo Correspondence_, vol. i., p. 51.
+
+Sir Walter Scott has the following interesting passage in the Seventh
+of his _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_. After a reference to the
+British army taking up its position on the field of Waterloo the night
+before the battle, he thus continues: "The Duke had caused a plan of
+this and other military positions in the neighbourhood of Brussels, to
+be made some time before by Colonel Carmichael Smyth, the chief
+engineer. He now called for that sketch, and with the assistance of
+the regretted Sir William De Lancey and Colonel Smyth, made his
+dispositions for the momentous events of next day. The plan itself, a
+_relique_ so precious, was rendered yet more so by being found in the
+breast of Sir William De Lancey's coat when he fell, and stained with
+the blood of that gallant officer. It is now in the careful
+preservation of Colonel Carmichael Smyth, by whom it was originally
+sketched."
+
+For an account of Colonel Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Commanding Royal
+Engineer on the Staff of the Duke of Wellington, see _Dictionary of
+National Biography_, vol. liii., p. 185.
+
+Major John Oldfield, Brigade-Major, R.E., gives the following
+particulars about this map, which is reproduced opposite page 565 of
+vol. i. of C.D. Yonge's _Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of
+Wellington_.
+
+"Shortly after my chief--Colonel Smyth--had joined headquarters (this
+was on the 16th), he sent in to me, at Brussels, for the plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which had been previously reconnoitred. The
+several sketches of the officers had been put together, and one fair
+copy made for the Prince of Orange. A second had been commenced in the
+drawing-room for the Duke, but was not in a state to send; I therefore
+forwarded the original sketches of the officers.
+
+"_Morning of the 17th._--Upon my joining Colonel Smyth, he desired me
+to receive from Lieutenant Waters the plan of the position, which,
+according to his desire, I had sent to him from Brussels the preceding
+day, and of which I was told to take the greatest care. It had been
+lost in one of the charges of the French cavalry, and recovered.
+Lieutenant Waters, who had it in his cloak before his saddle (or in
+his sabretasche attached to his saddle, I forget which), was unhorsed
+in the _mźlée_ and ridden over. Upon recovering himself, he found the
+cavalry had passed him, and his horse was nowhere to be seen. He felt
+alarmed for the loss of his plan. To look for his horse, he imagined,
+was in vain, and his only care was to avoid being taken prisoner,
+which he hoped to do by keeping well towards our right. The enemy
+being repulsed in his charge was returning by the left to the ground
+by which he had advanced. After proceeding about fifty yards, he was
+delighted to find his horse quietly destroying the vegetables in a
+garden near the farmhouse at Quatre Bras. He thus fortunately
+recovered his plan, and with it rejoined the Colonel. The retreat of
+the Prussians upon Wavre rendered it necessary for the Duke to make a
+corresponding movement, and upon the receipt of a communication from
+Blücher, he called Colonel Smyth and asked him for his plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which I immediately handed to him. The Duke then
+gave directions to Sir William De Lancey to put the army in position
+at Waterloo, forming them across the Nivelles and Charleroi
+chaussées."--Porter's _History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, vol.
+i., p. 380. See also Ropes' _Waterloo_, p. 296.
+
+(18) "He was able to speak in a short time after the fall, and when
+the Duke of Wellington took his hand and asked how he felt, he begged
+to be taken from the crowd that he might die in peace, and gave a
+message to me."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(19) Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Delancey Barclay, 1st Foot Guards.
+See _Army List_ for 1815, pp. 30 and 145, also _Waterloo Roll Call_,
+p. 30.
+
+(20) Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards
+north of the Wellington Tree.
+
+(21) Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo
+being two miles further north.
+
+When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton--see _Dictionary of National
+Biography_, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she
+noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in chalk on the
+door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle.
+(_Waterloo Days_, p. 125.) The sketch on the opposite page is
+reproduced from _Sketches in Flanders and Holland_, by Robert Hills,
+1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month
+after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers
+returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets,
+etc., which they had picked up.
+
+[Illustration: THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815.]
+
+(22) See _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 35, and _Army List_ for 1815, p. 31.
+
+(23) The Duke began the Waterloo despatch very early on the 19th at
+Waterloo, but he finished it at Brussels, that same morning.
+
+(24) _I.e._, not only Waterloo, but Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the
+fighting that took place on the 15th and 17th June.
+
+(25) Mr William Hay of Duns Castle. He had been in the 16th Light
+Dragoons in the Peninsular War (see _Army List_ for 1811, p. 89), and
+had come over from England a few days before to see his old friends,
+and introduce his young brother, Cornet Alexander Hay, to his old
+regiment.
+
+(26) Mr Hay was on the battlefield during the early part of the fight.
+Early next morning he revisited the field, to try to find some trace
+of his brother. The body was never found. He had been killed late at
+night on the French position, while the 16th Light Dragoons were in
+pursuit of the enemy. (Tomkinson's _Diary of a Cavalry Officer_,
+1809-1815, p. 314; also _Reminiscences_, 1808-1815, _under
+Wellington_, by Captain William Hay, C.B.) There is a memorial tablet
+to him in the church at Waterloo, with the following inscription:
+
+     "Sacred to the memory of Alexander Hay, Esq., of Nunraw,
+     Cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons, aged 18 years, who fell
+     gloriously in the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, June 18,
+     1815.
+
+          "_O dolor atque decus magnum ...
+          Hęc te prima dies bello dedit, hęc eadem aufert._
+
+     "This tablet was placed here by his Brothers and Sisters."
+
+(27) No doubt Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie who was in command at
+Antwerp. He succeeded Sir Colin Halkett in that post. See _Army List_
+for 1815, p. 8.
+
+(28) Another indication that it was in the village of Mont St Jean and
+not Waterloo.
+
+(29) "One of the most painful visits I ever paid was to a little
+wretched cottage at the end of the village which was pointed out to me
+as the place where De Lancey was lying mortally wounded. How wholly
+shocked I was on entering, to find Lady De Lancey seated on the only
+broken chair the hovel contained, by the side of her dying husband. I
+made myself known. She grasped me by the hand, and pointed to poor De
+Lancey covered with his coat, and with just a spark of life
+left."--_Reminiscences, etc._, by Captain William Hay, C.B., p. 202.
+
+(30) Creevey states that as he was on his way from Brussels to
+Waterloo on Tuesday the 20th June, the Duke overtook him and said he
+was going to see Sir Frederick Ponsonby and De Lancey. The Duke was in
+plain clothes and riding in a curricle with Colonel Felton
+Hervey.--_The Creevey Papers_, p. 238.
+
+(31) Probably the Duke had in his mind the charge of Lord Edward
+Somerset's Household Brigade against the French Cuirassiers, which
+took place about 2 o'clock. Alava, in his report to the Spanish
+Government, calls it "the most sanguinary cavalry fight perhaps ever
+witnessed."
+
+(32) This was the general opinion at the time. Four days after the
+battle an officer in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Foot Guards wrote as
+follows: "I constantly saw the noble Duke of Wellington riding
+backwards and forwards like the Genius of the storm, who, borne upon
+its wings, directed its thunder where to break. He was everywhere to
+be found, encouraging, directing, animating. He was in a blue short
+cloak, and a plain cocked hat, his telescope in his hand; there was
+nothing that escaped him, nothing that he did not take advantage of,
+and his lynx eyes seemed to penetrate the smoke and forestall the
+movements of the foe" (p. 42, _Battle of Waterloo_, 11th edition,
+1852, L. Booth). A highly interesting remark from the Duke's lips just
+before the attack made by the Imperial Guard has been preserved in a
+letter written at Nivelles on the 20th June, by Colonel Sir A.S.
+Frazer. "'Twice have I saved this day by perseverance,' said his Grace
+before the last great struggle, and said so most justly." This seems
+to coincide with the observation which the Duke made to Creevey at
+Brussels the morning after the battle. "By God! I don't think it would
+have been done, if I had not been there."
+
+(33) Another proof that it was Mont St Jean and not Waterloo.
+
+(34) Probably James Powell, an apothecary in the Medical Department.
+Date of rank, 9th September 1813. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 93. In
+the Army List of 1817, and in subsequent Army Lists he is shown with a
+[symbol: Blackletter W] before his name, as being in possession of the
+Waterloo Medal. His last appearance in the Army List is in 1841, in
+which issue he is shown on page 340 as a surgeon on half-pay.
+
+(35) John Robert Hume was a Deputy-Inspector of the Medical
+Department. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 90. He also held the
+appointment of surgeon to the Duke of Wellington. He was in attendance
+on the memorable occasion when a duel took place in Battersea Fields
+between the Duke of Wellington and Earl Winchilsea, 21st March 1829.
+He died in 1857. See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xxviii.,
+p. 229.
+
+The following is Dr Hume's account of his visit to the Duke the
+morning after the battle. "I came back from the field of Waterloo with
+Sir Alexander Gordon, whose leg I was obliged to amputate on the field
+late in the evening. He died rather unexpectedly in my arms about
+half-past three in the morning of the 19th. I was hesitating about
+disturbing the Duke, when Sir Charles Broke-Vere came. He wished to
+take his orders about the movement of the troops. I went upstairs and
+tapped gently at the door, when he told me to come in. He had as usual
+taken off his clothes, but had not washed himself. As I entered, he
+sat up in bed, his face covered with the dust and sweat of the
+previous day, and extended his hand to me, which I took and held in
+mine, whilst I told him of Gordon's death, and of such of the
+casualties as had come to my knowledge. He was much affected. I felt
+the tears dropping fast upon my hand, and looking towards him, saw
+them chasing one another in furrows over his dusty cheeks. He brushed
+them suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me in a voice
+tremulous with emotion, 'Well, thank God, I don't know what it is to
+lose a battle; but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain
+one with the loss of so many of one's friends.'"--(Extract from a
+Lecture by Montague Gore, 1852.)
+
+(36) Stephen Woolriche was a Deputy-Inspector of the Medical
+Department. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 90. His name appears for the
+last time in the Army List of 1855-56. By that time he had gained a
+C.B., and held the rank of Inspector-General of the Medical Department
+on half-pay.
+
+(37) General Francis Dundas (_Army List_ for 1815, p. 3) was Colonel
+of the 71st Highland Light Infantry. He had served in the American
+War, and afterwards at the Cape. At the time of the alarm of a French
+invasion, of England in 1804-5, he commanded a portion of the English
+forces assembled on the south coast under Sir David Dundas, the
+Commander-in-Chief, who married an aunt of Sir William De Lancey. Sir
+David Dundas was at this time Governor of Chelsea Hospital, where he
+died at the age of eighty-five, on the 18th February 1820.--(See
+_Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xvi., p. 185.)
+
+(38) Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, fourth baronet, was born on the 3rd
+January 1774, and married, on the 19th May 1800, Jane, eldest daughter
+of the first Lord Duncan of Camperdown.
+
+(39) There were at that time three Protestant cemeteries at Brussels.
+This was the St Josse Ten Noode Cemetery, on the south side of the
+Chaussée de Louvain. Many were here buried who had died of wounds
+received at Waterloo, including Major Archibald John Maclean, 73rd
+Highlanders; Major William J. Lloyd, R.A.; Captain William Stothert,
+Adjutant, 3rd Foot Guards; Lieut. Michael Cromie, R.A.; Lieut. Charles
+Spearman, R.A.; Lieut. John Clyde, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. See
+_Times_ of 9th February 1889.
+
+(40) In 1889, Sir William De Lancey's remains were exhumed from the
+old, disused cemetery of St Josse Ten Noode, and, along with those of
+a number of other British officers who fell in the Waterloo campaign,
+were removed to the beautiful cemetery of Evere, three miles to the
+north-east of Brussels. On the 26th August 1890, H.R.H. the Duke of
+Cambridge unveiled the celebrated Waterloo memorial which contains
+their bones.
+
+The following was the inscription on the gravestone which Lady De
+Lancey erected:--
+
+"THIS STONE IS PLACED TO MARK WHERE THE BODY OF
+COL. SIR W. HOWE DE LANCEY,
+QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL,
+IS INTERRED.
+
+"HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF
+BELLE ALLIANCE (WATERLOO)
+ON THE 18TH JUNE 1815."
+
+[Illustration: THE WATERLOO MEMORIAL IN EVERE CEMETERY.]
+
+(41) _Tuesday, 4th April_ 1815.--This date is confirmed by the
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, 1815, which states: "April 4, Col. Sir W. De
+Lancey, K.C.B., to Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Hall, Bart."
+
+On the other hand, the _Abridged Narrative_ states as follows:--"I was
+married in March 1815. At that time Sir William De Lancey held an
+appointment on the Staff in Scotland. Peace appeared established, and
+I had no apprehension of the trials that awaited me. While we were
+spending the first week of our marriage at Dunglass, the accounts of
+the return of Bonaparte from Elba arrived, and Sir William was
+summoned to London, and soon after ordered to join the army at
+Brussels as Adjutant-Quartermaster-General." Napoleon landed in France
+on the 1st March, and in the London _Evening Mail_ of the issue
+headed:--
+
+"From Wednesday, March 8, to Friday, March 10, 1815," the following
+appears as a postscript:--
+
+    "LONDON,
+
+    "_Friday Afternoon, March_ 10.
+
+    "Letters have been received at Dover of the most interesting
+    import; they announce the flight of Buonaparte from the
+    island of Elba, and his arrival at Frejus, the place at
+    which he landed on his return from Egypt. We have seen the
+    King of France's proclamation against him, dated the 6th
+    instant, declaring him and his adherents traitors and rebels:
+    of these he is said to have had at first only 1300, but to
+    have directed his march immediately on Lyons. It was
+    considered that he would make a dash at Paris. Now, however,
+    the villain's fate is at issue."
+
+This news probably reached Edinburgh by coach a week later, and may
+have been known at Dunglass on the following day, the 18th March.
+
+It seems doubtful, therefore, whether Lady De Lancey did not make a
+mistake of a month in dating her marriage exactly three months before
+the 4th of July. She may possibly have been married in March.
+
+The "Hundred Days" cover the period between Napoleon's first
+proclamation at Lyons on the 13th March and his abdication on the 22nd
+June.
+
+It will therefore be seen that the married life of the De Lanceys, if
+it extended from the 4th March to the 26th June 1815, covered this
+period, with just thirteen days to spare.
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX A
+
+
+Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles
+Dickens.[34]
+
+[Footnote 34: From the autograph collection in the possession of Lady
+Parsons.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"MY DEAR CAPTAIN HALL,
+
+"I received with great pleasure your kind proposal to visit Tweedside.
+It arrived later than it should have done. I lose no time in saying
+that you and Mrs Hall cannot come but as welcome guests any day next
+week, which may best suit you. If you have time to drop a line we will
+make our dinner hour suit your arrival, but you cannot come amiss to
+us.
+
+"I am infinitely obliged to you for Captain Maitland's plain, manly,
+and interesting narrative. It is very interesting, and clears
+Bonaparte of much egotism imputed to him. I am making a copy which,
+however, I will make no use of except as extracts, and am very much
+indebted to Captain Maitland for the privilege.
+
+"Constable proposed a thing to me which was of so much delicacy that I
+scarce know how [_sic_] about it, and thought of leaving it till you
+and I met.
+
+"It relates to that most interesting and affecting journal kept by my
+regretted and amiable friend, Mrs Hervey,[35] during poor De Lancey's
+illness. He thought with great truth that it would add very great
+interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris soon
+after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the most
+valuable and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war. But whether this could be done
+without injury to the feelings of survivors is a question not for me
+to decide, and indeed I feel unaffected pain in even submitting it to
+your friendly ear who I know will put no harsh construction upon my
+motive which can be no other than such as would do honour to the
+amiable and lamented authoress. I never read anything which affected
+my own feelings more strongly or which I am sure would have a deeper
+interest on those of the public. Still the work is of a domestic
+nature, and its publication, however honourable to all concerned,
+might perhaps give pain when God knows I should be sorry any proposal
+of mine should awaken the distresses which time may have in some
+degree abated. You are the only person who can judge of this with any
+certainty or at least who can easily gain the means of ascertaining
+it, and as Constable seemed to think there was a possibility that
+after the lapse of so much time it might be regarded as matter of
+history and as a record of the amiable character of your accomplished
+sister, and seemed to suppose there was some probability of such a
+favour being granted, you will consider me as putting the question on
+his suggestion. It could be printed as the Journal of a lady during
+the last illness of a General Officer of distinction during her
+attendance upon his last illness, or something to that purpose.
+Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of this
+heartrending diary which makes me suppose a possibility that after
+such a lapse of years, the publication may possibly (as that which
+cannot but do the highest honour to the memory of the amiable
+authoress) may not be judged altogether inadmissible. You may and
+will, of course, act in this matter with your natural feeling of
+consideration, and ascertain whether that which cannot but do honour
+to the memory of those who are gone can be made public with the sacred
+regard due to the feelings of survivors.
+
+[Footnote 35: Lady De Lancey married again in 1819 Captain Henry
+Hervey, Madras Infantry, and died in 1822. _Gentleman's Magazine_,
+vol. lxxxix, Part I., p. 368, and vol. cii., Part II., p. 179.]
+
+"Lady Scott begs to add the pleasure she must have in seeing Mrs Hall
+and you at Abbotsford, and in speedy expectation of that honour I am
+always,
+
+"Dear Sir,
+
+"Most truly yours,
+
+"WALTER SCOTT.
+
+"ABBOTSFORD, 13_th_ _October_ 1825."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"DEVONSHIRE TERRACE,
+
+"_Tuesday evening_, 16_th_ _March_ 1841.
+
+"MY DEAR HALL,
+
+"For I see it must be 'juniores priores,' and that I must demolish the
+ice at a blow.
+
+"I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De Lancey's
+narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not have mastered it
+even then. One glance at it, when through your kindness it first
+arrived, had impressed me with a foreboding of its terrible truth, and
+I really have shrunk from it in pure lack of heart.
+
+"After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the most
+wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours in the
+evening--searching for some pictures I wanted to build upon--I went at
+it, at about ten o'clock. To say that the reading that most
+astonishing and tremendous account has constituted an epoch in my
+life--that I shall never forget the lightest word of it--that I cannot
+throw the impression aside, and never saw anything so real, so
+touching, and so actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am
+husband and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General Dundas,
+doctor and bedstead--everything and everybody (but the Prussian
+officer--damn him) all in one. What I have always looked upon as
+masterpieces of powerful and affecting description, seem as nothing in
+my eyes. If I live for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and
+then, from this hour to the day of my death, with the most frightful
+reality. The slightest mention of a battle will bring the whole thing
+before me. I shall never think of the Duke any more, but as he stood
+in his shirt with the officer in full-dress uniform, or as he
+dismounted from his horse when the gallant man was struck down.
+
+"It is a striking proof of the power of that most extraordinary man
+Defoe that I seem to recognise in every line of the narrative
+something of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the obstacles to
+getting on--the shutting herself up in her room and determining not to
+hear--the not going to the door when the knocking came--the finding
+out by her wild spirits when she heard he was safe, how much she had
+feared when in doubt and anxiety--the desperate desire to move towards
+him--the whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+their daily shifts and contrivances; and the lying down beside him in
+the bed and both _falling asleep_; and his resolving not to serve any
+more, but to live quietly thenceforth; and her sorrow when she saw him
+eating with an appetite so soon before his death; and his death
+itself--all these are matters of truth, which only that astonishing
+creature, as I think, could have told in fiction.
+
+"Of all the beautiful and tender passages--the thinking every day how
+happy and blest she was--the decorating him for the dinner--the
+standing in the balcony at night and seeing the troops melt away
+through the gate--and the rejoining him on his sick bed--I say not a
+word. They are God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again,
+with an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than toast
+and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of this paper,
+that its impression on me can never be told; that the ground she
+travelled (which I know well) is holy ground to me from this day; and
+that please Heaven I will tread its every foot this very next summer,
+to have the softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+where it was acted.
+
+"You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are awakened by
+such things they don't wear out.
+
+"Have you ever thought within yourself of that part where, having
+suffered so much by the news of his death, she _will not_ believe he
+is alive? I should have supposed that unnatural if I had seen it in
+fiction.
+
+"I shall never dismiss the subject from my mind, but with these hasty
+and very imperfect words I shall dismiss it from my paper, with two
+additional remarks--firstly, that Kate has been grievously putting
+me out by sobbing over it, while I have been writing this, and has
+just retired in an agony of grief; and, secondly, that _if_ a time
+_should_ ever come when you would not object to letting a friend copy
+it for himself, I hope you will bear me in your thoughts.
+
+"It seems the poorest nonsense in the world to turn to anything else,
+that is, seems to me being fresher in respect of Lady De Lancey than
+you--but my raven's dead. He had been ailing for a few days but not
+seriously, as we thought, and was apparently recovering, when symptoms
+of relapse occasioned me to send for an eminent medical gentleman one
+Herring (a bird fancier in the New Road), who promptly attended and
+administered a powerful dose of castor oil. This was on Tuesday last.
+On Wednesday morning he had another dose of castor oil and a tea cup
+full of warm gruel, which he took with great relish and under the
+influence of which he so far recovered his spirits as to be enabled to
+bite the groom severely. At 12 o'clock at noon he took several turns
+up and down the stable with a grave, sedate air, and suddenly reeled.
+This made him thoughtful. He stopped directly, shook his head, moved
+on again, stopped once more, cried in a tone of remonstrance and
+considerable surprise, 'Halloa old girl!' and immediately died.
+
+"He has left a rather large property (in cheese and halfpence) buried,
+for security's sake, in various parts of the garden. I am not without
+suspicions of poison. A butcher was heard to threaten him some weeks
+since, and he stole a clasp knife belonging to a vindictive carpenter,
+which was never found. For these reasons, I directed a post-mortem
+examination, preparatory to the body being stuffed; the result of it
+has not yet reached me. The medical gentleman broke out the fact of
+his decease to me with great delicacy, observing that 'the jolliest
+queer start had taken place with that 'ere knowing card of a bird, as
+ever he see'd'--but the shock was naturally very great. With reference
+to the jollity of the start, it appears that a raven dying at two
+hundred and fifty or thereabouts, is looked upon as an infant. This
+one would hardly, as I may say, have been born for a century or so to
+come, being only two or three years old.
+
+"I want to know more about the promised 'tickler'--when it's to come,
+what it's to be, and in short all about it--that I may give it the
+better welcome. I don't know how it is, but I am celebrated either for
+writing no letters at all or for the briefest specimens of epistolary
+correspondence in existence, and here I am--in writing to you--on the
+sixth side! I won't make it a seventh anyway; so with love to all your
+home circle, and from all mine, I am now and always,
+
+"Faithfully yours,
+
+"CHARLES DICKENS.
+
+"I am glad you like Barnaby. I have great designs in store, but am
+sadly cramped at first for room."
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX B
+
+BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+
+_Reminiscences_, by Samuel Rogers, under the heading: "Duke of
+Wellington," p. 210.
+
+_Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore_, edited by Lord
+John Russell, Journal of 29th August 1824, vol. iv., p. 240.
+
+_Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington_, by Earl
+Stanhope, p. 182.
+
+Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 13th
+October 1825, published in the _Century Magazine_ (New York), April
+1906, and in Appendix A, _ante_.
+
+Letter from Charles Dickens to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 16th
+March 1841, published in the _Century Magazine_ (New York), April
+1906, and in Appendix A, _ante_.
+
+_Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_, 1888, vol. viii., p. 414. A
+condensed account of her experiences at Waterloo, written by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her friends in general. See page 31,
+_ante_.
+
+_Century Magazine_, New York, April 1906. Publication in full of the
+original narrative as written by Lady De Lancey for the information of
+her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX
+
+
+Abbotsford, 124.
+
+Abercrombie, General, 6.
+
+_Abridged Narrative_, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 112, 118.
+
+_Adonais_, 38.
+
+Alava, General, 16, 17, 19, 56, 103, 114.
+
+Ambassador, Spanish, 42, 103.
+
+Annapolis, 5.
+
+Antwerp, 41, 44, 45, 48, 52, 53, 58, 59, 64, 93, 108.
+
+Appleton's _Cyclopędia_, quoted, 3, 5, 8, 24.
+
+_Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, quoted, 10, 17.
+
+
+B., Mrs, 60, 61.
+
+Bacon, quoted, 1, 2.
+
+Bahama Islands, 9.
+
+Ball at Duchess of Richmond's, 45, 103, 106.
+
+Barclay, Colonel Delancey, 51, 112.
+
+_Barnaby Rudge_, 35, 125, 130.
+
+Barnes, Major-General Sir E., 15, 18, 20.
+
+Bathurst, Earl, 12, 33.
+
+Berkeley, Colonel, 18.
+
+Beverley, 5, 8.
+
+Bibliography of Lady De Lancey's Narrative, 131.
+
+Bloomingdale, 7.
+
+Blücher, 18, 21, 105, 109.
+
+Bonaparte, Napoleon, 121.
+
+Bowood, 32.
+
+Brogden, T.W., 103.
+
+Broke-Vere, Sir Charles, 116.
+
+Brunswick, Duke of, 46.
+
+Brussels, 12, 14, 18, _et passim_.
+
+Bulow, 105.
+
+
+Caen, 3, 4.
+
+Calnek and Savary, 5.
+
+Cambridge, Duke of, 117.
+
+Canning, Colonel, 18.
+
+Castel Cicala, Prince, 19.
+
+_Castle Rackrent_, 15.
+
+Cathcart, Colonel, 104.
+
+_Century Magazine_, 131, 132.
+
+Charleroi, 20, 112.
+
+Chichester, Henry Manners, 15, 23.
+
+_Childe Harold_, 38.
+
+Clyde, Lieutenant, 117.
+
+Colville's Division, 108.
+
+Connecticut, 6.
+
+Constable, 33, 122, 123.
+
+Cooke, General, 18.
+
+Corunna, 25, 30.
+
+_County of Annapolis, History of_, 5.
+
+Craan, W.B., 109.
+
+_Creevey Papers_, 10, 11, 114, 115.
+
+Creevey, Mr, 114, 115.
+
+Cromie, Lieutenant, 117.
+
+Crown Point, 6.
+
+Cruger, Colonel John Harris, 7.
+
+
+Dalton's _Waterloo Roll Call_, 20, 112, 113.
+
+Defoe, 1, 36, 126.
+
+De Coster, 109.
+
+De Lancey, Charlotte, 8.
+
+De Lancey, Edward Floyd, 3, 5, 24.
+
+De Lancey, Etienne, 3, 4.
+
+De Lancey, James, 5.
+
+De Lancey, Lady, 12;
+  Narrative of, 24, 31-38.
+
+De Lancey, Oliver, 5, 8, 26.
+
+De Lancey, Peter, 5.
+
+De Lancey, Sir William Howe, biography of, 10;
+  military services of, 10, 25, 26;
+  on board H.M.S. _Endymion_, 25;
+  marriage, 12, 118;
+  summoned to Belgium, 13;
+  at Brussels, 13, 39-45;
+  at the battle of Waterloo, 14, 50, 51;
+  wounding and death of, 13-16, 50, 99, 110.
+
+De Lancey, Stephen, 8, 9.
+
+De Lancey, Susanna, 8.
+
+De Lancey, Guy, 3.
+
+De Ros, Lady, 103.
+
+_Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, quoted, 15, 16.
+
+Dickens, Charles, 1, 33, 34, 37, 121, 130, 131.
+
+Dickens, Kate, 127.
+
+_Dictionnaire de la Noblesse de France_, 3.
+
+_Dictionary of National Biography_, 10, 11, 12, 15, 23, 25, 26, 111,
+112, 116, 117.
+
+Draper, Sir William, 8.
+
+Dundas, General Sir David, 8, 117.
+
+Dundas, General Francis, 35, 82, 86, 89, 92, 93, 96, 99, 100, 101, 117,
+125.
+
+Dunglass, 108, 118, 119.
+
+Dunkirk, 108.
+
+
+Eaton, Mrs, 107, 108, 112.
+
+Edinburgh, 119.
+
+Elba, 10, 118, 119.
+
+Emma, 35, 46, 48, _et sępe_.
+
+_Endymion_, H.M.S., 25, 27, 28, 30.
+
+_Evening Mail_, quoted, 17, 118.
+
+Evere Cemetery, 117.
+
+
+_Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, 25, 26, 31.
+
+_Frazer, Colonel Sir A.S., Letters of_, 13, 15, 115.
+
+Frejus, 119.
+
+Fremantle, Colonel, 17.
+
+
+Genappe, 22, 49, 109.
+
+Genoa, 11.
+
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, 118, 122.
+
+Ghent, 11.
+
+Gordon, Colonel Sir Alexander, 18, 20, 21, 116.
+
+Gore, Captain Arthur, 2, 109.
+
+Gore, Montague, 116.
+
+Grant, Colonel, 100.
+
+Greene, General, 7.
+
+Gronow, Captain, 19.
+
+Gurwood's _Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, 10, 15, 106.
+
+
+Hal, 108.
+
+Halkett, Sir Colin, 114.
+
+Hall, Captain Basil, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 121, 124, 131.
+
+Hall, Magdalene (Lady De Lancey), 12, 26, 68, 89, 99, 118.
+
+Hall, Mrs Basil, 24, 121, 124.
+
+Hall, Sir James, 12, 118.
+
+Hamilton, Sir H.D., 82, 113.
+
+Hamilton, Lady, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 93.
+
+Hay, Captain William, 113, 114.
+
+Hay, Cornet Alexander, 113.
+
+Hay, Lieut., 59, 60, 66, 67, 113.
+
+Hervey, Mrs (Lady De Lancey), 122.
+
+Hervey, Colonel Felton, 19, 106, 114.
+
+Hills, Robert, 113.
+
+_History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, quoted, 112.
+
+Howe, General Sir William, 7.
+
+Howe, Lord, 6.
+
+Hudson River, 7.
+
+Hume, Dr, 13, 80, 81, 89, 90, 91, 98, 115, 116.
+
+"Hundred Days," 119.
+
+
+_Illustrated London News_, 109.
+
+_Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_, 31, 131.
+
+India, 29.
+
+Invalides, Les, 38.
+
+
+Jackson, Colonel Basil, 19, 104.
+
+James II., 4.
+
+James, Mr, 53, 54, 55, 57.
+
+Johnson, Mrs S., 10.
+
+Jones' History, quoted, 3, 7.
+
+
+_Kentish Gazette_, 103.
+
+
+Ladysmith, 16.
+
+Lannoy, Count de, 39, 93, 104.
+
+Lansdowne, Lord, 32.
+
+_Larochejaquelein, Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de_, 34.
+
+Lennox, Lord William, 19.
+
+Ligny, 21, 105, 113.
+
+Lloyd, Major W.J., 117.
+
+London, 8, 71.
+
+Long Island, 7.
+
+Louvain, 101, 117.
+
+Lowe, General E.W.H. De Lancey, 31.
+
+Lowe, Sir Hudson, 10, 11.
+
+_Loyalists of the American Revolution,_ quoted, 8.
+
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+Title: A Week at Waterloo in 1815
+       Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She
+              Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey,
+              Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the
+              Great Battle
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+Author: Magdalene De Lancey
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+<div class="notes">
+<p class="noindent"><i>Transcriber's Note:</i> A <a href="#CONTENTS">table of contents</a> has been added for the
+reader's convenience. Minor, obvious printer errors have been
+corrected without note. Numbers in brackets are footnotes, which are
+set forth below the paragraphs in which they appear. Numbers in
+parentheses appearing in the narrative are endnotes, which are linked
+to the <a href="#NOTES_TO_LADY_DE_LANCEYS_NARRATIVE">Notes to Lady De Lancey's Narrative</a>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><br /></p>
+
+
+
+<div class="bbox" style="line-height: 1.1">
+<h1>A WEEK AT WATERLOO<br />
+IN 1815</h1>
+
+<h2 class="tbp">LADY DE LANCEY&#8217;S NARRATIVE</h2>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="noindent"><span class="lg">BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAM
+HOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED IN
+THE GREAT BATTLE</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h3 class="tbp">EDITED BY MAJOR B.R. WARD<br />
+<span class="sm">ROYAL ENGINEERS</span></h3>
+
+
+<p class="centertbp">
+LONDON<br />
+JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.<br />
+1906<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="med" />
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0"><a name="FRONT" id="FRONT"></a>
+<img src="images/wdelancey.jpg" width="306" height="500" alt="Major William Howe De Lancey" title="Major William Howe De Lancey" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="lg"><i>Major William Howe De Lancey</i></span><br />
+<i>45<span class="super">th</span> Regiment c. 1800.</i><br />
+<span class="sm"><i>Emery Walker Ph.Sc.</i></span></p>
+
+
+<hr class="med" />
+<table style="line-height: 1.2" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="poem">
+<tr>
+<td>
+&#8220;Dim is the rumour of a common fight,<br />
+When host meets host, and many names are sunk;<br />
+But of a single combat Fame speaks clear.&#8221;<br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><i>&mdash;Sohrab and Rustum.</i></span>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<p class="center">
+<a href="#LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS">LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</a><br />
+<br />
+<a href="#INTRODUCTION">INTRODUCTION</a><br />
+<br />
+<a href="#A_WEEK_AT_WATERLOO_IN_1815">A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815</a><br />
+<br />
+<a href="#NOTES_TO_LADY_DE_LANCEYS_NARRATIVE">NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY&#8217;S NARRATIVE</a><br />
+<br />
+<a href="#APPENDIX_A">APPENDIX A</a><br />
+Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott
+and Charles Dickens<br />
+<br />
+<a href="#APPENDIX_B">APPENDIX B</a><br />
+Bibliography of Lady De Lancey&#8217;s Narrative<br />
+<br />
+<a href="#INDEX">INDEX</a>
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS" id="LIST_OF_ILLUSTRATIONS"></a>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+
+<table style="line-height: 1.2; width: 90%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="list of illustrations">
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%">
+<span class="smcap">Major William Howe De Lancey</span>, 45th Regt. of
+Foot, c. 1800. <i>From a miniature in the possession
+of Wm. Heathcote De Lancey of New York</i></td>
+<td colspan="2" class="right" style="vertical-align: bottom"><a href="#FRONT"><i>Frontispiece</i></a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">The Gold Cross of Sir Wm. De Lancey</span>, received
+after serving in the Peninsular War, with
+clasps for Talavera, Nive, Salamanca, San
+Sebastian, and Vittoria. <i>In the possession of
+Major J.A. Hay</i></td>
+<td class="center" style="vertical-align: bottom"><i>Face p.</i></td>
+<td class="right" style="vertical-align: bottom"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">Lady De Lancey.</span> <i>From a miniature after J.D.
+Engleheart</i></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">Part of an Autograph Letter of Sir Walter
+Scott</span></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">Part of an Autograph Letter of Charles Dickens</span></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey</span>, <i>c.</i> 1813</td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">Map of Part of the Battlefield of Waterloo</span></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">The Village of Mont St Jean, 1815</span></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td style="width: 75%"><span class="smcap">The Waterloo Memorial in Evere Cemetery</span></td>
+<td class="center">"</td>
+<td class="right"><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">-1-</a></span></p>
+<h1>A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815</h1>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<h2><a name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION"></a>INTRODUCTION</h2>
+
+
+<p class="tp"><span class="smcap">The</span> following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at
+last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects.</p>
+
+<p>It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary
+history.</p>
+
+<p>The subject&mdash;a deathbed scene&mdash;might seem at first sight to be a trite
+and common one. The <i>mise-en-scčne</i>&mdash;the Field of Waterloo&mdash;alone
+however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play
+their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as
+Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they
+are incensed or crushed: For <i>Prosperity</i> doth best discover Vice; But
+<i>Adversity</i> doth best discover Vertue."</p>
+
+<p>As to the style, it will be sufficient to quote the authority of
+Dickens for the statement that no one but Defoe could have told the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">-2-</a></span>story in fiction.</p>
+
+<p>Its literary history is even more remarkable than either its style or
+its subject.</p>
+
+<p>It is no exaggeration to say of the narrative&mdash;as Bacon said of the
+Latin volume of his Essays&mdash;that it "may last as long as Bookes last."
+And yet it has remained in manuscript for more than eighty years. This
+is probably unique in the history of literature since the Invention of
+Printing.</p>
+
+<p class="bp">As regards the hero of the narrative, the Duke of Wellington once said
+that he "was an excellent officer, and would have risen to great
+distinction had he lived."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> <i>Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington</i>, by
+Earl Stanhope, p. 183.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">Captain Arthur Gore, who afterwards became Lieutenant-General Gore,
+alludes to him in the following terms: "This incomparable officer was
+deservedly esteemed by the Duke of Wellington, who honoured him with
+his particular confidence and regard."<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2">[2]</a> <i>Explanatory Notes on the Battle of Waterloo</i>, by Captain
+Arthur Gore, 1817, p. 83.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">His ancestors, for several generations, had been men of great
+distinction, and he undoubtedly inherited their great qualities in a
+very high degree.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">-3-</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="bp">The De Lancey family is one of Huguenot origin, the founder of the
+family,<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> Etienne De Lancey, having fled from France at the time of
+the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3">[3]</a> In French annals the family can be traced back to the
+time of the Hundred Years' War. The first of the name, of whom there
+is any authentic record, was Guy de Lancy, Vicomte de Laval et de
+Nouvion, who in 1432 held of the Prince Bishop of Laon and Nouvion,
+villages and territories a few miles south of that city. See <i>History
+of New York during the Revolutionary War</i>, by Thomas Jones, edited by
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, vol i., p. 651, and <i>Dictionnaire de la
+Noblesse de France</i>, vol. viii., title "Lancy."</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">The following extracts treating of the family history are taken from
+Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia of American Biography</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="bp">The author of the articles, Edward Floyd De Lancey,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> was born in
+1821, and died at Ossining, N.Y., on the 7th April 1905. At one time
+he held the position of President of the New York Genealogical
+Society, and has done a great deal of work in the field of historical
+research.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4">[4]</a> For biographical sketch, <i>see</i> Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>,
+vol. ii., p. 130.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">"Etienne De Lancey (great-grandfather of Sir William De Lancey), was
+born in Caen, France,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">-4-</a></span> 24th October 1663; and died in the city of New
+York, 18th November 1741. Having been compelled, as a Protestant, to
+leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (18th October
+1685), he escaped into Holland. Deciding to become a British subject
+and to emigrate to America, he crossed to England and took the oath of
+allegiance to James II. He landed in New York, 7th June 1686. His
+mother had given him, on his departure from Caen, a portion of the
+family jewels. He sold them for £300, became a merchant, and amassed a
+fortune of £100,000. He married Anne, second daughter of Stephanus van
+Cortlandt, 23rd January 1700. He took a prominent part in public
+affairs, representing the fourth ward of New York as alderman in
+1691-93, and was a member of Assembly for twenty-four years. While
+sitting in the latter body he gave his salary, during one session, to
+purchase the first town-clock erected in New York; and with the aid of
+his partner imported and presented to the city the first fire-engine
+that had been brought into the province. The De Lancey house, built by
+Etienne in 1700 upon a piece of land given to him by his
+father-in-law, is now the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">-5-</a></span> oldest building in the city of New
+York."<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> Mr De Lancey was buried in the family vault in Trinity
+Church, New York.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5">[5]</a> Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>, vol. ii., p. 129.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">Three of his sons, James, Peter, and Oliver, left descendants.
+Descendants of the eldest son, James, amongst whom were included
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, the historian of the family, are resident in
+the city of New York, and also at Ossining, N.Y. Descendants of the
+second son, Peter, are now living in the county of Annapolis, Nova
+Scotia.<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6">[6]</a> For further details of this branch of the family, <i>see</i>
+the <i>History of the County of Annapolis</i>, by Calnek and Savary, pp.
+339-344 and 499.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">The third son, Oliver, grandfather of the hero of the present
+narrative, went to England after the Revolutionary War. No direct
+descendants of his in the male line would appear to be now living.</p>
+
+<p>The following is the account of his life as given in Appleton's
+<i>Cyclopędia</i>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="bp">"Oliver, the youngest son of Etienne, was born in New York City, 16th
+September 1708; and died in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, 27th
+November 1785. He was originally a merchant, being a member of the
+firm founded by his father. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">-6-</a></span> early took an active part in public
+affairs, and was noted for his decision of character and personal
+popularity. He represented the city of New York in the Assembly in
+1756-60, and served as alderman of the out-ward from 1754 till 1757.
+He was active in military affairs during the entire French War, and,
+in 1755, obtained leave from Connecticut to raise men there for
+service in New York, for which he received the thanks of the Assembly
+of his own province. In March 1758 he was appointed to the command of
+the forces then being collected for the expedition against Crown
+Point, and succeeded in raising the entire New York City regiment
+within ten days. He was placed at the head of the New York contingent,
+under General Abercrombie (about 5000 strong), as Colonel-in-Chief. In
+the attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 8th July 1758, he supported Lord Howe,
+and was near that officer when he fell mortally wounded. In November
+of the same year the Assembly of New York again voted him its thanks
+'for his great service, and singular care of the troops of the colony
+while under his command.' In 1760 he was appointed a member of the
+Provincial Council, re<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">-7-</a></span>taining his seat until 1776. In 1763 he was
+made Receiver-General, and in 1773 Colonel-in-Chief of the Southern
+military district of the province. 'In June 1776,' says the historian
+Jones, 'he joined General Howe on Staten Island; and, had that officer
+profited by his honest advice, the American War, I will be bold to
+say, would have ended in a very different manner to what it did.' In
+September of that year he raised three regiments of Loyalists, largely
+at his own expense, of 500 men each, known as 'De Lancey's
+battalions.' Of these regiments a brigade was formed, and Colonel De
+Lancey was commissioned Brigadier-General in the Loyalist service. He
+was assigned to the command of Long Island, where he remained during
+the war. One of his battalions served in the South with great credit,
+under his son-in-law, Colonel John Harris Cruger, doing effective
+service in the defence of Fort Ninety-six against General Greene. In
+November 1777, his country-seat at Bloomingdale, on the Hudson, was
+robbed and burned at night by a party of Americans from the
+water-guard at Tarrytown, his wife and daughters being driven from the
+house in their night-dresses and compelled to spend the night<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">-8-</a></span> in the
+fields, now the Central Park. Having been attainted, and his immense
+estates in New York and New Jersey confiscated, General De Lancey
+retired to England, where he resided in Beverley until his death. Of
+his four daughters, Susanna married Sir William Draper, while
+Charlotte became the wife of Sir David Dundas, K.C.B., who succeeded
+the Duke of York as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army."<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7">[7]</a> Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>, vol. ii., p. 132.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">In the Life of Van Schaak, his decease is mentioned thus by a
+fellow-Loyalist: "Our old friend has at last taken his departure from
+Beverley, which he said should hold his bones; he went off without
+pain or struggle, his body wasted to a skeleton, his mind the same.
+The family, most of them, collected in town (London). There will
+scarcely be a village in England without some American dust in it, I
+believe, by the time we are all at rest."<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8">[8]</a> <i>Loyalists of the American Revolution</i> (Sabine), vol. i.,
+365.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">Stephen, the eldest son of Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey, and
+father of Sir William De Lancey, was born in New York City about 1740;
+and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, De<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">-9-</a></span>cember 1798. He was educated
+in England, and practised law in New York before the Revolutionary
+War, during which he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the "De Lancey's"
+second battalion. After the war he was appointed Chief Justice of the
+Bahama Islands, and subsequently was made Governor of Tobago and its
+dependencies. His health becoming impaired while he held the latter
+office, he sailed for England to rejoin his family. But he grew
+rapidly worse on the voyage, and, at his own request, was transferred
+to an American vessel bound for Portsmouth, N.H., where he died, and
+was buried a few days after his arrival.<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9">[9]</a> The following is an extract from the Parish Register of
+St John's Church, Portsmouth, N.H.
+</p>
+
+<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" summary="death record">
+<tr>
+<td class="center">"1798.</td>
+<td class="center"><span class="smcap">Record of Deaths.</span></td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td class="center" style="vertical-align: top">Dec<span class="super">br</span>. 6<span class="super">th</span></td>
+<td style="width: 75%">His Excellency, <i>Stephen De Lancy</i>, Governour of
+Tobago, who died, the night after his arrival
+in the harbour of this town, of a decline which
+had been upon him for six months, aged 50
+years."</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Mr De Lancey was buried in the Wentworth tomb, in St John's
+Churchyard, where many of the Wentworth Governors of New Hampshire and
+their families are buried.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">-10-</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="tbp">Sir William De Lancey, soldier, only son of the preceding, was born in
+New York about 1781,<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> and died in June 1815, in consequence of
+wounds received at the battle of Waterloo. He was educated in England,
+and early entered the British army. He served with great distinction
+under Wellington in Spain, and was several times honourably mentioned
+in his despatches.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10">[10]</a> This date agrees with the tradition handed down in the
+family with Lady De Lancey's narrative, to the effect that he was only
+thirty-four at the time of his death at Waterloo.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11">[11]</a> <i>Vide</i> Gurwood's <i>Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>,
+2nd edition, vol. iii., pp. 227 and 229; vol. v., p. 476; vol. vi., p.
+542. Sir Harry Smith, a soldier of soldiers&mdash;"inter milites
+miles"&mdash;speaks of him in his Autobiography as "that gallant fellow De
+Lancey." (<i>Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith</i>, vol. i., p. 266.)</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/medal.jpg" width="147" height="500" alt="Gold Cross of Sir William De Lancey" title="Gold Cross of Sir William De Lancey" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Gold Cross of Sir William De Lancey</span>.<br />
+Received after serving in the Peninsular War.<br />
+<span class="sm"><i>In the possession of Major J.A. Hay.</i></span></p>
+
+<p class="bp">At the close of the war he was made a Knight of the Bath. When
+Napoleon landed from Elba, Wellington, in forming his staff, insisted
+on having De Lancey appointed as his Quartermaster-General. The
+officer really entitled to the promotion was Sir William's
+brother-in-law, Sir Hudson Lowe;<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">-11-</a></span> as Wellington had conceived
+a dislike for him, he refused to accept that officer in that capacity.
+The military authorities, however, insisted on his appointment, and it
+was only when Wellington made the promotion of De Lancey a <i>sine quā
+non</i> of his acceptance of the supreme command that the former
+yielded.<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> Six weeks before the battle<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">-12-</a></span> of Waterloo, Sir William
+married the daughter of Sir James Hall<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> of Dunglass, the Scottish
+scientist<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">-13-</a></span>. His bride accompanied him on the Continent. On the second
+day of the battle<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> Sir William was knocked from his horse by a
+spent cannon-ball, and it was at first supposed that he had been
+instantly killed. Thirty-six hours afterwards he was discovered, still
+alive and in his senses, but incapable of motion, although without any
+visible wound. Notwithstanding the skill of the surgeons, and the
+tender care of his wife, he succumbed to his injuries nine days after
+the battle.<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12">[12]</a> It was not till the 16th December 1815&mdash;six months after
+Waterloo&mdash;that Sir Hudson Lowe married Mrs Susan Johnson, sister of
+Sir William De Lancey. (<i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, vol.
+xxxiv., p. 191.) See also <i>The Creevey Papers</i>, Third Edition (1905),
+p. 247.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13">[13]</a> "Wellington assumed command in the Netherlands early in
+April 1815, and Lowe, who had been acting as Quartermaster-General in
+the Low Countries under the command of the Prince of Orange, remained
+for a few weeks under him as his Quartermaster-General; but having
+been nominated to command the troops in Genoa designed to co-operate
+with the Austro-Sardinian armies, he was replaced in May by Sir
+William Howe De Lancey." (<i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, art.
+"Lowe, Sir Hudson," vol. xxxiv., p. 191.) See also <i>The Creevey
+Papers</i>, Third Edition (1905), p. 247.</p>
+
+<p>The following extract of a letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens to
+Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Ghent, 8th April 1815, alludes
+to the hitch about Sir Hudson Lowe: "I shall communicate fully with
+the Commander-in-Chief upon the Duke of Wellington's wishes respecting
+his Staff.... As you were somewhat anxious about Sir Hudson Lowe, I
+must apprise you that he will not do for the Duke." (<i>Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>, vol. x., pp. 42 and 43.) (<i>Cf.</i>
+<i>The Creevey Papers</i>, Third Edition (1905), p. 289.)</p>
+
+<p>Evidently Sir Hudson Lowe was no more of a <i>persona grata</i> to
+Wellington than he afterwards became to Napoleon!</p>
+
+<p>A letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens, who appears to have been
+acting at the time as Military Secretary to the Duke of York,
+Commander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards, written to the Duke of
+Wellington from London on the 16th April 1815, shows the high
+estimation in which the Duke held De Lancey's services:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"De Lancey is in town on his way to go out.... I told him the very
+handsome and complimentary manner in which you asked for his services,
+and assured him that nothing could be so gratifying, in my view of the
+case, to his military and professional feelings as the desire you
+expressed to me of having him again with you." (<i>Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>, vol. x., p. 130.)</p>
+
+<p>That the Duke felt deeply the interference of Headquarters with his
+selection of Staff Officers is clearly shown by the following letter,
+written by him to Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Bruxelles,
+4th May 1815:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"To tell you the truth, I am not very well pleased with the manner in
+which the Horse Guards have conducted themselves towards me. It will
+be admitted that the army is not a very good one, and, being composed
+as it is, I might have expected that the Generals and Staff formed by
+me in the last war would have been allowed to come to me again; but
+instead of that, I am overloaded with people I have never seen before;
+and it appears to be purposely intended to keep those out of my way
+whom I wished to have. However I'll do the best I can with the
+instruments which have been sent to assist me." (<i>Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>, vol. x., p. 219.)</p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14">[14]</a> See <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, vol. xxiv., p.
+68.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15">[15]</a> On the 18th June, at Waterloo; the battle of Quatre Bras
+having been fought on the 16th.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16">[16]</a> Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>, vol. ii., pp. 132, 133.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tp">There are several references to De Lancey's death in the "<i>Letters of
+Colonel Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B.</i>, commanding the R.H.A. in the
+army under the Duke of Wellington, written during the Peninsular and
+Waterloo campaigns," edited by Major-General Sir Edward Sabine, R.A.
+On the 29th June Sir Augustus writes to Lady Frazer from Mons: "I
+regret to state that poor De Lancey is dead; so Hume, the Duke's
+surgeon, told me. He had opened the body; eight ribs were forced from
+the spine, one totally broke to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">-14-</a></span> pieces, and part of it in the lungs.
+Poor De Lancey! He is our greatest loss; a noble fellow and an
+admirable officer," p. 582.</p>
+
+<p>In connection with the foregoing, it will be interesting to compare
+the account of De Lancey's wound given in the <i>Dictionary of National
+Biography</i>:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class="bp">"The Duke of Wellington gave the following version of the
+occurrence to Samuel Rogers: 'De Lancey was with me, and
+speaking to me when he was struck. We were on a point of land
+that overlooked the plain. I had just been warned off by some
+soldiers (but as I saw well from it, and two divisions were
+engaging below, I said "Never mind"), when a ball came
+bounding along <i>en ricochet</i>, as it is called, and, striking
+him on the back, sent him many yards over the head of his
+horse. He fell on his face, and bounded upwards and fell
+again. All the staff dismounted and ran to him, and when I
+came up he said, 'Pray tell them to leave me and let me die
+in peace.' I had him conveyed to the rear, and two days
+after, on my return from Brussels, I saw him in a barn, and
+he spoke with such strength that I said (for I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">-15-</a></span> had reported
+him killed), 'Why! De Lancey, you will have the advantage of
+Sir Condy in "Castle Rackrent"&mdash;you will know what your
+friends said of you after you were dead.' 'I hope I shall,'
+he replied. Poor fellow! We knew each other ever since we
+were boys. But I had no time to be sorry. I went on with the
+army, and never saw him again."<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17">[17]</a> "Recollections of Samuel Rogers," under "Waterloo." From
+the article on "Sir William De Lancey," by H. Manners Chichester, in
+the <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, vol. xiv., pp. 304, 305.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">The following is the extract from Wellington's official despatch of
+the 19th June, referring to De Lancey:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class="bp">"I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the
+Adjutant-General, Major-General Barnes, who was wounded, and
+of the Quartermaster-General, Colonel De Lancey, who was
+killed by a cannon-shot in the middle of the action. This
+officer is a serious loss to His Majesty's service, and to me
+at this moment."<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18">[18]</a> Gurwood, vol. viii., p. 150. <i>Cf.</i> <i>Letters of Colonel
+Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B.</i>, dated Nivelles, June 20: "De Lancey
+is said to be dead: this is our greatest loss, none can be greater,
+public or private," p. 550.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">-16-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At the end of the despatch there is a <i>P.S.</i> announcing the death of
+Major-General Sir William Ponsonby, followed by a second <i>P.S.</i>
+couched in the following terms: "I have not yet got the returns of
+killed and wounded, but I enclose a list of officers killed and
+wounded on the two days, as far as the same can be made out without
+the returns; and I am very happy to add that Colonel De Lancey is not
+dead, and that strong hopes of his recovery are entertained."</p>
+
+<p class="bp">That the Duke felt keenly his severe losses in killed and wounded,
+especially amongst the members of his Staff, is shown by the following
+reminiscence of General Alava,<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> as told by him, two years after the
+battle, to Sir Harry Smith and his wife&mdash;the lady now immortalised by
+the name Ladysmith, emblazoned on the colours or accoutrements of
+thirty-five British regiments.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19">[19]</a> A Spanish naval officer who served on the Staff of the
+Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Alava
+enjoyed the unique distinction of having been present both at
+Trafalgar and Waterloo. At the former battle he commanded a Spanish
+line-of-battle ship.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">On the evening of the battle, "the Duke got back to his quarters at
+Waterloo about nine or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">-17-</a></span> ten at night. The table was laid for the usual
+number, while none appeared of the many of his Staff but Alava and
+Fremantle. The Duke said very little, ate hastily and heartily, but
+every time the door opened he gave a searching look, evidently in the
+hope of some of his valuable Staff approaching. When he had finished
+eating, he held up both hands in an imploring attitude and said, 'The
+hand of Almighty God has been upon me this day,' jumped up, went to
+his couch, and was asleep in a moment."<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20">[20]</a> <i>Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith</i>, vol. i., p. 291.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tbp">The following is from General Alava's official report of the action:
+"Of those who were by the side of the Duke of Wellington, only he and
+myself remained untouched in our persons and horses. The rest were all
+either killed, wounded, or lost one or more horses. The Duke was
+unable to refrain from tears on witnessing the death of so many brave
+and honourable men, and the loss of so many friends and faithful
+companions."<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21">[21]</a> From the <i>Supplement to the Madrid Gazette</i> of the 13th
+July 1815, quoted in the London <i>Evening Mail</i> of August 2 to August
+4, 1815.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp"><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">-18-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The next morning, the Duke wrote the following note to Lady Frances W.
+Webster, dated</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="right"><span style="margin-right: 1em;">"<span class="smcap">Bruxelles</span>, 19<i>th</i> <i>June</i> 1815.</span><br />
+"Half-past 8 in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">My dear Lady Frances</span>,</p>
+
+<p style="text-indent: 6em">"Lord Mount-Norris may remain in Bruxelles in perfect
+security. I yesterday, after a most severe and bloody
+contest, gained a complete victory, and pursued the French
+till after dark. They are in complete confusion; and I have,
+I believe, 150 pieces of cannon; and Blücher, who continued
+the pursuit all night, my soldiers being tired to death,
+sent me word this morning that he had got 60 more. My loss
+is immense. Lord Uxbridge, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, General
+Cooke, General Barnes, and Colonel Berkeley are wounded:
+Colonel De Lancey, Canning, Gordon, General Picton
+killed.<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> The finger of Providence was upon me, and I
+escaped unhurt.&mdash;Believe me, etc.,<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></p>
+
+<p class="right" style="padding-bottom: 1em">"<span class="smcap">Wellington.</span>"</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22">[22]</a> All the foregoing were on the General Staff of the Army
+or on the Duke's personal Staff.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23">[23]</a> <i>Supplementary Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>,
+vol. x., p. 531.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">-19-</a></span></p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="tp">Captain Gronow&mdash;a subaltern of the 1st Guards at Waterloo&mdash;gives us
+the following glimpse of the Duke and his Staff, on the morning of the
+18th, before the opening of the battle:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p class="bp">"The road was ankle-deep in mud and slough; and we had not
+proceeded a quarter of a mile when we heard the trampling of
+horses' feet, and on looking round perceived a large
+cavalcade of officers coming at full speed. In a moment we
+recognised the Duke himself at their head. He was accompanied
+by the Duke of Richmond, and his son, Lord William Lennox.
+The entire Staff of the army was close at hand: the Prince of
+Orange, Count Pozzo di Borgo, Baron Vincent, the Spanish
+General Alava, Prince Castel Cicala, with their several
+aides-de-camp; Felton Hervey, Fitzroy Somerset, and De Lancey
+were the last that appeared. They all seemed as gay and
+unconcerned as if they were riding to meet the hounds in some
+quiet English county."<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24">[24]</a> <i>Recollections and Anecdotes</i>, by Captain Gronow, p.
+186.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">Colonel Basil Jackson, who in 1815 was a lieutenant in the Royal Staff
+Corps, attached to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">-20-</a></span> the Quartermaster-General's department (see
+Dalton's <i>Waterloo Roll Call</i>, p. 38), gives the following interesting
+reminiscences of De Lancey on the 17th, at Quatre Bras, and during the
+retreat to Waterloo on the same day: "Some few changes were made in
+the disposition of the troops after the Duke of Wellington arrived on
+the ground, soon after daylight; arms were then piled, and the men,
+still wearied with their exertions of marching and fighting on the
+preceding day, lay down to snatch a little more rest. The Duke, too,
+after riding about and satisfying himself that all was as it should
+be, dismounted and stretched himself on the ground, very near the
+point where the road from Brussels to Charleroi crossed that leading
+from Nivelles to Namur, forming thereby the <i>Quatre Bras</i>....</p>
+
+<p>"I remained for some time at a short distance from the great man, who
+occasionally addressed a few words to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir E.
+Barnes, De Lancey, and others of his principal officers. He was then
+awaiting the return of Sir Alexander Gordon, who had gone off by the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">-21-</a></span>
+Namur road, some time between 6 and 7 o'clock, escorted by a squadron
+of the 10th Hussars. I had seen this detachment start at a round trot,
+but of course knew not the object of despatching it; which, as we
+learned afterwards, was to gain intelligence of Blücher's operations,
+whose defeat at Ligny we, that is, the army generally, were ignorant
+of, though the Duke was aware of it.</p>
+
+<p>"I availed myself of this period of quietness to go and examine
+particularly the ground which had been so hardly contested the day
+before....</p>
+
+<p>"Returning to the place where I had left the Duke when I set out on my
+ramble round the outposts, I found him still on the same spot; where
+he remained till Gordon and his escort came in with jaded horses, soon
+after 10 o'clock. On hearing his report, the Duke said a few words to
+De Lancey, who, observing me near him, directed me to go to Sir Thomas
+Picton, and tell him the orders were to make immediate preparation for
+falling back upon Waterloo....</p>
+
+<p class="bp">"Just as the retreat commenced (about noon), I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">-22-</a></span> was ordered off to
+Mont St Jean, where I was told I should meet the
+Quartermaster-General; accordingly I made for Genappe, and as the high
+road was by that time filled with troops, being, moreover, careless of
+the farmer's interest, I took a short cut through the corn-fields, in
+such a direction as enabled me to strike into that village about its
+centre. There I found sad confusion prevailing; country waggons with
+stores, ammunition tumbrils, provision waggons, and wounded men,
+choked up the street, so that it was impossible for any one to pass.
+Aware of the great importance of freeing the passage at a time when
+the retiring troops might be pressed by the enemy, I at once set to
+work to remedy the disorder that prevailed. Let the reader picture to
+himself Police Constable 61 C posted at the pastry-cook's corner where
+Gracechurch Street enters Cheapside, at a moment when those passages,
+together with Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Streets are blocked up by
+'buses, drays, waggons, carts, advertising locomotives, private
+carriages, and dodging cabs, when that unhappy functionary is vainly
+striving to restore order and clear the ways, and he will have some
+idea of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">-23-</a></span> difficulty I experienced in executing my self-imposed
+task. Happily, I was acquainted with some pithy expressions in two or
+three languages, which were familiar to the ears of those I had to
+deal with; and these, together with the flat of my sword, proved very
+efficacious in the end. While in the thick of this scene of tumult and
+confusion, I felt some one clap me on the shoulder, and on looking
+round saw Sir W. De Lancey. 'You are very well employed here,' said
+he; 'remain, and keep the way clear for the troops; I shall not want
+you at Waterloo.' Encouraged by my chief's commendation I redoubled my
+efforts, and had soon the satisfaction of seeing the defile free."<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25">[25]</a> "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+<i>United Service Journal</i> for 1847, Part III., p. 11.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">"A week after the battle"&mdash;to quote again from the article by H.
+Manners Chichester in the <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>&mdash;"De
+Lancey succumbed to his injuries, in a peasant's cottage in the
+village of Waterloo, where he was tenderly nursed by his young wife,
+who had joined him in Brussels a few days before the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">-24-</a></span> battle.
+According to another account, De Lancey was laid down at his own
+request when being conveyed to the rear, and so was left out untended
+all night and part of the next day. Rogers, in a note, states that he
+was killed by 'the wind of the shot,' his skin not being broken; and
+also that Lady De Lancey left a manuscript account of his last days."</p>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/ldelancey.jpg" width="316" height="450" alt="Lady de Lancey" title="Lady de Lancey" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="lg"><i>Lady de Lancey</i></span><br />
+<i>From a miniature after J.D. Engleheart</i><br />
+<span class="sm"><i>Emery Walker Ph.Sc.</i></span></p>
+
+<p>This manuscript account was written in the first instance by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.
+The original manuscript has been lost sight of. An early copy, which
+was made by Mrs Basil Hall, is now in the possession of their
+grand-daughter, Lady Parsons. Copies would appear to have been made by
+members of the family at various times; but the existence of the
+narrative was apparently not known to Edward Floyd De Lancey, the
+historian of the family in Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>. Besides the copy
+of the narrative made by Mrs Basil Hall, another copy came into the
+possession of the poet Rogers. This copy is now owned by W. Arthur
+Sharpe, Esq., Highgate, N. Both the above versions&mdash;which contain only
+slight varia<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">-25-</a></span>tions&mdash;have been consulted in the present edition of the
+narrative.</p>
+
+<p>Captain Basil Hall, R.N. (vide <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>,
+vol. xxiv., p. 58), was a well-known author in his day, his best known
+work being <i>Fragments of Voyages and Travels</i>, published in three
+series between 1831 and 1833, and frequently reprinted since.</p>
+
+<p>In Volume II. of the first series, Captain Hall alludes to his first
+meeting with De Lancey. It occurred on board H.M.S. <i>Endymion</i> on the
+morning of the 18th January 1809, when the British troops had all been
+safely embarked on the transports, the second day after the battle of
+Corunna.</p>
+
+<p class="bp">Basil Hall&mdash;then a lieutenant in the navy&mdash;and De Lancey<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> struck up
+a great friendship on the <i>Endymion</i>, and the former introduced his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">-26-</a></span>
+soldier friend after the voyage home to his family in Scotland. The
+marriage of De Lancey six years afterwards to Basil Hall's sister
+Magdalene was a result of this introduction.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26">[26]</a> De Lancey was at this time a lieutenant-colonel and
+permanent assistant in the quartermaster-general's department (Army
+List, 1809, p. 323).
+</p><p>
+His first commission as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons bore the
+date 7th July 1792 (Army List, 1793, p. 50), when he was only eleven
+years old.
+</p><p>
+He was gazetted lieutenant in the same regiment on the 26th February
+1793, and was subsequently transferred to the 80th Foot.
+</p><p>
+On the 20th October 1796 he was gazetted captain in the 17th Light
+Dragoons, of which regiment his uncle, General Oliver De Lancey, was
+then colonel.
+</p><p>
+He obtained a majority in the 45th (or Nottinghamshire) Regiment of
+Foot on the 17th October 1799. He was by this time eighteen years of
+age, and up to this date had probably no connection with the army at
+all beyond drawing his pay and figuring in the Army List. Even now he
+does not appear to have joined his regiment until its return from the
+West Indies, a year or two afterwards (<i>Dict. Nat. Biog.</i>, vol. xiv.,
+p. 305). His first uniform was probably that of the 45th Foot, and the
+portrait, forming the <a href="#FRONT">frontispiece</a> of this volume, was in all
+likelihood painted on his first joining the regiment as a major in
+1800 or 1801.
+</p><p>
+In the Army List of 1804 he is shown on page 31 as an assistant
+quartermaster-general. His actual regimental service can therefore
+hardly have exceeded two or three years. Until his death in 1815, he
+was continuously on the staff of the army in the
+quartermaster-general's department.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">The following extract from Captain Basil Hall's <i>Fragments of Voyages
+and Travels</i>, gives an account of the first meeting of the two friends
+on board<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">-27-</a></span> the <i>Endymion</i>, and of the dramatic circumstances under
+which Captain Hall heard the news of his sister's marriage, and of De
+Lancey's death at Waterloo:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"As we in the <i>Endymion</i> had the exclusive charge of the convoy of
+transports, we remained to the very last, to assist the ships with
+provisions, and otherwise to regulate the movements of the stragglers.
+Whilst we were thus engaged, and lying to, with our main-topsail to
+the mast, a small Spanish boat came alongside, with two or three
+British officers in her. On these gentlemen being invited to step up,
+and say what they wanted, one of them begged we would inform him where
+the transport No. 139 was to be found.</p>
+
+<p>"'How can we possibly tell you that?' said the officer of the watch.
+'Don't you see the ships are scattered as far as the horizon in every
+direction? You had much better come on board this ship in the
+meantime.'</p>
+
+<p>"'No, sir, no,' cried the officers; 'we have received directions to go
+on board the transport 139, and her we must find.'</p>
+
+<p>"'What is all this about?' inquired the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">-28-</a></span> captain of the <i>Endymion</i>;
+and being told of the scruples of the strangers, insisted upon their
+coming up. He very soon explained to them the utter impossibility, at
+such a moment, of finding out any particular transport amongst between
+three and four hundred ships, every one of which was following her own
+way. We found out afterwards that they only were apprehensive of
+having it imagined they had designedly come to the frigate for better
+quarters. Nothing, of course, was farther from our thoughts; indeed,
+it was evidently the result of accident. So we sent away their little
+boat, and just at that moment the gun-room steward announced
+breakfast. We invited our new friends down, and gave them a hearty
+meal in peace and comfort&mdash;a luxury they had not enjoyed for many a
+long and rugged day.</p>
+
+<p>"Our next care was to afford our tired warriors the much-required
+comforts of a razor and clean linen. We divided the party amongst us;
+and I was so much taken with one of these officers, that I urged him
+to accept such accommodation as my cabin and wardrobe afforded.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">-29-</a></span> He
+had come to us without one stitch of clothes beyond what he then wore,
+and these, to say the truth, were not in the best condition, at the
+elbows and other angular points of his frame. Let that pass&mdash;he was as
+fine a fellow as ever stepped; and I had much pride and pleasure in
+taking care of him during the passage.</p>
+
+<p>"We soon became great friends; but on reaching England we parted, and
+I never saw him more. Of course he soon lost sight of me, but his fame
+rose high, and, as I often read his name in the Gazettes during the
+subsequent campaigns in the Peninsula, I looked forward with a
+gradually increasing anxiety to the renewal of an acquaintance begun
+so auspiciously. At last I was gratified by a bright flash of hope in
+this matter, which went out, alas, as speedily as it came. Not quite
+six years after these events, I came home from India, in command of a
+sloop of war. Before entering the Channel, we fell in with a ship
+which gave us the first news of the battle of Waterloo, and spared us
+a precious copy of the Duke of Wellington's despatch; and within five
+minutes after landing at Portsmouth,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">-30-</a></span> I met a near relation of my own.
+This seemed a fortunate rencontre, for I had not received a letter
+from home for nearly a year&mdash;and I eagerly asked him&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"'What news of all friends?'</p>
+
+<p>"'I suppose,' he said, 'you know of your sister's marriage?'</p>
+
+<p>"'No, indeed! I do not!&mdash;which sister?'</p>
+
+<p>"He told me.</p>
+
+<p>"'But to whom is she married?' I cried out with intense impatience,
+and wondering greatly that he had not told me this at once.</p>
+
+<p>"'Sir William De Lancey was the person,' he answered. But he spoke not
+in the joyous tone that befits such communications.</p>
+
+<p>"'God bless me!' I exclaimed. 'I am delighted to hear that. I know him
+well&mdash;we picked him up in a boat, at sea, after the battle of Corunna,
+and I brought him home in my cabin in the <i>Endymion</i>. I see by the
+despatch, giving an account of the late victory, that he was badly
+wounded&mdash;how is he now? I observe by the postscript to the Duke's
+letter that strong hopes are entertained of his recovery.'<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">-31-</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="bp">"'Yes,' said my friend, 'that was reported, but could hardly have been
+believed. Sir William was mortally wounded, and lived not quite a week
+after the action. The only comfort about this sad matter is, that his
+poor wife, being near the field at the time, joined him immediately
+after the battle, and had the melancholy satisfaction of attending her
+husband to the last!'"<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27">[27]</a> <i>Fragments of Voyages and Travels</i>, by Captain Basil
+Hall, R.N., 1831, vol. ii., pp. 367-371.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">It was, as before stated, at Captain Hall's request that Lady De
+Lancey wrote the memorable Waterloo narrative.</p>
+
+<p>In order to satisfy the natural curiosity of friends&mdash;who had probably
+heard of the narrative in Captain Hall's possession&mdash;Lady De Lancey
+prepared an abridged version, in more general terms, and of a much
+more reserved character than the original account, written for her
+brother only.</p>
+
+<p>This condensed account was found amongst the papers of her nephew,
+General De Lancey Lowe, after his death in 1880. His widow published
+it in the <i>Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine</i> for 1888, p. 414.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">-32-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>In some few instances this abridged account contains descriptive
+touches not given in the original narrative. These variations are
+given in the form of notes to the present edition of the narrative.</p>
+
+<p>Thomas Moore in his diary for the 29th August 1824 describes the
+circumstances under which Captain Hall lent him his copy of the
+narrative as follows:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="bp">"A note early from Lord Lansdowne, to say that Capt. Basil Hall, who
+is at Bowood, wishes much to see me; and that if I cannot come over
+to-day to either luncheon or dinner, he will call upon me to-morrow.
+Answered that I would come to dinner to-day. Walked over at five....
+Company, only Capt. Basil Hall, Luttrel, and Nugent, and an <i>ad
+interim</i> tutor of Kerry's.... Hall gave me, before I came away, a
+journal written by his sister, Lady De Lancey, containing an account
+of the death of her husband at Waterloo, and her attendance upon him
+there, they having been but three months married. Walked home; took
+the narrative to bed with me to read a page or two, but found it so
+deeply<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">-33-</a></span> interesting, that I read till near two o'clock, and finished
+it; made myself quite miserable, and went to sleep, I believe, crying.
+Hall said he would call upon me to-morrow."<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28">[28]</a> <i>Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore</i>,
+edited by Lord John Russell, vol. iv., p. 239.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">Earl Stanhope, in his <i>Notes of Conversations with the Duke of
+Wellington</i>, p. 182, writes as follows: "I mentioned with much praise
+Lady De Lancey's narrative of her husband's lingering death and of her
+own trials and sufferings after Waterloo. The Duke told me that he had
+seen it&mdash;Lord Bathurst having lent it him many years ago." This
+conversation took place on the 12th October 1839.</p>
+
+<p>The two most famous literary men to whom Captain Basil Hall lent the
+narrative, were, however, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.</p>
+
+<p>Sir Walter Scott writes under date Abbotsford, 13th October 1825, that
+his publisher, Constable, thinks that the narrative "would add very
+great interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris
+soon after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the
+most valuable<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">-34-</a></span> and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war."<a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a></p>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/scottletter_sm.jpg" width="329" height="427" alt="Scott letter" title="Scott letter" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Part of an Autograph Letter of Sir Walter Scott</span>.<br />
+[<a href="images/scottletter_lg.jpg">Enlarge</a>]</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"I never read anything which affected my own feelings more
+strongly, or which, I am sure, would have a deeper interest
+on [<i>sic</i>] those of the public....</p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of
+this heartrending diary, which makes me suppose a
+possibility that after such a lapse of years, the
+publication may possibly (as that which cannot but do the
+highest honour to the memory of the amiable authoress) may
+[<i>sic</i>] not be judged altogether inadmissible....&mdash;Most
+truly yours,</p>
+
+<p class="right" style="padding-bottom: 1em">"<span class="smcap">Walter Scott."</span><a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29">[29]</a> Perhaps the <i>Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de
+Larochejaquelein</i> of which four editions were published between 1814
+and 1817&mdash;one of the noblest and most touching of autobiographies&mdash;is
+the nearest parallel in literature to Lady De Lancey's narrative. The
+French Marchioness describes her experiences in Paris in 1789, and
+during the Insurrection of La Vendée in 1793.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Ed.</span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30">[30]</a> The complete letter will be found in <a href="#APPENDIX_A">Appendix A</a> of this
+volume.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/dickensletter_sm.jpg" width="248" height="468" alt="Dickens letter" title="Dickens letter" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Part of an Autograph Letter of Charles Dickens</span>.<br />
+[<a href="images/dickensletter_lg.jpg">Enlarge</a>]</p>
+
+<p>The following is a transcript of the most remarkable passages in
+Dickens' letter:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">-35-</a></span>&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="right"><span style="margin-right: 2em;"><span class="smcap">"Devonshire Terrace</span>,</span><br />
+<i>"Tuesday evening</i>, 16<i>th</i> <i>March</i> 1841.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">"My dear Hall</span>, ...</p>
+
+<p>"I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De
+Lancey's narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not
+have mastered it even then. One glance at it, when, through
+your kindness, it first arrived, had impressed me with a
+foreboding of its terrible truth, and I really have shrunk
+from it in pure lack of heart.</p>
+
+<p>"After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the
+most wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours
+in the evening&mdash;searching for some pictures I wanted to
+build upon&mdash;I went at it, at about ten o'clock. To say that
+the reading that most astonishing and tremendous account has
+constituted an epoch in my life&mdash;that I shall never forget
+the lightest word of it&mdash;that I cannot throw the impression
+aside, and never saw anything so real, so touching, and so
+actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am husband
+and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General
+Dundas, doctor and bedstead&mdash;everything and everybody (but
+the Prussian officer&mdash;damn him) all in one. What I have
+always looked upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">-36-</a></span> as masterpieces of powerful and
+affecting description, seem as nothing in my eyes. If I live
+for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and then,
+from this hour to the day of my death, with the most
+frightful reality. The slightest mention of a battle will
+bring the whole thing before me. I shall never think of the
+Duke any more but as he stood in his shirt with the officer
+in full-dress uniform, or as he dismounted from his horse
+when the gallant man was struck down. It is a striking proof
+of the power of that most extraordinary man, Defoe, that I
+seem to recognise in every line of the narrative something
+of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the
+obstacles to getting on&mdash;the shutting herself up in her room
+and determining not to hear&mdash;the not going to the door when
+the knocking came&mdash;the finding out by her wild spirits when
+she heard he was safe, how much she had feared when in doubt
+and anxiety&mdash;the desperate desire to move towards him&mdash;the
+whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+their daily shifts and contrivances, and the lying down
+beside him in the bed and both <i>falling asleep</i>; and his
+resolving not to serve any more, but to live quietly
+thenceforth; and her<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">-37-</a></span> sorrow when she saw him eating with an
+appetite, so soon before his death; and his death
+itself&mdash;all these are matters of truth, which only that
+astonishing creature, I think, could have told in fiction.</p>
+
+<p>"Of all the beautiful and tender passages&mdash;the thinking
+every day how happy and blest she was&mdash;the decorating him
+for the dinner&mdash;the standing in the balcony at night and
+seeing the troops melt away through the gate&mdash;and the
+rejoining him on his sick-bed&mdash;I say not a word. They are
+God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again, with
+an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than
+toast and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of
+this paper, that its impression on me can never be told;
+that the ground she travelled (which I know well) is holy
+ground to me from this day; and that, please Heaven, I will
+tread its every foot this very next summer, to have the
+softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+where it was acted.</p>
+
+<p>"You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are
+awakened by such things, they don't wear out....&mdash;Faithfully
+yours,</p>
+
+<p class="right" style="padding-bottom: 1em">"<span class="smcap">Charles Dickens.</span>"<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a></p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31">[31]</a> The complete letter will be found in <a href="#APPENDIX_A">Appendix A</a> of this
+volume.</p></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">-38-</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="tp">Many literary and artistic masterpieces have grouped themselves round
+Waterloo. One of the most striking passages in <i>Vanity Fair</i> refers to
+an imaginary incident in connection with the battle. Sir Walter Scott
+once said that in the whole range of English poetry there was nothing
+finer than the stanzas in <i>Childe Harold</i>, commencing with the line&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="center">"There was a sound of revelry by night,"</p>
+
+<p class="noindent">and ending with the words&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="center">"Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent."</p>
+
+<p>Tennyson's <i>Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington</i> ranks as a
+funeral dirge with <i>Lycidas</i> and <i>Adonais</i>. Napoleon's tomb in the
+Invalides may hold its own almost with the Tąj. Yet, when all is said
+and done, the fact remains that no hero of the battle, and indeed few
+victims of war, have ever received a more touching memorial than the
+one here set forth in the sight of all future generations of men by
+the love and the literary genius of Lady De Lancey.</p>
+
+<p class="right"><span class="smcap">B.R. Ward.</span></p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Halifax</span>, N.S.,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>April</i> 1906.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr />
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/wdelancey2.jpg" width="357" height="445" alt="Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey" title="Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey</span> (<i>c.</i> 1813).</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">-39-</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="A_WEEK_AT_WATERLOO_IN_1815" id="A_WEEK_AT_WATERLOO_IN_1815"></a>A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815</h2>
+
+
+<p class="tp"><span class="smcap">I arrived</span> at Brussels on Thursday, 8th June 1815, and was much
+surprised at the peaceful appearance of that town, and the whole
+country from Ostend. We were billeted in the house of the Count de
+Lannoy, in the Park, which is a square of very beautiful houses with
+fine large trees in the centre. The Count de Lannoy was very
+attentive, and we had a suite of very excellent rooms, up four
+stories, which is the fashion in that country, I believe. It was
+amusing enough, sometimes, to see from our windows the people parading
+in the Park. I saw very little of the town, and still less of the
+inhabitants; for notwithstanding Sir William's belief that we should
+remain quietly there for a month at least, I have the comfort of
+remembering that, as there was a chance we might separate in a few
+days, I wasted no time in visiting or going to balls, which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">-40-</a></span> I did not
+care for, and therefore I never went out, except for an hour or two
+every afternoon, to walk with Sir William.</p>
+
+<p>The people in general dined between three and four, we dined at six;
+we walked while others were at dinner, so that literally I never saw
+anybody, except some gentlemen, two or three of whom dined with us
+every day&mdash;Sir William's friends, whom he brought to introduce to me.</p>
+
+<p>I never passed such a delightful time, for there was always enough of
+very pleasant society to keep us gay and merry, and the rest of the
+day was spent in peaceful happiness.</p>
+
+<p>Fortunately my husband had scarcely any business to do, and he only
+went to the office for about an hour every day. I then used to sit and
+think with astonishment of my being transported into such a scene of
+happiness, so perfect, so unalloyed!&mdash;feeling that I was entirely
+enjoying life&mdash;not a moment wasted. How active and how well I was! I
+scarcely knew what to do with all my health and spirits. Now and then
+a pang would cross my mind at the prospect of the approaching
+campaign, but I chased away the thought, resolved not to lose<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">-41-</a></span> the
+present bliss by dwelling on the chance of future pain. Sir William
+promised to let me know as soon as he knew himself, everything
+concerning the movement of the army; and accordingly he gave me every
+paper to read, to keep my mind easy. After some consideration, he
+decided that upon the commencement of hostilities I should go to
+Antwerp, and there remain till the end of the campaign, which might
+last months. He wished me not to think of going along with him,
+because the rear of a great army was always dangerous, and an unfit
+situation for a woman; and he wished not to draw me into any scenes,
+or near any danger, more than if I had remained in England. He little
+thought I should be in the midst of horrors I would not pass again for
+any being <i>now</i> living; and alas, the cautious anxiety he expressed
+that I should avoid being shocked, only made me feel more desolate and
+miserable when I found myself in the midst of most terrible scenes.</p>
+
+<p>Several other officers, on hearing that he designed to send me to
+Antwerp, fixed that their wives should go there too. It is a very
+strongly fortified town, and likewise having the sea to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">-42-</a></span> escape by, if
+necessary, it was by far the safest place; and being only twenty-five
+miles from Brussels, it added so little to the time of hearing from
+him, if separated, that I acquiesced cheerfully. After this was
+arranged, we never thought more about it, and enjoyed each hour as it
+passed with no more anxiety than was sufficient to render time
+precious.</p>
+
+<p>On Wednesday the 14th, I had a little alarm in the evening with some
+public papers, and Sir William went out with them, but returned in a
+short time; and it passed by so completely, that Thursday<a name="ENanchor_1" id="ENanchor_1"></a><a href="#Endnote_1" class="fnanchor">(1)</a> forenoon
+was the happiest day of my life; but I cannot recollect a day of my
+short married life that was not perfect. I shall never get on if I
+begin to talk of what my happiness was; but I dread to enter on the
+gloomy past, which I shudder to look back upon, and I often wonder I
+survived it. We little dreamt that Thursday was the last we were to
+pass together, and that the storm would burst so soon. Sir William had
+to dine at the Spanish Ambassador's,<a name="ENanchor_2" id="ENanchor_2"></a><a href="#Endnote_2" class="fnanchor">(2)</a> the first invitation he had
+accepted from the time I went; he was unwilling to go, and delayed and
+still delayed,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">-43-</a></span> till at last when near six, I fastened all his medals
+and crosses on his coat, helped him to put it on, and he went.<a name="ENanchor_3" id="ENanchor_3"></a><a href="#Endnote_3" class="fnanchor">(3)</a> I
+watched at the window till he was out of sight, and then I continued
+musing on my happy fate; I thought over all that had passed, and how
+grateful I felt! I had no wish but that this might continue; I saw my
+husband loved and respected by everyone, my life gliding on, like a
+gay dream, in his care.</p>
+
+<p>When I had remained at the window nearly an hour, I saw an
+aide-de-camp ride under the gateway of our house. He sent to enquire
+where Sir William was dining. I wrote down the name; and soon after I
+saw him gallop off in that direction. I did not like this appearance,
+but I tried not to be afraid. A few minutes after, I saw Sir William
+on the same horse gallop past to the Duke's,<a name="ENanchor_4" id="ENanchor_4"></a><a href="#Endnote_4" class="fnanchor">(4)</a> which was a few doors
+beyond ours. He dismounted and ran into the house&mdash;left the horse in
+the middle of the street. I must confess my courage failed me now, and
+the succeeding two hours formed a contrast to the happy forenoon.</p>
+
+<p>About nine,<a name="ENanchor_5" id="ENanchor_5"></a><a href="#Endnote_5" class="fnanchor">(5)</a> Sir William came in; seeing my wretched face, he bade
+me not be foolish, for it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">-44-</a></span> would soon be all over now; they expected a
+great battle on the morrow; he would send me to Antwerp in the
+morning, and desired me to be ready at six. He said that though he
+expected it would be a decisive battle, and a conclusion of the whole
+business, he thought it best I should keep the plan of going to
+Antwerp, to avoid the alarms that he knew would seize everyone the
+moment the troops were gone; and he said he would probably join me
+there, or send for me to return the same evening. He said he should be
+writing all night, perhaps: he desired me to prepare some strong green
+tea in case he came in, as the violent exertion requisite to setting
+the whole army in motion quite stupefied him sometimes. He used
+sometimes to tell me that whenever the operations began, if he thought
+for five minutes on any other subject, he was neglecting his duty. I
+therefore scrupulously avoided asking him any questions, or indeed
+speaking at all.<a name="ENanchor_6" id="ENanchor_6"></a><a href="#Endnote_6" class="fnanchor">(6)</a> I moved up and down like one stupefied myself.</p>
+
+<p>He went to the office, and returned near twelve,<a name="ENanchor_7" id="ENanchor_7"></a><a href="#Endnote_7" class="fnanchor">(7)</a> much fatigued, but
+he did not attempt to sleep; he<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">-45-</a></span> went twice to the Duke's; the first
+time he found him standing looking over a map with a Prussian
+general,<a name="ENanchor_8" id="ENanchor_8"></a><a href="#Endnote_8" class="fnanchor">(8)</a> who was in full-dress uniform&mdash;with orders and crosses,
+etc.&mdash;the Duke was in his chemise and slippers, preparing to dress for
+the Duchess of Richmond's ball; the two figures were quite admirable.
+The ball took place notwithstanding the reveille played through the
+streets the whole night. Many of the officers danced, and then
+marched<a name="ENanchor_9" id="ENanchor_9"></a><a href="#Endnote_9" class="fnanchor">(9)</a> in the morning.</p>
+
+<p>About two, Sir William went again to the Duke, and he was sleeping
+sound! At three the troops were all assembled in the Park, and Sir
+William and I leant over the window, seeing them march off&mdash;so few to
+return. It was a clear refreshing morning, and the scene was very
+solemn and melancholy.<a name="ENanchor_10" id="ENanchor_10"></a><a href="#Endnote_10" class="fnanchor">(10)</a> The fifes played alone, and the regiments
+one after another marched past, and I saw<a name="ENanchor_11" id="ENanchor_11"></a><a href="#Endnote_11" class="fnanchor">(11)</a> them melt away through
+the great gate at the end of the Square. Shall I ever forget the tunes
+played by the shrill fifes and the buglehorns which disturbed that
+night!</p>
+
+<p>At six in the morning, Friday the 16th, I went to Antwerp: Sir William
+gave me a letter to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">-46-</a></span> Captain Mitchell, in the Q.M.-General's
+department, requesting him to take charge of me. Accordingly, soon
+after we arrived I was settled in very comfortable apartments. I was
+at first for an hour in the inn,<a name="ENanchor_12" id="ENanchor_12"></a><a href="#Endnote_12" class="fnanchor">(12)</a> and I lay down in a small back
+room. In the evening I sent my maid from the lodgings to get some wine
+at the inn; when wandering in the passage to find some English person,
+she opened the door of the room I had been in, and saw the body<a name="ENanchor_13" id="ENanchor_13"></a><a href="#Endnote_13" class="fnanchor">(13)</a> of
+the Duke of Brunswick on the very bed.</p>
+
+<p>I was fortunate enough to have a room at the back, so shut in with
+buildings that I could not hear any noise in the streets. Sir William
+had made me promise to believe no reports, and not upon any account to
+move without his written order for it. I thought it was best not to
+listen to any stories, so I told my maid Emma not to tell me any, and
+to do her best to get no alarms herself. Captain Mitchell I found of
+great service; he is a very sensible and seemingly good-hearted man.
+There was a calmness in his manner which was of infinite use to me
+when I could not entirely get the better of fears but too well
+founded.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">-47-</a></span> Though he was afterwards oppressed with business, night and
+day, he never failed to come to me when he had heard any accounts he
+could depend upon. But I may say I never saw so much kindness, and
+softness indeed, as during that miserable time.</p>
+
+<p>The general and individual distress that rapidly followed the battles
+then fought, seemed quite to unman them; and one grew accustomed to
+see men weep, without their attempting to conceal it. The same evening
+the Town Major, Machel, called. He knew Sir William, and he brought a
+Mrs &mdash;&mdash; to call. She very kindly asked me to go and visit her in the
+country about a mile. I was much obliged to her, but said I hoped to
+return to Brussels so soon that I should not have time. She apologised
+for Mr &mdash;&mdash;; he would have called on me, but the report I had brought
+of the marching of the troops had given him a great deal of business.
+The town was now very bustling, though when I arrived there was
+nothing but quiet. Captain Mitchell told me in the evening that the
+battle had taken place; that the English had gained a victory, but he
+believed there was to be more fighting. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">-48-</a></span> promised to send me any
+letter, or if he heard of Sir William. I sat up late, but none came.</p>
+
+<p>On Saturday the 17th, Antwerp was truly a scene of confusion&mdash;by the
+servant's account, for I would not stir out of my room. Not one of the
+ladies who had intended to come to Antwerp at first, kept their
+resolution; and in consequence they got a great alarm, which was what
+my husband wished me to escape. There was a battle fought on Friday
+the 16th, near Brussels, and I was told the noise of the cannon was
+tremendous&mdash;the houses shook with it. It was distinctly heard at
+Antwerp; but I kept the windows shut, and tried not to hear. I only
+heard a rolling like the sea at a distance.<a name="ENanchor_14" id="ENanchor_14"></a><a href="#Endnote_14" class="fnanchor">(14)</a> Poor Emma, urged by
+curiosity, stood in the street listening to terrible stories, seeing
+wounded men brought in, carriages full of women and children flying
+from Brussels, till she was completely frightened. She came and told
+me that all the ladies were hastening to England by sea, for the
+French had taken Brussels. I saw I must take my time to alarm her, and
+I said, "Well, Emma, you know that if the French were firing at this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">-49-</a></span>
+house, I would not move till I was ordered; but you have no such duty,
+therefore go if you like. I dare say any of the families will let you
+join them."</p>
+
+<p>Emma was shocked at my supposing she would be so base as to desert me,
+and declared that if she was sure she had to remain in a French prison
+for five years, she would not leave me. My reproof had all the effect
+I intended; for she brought me no more stories, and I am certain she
+never was frightened after, even when we were in far greater danger.</p>
+
+<p>Though I had little reason to expect a letter from my husband, I sat
+up late in hopes. At midnight, what was my joy to get a little note
+from him, written at Genappe,<a name="ENanchor_15" id="ENanchor_15"></a><a href="#Endnote_15" class="fnanchor">(15)</a> after the battle of the 16th. He
+said he was safe, and in great spirits; they had given the French a
+tremendous beating. I wrote to him every day, and Captain Mitchell
+sent my letters, but they never reached him.</p>
+
+<p>On Sunday, Captain Mitchell told me he had heard the last effort was
+to be made. I cannot attempt to describe the restless unhappy state<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">-50-</a></span> I
+was in; for it had continued so much longer than I had expected
+already, that I began to find it difficult to keep up my spirits,
+though I was infatuated enough to think it quite impossible that he
+could be hurt. I believe mine was not an uncommon case, but so it was.
+I might be uneasy at the length of the separation, or anxious to hear
+from him; but the possibility of his being wounded never glanced into
+my mind, till I was told he was killed.</p>
+
+<p>On Sunday the 18th June, there was to be a great battle. It began
+about eleven;<a name="ENanchor_16" id="ENanchor_16"></a><a href="#Endnote_16" class="fnanchor">(16)</a> near three,<a name="ENanchor_17" id="ENanchor_17"></a><a href="#Endnote_17" class="fnanchor">(17)</a> when Sir William was riding beside
+the Duke, a cannon ball struck him on the back, at the right shoulder,
+and knocked him off his horse to several yards distance. The Duke at
+first imagined he was killed; for he said afterwards, he had never in
+all the fighting he had ever been in seen a man rise again after such
+a wound. Seeing he was alive (for he bounded up again and then sank
+down), he ran to him, and stooping down, took him by the hand.<a name="ENanchor_18" id="ENanchor_18"></a><a href="#Endnote_18" class="fnanchor">(18)</a></p>
+
+<p>Sir William begged the Duke, as the last favour he could have it in
+his power to do him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">-51-</a></span> to exert his authority to take away the crowd
+that gathered round him, and to let him have his last moments in peace
+to himself. The Duke bade him farewell, and endeavoured to draw away
+the Staff, who oppressed him; they wanted to take leave of him, and
+wondered at his calmness. He was left, as they imagined, to die; but
+his cousin, Delancey Barclay,<a name="ENanchor_19" id="ENanchor_19"></a><a href="#Endnote_19" class="fnanchor">(19)</a> who had seen him fall, went to him
+instantly, and tried to prevail upon him to be removed to the rear, as
+he was in imminent danger of being crushed by the artillery, which was
+fast approaching the spot; and also there was danger of his falling
+into the hands of the enemy. He entreated to be left on the ground,
+and said it was impossible he could live; that they might be of more
+use to others, and he only begged to remain on the field. But as he
+spoke with ease, and Colonel Barclay saw that the ball had not
+entered, he insisted on moving him, and he took the opinion of a
+surgeon, who thought he might live,
+and got some soldiers to carry him in a blanket to a barn<a name="ENanchor_20" id="ENanchor_20"></a><a href="#Endnote_20" class="fnanchor">(20)</a> at the
+side of the road, a little to the rear. The wound was dressed, and
+then Colonel Barclay<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">-52-</a></span> had to return to the Division; but first he gave
+orders to have Sir William moved to the village;<a name="ENanchor_21" id="ENanchor_21"></a><a href="#Endnote_21" class="fnanchor">(21)</a> for that barn was
+in danger of being taken possession of by the enemy. Before Colonel
+Barclay went, Sir William begged him to come quite close to him, and
+continued to give him messages for me. Nothing else seemed to occupy
+his mind. He desired him to write to me at Antwerp; to say everything
+kind, and to endeavour to soften this business, and to break it to me
+as gently as he could. He then said he might move him, as if he
+fancied it was to be his last effort. He was carried to the village of
+Waterloo, and left in a cottage, where he lay unheeded all night, and
+part of next day. Many of his friends were in the village, and no one
+knew where he was, or that he was alive even. It was by chance that an
+officer of the Staff Corps found him next morning, and sent to inform
+Sir George Scovell.<a name="ENanchor_22" id="ENanchor_22"></a><a href="#Endnote_22" class="fnanchor">(22)</a> The evening before,<a name="ENanchor_23" id="ENanchor_23"></a><a href="#Endnote_23" class="fnanchor">(23)</a> the Duke had written
+the despatches, and had inserted De Lancey as killed. Interest was
+made that he should alter them, when he was told that he had been
+carried off the field alive.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">-53-</a></span> Some kindly thought this might benefit
+me; but I was not so fortunate. Sad scenes were passing at Antwerp in
+the meantime.</p>
+
+<p>On Monday morning, Captain Mitchell, at nine o'clock, came to tell me
+that the last battle was over, and the French entirely defeated, and
+that Sir William was safe. I asked him repeatedly if he was sure, and
+if he had seen any of his writing, or if he had heard from him. He had
+not; but had read a list of the killed and wounded, and could assure
+me his name was not in it. Captain Mitchell was quite sincere; and was
+afterwards much grieved that he had added to the accumulation of
+misery, for this only made the dash down more severe. I now found how
+much I had really feared by the wild spirits I got into. I walked up
+and down, for I could not rest, and was almost in a fever with
+happiness, and for two hours this went on.</p>
+
+<p>At eleven a message came that Lady Hamilton wished to see me. I went
+down to the parlour, and found her and Mr James. I did not remark
+anything in her countenance, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">-54-</a></span> I think I never saw feeling and
+compassion more strongly marked than in his expression. I then said I
+hoped Lady Emily was well. He answered that she was so, with a tone of
+such misery that I was afraid something had happened, I knew not what,
+to somebody. I looked at Lady Hamilton for an explanation. She seemed
+a little agitated too, and I said, "One is so selfish: I can attend to
+nothing, I am so rejoiced Sir William is safe."</p>
+
+<p>Mr James walked to the other end of the room. I did not know what to
+do. I feared that my gay voice grieved them, for I saw something had
+made them unhappy. Little did I think the blow was falling on my own
+unfortunate head.</p>
+
+<p>Lady Hamilton said, "Poor Mr James! He has lost a brother and I a
+nephew. It was a dreadful battle!&mdash;so many killed."</p>
+
+<p>I thought it cruel of them to come to me to tell all this to, when I
+was so merry; but I tried to be polite, and again apologised for
+appearing glad, on account of my own good fortune.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">-55-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Lady Hamilton said, "Did you hear from him?"</p>
+
+<p>"No, but Captain Mitchell saw the list, and his name was not in it."</p>
+
+<p class="bp">Mr James went out of the room. Lady Hamilton said, "He is gone to see
+it, I suppose," and then began to talk about the list, and what were
+the first names, and a great deal about whether I had any friends in
+that country, etc. She then asked what I intended to do if the
+fighting continued, and if I should go to England? I was a little
+surprised at these enquiries, but assured her I would not move until
+Sir William came or sent for me. She found me so obstinately confident
+that she began<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a>...&mdash;and after a short time a suspicion darted into
+my mind. What a death-like feeling was that!</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32">[32]</a> Here there is a hiatus in the MS.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">Lady Hamilton confessed she had written the list, and with a most
+mistaken kindness had omitted several of the names, Sir William's
+among the rest. A general had come from the field and named them; and
+she, knowing I was in the country, had left his out, fearing that I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">-56-</a></span>
+should be suddenly informed. But such information would not be
+otherwise than a shock whatever way it was told, and the previous
+account of his safety only tortured me the more. But it is needless to
+dwell upon it now; and though I believe she thinks I never forgave
+her, I now recollect only the motive, which was kind.</p>
+
+<p>My difficulty then was to find out, or rather to believe the truth.
+She assured me he was only wounded. I looked at her keenly, and said,
+"Lady Hamilton, I can bear anything but suspense. Let me know the very
+worst. Tell me, is he killed?"</p>
+
+<p>She then solemnly assured me he was only desperately wounded.</p>
+
+<p>I shook my head and said, "Ah, it is very well to say so. Yes, he must
+be wounded first, you know." And I walked round the room fast. "Yes,
+yes, you say so, but I cannot believe what you say now."</p>
+
+<p>She was terrified, for I could not shed a tear. She declared upon her
+word of honour that when General Alava left the field he was alive,
+but was not expected to live.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">-57-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This I felt sounded like truth, and I stood before her and said,
+"Well, Lady Hamilton, if it is so, and you really wish to serve me,
+help me to go to him instantly. I am sure Mr James will be so good as
+to hurry the servant. Oh, how much time has been lost already! If
+Captain Mitchell had but known, I should have gone at nine. Every
+moment may make me too late to see him alive."</p>
+
+<p>She was glad to try to do anything for me, and was going. I stopped
+her at the door, and said, "Now, if you are deceiving me, you may
+perhaps have my senses to answer for."</p>
+
+<p>She repeated her assurances, and I said I would send my servant for
+the carriage, which was at the Town Major's, if she would see anybody
+to get horses, and I was ready. She said she would offer to go with
+me, but she knew it would oppress me.</p>
+
+<p>I said, "Oh no, let me be alone," and I ran upstairs.</p>
+
+<p>No power can describe my sufferings for two hours before I could set
+out. Captain Mitchell requested a friend of his to ride forward<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">-58-</a></span> to
+Brussels, and to gallop back with information of where Sir William
+was, and whether it was still of any avail for me to proceed: he was
+expected to meet us at Malines, half-way. We at last left Antwerp; but
+bribing the driver was in vain. It was not in his power to proceed;
+for the moment we passed the gates, we were entangled in a crowd of
+waggons, carts, horses, wounded men, deserters or runaways, and all
+the rabble and confusion, the consequence of several battles.<a name="ENanchor_24" id="ENanchor_24"></a><a href="#Endnote_24" class="fnanchor">(24)</a>
+Every now and then we went several miles at a walk; and the temper of
+the people was so irritable that we feared to speak to them; and I had
+to caution my servant to be very guarded, because they were ready to
+draw their swords in a moment. Two men got on the back of the
+carriage, and we dared not desire them to get off; and this was no
+imaginary terror, as I afterwards experienced.</p>
+
+<p>When we were within a mile or two of Malines, the carriage stopped,
+and the servant said, "It is the Captain." I had drawn the blinds to
+avoid seeing the wretched objects we were passing. I hastily looked
+out, and saw<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">-59-</a></span> Mr Hay.<a name="ENanchor_25" id="ENanchor_25"></a><a href="#Endnote_25" class="fnanchor">(25)</a> When he saw me he turned his head away.</p>
+
+<p>I called out, "Mr Hay, do you know anything?"</p>
+
+<p>He hesitated, and then said, "I fear I have very bad news for you."</p>
+
+<p>I said, "Tell me at once. Is he dead?"</p>
+
+<p>"It is all over."</p>
+
+<p>I sank into the carriage again, and they took me back to Antwerp. When
+I had been a short time there, Mr Hay sent to know if I had any
+commands to Brussels, as he was going to return, and would do anything
+for me there. At first I said I had none, and then I sent for him, and
+asked repeatedly if he were sure of what he said; if he had seen him
+fall. He had not been in the action,<a name="ENanchor_26" id="ENanchor_26"></a><a href="#Endnote_26" class="fnanchor">(26)</a> and of course was not near
+Sir William, "who was surrounded by Lord Wellington's Staff; but in
+the middle of the action he was struck in the breast by a cannon ball,
+and instantly fell. The Duke went and leant over him, and he died like
+a soldier."</p>
+
+<p>I then begged Mr Hay to make a point of seeing someone who had been
+near him; and if<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">-60-</a></span> possible to learn if he had spoken, and if he had
+named me. Mr Hay promised this, and then asked if I would choose to go
+to England. I said: "Instantly." He then said if he had twelve hours
+to search the field once more&mdash;for his brother was missing&mdash;he would
+be ready to take a passage for me, and to accompany me if I chose. He
+said Lady Hamilton and Mrs B. were below, anxious to be of use.</p>
+
+<p>I said I greatly preferred being alone, and was always much better
+alone. About half an hour after, Mrs B. contrived to get into the
+room. I was terrified, and called out, "Go away, go away, leave me to
+myself." She prayed and entreated me to hear her, and then said if I
+was ill would I send for her. I said, "Oh, yes, yes; but the only
+thing anybody can do for me is to leave me alone." She was alarmed at
+my violent agitation and went away. I locked the outer door, and shut
+the inner one, so that no one could again intrude. They sent Emma to
+entreat I would be bled; but I was not reasonable enough for that, and
+would not comply. I wandered about the room incessantly, beseeching<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">-61-</a></span>
+for mercy, though I felt that now, even Heaven could not be merciful.
+One is apt to fix on a situation just a little less wretched than
+one's own, and to dwell upon the idea that one could bear that better.
+I repeated over and over that if I had seen him alive for five
+minutes, I would not repine. At night Emma brought her bed into my
+room, as she feared I should be ill. Towards morning I fancied I heard
+a sound of someone trying to get into the room. I heard it a long
+while, but thinking it was somebody coming to visit me, I made no
+answer.</p>
+
+<p>About two hours after, the attempt was repeated. I said to Emma,
+"There is a noise at the door. Don't let Mrs B. in, or Lady Hamilton."</p>
+
+<p>She went, and returning in a few minutes said, "I am desired to tell
+you cautiously"&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>I said, "O Emma! go away. Don't tell me anything, any more."</p>
+
+<p>"Nay, but I must tell you. I have good news for you."</p>
+
+<p>"How can you be so inhuman! What is good news for me now?"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">-62-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"But&mdash;Sir William is not dead."</p>
+
+<p>I started up, and asked what she was saying, for she would make me
+mad. She told me that General M'Kenzie<a name="ENanchor_27" id="ENanchor_27"></a><a href="#Endnote_27" class="fnanchor">(27)</a> was below, and had a
+message from Brussels, requesting him to inform me that Sir William
+was alive, and that there were even hopes of his recovery.</p>
+
+<p>I ran down to General M'Kenzie, and began earnestly to persuade him it
+must be impossible. I had suffered so much the day before, I durst not
+hope for anything now. His voice faltered, and his eyes filled with
+tears.</p>
+
+<p>He said, "Can you believe any man would bring such intelligence unless
+it were well-founded?" He then gave me a letter from Sir G. Scovell,
+who had seen an officer of the Staff Corps who had seen Sir William
+alive that morning, who was anxious to see me. He was attended by a
+skilful surgeon, and had been twice bled. This was dated Monday, seven
+o'clock, evening.</p>
+
+<p>I regretted the deal of time that had been lost, and said that
+yesterday morning was a long time ago; and was no argument for his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">-63-</a></span>
+being alive now; for it was often repeated in the letter not to raise
+my hopes. I then asked General M'Kenzie to assist me to get away.
+Unfortunately I did not say I had a carriage. He said he was going to
+Brussels, and would take me. I consented, and he went to get ready. I
+would not if I could, describe the state I was in for two hours more;
+then I lost all self-command. I would not allow Emma to put up my
+clothes, for fear of being detained. My agitation and anxiety
+increased. I had the dreadful idea haunting me that I should arrive
+perhaps half an hour too late. This got the better of me, and I paced
+backward and forward in the parlour very fast, and my breathing was
+like screaming. I went into the passage, and sent Emma to see if the
+carriage were coming; and then sat down on the stair, which was steep
+and dark. There General M'Kenzie found me. Whenever he learnt I had a
+carriage, he sent the horses he had; for his carriage was not ready,
+and would not be for some time. When he saw what a state I was in, he
+roused me in a most sensible manner.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">-64-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He said, "Lady De Lancey, consider what you are doing. You are
+exhausting your strength and spirits to no purpose, for your friends
+are endeavouring to forward your departure as soon as possible."</p>
+
+<p>I exclaimed, "Oh, I shall never be there. He may be dying at this
+moment."</p>
+
+<p>He took my hand, and said calmly and firmly, "My dear madam, why fancy
+evil? You know what dreadful scenes you may have to go through when
+you reach Waterloo. You will probably require all your courage, and
+must command yourself for his sake."</p>
+
+<p>I said no more, but quietly went to the parlour and remained
+waiting&mdash;such an immediate effect had his steady good sense on my
+fevered mind. I overheard him say, "No, do not at present; she is not
+fit for it." I was alarmed, and ran out; but I saw a lady retreating,
+and I was grateful to him.</p>
+
+<p>We left Antwerp between eight and nine, and had the same difficulties
+to encounter; but the road was not quite so much blocked up. General
+M'Kenzie said he would ride after us in an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">-65-</a></span> hour, in case we should be
+detained; he also sent a dragoon before, to order horses. When we were
+near Vilvorde, the driver attempted to pass a waggon, but the soldier
+who rode beside it would not move one inch to let us pass. The waggons
+kept possession of the <i>chaussée</i> the whole way, and we had to drive
+on the heavy road at the side. My servant got off the seat to
+endeavour to lead the horses past. This provoked the soldier, and a
+dispute began. I was alarmed, and desired the servant to get upon the
+carriage again, which he did. A Prussian officer, enraged at our
+attempting to pass the waggon he was guarding, drew his sword, and
+made several cuts at the servant's legs, but did not reach him. He was
+preparing to get down again, but I looked from the opposite window and
+commanded him to sit still, and not to answer a word; or else to quit
+the carriage altogether. The driver now made a dash past the waggon,
+and the officer galloped after us and attempted to wound the horses.
+This made me desperate, and I ventured on a most imprudent action. I
+drew up the blind, and holding up my hands, I petitioned him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">-66-</a></span> to let
+us pass. I exclaimed that my husband, a British officer, was dying,
+and if he detained me I might not see him. It had the desired effect,
+for without seeming to have heard me, he slackened his pace and was
+soon far behind.</p>
+
+<p>When within ten miles of Brussels, the smell of gunpowder was very
+perceptible. The heat was oppressive. As we came within a mile of
+Brussels, the multitude of wretched-looking people was great, as Emma
+told me, for I was both unwilling and unable to look out. I was so
+much worn with anxiety that I could scarcely sit up. As we entered
+Brussels the carriage stopped, and I saw Mr Hay. I durst not speak,
+but he instantly said, "He is alive. I sent my servant to Waterloo
+this morning; he is just returned, and Sir William is better than they
+expected. I have horses standing harnessed, and you will soon be there
+if the road is passable, though it was not yesterday, for a horse."</p>
+
+<p>We were soon out of Brussels again, and on the road to Waterloo. It is
+nine miles, and we took three hours and a half. Mr Hay rode before us
+with his sword drawn, and obliged them to let us pass. We often stood
+still for ten minutes. The horses<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">-67-</a></span> screamed at the smell of
+corruption, which in many places was offensive. At last, when near the
+village, Mr Hay said he would ride forward and find the house, and
+learn whether I should still proceed or not. I hope no one will ever
+be able to say they can understand what my feelings must have been
+during the half-hour that passed till he returned. How fervently and
+sincerely I resolved that if I saw him alive for one hour I never
+would repine! I had almost lost my recollection, with the excess of
+anxiety and suspense, when Mr Hay called out, "All's well; I have seen
+him. He expects you."</p>
+
+<p>When we got to the village, Sir G. Scovell met the carriage, and
+opening the door, said, "Stop one moment."</p>
+
+<p>I said, "Is he alive?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, alive; and the surgeons are of opinion that he may recover. We
+are so grieved for what you have suffered."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh! never mind what I have suffered. Let me go to him now."</p>
+
+<p>He said I must wait one moment. I assured him I was composed indeed.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">-68-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>He said, "I see you are," with a smile, "but I wish to warn you of one
+thing. You must be aware that his life hangs on a very slender hold;
+and therefore any agitation would be injurious. Now, we have not told
+him you had heard of his death; we thought it would afflict him;
+therefore do not appear to have heard it."</p>
+
+<p>I promised, and he said, "Now come along." I sat down for an instant
+in the outer room, and he went in; and when I heard my husband say,
+"Let her come in, then," I was overpaid for all the misery.</p>
+
+<p>I was surprised at the strength of his voice, for I had expected to
+find him weak and dying. When I went into the room where he lay, he
+held out his hand and said, "Come, Magdalene, this is a sad business,
+is it not?" I could not speak, but sat down by him and took his hand.
+This was my occupation for six days.</p>
+
+<p>Though I found him far better than I expected, I can scarcely say
+whether I hoped or feared most at first; because I was so much
+occupied with gathering comforts about him, and helping him, that I
+had not time to think about the future. It<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">-69-</a></span> was a dreadful but
+sufficient preparation, being told of his death; and then finding him
+alive, I was ready to bear whatever might ensue without a murmur. I
+was so grateful for seeing him once more, that I valued each hour as
+it passed, and as I had too much reason to fear that I should very
+soon have nothing left of happiness but what my reflections would
+afford me, I endeavoured, by suppressing feelings that would have made
+him miserable, and myself unfit to serve him, to lay up no store of
+regret. He asked me if I was a good nurse. I told him that I had not
+been much tried. He said he was sure he would be a good patient, for
+he would do whatever I bade him till he was convalescent; and then he
+knew he would grow very cross. I watched in vain for a cross word. All
+his endeavour seemed to be to leave none but pleasing impressions on
+my mind; and as he grew worse and suffered more, his smile was more
+sweet, and his thanks more fervent, for everything that was done for
+him.</p>
+
+<p>I endeavoured to find out from the surgeons the extent of the danger.
+They said that at present there were no bad symptoms, and after seeing
+him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">-70-</a></span> alive at all after such a wound they would not despair: and if
+the fever could be kept off, there was a great chance of his
+recovering. With this view they wished to bleed him constantly;
+wishing also thereby to make the recovery more complete. I knew they
+had no interest in me, and therefore would probably tell me the same
+as other people, so I continued to ask them after every visit what
+they thought; but when by watching the symptoms myself and also
+observing the surgeon's expression, I saw what I must soon prepare
+for, I did not tease them any more with questions, but tried not to
+give way, and endeavoured to keep up as long as it would be of
+consequence to him; for even after all hope was gone and the disorder
+increased rapidly, I felt that if by agitating him I should afterwards
+imagine I had shortened his life by one hour, that reflection would
+embitter my whole life. I have the satisfaction of knowing that I
+succeeded even better than I could have hoped; for toward the end of
+the week, when every symptom was bad, the surgeon (probably because I
+desisted from enquiring and did not appear agitated) doubtful what I
+thought, yet, judging it right to tell me,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">-71-</a></span> asked Emma if she knew
+whether I was aware of the danger or not. She assured him I had
+entirely given up hope for some time.</p>
+
+<p>I found Emma of great service. Her good will carried her through
+excessive fatigue while at Waterloo; and afterwards her excellent
+heart and superior judgment were quite a blessing to me. She told me
+she was thankful she had been at Waterloo, for it would do her good to
+see a little of what other people endured. She never before knew half
+the value of her peaceful, comfortable home in London, where the
+absence of miserable objects might alone be considered as a benefit. I
+can hardly express what I felt on returning to England, to see people
+surrounded with every luxury unhappy at the want of the smallest
+comfort. I can fancy no better cure for all imaginary evils than a
+week's residence at Waterloo.</p>
+
+<p>Noise did not disturb Sir William, fortunately, for the cottage was
+surrounded with roads.<a name="ENanchor_28" id="ENanchor_28"></a><a href="#Endnote_28" class="fnanchor">(28)</a> One in front led to Nivelles, and every
+waggon going to and from the army, and all the wounded and prisoners,
+passed along that road. It was paved,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">-72-</a></span> and there was an unceasing
+noise for four days and nights. We were obliged to keep the windows
+open, and people used to pass close to that in his room, talking loud,
+and sometimes looking in and speaking; but he never took any notice. I
+never saw anybody so patient. The people to whom the cottage belonged
+were, luckily, favourable to our cause, or they would have tormented
+us a good deal; instead of which, I never met with such good nature;
+and though they never rested one moment helping the soldiers to water,
+and were constantly worn out with giving them assistance, we had only
+to tell them what to do, and they ran about to work for us. Their
+<i>ménage</i>, I must allow, was in a sad state.<a name="ENanchor_29" id="ENanchor_29"></a><a href="#Endnote_29" class="fnanchor">(29)</a> There was a want of
+everything. I could not help thinking with envy of the troublesome
+abundance I had often seen in sick-rooms, when there was far less need
+for it. However, in a short time we got everything he required; and I
+have the greatest comfort in recollecting that there was not one thing
+which he expressed a wish for that we did not procure. I sent a
+servant instantly to Brussels with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">-73-</a></span> list of things we wanted; and
+once I recollect something was brought which he had been very anxious
+for. Naturally enough, he was disappointed when he found it not so
+good as he expected; but I was quite struck with his endeavour to
+praise it, for fear I should be sorry. There was a languid melancholy
+about him at the same time that he was calm and resigned, which would
+have made the most uninterested person grieved to see him suffering,
+and with such sweetness. Emma once gave him some drink, and she told
+me that the tone of voice and his smile when he thanked her, was like
+to break her heart, for he was in severe pain at the time.</p>
+
+<p>He said the wound gave him no pain at all, but a little irritating
+cough caused excessive pain in his chest and side. As far as I could
+learn, the blow had affected the lungs, which produced inflammation
+and afterwards water in the chest, which was eventually the cause of
+his death. I suspect the surgeons had never much hope, but they said
+there was a chance if the inflammation could have been stopped. By
+constantly watch<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">-74-</a></span>ing him, and gradually day after day observing the
+progress and increase of suffering and the elevated tone of his mind,
+along with fatigue and weakness, I was prepared for his final release
+in a manner that nothing but his firmness and composure could have
+effected.</p>
+
+<p>He had at first been laid in the outer room, which had two large
+windows to the road, and everyone saw in. This he did not like, and he
+made the people move him to a small room, about seven feet wide, with
+a bed across the end of it. They placed him so low and awkwardly in
+the bed, that when I first went in I thought his legs were hurt, for
+he could not straighten his knees. After a day or two, he got shoved
+up by degrees, and then could stretch his limbs. The bed was wretched,
+merely a wooden frame fastened to the wall, so that it could not be
+moved, which rendered it extremely difficult to bleed him, or to
+assist him in any way, as he could neither turn nor raise his head an
+inch from the pillow, or rather sack of chaff, upon which he was laid.
+This was so full of dust that it made him cough. I soon removed it,
+and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">-75-</a></span> got a cushion out of the carriage instead. We had a clean blanket
+from Brussels, and at first we put clean sheets on every day. But
+latterly he grew so restless that he preferred having only the
+blanket. I had purposely sent for a French cotton one, as I thought
+the flannel would tease him. The bed was made tolerable at least, and
+though I could not be pleased with it, <i>he</i> was. He repeated more than
+once, "What a thing it was for you being in this country!" and I had
+the delight of hearing him say that he did not know what he would have
+done without me. He said he was sure he would not have lived so long,
+for he would not have been so obedient to anyone else.</p>
+
+<p>I found he had been the worse of seeing some friends who had called
+the first day I was at Waterloo, so I told the servant afterwards
+never to let anybody come into his room. I remember one day an officer
+called, and before he was out of sight I had his card converted into a
+teaspoon. Sir William never ate anything, except once or twice a
+morsel of toast out of the water. He drank a great deal of tea and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">-76-</a></span>
+lemonade. At first he had no milk to his tea, and he complained that
+it was very bad; but there was none to be got. I sent my servant to
+search for some, and he met some Prussian cows, and milked one, and
+brought a fine jug of milk. The different contrivances sometimes
+amused him. One day he wished to have the room fumigated. How was this
+to be done, without fire-irons, or indeed without fire? We put some
+vinegar into a tumbler, and Emma went with a large pair of scissors,
+and brought a piece of burning charcoal, and put it into the vinegar,
+and that made a great smoke. Every time we wanted anything warmed, or
+water boiled, Emma had to cross a court and make a fire, and then
+watch it, or someone would have run away with what she was cooking.
+Meantime I would call her ten different times, and this in wet or dry,
+night or day. I now regretted having brought so few clothes.</p>
+
+<p>The day I went to Waterloo, Sir William told me the Duke<a name="ENanchor_30" id="ENanchor_30"></a><a href="#Endnote_30" class="fnanchor">(30)</a> had
+visited him in the morning. He said he never had seen him so warm in
+his feelings: he had taken leave of him with little hope<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">-77-</a></span> of seeing
+him again, I fancy. The Duke told him he never wished to see another
+battle; this had been so shocking. It had been too much to see such
+brave men, so equally matched, cutting<a name="ENanchor_31" id="ENanchor_31"></a><a href="#Endnote_31" class="fnanchor">(31)</a> each other to pieces as
+they did. Sir William said there never had been such fighting; that
+the Duke far surpassed anything he had ever done before.<a name="ENanchor_32" id="ENanchor_32"></a><a href="#Endnote_32" class="fnanchor">(32)</a> The
+general opinion seemed to be that it had been a peculiarly shocking
+battle. Sir William said he never would try it again; he was quite
+tired of the business. In speaking of his wound he said this might be
+the most fortunate event that could have happened for us both. I
+looked at him for an explanation. He said, "Certainly, even if I
+recover completely, I should never think of serving again. Nobody
+could ask such a thing, and we should settle down quietly at home for
+the rest of our lives." The evening after I went to Waterloo, Sir G.
+Scovell said he would take something to eat, and after seeing me
+fairly established he would go to Headquarters. He wrote a copy of a
+return of rations, for which we were to send to Brussels; and also any
+other provisions must be got from thence, for the village produced
+nothing.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">-78-</a></span> He left two sentinels, for fear there should be any
+disturbances, and we might feel unprotected. One night there was a
+great noise of people quarrelling in front of the house; the windows
+had no fastening whatever, but they passed away without molesting us.
+I was a little more seriously alarmed another day. Some reports had
+reached us that the French were coming back, and were within nine
+miles. I thought it unlikely, but about eight in the morning all the
+waggons that had passed for two hours came back as fast as possible,
+horses trotting and men running. I was uneasy on Sir William's
+account: his situation was so helpless. I leant forward, to prevent
+people looking in and seeing him. I waited without saying anything, to
+learn the cause of this bustle. I found afterwards that it was merely
+the waggons had gone several miles on the wrong road, and were
+hurrying back to make it up.<a name="ENanchor_33" id="ENanchor_33"></a><a href="#Endnote_33" class="fnanchor">(33)</a></p>
+
+<p>From the time Sir G. Scovell left us, we scarcely saw anybody but the
+surgeons. It must add very much to the fatigue of their business,
+having to do everything for the wounded whom they attend. Mr
+Powell,<a name="ENanchor_34" id="ENanchor_34"></a><a href="#Endnote_34" class="fnanchor">(34)</a> who attended most constantly to Sir<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">-79-</a></span> William, and with
+evidently great anxiety for his recovery, was sometimes quite knocked
+up with walking many miles on the heavy road to the field and the
+cottages. He had some difficulty to consider me as a useful person. At
+first he used to ask me to tell the servant to come; but he learnt to
+employ me very soon.</p>
+
+<p>The night I went, Sir William desired me to take some rest, for I
+looked ill. A portmanteau bed had been brought for me from Brussels. I
+left him reluctantly, for I grudged wasting any of such precious time,
+but he would not hear of my sitting up. I had just lain down with my
+clothes on&mdash;for there was no blanket, and the floor was damp tiles. I
+heard him call to his servant, who slept at the end of his room on a
+mattress. I jumped up and went to him, and did not leave him again. He
+wanted some drink, which I gave him, and then sat down beside him. He
+slept and woke every half-hour. He was not restless, nor had he any
+pain, but he was constantly thirsty.</p>
+
+<p>On Wednesday he wished to have leeches applied to his side, where the
+bruise appeared. Mr Powell had no objection, and desired me to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">-80-</a></span> send
+for him when the leeches were brought from Brussels. I did so; but in
+the meantime, not knowing why he was sent for, I began as a matter of
+course to apply them. When he came, he apologised, and thanked me. I
+was not at first aware of how I was obliging him. He said he was very
+tired, and when he attempted to fix the leeches, he did not do it so
+well as I did. Next time they were to be applied, I asked if I should
+send for him. He said I was as good at it as any hospital nurse could
+be, and as he had scarcely had an hour's rest any night since the
+battle, he would be greatly obliged to me if I would take the trouble.
+Sir William alleged that I grew quite vain of my skill in tormenting
+my poor husband with these animals. The same day Dr Hume<a name="ENanchor_35" id="ENanchor_35"></a><a href="#Endnote_35" class="fnanchor">(35)</a> called in
+passing to Brussels, for ten minutes. I was a little provoked at the
+gaiety of his manner; the gravity he assumed at Brussels would have
+been suitable to the present scene. Though Sir William never
+complained, he was serious, and seemed inclined to be quiet, and
+neither to speak much nor to listen. He generally lay thinking, often
+conversed with me, but seemed oppressed with general conversa<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">-81-</a></span>tion,
+and would not listen when anyone told him of the progress of the army.
+His thoughts were in a very different train. Dr Hume's rapid, lively
+visit annoyed me much.</p>
+
+<p>I did not feel the effects of having sat up on Tuesday night till next
+night, but was resolved to fight against it. Sir William desired me to
+go to rest, as he had done the night before; but I only remained away
+till I had an excuse to return, and he always forgot a second time to
+bid me go. This was the only night I had real difficulty to keep
+awake; the noise of the carts assisted me a little. I counted the
+rushes of the chair, for want of occupation. Some people said, why did
+I not let my maid sit up; but that showed they did not understand; for
+if twenty people had sat up, it would have made no difference to me. I
+frequently rejoiced that I had no friend there who could exert
+authority to make me take care of myself, when my only wish was to
+keep up as long as he needed me.</p>
+
+<p>On Thursday he was not quite so well. Before this he had been making a
+gradual progress, and he could move about with more ease. He spoke<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">-82-</a></span>
+much better than he did at first. His countenance was animated; but I
+fear this was the beginning of the most dangerous symptoms, and I saw
+that the surgeon now became uneasy at the appearance of the blood; and
+Mr Woolriche,<a name="ENanchor_36" id="ENanchor_36"></a><a href="#Endnote_36" class="fnanchor">(36)</a> a very eminent surgeon, now constantly attended. He
+had come over once or twice before. General Dundas<a name="ENanchor_37" id="ENanchor_37"></a><a href="#Endnote_37" class="fnanchor">(37)</a> called this
+forenoon. He stayed only a minute, as Sir William was not so well, and
+I was busy. After he was away, I recollected having neglected to ask
+him to send a blanket and some wine. I never had time to eat, and I
+always forgot to get wine&mdash;as I could take a glass of that and a bit
+of bread in a moment&mdash;and my strength was failing. I looked out and
+saw him still at the door. I went out, and there were a number of
+people, Sir H.D. Hamilton,<a name="ENanchor_38" id="ENanchor_38"></a><a href="#Endnote_38" class="fnanchor">(38)</a> etc. I told General Dundas I had no
+blanket. "Bless me!" everyone exclaimed, "no blanket!" I said it was
+not of much consequence, as I never lay down, but the floor was so
+damp I was afraid my maid would be ill, and her help was very
+essential. I then asked for wine, both of which General Dundas sent
+down next day.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">-83-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>That night I had no difficulty in keeping awake. Sir William was
+restless and uncomfortable; his breathing was oppressed, and I had
+constantly to raise him on the pillow. The pain in his chest
+increased, and he was twice bled before morning. He was very much
+better on Friday forenoon. Mr Woolriche told us that every day since
+the battle the people of Brussels sent down carriages to take the
+wounded to the hospital; from twenty to thirty private carriages came
+every day.</p>
+
+<p>On Friday evening Sir William was very feverish, and the appearance of
+the blood was very inflammatory. I had learnt now to judge for myself,
+as Mr Powell, seeing how anxious I was, sometimes had the kindness to
+give me a little instruction. About ten at night Mr Powell and Mr
+Woolriche came. While I told them how Sir William had been since their
+last visit, and mentioned several circumstances that had occurred, I
+watched them and saw they looked at each other. I guessed their
+thoughts. I turned away to the window and wept.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">-84-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They remained a little time, and I recovered myself enough to speak to
+them cheerfully as they went out. They lingered, and seemed to wish to
+speak to me, but I was well aware of what they had to say. I felt
+unable to hear it then, and I shut the door instead of going out. It
+was that night Mr Powell asked Emma if she knew what I thought. He
+desired to be sent for on the first appearance of change. At one in
+the morning he was in great pain, and as I raised him that he might
+breathe more freely, he looked so fixed that I was afraid he was just
+expiring. His arms were round my neck to raise himself by, and I
+thought we should both have been killed by the exertion. He asked if
+Mr Powell had not talked of bleeding him again. I said I had sent for
+him. He bled him then for the last time. From that moment all the
+fever was gone. Mr Powell said it was of consequence to keep him
+quiet, and if he would sleep calmly it would do him good. At four in
+the morning I was called out to see a surgeon sent from Mr Powell, who
+was ill in bed. He came to know how Sir William was. He had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">-85-</a></span> slept a
+little till three; but the oppression was returning. This surgeon told
+me he had been anxious to speak to me several times, to tell me that
+it was he who had first seen him on the field, and who had given it as
+his opinion that he might live. He was grieved indeed to think that it
+should fall to his lot to tell me that it was the opinion of the
+surgeons that if I had anything particular to say to Sir William, I
+should not delay long. I asked, "How long?" He said they could not
+exactly tell. I said, "Days or hours?" He answered that the present
+symptoms would certainly not prove fatal within twelve hours. I left
+him, and went softly into my husband's room, for he was sleeping. I
+sat down at the other end of the room, and continued looking at him,
+quite stupefied; I could scarcely see. My mouth was so parched that
+when I touched it, it felt as dry as the back of my hand. I thought I
+was to die first. I then thought, what would he do for want of me
+during the remaining few hours he had to live. This idea roused me,
+and I began to recollect our helpless situation whatever happened,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">-86-</a></span>
+and tried to think who I could inform of the circumstances. I was not
+long in deciding on General Dundas, if he could be found, and have
+time to come and take care of us both. I immediately wrote a long
+letter to him, telling him how I was situated, and begging that he
+would come after twelve hours. I said I hoped I should be calm and fit
+to act for myself; but as I had never been near such a scene before, I
+knew not what effect it might have upon me. I therefore explained what
+I wished might be done after all was over, with respect to everything.
+I then sent the servant with the letter and orders to find General
+Dundas, if he were within ten miles of Brussels. A few hours after, I
+had one line from him to say he would be at Waterloo in the evening.</p>
+
+<p>After I had sent the letter, I sat down to consider what I was to do
+next. Though Sir William was aware of his danger, I thought it my duty
+to tell him how immediate the surgeons seemed to think it. I knew he
+was far above being the worse of such a communication, and I wished to
+know if he had anything to say. I sat<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">-87-</a></span> thinking about it, when he
+awoke and held out his hand for me to take my usual station by his
+bedside. I went and told him. We talked some time on the subject. He
+was not agitated, but his voice faltered a little, and he said it was
+sudden. This was the first day he felt well enough to begin to hope he
+should recover! He breathed freely, and was entirely free from pain;
+and he said he had been thinking if he could be removed to Brussels,
+he should get well soon.</p>
+
+<p>I then asked if he had anything to desire me to do, or anything to say
+to anyone. He reminded me of what he had told me had engrossed his
+thoughts when he imagined himself dying on the field. He said he felt
+exactly the same now. He felt at peace with all the world; he knew he
+was going to a better one, etc., etc. He repeated most of what he had
+told me were his feelings before&mdash;that he had no sorrow but to part
+from his wife, no regret but leaving her in misery.</p>
+
+<p>He seemed fatigued; and shutting his eyes, he desired me not to speak
+for a little. I then determined not to introduce the subject again,
+nor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">-88-</a></span> to speak about it unless he seemed to wish it, as I had done all
+that was necessary.</p>
+
+<p>In an hour or two he ate some breakfast, tea and toasted bread, with
+so much relish that it almost overcame me. He observed that I must
+have caught cold by sitting in a draught of air. I said I had. He felt
+so much better that I was anxious the surgeon should see him. He came
+in the evening. He was pleased to see Sir William free from pain, but
+said there was scarcely a possibility of its continuing so. He said he
+might linger a day or two, but that every symptom was bad. He advised
+me to keep him as quiet and composed as possible. I assured him no
+person had been in the room but the surgeons whom he had brought to
+consult; and I had sat beside him the whole day, scarcely speaking. I
+said I had told Sir William his opinion of his case. He said it had
+evidently not agitated him, for his pulse was quite calm. Mr Woolriche
+called in the afternoon; he was going to Brussels, and would do
+anything there we wished. We had nothing for him to do, and he was
+going when he repeated the question. Sir William looked at me
+earnestly, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">-89-</a></span> said, "Magdalene, love, General Dundas." I answered,
+"I wrote to him this morning," and nothing more passed.</p>
+
+<p>Late in the evening, when we were as calm and composed as could be,
+and I was sitting and looking at him, and holding his hand as usual,
+Mr Powell and Dr Hume came. He was even more cheerful than before,
+paid a rapid, noisy visit, and away again. It disturbed our
+tranquillity not a little, but he is reckoned so skilful that we ought
+to have been glad to see him. He bade Sir William rouse up, felt his
+pulse, and said it would bear another bleeding yet, if necessary.</p>
+
+<p>The poor dying man raised his languid eyes, and said, "Oh no, I do not
+need it now; I am quite cool."</p>
+
+<p>Dr Hume said he had no wish to bleed him, but would like to have his
+limbs fomented. He shook his head. I asked him if he knew what it was.
+He said No, and would like to try. I asked Dr Hume if it would be
+advisable. He said he thought it might refresh him. He went out, and I
+followed to hear what he would say. He said to Mr Powell, "Why do you
+give up a man with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">-90-</a></span> such a pulse? with such a good constitution, too!
+You make them all sad and useless. It does no harm to be trying
+something."</p>
+
+<p>He named several things. "Put a blister on his breast, and leeches
+after, if the pain is great down the side."</p>
+
+<p>I looked at Mr Powell, doubting, as I depended most on his opinion, as
+his constant attention to the progress of the illness gave it most
+weight. I thought he looked sorry that my hopes should be renewed, but
+of course he said nothing.</p>
+
+<p>Dr Hume said, "Oh, don't fear, he won't desert the cause."</p>
+
+<p>I was angry at such nonsense, and said, "Be assured I do not fear that
+Mr Powell will desert us, but he said this morning there was no hope."</p>
+
+<p>"Nay," said he, "not quite so much as that: I said there was little
+hope."</p>
+
+<p>I went away, and left them to discuss it themselves.</p>
+
+<p>Sir William said he wished to try what Dr Hume was speaking of, and I
+went to order some boiling water to be prepared. I made the people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">-91-</a></span>
+understand that he wanted a great quantity in a tub. While I was
+speaking, Mr Powell returned. He had taken a turn with Dr Hume, and I
+fancy he had explained his opinion. He said he would go home and
+prepare a blister, and he believed we had leeches. I said, was it not
+a great pity to torment him. He said he would not pretend to say that
+he thought it could be of much consequence, but for this reason he
+advised me to do it: I was not aware, he said, how I should feel
+afterwards; and I might perhaps regret when it was too late, not
+having done everything which a physician of Dr Hume's eminence deemed
+advisable. He said that Sir William would not be at ease at any rate,
+and it would scarcely plague him; the fomentation would be pleasant to
+him, and I might take the blister off in six hours if he wished it.</p>
+
+<p>When I went to foment his limbs, I could not find a morsel of flannel.
+At last I thought of the servant's blanket, and tore it in two. Sir
+William said this was a most delightful thing, and refreshed him very
+much. He expressed a great wish to have a bit on his chest. I did<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">-92-</a></span> not
+know what to do for flannel. I regretted now excessively not having
+brought a change of clothes; for I could have taken a flannel
+petticoat. This put me in mind of the one I had on, and I instantly
+tore a great piece out of it and put it into the tub. The cottagers
+held up their hands, exclaiming, "Ah, madame!" He said it did him
+good, and was delicious, unconscious where we had found the flannel;
+indeed he never was aware of the difficulty, for the tub was placed in
+the outer room.</p>
+
+<p>General Dundas came. Sir William heard me speaking to him, and asked
+who it was. I told him, and he asked if he was going to remain. I said
+he was. Sir William seemed gratified, but did not say anything. Surely
+no earthly feeling can be superior to such perfect sympathy.</p>
+
+<p>Sir William fell asleep, and I went out to see if there was anything
+for General Dundas to eat. He told me he had got a very good room
+upstairs, and was willing to remain as long as I wished. His only
+request was that I would not mind him any more than if he was not
+there, but send for him when I wanted him. I opened the door of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">-93-</a></span> Sir
+William's room and sat close to it, so as to hear if he moved or
+spoke. I sat down to coffee for the first meal I had, and talked over
+several things necessary to be settled with General Dundas. I could
+not speak above a whisper, my voice was so faint. He entreated me, if
+possible, to try and take some rest that night, for fear I should be
+ill before my husband could spare me. I promised. He then told me that
+Lady Hamilton had asked him to take me to her house when I returned to
+Brussels; and also the Count de Lannoy had prepared rooms, which he
+begged I would occupy as long as I pleased. I preferred going to the
+house we had been in before, and I thought I could be more entirely
+alone there than at any other person's house, which was what I wished,
+and knew would be best for me. I was struck when I did return to
+Brussels, with two marks of attention. I had a message from the
+Commissary to say that orders had been given that I was to draw
+rations and forage for as long as I stayed; and the other circumstance
+was this. On the letters I had sent from Antwerp I had neglected to
+write "private," which is necessary when<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">-94-</a></span> writing to a person in
+office. I gave them up for lost, and was uncomfortable. After I had
+been three days at Brussels, they were all returned unopened from
+Headquarters.</p>
+
+<p>Sir William called me. I sat a short time beside him, and after I had
+prepared drink for the night I told him I was so very tired I would go
+and lie down for a short time, if he would allow my maid to bring the
+medicine which he took every four hours. He agreed, and asked if I did
+not always take plenty of sleep. I said, "Oh yes," and was going, when
+he said the pain in his chest was returning, and perhaps leeches would
+do some good. This was the only time I hesitated to oblige him, for I
+really could scarcely stand; but of course I proceeded to apply the
+leeches, and in a few minutes the excessive drowsiness went off; so
+much so, that when after an hour I went to lie down, I could not
+sleep. I started every moment, thinking he called me. I desired Emma
+to waken me if he spoke or seemed uneasy. She gave him the medicine.
+He looked at her, and asked where I was; she told him I was sleeping.
+He said, "That's right, quite right."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">-95-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The pain in his chest grew intolerable, and depending upon my being
+asleep he yielded to complaint, and groaned very much. Emma roused me
+and told me she feared he was suffering very much. I had slept half an
+hour. I went and stood near him, and he then ceased to complain, and
+said, "Oh, it was only a little twitch." I felt at that time as if I
+was an oppression to him, and I was going away, but he desired me to
+stay. I sat down and rubbed it, which healed the pain, and towards
+morning I put on the blister. Between five and six he ate some toasted
+bread and tea, about two inches of bread. Before he began he entreated
+me to take off the blister only for ten minutes, that he might eat in
+tolerable comfort. I said I would take it away entirely, and he was
+pleased. The doctor came about nine. He was breathing then with great
+difficulty, and there was a rough sound in his throat. Mr Powell said
+the only thing to be done was to keep him quiet as usual, and to
+prevent him speaking. He asked Mr Powell if he might rise, for he
+might breathe easier at the window, and he was so tired of lying in
+that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">-96-</a></span> bed. Mr Powell urged him not to think of it; he was not able; it
+would hurt him very much, etc.</p>
+
+<p>About eleven o'clock he sent me away for ten minutes, and with the
+help of his servant he rose and got to the other end of the room. I
+was terrified when I heard he was up, and called General Dundas, who
+went in and found him almost fainting. They placed him in bed again,
+and when I returned he was much exhausted. I opened the windows wide
+and shut the door, and sat by him alone, in hopes that he might go to
+sleep and recover a little. He slept every now and then for a little.
+He seemed oppressed with the length of the day for the first time. He
+asked repeatedly what o'clock it was; he often asked if it was three
+yet. When I told him it was near five, he seemed surprised. At night
+he said he wished he could fall upon some device to shorten the weary
+long night; he could not bear it so long. I could not think of any
+plan. He said if I could lie down beside him it would cut off five or
+six hours. I said it was impossible, for I was afraid to hurt him,
+there was so little room. His mind seemed quite bent upon it.
+Therefore I stood upon a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">-97-</a></span> chair and stepped over him, for he could not
+move an inch, and he lay at the outer edge. He was delighted; and it
+shortened the night indeed, for we both fell asleep.</p>
+
+<p>At five in the morning I rose. He was very anxious to have his wound
+dressed; it had never been looked at. He said there was a little pain,
+merely a trifle, but it teased him. Mr Powell objected; he said it
+would fatigue him too much that day. He consented to delay. I then
+washed his face and hands, and brushed his hair, after which I gave
+him his breakfast. He again wished to rise, but I persuaded him not to
+do it; he said he would not do anything I was averse to, and he said,
+"See what control your poor husband is under." He smiled, and drew me
+so close to him that he could touch my face, and he continued stroking
+it with his hand for some time.</p>
+
+<p>Towards eleven o'clock he grew more uneasy; he was restless and
+uncomfortable; his breathing was like choking, and as I sat gazing at
+him I could distinctly hear the water rattling in his throat. I opened
+the door and windows to make a draught. I desired the people to leave
+the outer room, that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">-98-</a></span> his might be as quiet as usual; and then I sat
+down to watch the melancholy progress of the water in his chest, which
+I saw would soon be fatal.</p>
+
+<p>About three o'clock Dr Hume and Mr Powell came. I must do the former
+the justice to say he was grave enough now. Sir William repeated his
+request to have the wound dressed. Dr Hume consented, and they went
+away to prepare something to wash it with; they remained away half an
+hour. I sat down by my husband and took his hand; he said he wished I
+would not look so unhappy. I wept; and he spoke to me with so much
+affection. He repeated every endearing expression. He bade me kiss
+him. He called me his dear wife. The surgeons returned. My husband
+turned on one side with great difficulty; it seemed to give much pain.</p>
+
+<p>After I had brought everything the surgeons wanted, I went into
+another room. I could not bear to see him suffering. Mr Powell saw a
+change in his countenance; he looked out, and desired Emma to call me,
+to tell me instantly Sir William wanted me. I hastened to him,
+reproaching myself for having been absent a moment. I stood near<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">-99-</a></span> my
+husband, and he looked up at me and said, "Magdalene, my love, the
+spirits." I stooped down close to him and held the bottle of lavender
+to him: I also sprinkled some near him. He looked pleased. He gave a
+little gulp, as if something was in his throat. The doctor said, "Ah,
+poor De Lancey! He is gone." I pressed my lips to his, and left the
+room.</p>
+
+<p>I went upstairs, where I remained, unconscious of what was passing,
+till Emma came to me and said the carriage was ready, and General
+Dundas advised me to go that evening to Brussels, but I need not hurry
+myself. I asked her if the room below was empty. She assured me it
+was; and I went down and remained some time beside the body. There was
+such perfect peace and placid calm sweetness in his countenance, that
+I envied him not a little. He was released: I was left to suffer. I
+then thought I should not suffer long. As I bent over him I felt as if
+violent grief would disturb his tranquil rest.</p>
+
+<p>These moments that I passed by his lifeless body were awful, and
+instructive. Their impression will influence my whole life.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">-100-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>I left Waterloo with feelings so different from those I had on going
+to it. Then all was anxious terror that I would not be there in time
+to see one look, or to hear one word. Now there was nothing
+imaginary&mdash;all was real misery. There now remained not even a chance
+of happiness, but what depended on the retrospect of better days and
+duties fulfilled.</p>
+
+<p>As I drove rapidly along the same road, I could not but recall the
+irritated state I had been in when I had been there before; and the
+fervent and sincere resolutions I then made, that if I saw him alive,
+I never would repine.</p>
+
+<p>Since that time I have suffered every shade of sorrow; but I can
+safely affirm that except the first few days, when the violence of
+grief is more like delirium than the sorrow of a Christian, I have
+never felt that my lot was unbearable. I do not forget the perfection
+of my happiness while it lasted; and I believe there are many who
+after a long life cannot say they have felt so much of it.</p>
+
+<p>As I expressed some uneasiness to General Dundas at having left the
+body with none but servants, Colonel Grant at his request went to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">-101-</a></span>
+Waterloo the same evening, and remained till it was brought up next
+day to Brussels. General Dundas then kindly executed all my orders
+with respect to the funeral, etc., which took place on Wednesday the
+28th, in the cemetery of the Reformed<a name="ENanchor_39" id="ENanchor_39"></a><a href="#Endnote_39" class="fnanchor">(39)</a> Church. It is about a mile
+from Brussels, on the road to Louvain. I had a stone placed, with
+simply his name and the circumstances of his death. I visited his
+grave<a name="ENanchor_40" id="ENanchor_40"></a><a href="#Endnote_40" class="fnanchor">(40)</a> on Tuesday, the 4th of July. The burying-ground is in a
+sweet, quiet, retired spot. A narrow path leads to it from the road.
+It is quite out of sight among the fields, and no house but the
+grave-digger's cottage is near. Seeing my interest in that grave, he
+begged me to let him plant roses round it, and promised I should see
+it nicely kept when I returned. I am pleased that I saw the grave and
+the stone; for there were nearly forty other new graves, and not
+another stone.</p>
+
+<p>At eleven o'clock that same day, I set out for England. That day,
+three<a name="ENanchor_41" id="ENanchor_41"></a><a href="#Endnote_41" class="fnanchor">(41)</a> months before, I was married.</p>
+
+<p class="right">M. De L.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">-103-</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="NOTES_TO_LADY_DE_LANCEYS_NARRATIVE" id="NOTES_TO_LADY_DE_LANCEYS_NARRATIVE"></a>NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY&#8217;S NARRATIVE</h2>
+
+
+<p>Most of the following notes have been compiled by Mr T.W. Brogden, of
+the Middle Temple, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my
+indebtedness for his assistance in the preparation of this volume, and
+for his kindness in seeing the book through the press, during my
+absence in Canada.</p>
+
+<p class="right">EDITOR.</p>
+
+
+<p class="tp"><a name="Endnote_1" id="Endnote_1"></a><a href="#ENanchor_1">(1)</a> "On Thursday the 15th June we had spent a particularly happy
+morning. My dear husband gave me many interesting anecdotes of his
+former life, and I traced in every one some trait of his amiable and
+generous mind; never had I felt so perfectly content, so grateful for
+the blessing of his love."&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_2" id="Endnote_2"></a><a href="#ENanchor_2">(2)</a> General Alava, who was Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain to the
+King of the Netherlands.</p>
+
+<p>Sir William and Lady De Lancey were amongst the guests invited to the
+Duchess of Richmond's famous ball that night. See <i>Reminiscences of
+Lady de Ros</i>, p. 127.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_3" id="Endnote_3"></a><a href="#ENanchor_3">(3)</a> "He turned back at the door, and looked at me with a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">-104-</a></span> smile of
+happiness and peace. It was the last!"&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_4" id="Endnote_4"></a><a href="#ENanchor_4">(4)</a> The Duke's house was at the corner of the Rue de la Montagne du
+Parc and the Rue Royale, and was next to the Hotel de France. The
+Count de Lannoy's house was at the south-east corner of the Impasse du
+Parc.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_5" id="Endnote_5"></a><a href="#ENanchor_5">(5)</a> By 9 <span class="smcap">p.m.</span> the <i>first orders</i> had been despatched.</p>
+
+<p>Colonel Basil Jackson has the following recollections of his
+experiences on the evening of the 15th June: "I was sauntering about
+the park towards seven o'clock on the evening of the 15th June, when a
+soldier of the Guards, attached to the Quartermaster-General's office,
+summoned me to attend Sir William De Lancey. He had received orders to
+concentrate the army towards the frontier, which until then had
+remained quiet in cantonments. I was employed, along with others, for
+about two hours in writing out 'routes' for the several divisions,
+foreign as well as British, which were despatched by orderly Hussars
+of the 3rd Regiment of the German Legion, steady fellows, who could be
+depended on for so important a service. To each was explained the rate
+at which he was to proceed, and the time when he was to arrive at his
+destination; he was directed also to bring back the cover of the
+letter which he carried, having the time of its arrival noted upon it
+by the officer to whom it was addressed.</p>
+
+<p>"This business over, which occupied us till after nine, De Lancey put
+a packet into my hand directed to Colonel Cathcart&mdash;the present
+Earl&mdash;a thorough soldier, and highly esteemed by the Duke, who then
+filled, as he had previously done in Spain, the arduous post of
+Assistant Quartermaster-General to the whole of the cavalry.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">-105-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"'I believe you can find your way in the dark by the cross roads to
+Ninove,' said Sir William, 'let this be delivered as soon as
+possible.'</p>
+
+<p>"Proud of my commission, I was speedily in the saddle and threading my
+way, which I did without difficulty. My good nag rapidly cleared the
+fifteen miles, but ere reaching the above place, then the headquarters
+of the cavalry, I fell in with one or two orderly Dragoons speeding to
+out-quarters. I could also perceive lights flickering about in the
+villages adjacent to my route: indications which satisfied me that the
+German Hussar previously despatched from Brussels had accomplished his
+mission.</p>
+
+<p class="bp">"Here let me stop for a moment to commend the practice in our service
+of having plenty of well-mounted staff officers ready to convey orders
+of moment at the utmost speed. On the portentous night in question,
+several, chiefly belonging to the Royal Staff Corps, a body attached
+to the Quartermaster-General's department, were employed in conveying
+duplicates of the instructions previously forwarded by Hussars, in
+order to guard against the possibility of mistake. The omission of
+such a precautionary measure at the Prussian headquarters, on the same
+evening, was attended with disastrous consequences, for Blücher's
+order for Bulow's corps to unite with the rest of his army, being
+entrusted to a corporal, probably wanting in intelligence, he did not
+deliver it in time, whereby that corps, 30,000 strong, failed to reach
+Ligny and share in the battle."<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33">[33]</a> "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+<i>United Service Journal</i> for 1847, Part III., p. 3.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp"><a name="Endnote_6" id="Endnote_6"></a><a href="#ENanchor_6">(6)</a> "I entreated to remain in the room with him, promising not to
+speak. He wrote for several hours without any interruption but the
+entrance and departure of the various messengers<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">-106-</a></span> who were to take the
+orders. Every now and then I gave him a cup of green tea, which was
+the only refreshment he would take, and he rewarded me by a silent
+look. My feelings during these hours I cannot attempt to describe, but
+I preserved perfect outward tranquillity."&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_7" id="Endnote_7"></a><a href="#ENanchor_7">(7)</a> By 12 midnight, the <i>after orders</i> had been despatched. With
+regard to the orders of the 15th and 16th June, including the
+"Disposition of the British Army at 7 o'clock <span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, 16th June,"
+attributed to Sir William De Lancey, see Gurwood, vol. xii., pp.
+472-474; <i>Supplementary Despatches</i>, vol. x., p. 496; Ropes'
+<i>Waterloo</i>, pp. 77-89; and Colonel Maurice in <i>U.S. Magazine</i>, 1890,
+pp. 144 and 257-263.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_8" id="Endnote_8"></a><a href="#ENanchor_8">(8)</a> Doubtless, General Müffling, Prussian attaché at the headquarters
+of the Duke of Wellington. He accompanied the Duke to the ball, and
+next morning rode with him to Quatre Bras.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_9" id="Endnote_9"></a><a href="#ENanchor_9">(9)</a> <i>I.e.</i>, without changing their ball dress. Some of the officers
+were killed at Quatre Bras in their shoes and silk stockings. "There
+was a ball at Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's, that night
+(which I only mention because it was so much talked of), at which
+numbers of the officers were present, who quitted the ball to join
+their divisions, which had commenced their march before they arrived
+at their quarters, and some of them were killed the next day in the
+same dress they had worn at the ball." (Extract from a letter written
+by Colonel Felton Hervey shortly after the battle, and published in
+the <i>XIX<span class="super">th</span> Century</i> for March 1903, page 431.) See also Colonel
+Maurice in <i>U.S. Magazine</i>, 1890, p. 144.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_10" id="Endnote_10"></a><a href="#ENanchor_10">(10)</a> "As the dawn broke, the soldiers were seen assembling from all
+parts of the town, in marching order, with their knap<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">-107-</a></span>sacks on their
+backs, loaded with three days' provisions. Unconcerned in the midst of
+the din of war, many a soldier laid himself down on a truss of straw
+and soundly slept, with his hands still grasping his firelock; others
+were sitting contentedly on the pavement, waiting the arrival of their
+comrades. Numbers were taking leave of their wives and children,
+perhaps for the last time, and many a veteran's rough cheek was wet
+with the tears of sorrow. One poor fellow, immediately under our
+windows, turned back again and again to bid his wife farewell, and
+take his baby once more in his arms; and I saw him hastily brush away
+a tear with the sleeve of his coat, as he gave her back the child for
+the last time, wrung her hand, and ran off to join his company, which
+was drawn up on the other side of the Place Royale. Many of the
+soldiers' wives marched out with their husbands to the field, and I
+saw one young English lady mounted on horseback slowly riding out of
+town along with an officer, who, no doubt, was her husband. Soon
+afterwards the 42nd and 92nd Highland regiments marched through the
+Place Royale and the Parc, with their bagpipes playing before them,
+while the bright beams of the rising sun shone full on their polished
+muskets and on the dark waving plumes of their tartan bonnets. Alas!
+we little thought that even before the fall of night these brave men
+whom we now gazed at with so much interest and admiration would be
+laid low." (Mrs Eaton's <i>Waterloo Days</i>, p. 21.)</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_11" id="Endnote_11"></a><a href="#ENanchor_11">(11)</a> "I stood with my husband at a window of the house, which
+overlooked a gate of the city, and saw the whole army go out. Regiment
+after regiment passed through and melted away in the mist of the
+morning."&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_12" id="Endnote_12"></a><a href="#ENanchor_12">(12)</a> "Le Grand Laboureur."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">-108-</a></span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_13" id="Endnote_13"></a><a href="#ENanchor_13">(13)</a> The Duke's corpse did not arrive at Antwerp till Saturday
+afternoon. See Mrs Eaton's <i>Waterloo Days</i>, p. 59.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_14" id="Endnote_14"></a><a href="#ENanchor_14">(14)</a> "I went to Antwerp, and found the hotel there so crowded, that I
+could only obtain one small room for my maid and myself, and it was at
+the top of the house. I remained entirely within, and desired my maid
+not to tell me what she might hear in the hotel respecting the army.
+On the 18th, however, I could not avoid the conviction that the battle
+was going on; the anxious faces in the street, the frequent messengers
+I saw passing by, were sufficient proof that important intelligence
+was expected, and as I sat at the open window I heard the firing of
+artillery, like the distant roaring of the sea, as I had so often
+heard it at Dunglass. How the contrast of my former tranquil life
+there was pressed upon me at that moment!"&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p>Southey, the poet, says that the firing of the 16th was heard at
+Antwerp, but not that of the 18th. It is an extraordinary but
+indisputable fact that the firing at Waterloo was heard in England.
+The <i>Kentish Gazette</i> of Tuesday, 20th June 1815 (published therefore
+before any one in England, not even Nathan Rothschild himself, was
+aware that there had been a battle fought at Waterloo), contained the
+following piece of news from Ramsgate: "A heavy and incessant firing
+was heard from this coast on Sunday evening in the direction of
+Dunkirk." Dunkirk lies in nearly a straight line between Waterloo and
+the coast of Kent. What makes the matter still more extraordinary is
+the fact that Colville's Division, which, on the 18th, was posted in
+front of Hal, about ten miles to the west of the battlefield, never
+heard a sound of the firing, and did not know till midnight that any
+battle had taken place.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">-109-</a></span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_15" id="Endnote_15"></a><a href="#ENanchor_15">(15)</a> Wellington's headquarters on the night of the 16th June were at
+Genappe, two or three miles to the rear of the battlefield of Quatre
+Bras. He slept at the Roi d'Espagne. Blücher occupied the same inn on
+the night of the 18th.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_16" id="Endnote_16"></a><a href="#ENanchor_16">(16)</a> The battle began about 11.35, though Wellington in his despatch
+states that it began about 10. Napoleon's bulletin fixes noon as the
+time. Marshal Ney said that it began at 1 o'clock. It is clear they
+did not all look at their watches.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_17" id="Endnote_17"></a><a href="#ENanchor_17">(17)</a> De Lancey is supposed to have been struck about the time when the
+French batteries opened a fierce cannonade on the English centre,
+preparatory to the first of their tremendous cavalry attacks. This
+would make the hour nearer 4 o'clock than 3.</p>
+
+<p>He fell not far from the Wellington Tree, and close to the famous
+<i>chemin creux</i> of Victor Hugo, in the immediate rear of which
+Ompteda's brigade of the King's German Legion was posted. The
+appearance of the spot is now entirely altered. The tree was cut down
+in 1818, and all the soil of the elevated ground on the south side of
+the <i>chemin creux</i> was carted away to make the Belgian Lion Mound
+about 1825. A steam tramway now runs by the place.</p>
+
+<p>For a sketch of the celebrated tree, with Napoleon's guide, De Coster,
+in the foreground, see Captain Arthur Gore's <i>Explanatory Notes on the
+Battle of Waterloo</i>, 1817; and for another view of the ragged old tree
+as it appeared the day before it was cut down, see <i>Illustrated London
+News</i>, 27th November 1852.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="#MAP">map</a> which faces <a href="#Page_110">page 110</a> is adapted from the plan of the
+battlefield of Waterloo, drawn in 1816, by W.B. Craan, Surveying
+Engineer of Brabant.</p>
+
+<p>The troops are shown in the positions occupied by them at 11 o'clock,
+<span class="smcap">a.m.</span>, just before the opening of the battle.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">-110-</a></span></p>
+
+<p>On the map will be seen the position of the Wellington Tree, also the
+farm and village of Mont St Jean, to which village it is supposed Sir
+William De Lancey was carried, after he had received the fatal blow.</p>
+
+<p>The village of Waterloo is outside the map, some two miles to the
+north.</p>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<a name="MAP" id="MAP"></a>
+<img src="images/map_sm.png" width="339" height="500" alt="map" title="map" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="centerbp">[<a href="images/map_lg.png">Enlarge</a>]</p>
+
+<p>"The Duke had no fixed station throughout the day, and did not remain
+at this tree for more than three or four minutes at any one time. He
+frequently rode to it to observe the advance of the columns of attack.
+A deep dip in the main road prevented his going beyond it without a
+detour to the rear. It was here also that, the Duke having galloped up
+with the staff and using his glass to observe the enemy's movements,
+poor Colonel De Lancey by his side was struck by a heavy shot which
+slanted off without breaking either his skin or even his coat, but all
+the ribs of the left side were separated from the back."&mdash;Siborne's
+<i>Waterloo Correspondence</i>, vol. i., p. 51.</p>
+
+<p>Sir Walter Scott has the following interesting passage in the Seventh
+of his <i>Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk</i>. After a reference to the
+British army taking up its position on the field of Waterloo the night
+before the battle, he thus continues: "The Duke had caused a plan of
+this and other military positions in the neighbourhood of Brussels, to
+be made some time before by Colonel Carmichael Smyth, the chief
+engineer. He now called for that sketch, and with the assistance of
+the regretted Sir William De Lancey and Colonel Smyth, made his
+dispositions for the momentous events of next day. The plan itself, a
+<i>relique</i> so precious, was rendered yet more so by being found in the
+breast of Sir William De Lancey's coat when he fell, and stained with
+the blood of that gallant officer. It is now in the careful
+preservation<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">-111-</a></span> of Colonel Carmichael Smyth, by whom it was originally
+sketched."</p>
+
+<p>For an account of Colonel Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Commanding Royal
+Engineer on the Staff of the Duke of Wellington, see <i>Dictionary of
+National Biography</i>, vol. liii., p. 185.</p>
+
+<p>Major John Oldfield, Brigade-Major, R.E., gives the following
+particulars about this map, which is reproduced opposite page 565 of
+vol. i. of C.D. Yonge's <i>Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of
+Wellington</i>.</p>
+
+<p>"Shortly after my chief&mdash;Colonel Smyth&mdash;had joined headquarters (this
+was on the 16th), he sent in to me, at Brussels, for the plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which had been previously reconnoitred. The
+several sketches of the officers had been put together, and one fair
+copy made for the Prince of Orange. A second had been commenced in the
+drawing-room for the Duke, but was not in a state to send; I therefore
+forwarded the original sketches of the officers.</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Morning of the 17th.</i>&mdash;Upon my joining Colonel Smyth, he desired me
+to receive from Lieutenant Waters the plan of the position, which,
+according to his desire, I had sent to him from Brussels the preceding
+day, and of which I was told to take the greatest care. It had been
+lost in one of the charges of the French cavalry, and recovered.
+Lieutenant Waters, who had it in his cloak before his saddle (or in
+his sabretasche attached to his saddle, I forget which), was unhorsed
+in the <i>mźlée</i> and ridden over. Upon recovering himself, he found the
+cavalry had passed him, and his horse was nowhere to be seen. He felt
+alarmed for the loss of his plan. To look for his horse, he imagined,
+was in vain, and his only care was to avoid being taken prisoner,
+which he hoped to do by keeping well towards our right. The enemy
+being repulsed in his charge was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">-112-</a></span> returning by the left to the ground
+by which he had advanced. After proceeding about fifty yards, he was
+delighted to find his horse quietly destroying the vegetables in a
+garden near the farmhouse at Quatre Bras. He thus fortunately
+recovered his plan, and with it rejoined the Colonel. The retreat of
+the Prussians upon Wavre rendered it necessary for the Duke to make a
+corresponding movement, and upon the receipt of a communication from
+Blücher, he called Colonel Smyth and asked him for his plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which I immediately handed to him. The Duke then
+gave directions to Sir William De Lancey to put the army in position
+at Waterloo, forming them across the Nivelles and Charleroi
+chaussées."&mdash;Porter's <i>History of the Corps of Royal Engineers</i>, vol.
+i., p. 380. See also Ropes' <i>Waterloo</i>, p. 296.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_18" id="Endnote_18"></a><a href="#ENanchor_18">(18)</a> "He was able to speak in a short time after the fall, and when
+the Duke of Wellington took his hand and asked how he felt, he begged
+to be taken from the crowd that he might die in peace, and gave a
+message to me."&mdash;<i>Abridged Narrative.</i></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_19" id="Endnote_19"></a><a href="#ENanchor_19">(19)</a> Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Delancey Barclay, 1st Foot Guards.
+See <i>Army List</i> for 1815, pp. 30 and 145, also <i>Waterloo Roll Call</i>,
+p. 30.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_20" id="Endnote_20"></a><a href="#ENanchor_20">(20)</a> Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards
+north of the Wellington Tree.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_21" id="Endnote_21"></a><a href="#ENanchor_21">(21)</a> Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo
+being two miles further north.</p>
+
+<p>When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton&mdash;see <i>Dictionary of National
+Biography</i>, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she
+noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">-113-</a></span> chalk on the
+door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle.
+(<i>Waterloo Days</i>, p. 125.) The <a href="#SKETCH">sketch</a> on the opposite page is
+reproduced from <i>Sketches in Flanders and Holland</i>, by Robert Hills,
+1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month
+after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers
+returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets,
+etc., which they had picked up.</p>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<a name="SKETCH" id="SKETCH"></a>
+<img src="images/village.png" width="540" height="232" alt="Village of Mont St Jean" title="Village of Mont St Jean" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Village of Mont St Jean</span>, 1815.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_22" id="Endnote_22"></a><a href="#ENanchor_22">(22)</a> See <i>Waterloo Roll Call</i>, p. 35, and <i>Army List</i> for 1815, p. 31.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_23" id="Endnote_23"></a><a href="#ENanchor_23">(23)</a> The Duke began the Waterloo despatch very early on the 19th at
+Waterloo, but he finished it at Brussels, that same morning.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_24" id="Endnote_24"></a><a href="#ENanchor_24">(24)</a> <i>I.e.</i>, not only Waterloo, but Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the
+fighting that took place on the 15th and 17th June.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_25" id="Endnote_25"></a><a href="#ENanchor_25">(25)</a> Mr William Hay of Duns Castle. He had been in the 16th Light
+Dragoons in the Peninsular War (see <i>Army List</i> for 1811, p. 89), and
+had come over from England a few days before to see his old friends,
+and introduce his young brother, Cornet Alexander Hay, to his old
+regiment.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_26" id="Endnote_26"></a><a href="#ENanchor_26">(26)</a> Mr Hay was on the battlefield during the early part of the fight.
+Early next morning he revisited the field, to try to find some trace
+of his brother. The body was never found. He had been killed late at
+night on the French position, while the 16th Light Dragoons were in
+pursuit of the enemy. (Tomkinson's <i>Diary of a Cavalry Officer</i>,
+1809-1815, p. 314; also <i>Reminiscences</i>, 1808-1815, <i>under
+Wellington</i>, by Captain William Hay, C.B.) There is a memorial tablet
+to him in the church at Waterloo, with the following inscription:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"Sacred to the memory of Alexander Hay, Esq., of Nunraw,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">-114-</a></span>
+Cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons, aged 18 years, who fell
+gloriously in the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, June 18,
+1815.</p>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="poem">
+<tr>
+<td>
+"<i>O dolor atque decus magnum ...<br />
+Hęc te prima dies bello dedit, hęc eadem aufert.</i>
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>"This tablet was placed here by his Brothers and Sisters."</p></div>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_27" id="Endnote_27"></a><a href="#ENanchor_27">(27)</a> No doubt Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie who was in command at
+Antwerp. He succeeded Sir Colin Halkett in that post. See <i>Army List</i>
+for 1815, p. 8.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_28" id="Endnote_28"></a><a href="#ENanchor_28">(28)</a> Another indication that it was in the village of Mont St Jean and
+not Waterloo.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_29" id="Endnote_29"></a><a href="#ENanchor_29">(29)</a> "One of the most painful visits I ever paid was to a little
+wretched cottage at the end of the village which was pointed out to me
+as the place where De Lancey was lying mortally wounded. How wholly
+shocked I was on entering, to find Lady De Lancey seated on the only
+broken chair the hovel contained, by the side of her dying husband. I
+made myself known. She grasped me by the hand, and pointed to poor De
+Lancey covered with his coat, and with just a spark of life
+left."&mdash;<i>Reminiscences, etc.</i>, by Captain William Hay, C.B., p. 202.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_30" id="Endnote_30"></a><a href="#ENanchor_30">(30)</a> Creevey states that as he was on his way from Brussels to
+Waterloo on Tuesday the 20th June, the Duke overtook him and said he
+was going to see Sir Frederick Ponsonby and De Lancey. The Duke was in
+plain clothes and riding in a curricle with Colonel Felton
+Hervey.&mdash;<i>The Creevey Papers</i>, p. 238.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_31" id="Endnote_31"></a><a href="#ENanchor_31">(31)</a> Probably the Duke had in his mind the charge of Lord Edward
+Somerset's Household Brigade against the French Cuirassiers, which
+took place about 2 o'clock. Alava, in his report to the Spanish
+Government, calls it "the most sanguinary cavalry fight perhaps ever
+witnessed."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">-115-</a></span></p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_32" id="Endnote_32"></a><a href="#ENanchor_32">(32)</a> This was the general opinion at the time. Four days after the
+battle an officer in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Foot Guards wrote as
+follows: "I constantly saw the noble Duke of Wellington riding
+backwards and forwards like the Genius of the storm, who, borne upon
+its wings, directed its thunder where to break. He was everywhere to
+be found, encouraging, directing, animating. He was in a blue short
+cloak, and a plain cocked hat, his telescope in his hand; there was
+nothing that escaped him, nothing that he did not take advantage of,
+and his lynx eyes seemed to penetrate the smoke and forestall the
+movements of the foe" (p. 42, <i>Battle of Waterloo</i>, 11th edition,
+1852, L. Booth). A highly interesting remark from the Duke's lips just
+before the attack made by the Imperial Guard has been preserved in a
+letter written at Nivelles on the 20th June, by Colonel Sir A.S.
+Frazer. "'Twice have I saved this day by perseverance,' said his Grace
+before the last great struggle, and said so most justly." This seems
+to coincide with the observation which the Duke made to Creevey at
+Brussels the morning after the battle. "By God! I don't think it would
+have been done, if I had not been there."</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_33" id="Endnote_33"></a><a href="#ENanchor_33">(33)</a> Another proof that it was Mont St Jean and not Waterloo.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_34" id="Endnote_34"></a><a href="#ENanchor_34">(34)</a> Probably James Powell, an apothecary in the Medical Department.
+Date of rank, 9th September 1813. See <i>Army List</i> for 1815, p. 93. In
+the Army List of 1817, and in subsequent Army Lists he is shown with a
+<img src="images/blackletterw.png" width="31" height="19" alt="blackletter W" title="blackletter W" />
+before his name, as being in possession of the
+Waterloo Medal. His last appearance in the Army List is in 1841, in
+which issue he is shown on page 340 as a surgeon on half-pay.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_35" id="Endnote_35"></a><a href="#ENanchor_35">(35)</a> John Robert Hume was a Deputy-Inspector of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">-116-</a></span> Medical
+Department. See <i>Army List</i> for 1815, p. 90. He also held the
+appointment of surgeon to the Duke of Wellington. He was in attendance
+on the memorable occasion when a duel took place in Battersea Fields
+between the Duke of Wellington and Earl Winchilsea, 21st March 1829.
+He died in 1857. See <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, vol. xxviii.,
+p. 229.</p>
+
+<p>The following is Dr Hume's account of his visit to the Duke the
+morning after the battle. "I came back from the field of Waterloo with
+Sir Alexander Gordon, whose leg I was obliged to amputate on the field
+late in the evening. He died rather unexpectedly in my arms about
+half-past three in the morning of the 19th. I was hesitating about
+disturbing the Duke, when Sir Charles Broke-Vere came. He wished to
+take his orders about the movement of the troops. I went upstairs and
+tapped gently at the door, when he told me to come in. He had as usual
+taken off his clothes, but had not washed himself. As I entered, he
+sat up in bed, his face covered with the dust and sweat of the
+previous day, and extended his hand to me, which I took and held in
+mine, whilst I told him of Gordon's death, and of such of the
+casualties as had come to my knowledge. He was much affected. I felt
+the tears dropping fast upon my hand, and looking towards him, saw
+them chasing one another in furrows over his dusty cheeks. He brushed
+them suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me in a voice
+tremulous with emotion, 'Well, thank God, I don't know what it is to
+lose a battle; but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain
+one with the loss of so many of one's friends.'"&mdash;(Extract from a
+Lecture by Montague Gore, 1852.)</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_36" id="Endnote_36"></a><a href="#ENanchor_36">(36)</a> Stephen Woolriche was a Deputy-Inspector of the Medical
+Department. See <i>Army List</i> for 1815, p. 90. His name appears for the
+last time in the Army List of 1855-56.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">-117-</a></span> By that time he had gained a
+C.B., and held the rank of Inspector-General of the Medical Department
+on half-pay.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_37" id="Endnote_37"></a><a href="#ENanchor_37">(37)</a> General Francis Dundas (<i>Army List</i> for 1815, p. 3) was Colonel
+of the 71st Highland Light Infantry. He had served in the American
+War, and afterwards at the Cape. At the time of the alarm of a French
+invasion, of England in 1804-5, he commanded a portion of the English
+forces assembled on the south coast under Sir David Dundas, the
+Commander-in-Chief, who married an aunt of Sir William De Lancey. Sir
+David Dundas was at this time Governor of Chelsea Hospital, where he
+died at the age of eighty-five, on the 18th February 1820.&mdash;(See
+<i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, vol. xvi., p. 185.)</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_38" id="Endnote_38"></a><a href="#ENanchor_38">(38)</a> Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, fourth baronet, was born on the 3rd
+January 1774, and married, on the 19th May 1800, Jane, eldest daughter
+of the first Lord Duncan of Camperdown.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_39" id="Endnote_39"></a><a href="#ENanchor_39">(39)</a> There were at that time three Protestant cemeteries at Brussels.
+This was the St Josse Ten Noode Cemetery, on the south side of the
+Chaussée de Louvain. Many were here buried who had died of wounds
+received at Waterloo, including Major Archibald John Maclean, 73rd
+Highlanders; Major William J. Lloyd, R.A.; Captain William Stothert,
+Adjutant, 3rd Foot Guards; Lieut. Michael Cromie, R.A.; Lieut. Charles
+Spearman, R.A.; Lieut. John Clyde, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. See
+<i>Times</i> of 9th February 1889.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_40" id="Endnote_40"></a><a href="#ENanchor_40">(40)</a> In 1889, Sir William De Lancey's remains were exhumed from the
+old, disused cemetery of St Josse Ten Noode, and, along with those of
+a number of other British officers who fell in the Waterloo campaign,
+were removed to the beautiful cemetery of Evere, three miles to the
+north-east of Brussels. On the 26th August 1890, H.R.H. the Duke of
+Cambridge<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">-118-</a></span> unveiled the celebrated Waterloo memorial which contains
+their bones.</p>
+
+<p>The following was the inscription on the gravestone which Lady De
+Lancey erected:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p class="center" style="line-height: 1.2">
+<span class="sm">&#8220;THIS STONE IS PLACED TO MARK WHERE THE BODY OF</span><br />
+COL. SIR W. HOWE DE LANCEY,<br />
+<span class="sm">QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL,<br />
+IS INTERRED.<br />
+<br />
+HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF<br />
+BELLE ALLIANCE (WATERLOO)<br />
+ON THE 18TH JUNE 1815.&#8221;</span>
+</p>
+
+<p class="border" style="text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; text-indent: 0">
+<img src="images/memorial.png" width="500" height="340" alt="memorial" title="memorial" />
+</p>
+
+<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Waterloo Memorial in Evere Cemetery</span>.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Endnote_41" id="Endnote_41"></a><a href="#ENanchor_41">(41)</a> <i>Tuesday, 4th April</i> 1815.&mdash;This date is confirmed by the
+<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, 1815, which states: "April 4, Col. Sir W. De
+Lancey, K.C.B., to Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Hall, Bart."</p>
+
+<p>On the other hand, the <i>Abridged Narrative</i> states as follows:&mdash;"I was
+married in March 1815. At that time Sir William De Lancey held an
+appointment on the Staff in Scotland. Peace appeared established, and
+I had no apprehension of the trials that awaited me. While we were
+spending the first week of our marriage at Dunglass, the accounts of
+the return of Bonaparte from Elba arrived, and Sir William was
+summoned to London, and soon after ordered to join the army at
+Brussels as Adjutant-Quartermaster-General." Napoleon landed in France
+on the 1st March, and in the London <i>Evening Mail</i> of the issue
+headed:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>"From Wednesday, March 8, to Friday, March 10, 1815," the following
+appears as a postscript:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="right"><span style="margin-right: 2em;">"<span class="smcap">London</span>,</span><br />
+"<i>Friday Afternoon, March</i> 10.</p>
+
+<p>"Letters have been received at Dover of the most interesting
+import; they announce the flight of Buonaparte from the
+island<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">-119-</a></span> of Elba, and his arrival at Frejus, the place at
+which he landed on his return from Egypt. We have seen the
+King of France's proclamation against him, dated the 6th
+instant, declaring him and his adherents traitors and rebels:
+of these he is said to have had at first only 1300, but to
+have directed his march immediately on Lyons. It was
+considered that he would make a dash at Paris. Now, however,
+the villain's fate is at issue."</p></div>
+
+<p>This news probably reached Edinburgh by coach a week later, and may
+have been known at Dunglass on the following day, the 18th March.</p>
+
+<p>It seems doubtful, therefore, whether Lady De Lancey did not make a
+mistake of a month in dating her marriage exactly three months before
+the 4th of July. She may possibly have been married in March.</p>
+
+<p>The "Hundred Days" cover the period between Napoleon's first
+proclamation at Lyons on the 13th March and his abdication on the 22nd
+June.</p>
+
+<p>It will therefore be seen that the married life of the De Lanceys, if
+it extended from the 4th March to the 26th June 1815, covered this
+period, with just thirteen days to spare.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">-121-</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="APPENDIX_A" id="APPENDIX_A"></a>APPENDIX A</h2>
+
+
+<p class="bp">Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles
+Dickens.<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34">[34]</a> From the autograph collection in the possession of Lady
+Parsons.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">"<span class="smcap">My dear Captain Hall</span>,</p>
+
+<p style="text-indent: 6em">"I received with great pleasure your kind proposal to visit Tweedside.
+It arrived later than it should have done. I lose no time in saying
+that you and Mrs Hall cannot come but as welcome guests any day next
+week, which may best suit you. If you have time to drop a line we will
+make our dinner hour suit your arrival, but you cannot come amiss to
+us.</p>
+
+<p>"I am infinitely obliged to you for Captain Maitland's plain, manly,
+and interesting narrative. It is very interesting, and clears
+Bonaparte of much egotism imputed to him. I am making a copy which,
+however, I will make no use of except as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">-122-</a></span> extracts, and am very much
+indebted to Captain Maitland for the privilege.</p>
+
+<p>"Constable proposed a thing to me which was of so much delicacy that I
+scarce know how [<i>sic</i>] about it, and thought of leaving it till you
+and I met.</p>
+
+<p class="bp">"It relates to that most interesting and affecting journal kept by my
+regretted and amiable friend, Mrs Hervey,<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> during poor De Lancey's
+illness. He thought with great truth that it would add very great
+interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris soon
+after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the most
+valuable and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war. But whether this could be done
+without injury to the feelings of survivors is a question not for me
+to decide, and indeed I feel unaffected pain in even submitting it to
+your friendly ear who I know will put no harsh construction upon my
+motive which can be no other than such as would do honour to the
+amiable and lamented authoress. I never read anything which affected
+my own feelings more strongly or which I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">-123-</a></span> am sure would have a deeper
+interest on those of the public. Still the work is of a domestic
+nature, and its publication, however honourable to all concerned,
+might perhaps give pain when God knows I should be sorry any proposal
+of mine should awaken the distresses which time may have in some
+degree abated. You are the only person who can judge of this with any
+certainty or at least who can easily gain the means of ascertaining
+it, and as Constable seemed to think there was a possibility that
+after the lapse of so much time it might be regarded as matter of
+history and as a record of the amiable character of your accomplished
+sister, and seemed to suppose there was some probability of such a
+favour being granted, you will consider me as putting the question on
+his suggestion. It could be printed as the Journal of a lady during
+the last illness of a General Officer of distinction during her
+attendance upon his last illness, or something to that purpose.
+Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of this
+heartrending diary which makes me suppose a possibility that after
+such a lapse of years, the publication may possibly (as that which
+cannot but do the highest honour to the memory of the amiable
+authoress) may not be judged altogether inadmissible. You<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">-124-</a></span> may and
+will, of course, act in this matter with your natural feeling of
+consideration, and ascertain whether that which cannot but do honour
+to the memory of those who are gone can be made public with the sacred
+regard due to the feelings of survivors.</p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35">[35]</a> Lady De Lancey married again in 1819 Captain Henry
+Hervey, Madras Infantry, and died in 1822. <i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>,
+vol. lxxxix, Part I., p. 368, and vol. cii., Part II., p. 179.</p></div>
+
+<p class="tp">"Lady Scott begs to add the pleasure she must have in seeing Mrs Hall
+and you at Abbotsford, and in speedy expectation of that honour I am
+always,</p>
+
+<p class="center"><span style="margin-right: 4em;">"Dear Sir,</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 4em;">"Most truly yours,</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 14em;">"<span class="smcap">Walter Scott.</span></span></p>
+
+<p><span class="msm">"<span class="smcap">Abbotsford</span>, 13<i>th</i> <i>October</i> 1825."</span></p>
+
+<hr class="med" />
+
+<p class="right"><span style="margin-right: 2em;">"<span class="smcap">Devonshire Terrace</span>,</span><br />
+"<i>Tuesday evening</i>, 16<i>th</i> <i>March</i> 1841.</p>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">My dear Hall</span>,</p>
+
+<p style="text-indent: 6em">"For I see it must be 'juniores priores,' and that I must demolish the
+ice at a blow.</p>
+
+<p>"I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De Lancey's
+narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not have mastered it
+even then. One glance at it, when through your kindness it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">-125-</a></span> first
+arrived, had impressed me with a foreboding of its terrible truth, and
+I really have shrunk from it in pure lack of heart.</p>
+
+<p>"After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the most
+wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours in the
+evening&mdash;searching for some pictures I wanted to build upon&mdash;I went at
+it, at about ten o'clock. To say that the reading that most
+astonishing and tremendous account has constituted an epoch in my
+life&mdash;that I shall never forget the lightest word of it&mdash;that I cannot
+throw the impression aside, and never saw anything so real, so
+touching, and so actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am
+husband and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General Dundas,
+doctor and bedstead&mdash;everything and everybody (but the Prussian
+officer&mdash;damn him) all in one. What I have always looked upon as
+masterpieces of powerful and affecting description, seem as nothing in
+my eyes. If I live for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and
+then, from this hour to the day of my death, with the most frightful
+reality. The slightest mention of a battle will bring the whole thing
+before me. I shall never think of the Duke any more, but as he stood
+in his shirt with the officer in full-dress uniform, or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">-126-</a></span> as he
+dismounted from his horse when the gallant man was struck down.</p>
+
+<p>"It is a striking proof of the power of that most extraordinary man
+Defoe that I seem to recognise in every line of the narrative
+something of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the obstacles to
+getting on&mdash;the shutting herself up in her room and determining not to
+hear&mdash;the not going to the door when the knocking came&mdash;the finding
+out by her wild spirits when she heard he was safe, how much she had
+feared when in doubt and anxiety&mdash;the desperate desire to move towards
+him&mdash;the whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+their daily shifts and contrivances; and the lying down beside him in
+the bed and both <i>falling asleep</i>; and his resolving not to serve any
+more, but to live quietly thenceforth; and her sorrow when she saw him
+eating with an appetite so soon before his death; and his death
+itself&mdash;all these are matters of truth, which only that astonishing
+creature, as I think, could have told in fiction.</p>
+
+<p>"Of all the beautiful and tender passages&mdash;the thinking every day how
+happy and blest she was&mdash;the decorating him for the dinner&mdash;the
+standing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">-127-</a></span> in the balcony at night and seeing the troops melt away
+through the gate&mdash;and the rejoining him on his sick bed&mdash;I say not a
+word. They are God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again,
+with an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than toast
+and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of this paper,
+that its impression on me can never be told; that the ground she
+travelled (which I know well) is holy ground to me from this day; and
+that please Heaven I will tread its every foot this very next summer,
+to have the softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+where it was acted.</p>
+
+<p>"You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are awakened by
+such things they don't wear out.</p>
+
+<p>"Have you ever thought within yourself of that part where, having
+suffered so much by the news of his death, she <i>will not</i> believe he
+is alive? I should have supposed that unnatural if I had seen it in
+fiction.</p>
+
+<p>"I shall never dismiss the subject from my mind, but with these hasty
+and very imperfect words I shall dismiss it from my paper, with two
+additional remarks&mdash;firstly, that Kate has been grievously<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">-128-</a></span> putting
+me out by sobbing over it, while I have been writing this, and has
+just retired in an agony of grief; and, secondly, that <i>if</i> a time
+<i>should</i> ever come when you would not object to letting a friend copy
+it for himself, I hope you will bear me in your thoughts.</p>
+
+<p>"It seems the poorest nonsense in the world to turn to anything else,
+that is, seems to me being fresher in respect of Lady De Lancey than
+you&mdash;but my raven's dead. He had been ailing for a few days but not
+seriously, as we thought, and was apparently recovering, when symptoms
+of relapse occasioned me to send for an eminent medical gentleman one
+Herring (a bird fancier in the New Road), who promptly attended and
+administered a powerful dose of castor oil. This was on Tuesday last.
+On Wednesday morning he had another dose of castor oil and a tea cup
+full of warm gruel, which he took with great relish and under the
+influence of which he so far recovered his spirits as to be enabled to
+bite the groom severely. At 12 o'clock at noon he took several turns
+up and down the stable with a grave, sedate air, and suddenly reeled.
+This made him thoughtful. He stopped directly, shook his head, moved
+on again, stopped once more, cried in a tone of remonstrance<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">-129-</a></span> and
+considerable surprise, 'Halloa old girl!' and immediately died.</p>
+
+<p>"He has left a rather large property (in cheese and halfpence) buried,
+for security's sake, in various parts of the garden. I am not without
+suspicions of poison. A butcher was heard to threaten him some weeks
+since, and he stole a clasp knife belonging to a vindictive carpenter,
+which was never found. For these reasons, I directed a post-mortem
+examination, preparatory to the body being stuffed; the result of it
+has not yet reached me. The medical gentleman broke out the fact of
+his decease to me with great delicacy, observing that 'the jolliest
+queer start had taken place with that 'ere knowing card of a bird, as
+ever he see'd'&mdash;but the shock was naturally very great. With reference
+to the jollity of the start, it appears that a raven dying at two
+hundred and fifty or thereabouts, is looked upon as an infant. This
+one would hardly, as I may say, have been born for a century or so to
+come, being only two or three years old.</p>
+
+<p>"I want to know more about the promised 'tickler'&mdash;when it's to come,
+what it's to be, and in short all about it&mdash;that I may give it the
+better welcome. I don't know how it is, but I am celebrated either for
+writing no letters at all or for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">-130-</a></span> the briefest specimens of epistolary
+correspondence in existence, and here I am&mdash;in writing to you&mdash;on the
+sixth side! I won't make it a seventh anyway; so with love to all your
+home circle, and from all mine, I am now and always,</p>
+
+<p class="center">"Faithfully yours,</p>
+
+<p class="right">"<span class="smcap">Charles Dickens.</span></p>
+
+<p>"I am glad you like Barnaby. I have great designs in store, but am
+sadly cramped at first for room."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">-131-</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="APPENDIX_B" id="APPENDIX_B"></a>APPENDIX B</h2>
+
+<h3>BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LADY DE LANCEY&#8217;S NARRATIVE</h3>
+
+
+<p class="hang" style="padding-top: 1em"><i>Reminiscences</i>, by Samuel Rogers, under the heading: "Duke of
+Wellington," p. 210.</p>
+
+<p class="hang"><i>Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore</i>, edited by Lord
+John Russell, Journal of 29th August 1824, vol. iv., p. 240.</p>
+
+<p class="hang"><i>Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington</i>, by Earl
+Stanhope, p. 182.</p>
+
+<p class="hang">Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 13th
+October 1825, published in the <i>Century Magazine</i> (New York), April
+1906, and in <a href="#APPENDIX_A">Appendix A</a>, <i>ante</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="hang">Letter from Charles Dickens to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 16th
+March 1841, published in the <i>Century Magazine</i> (New York), April
+1906, and in <a href="#APPENDIX_A">Appendix A</a>, <i>ante</i>.</p>
+
+<p class="hang"><i>Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine</i>, 1888, vol. viii., p. 414. A
+condensed account of her experiences at Waterloo, written by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her friends in general. See <a href="#Page_31">page 31</a>,
+<i>ante</i>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">-132-</a></span></p>
+
+<p class="hang"><i>Century Magazine</i>, New York, April 1906. Publication in full of the
+original narrative as written by Lady De Lancey for the information of
+her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">-133-</a></span></p>
+<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX</h2>
+
+
+<p class="noindent" style="line-height: 1.2">
+Abbotsford, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Abercrombie, General, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Abridged Narrative</i>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Adonais</i>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Alava, General, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ambassador, Spanish, <a href='#Page_42'>42</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Annapolis, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Antwerp, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a>, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>, <a href='#Page_52'>52</a>, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_64'>64</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Appleton's <i>Cyclopędia</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+B., Mrs, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bacon, quoted, <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bahama Islands, <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ball at Duchess of Richmond's, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Barclay, Colonel Delancey, <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Barnaby Rudge</i>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Barnes, Major-General Sir E., <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bathurst, Earl, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Berkeley, Colonel, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Beverley, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bibliography of Lady De Lancey's Narrative, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bloomingdale, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Blücher, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bonaparte, Napoleon, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Bowood, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Brogden, T.W., <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Broke-Vere, Sir Charles, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Brunswick, Duke of, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Brussels, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <i>et passim</i>.<br />
+<br />
+Bulow, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Caen, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Calnek and Savary, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cambridge, Duke of, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Canning, Colonel, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Castel Cicala, Prince, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Castle Rackrent</i>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cathcart, Colonel, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Century Magazine</i>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Charleroi, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Chichester, Henry Manners, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Childe Harold</i>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Clyde, Lieutenant, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Colville's Division, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Connecticut, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Constable, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cooke, General, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Corunna, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>County of Annapolis, History of</i>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Craan, W.B., <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Creevey Papers</i>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Creevey, Mr, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cromie, Lieutenant, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Crown Point, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Cruger, Colonel John Harris, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Dalton's <i>Waterloo Roll Call</i>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Defoe, <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a>, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Coster, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Charlotte, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">-134-</a></span><br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Edward Floyd, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Etienne, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, James, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Lady, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Narrative of, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>-38.</span><br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Oliver, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Peter, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Sir William Howe, biography of, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>;<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">military services of, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">on board H.M.S. <i>Endymion</i>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">marriage, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">summoned to Belgium, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">at Brussels, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>-45;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">at the battle of Waterloo, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>, <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">wounding and death of, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>-16, <a href='#Page_50'>50</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.</span><br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Stephen, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Susanna, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Lancey, Guy, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>.<br />
+<br />
+De Ros, Lady, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dickens, Charles, <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_37'>37</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_130'>130</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dickens, Kate, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Dictionnaire de la Noblesse de France</i>, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Dictionary of National Biography</i>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Draper, Sir William, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dundas, General Sir David, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dundas, General Francis, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_92'>92</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dunglass, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Dunkirk, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Eaton, Mrs, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Edinburgh, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Elba, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Emma, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a>, <i>et sępe</i>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Endymion</i>, H.M.S., <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a>, <a href='#Page_28'>28</a>, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Evening Mail</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Evere Cemetery, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<i>Fragments of Voyages and Travels</i>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Frazer, Colonel Sir A.S., Letters of</i>, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Frejus, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Fremantle, Colonel, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Genappe, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Genoa, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Gentleman's Magazine</i>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ghent, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gordon, Colonel Sir Alexander, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gore, Captain Arthur, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gore, Montague, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Grant, Colonel, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Greene, General, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gronow, Captain, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Gurwood's <i>Despatches of the Duke of Wellington</i>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Hal, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Halkett, Sir Colin, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hall, Captain Basil, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hall, Magdalene (Lady De Lancey), <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>, <a href='#Page_68'>68</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hall, Mrs Basil, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hall, Sir James, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hamilton, Sir H.D., <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hamilton, Lady, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>, <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hay, Captain William, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hay, Cornet Alexander, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hay, Lieut., <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hervey, Mrs (Lady De Lancey), <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hervey, Colonel Felton, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hills, Robert, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>History of the Corps of Royal Engineers</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Howe, General Sir William, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Howe, Lord, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hudson River, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Hume, Dr, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a>, <a href='#Page_81'>81</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+"Hundred Days," 119.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<i>Illustrated London News</i>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine</i>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+India, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Invalides, Les, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">-135-</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Jackson, Colonel Basil, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.<br />
+<br />
+James II., <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+James, Mr, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>, <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Johnson, Mrs S., <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Jones' History, quoted, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<i>Kentish Gazette</i>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Ladysmith, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lannoy, Count de, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>, <a href='#Page_104'>104</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lansdowne, Lord, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Larochejaquelein, Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de</i>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lennox, Lord William, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ligny, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lloyd, Major W.J., <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+London, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Long Island, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Louvain, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lowe, General E.W.H. De Lancey, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lowe, Sir Hudson, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Loyalists of the American Revolution,</i> quoted, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Lycidas</i>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Lyons, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Machel, Town Major, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Maclean, Major, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Madrid Gazette</i>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Maitland, Captain, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Malines, <a href='#Page_58'>58</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Maurice, Colonel, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+M'Kenzie, General, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a>, <a href='#Page_64'>64</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Mémoires de Madame la Marquise de Larochejaquelein</i>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Mitchell, Captain, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_49'>49</a>, <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Mons, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Mont St Jean, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Moore, Thomas, <a href='#Page_32'>32</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Mount-Norris, Lord, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Müffling, General, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Namur, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Nantes, Revocation of the Edict of, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Napoleon, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a>, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>National Biography, Dictionary of</i>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Naval and Military Magazine, Illustrated,</i> 31, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+New Jersey, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+New York, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ney, Marshal, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Nineteenth Century Magazine</i>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+"Ninety-Six," Fort, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ninove, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Nivelles, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Nova Scotia, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Nunraw, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Oldfield, Major, R.E., <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ompteda, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Orange, Prince of, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ossining, <a href='#Page_3'>3</a>, <a href='#Page_5'>5</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ostend, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Paris, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Parsons, Lady, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk</i>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Picton, General Sir Thomas, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ponsonby, Sir Frederick, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ponsonby, Sir William, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Porter's <i>History of the Corps of Royal Engineers</i>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Portsmouth, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Portsmouth, N.H., <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Powell, Mr, <a href='#Page_78'>78</a>, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a>, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>, <a href='#Page_84'>84</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a>, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a>, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, <a href='#Page_98'>98</a>, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Pozzo di Borgo, Count, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Quatre Bras, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Ramsgate, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Recollections and Anecdotes</i>, by Captain Gronow, quoted, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Richmond, Duke of, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Richmond, Duchess of, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Rogers, Samuel, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a>, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ropes' <i>Waterloo</i>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Rothschild, Nathan, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Royal Engineers, History of the Corps of</i>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Russell, Lord John, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">-136-</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Sabine, General Sir E., <a href='#Page_13'>13</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sabine's <i>Loyalists of the American Revolution</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Scott, Lady, <a href='#Page_124'>124</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Scott, Sir Walter, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Scovell, Sir George, <a href='#Page_52'>52</a>, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a>, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>, <a href='#Page_77'>77</a>, <a href='#Page_78'>78</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Sharpe, W. Arthur, <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Siborne's <i>Waterloo Correspondence</i>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Sketches in Flanders and Holland</i>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Smith, Sir Harry, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Smyth, Col. Sir Carmichael, R.E., <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Somerset, Lord Edward, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Somerset, Lord Fitzroy, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Southey, Robert, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Spearman, Lieutenant, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Stanhope, Earl, quoted, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Staten Island, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+St Josse Ten Noode, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Stothert, Captain W., <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Tąj, The, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tarrytown, <a href='#Page_7'>7</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tennyson, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Ticonderoga, Fort, <a href='#Page_6'>6</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tobago, <a href='#Page_9'>9</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Tomkinson's <i>Diary of a Cavalry Officer</i>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Torrens, General Sir H., <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Trafalgar, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<i>United Service Journal</i>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>United Service Magazine</i>, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Uxbridge, Lord, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Van Cortlandt, Stephanus, <a href='#Page_4'>4</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Vanity Fair</i>, <a href='#Page_38'>38</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Van Schaak, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Vendée, La, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Victor Hugo, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Vilvorde, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Vincent, Baron, <a href='#Page_19'>19</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Waldie, Miss, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Waterloo, <a href='#Page_1'>1</a>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>,12, <i>et passim</i>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo, Battle of</i>, by L. Booth, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo Days</i>, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a>, <a href='#Page_108'>108</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo, Explanatory Notes on the battle of</i>, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo, Recollections of</i>, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo Roll Call</i>, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Waterloo</i>, Ropes', <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Waters, Lieut., R.E., <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wavre, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Webster, Lady Frances, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wellington, Duke of, <a href='#Page_2'>2</a>, <a href='#Page_10'>10</a>, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <i>et sępe</i>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Wellington, Duke of, Despatches of the</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<i>Wellington, Duke of, Supplementary Despatches of the</i>, quoted, <a href='#Page_11'>11</a>, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Wellington Tree, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a>, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Winchilsea, Earl, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+Woolriche, Mr, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a>, <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>, <a href='#Page_116'>116</a>.<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+Yonge's <i>Life of Wellington</i>, <a href='#Page_111'>111</a>.<br />
+<br />
+York, Duke of, <a href='#Page_8'>8</a>, <a href='#Page_12'>12</a>.<br />
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+Title: A Week at Waterloo in 1815
+       Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She
+       Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey,
+       Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the
+       Great Battle
+
+Author: Magdalene De Lancey
+
+Editor: Major B. R. Ward
+
+Release Date: March 6, 2010 [EBook #31517]
+
+Language: English
+
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+[Transcriber's Note: A table of contents has been added for the
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+corrected without note. Numbers in brackets are footnotes, which are
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+parentheses appearing in the narrative are endnotes, which can be
+found in the Notes to Lady De Lancey's Narrative.]
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+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW SHE NURSED HER HUSBAND, COLONEL SIR WILLIAM
+HOWE DE LANCEY, QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL OF THE ARMY, MORTALLY WOUNDED IN
+THE GREAT BATTLE
+
+
+EDITED BY MAJOR B.R. WARD
+ROYAL ENGINEERS
+
+
+LONDON
+JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
+1906
+
+
+[Illustration: Major William Howe De Lancey
+
+45th Regiment c. 1800.]
+
+
+     "Dim is the rumour of a common fight,
+     When host meets host, and many names are sunk;
+     But of a single combat Fame speaks clear."
+
+     --_Sohrab and Rustum._
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+INTRODUCTION
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+APPENDIX A--Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott
+  and Charles Dickens
+APPENDIX B--Bibliography of Lady De Lancey's Narrative
+INDEX
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+MAJOR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, 45th Regt. of
+Foot, c. 1800. _From a miniature in the possession
+of Wm. Heathcote De Lancey of New York_                 _Frontispiece_
+
+THE GOLD CROSS OF SIR WM. DE LANCEY, received
+after serving in the Peninsular War, with
+clasps for Talavera, Nive, Salamanca, San
+Sebastian, and Vittoria. _In the possession of
+Major J.A. Hay_                                           _Face p._ 10
+
+LADY DE LANCEY. _From a miniature after J.D.
+Engleheart_                                                   "     24
+
+PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF SIR WALTER
+SCOTT                                                         "     34
+
+PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHARLES DICKENS                "     36
+
+COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY, _c._ 1813                 "     38
+
+MAP OF PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD OF WATERLOO                    "    110
+
+THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815                             "    113
+
+THE WATERLOO MEMORIAL IN EVERE CEMETERY                       "    118
+
+
+
+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at
+last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects.
+
+It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary
+history.
+
+The subject--a deathbed scene--might seem at first sight to be a trite
+and common one. The _mise-en-scene_--the Field of Waterloo--alone
+however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play
+their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as
+Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they
+are incensed or crushed: For _Prosperity_ doth best discover Vice; But
+_Adversity_ doth best discover Vertue."
+
+As to the style, it will be sufficient to quote the authority of
+Dickens for the statement that no one but Defoe could have told the
+story in fiction.
+
+Its literary history is even more remarkable than either its style or
+its subject.
+
+It is no exaggeration to say of the narrative--as Bacon said of the
+Latin volume of his Essays--that it "may last as long as Bookes last."
+And yet it has remained in manuscript for more than eighty years. This
+is probably unique in the history of literature since the Invention of
+Printing.
+
+As regards the hero of the narrative, the Duke of Wellington once said
+that he "was an excellent officer, and would have risen to great
+distinction had he lived."[1]
+
+[Footnote 1: _Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington_, by
+Earl Stanhope, p. 183.]
+
+Captain Arthur Gore, who afterwards became Lieutenant-General Gore,
+alludes to him in the following terms: "This incomparable officer was
+deservedly esteemed by the Duke of Wellington, who honoured him with
+his particular confidence and regard."[2]
+
+[Footnote 2: _Explanatory Notes on the Battle of Waterloo_, by Captain
+Arthur Gore, 1817, p. 83.]
+
+His ancestors, for several generations, had been men of great
+distinction, and he undoubtedly inherited their great qualities in a
+very high degree.
+
+The De Lancey family is one of Huguenot origin, the founder of the
+family,[3] Etienne De Lancey, having fled from France at the time of
+the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
+
+[Footnote 3: In French annals the family can be traced back to the
+time of the Hundred Years' War. The first of the name, of whom there
+is any authentic record, was Guy de Lancy, Vicomte de Laval et de
+Nouvion, who in 1432 held of the Prince Bishop of Laon and Nouvion,
+villages and territories a few miles south of that city. See _History
+of New York during the Revolutionary War_, by Thomas Jones, edited by
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, vol i., p. 651, and _Dictionnaire de la
+Noblesse de France_, vol. viii., title "Lancy."]
+
+The following extracts treating of the family history are taken from
+Appleton's _Cyclopaedia of American Biography_.
+
+The author of the articles, Edward Floyd De Lancey,[4] was born in
+1821, and died at Ossining, N.Y., on the 7th April 1905. At one time
+he held the position of President of the New York Genealogical
+Society, and has done a great deal of work in the field of historical
+research.
+
+[Footnote 4: For biographical sketch, _see_ Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_,
+vol. ii., p. 130.]
+
+"Etienne De Lancey (great-grandfather of Sir William De Lancey), was
+born in Caen, France, 24th October 1663; and died in the city of New
+York, 18th November 1741. Having been compelled, as a Protestant, to
+leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (18th October
+1685), he escaped into Holland. Deciding to become a British subject
+and to emigrate to America, he crossed to England and took the oath of
+allegiance to James II. He landed in New York, 7th June 1686. His
+mother had given him, on his departure from Caen, a portion of the
+family jewels. He sold them for L300, became a merchant, and amassed a
+fortune of L100,000. He married Anne, second daughter of Stephanus van
+Cortlandt, 23rd January 1700. He took a prominent part in public
+affairs, representing the fourth ward of New York as alderman in
+1691-93, and was a member of Assembly for twenty-four years. While
+sitting in the latter body he gave his salary, during one session, to
+purchase the first town-clock erected in New York; and with the aid of
+his partner imported and presented to the city the first fire-engine
+that had been brought into the province. The De Lancey house, built by
+Etienne in 1700 upon a piece of land given to him by his
+father-in-law, is now the oldest building in the city of New
+York."[5] Mr De Lancey was buried in the family vault in Trinity
+Church, New York.
+
+[Footnote 5: Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_, vol. ii., p. 129.]
+
+Three of his sons, James, Peter, and Oliver, left descendants.
+Descendants of the eldest son, James, amongst whom were included
+Edward Floyd De Lancey, the historian of the family, are resident in
+the city of New York, and also at Ossining, N.Y. Descendants of the
+second son, Peter, are now living in the county of Annapolis, Nova
+Scotia.[6]
+
+[Footnote 6: For further details of this branch of the family, _see_
+the _History of the County of Annapolis_, by Calnek and Savary, pp.
+339-344 and 499.]
+
+The third son, Oliver, grandfather of the hero of the present
+narrative, went to England after the Revolutionary War. No direct
+descendants of his in the male line would appear to be now living.
+
+The following is the account of his life as given in Appleton's
+_Cyclopaedia_:--
+
+"Oliver, the youngest son of Etienne, was born in New York City, 16th
+September 1708; and died in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, 27th
+November 1785. He was originally a merchant, being a member of the
+firm founded by his father. He early took an active part in public
+affairs, and was noted for his decision of character and personal
+popularity. He represented the city of New York in the Assembly in
+1756-60, and served as alderman of the out-ward from 1754 till 1757.
+He was active in military affairs during the entire French War, and,
+in 1755, obtained leave from Connecticut to raise men there for
+service in New York, for which he received the thanks of the Assembly
+of his own province. In March 1758 he was appointed to the command of
+the forces then being collected for the expedition against Crown
+Point, and succeeded in raising the entire New York City regiment
+within ten days. He was placed at the head of the New York contingent,
+under General Abercrombie (about 5000 strong), as Colonel-in-Chief. In
+the attack on Fort Ticonderoga, 8th July 1758, he supported Lord Howe,
+and was near that officer when he fell mortally wounded. In November
+of the same year the Assembly of New York again voted him its thanks
+'for his great service, and singular care of the troops of the colony
+while under his command.' In 1760 he was appointed a member of the
+Provincial Council, retaining his seat until 1776. In 1763 he was
+made Receiver-General, and in 1773 Colonel-in-Chief of the Southern
+military district of the province. 'In June 1776,' says the historian
+Jones, 'he joined General Howe on Staten Island; and, had that officer
+profited by his honest advice, the American War, I will be bold to
+say, would have ended in a very different manner to what it did.' In
+September of that year he raised three regiments of Loyalists, largely
+at his own expense, of 500 men each, known as 'De Lancey's
+battalions.' Of these regiments a brigade was formed, and Colonel De
+Lancey was commissioned Brigadier-General in the Loyalist service. He
+was assigned to the command of Long Island, where he remained during
+the war. One of his battalions served in the South with great credit,
+under his son-in-law, Colonel John Harris Cruger, doing effective
+service in the defence of Fort Ninety-six against General Greene. In
+November 1777, his country-seat at Bloomingdale, on the Hudson, was
+robbed and burned at night by a party of Americans from the
+water-guard at Tarrytown, his wife and daughters being driven from the
+house in their night-dresses and compelled to spend the night in the
+fields, now the Central Park. Having been attainted, and his immense
+estates in New York and New Jersey confiscated, General De Lancey
+retired to England, where he resided in Beverley until his death. Of
+his four daughters, Susanna married Sir William Draper, while
+Charlotte became the wife of Sir David Dundas, K.C.B., who succeeded
+the Duke of York as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army."[7]
+
+[Footnote 7: Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_, vol. ii., p. 132.]
+
+In the Life of Van Schaak, his decease is mentioned thus by a
+fellow-Loyalist: "Our old friend has at last taken his departure from
+Beverley, which he said should hold his bones; he went off without
+pain or struggle, his body wasted to a skeleton, his mind the same.
+The family, most of them, collected in town (London). There will
+scarcely be a village in England without some American dust in it, I
+believe, by the time we are all at rest."[8]
+
+[Footnote 8: _Loyalists of the American Revolution_ (Sabine), vol. i.,
+365.]
+
+Stephen, the eldest son of Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey, and
+father of Sir William De Lancey, was born in New York City about 1740;
+and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 1798. He was educated
+in England, and practised law in New York before the Revolutionary
+War, during which he served as Lieutenant-Colonel of the "De Lancey's"
+second battalion. After the war he was appointed Chief Justice of the
+Bahama Islands, and subsequently was made Governor of Tobago and its
+dependencies. His health becoming impaired while he held the latter
+office, he sailed for England to rejoin his family. But he grew
+rapidly worse on the voyage, and, at his own request, was transferred
+to an American vessel bound for Portsmouth, N.H., where he died, and
+was buried a few days after his arrival.[9]
+
+[Footnote 9: The following is an extract from the Parish Register of
+St John's Church, Portsmouth, N.H.
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+"1798.           |  RECORD OF DEATHS.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+Decbr. 6th       |  His Excellency, _Stephen De Lancy_, Governour of
+                 |  Tobago, who died, the night after his arrival
+                 |  in the harbour of this town, of a decline which
+                 |  had been upon him for six months, aged 50
+                 |  years."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Mr De Lancey was buried in the Wentworth tomb, in St John's
+Churchyard, where many of the Wentworth Governors of New Hampshire and
+their families are buried.--ED.]
+
+Sir William De Lancey, soldier, only son of the preceding, was born in
+New York about 1781,[10] and died in June 1815, in consequence of
+wounds received at the battle of Waterloo. He was educated in England,
+and early entered the British army. He served with great distinction
+under Wellington in Spain, and was several times honourably mentioned
+in his despatches.[11]
+
+[Footnote 10: This date agrees with the tradition handed down in the
+family with Lady De Lancey's narrative, to the effect that he was only
+thirty-four at the time of his death at Waterloo.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 11: _Vide_ Gurwood's _Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_,
+2nd edition, vol. iii., pp. 227 and 229; vol. v., p. 476; vol. vi., p.
+542. Sir Harry Smith, a soldier of soldiers--"inter milites
+miles"--speaks of him in his Autobiography as "that gallant fellow De
+Lancey." (_Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, vol. i., p. 266.)]
+
+[Illustration: THE GOLD CROSS OF SIR WILLIAM DE LANCEY.
+
+Received after serving in the Peninsular War.
+
+_In the possession of Major J.A. Hay._]
+
+At the close of the war he was made a Knight of the Bath. When
+Napoleon landed from Elba, Wellington, in forming his staff, insisted
+on having De Lancey appointed as his Quartermaster-General. The
+officer really entitled to the promotion was Sir William's
+brother-in-law, Sir Hudson Lowe;[12] but as Wellington had conceived
+a dislike for him, he refused to accept that officer in that capacity.
+The military authorities, however, insisted on his appointment, and it
+was only when Wellington made the promotion of De Lancey a _sine qua
+non_ of his acceptance of the supreme command that the former
+yielded.[13] Six weeks before the battle of Waterloo, Sir William
+married the daughter of Sir James Hall[14] of Dunglass, the Scottish
+scientist. His bride accompanied him on the Continent. On the second
+day of the battle[15] Sir William was knocked from his horse by a
+spent cannon-ball, and it was at first supposed that he had been
+instantly killed. Thirty-six hours afterwards he was discovered, still
+alive and in his senses, but incapable of motion, although without any
+visible wound. Notwithstanding the skill of the surgeons, and the
+tender care of his wife, he succumbed to his injuries nine days after
+the battle.[16]
+
+[Footnote 12: It was not till the 16th December 1815--six months after
+Waterloo--that Sir Hudson Lowe married Mrs Susan Johnson, sister of
+Sir William De Lancey. (_Dictionary of National Biography_, vol.
+xxxiv., p. 191.) See also _The Creevey Papers_, Third Edition (1905),
+p. 247.]
+
+[Footnote 13: "Wellington assumed command in the Netherlands early in
+April 1815, and Lowe, who had been acting as Quartermaster-General in
+the Low Countries under the command of the Prince of Orange, remained
+for a few weeks under him as his Quartermaster-General; but having
+been nominated to command the troops in Genoa designed to co-operate
+with the Austro-Sardinian armies, he was replaced in May by Sir
+William Howe De Lancey." (_Dictionary of National Biography_, art.
+"Lowe, Sir Hudson," vol. xxxiv., p. 191.) See also _The Creevey
+Papers_, Third Edition (1905), p. 247.
+
+The following extract of a letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens to
+Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Ghent, 8th April 1815, alludes
+to the hitch about Sir Hudson Lowe: "I shall communicate fully with
+the Commander-in-Chief upon the Duke of Wellington's wishes respecting
+his Staff.... As you were somewhat anxious about Sir Hudson Lowe, I
+must apprise you that he will not do for the Duke." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., pp. 42 and 43.) (_Cf._
+_The Creevey Papers_, Third Edition (1905), p. 289.)
+
+Evidently Sir Hudson Lowe was no more of a _persona grata_ to
+Wellington than he afterwards became to Napoleon!
+
+A letter from Major-General Sir H. Torrens, who appears to have been
+acting at the time as Military Secretary to the Duke of York,
+Commander-in-Chief at the Horse Guards, written to the Duke of
+Wellington from London on the 16th April 1815, shows the high
+estimation in which the Duke held De Lancey's services:--
+
+"De Lancey is in town on his way to go out.... I told him the very
+handsome and complimentary manner in which you asked for his services,
+and assured him that nothing could be so gratifying, in my view of the
+case, to his military and professional feelings as the desire you
+expressed to me of having him again with you." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., p. 130.)
+
+That the Duke felt deeply the interference of Headquarters with his
+selection of Staff Officers is clearly shown by the following letter,
+written by him to Earl Bathurst, Secretary for War, dated Bruxelles,
+4th May 1815:--
+
+"To tell you the truth, I am not very well pleased with the manner in
+which the Horse Guards have conducted themselves towards me. It will
+be admitted that the army is not a very good one, and, being composed
+as it is, I might have expected that the Generals and Staff formed by
+me in the last war would have been allowed to come to me again; but
+instead of that, I am overloaded with people I have never seen before;
+and it appears to be purposely intended to keep those out of my way
+whom I wished to have. However I'll do the best I can with the
+instruments which have been sent to assist me." (_Supplementary
+Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, vol. x., p. 219.)]
+
+[Footnote 14: See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xxiv., p.
+68.]
+
+[Footnote 15: On the 18th June, at Waterloo; the battle of Quatre Bras
+having been fought on the 16th.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 16: Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_, vol. ii., pp. 132, 133.]
+
+There are several references to De Lancey's death in the "_Letters of
+Colonel Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B._, commanding the R.H.A. in the
+army under the Duke of Wellington, written during the Peninsular and
+Waterloo campaigns," edited by Major-General Sir Edward Sabine, R.A.
+On the 29th June Sir Augustus writes to Lady Frazer from Mons: "I
+regret to state that poor De Lancey is dead; so Hume, the Duke's
+surgeon, told me. He had opened the body; eight ribs were forced from
+the spine, one totally broke to pieces, and part of it in the lungs.
+Poor De Lancey! He is our greatest loss; a noble fellow and an
+admirable officer," p. 582.
+
+In connection with the foregoing, it will be interesting to compare
+the account of De Lancey's wound given in the _Dictionary of National
+Biography_:--
+
+    "The Duke of Wellington gave the following version of the
+    occurrence to Samuel Rogers: 'De Lancey was with me, and
+    speaking to me when he was struck. We were on a point of land
+    that overlooked the plain. I had just been warned off by some
+    soldiers (but as I saw well from it, and two divisions were
+    engaging below, I said "Never mind"), when a ball came
+    bounding along _en ricochet_, as it is called, and, striking
+    him on the back, sent him many yards over the head of his
+    horse. He fell on his face, and bounded upwards and fell
+    again. All the staff dismounted and ran to him, and when I
+    came up he said, 'Pray tell them to leave me and let me die
+    in peace.' I had him conveyed to the rear, and two days
+    after, on my return from Brussels, I saw him in a barn, and
+    he spoke with such strength that I said (for I had reported
+    him killed), 'Why! De Lancey, you will have the advantage of
+    Sir Condy in "Castle Rackrent"--you will know what your
+    friends said of you after you were dead.' 'I hope I shall,'
+    he replied. Poor fellow! We knew each other ever since we
+    were boys. But I had no time to be sorry. I went on with the
+    army, and never saw him again."[17]
+
+[Footnote 17: "Recollections of Samuel Rogers," under "Waterloo." From
+the article on "Sir William De Lancey," by H. Manners Chichester, in
+the _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xiv., pp. 304, 305.]
+
+The following is the extract from Wellington's official despatch of
+the 19th June, referring to De Lancey:--
+
+    "I had every reason to be satisfied with the conduct of the
+    Adjutant-General, Major-General Barnes, who was wounded, and
+    of the Quartermaster-General, Colonel De Lancey, who was
+    killed by a cannon-shot in the middle of the action. This
+    officer is a serious loss to His Majesty's service, and to me
+    at this moment."[18]
+
+[Footnote 18: Gurwood, vol. viii., p. 150. _Cf._ _Letters of Colonel
+Sir Augustus S. Frazer, K.C.B._, dated Nivelles, June 20: "De Lancey
+is said to be dead: this is our greatest loss, none can be greater,
+public or private," p. 550.]
+
+At the end of the despatch there is a _P.S._ announcing the death of
+Major-General Sir William Ponsonby, followed by a second _P.S._
+couched in the following terms: "I have not yet got the returns of
+killed and wounded, but I enclose a list of officers killed and
+wounded on the two days, as far as the same can be made out without
+the returns; and I am very happy to add that Colonel De Lancey is not
+dead, and that strong hopes of his recovery are entertained."
+
+That the Duke felt keenly his severe losses in killed and wounded,
+especially amongst the members of his Staff, is shown by the following
+reminiscence of General Alava,[19] as told by him, two years after the
+battle, to Sir Harry Smith and his wife--the lady now immortalised by
+the name Ladysmith, emblazoned on the colours or accoutrements of
+thirty-five British regiments.
+
+[Footnote 19: A Spanish naval officer who served on the Staff of the
+Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Alava
+enjoyed the unique distinction of having been present both at
+Trafalgar and Waterloo. At the former battle he commanded a Spanish
+line-of-battle ship.--ED.]
+
+On the evening of the battle, "the Duke got back to his quarters at
+Waterloo about nine or ten at night. The table was laid for the usual
+number, while none appeared of the many of his Staff but Alava and
+Fremantle. The Duke said very little, ate hastily and heartily, but
+every time the door opened he gave a searching look, evidently in the
+hope of some of his valuable Staff approaching. When he had finished
+eating, he held up both hands in an imploring attitude and said, 'The
+hand of Almighty God has been upon me this day,' jumped up, went to
+his couch, and was asleep in a moment."[20]
+
+[Footnote 20: _Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, vol. i., p. 291.]
+
+The following is from General Alava's official report of the action:
+"Of those who were by the side of the Duke of Wellington, only he and
+myself remained untouched in our persons and horses. The rest were all
+either killed, wounded, or lost one or more horses. The Duke was
+unable to refrain from tears on witnessing the death of so many brave
+and honourable men, and the loss of so many friends and faithful
+companions."[21]
+
+[Footnote 21: From the _Supplement to the Madrid Gazette_ of the 13th
+July 1815, quoted in the London _Evening Mail_ of August 2 to August
+4, 1815.]
+
+The next morning, the Duke wrote the following note to Lady Frances W.
+Webster, dated
+
+     "BRUXELLES, 19_th_ _June_ 1815.
+
+     "Half-past 8 in the morning.
+
+     "MY DEAR LADY FRANCES,
+
+     "Lord Mount-Norris may remain in Bruxelles in perfect
+     security. I yesterday, after a most severe and bloody
+     contest, gained a complete victory, and pursued the French
+     till after dark. They are in complete confusion; and I have,
+     I believe, 150 pieces of cannon; and Bluecher, who continued
+     the pursuit all night, my soldiers being tired to death,
+     sent me word this morning that he had got 60 more. My loss
+     is immense. Lord Uxbridge, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, General
+     Cooke, General Barnes, and Colonel Berkeley are wounded:
+     Colonel De Lancey, Canning, Gordon, General Picton
+     killed.[22] The finger of Providence was upon me, and I
+     escaped unhurt.--Believe me, etc.,[23]
+
+     "WELLINGTON."
+
+[Footnote 22: All the foregoing were on the General Staff of the Army
+or on the Duke's personal Staff.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 23: _Supplementary Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_,
+vol. x., p. 531.]
+
+Captain Gronow--a subaltern of the 1st Guards at Waterloo--gives us
+the following glimpse of the Duke and his Staff, on the morning of the
+18th, before the opening of the battle:--
+
+    "The road was ankle-deep in mud and slough; and we had not
+    proceeded a quarter of a mile when we heard the trampling of
+    horses' feet, and on looking round perceived a large
+    cavalcade of officers coming at full speed. In a moment we
+    recognised the Duke himself at their head. He was accompanied
+    by the Duke of Richmond, and his son, Lord William Lennox.
+    The entire Staff of the army was close at hand: the Prince of
+    Orange, Count Pozzo di Borgo, Baron Vincent, the Spanish
+    General Alava, Prince Castel Cicala, with their several
+    aides-de-camp; Felton Hervey, Fitzroy Somerset, and De Lancey
+    were the last that appeared. They all seemed as gay and
+    unconcerned as if they were riding to meet the hounds in some
+    quiet English county."[24]
+
+[Footnote 24: _Recollections and Anecdotes_, by Captain Gronow, p.
+186.]
+
+Colonel Basil Jackson, who in 1815 was a lieutenant in the Royal Staff
+Corps, attached to the Quartermaster-General's department (see
+Dalton's _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 38), gives the following interesting
+reminiscences of De Lancey on the 17th, at Quatre Bras, and during the
+retreat to Waterloo on the same day: "Some few changes were made in
+the disposition of the troops after the Duke of Wellington arrived on
+the ground, soon after daylight; arms were then piled, and the men,
+still wearied with their exertions of marching and fighting on the
+preceding day, lay down to snatch a little more rest. The Duke, too,
+after riding about and satisfying himself that all was as it should
+be, dismounted and stretched himself on the ground, very near the
+point where the road from Brussels to Charleroi crossed that leading
+from Nivelles to Namur, forming thereby the _Quatre Bras_....
+
+"I remained for some time at a short distance from the great man, who
+occasionally addressed a few words to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir E.
+Barnes, De Lancey, and others of his principal officers. He was then
+awaiting the return of Sir Alexander Gordon, who had gone off by the
+Namur road, some time between 6 and 7 o'clock, escorted by a squadron
+of the 10th Hussars. I had seen this detachment start at a round trot,
+but of course knew not the object of despatching it; which, as we
+learned afterwards, was to gain intelligence of Bluecher's operations,
+whose defeat at Ligny we, that is, the army generally, were ignorant
+of, though the Duke was aware of it.
+
+"I availed myself of this period of quietness to go and examine
+particularly the ground which had been so hardly contested the day
+before....
+
+"Returning to the place where I had left the Duke when I set out on my
+ramble round the outposts, I found him still on the same spot; where
+he remained till Gordon and his escort came in with jaded horses, soon
+after 10 o'clock. On hearing his report, the Duke said a few words to
+De Lancey, who, observing me near him, directed me to go to Sir Thomas
+Picton, and tell him the orders were to make immediate preparation for
+falling back upon Waterloo....
+
+"Just as the retreat commenced (about noon), I was ordered off to
+Mont St Jean, where I was told I should meet the Quartermaster-General;
+accordingly I made for Genappe, and as the high road was by that time
+filled with troops, being, moreover, careless of the farmer's
+interest, I took a short cut through the corn-fields, in such a
+direction as enabled me to strike into that village about its centre.
+There I found sad confusion prevailing; country waggons with stores,
+ammunition tumbrils, provision waggons, and wounded men, choked up the
+street, so that it was impossible for any one to pass. Aware of the
+great importance of freeing the passage at a time when the retiring
+troops might be pressed by the enemy, I at once set to work to remedy
+the disorder that prevailed. Let the reader picture to himself Police
+Constable 61 C posted at the pastry-cook's corner where Gracechurch
+Street enters Cheapside, at a moment when those passages, together
+with Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Streets are blocked up by 'buses,
+drays, waggons, carts, advertising locomotives, private carriages, and
+dodging cabs, when that unhappy functionary is vainly striving to
+restore order and clear the ways, and he will have some idea of the
+difficulty I experienced in executing my self-imposed task. Happily, I
+was acquainted with some pithy expressions in two or three languages,
+which were familiar to the ears of those I had to deal with; and
+these, together with the flat of my sword, proved very efficacious in
+the end. While in the thick of this scene of tumult and confusion, I
+felt some one clap me on the shoulder, and on looking round saw Sir W.
+De Lancey. 'You are very well employed here,' said he; 'remain, and
+keep the way clear for the troops; I shall not want you at Waterloo.'
+Encouraged by my chief's commendation I redoubled my efforts, and had
+soon the satisfaction of seeing the defile free."[25]
+
+[Footnote 25: "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+_United Service Journal_ for 1847, Part III., p. 11.]
+
+"A week after the battle"--to quote again from the article by H.
+Manners Chichester in the _Dictionary of National Biography_--"De
+Lancey succumbed to his injuries, in a peasant's cottage in the
+village of Waterloo, where he was tenderly nursed by his young wife,
+who had joined him in Brussels a few days before the battle.
+According to another account, De Lancey was laid down at his own
+request when being conveyed to the rear, and so was left out untended
+all night and part of the next day. Rogers, in a note, states that he
+was killed by 'the wind of the shot,' his skin not being broken; and
+also that Lady De Lancey left a manuscript account of his last days."
+
+[Illustration: Lady de Lancey
+
+From a miniature after J.D. Engleheart]
+
+This manuscript account was written in the first instance by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.
+The original manuscript has been lost sight of. An early copy, which
+was made by Mrs Basil Hall, is now in the possession of their
+grand-daughter, Lady Parsons. Copies would appear to have been made by
+members of the family at various times; but the existence of the
+narrative was apparently not known to Edward Floyd De Lancey, the
+historian of the family in Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_. Besides the copy
+of the narrative made by Mrs Basil Hall, another copy came into the
+possession of the poet Rogers. This copy is now owned by W. Arthur
+Sharpe, Esq., Highgate, N. Both the above versions--which contain only
+slight variations--have been consulted in the present edition of the
+narrative.
+
+Captain Basil Hall, R.N. (vide _Dictionary of National Biography_,
+vol. xxiv., p. 58), was a well-known author in his day, his best known
+work being _Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, published in three
+series between 1831 and 1833, and frequently reprinted since.
+
+In Volume II. of the first series, Captain Hall alludes to his first
+meeting with De Lancey. It occurred on board H.M.S. _Endymion_ on the
+morning of the 18th January 1809, when the British troops had all been
+safely embarked on the transports, the second day after the battle of
+Corunna.
+
+Basil Hall--then a lieutenant in the navy--and De Lancey[26] struck up
+a great friendship on the _Endymion_, and the former introduced his
+soldier friend after the voyage home to his family in Scotland. The
+marriage of De Lancey six years afterwards to Basil Hall's sister
+Magdalene was a result of this introduction.
+
+[Footnote 26: De Lancey was at this time a lieutenant-colonel and
+permanent assistant in the quartermaster-general's department (Army
+List, 1809, p. 323).
+
+His first commission as a cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons bore the
+date 7th July 1792 (Army List, 1793, p. 50), when he was only eleven
+years old.
+
+He was gazetted lieutenant in the same regiment on the 26th February
+1793, and was subsequently transferred to the 80th Foot.
+
+On the 20th October 1796 he was gazetted captain in the 17th Light
+Dragoons, of which regiment his uncle, General Oliver De Lancey, was
+then colonel.
+
+He obtained a majority in the 45th (or Nottinghamshire) Regiment of
+Foot on the 17th October 1799. He was by this time eighteen years of
+age, and up to this date had probably no connection with the army at
+all beyond drawing his pay and figuring in the Army List. Even now he
+does not appear to have joined his regiment until its return from the
+West Indies, a year or two afterwards (_Dict. Nat. Biog._, vol. xiv.,
+p. 305). His first uniform was probably that of the 45th Foot, and the
+portrait, forming the frontispiece of this volume, was in all
+likelihood painted on his first joining the regiment as a major in
+1800 or 1801.
+
+In the Army List of 1804 he is shown on page 31 as an assistant
+quartermaster-general. His actual regimental service can therefore
+hardly have exceeded two or three years. Until his death in 1815, he
+was continuously on the staff of the army in the quartermaster-general's
+department.]
+
+The following extract from Captain Basil Hall's _Fragments of Voyages
+and Travels_, gives an account of the first meeting of the two friends
+on board the _Endymion_, and of the dramatic circumstances under
+which Captain Hall heard the news of his sister's marriage, and of De
+Lancey's death at Waterloo:--
+
+"As we in the _Endymion_ had the exclusive charge of the convoy of
+transports, we remained to the very last, to assist the ships with
+provisions, and otherwise to regulate the movements of the stragglers.
+Whilst we were thus engaged, and lying to, with our main-topsail to
+the mast, a small Spanish boat came alongside, with two or three
+British officers in her. On these gentlemen being invited to step up,
+and say what they wanted, one of them begged we would inform him where
+the transport No. 139 was to be found.
+
+"'How can we possibly tell you that?' said the officer of the watch.
+'Don't you see the ships are scattered as far as the horizon in every
+direction? You had much better come on board this ship in the
+meantime.'
+
+"'No, sir, no,' cried the officers; 'we have received directions to go
+on board the transport 139, and her we must find.'
+
+"'What is all this about?' inquired the captain of the _Endymion_;
+and being told of the scruples of the strangers, insisted upon their
+coming up. He very soon explained to them the utter impossibility, at
+such a moment, of finding out any particular transport amongst between
+three and four hundred ships, every one of which was following her own
+way. We found out afterwards that they only were apprehensive of
+having it imagined they had designedly come to the frigate for better
+quarters. Nothing, of course, was farther from our thoughts; indeed,
+it was evidently the result of accident. So we sent away their little
+boat, and just at that moment the gun-room steward announced
+breakfast. We invited our new friends down, and gave them a hearty
+meal in peace and comfort--a luxury they had not enjoyed for many a
+long and rugged day.
+
+"Our next care was to afford our tired warriors the much-required
+comforts of a razor and clean linen. We divided the party amongst us;
+and I was so much taken with one of these officers, that I urged him
+to accept such accommodation as my cabin and wardrobe afforded. He
+had come to us without one stitch of clothes beyond what he then wore,
+and these, to say the truth, were not in the best condition, at the
+elbows and other angular points of his frame. Let that pass--he was as
+fine a fellow as ever stepped; and I had much pride and pleasure in
+taking care of him during the passage.
+
+"We soon became great friends; but on reaching England we parted, and
+I never saw him more. Of course he soon lost sight of me, but his fame
+rose high, and, as I often read his name in the Gazettes during the
+subsequent campaigns in the Peninsula, I looked forward with a
+gradually increasing anxiety to the renewal of an acquaintance begun
+so auspiciously. At last I was gratified by a bright flash of hope in
+this matter, which went out, alas, as speedily as it came. Not quite
+six years after these events, I came home from India, in command of a
+sloop of war. Before entering the Channel, we fell in with a ship
+which gave us the first news of the battle of Waterloo, and spared us
+a precious copy of the Duke of Wellington's despatch; and within five
+minutes after landing at Portsmouth, I met a near relation of my own.
+This seemed a fortunate rencontre, for I had not received a letter
+from home for nearly a year--and I eagerly asked him--
+
+"'What news of all friends?'
+
+"'I suppose,' he said, 'you know of your sister's marriage?'
+
+"'No, indeed! I do not!--which sister?'
+
+"He told me.
+
+"'But to whom is she married?' I cried out with intense impatience,
+and wondering greatly that he had not told me this at once.
+
+"'Sir William De Lancey was the person,' he answered. But he spoke not
+in the joyous tone that befits such communications.
+
+"'God bless me!' I exclaimed. 'I am delighted to hear that. I know him
+well--we picked him up in a boat, at sea, after the battle of Corunna,
+and I brought him home in my cabin in the _Endymion_. I see by the
+despatch, giving an account of the late victory, that he was badly
+wounded--how is he now? I observe by the postscript to the Duke's
+letter that strong hopes are entertained of his recovery.'
+
+"'Yes,' said my friend, 'that was reported, but could hardly have been
+believed. Sir William was mortally wounded, and lived not quite a week
+after the action. The only comfort about this sad matter is, that his
+poor wife, being near the field at the time, joined him immediately
+after the battle, and had the melancholy satisfaction of attending her
+husband to the last!'"[27]
+
+[Footnote 27: _Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, by Captain Basil
+Hall, R.N., 1831, vol. ii., pp. 367-371.]
+
+It was, as before stated, at Captain Hall's request that Lady De
+Lancey wrote the memorable Waterloo narrative.
+
+In order to satisfy the natural curiosity of friends--who had probably
+heard of the narrative in Captain Hall's possession--Lady De Lancey
+prepared an abridged version, in more general terms, and of a much
+more reserved character than the original account, written for her
+brother only.
+
+This condensed account was found amongst the papers of her nephew,
+General De Lancey Lowe, after his death in 1880. His widow published
+it in the _Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_ for 1888, p. 414.
+
+In some few instances this abridged account contains descriptive
+touches not given in the original narrative. These variations are
+given in the form of notes to the present edition of the narrative.
+
+Thomas Moore in his diary for the 29th August 1824 describes the
+circumstances under which Captain Hall lent him his copy of the
+narrative as follows:--
+
+"A note early from Lord Lansdowne, to say that Capt. Basil Hall, who
+is at Bowood, wishes much to see me; and that if I cannot come over
+to-day to either luncheon or dinner, he will call upon me to-morrow.
+Answered that I would come to dinner to-day. Walked over at five....
+Company, only Capt. Basil Hall, Luttrel, and Nugent, and an _ad
+interim_ tutor of Kerry's.... Hall gave me, before I came away, a
+journal written by his sister, Lady De Lancey, containing an account
+of the death of her husband at Waterloo, and her attendance upon him
+there, they having been but three months married. Walked home; took
+the narrative to bed with me to read a page or two, but found it so
+deeply interesting, that I read till near two o'clock, and finished
+it; made myself quite miserable, and went to sleep, I believe, crying.
+Hall said he would call upon me to-morrow."[28]
+
+[Footnote 28: _Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore_,
+edited by Lord John Russell, vol. iv., p. 239.]
+
+Earl Stanhope, in his _Notes of Conversations with the Duke of
+Wellington_, p. 182, writes as follows: "I mentioned with much praise
+Lady De Lancey's narrative of her husband's lingering death and of her
+own trials and sufferings after Waterloo. The Duke told me that he had
+seen it--Lord Bathurst having lent it him many years ago." This
+conversation took place on the 12th October 1839.
+
+The two most famous literary men to whom Captain Basil Hall lent the
+narrative, were, however, Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.
+
+Sir Walter Scott writes under date Abbotsford, 13th October 1825, that
+his publisher, Constable, thinks that the narrative "would add very
+great interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris
+soon after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the
+most valuable and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war."[29]
+
+[Illustration: PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.]
+
+     "I never read anything which affected my own feelings more
+     strongly, or which, I am sure, would have a deeper interest
+     on [_sic_] those of the public....
+
+     "Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of
+     this heartrending diary, which makes me suppose a
+     possibility that after such a lapse of years, the
+     publication may possibly (as that which cannot but do the
+     highest honour to the memory of the amiable authoress) may
+     [_sic_] not be judged altogether inadmissible....--Most
+     truly yours,
+
+     "WALTER SCOTT."[30]
+
+[Footnote 29: Perhaps the _Memoires de Madame la Marquise de
+Larochejaquelein_ of which four editions were published between 1814
+and 1817--one of the noblest and most touching of autobiographies--is
+the nearest parallel in literature to Lady De Lancey's narrative. The
+French Marchioness describes her experiences in Paris in 1789, and
+during the Insurrection of La Vendee in 1793.--ED.]
+
+[Footnote 30: The complete letter will be found in Appendix A of this
+volume.]
+
+[Illustration: PART OF AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHARLES DICKENS.]
+
+The following is a transcript of the most remarkable passages in
+Dickens' letter:--
+
+     "DEVONSHIRE TERRACE,
+
+     _"Tuesday evening_, 16_th_ _March_ 1841.
+
+     "MY DEAR HALL, ...
+
+     "I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De
+     Lancey's narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not
+     have mastered it even then. One glance at it, when, through
+     your kindness, it first arrived, had impressed me with a
+     foreboding of its terrible truth, and I really have shrunk
+     from it in pure lack of heart.
+
+     "After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the
+     most wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours
+     in the evening--searching for some pictures I wanted to
+     build upon--I went at it, at about ten o'clock. To say that
+     the reading that most astonishing and tremendous account has
+     constituted an epoch in my life--that I shall never forget
+     the lightest word of it--that I cannot throw the impression
+     aside, and never saw anything so real, so touching, and so
+     actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am husband
+     and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General
+     Dundas, doctor and bedstead--everything and everybody (but
+     the Prussian officer--damn him) all in one. What I have
+     always looked upon as masterpieces of powerful and
+     affecting description, seem as nothing in my eyes. If I live
+     for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and then,
+     from this hour to the day of my death, with the most
+     frightful reality. The slightest mention of a battle will
+     bring the whole thing before me. I shall never think of the
+     Duke any more but as he stood in his shirt with the officer
+     in full-dress uniform, or as he dismounted from his horse
+     when the gallant man was struck down. It is a striking proof
+     of the power of that most extraordinary man, Defoe, that I
+     seem to recognise in every line of the narrative something
+     of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+     that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the
+     obstacles to getting on--the shutting herself up in her room
+     and determining not to hear--the not going to the door when
+     the knocking came--the finding out by her wild spirits when
+     she heard he was safe, how much she had feared when in doubt
+     and anxiety--the desperate desire to move towards him--the
+     whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+     their daily shifts and contrivances, and the lying down
+     beside him in the bed and both _falling asleep_; and his
+     resolving not to serve any more, but to live quietly
+     thenceforth; and her sorrow when she saw him eating with an
+     appetite, so soon before his death; and his death
+     itself--all these are matters of truth, which only that
+     astonishing creature, I think, could have told in fiction.
+
+     "Of all the beautiful and tender passages--the thinking
+     every day how happy and blest she was--the decorating him
+     for the dinner--the standing in the balcony at night and
+     seeing the troops melt away through the gate--and the
+     rejoining him on his sick-bed--I say not a word. They are
+     God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again, with
+     an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than
+     toast and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of
+     this paper, that its impression on me can never be told;
+     that the ground she travelled (which I know well) is holy
+     ground to me from this day; and that, please Heaven, I will
+     tread its every foot this very next summer, to have the
+     softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+     where it was acted.
+
+     "You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are
+     awakened by such things, they don't wear out....--Faithfully
+     yours,
+
+     "CHARLES DICKENS."[31]
+
+[Footnote 31: The complete letter will be found in Appendix A of this
+volume.]
+
+Many literary and artistic masterpieces have grouped themselves round
+Waterloo. One of the most striking passages in _Vanity Fair_ refers to
+an imaginary incident in connection with the battle. Sir Walter Scott
+once said that in the whole range of English poetry there was nothing
+finer than the stanzas in _Childe Harold_, commencing with the line--
+
+     "There was a sound of revelry by night,"
+
+and ending with the words--
+
+     "Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent."
+
+Tennyson's _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_ ranks as a
+funeral dirge with _Lycidas_ and _Adonais_. Napoleon's tomb in the
+Invalides may hold its own almost with the Taj. Yet, when all is said
+and done, the fact remains that no hero of the battle, and indeed few
+victims of war, have ever received a more touching memorial than the
+one here set forth in the sight of all future generations of men by
+the love and the literary genius of Lady De Lancey.
+
+B.R. WARD.
+
+HALIFAX, N.S.,
+  _April_ 1906.
+
+[Illustration: COLONEL SIR WILLIAM HOWE DE LANCEY (_c._ 1813).]
+
+
+
+
+A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815
+
+
+I arrived at Brussels on Thursday, 8th June 1815, and was much
+surprised at the peaceful appearance of that town, and the whole
+country from Ostend. We were billeted in the house of the Count de
+Lannoy, in the Park, which is a square of very beautiful houses with
+fine large trees in the centre. The Count de Lannoy was very
+attentive, and we had a suite of very excellent rooms, up four
+stories, which is the fashion in that country, I believe. It was
+amusing enough, sometimes, to see from our windows the people parading
+in the Park. I saw very little of the town, and still less of the
+inhabitants; for notwithstanding Sir William's belief that we should
+remain quietly there for a month at least, I have the comfort of
+remembering that, as there was a chance we might separate in a few
+days, I wasted no time in visiting or going to balls, which I did not
+care for, and therefore I never went out, except for an hour or two
+every afternoon, to walk with Sir William.
+
+The people in general dined between three and four, we dined at six;
+we walked while others were at dinner, so that literally I never saw
+anybody, except some gentlemen, two or three of whom dined with us
+every day--Sir William's friends, whom he brought to introduce to me.
+
+I never passed such a delightful time, for there was always enough of
+very pleasant society to keep us gay and merry, and the rest of the
+day was spent in peaceful happiness.
+
+Fortunately my husband had scarcely any business to do, and he only
+went to the office for about an hour every day. I then used to sit and
+think with astonishment of my being transported into such a scene of
+happiness, so perfect, so unalloyed!--feeling that I was entirely
+enjoying life--not a moment wasted. How active and how well I was! I
+scarcely knew what to do with all my health and spirits. Now and then
+a pang would cross my mind at the prospect of the approaching
+campaign, but I chased away the thought, resolved not to lose the
+present bliss by dwelling on the chance of future pain. Sir William
+promised to let me know as soon as he knew himself, everything
+concerning the movement of the army; and accordingly he gave me every
+paper to read, to keep my mind easy. After some consideration, he
+decided that upon the commencement of hostilities I should go to
+Antwerp, and there remain till the end of the campaign, which might
+last months. He wished me not to think of going along with him,
+because the rear of a great army was always dangerous, and an unfit
+situation for a woman; and he wished not to draw me into any scenes,
+or near any danger, more than if I had remained in England. He little
+thought I should be in the midst of horrors I would not pass again for
+any being _now_ living; and alas, the cautious anxiety he expressed
+that I should avoid being shocked, only made me feel more desolate and
+miserable when I found myself in the midst of most terrible scenes.
+
+Several other officers, on hearing that he designed to send me to
+Antwerp, fixed that their wives should go there too. It is a very
+strongly fortified town, and likewise having the sea to escape by, if
+necessary, it was by far the safest place; and being only twenty-five
+miles from Brussels, it added so little to the time of hearing from
+him, if separated, that I acquiesced cheerfully. After this was
+arranged, we never thought more about it, and enjoyed each hour as it
+passed with no more anxiety than was sufficient to render time
+precious.
+
+On Wednesday the 14th, I had a little alarm in the evening with some
+public papers, and Sir William went out with them, but returned in a
+short time; and it passed by so completely, that Thursday(1) forenoon
+was the happiest day of my life; but I cannot recollect a day of my
+short married life that was not perfect. I shall never get on if I
+begin to talk of what my happiness was; but I dread to enter on the
+gloomy past, which I shudder to look back upon, and I often wonder I
+survived it. We little dreamt that Thursday was the last we were to
+pass together, and that the storm would burst so soon. Sir William had
+to dine at the Spanish Ambassador's,(2) the first invitation he had
+accepted from the time I went; he was unwilling to go, and delayed and
+still delayed, till at last when near six, I fastened all his medals
+and crosses on his coat, helped him to put it on, and he went.(3) I
+watched at the window till he was out of sight, and then I continued
+musing on my happy fate; I thought over all that had passed, and how
+grateful I felt! I had no wish but that this might continue; I saw my
+husband loved and respected by everyone, my life gliding on, like a
+gay dream, in his care.
+
+When I had remained at the window nearly an hour, I saw an
+aide-de-camp ride under the gateway of our house. He sent to enquire
+where Sir William was dining. I wrote down the name; and soon after I
+saw him gallop off in that direction. I did not like this appearance,
+but I tried not to be afraid. A few minutes after, I saw Sir William
+on the same horse gallop past to the Duke's,(4) which was a few doors
+beyond ours. He dismounted and ran into the house--left the horse in
+the middle of the street. I must confess my courage failed me now, and
+the succeeding two hours formed a contrast to the happy forenoon.
+
+About nine,(5) Sir William came in; seeing my wretched face, he bade
+me not be foolish, for it would soon be all over now; they expected a
+great battle on the morrow; he would send me to Antwerp in the
+morning, and desired me to be ready at six. He said that though he
+expected it would be a decisive battle, and a conclusion of the whole
+business, he thought it best I should keep the plan of going to
+Antwerp, to avoid the alarms that he knew would seize everyone the
+moment the troops were gone; and he said he would probably join me
+there, or send for me to return the same evening. He said he should be
+writing all night, perhaps: he desired me to prepare some strong green
+tea in case he came in, as the violent exertion requisite to setting
+the whole army in motion quite stupefied him sometimes. He used
+sometimes to tell me that whenever the operations began, if he thought
+for five minutes on any other subject, he was neglecting his duty. I
+therefore scrupulously avoided asking him any questions, or indeed
+speaking at all.(6) I moved up and down like one stupefied myself.
+
+He went to the office, and returned near twelve,(7) much fatigued, but
+he did not attempt to sleep; he went twice to the Duke's; the first
+time he found him standing looking over a map with a Prussian
+general,(8) who was in full-dress uniform--with orders and crosses,
+etc.--the Duke was in his chemise and slippers, preparing to dress for
+the Duchess of Richmond's ball; the two figures were quite admirable.
+The ball took place notwithstanding the reveille played through the
+streets the whole night. Many of the officers danced, and then
+marched(9) in the morning.
+
+About two, Sir William went again to the Duke, and he was sleeping
+sound! At three the troops were all assembled in the Park, and Sir
+William and I leant over the window, seeing them march off--so few to
+return. It was a clear refreshing morning, and the scene was very
+solemn and melancholy.(10) The fifes played alone, and the regiments
+one after another marched past, and I saw(11) them melt away through
+the great gate at the end of the Square. Shall I ever forget the tunes
+played by the shrill fifes and the buglehorns which disturbed that
+night!
+
+At six in the morning, Friday the 16th, I went to Antwerp: Sir William
+gave me a letter to Captain Mitchell, in the Q.M.-General's
+department, requesting him to take charge of me. Accordingly, soon
+after we arrived I was settled in very comfortable apartments. I was
+at first for an hour in the inn,(12) and I lay down in a small back
+room. In the evening I sent my maid from the lodgings to get some wine
+at the inn; when wandering in the passage to find some English person,
+she opened the door of the room I had been in, and saw the body(13) of
+the Duke of Brunswick on the very bed.
+
+I was fortunate enough to have a room at the back, so shut in with
+buildings that I could not hear any noise in the streets. Sir William
+had made me promise to believe no reports, and not upon any account to
+move without his written order for it. I thought it was best not to
+listen to any stories, so I told my maid Emma not to tell me any, and
+to do her best to get no alarms herself. Captain Mitchell I found of
+great service; he is a very sensible and seemingly good-hearted man.
+There was a calmness in his manner which was of infinite use to me
+when I could not entirely get the better of fears but too well
+founded. Though he was afterwards oppressed with business, night and
+day, he never failed to come to me when he had heard any accounts he
+could depend upon. But I may say I never saw so much kindness, and
+softness indeed, as during that miserable time.
+
+The general and individual distress that rapidly followed the battles
+then fought, seemed quite to unman them; and one grew accustomed to
+see men weep, without their attempting to conceal it. The same evening
+the Town Major, Machel, called. He knew Sir William, and he brought a
+Mrs ---- to call. She very kindly asked me to go and visit her in the
+country about a mile. I was much obliged to her, but said I hoped to
+return to Brussels so soon that I should not have time. She apologised
+for Mr ----; he would have called on me, but the report I had brought
+of the marching of the troops had given him a great deal of business.
+The town was now very bustling, though when I arrived there was
+nothing but quiet. Captain Mitchell told me in the evening that the
+battle had taken place; that the English had gained a victory, but he
+believed there was to be more fighting. He promised to send me any
+letter, or if he heard of Sir William. I sat up late, but none came.
+
+On Saturday the 17th, Antwerp was truly a scene of confusion--by the
+servant's account, for I would not stir out of my room. Not one of the
+ladies who had intended to come to Antwerp at first, kept their
+resolution; and in consequence they got a great alarm, which was what
+my husband wished me to escape. There was a battle fought on Friday
+the 16th, near Brussels, and I was told the noise of the cannon was
+tremendous--the houses shook with it. It was distinctly heard at
+Antwerp; but I kept the windows shut, and tried not to hear. I only
+heard a rolling like the sea at a distance.(14) Poor Emma, urged by
+curiosity, stood in the street listening to terrible stories, seeing
+wounded men brought in, carriages full of women and children flying
+from Brussels, till she was completely frightened. She came and told
+me that all the ladies were hastening to England by sea, for the
+French had taken Brussels. I saw I must take my time to alarm her, and
+I said, "Well, Emma, you know that if the French were firing at this
+house, I would not move till I was ordered; but you have no such duty,
+therefore go if you like. I dare say any of the families will let you
+join them."
+
+Emma was shocked at my supposing she would be so base as to desert me,
+and declared that if she was sure she had to remain in a French prison
+for five years, she would not leave me. My reproof had all the effect
+I intended; for she brought me no more stories, and I am certain she
+never was frightened after, even when we were in far greater danger.
+
+Though I had little reason to expect a letter from my husband, I sat
+up late in hopes. At midnight, what was my joy to get a little note
+from him, written at Genappe,(15) after the battle of the 16th. He
+said he was safe, and in great spirits; they had given the French a
+tremendous beating. I wrote to him every day, and Captain Mitchell
+sent my letters, but they never reached him.
+
+On Sunday, Captain Mitchell told me he had heard the last effort was
+to be made. I cannot attempt to describe the restless unhappy state I
+was in; for it had continued so much longer than I had expected
+already, that I began to find it difficult to keep up my spirits,
+though I was infatuated enough to think it quite impossible that he
+could be hurt. I believe mine was not an uncommon case, but so it was.
+I might be uneasy at the length of the separation, or anxious to hear
+from him; but the possibility of his being wounded never glanced into
+my mind, till I was told he was killed.
+
+On Sunday the 18th June, there was to be a great battle. It began
+about eleven;(16) near three,(17) when Sir William was riding beside
+the Duke, a cannon ball struck him on the back, at the right shoulder,
+and knocked him off his horse to several yards distance. The Duke at
+first imagined he was killed; for he said afterwards, he had never in
+all the fighting he had ever been in seen a man rise again after such
+a wound. Seeing he was alive (for he bounded up again and then sank
+down), he ran to him, and stooping down, took him by the hand.(18)
+
+Sir William begged the Duke, as the last favour he could have it in
+his power to do him, to exert his authority to take away the crowd
+that gathered round him, and to let him have his last moments in peace
+to himself. The Duke bade him farewell, and endeavoured to draw away
+the Staff, who oppressed him; they wanted to take leave of him, and
+wondered at his calmness. He was left, as they imagined, to die; but
+his cousin, Delancey Barclay,(19) who had seen him fall, went to him
+instantly, and tried to prevail upon him to be removed to the rear, as
+he was in imminent danger of being crushed by the artillery, which was
+fast approaching the spot; and also there was danger of his falling
+into the hands of the enemy. He entreated to be left on the ground,
+and said it was impossible he could live; that they might be of more
+use to others, and he only begged to remain on the field. But as he
+spoke with ease, and Colonel Barclay saw that the ball had not
+entered, he insisted on moving him, and he took the opinion of a
+surgeon, who thought he might live, and got some soldiers to carry him
+in a blanket to a barn(20) at the side of the road, a little to the
+rear. The wound was dressed, and then Colonel Barclay had to return
+to the Division; but first he gave orders to have Sir William moved to
+the village;(21) for that barn was in danger of being taken possession
+of by the enemy. Before Colonel Barclay went, Sir William begged him
+to come quite close to him, and continued to give him messages for me.
+Nothing else seemed to occupy his mind. He desired him to write to me
+at Antwerp; to say everything kind, and to endeavour to soften this
+business, and to break it to me as gently as he could. He then said he
+might move him, as if he fancied it was to be his last effort. He was
+carried to the village of Waterloo, and left in a cottage, where he
+lay unheeded all night, and part of next day. Many of his friends were
+in the village, and no one knew where he was, or that he was alive
+even. It was by chance that an officer of the Staff Corps found him
+next morning, and sent to inform Sir George Scovell.(22) The evening
+before,(23) the Duke had written the despatches, and had inserted De
+Lancey as killed. Interest was made that he should alter them, when he
+was told that he had been carried off the field alive. Some kindly
+thought this might benefit me; but I was not so fortunate. Sad scenes
+were passing at Antwerp in the meantime.
+
+On Monday morning, Captain Mitchell, at nine o'clock, came to tell me
+that the last battle was over, and the French entirely defeated, and
+that Sir William was safe. I asked him repeatedly if he was sure, and
+if he had seen any of his writing, or if he had heard from him. He had
+not; but had read a list of the killed and wounded, and could assure
+me his name was not in it. Captain Mitchell was quite sincere; and was
+afterwards much grieved that he had added to the accumulation of
+misery, for this only made the dash down more severe. I now found how
+much I had really feared by the wild spirits I got into. I walked up
+and down, for I could not rest, and was almost in a fever with
+happiness, and for two hours this went on.
+
+At eleven a message came that Lady Hamilton wished to see me. I went
+down to the parlour, and found her and Mr James. I did not remark
+anything in her countenance, but I think I never saw feeling and
+compassion more strongly marked than in his expression. I then said I
+hoped Lady Emily was well. He answered that she was so, with a tone of
+such misery that I was afraid something had happened, I knew not what,
+to somebody. I looked at Lady Hamilton for an explanation. She seemed
+a little agitated too, and I said, "One is so selfish: I can attend to
+nothing, I am so rejoiced Sir William is safe."
+
+Mr James walked to the other end of the room. I did not know what to
+do. I feared that my gay voice grieved them, for I saw something had
+made them unhappy. Little did I think the blow was falling on my own
+unfortunate head.
+
+Lady Hamilton said, "Poor Mr James! He has lost a brother and I a
+nephew. It was a dreadful battle!--so many killed."
+
+I thought it cruel of them to come to me to tell all this to, when I
+was so merry; but I tried to be polite, and again apologised for
+appearing glad, on account of my own good fortune.
+
+Lady Hamilton said, "Did you hear from him?"
+
+"No, but Captain Mitchell saw the list, and his name was not in it."
+
+Mr James went out of the room. Lady Hamilton said, "He is gone to see
+it, I suppose," and then began to talk about the list, and what were
+the first names, and a great deal about whether I had any friends in
+that country, etc. She then asked what I intended to do if the
+fighting continued, and if I should go to England? I was a little
+surprised at these enquiries, but assured her I would not move until
+Sir William came or sent for me. She found me so obstinately confident
+that she began[32]...--and after a short time a suspicion darted into
+my mind. What a death-like feeling was that!
+
+[Footnote 32: Here there is a hiatus in the MS.]
+
+Lady Hamilton confessed she had written the list, and with a most
+mistaken kindness had omitted several of the names, Sir William's
+among the rest. A general had come from the field and named them; and
+she, knowing I was in the country, had left his out, fearing that I
+should be suddenly informed. But such information would not be
+otherwise than a shock whatever way it was told, and the previous
+account of his safety only tortured me the more. But it is needless to
+dwell upon it now; and though I believe she thinks I never forgave
+her, I now recollect only the motive, which was kind.
+
+My difficulty then was to find out, or rather to believe the truth.
+She assured me he was only wounded. I looked at her keenly, and said,
+"Lady Hamilton, I can bear anything but suspense. Let me know the very
+worst. Tell me, is he killed?"
+
+She then solemnly assured me he was only desperately wounded.
+
+I shook my head and said, "Ah, it is very well to say so. Yes, he must
+be wounded first, you know." And I walked round the room fast. "Yes,
+yes, you say so, but I cannot believe what you say now."
+
+She was terrified, for I could not shed a tear. She declared upon her
+word of honour that when General Alava left the field he was alive,
+but was not expected to live.
+
+This I felt sounded like truth, and I stood before her and said,
+"Well, Lady Hamilton, if it is so, and you really wish to serve me,
+help me to go to him instantly. I am sure Mr James will be so good as
+to hurry the servant. Oh, how much time has been lost already! If
+Captain Mitchell had but known, I should have gone at nine. Every
+moment may make me too late to see him alive."
+
+She was glad to try to do anything for me, and was going. I stopped
+her at the door, and said, "Now, if you are deceiving me, you may
+perhaps have my senses to answer for."
+
+She repeated her assurances, and I said I would send my servant for
+the carriage, which was at the Town Major's, if she would see anybody
+to get horses, and I was ready. She said she would offer to go with
+me, but she knew it would oppress me.
+
+I said, "Oh no, let me be alone," and I ran upstairs.
+
+No power can describe my sufferings for two hours before I could set
+out. Captain Mitchell requested a friend of his to ride forward to
+Brussels, and to gallop back with information of where Sir William
+was, and whether it was still of any avail for me to proceed: he was
+expected to meet us at Malines, half-way. We at last left Antwerp; but
+bribing the driver was in vain. It was not in his power to proceed;
+for the moment we passed the gates, we were entangled in a crowd of
+waggons, carts, horses, wounded men, deserters or runaways, and all
+the rabble and confusion, the consequence of several battles.(24)
+Every now and then we went several miles at a walk; and the temper of
+the people was so irritable that we feared to speak to them; and I had
+to caution my servant to be very guarded, because they were ready to
+draw their swords in a moment. Two men got on the back of the
+carriage, and we dared not desire them to get off; and this was no
+imaginary terror, as I afterwards experienced.
+
+When we were within a mile or two of Malines, the carriage stopped,
+and the servant said, "It is the Captain." I had drawn the blinds to
+avoid seeing the wretched objects we were passing. I hastily looked
+out, and saw Mr Hay.(25) When he saw me he turned his head away.
+
+I called out, "Mr Hay, do you know anything?"
+
+He hesitated, and then said, "I fear I have very bad news for you."
+
+I said, "Tell me at once. Is he dead?"
+
+"It is all over."
+
+I sank into the carriage again, and they took me back to Antwerp. When
+I had been a short time there, Mr Hay sent to know if I had any
+commands to Brussels, as he was going to return, and would do anything
+for me there. At first I said I had none, and then I sent for him, and
+asked repeatedly if he were sure of what he said; if he had seen him
+fall. He had not been in the action,(26) and of course was not near
+Sir William, "who was surrounded by Lord Wellington's Staff; but in
+the middle of the action he was struck in the breast by a cannon ball,
+and instantly fell. The Duke went and leant over him, and he died like
+a soldier."
+
+I then begged Mr Hay to make a point of seeing someone who had been
+near him; and if possible to learn if he had spoken, and if he had
+named me. Mr Hay promised this, and then asked if I would choose to go
+to England. I said: "Instantly." He then said if he had twelve hours
+to search the field once more--for his brother was missing--he would
+be ready to take a passage for me, and to accompany me if I chose. He
+said Lady Hamilton and Mrs B. were below, anxious to be of use.
+
+I said I greatly preferred being alone, and was always much better
+alone. About half an hour after, Mrs B. contrived to get into the
+room. I was terrified, and called out, "Go away, go away, leave me to
+myself." She prayed and entreated me to hear her, and then said if I
+was ill would I send for her. I said, "Oh, yes, yes; but the only
+thing anybody can do for me is to leave me alone." She was alarmed at
+my violent agitation and went away. I locked the outer door, and shut
+the inner one, so that no one could again intrude. They sent Emma to
+entreat I would be bled; but I was not reasonable enough for that, and
+would not comply. I wandered about the room incessantly, beseeching
+for mercy, though I felt that now, even Heaven could not be merciful.
+One is apt to fix on a situation just a little less wretched than
+one's own, and to dwell upon the idea that one could bear that better.
+I repeated over and over that if I had seen him alive for five
+minutes, I would not repine. At night Emma brought her bed into my
+room, as she feared I should be ill. Towards morning I fancied I heard
+a sound of someone trying to get into the room. I heard it a long
+while, but thinking it was somebody coming to visit me, I made no
+answer.
+
+About two hours after, the attempt was repeated. I said to Emma,
+"There is a noise at the door. Don't let Mrs B. in, or Lady Hamilton."
+
+She went, and returning in a few minutes said, "I am desired to tell
+you cautiously"--
+
+I said, "O Emma! go away. Don't tell me anything, any more."
+
+"Nay, but I must tell you. I have good news for you."
+
+"How can you be so inhuman! What is good news for me now?"
+
+"But--Sir William is not dead."
+
+I started up, and asked what she was saying, for she would make me
+mad. She told me that General M'Kenzie(27) was below, and had a
+message from Brussels, requesting him to inform me that Sir William
+was alive, and that there were even hopes of his recovery.
+
+I ran down to General M'Kenzie, and began earnestly to persuade him it
+must be impossible. I had suffered so much the day before, I durst not
+hope for anything now. His voice faltered, and his eyes filled with
+tears.
+
+He said, "Can you believe any man would bring such intelligence unless
+it were well-founded?" He then gave me a letter from Sir G. Scovell,
+who had seen an officer of the Staff Corps who had seen Sir William
+alive that morning, who was anxious to see me. He was attended by a
+skilful surgeon, and had been twice bled. This was dated Monday, seven
+o'clock, evening.
+
+I regretted the deal of time that had been lost, and said that
+yesterday morning was a long time ago; and was no argument for his
+being alive now; for it was often repeated in the letter not to raise
+my hopes. I then asked General M'Kenzie to assist me to get away.
+Unfortunately I did not say I had a carriage. He said he was going to
+Brussels, and would take me. I consented, and he went to get ready. I
+would not if I could, describe the state I was in for two hours more;
+then I lost all self-command. I would not allow Emma to put up my
+clothes, for fear of being detained. My agitation and anxiety
+increased. I had the dreadful idea haunting me that I should arrive
+perhaps half an hour too late. This got the better of me, and I paced
+backward and forward in the parlour very fast, and my breathing was
+like screaming. I went into the passage, and sent Emma to see if the
+carriage were coming; and then sat down on the stair, which was steep
+and dark. There General M'Kenzie found me. Whenever he learnt I had a
+carriage, he sent the horses he had; for his carriage was not ready,
+and would not be for some time. When he saw what a state I was in, he
+roused me in a most sensible manner.
+
+He said, "Lady De Lancey, consider what you are doing. You are
+exhausting your strength and spirits to no purpose, for your friends
+are endeavouring to forward your departure as soon as possible."
+
+I exclaimed, "Oh, I shall never be there. He may be dying at this
+moment."
+
+He took my hand, and said calmly and firmly, "My dear madam, why fancy
+evil? You know what dreadful scenes you may have to go through when
+you reach Waterloo. You will probably require all your courage, and
+must command yourself for his sake."
+
+I said no more, but quietly went to the parlour and remained
+waiting--such an immediate effect had his steady good sense on my
+fevered mind. I overheard him say, "No, do not at present; she is not
+fit for it." I was alarmed, and ran out; but I saw a lady retreating,
+and I was grateful to him.
+
+We left Antwerp between eight and nine, and had the same difficulties
+to encounter; but the road was not quite so much blocked up. General
+M'Kenzie said he would ride after us in an hour, in case we should be
+detained; he also sent a dragoon before, to order horses. When we were
+near Vilvorde, the driver attempted to pass a waggon, but the soldier
+who rode beside it would not move one inch to let us pass. The waggons
+kept possession of the _chaussee_ the whole way, and we had to drive
+on the heavy road at the side. My servant got off the seat to
+endeavour to lead the horses past. This provoked the soldier, and a
+dispute began. I was alarmed, and desired the servant to get upon the
+carriage again, which he did. A Prussian officer, enraged at our
+attempting to pass the waggon he was guarding, drew his sword, and
+made several cuts at the servant's legs, but did not reach him. He was
+preparing to get down again, but I looked from the opposite window and
+commanded him to sit still, and not to answer a word; or else to quit
+the carriage altogether. The driver now made a dash past the waggon,
+and the officer galloped after us and attempted to wound the horses.
+This made me desperate, and I ventured on a most imprudent action. I
+drew up the blind, and holding up my hands, I petitioned him to let
+us pass. I exclaimed that my husband, a British officer, was dying,
+and if he detained me I might not see him. It had the desired effect,
+for without seeming to have heard me, he slackened his pace and was
+soon far behind.
+
+When within ten miles of Brussels, the smell of gunpowder was very
+perceptible. The heat was oppressive. As we came within a mile of
+Brussels, the multitude of wretched-looking people was great, as Emma
+told me, for I was both unwilling and unable to look out. I was so
+much worn with anxiety that I could scarcely sit up. As we entered
+Brussels the carriage stopped, and I saw Mr Hay. I durst not speak,
+but he instantly said, "He is alive. I sent my servant to Waterloo
+this morning; he is just returned, and Sir William is better than they
+expected. I have horses standing harnessed, and you will soon be there
+if the road is passable, though it was not yesterday, for a horse."
+
+We were soon out of Brussels again, and on the road to Waterloo. It is
+nine miles, and we took three hours and a half. Mr Hay rode before us
+with his sword drawn, and obliged them to let us pass. We often stood
+still for ten minutes. The horses screamed at the smell of
+corruption, which in many places was offensive. At last, when near the
+village, Mr Hay said he would ride forward and find the house, and
+learn whether I should still proceed or not. I hope no one will ever
+be able to say they can understand what my feelings must have been
+during the half-hour that passed till he returned. How fervently and
+sincerely I resolved that if I saw him alive for one hour I never
+would repine! I had almost lost my recollection, with the excess of
+anxiety and suspense, when Mr Hay called out, "All's well; I have seen
+him. He expects you."
+
+When we got to the village, Sir G. Scovell met the carriage, and
+opening the door, said, "Stop one moment."
+
+I said, "Is he alive?"
+
+"Yes, alive; and the surgeons are of opinion that he may recover. We
+are so grieved for what you have suffered."
+
+"Oh! never mind what I have suffered. Let me go to him now."
+
+He said I must wait one moment. I assured him I was composed indeed.
+
+He said, "I see you are," with a smile, "but I wish to warn you of one
+thing. You must be aware that his life hangs on a very slender hold;
+and therefore any agitation would be injurious. Now, we have not told
+him you had heard of his death; we thought it would afflict him;
+therefore do not appear to have heard it."
+
+I promised, and he said, "Now come along." I sat down for an instant
+in the outer room, and he went in; and when I heard my husband say,
+"Let her come in, then," I was overpaid for all the misery.
+
+I was surprised at the strength of his voice, for I had expected to
+find him weak and dying. When I went into the room where he lay, he
+held out his hand and said, "Come, Magdalene, this is a sad business,
+is it not?" I could not speak, but sat down by him and took his hand.
+This was my occupation for six days.
+
+Though I found him far better than I expected, I can scarcely say
+whether I hoped or feared most at first; because I was so much
+occupied with gathering comforts about him, and helping him, that I
+had not time to think about the future. It was a dreadful but
+sufficient preparation, being told of his death; and then finding him
+alive, I was ready to bear whatever might ensue without a murmur. I
+was so grateful for seeing him once more, that I valued each hour as
+it passed, and as I had too much reason to fear that I should very
+soon have nothing left of happiness but what my reflections would
+afford me, I endeavoured, by suppressing feelings that would have made
+him miserable, and myself unfit to serve him, to lay up no store of
+regret. He asked me if I was a good nurse. I told him that I had not
+been much tried. He said he was sure he would be a good patient, for
+he would do whatever I bade him till he was convalescent; and then he
+knew he would grow very cross. I watched in vain for a cross word. All
+his endeavour seemed to be to leave none but pleasing impressions on
+my mind; and as he grew worse and suffered more, his smile was more
+sweet, and his thanks more fervent, for everything that was done for
+him.
+
+I endeavoured to find out from the surgeons the extent of the danger.
+They said that at present there were no bad symptoms, and after seeing
+him alive at all after such a wound they would not despair: and if
+the fever could be kept off, there was a great chance of his
+recovering. With this view they wished to bleed him constantly;
+wishing also thereby to make the recovery more complete. I knew they
+had no interest in me, and therefore would probably tell me the same
+as other people, so I continued to ask them after every visit what
+they thought; but when by watching the symptoms myself and also
+observing the surgeon's expression, I saw what I must soon prepare
+for, I did not tease them any more with questions, but tried not to
+give way, and endeavoured to keep up as long as it would be of
+consequence to him; for even after all hope was gone and the disorder
+increased rapidly, I felt that if by agitating him I should afterwards
+imagine I had shortened his life by one hour, that reflection would
+embitter my whole life. I have the satisfaction of knowing that I
+succeeded even better than I could have hoped; for toward the end of
+the week, when every symptom was bad, the surgeon (probably because I
+desisted from enquiring and did not appear agitated) doubtful what I
+thought, yet, judging it right to tell me, asked Emma if she knew
+whether I was aware of the danger or not. She assured him I had
+entirely given up hope for some time.
+
+I found Emma of great service. Her good will carried her through
+excessive fatigue while at Waterloo; and afterwards her excellent
+heart and superior judgment were quite a blessing to me. She told me
+she was thankful she had been at Waterloo, for it would do her good to
+see a little of what other people endured. She never before knew half
+the value of her peaceful, comfortable home in London, where the
+absence of miserable objects might alone be considered as a benefit. I
+can hardly express what I felt on returning to England, to see people
+surrounded with every luxury unhappy at the want of the smallest
+comfort. I can fancy no better cure for all imaginary evils than a
+week's residence at Waterloo.
+
+Noise did not disturb Sir William, fortunately, for the cottage was
+surrounded with roads.(28) One in front led to Nivelles, and every
+waggon going to and from the army, and all the wounded and prisoners,
+passed along that road. It was paved, and there was an unceasing
+noise for four days and nights. We were obliged to keep the windows
+open, and people used to pass close to that in his room, talking loud,
+and sometimes looking in and speaking; but he never took any notice. I
+never saw anybody so patient. The people to whom the cottage belonged
+were, luckily, favourable to our cause, or they would have tormented
+us a good deal; instead of which, I never met with such good nature;
+and though they never rested one moment helping the soldiers to water,
+and were constantly worn out with giving them assistance, we had only
+to tell them what to do, and they ran about to work for us. Their
+_menage_, I must allow, was in a sad state.(29) There was a want of
+everything. I could not help thinking with envy of the troublesome
+abundance I had often seen in sick-rooms, when there was far less need
+for it. However, in a short time we got everything he required; and I
+have the greatest comfort in recollecting that there was not one thing
+which he expressed a wish for that we did not procure. I sent a
+servant instantly to Brussels with a list of things we wanted; and
+once I recollect something was brought which he had been very anxious
+for. Naturally enough, he was disappointed when he found it not so
+good as he expected; but I was quite struck with his endeavour to
+praise it, for fear I should be sorry. There was a languid melancholy
+about him at the same time that he was calm and resigned, which would
+have made the most uninterested person grieved to see him suffering,
+and with such sweetness. Emma once gave him some drink, and she told
+me that the tone of voice and his smile when he thanked her, was like
+to break her heart, for he was in severe pain at the time.
+
+He said the wound gave him no pain at all, but a little irritating
+cough caused excessive pain in his chest and side. As far as I could
+learn, the blow had affected the lungs, which produced inflammation
+and afterwards water in the chest, which was eventually the cause of
+his death. I suspect the surgeons had never much hope, but they said
+there was a chance if the inflammation could have been stopped. By
+constantly watching him, and gradually day after day observing the
+progress and increase of suffering and the elevated tone of his mind,
+along with fatigue and weakness, I was prepared for his final release
+in a manner that nothing but his firmness and composure could have
+effected.
+
+He had at first been laid in the outer room, which had two large
+windows to the road, and everyone saw in. This he did not like, and he
+made the people move him to a small room, about seven feet wide, with
+a bed across the end of it. They placed him so low and awkwardly in
+the bed, that when I first went in I thought his legs were hurt, for
+he could not straighten his knees. After a day or two, he got shoved
+up by degrees, and then could stretch his limbs. The bed was wretched,
+merely a wooden frame fastened to the wall, so that it could not be
+moved, which rendered it extremely difficult to bleed him, or to
+assist him in any way, as he could neither turn nor raise his head an
+inch from the pillow, or rather sack of chaff, upon which he was laid.
+This was so full of dust that it made him cough. I soon removed it,
+and got a cushion out of the carriage instead. We had a clean blanket
+from Brussels, and at first we put clean sheets on every day. But
+latterly he grew so restless that he preferred having only the
+blanket. I had purposely sent for a French cotton one, as I thought
+the flannel would tease him. The bed was made tolerable at least, and
+though I could not be pleased with it, _he_ was. He repeated more than
+once, "What a thing it was for you being in this country!" and I had
+the delight of hearing him say that he did not know what he would have
+done without me. He said he was sure he would not have lived so long,
+for he would not have been so obedient to anyone else.
+
+I found he had been the worse of seeing some friends who had called
+the first day I was at Waterloo, so I told the servant afterwards
+never to let anybody come into his room. I remember one day an officer
+called, and before he was out of sight I had his card converted into a
+teaspoon. Sir William never ate anything, except once or twice a
+morsel of toast out of the water. He drank a great deal of tea and
+lemonade. At first he had no milk to his tea, and he complained that
+it was very bad; but there was none to be got. I sent my servant to
+search for some, and he met some Prussian cows, and milked one, and
+brought a fine jug of milk. The different contrivances sometimes
+amused him. One day he wished to have the room fumigated. How was this
+to be done, without fire-irons, or indeed without fire? We put some
+vinegar into a tumbler, and Emma went with a large pair of scissors,
+and brought a piece of burning charcoal, and put it into the vinegar,
+and that made a great smoke. Every time we wanted anything warmed, or
+water boiled, Emma had to cross a court and make a fire, and then
+watch it, or someone would have run away with what she was cooking.
+Meantime I would call her ten different times, and this in wet or dry,
+night or day. I now regretted having brought so few clothes.
+
+The day I went to Waterloo, Sir William told me the Duke(30) had
+visited him in the morning. He said he never had seen him so warm in
+his feelings: he had taken leave of him with little hope of seeing
+him again, I fancy. The Duke told him he never wished to see another
+battle; this had been so shocking. It had been too much to see such
+brave men, so equally matched, cutting(31) each other to pieces as
+they did. Sir William said there never had been such fighting; that
+the Duke far surpassed anything he had ever done before.(32) The
+general opinion seemed to be that it had been a peculiarly shocking
+battle. Sir William said he never would try it again; he was quite
+tired of the business. In speaking of his wound he said this might be
+the most fortunate event that could have happened for us both. I
+looked at him for an explanation. He said, "Certainly, even if I
+recover completely, I should never think of serving again. Nobody
+could ask such a thing, and we should settle down quietly at home for
+the rest of our lives." The evening after I went to Waterloo, Sir G.
+Scovell said he would take something to eat, and after seeing me
+fairly established he would go to Headquarters. He wrote a copy of a
+return of rations, for which we were to send to Brussels; and also any
+other provisions must be got from thence, for the village produced
+nothing. He left two sentinels, for fear there should be any
+disturbances, and we might feel unprotected. One night there was a
+great noise of people quarrelling in front of the house; the windows
+had no fastening whatever, but they passed away without molesting us.
+I was a little more seriously alarmed another day. Some reports had
+reached us that the French were coming back, and were within nine
+miles. I thought it unlikely, but about eight in the morning all the
+waggons that had passed for two hours came back as fast as possible,
+horses trotting and men running. I was uneasy on Sir William's
+account: his situation was so helpless. I leant forward, to prevent
+people looking in and seeing him. I waited without saying anything, to
+learn the cause of this bustle. I found afterwards that it was merely
+the waggons had gone several miles on the wrong road, and were
+hurrying back to make it up.(33)
+
+From the time Sir G. Scovell left us, we scarcely saw anybody but the
+surgeons. It must add very much to the fatigue of their business,
+having to do everything for the wounded whom they attend. Mr
+Powell,(34) who attended most constantly to Sir William, and with
+evidently great anxiety for his recovery, was sometimes quite knocked
+up with walking many miles on the heavy road to the field and the
+cottages. He had some difficulty to consider me as a useful person. At
+first he used to ask me to tell the servant to come; but he learnt to
+employ me very soon.
+
+The night I went, Sir William desired me to take some rest, for I
+looked ill. A portmanteau bed had been brought for me from Brussels. I
+left him reluctantly, for I grudged wasting any of such precious time,
+but he would not hear of my sitting up. I had just lain down with my
+clothes on--for there was no blanket, and the floor was damp tiles. I
+heard him call to his servant, who slept at the end of his room on a
+mattress. I jumped up and went to him, and did not leave him again. He
+wanted some drink, which I gave him, and then sat down beside him. He
+slept and woke every half-hour. He was not restless, nor had he any
+pain, but he was constantly thirsty.
+
+On Wednesday he wished to have leeches applied to his side, where the
+bruise appeared. Mr Powell had no objection, and desired me to send
+for him when the leeches were brought from Brussels. I did so; but in
+the meantime, not knowing why he was sent for, I began as a matter of
+course to apply them. When he came, he apologised, and thanked me. I
+was not at first aware of how I was obliging him. He said he was very
+tired, and when he attempted to fix the leeches, he did not do it so
+well as I did. Next time they were to be applied, I asked if I should
+send for him. He said I was as good at it as any hospital nurse could
+be, and as he had scarcely had an hour's rest any night since the
+battle, he would be greatly obliged to me if I would take the trouble.
+Sir William alleged that I grew quite vain of my skill in tormenting
+my poor husband with these animals. The same day Dr Hume(35) called in
+passing to Brussels, for ten minutes. I was a little provoked at the
+gaiety of his manner; the gravity he assumed at Brussels would have
+been suitable to the present scene. Though Sir William never
+complained, he was serious, and seemed inclined to be quiet, and
+neither to speak much nor to listen. He generally lay thinking, often
+conversed with me, but seemed oppressed with general conversation,
+and would not listen when anyone told him of the progress of the army.
+His thoughts were in a very different train. Dr Hume's rapid, lively
+visit annoyed me much.
+
+I did not feel the effects of having sat up on Tuesday night till next
+night, but was resolved to fight against it. Sir William desired me to
+go to rest, as he had done the night before; but I only remained away
+till I had an excuse to return, and he always forgot a second time to
+bid me go. This was the only night I had real difficulty to keep
+awake; the noise of the carts assisted me a little. I counted the
+rushes of the chair, for want of occupation. Some people said, why did
+I not let my maid sit up; but that showed they did not understand; for
+if twenty people had sat up, it would have made no difference to me. I
+frequently rejoiced that I had no friend there who could exert
+authority to make me take care of myself, when my only wish was to
+keep up as long as he needed me.
+
+On Thursday he was not quite so well. Before this he had been making a
+gradual progress, and he could move about with more ease. He spoke
+much better than he did at first. His countenance was animated; but I
+fear this was the beginning of the most dangerous symptoms, and I saw
+that the surgeon now became uneasy at the appearance of the blood; and
+Mr Woolriche,(36) a very eminent surgeon, now constantly attended. He
+had come over once or twice before. General Dundas(37) called this
+forenoon. He stayed only a minute, as Sir William was not so well, and
+I was busy. After he was away, I recollected having neglected to ask
+him to send a blanket and some wine. I never had time to eat, and I
+always forgot to get wine--as I could take a glass of that and a bit
+of bread in a moment--and my strength was failing. I looked out and
+saw him still at the door. I went out, and there were a number of
+people, Sir H.D. Hamilton,(38) etc. I told General Dundas I had no
+blanket. "Bless me!" everyone exclaimed, "no blanket!" I said it was
+not of much consequence, as I never lay down, but the floor was so
+damp I was afraid my maid would be ill, and her help was very
+essential. I then asked for wine, both of which General Dundas sent
+down next day.
+
+That night I had no difficulty in keeping awake. Sir William was
+restless and uncomfortable; his breathing was oppressed, and I had
+constantly to raise him on the pillow. The pain in his chest
+increased, and he was twice bled before morning. He was very much
+better on Friday forenoon. Mr Woolriche told us that every day since
+the battle the people of Brussels sent down carriages to take the
+wounded to the hospital; from twenty to thirty private carriages came
+every day.
+
+On Friday evening Sir William was very feverish, and the appearance of
+the blood was very inflammatory. I had learnt now to judge for myself,
+as Mr Powell, seeing how anxious I was, sometimes had the kindness to
+give me a little instruction. About ten at night Mr Powell and Mr
+Woolriche came. While I told them how Sir William had been since their
+last visit, and mentioned several circumstances that had occurred, I
+watched them and saw they looked at each other. I guessed their
+thoughts. I turned away to the window and wept.
+
+They remained a little time, and I recovered myself enough to speak to
+them cheerfully as they went out. They lingered, and seemed to wish to
+speak to me, but I was well aware of what they had to say. I felt
+unable to hear it then, and I shut the door instead of going out. It
+was that night Mr Powell asked Emma if she knew what I thought. He
+desired to be sent for on the first appearance of change. At one in
+the morning he was in great pain, and as I raised him that he might
+breathe more freely, he looked so fixed that I was afraid he was just
+expiring. His arms were round my neck to raise himself by, and I
+thought we should both have been killed by the exertion. He asked if
+Mr Powell had not talked of bleeding him again. I said I had sent for
+him. He bled him then for the last time. From that moment all the
+fever was gone. Mr Powell said it was of consequence to keep him
+quiet, and if he would sleep calmly it would do him good. At four in
+the morning I was called out to see a surgeon sent from Mr Powell, who
+was ill in bed. He came to know how Sir William was. He had slept a
+little till three; but the oppression was returning. This surgeon told
+me he had been anxious to speak to me several times, to tell me that
+it was he who had first seen him on the field, and who had given it as
+his opinion that he might live. He was grieved indeed to think that it
+should fall to his lot to tell me that it was the opinion of the
+surgeons that if I had anything particular to say to Sir William, I
+should not delay long. I asked, "How long?" He said they could not
+exactly tell. I said, "Days or hours?" He answered that the present
+symptoms would certainly not prove fatal within twelve hours. I left
+him, and went softly into my husband's room, for he was sleeping. I
+sat down at the other end of the room, and continued looking at him,
+quite stupefied; I could scarcely see. My mouth was so parched that
+when I touched it, it felt as dry as the back of my hand. I thought I
+was to die first. I then thought, what would he do for want of me
+during the remaining few hours he had to live. This idea roused me,
+and I began to recollect our helpless situation whatever happened,
+and tried to think who I could inform of the circumstances. I was not
+long in deciding on General Dundas, if he could be found, and have
+time to come and take care of us both. I immediately wrote a long
+letter to him, telling him how I was situated, and begging that he
+would come after twelve hours. I said I hoped I should be calm and fit
+to act for myself; but as I had never been near such a scene before, I
+knew not what effect it might have upon me. I therefore explained what
+I wished might be done after all was over, with respect to everything.
+I then sent the servant with the letter and orders to find General
+Dundas, if he were within ten miles of Brussels. A few hours after, I
+had one line from him to say he would be at Waterloo in the evening.
+
+After I had sent the letter, I sat down to consider what I was to do
+next. Though Sir William was aware of his danger, I thought it my duty
+to tell him how immediate the surgeons seemed to think it. I knew he
+was far above being the worse of such a communication, and I wished to
+know if he had anything to say. I sat thinking about it, when he
+awoke and held out his hand for me to take my usual station by his
+bedside. I went and told him. We talked some time on the subject. He
+was not agitated, but his voice faltered a little, and he said it was
+sudden. This was the first day he felt well enough to begin to hope he
+should recover! He breathed freely, and was entirely free from pain;
+and he said he had been thinking if he could be removed to Brussels,
+he should get well soon.
+
+I then asked if he had anything to desire me to do, or anything to say
+to anyone. He reminded me of what he had told me had engrossed his
+thoughts when he imagined himself dying on the field. He said he felt
+exactly the same now. He felt at peace with all the world; he knew he
+was going to a better one, etc., etc. He repeated most of what he had
+told me were his feelings before--that he had no sorrow but to part
+from his wife, no regret but leaving her in misery.
+
+He seemed fatigued; and shutting his eyes, he desired me not to speak
+for a little. I then determined not to introduce the subject again,
+nor to speak about it unless he seemed to wish it, as I had done all
+that was necessary.
+
+In an hour or two he ate some breakfast, tea and toasted bread, with
+so much relish that it almost overcame me. He observed that I must
+have caught cold by sitting in a draught of air. I said I had. He felt
+so much better that I was anxious the surgeon should see him. He came
+in the evening. He was pleased to see Sir William free from pain, but
+said there was scarcely a possibility of its continuing so. He said he
+might linger a day or two, but that every symptom was bad. He advised
+me to keep him as quiet and composed as possible. I assured him no
+person had been in the room but the surgeons whom he had brought to
+consult; and I had sat beside him the whole day, scarcely speaking. I
+said I had told Sir William his opinion of his case. He said it had
+evidently not agitated him, for his pulse was quite calm. Mr Woolriche
+called in the afternoon; he was going to Brussels, and would do
+anything there we wished. We had nothing for him to do, and he was
+going when he repeated the question. Sir William looked at me
+earnestly, and said, "Magdalene, love, General Dundas." I answered,
+"I wrote to him this morning," and nothing more passed.
+
+Late in the evening, when we were as calm and composed as could be,
+and I was sitting and looking at him, and holding his hand as usual,
+Mr Powell and Dr Hume came. He was even more cheerful than before,
+paid a rapid, noisy visit, and away again. It disturbed our
+tranquillity not a little, but he is reckoned so skilful that we ought
+to have been glad to see him. He bade Sir William rouse up, felt his
+pulse, and said it would bear another bleeding yet, if necessary.
+
+The poor dying man raised his languid eyes, and said, "Oh no, I do not
+need it now; I am quite cool."
+
+Dr Hume said he had no wish to bleed him, but would like to have his
+limbs fomented. He shook his head. I asked him if he knew what it was.
+He said No, and would like to try. I asked Dr Hume if it would be
+advisable. He said he thought it might refresh him. He went out, and I
+followed to hear what he would say. He said to Mr Powell, "Why do you
+give up a man with such a pulse? with such a good constitution, too!
+You make them all sad and useless. It does no harm to be trying
+something."
+
+He named several things. "Put a blister on his breast, and leeches
+after, if the pain is great down the side."
+
+I looked at Mr Powell, doubting, as I depended most on his opinion, as
+his constant attention to the progress of the illness gave it most
+weight. I thought he looked sorry that my hopes should be renewed, but
+of course he said nothing.
+
+Dr Hume said, "Oh, don't fear, he won't desert the cause."
+
+I was angry at such nonsense, and said, "Be assured I do not fear that
+Mr Powell will desert us, but he said this morning there was no hope."
+
+"Nay," said he, "not quite so much as that: I said there was little
+hope."
+
+I went away, and left them to discuss it themselves.
+
+Sir William said he wished to try what Dr Hume was speaking of, and I
+went to order some boiling water to be prepared. I made the people
+understand that he wanted a great quantity in a tub. While I was
+speaking, Mr Powell returned. He had taken a turn with Dr Hume, and I
+fancy he had explained his opinion. He said he would go home and
+prepare a blister, and he believed we had leeches. I said, was it not
+a great pity to torment him. He said he would not pretend to say that
+he thought it could be of much consequence, but for this reason he
+advised me to do it: I was not aware, he said, how I should feel
+afterwards; and I might perhaps regret when it was too late, not
+having done everything which a physician of Dr Hume's eminence deemed
+advisable. He said that Sir William would not be at ease at any rate,
+and it would scarcely plague him; the fomentation would be pleasant to
+him, and I might take the blister off in six hours if he wished it.
+
+When I went to foment his limbs, I could not find a morsel of flannel.
+At last I thought of the servant's blanket, and tore it in two. Sir
+William said this was a most delightful thing, and refreshed him very
+much. He expressed a great wish to have a bit on his chest. I did not
+know what to do for flannel. I regretted now excessively not having
+brought a change of clothes; for I could have taken a flannel
+petticoat. This put me in mind of the one I had on, and I instantly
+tore a great piece out of it and put it into the tub. The cottagers
+held up their hands, exclaiming, "Ah, madame!" He said it did him
+good, and was delicious, unconscious where we had found the flannel;
+indeed he never was aware of the difficulty, for the tub was placed in
+the outer room.
+
+General Dundas came. Sir William heard me speaking to him, and asked
+who it was. I told him, and he asked if he was going to remain. I said
+he was. Sir William seemed gratified, but did not say anything. Surely
+no earthly feeling can be superior to such perfect sympathy.
+
+Sir William fell asleep, and I went out to see if there was anything
+for General Dundas to eat. He told me he had got a very good room
+upstairs, and was willing to remain as long as I wished. His only
+request was that I would not mind him any more than if he was not
+there, but send for him when I wanted him. I opened the door of Sir
+William's room and sat close to it, so as to hear if he moved or
+spoke. I sat down to coffee for the first meal I had, and talked over
+several things necessary to be settled with General Dundas. I could
+not speak above a whisper, my voice was so faint. He entreated me, if
+possible, to try and take some rest that night, for fear I should be
+ill before my husband could spare me. I promised. He then told me that
+Lady Hamilton had asked him to take me to her house when I returned to
+Brussels; and also the Count de Lannoy had prepared rooms, which he
+begged I would occupy as long as I pleased. I preferred going to the
+house we had been in before, and I thought I could be more entirely
+alone there than at any other person's house, which was what I wished,
+and knew would be best for me. I was struck when I did return to
+Brussels, with two marks of attention. I had a message from the
+Commissary to say that orders had been given that I was to draw
+rations and forage for as long as I stayed; and the other circumstance
+was this. On the letters I had sent from Antwerp I had neglected to
+write "private," which is necessary when writing to a person in
+office. I gave them up for lost, and was uncomfortable. After I had
+been three days at Brussels, they were all returned unopened from
+Headquarters.
+
+Sir William called me. I sat a short time beside him, and after I had
+prepared drink for the night I told him I was so very tired I would go
+and lie down for a short time, if he would allow my maid to bring the
+medicine which he took every four hours. He agreed, and asked if I did
+not always take plenty of sleep. I said, "Oh yes," and was going, when
+he said the pain in his chest was returning, and perhaps leeches would
+do some good. This was the only time I hesitated to oblige him, for I
+really could scarcely stand; but of course I proceeded to apply the
+leeches, and in a few minutes the excessive drowsiness went off; so
+much so, that when after an hour I went to lie down, I could not
+sleep. I started every moment, thinking he called me. I desired Emma
+to waken me if he spoke or seemed uneasy. She gave him the medicine.
+He looked at her, and asked where I was; she told him I was sleeping.
+He said, "That's right, quite right."
+
+The pain in his chest grew intolerable, and depending upon my being
+asleep he yielded to complaint, and groaned very much. Emma roused me
+and told me she feared he was suffering very much. I had slept half an
+hour. I went and stood near him, and he then ceased to complain, and
+said, "Oh, it was only a little twitch." I felt at that time as if I
+was an oppression to him, and I was going away, but he desired me to
+stay. I sat down and rubbed it, which healed the pain, and towards
+morning I put on the blister. Between five and six he ate some toasted
+bread and tea, about two inches of bread. Before he began he entreated
+me to take off the blister only for ten minutes, that he might eat in
+tolerable comfort. I said I would take it away entirely, and he was
+pleased. The doctor came about nine. He was breathing then with great
+difficulty, and there was a rough sound in his throat. Mr Powell said
+the only thing to be done was to keep him quiet as usual, and to
+prevent him speaking. He asked Mr Powell if he might rise, for he
+might breathe easier at the window, and he was so tired of lying in
+that bed. Mr Powell urged him not to think of it; he was not able; it
+would hurt him very much, etc.
+
+About eleven o'clock he sent me away for ten minutes, and with the
+help of his servant he rose and got to the other end of the room. I
+was terrified when I heard he was up, and called General Dundas, who
+went in and found him almost fainting. They placed him in bed again,
+and when I returned he was much exhausted. I opened the windows wide
+and shut the door, and sat by him alone, in hopes that he might go to
+sleep and recover a little. He slept every now and then for a little.
+He seemed oppressed with the length of the day for the first time. He
+asked repeatedly what o'clock it was; he often asked if it was three
+yet. When I told him it was near five, he seemed surprised. At night
+he said he wished he could fall upon some device to shorten the weary
+long night; he could not bear it so long. I could not think of any
+plan. He said if I could lie down beside him it would cut off five or
+six hours. I said it was impossible, for I was afraid to hurt him,
+there was so little room. His mind seemed quite bent upon it.
+Therefore I stood upon a chair and stepped over him, for he could not
+move an inch, and he lay at the outer edge. He was delighted; and it
+shortened the night indeed, for we both fell asleep.
+
+At five in the morning I rose. He was very anxious to have his wound
+dressed; it had never been looked at. He said there was a little pain,
+merely a trifle, but it teased him. Mr Powell objected; he said it
+would fatigue him too much that day. He consented to delay. I then
+washed his face and hands, and brushed his hair, after which I gave
+him his breakfast. He again wished to rise, but I persuaded him not to
+do it; he said he would not do anything I was averse to, and he said,
+"See what control your poor husband is under." He smiled, and drew me
+so close to him that he could touch my face, and he continued stroking
+it with his hand for some time.
+
+Towards eleven o'clock he grew more uneasy; he was restless and
+uncomfortable; his breathing was like choking, and as I sat gazing at
+him I could distinctly hear the water rattling in his throat. I opened
+the door and windows to make a draught. I desired the people to leave
+the outer room, that his might be as quiet as usual; and then I sat
+down to watch the melancholy progress of the water in his chest, which
+I saw would soon be fatal.
+
+About three o'clock Dr Hume and Mr Powell came. I must do the former
+the justice to say he was grave enough now. Sir William repeated his
+request to have the wound dressed. Dr Hume consented, and they went
+away to prepare something to wash it with; they remained away half an
+hour. I sat down by my husband and took his hand; he said he wished I
+would not look so unhappy. I wept; and he spoke to me with so much
+affection. He repeated every endearing expression. He bade me kiss
+him. He called me his dear wife. The surgeons returned. My husband
+turned on one side with great difficulty; it seemed to give much pain.
+
+After I had brought everything the surgeons wanted, I went into
+another room. I could not bear to see him suffering. Mr Powell saw a
+change in his countenance; he looked out, and desired Emma to call me,
+to tell me instantly Sir William wanted me. I hastened to him,
+reproaching myself for having been absent a moment. I stood near my
+husband, and he looked up at me and said, "Magdalene, my love, the
+spirits." I stooped down close to him and held the bottle of lavender
+to him: I also sprinkled some near him. He looked pleased. He gave a
+little gulp, as if something was in his throat. The doctor said, "Ah,
+poor De Lancey! He is gone." I pressed my lips to his, and left the
+room.
+
+I went upstairs, where I remained, unconscious of what was passing,
+till Emma came to me and said the carriage was ready, and General
+Dundas advised me to go that evening to Brussels, but I need not hurry
+myself. I asked her if the room below was empty. She assured me it
+was; and I went down and remained some time beside the body. There was
+such perfect peace and placid calm sweetness in his countenance, that
+I envied him not a little. He was released: I was left to suffer. I
+then thought I should not suffer long. As I bent over him I felt as if
+violent grief would disturb his tranquil rest.
+
+These moments that I passed by his lifeless body were awful, and
+instructive. Their impression will influence my whole life.
+
+I left Waterloo with feelings so different from those I had on going
+to it. Then all was anxious terror that I would not be there in time
+to see one look, or to hear one word. Now there was nothing
+imaginary--all was real misery. There now remained not even a chance
+of happiness, but what depended on the retrospect of better days and
+duties fulfilled.
+
+As I drove rapidly along the same road, I could not but recall the
+irritated state I had been in when I had been there before; and the
+fervent and sincere resolutions I then made, that if I saw him alive,
+I never would repine.
+
+Since that time I have suffered every shade of sorrow; but I can
+safely affirm that except the first few days, when the violence of
+grief is more like delirium than the sorrow of a Christian, I have
+never felt that my lot was unbearable. I do not forget the perfection
+of my happiness while it lasted; and I believe there are many who
+after a long life cannot say they have felt so much of it.
+
+As I expressed some uneasiness to General Dundas at having left the
+body with none but servants, Colonel Grant at his request went to
+Waterloo the same evening, and remained till it was brought up next
+day to Brussels. General Dundas then kindly executed all my orders
+with respect to the funeral, etc., which took place on Wednesday the
+28th, in the cemetery of the Reformed(39) Church. It is about a mile
+from Brussels, on the road to Louvain. I had a stone placed, with
+simply his name and the circumstances of his death. I visited his
+grave(40) on Tuesday, the 4th of July. The burying-ground is in a
+sweet, quiet, retired spot. A narrow path leads to it from the road.
+It is quite out of sight among the fields, and no house but the
+grave-digger's cottage is near. Seeing my interest in that grave, he
+begged me to let him plant roses round it, and promised I should see
+it nicely kept when I returned. I am pleased that I saw the grave and
+the stone; for there were nearly forty other new graves, and not
+another stone.
+
+At eleven o'clock that same day, I set out for England. That day,
+three(41) months before, I was married.
+
+M. De L.
+
+
+
+
+NOTES TO LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+
+Most of the following notes have been compiled by Mr T.W. Brogden, of
+the Middle Temple, to whom I take this opportunity of expressing my
+indebtedness for his assistance in the preparation of this volume, and
+for his kindness in seeing the book through the press, during my
+absence in Canada.
+
+EDITOR.
+
+
+(1) "On Thursday the 15th June we had spent a particularly happy
+morning. My dear husband gave me many interesting anecdotes of his
+former life, and I traced in every one some trait of his amiable and
+generous mind; never had I felt so perfectly content, so grateful for
+the blessing of his love."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(2) General Alava, who was Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain to the
+King of the Netherlands.
+
+Sir William and Lady De Lancey were amongst the guests invited to the
+Duchess of Richmond's famous ball that night. See _Reminiscences of
+Lady de Ros_, p. 127.
+
+(3) "He turned back at the door, and looked at me with a smile of
+happiness and peace. It was the last!"--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(4) The Duke's house was at the corner of the Rue de la Montagne du
+Parc and the Rue Royale, and was next to the Hotel de France. The
+Count de Lannoy's house was at the south-east corner of the Impasse du
+Parc.
+
+(5) By 9 P.M. the _first orders_ had been despatched.
+
+Colonel Basil Jackson has the following recollections of his
+experiences on the evening of the 15th June: "I was sauntering about
+the park towards seven o'clock on the evening of the 15th June, when a
+soldier of the Guards, attached to the Quartermaster-General's office,
+summoned me to attend Sir William De Lancey. He had received orders to
+concentrate the army towards the frontier, which until then had
+remained quiet in cantonments. I was employed, along with others, for
+about two hours in writing out 'routes' for the several divisions,
+foreign as well as British, which were despatched by orderly Hussars
+of the 3rd Regiment of the German Legion, steady fellows, who could be
+depended on for so important a service. To each was explained the rate
+at which he was to proceed, and the time when he was to arrive at his
+destination; he was directed also to bring back the cover of the
+letter which he carried, having the time of its arrival noted upon it
+by the officer to whom it was addressed.
+
+"This business over, which occupied us till after nine, De Lancey put
+a packet into my hand directed to Colonel Cathcart--the present
+Earl--a thorough soldier, and highly esteemed by the Duke, who then
+filled, as he had previously done in Spain, the arduous post of
+Assistant Quartermaster-General to the whole of the cavalry.
+
+"'I believe you can find your way in the dark by the cross roads to
+Ninove,' said Sir William, 'let this be delivered as soon as
+possible.'
+
+"Proud of my commission, I was speedily in the saddle and threading my
+way, which I did without difficulty. My good nag rapidly cleared the
+fifteen miles, but ere reaching the above place, then the headquarters
+of the cavalry, I fell in with one or two orderly Dragoons speeding to
+out-quarters. I could also perceive lights flickering about in the
+villages adjacent to my route: indications which satisfied me that the
+German Hussar previously despatched from Brussels had accomplished his
+mission.
+
+"Here let me stop for a moment to commend the practice in our service
+of having plenty of well-mounted staff officers ready to convey orders
+of moment at the utmost speed. On the portentous night in question,
+several, chiefly belonging to the Royal Staff Corps, a body attached
+to the Quartermaster-General's department, were employed in conveying
+duplicates of the instructions previously forwarded by Hussars, in
+order to guard against the possibility of mistake. The omission of
+such a precautionary measure at the Prussian headquarters, on the same
+evening, was attended with disastrous consequences, for Bluecher's
+order for Bulow's corps to unite with the rest of his army, being
+entrusted to a corporal, probably wanting in intelligence, he did not
+deliver it in time, whereby that corps, 30,000 strong, failed to reach
+Ligny and share in the battle."[33]
+
+[Footnote 33: "Recollections of Waterloo," by a Staff Officer, in
+_United Service Journal_ for 1847, Part III., p. 3.]
+
+(6) "I entreated to remain in the room with him, promising not to
+speak. He wrote for several hours without any interruption but the
+entrance and departure of the various messengers who were to take the
+orders. Every now and then I gave him a cup of green tea, which was
+the only refreshment he would take, and he rewarded me by a silent
+look. My feelings during these hours I cannot attempt to describe, but
+I preserved perfect outward tranquillity."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(7) By 12 midnight, the _after orders_ had been despatched. With
+regard to the orders of the 15th and 16th June, including the
+"Disposition of the British Army at 7 o'clock A.M., 16th June,"
+attributed to Sir William De Lancey, see Gurwood, vol. xii., pp.
+472-474; _Supplementary Despatches_, vol. x., p. 496; Ropes'
+_Waterloo_, pp. 77-89; and Colonel Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890,
+pp. 144 and 257-263.
+
+(8) Doubtless, General Mueffling, Prussian attache at the headquarters
+of the Duke of Wellington. He accompanied the Duke to the ball, and
+next morning rode with him to Quatre Bras.
+
+(9) _I.e._, without changing their ball dress. Some of the officers
+were killed at Quatre Bras in their shoes and silk stockings. "There
+was a ball at Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's, that night
+(which I only mention because it was so much talked of), at which
+numbers of the officers were present, who quitted the ball to join
+their divisions, which had commenced their march before they arrived
+at their quarters, and some of them were killed the next day in the
+same dress they had worn at the ball." (Extract from a letter written
+by Colonel Felton Hervey shortly after the battle, and published in
+the _XIXth Century_ for March 1903, page 431.) See also Colonel
+Maurice in _U.S. Magazine_, 1890, p. 144.
+
+(10) "As the dawn broke, the soldiers were seen assembling from all
+parts of the town, in marching order, with their knapsacks on their
+backs, loaded with three days' provisions. Unconcerned in the midst of
+the din of war, many a soldier laid himself down on a truss of straw
+and soundly slept, with his hands still grasping his firelock; others
+were sitting contentedly on the pavement, waiting the arrival of their
+comrades. Numbers were taking leave of their wives and children,
+perhaps for the last time, and many a veteran's rough cheek was wet
+with the tears of sorrow. One poor fellow, immediately under our
+windows, turned back again and again to bid his wife farewell, and
+take his baby once more in his arms; and I saw him hastily brush away
+a tear with the sleeve of his coat, as he gave her back the child for
+the last time, wrung her hand, and ran off to join his company, which
+was drawn up on the other side of the Place Royale. Many of the
+soldiers' wives marched out with their husbands to the field, and I
+saw one young English lady mounted on horseback slowly riding out of
+town along with an officer, who, no doubt, was her husband. Soon
+afterwards the 42nd and 92nd Highland regiments marched through the
+Place Royale and the Parc, with their bagpipes playing before them,
+while the bright beams of the rising sun shone full on their polished
+muskets and on the dark waving plumes of their tartan bonnets. Alas!
+we little thought that even before the fall of night these brave men
+whom we now gazed at with so much interest and admiration would be
+laid low." (Mrs Eaton's _Waterloo Days_, p. 21.)
+
+(11) "I stood with my husband at a window of the house, which
+overlooked a gate of the city, and saw the whole army go out. Regiment
+after regiment passed through and melted away in the mist of the
+morning."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(12) "Le Grand Laboureur."
+
+(13) The Duke's corpse did not arrive at Antwerp till Saturday
+afternoon. See Mrs Eaton's _Waterloo Days_, p. 59.
+
+(14) "I went to Antwerp, and found the hotel there so crowded, that I
+could only obtain one small room for my maid and myself, and it was at
+the top of the house. I remained entirely within, and desired my maid
+not to tell me what she might hear in the hotel respecting the army.
+On the 18th, however, I could not avoid the conviction that the battle
+was going on; the anxious faces in the street, the frequent messengers
+I saw passing by, were sufficient proof that important intelligence
+was expected, and as I sat at the open window I heard the firing of
+artillery, like the distant roaring of the sea, as I had so often
+heard it at Dunglass. How the contrast of my former tranquil life
+there was pressed upon me at that moment!"--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+Southey, the poet, says that the firing of the 16th was heard at
+Antwerp, but not that of the 18th. It is an extraordinary but
+indisputable fact that the firing at Waterloo was heard in England.
+The _Kentish Gazette_ of Tuesday, 20th June 1815 (published therefore
+before any one in England, not even Nathan Rothschild himself, was
+aware that there had been a battle fought at Waterloo), contained the
+following piece of news from Ramsgate: "A heavy and incessant firing
+was heard from this coast on Sunday evening in the direction of
+Dunkirk." Dunkirk lies in nearly a straight line between Waterloo and
+the coast of Kent. What makes the matter still more extraordinary is
+the fact that Colville's Division, which, on the 18th, was posted in
+front of Hal, about ten miles to the west of the battlefield, never
+heard a sound of the firing, and did not know till midnight that any
+battle had taken place.
+
+(15) Wellington's headquarters on the night of the 16th June were at
+Genappe, two or three miles to the rear of the battlefield of Quatre
+Bras. He slept at the Roi d'Espagne. Bluecher occupied the same inn on
+the night of the 18th.
+
+(16) The battle began about 11.35, though Wellington in his despatch
+states that it began about 10. Napoleon's bulletin fixes noon as the
+time. Marshal Ney said that it began at 1 o'clock. It is clear they
+did not all look at their watches.
+
+(17) De Lancey is supposed to have been struck about the time when the
+French batteries opened a fierce cannonade on the English centre,
+preparatory to the first of their tremendous cavalry attacks. This
+would make the hour nearer 4 o'clock than 3.
+
+He fell not far from the Wellington Tree, and close to the famous
+_chemin creux_ of Victor Hugo, in the immediate rear of which
+Ompteda's brigade of the King's German Legion was posted. The
+appearance of the spot is now entirely altered. The tree was cut down
+in 1818, and all the soil of the elevated ground on the south side of
+the _chemin creux_ was carted away to make the Belgian Lion Mound
+about 1825. A steam tramway now runs by the place.
+
+For a sketch of the celebrated tree, with Napoleon's guide, De Coster,
+in the foreground, see Captain Arthur Gore's _Explanatory Notes on the
+Battle of Waterloo_, 1817; and for another view of the ragged old tree
+as it appeared the day before it was cut down, see _Illustrated London
+News_, 27th November 1852.
+
+The map which faces page 110 is adapted from the plan of the
+battlefield of Waterloo, drawn in 1816, by W.B. Craan, Surveying
+Engineer of Brabant.
+
+The troops are shown in the positions occupied by them at 11 o'clock,
+A.M., just before the opening of the battle.
+
+On the map will be seen the position of the Wellington Tree, also the
+farm and village of Mont St Jean, to which village it is supposed Sir
+William De Lancey was carried, after he had received the fatal blow.
+
+The village of Waterloo is outside the map, some two miles to the
+north.
+
+[Illustration: Map of Part of the Battlefield of Waterloo]
+
+"The Duke had no fixed station throughout the day, and did not remain
+at this tree for more than three or four minutes at any one time. He
+frequently rode to it to observe the advance of the columns of attack.
+A deep dip in the main road prevented his going beyond it without a
+detour to the rear. It was here also that, the Duke having galloped up
+with the staff and using his glass to observe the enemy's movements,
+poor Colonel De Lancey by his side was struck by a heavy shot which
+slanted off without breaking either his skin or even his coat, but all
+the ribs of the left side were separated from the back."--Siborne's
+_Waterloo Correspondence_, vol. i., p. 51.
+
+Sir Walter Scott has the following interesting passage in the Seventh
+of his _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_. After a reference to the
+British army taking up its position on the field of Waterloo the night
+before the battle, he thus continues: "The Duke had caused a plan of
+this and other military positions in the neighbourhood of Brussels, to
+be made some time before by Colonel Carmichael Smyth, the chief
+engineer. He now called for that sketch, and with the assistance of
+the regretted Sir William De Lancey and Colonel Smyth, made his
+dispositions for the momentous events of next day. The plan itself, a
+_relique_ so precious, was rendered yet more so by being found in the
+breast of Sir William De Lancey's coat when he fell, and stained with
+the blood of that gallant officer. It is now in the careful
+preservation of Colonel Carmichael Smyth, by whom it was originally
+sketched."
+
+For an account of Colonel Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Commanding Royal
+Engineer on the Staff of the Duke of Wellington, see _Dictionary of
+National Biography_, vol. liii., p. 185.
+
+Major John Oldfield, Brigade-Major, R.E., gives the following
+particulars about this map, which is reproduced opposite page 565 of
+vol. i. of C.D. Yonge's _Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of
+Wellington_.
+
+"Shortly after my chief--Colonel Smyth--had joined headquarters (this
+was on the 16th), he sent in to me, at Brussels, for the plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which had been previously reconnoitred. The
+several sketches of the officers had been put together, and one fair
+copy made for the Prince of Orange. A second had been commenced in the
+drawing-room for the Duke, but was not in a state to send; I therefore
+forwarded the original sketches of the officers.
+
+"_Morning of the 17th._--Upon my joining Colonel Smyth, he desired me
+to receive from Lieutenant Waters the plan of the position, which,
+according to his desire, I had sent to him from Brussels the preceding
+day, and of which I was told to take the greatest care. It had been
+lost in one of the charges of the French cavalry, and recovered.
+Lieutenant Waters, who had it in his cloak before his saddle (or in
+his sabretasche attached to his saddle, I forget which), was unhorsed
+in the _melee_ and ridden over. Upon recovering himself, he found the
+cavalry had passed him, and his horse was nowhere to be seen. He felt
+alarmed for the loss of his plan. To look for his horse, he imagined,
+was in vain, and his only care was to avoid being taken prisoner,
+which he hoped to do by keeping well towards our right. The enemy
+being repulsed in his charge was returning by the left to the ground
+by which he had advanced. After proceeding about fifty yards, he was
+delighted to find his horse quietly destroying the vegetables in a
+garden near the farmhouse at Quatre Bras. He thus fortunately
+recovered his plan, and with it rejoined the Colonel. The retreat of
+the Prussians upon Wavre rendered it necessary for the Duke to make a
+corresponding movement, and upon the receipt of a communication from
+Bluecher, he called Colonel Smyth and asked him for his plan of the
+position of Waterloo, which I immediately handed to him. The Duke then
+gave directions to Sir William De Lancey to put the army in position
+at Waterloo, forming them across the Nivelles and Charleroi
+chaussees."--Porter's _History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, vol.
+i., p. 380. See also Ropes' _Waterloo_, p. 296.
+
+(18) "He was able to speak in a short time after the fall, and when
+the Duke of Wellington took his hand and asked how he felt, he begged
+to be taken from the crowd that he might die in peace, and gave a
+message to me."--_Abridged Narrative._
+
+(19) Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel Delancey Barclay, 1st Foot Guards.
+See _Army List_ for 1815, pp. 30 and 145, also _Waterloo Roll Call_,
+p. 30.
+
+(20) Probably a barn at the farm of Mont St Jean, about 700 yards
+north of the Wellington Tree.
+
+(21) Doubtless the village of Mont St Jean, the village of Waterloo
+being two miles further north.
+
+When Miss Waldie (afterwards Mrs Eaton--see _Dictionary of National
+Biography_, vol. lix., p. 26) went to Waterloo on the 15th July, she
+noticed the name of Sir William De Lancey written in chalk on the
+door of a cottage, where he had slept the night before the battle.
+(_Waterloo Days_, p. 125.) The sketch on the opposite page is
+reproduced from _Sketches in Flanders and Holland_, by Robert Hills,
+1816, and shows the village of Mont St Jean, as it appeared a month
+after the battle. The figures in the foreground represent villagers
+returning from the battlefield with cuirasses, brass eagles, bullets,
+etc., which they had picked up.
+
+[Illustration: THE VILLAGE OF MONT ST JEAN, 1815.]
+
+(22) See _Waterloo Roll Call_, p. 35, and _Army List_ for 1815, p. 31.
+
+(23) The Duke began the Waterloo despatch very early on the 19th at
+Waterloo, but he finished it at Brussels, that same morning.
+
+(24) _I.e._, not only Waterloo, but Ligny, Quatre Bras, and the
+fighting that took place on the 15th and 17th June.
+
+(25) Mr William Hay of Duns Castle. He had been in the 16th Light
+Dragoons in the Peninsular War (see _Army List_ for 1811, p. 89), and
+had come over from England a few days before to see his old friends,
+and introduce his young brother, Cornet Alexander Hay, to his old
+regiment.
+
+(26) Mr Hay was on the battlefield during the early part of the fight.
+Early next morning he revisited the field, to try to find some trace
+of his brother. The body was never found. He had been killed late at
+night on the French position, while the 16th Light Dragoons were in
+pursuit of the enemy. (Tomkinson's _Diary of a Cavalry Officer_,
+1809-1815, p. 314; also _Reminiscences_, 1808-1815, _under
+Wellington_, by Captain William Hay, C.B.) There is a memorial tablet
+to him in the church at Waterloo, with the following inscription:
+
+     "Sacred to the memory of Alexander Hay, Esq., of Nunraw,
+     Cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons, aged 18 years, who fell
+     gloriously in the Memorable Battle of Waterloo, June 18,
+     1815.
+
+          "_O dolor atque decus magnum ...
+          Haec te prima dies bello dedit, haec eadem aufert._
+
+     "This tablet was placed here by his Brothers and Sisters."
+
+(27) No doubt Lieutenant-General John Mackenzie who was in command at
+Antwerp. He succeeded Sir Colin Halkett in that post. See _Army List_
+for 1815, p. 8.
+
+(28) Another indication that it was in the village of Mont St Jean and
+not Waterloo.
+
+(29) "One of the most painful visits I ever paid was to a little
+wretched cottage at the end of the village which was pointed out to me
+as the place where De Lancey was lying mortally wounded. How wholly
+shocked I was on entering, to find Lady De Lancey seated on the only
+broken chair the hovel contained, by the side of her dying husband. I
+made myself known. She grasped me by the hand, and pointed to poor De
+Lancey covered with his coat, and with just a spark of life
+left."--_Reminiscences, etc._, by Captain William Hay, C.B., p. 202.
+
+(30) Creevey states that as he was on his way from Brussels to
+Waterloo on Tuesday the 20th June, the Duke overtook him and said he
+was going to see Sir Frederick Ponsonby and De Lancey. The Duke was in
+plain clothes and riding in a curricle with Colonel Felton
+Hervey.--_The Creevey Papers_, p. 238.
+
+(31) Probably the Duke had in his mind the charge of Lord Edward
+Somerset's Household Brigade against the French Cuirassiers, which
+took place about 2 o'clock. Alava, in his report to the Spanish
+Government, calls it "the most sanguinary cavalry fight perhaps ever
+witnessed."
+
+(32) This was the general opinion at the time. Four days after the
+battle an officer in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Foot Guards wrote as
+follows: "I constantly saw the noble Duke of Wellington riding
+backwards and forwards like the Genius of the storm, who, borne upon
+its wings, directed its thunder where to break. He was everywhere to
+be found, encouraging, directing, animating. He was in a blue short
+cloak, and a plain cocked hat, his telescope in his hand; there was
+nothing that escaped him, nothing that he did not take advantage of,
+and his lynx eyes seemed to penetrate the smoke and forestall the
+movements of the foe" (p. 42, _Battle of Waterloo_, 11th edition,
+1852, L. Booth). A highly interesting remark from the Duke's lips just
+before the attack made by the Imperial Guard has been preserved in a
+letter written at Nivelles on the 20th June, by Colonel Sir A.S.
+Frazer. "'Twice have I saved this day by perseverance,' said his Grace
+before the last great struggle, and said so most justly." This seems
+to coincide with the observation which the Duke made to Creevey at
+Brussels the morning after the battle. "By God! I don't think it would
+have been done, if I had not been there."
+
+(33) Another proof that it was Mont St Jean and not Waterloo.
+
+(34) Probably James Powell, an apothecary in the Medical Department.
+Date of rank, 9th September 1813. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 93. In
+the Army List of 1817, and in subsequent Army Lists he is shown with a
+[symbol: Blackletter W] before his name, as being in possession of the
+Waterloo Medal. His last appearance in the Army List is in 1841, in
+which issue he is shown on page 340 as a surgeon on half-pay.
+
+(35) John Robert Hume was a Deputy-Inspector of the Medical
+Department. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 90. He also held the
+appointment of surgeon to the Duke of Wellington. He was in attendance
+on the memorable occasion when a duel took place in Battersea Fields
+between the Duke of Wellington and Earl Winchilsea, 21st March 1829.
+He died in 1857. See _Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xxviii.,
+p. 229.
+
+The following is Dr Hume's account of his visit to the Duke the
+morning after the battle. "I came back from the field of Waterloo with
+Sir Alexander Gordon, whose leg I was obliged to amputate on the field
+late in the evening. He died rather unexpectedly in my arms about
+half-past three in the morning of the 19th. I was hesitating about
+disturbing the Duke, when Sir Charles Broke-Vere came. He wished to
+take his orders about the movement of the troops. I went upstairs and
+tapped gently at the door, when he told me to come in. He had as usual
+taken off his clothes, but had not washed himself. As I entered, he
+sat up in bed, his face covered with the dust and sweat of the
+previous day, and extended his hand to me, which I took and held in
+mine, whilst I told him of Gordon's death, and of such of the
+casualties as had come to my knowledge. He was much affected. I felt
+the tears dropping fast upon my hand, and looking towards him, saw
+them chasing one another in furrows over his dusty cheeks. He brushed
+them suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me in a voice
+tremulous with emotion, 'Well, thank God, I don't know what it is to
+lose a battle; but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain
+one with the loss of so many of one's friends.'"--(Extract from a
+Lecture by Montague Gore, 1852.)
+
+(36) Stephen Woolriche was a Deputy-Inspector of the Medical
+Department. See _Army List_ for 1815, p. 90. His name appears for the
+last time in the Army List of 1855-56. By that time he had gained a
+C.B., and held the rank of Inspector-General of the Medical Department
+on half-pay.
+
+(37) General Francis Dundas (_Army List_ for 1815, p. 3) was Colonel
+of the 71st Highland Light Infantry. He had served in the American
+War, and afterwards at the Cape. At the time of the alarm of a French
+invasion, of England in 1804-5, he commanded a portion of the English
+forces assembled on the south coast under Sir David Dundas, the
+Commander-in-Chief, who married an aunt of Sir William De Lancey. Sir
+David Dundas was at this time Governor of Chelsea Hospital, where he
+died at the age of eighty-five, on the 18th February 1820.--(See
+_Dictionary of National Biography_, vol. xvi., p. 185.)
+
+(38) Sir Hew Dalrymple Hamilton, fourth baronet, was born on the 3rd
+January 1774, and married, on the 19th May 1800, Jane, eldest daughter
+of the first Lord Duncan of Camperdown.
+
+(39) There were at that time three Protestant cemeteries at Brussels.
+This was the St Josse Ten Noode Cemetery, on the south side of the
+Chaussee de Louvain. Many were here buried who had died of wounds
+received at Waterloo, including Major Archibald John Maclean, 73rd
+Highlanders; Major William J. Lloyd, R.A.; Captain William Stothert,
+Adjutant, 3rd Foot Guards; Lieut. Michael Cromie, R.A.; Lieut. Charles
+Spearman, R.A.; Lieut. John Clyde, 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. See
+_Times_ of 9th February 1889.
+
+(40) In 1889, Sir William De Lancey's remains were exhumed from the
+old, disused cemetery of St Josse Ten Noode, and, along with those of
+a number of other British officers who fell in the Waterloo campaign,
+were removed to the beautiful cemetery of Evere, three miles to the
+north-east of Brussels. On the 26th August 1890, H.R.H. the Duke of
+Cambridge unveiled the celebrated Waterloo memorial which contains
+their bones.
+
+The following was the inscription on the gravestone which Lady De
+Lancey erected:--
+
+"THIS STONE IS PLACED TO MARK WHERE THE BODY OF
+COL. SIR W. HOWE DE LANCEY,
+QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL,
+IS INTERRED.
+
+"HE WAS WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF
+BELLE ALLIANCE (WATERLOO)
+ON THE 18TH JUNE 1815."
+
+[Illustration: THE WATERLOO MEMORIAL IN EVERE CEMETERY.]
+
+(41) _Tuesday, 4th April_ 1815.--This date is confirmed by the
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, 1815, which states: "April 4, Col. Sir W. De
+Lancey, K.C.B., to Magdalene, daughter of Sir James Hall, Bart."
+
+On the other hand, the _Abridged Narrative_ states as follows:--"I was
+married in March 1815. At that time Sir William De Lancey held an
+appointment on the Staff in Scotland. Peace appeared established, and
+I had no apprehension of the trials that awaited me. While we were
+spending the first week of our marriage at Dunglass, the accounts of
+the return of Bonaparte from Elba arrived, and Sir William was
+summoned to London, and soon after ordered to join the army at
+Brussels as Adjutant-Quartermaster-General." Napoleon landed in France
+on the 1st March, and in the London _Evening Mail_ of the issue
+headed:--
+
+"From Wednesday, March 8, to Friday, March 10, 1815," the following
+appears as a postscript:--
+
+    "LONDON,
+
+    "_Friday Afternoon, March_ 10.
+
+    "Letters have been received at Dover of the most interesting
+    import; they announce the flight of Buonaparte from the
+    island of Elba, and his arrival at Frejus, the place at
+    which he landed on his return from Egypt. We have seen the
+    King of France's proclamation against him, dated the 6th
+    instant, declaring him and his adherents traitors and rebels:
+    of these he is said to have had at first only 1300, but to
+    have directed his march immediately on Lyons. It was
+    considered that he would make a dash at Paris. Now, however,
+    the villain's fate is at issue."
+
+This news probably reached Edinburgh by coach a week later, and may
+have been known at Dunglass on the following day, the 18th March.
+
+It seems doubtful, therefore, whether Lady De Lancey did not make a
+mistake of a month in dating her marriage exactly three months before
+the 4th of July. She may possibly have been married in March.
+
+The "Hundred Days" cover the period between Napoleon's first
+proclamation at Lyons on the 13th March and his abdication on the 22nd
+June.
+
+It will therefore be seen that the married life of the De Lanceys, if
+it extended from the 4th March to the 26th June 1815, covered this
+period, with just thirteen days to spare.
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX A
+
+
+Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles
+Dickens.[34]
+
+[Footnote 34: From the autograph collection in the possession of Lady
+Parsons.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"MY DEAR CAPTAIN HALL,
+
+"I received with great pleasure your kind proposal to visit Tweedside.
+It arrived later than it should have done. I lose no time in saying
+that you and Mrs Hall cannot come but as welcome guests any day next
+week, which may best suit you. If you have time to drop a line we will
+make our dinner hour suit your arrival, but you cannot come amiss to
+us.
+
+"I am infinitely obliged to you for Captain Maitland's plain, manly,
+and interesting narrative. It is very interesting, and clears
+Bonaparte of much egotism imputed to him. I am making a copy which,
+however, I will make no use of except as extracts, and am very much
+indebted to Captain Maitland for the privilege.
+
+"Constable proposed a thing to me which was of so much delicacy that I
+scarce know how [_sic_] about it, and thought of leaving it till you
+and I met.
+
+"It relates to that most interesting and affecting journal kept by my
+regretted and amiable friend, Mrs Hervey,[35] during poor De Lancey's
+illness. He thought with great truth that it would add very great
+interest as an addition to the letters which I wrote from Paris soon
+after Waterloo, and certainly I would consider it as one of the most
+valuable and important documents which could be published as
+illustrative of the woes of war. But whether this could be done
+without injury to the feelings of survivors is a question not for me
+to decide, and indeed I feel unaffected pain in even submitting it to
+your friendly ear who I know will put no harsh construction upon my
+motive which can be no other than such as would do honour to the
+amiable and lamented authoress. I never read anything which affected
+my own feelings more strongly or which I am sure would have a deeper
+interest on those of the public. Still the work is of a domestic
+nature, and its publication, however honourable to all concerned,
+might perhaps give pain when God knows I should be sorry any proposal
+of mine should awaken the distresses which time may have in some
+degree abated. You are the only person who can judge of this with any
+certainty or at least who can easily gain the means of ascertaining
+it, and as Constable seemed to think there was a possibility that
+after the lapse of so much time it might be regarded as matter of
+history and as a record of the amiable character of your accomplished
+sister, and seemed to suppose there was some probability of such a
+favour being granted, you will consider me as putting the question on
+his suggestion. It could be printed as the Journal of a lady during
+the last illness of a General Officer of distinction during her
+attendance upon his last illness, or something to that purpose.
+Perhaps it may be my own high admiration of the contents of this
+heartrending diary which makes me suppose a possibility that after
+such a lapse of years, the publication may possibly (as that which
+cannot but do the highest honour to the memory of the amiable
+authoress) may not be judged altogether inadmissible. You may and
+will, of course, act in this matter with your natural feeling of
+consideration, and ascertain whether that which cannot but do honour
+to the memory of those who are gone can be made public with the sacred
+regard due to the feelings of survivors.
+
+[Footnote 35: Lady De Lancey married again in 1819 Captain Henry
+Hervey, Madras Infantry, and died in 1822. _Gentleman's Magazine_,
+vol. lxxxix, Part I., p. 368, and vol. cii., Part II., p. 179.]
+
+"Lady Scott begs to add the pleasure she must have in seeing Mrs Hall
+and you at Abbotsford, and in speedy expectation of that honour I am
+always,
+
+"Dear Sir,
+
+"Most truly yours,
+
+"WALTER SCOTT.
+
+"ABBOTSFORD, 13_th_ _October_ 1825."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"DEVONSHIRE TERRACE,
+
+"_Tuesday evening_, 16_th_ _March_ 1841.
+
+"MY DEAR HALL,
+
+"For I see it must be 'juniores priores,' and that I must demolish the
+ice at a blow.
+
+"I have not had courage until last night to read Lady De Lancey's
+narrative, and, but for your letter, I should not have mastered it
+even then. One glance at it, when through your kindness it first
+arrived, had impressed me with a foreboding of its terrible truth, and
+I really have shrunk from it in pure lack of heart.
+
+"After working at Barnaby all day, and wandering about the most
+wretched and distressful streets for a couple of hours in the
+evening--searching for some pictures I wanted to build upon--I went at
+it, at about ten o'clock. To say that the reading that most
+astonishing and tremendous account has constituted an epoch in my
+life--that I shall never forget the lightest word of it--that I cannot
+throw the impression aside, and never saw anything so real, so
+touching, and so actually present before my eyes, is nothing. I am
+husband and wife, dead man and living woman, Emma and General Dundas,
+doctor and bedstead--everything and everybody (but the Prussian
+officer--damn him) all in one. What I have always looked upon as
+masterpieces of powerful and affecting description, seem as nothing in
+my eyes. If I live for fifty years, I shall dream of it every now and
+then, from this hour to the day of my death, with the most frightful
+reality. The slightest mention of a battle will bring the whole thing
+before me. I shall never think of the Duke any more, but as he stood
+in his shirt with the officer in full-dress uniform, or as he
+dismounted from his horse when the gallant man was struck down.
+
+"It is a striking proof of the power of that most extraordinary man
+Defoe that I seem to recognise in every line of the narrative
+something of him. Has this occurred to you? The going to Waterloo with
+that unconsciousness of everything in the road, but the obstacles to
+getting on--the shutting herself up in her room and determining not to
+hear--the not going to the door when the knocking came--the finding
+out by her wild spirits when she heard he was safe, how much she had
+feared when in doubt and anxiety--the desperate desire to move towards
+him--the whole description of the cottage, and its condition; and
+their daily shifts and contrivances; and the lying down beside him in
+the bed and both _falling asleep_; and his resolving not to serve any
+more, but to live quietly thenceforth; and her sorrow when she saw him
+eating with an appetite so soon before his death; and his death
+itself--all these are matters of truth, which only that astonishing
+creature, as I think, could have told in fiction.
+
+"Of all the beautiful and tender passages--the thinking every day how
+happy and blest she was--the decorating him for the dinner--the
+standing in the balcony at night and seeing the troops melt away
+through the gate--and the rejoining him on his sick bed--I say not a
+word. They are God's own, and should be sacred. But let me say again,
+with an earnestness which pen and ink can no more convey than toast
+and water, in thanking you heartily for the perusal of this paper,
+that its impression on me can never be told; that the ground she
+travelled (which I know well) is holy ground to me from this day; and
+that please Heaven I will tread its every foot this very next summer,
+to have the softened recollection of this sad story on the very earth
+where it was acted.
+
+"You won't smile at this, I know. When my enthusiasms are awakened by
+such things they don't wear out.
+
+"Have you ever thought within yourself of that part where, having
+suffered so much by the news of his death, she _will not_ believe he
+is alive? I should have supposed that unnatural if I had seen it in
+fiction.
+
+"I shall never dismiss the subject from my mind, but with these hasty
+and very imperfect words I shall dismiss it from my paper, with two
+additional remarks--firstly, that Kate has been grievously putting
+me out by sobbing over it, while I have been writing this, and has
+just retired in an agony of grief; and, secondly, that _if_ a time
+_should_ ever come when you would not object to letting a friend copy
+it for himself, I hope you will bear me in your thoughts.
+
+"It seems the poorest nonsense in the world to turn to anything else,
+that is, seems to me being fresher in respect of Lady De Lancey than
+you--but my raven's dead. He had been ailing for a few days but not
+seriously, as we thought, and was apparently recovering, when symptoms
+of relapse occasioned me to send for an eminent medical gentleman one
+Herring (a bird fancier in the New Road), who promptly attended and
+administered a powerful dose of castor oil. This was on Tuesday last.
+On Wednesday morning he had another dose of castor oil and a tea cup
+full of warm gruel, which he took with great relish and under the
+influence of which he so far recovered his spirits as to be enabled to
+bite the groom severely. At 12 o'clock at noon he took several turns
+up and down the stable with a grave, sedate air, and suddenly reeled.
+This made him thoughtful. He stopped directly, shook his head, moved
+on again, stopped once more, cried in a tone of remonstrance and
+considerable surprise, 'Halloa old girl!' and immediately died.
+
+"He has left a rather large property (in cheese and halfpence) buried,
+for security's sake, in various parts of the garden. I am not without
+suspicions of poison. A butcher was heard to threaten him some weeks
+since, and he stole a clasp knife belonging to a vindictive carpenter,
+which was never found. For these reasons, I directed a post-mortem
+examination, preparatory to the body being stuffed; the result of it
+has not yet reached me. The medical gentleman broke out the fact of
+his decease to me with great delicacy, observing that 'the jolliest
+queer start had taken place with that 'ere knowing card of a bird, as
+ever he see'd'--but the shock was naturally very great. With reference
+to the jollity of the start, it appears that a raven dying at two
+hundred and fifty or thereabouts, is looked upon as an infant. This
+one would hardly, as I may say, have been born for a century or so to
+come, being only two or three years old.
+
+"I want to know more about the promised 'tickler'--when it's to come,
+what it's to be, and in short all about it--that I may give it the
+better welcome. I don't know how it is, but I am celebrated either for
+writing no letters at all or for the briefest specimens of epistolary
+correspondence in existence, and here I am--in writing to you--on the
+sixth side! I won't make it a seventh anyway; so with love to all your
+home circle, and from all mine, I am now and always,
+
+"Faithfully yours,
+
+"CHARLES DICKENS.
+
+"I am glad you like Barnaby. I have great designs in store, but am
+sadly cramped at first for room."
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX B
+
+BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LADY DE LANCEY'S NARRATIVE
+
+
+_Reminiscences_, by Samuel Rogers, under the heading: "Duke of
+Wellington," p. 210.
+
+_Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore_, edited by Lord
+John Russell, Journal of 29th August 1824, vol. iv., p. 240.
+
+_Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington_, by Earl
+Stanhope, p. 182.
+
+Letter from Sir Walter Scott to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 13th
+October 1825, published in the _Century Magazine_ (New York), April
+1906, and in Appendix A, _ante_.
+
+Letter from Charles Dickens to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., dated 16th
+March 1841, published in the _Century Magazine_ (New York), April
+1906, and in Appendix A, _ante_.
+
+_Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_, 1888, vol. viii., p. 414. A
+condensed account of her experiences at Waterloo, written by Lady De
+Lancey for the information of her friends in general. See page 31,
+_ante_.
+
+_Century Magazine_, New York, April 1906. Publication in full of the
+original narrative as written by Lady De Lancey for the information of
+her brother, Captain Basil Hall, R.N.
+
+
+
+
+INDEX
+
+
+Abbotsford, 124.
+
+Abercrombie, General, 6.
+
+_Abridged Narrative_, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 112, 118.
+
+_Adonais_, 38.
+
+Alava, General, 16, 17, 19, 56, 103, 114.
+
+Ambassador, Spanish, 42, 103.
+
+Annapolis, 5.
+
+Antwerp, 41, 44, 45, 48, 52, 53, 58, 59, 64, 93, 108.
+
+Appleton's _Cyclopaedia_, quoted, 3, 5, 8, 24.
+
+_Autobiography of Sir Harry Smith_, quoted, 10, 17.
+
+
+B., Mrs, 60, 61.
+
+Bacon, quoted, 1, 2.
+
+Bahama Islands, 9.
+
+Ball at Duchess of Richmond's, 45, 103, 106.
+
+Barclay, Colonel Delancey, 51, 112.
+
+_Barnaby Rudge_, 35, 125, 130.
+
+Barnes, Major-General Sir E., 15, 18, 20.
+
+Bathurst, Earl, 12, 33.
+
+Berkeley, Colonel, 18.
+
+Beverley, 5, 8.
+
+Bibliography of Lady De Lancey's Narrative, 131.
+
+Bloomingdale, 7.
+
+Bluecher, 18, 21, 105, 109.
+
+Bonaparte, Napoleon, 121.
+
+Bowood, 32.
+
+Brogden, T.W., 103.
+
+Broke-Vere, Sir Charles, 116.
+
+Brunswick, Duke of, 46.
+
+Brussels, 12, 14, 18, _et passim_.
+
+Bulow, 105.
+
+
+Caen, 3, 4.
+
+Calnek and Savary, 5.
+
+Cambridge, Duke of, 117.
+
+Canning, Colonel, 18.
+
+Castel Cicala, Prince, 19.
+
+_Castle Rackrent_, 15.
+
+Cathcart, Colonel, 104.
+
+_Century Magazine_, 131, 132.
+
+Charleroi, 20, 112.
+
+Chichester, Henry Manners, 15, 23.
+
+_Childe Harold_, 38.
+
+Clyde, Lieutenant, 117.
+
+Colville's Division, 108.
+
+Connecticut, 6.
+
+Constable, 33, 122, 123.
+
+Cooke, General, 18.
+
+Corunna, 25, 30.
+
+_County of Annapolis, History of_, 5.
+
+Craan, W.B., 109.
+
+_Creevey Papers_, 10, 11, 114, 115.
+
+Creevey, Mr, 114, 115.
+
+Cromie, Lieutenant, 117.
+
+Crown Point, 6.
+
+Cruger, Colonel John Harris, 7.
+
+
+Dalton's _Waterloo Roll Call_, 20, 112, 113.
+
+Defoe, 1, 36, 126.
+
+De Coster, 109.
+
+De Lancey, Charlotte, 8.
+
+De Lancey, Edward Floyd, 3, 5, 24.
+
+De Lancey, Etienne, 3, 4.
+
+De Lancey, James, 5.
+
+De Lancey, Lady, 12;
+  Narrative of, 24, 31-38.
+
+De Lancey, Oliver, 5, 8, 26.
+
+De Lancey, Peter, 5.
+
+De Lancey, Sir William Howe, biography of, 10;
+  military services of, 10, 25, 26;
+  on board H.M.S. _Endymion_, 25;
+  marriage, 12, 118;
+  summoned to Belgium, 13;
+  at Brussels, 13, 39-45;
+  at the battle of Waterloo, 14, 50, 51;
+  wounding and death of, 13-16, 50, 99, 110.
+
+De Lancey, Stephen, 8, 9.
+
+De Lancey, Susanna, 8.
+
+De Lancey, Guy, 3.
+
+De Ros, Lady, 103.
+
+_Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, quoted, 15, 16.
+
+Dickens, Charles, 1, 33, 34, 37, 121, 130, 131.
+
+Dickens, Kate, 127.
+
+_Dictionnaire de la Noblesse de France_, 3.
+
+_Dictionary of National Biography_, 10, 11, 12, 15, 23, 25, 26, 111,
+112, 116, 117.
+
+Draper, Sir William, 8.
+
+Dundas, General Sir David, 8, 117.
+
+Dundas, General Francis, 35, 82, 86, 89, 92, 93, 96, 99, 100, 101, 117,
+125.
+
+Dunglass, 108, 118, 119.
+
+Dunkirk, 108.
+
+
+Eaton, Mrs, 107, 108, 112.
+
+Edinburgh, 119.
+
+Elba, 10, 118, 119.
+
+Emma, 35, 46, 48, _et saepe_.
+
+_Endymion_, H.M.S., 25, 27, 28, 30.
+
+_Evening Mail_, quoted, 17, 118.
+
+Evere Cemetery, 117.
+
+
+_Fragments of Voyages and Travels_, 25, 26, 31.
+
+_Frazer, Colonel Sir A.S., Letters of_, 13, 15, 115.
+
+Frejus, 119.
+
+Fremantle, Colonel, 17.
+
+
+Genappe, 22, 49, 109.
+
+Genoa, 11.
+
+_Gentleman's Magazine_, 118, 122.
+
+Ghent, 11.
+
+Gordon, Colonel Sir Alexander, 18, 20, 21, 116.
+
+Gore, Captain Arthur, 2, 109.
+
+Gore, Montague, 116.
+
+Grant, Colonel, 100.
+
+Greene, General, 7.
+
+Gronow, Captain, 19.
+
+Gurwood's _Despatches of the Duke of Wellington_, 10, 15, 106.
+
+
+Hal, 108.
+
+Halkett, Sir Colin, 114.
+
+Hall, Captain Basil, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 121, 124, 131.
+
+Hall, Magdalene (Lady De Lancey), 12, 26, 68, 89, 99, 118.
+
+Hall, Mrs Basil, 24, 121, 124.
+
+Hall, Sir James, 12, 118.
+
+Hamilton, Sir H.D., 82, 113.
+
+Hamilton, Lady, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 61, 93.
+
+Hay, Captain William, 113, 114.
+
+Hay, Cornet Alexander, 113.
+
+Hay, Lieut., 59, 60, 66, 67, 113.
+
+Hervey, Mrs (Lady De Lancey), 122.
+
+Hervey, Colonel Felton, 19, 106, 114.
+
+Hills, Robert, 113.
+
+_History of the Corps of Royal Engineers_, quoted, 112.
+
+Howe, General Sir William, 7.
+
+Howe, Lord, 6.
+
+Hudson River, 7.
+
+Hume, Dr, 13, 80, 81, 89, 90, 91, 98, 115, 116.
+
+"Hundred Days," 119.
+
+
+_Illustrated London News_, 109.
+
+_Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine_, 31, 131.
+
+India, 29.
+
+Invalides, Les, 38.
+
+
+Jackson, Colonel Basil, 19, 104.
+
+James II., 4.
+
+James, Mr, 53, 54, 55, 57.
+
+Johnson, Mrs S., 10.
+
+Jones' History, quoted, 3, 7.
+
+
+_Kentish Gazette_, 103.
+
+
+Ladysmith, 16.
+
+Lannoy, Count de, 39, 93, 104.
+
+Lansdowne, Lord, 32.
+
+_Larochejaquelein, Memoires de Madame la Marquise de_, 34.
+
+Lennox, Lord William, 19.
+
+Ligny, 21, 105, 113.
+
+Lloyd, Major W.J., 117.
+
+London, 8, 71.
+
+Long Island, 7.
+
+Louvain, 101, 117.
+
+Lowe, General E.W.H. De Lancey, 31.
+
+Lowe, Sir Hudson, 10, 11.
+
+_Loyalists of the American Revolution,_ quoted, 8.
+
+_Lycidas_, 38.
+
+Lyons, 119.
+
+
+Machel, Town Major, 47.
+
+Maclean, Major, 117.
+
+_Madrid Gazette_, 17.
+
+Maitland, Captain, 121, 122.
+
+Malines, 58.
+
+Maurice, Colonel, 106.
+
+M'Kenzie, General, 62, 63, 64, 114.
+
+_Memoires de Madame la Marquise de Larochejaquelein_, 34.
+
+Mitchell, Captain, 46, 47, 49, 55, 57.
+
+Mons, 13.
+
+Mont St Jean, 22, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115.
+
+Moore, Thomas, 32, 33, 131.
+
+Mount-Norris, Lord, 18.
+
+Mueffling, General, 106.
+
+
+Namur, 20, 21.
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