The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-25 00:00:00

WELLINGTON AT WATERLOO.

We transcribe the subjoined description of the Duke
on the 18th of June, 1815, from M. de Lamartine's
History of the Restoration. It will be found sufficiently
curious to repay perusal, if only for inasmuch as it de-
monstrates, in a rather remarkable manner, the reliance
that may be placed in the veracity of Lamartine as an his-
torian. The passage informs us seriously, as will be ob-
served, that Wellington, "having already had seven horses
worn out or killed under him " during the eourse of the
battle, "mounted the eighth,"—the fact beingt the Duke
rode only. one horse during the whole of 'tile battle
of Waterloo—namely, his famous charger, Copenhagen.
So much for the vituperator and caricaturist of the
Emperor Napoleon ! So much for the flatterer and
panegyrist of pudding-headed old Louis XVIII ! So

much for Alphonse de Lamartine as an author—an
illustrious poet, a glorious orator, a sublime patriot, a
great man—but a deplorable annalist. lierp, however,
is the quotation

" In the midst of the battle--Wellington, straitened and
almost forced from his final position, between the skirts of
the forest and the slopes of Mont St. Jean, the sunmit of
which was nearly attained by Ney, and subsequently carried
by the terrible guard of Napoleon—his regiments dreadfully
cut up, and thousands of their dead left behind them upon
the slope of La Haie Sainte, of Hougemont, and of Waterloo—
eleven of his generals dead around him, and amongst them
his friend and right-hand general, Picton—eight of his seven-
teen aides-de-camp killed or wounded—Blucher vanquished,
and wandering at a distance from him in the plains of rNamar
—and Below, whom he had been expecting all the day, in-
visible to the officers whom he sent every hour to observe the
horizon on the side of Wavres.

" But the fortune of Wellington, entirely at fault in every.

thing that surrounded him, was all centred in himself, and in
the unshaken resolution of dying or conquering with which
he had inspired his army. Having already had seven horses
worn out or killed under him,Wellington mounted the eighth,
and galloped from brigade to brigade, to inspire, with a few
words, order, activity, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, con-
tempt of death, a sense of duty, and the cool but invincible
heroism of a free people; and returned_ the next moment to
resume his post of battle under the lofty oak of Waterloo, that
his officers should not wander about in search of him on every
change in the action that required his presence. There he
remained exposed to the balls, which rattled in showers
amongst the branches of the tree, looking no longer for vic-
tory, but night ; for night, now his only hope, could alone
bring him the Prussians, through the darkness and the defiles
of St. Lambert.

" But night came not to his wish, and the columns of the
Guard were already in motion to storm the terrace of Mont
St. Jean, under the eyes of Wellington, and yet no sight of
the Prussians I" .

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—The follow-
ng are extracts from the official report :—During the
three weeks that have passed of this month the deaths
show a decrease, having been successively 1,101, 1,022,
and 922. In the ten weeks corresponding to the week
that ended last Saturday the average number was 1,01.6,
which, if corrected for increase of population, becomes
1,118, than which amount last week's mortality is less
by 196. These facts are evidence that the public health
has not suffered lately, notwithstanding the unusual and
prolonged wetness of the weather. A decrease is also
observed in the mortality of zymotic diseases, which have
declined from 228 in the preceding week to 184 in the
last, while in the same time diseases of the respiratory
organs (exclusive of phthisis) have decreased from 192 to
167. Scarlatina has fallen from 88 to 59 ; and with re-
spect to other epidemics the numbers referred to them
last week are as follows : small-pox 4, measles 8, hooping
cough 17, croup 4, thrush 4, diarrhoea 16, dysentry 1,
influenza 3, purpura 1, ague 1, infantile and remittent
fever 2, tphus 50, puerperal fever 6 (besides other 5 deaths
that occurred in childbearing), erysipelas 5, syphilis 1.
Last week the births of 770 boys and 720 girls, in all
1,490 child. eri, were registered in London. In the seven
corresponding; weeks of the years 1845-51 the average
number was 1,337. At the Royal Observatory, Green-
wich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week
was 29.159 in. The mean temperature of the week was
49'3 deg., which is 5.2 deg. above the average of the
same week in ten years. The mean daily temperature
was above the average on every day of the week, and
the excess was more than 8 deg. on Monday and Tues-
day, and 6 deg. on Wednesday and Saturday. The
wind blew generally from the, south-west. The rain in
the week amounted to 1.77 in.
THE DISCOVERIES AT, KING'S NUNEHAM.—The in-
teresting communication of your correspondent " L.M.
M.R." will, no doubt, claim attention from many of
your readers ; and, although totally unacquainted with
the neighbourhood of Nuneham Regis and its proprie-
tors, I have a strong suspicion that the decapitated body
will turn out to belong to no less a personage than .the
Duke of Monmouth, who was beheaded on Tower-hill in
1685 ; and, although,. according to Burnet, he was, soon
after his execution, buried in the chapel of the Tower;
his body may have been, afterwards removed, and pri-
vately deposited in the quite chapel of Nuneham Regis,
at that time, as now, the property of the 13uccleuch-
family. Monmouth married Ann, the daughter and heir
of Francis Scott, Earl of Buccleuch, and though in some
measure estranged from him by his improper connexion
with Lady Ann Wentworth, yet the tender inter-_
view that is ,recorded between Monmouth and his
wife previous to his execution gives countenance t) the
idea that she may have procured his remains for deposit
privately with her own family receptacle ; ,aid, under
such circumstances, it may readily be conceived that
such secrecy would be used as not to leave any memento
along with the corpse as to whom it might belong, the
very circumstance of decapitation beingthought probably
quite sufficient then, as now, for designation.—Notes and
Queries

PRICE OF PROVISIONS IN AUSTRALIA.—The prices of
provisions in Australia have been going " up and down"
like a barometer. On the 11th of August flour sold at
Forest Creek at 12/. per bag ; sugar at ls. 6d. per lb.;
salt was 25.; tea, 45.; beef, Bd. per lb.;
.biscuits, 2s. &l.
per lb. About the same time the quotations in the
Melbourne market Were—flour (at ,the mills, that is to
say minus carriage), 251.; wheat, Bs.; and, oats, 7s. 6d.
Good cattle sold at 12s. per cwt.; sheep, lie. The price
of butchers' meat was rising generally, but flour and
bread were not expected to rise higher, since the markets
were more freely supplied. The Launceston and Hobart-
town markets remained almost unchanged ; wheat, at 9s.
and first flour at 24/. ; barley, ss. ; potatoes, 41. At
Hobart-town there was an advance of is. genera* on
the Launceston prices.

COMMON LAW PROCEDURE ACT.—The following state-.
ment shows how well the late statute for the amendment
of the practice of the common law courts has hitherto
worked. The number of writs issued in the three suple-
rior courts between the 24th of October and the 20th of
November, 1851, were respectively as follows ----Queen's
Bench, 2,163 ; Common Pleas; 1,481 ; Exchequer, 2,828.
Those issued during the corresponding period in 1852,
were,—Queen's Bench, 2,415 ; Common Pleas, 1829 ;
Exchequer, 3,293: showing .an increase in the present
year, during the first four weeks of the act coming tinto
operation, of 252 in the Queen's Bench, 348 in the Conti-
mon Pleas, and 465 in the Exchequer.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A COLLIER.—James Farnworth,
a collier,' of Singing Clough, Bolton; has lost his life by
the careless use of a naked candle in the mine where he

was working. He wa,;eMil;;Ted-13Yife;;;;. Knowles
and Stott, on Wednesday last, and having had occasion
to leave a part of the mine in which he had been work-
ir!g, he returned with a naked candle. During his ab-

ence a quantity of inflammable gas had accumulated,
and the consequence was an explosion, by which he was
so much burnt that he died last Friday. An inquest
was held on view of the body yesterday, and a verdict
of "Accidental Death " returned, the Jury expressing
their conviction that the fatality was entirely owing to
the unfortunate man's own act. He was the only per-

son injured by the explosion. ,
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