The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

OPINIONS OF WELLINGTON.

The following passeg es irons Mr Francr.; book will be
read with interest, as illustrative of some opinions held by
the Duke of Wellington:

WATT. LOO

TO ♦ SOLDIER.

Notre Bataldle du 18 a tul atm di Outs ; ; et sots,
inertia a Eli Templet, comma vous voyes. Mae Dies me
(soothe ass*: pour quo je teen aM plus, percalee je sits di.
soli de la perte de ruts aneieusausis et comrades.
Mon coins, et collabureteur (Blucher) sit en bonus multi,
quoique an peu soutirant &use chute qu'il a fait* d'uu
chisel blesse sous lui dans M bataill• du 16.—Letter to
Doomouries, June 26, 1816.

IF NCUBAPAILTE IT TO HI PUT TO DEATH, HI WILL NOT

Br HIS_

General bu been here this day to oegeeiate fur Na-
poleon's passing to America, to whit\ reposition I have
answered that I have no authority. The Prussian. think
the Jacobins wish to give him over to me, believing that I
will save his life. wishes to kill him; but I have told
him I shall remonstrate, and shall insist span kis being
disposed of by common accord. I have likewise said that,
u a private friend, I advised him to lave soaking to do
with so foul a transaction; and that he sad I had acted too
dbtingeished parts in these transude.. to become execu-
tioners' and that I was determined that, if the sovereigns
wished him pat to death, they should appoint an execu-
tioner which should not be me.—June 28,1815,

rill POUNDING MATCH....

You will have heard of the battle of the 18th. Never
did I sett such a pounding_ match. Both were what the
boserscall "gluttons." Napoleon did not monomers at all.
He just moved forward in the old style, in columns, and
was driven off in the old style. The only difference was
that he mixed cavalry with his infantry, and supported
both with an enormous quantity of artillery.
I bad the infantry for some time in enures, and we had
the French cavalry walking about us u if they had been
our own. I never saw the British infant y behave so well.
—Letter to Marshal Bercuford, July 2, 1815.
WHY TIM DORI OF WILLI:4O7OX MILD 110 MAXI
07110111 "AD INT 111111," IX 110Y1M111, 1834.
I gave h Majesty the beat *deice which. nailer the cir-
cumstances el the are, it wittari4 teamposaisabie to give.
I advised Ida Majesty le mad dr *at alikt ben. gentleman
(dir R. Peel), a atesaber of ibe &ma el Cm moo, who
seemed to me to ho the mod fit sad capable person to
ilipe at the head of the nem administration, as first lord of
Os treasury. That eight ban. patleman was then in
Smother part of the world, and woe time must necessarily
AWN before it would be meals that he could return to
ibis serantry. It appeared le his Majesty and to myself,
bawler, to be essentially neessemy that, in the meantime,
the promainent of this ammtry amid be take., possession
of end adminkbered. Tkasilsel esitaliksoll to be absolutely

necessary, and 1 also felt it ti; be etholutely thearary thai,
whoever oalgibe therein theythete',
_el gthowlethst in tbe
interval, avoid aka as step that West embootos es elm•
pada the him thawed is his sera It was wag
that primal that I accegbd, kr the dos, al the aim of
gag ef the treasury and secretary el TMs dlr dr
hems deportnteet.
The mirk visseeet les writ a little wreaks Is
That I wee eggshaled te three disgrlirsate at emelt
ashes it a setter et shame spier sae that I merged the
authority of the three seatharies ef state ; but the whit
viscount knows very well that the seeretary of state for the
bane department is eraapolast,uithereertabeeisametansee,
hide ise. It was ibr se ethos. roma wheorior_ Abet% wig
Wis. cemented to Mid, fee a tree, dr ellweilsos es Lint
lead of the rearm. and weerrry of thee bathe bone
department Bet I want to Mew whether this was, es
the WM errant Winnable, aa tagesesdested art? Whoa
Mr. Canning was secretary of agate fer the Amiga dea*
neat be woo appointed Out lad of the tesseary. The
latter ethos Mr. Canning raelved ea the lab of Aged,
and be did set resigo the stele of tie Amigo detheltheed
until the 10th of that math. During the whets of this
period Mr. Canning discharged the dada bush of somoory
of stele doe foreign affairs aid Oust lied of the temp
My lads, I ea quite share that there were at thee
two ease earetaries of state, but the fact le se hove
stated le, OM Mr. Casein therciied at the awe elm
the fesedem of int his el the Meanly sad ..retry of
state kir the Ilissiga depostmeat The armotion in mg
ems was, tbssekree ar ; art I most also say,
dm whoa the odds pew to blares Mb
es he ad, be was bid row mailost, in that
respect, hod hem atliedoll sion ce
heirs
with Neer, It dor eel ewer that it has lortollooLd
with any soot resod. The AM le, thus *wig *e wide
of the thee shot dark, tie obis of tit doodled I MI
the two casts I seMisosig eyelid taft sag dip ishlob
Milt be goadostive el =sat lorowwisot se ir
and whoa my t hem faked toult_ dop•
eer=l:ll% ease, I ma to any that be Watt
Lad biased semperised by any sett am—Feb. 24, Ida