The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-24 00:00:00

WATERLOO.

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OsTtND:, AtiG. 15.-1 Wonder More London ri-
'itOl's do brit come to Waterloo; the hargeS take
'yon froth hence to Ghent for aboilt 10s. ; the dili-
genet, froth there to Bruxelles, 7s. 6(1; a fiacre
'or the day, to Waterloo and back, 20s. Oppo-
'ite the Inn; at a cottage where the Earl of Ux-
bridge was carried, you are shewn a neat garden,
in the centre of funr-paths, a little hillock with a
'lower planted thereon spews the sepulture of his
4ffirdship's leg ; in an inclosure, further behind
his rotta;!c, are interred several English Officers;
. bee only, Colo.pei Fitzgerald, of the Life Guards,
has a stone with an inscription over him : many
have been talon up and transmitted to England.
Yon then proceed tO Waterloo, the house of Jean
Baptiste La Coste, called Belle _Alliance, from
winitm I obtained the following particulars
Ahout five in the morning he was taken prisoner
to set Ye as guide, and conducted with his hands
f'i (' 1•;,7(1 him (that he- might not .eScape as a
toi:hatr ma., I,ad ,t„,,e) to another house, belong,
ant' to Ilim,-?opPesite to w!,ich 111:Onaparte had
slept. Observing the French soldiers p'undering
and destroying this house, he cried : Buonaparte
asked what he cried for He replied, " Because
your soldiers aretlestroying all my property, and
niv mamcily Have uu %Vlitte to pot then. head."--
• Enouaparte said, ‘1 Do yon not know that I am
Emperor, and can recompense you an hundred
tittles as much ?" lie was placed on a horse imme-
diately between 11nouaparte and his first Aide-de-
camP, his saddle being tied to. the saddle of a
troopt'r behind him, that he might not escape.—
They- proceeded a hide beyond Belle-Alliance, and
Puotiapayte took the: ground on A small eminence
-oat :the opposite side.; a sort of -body guard of
welve•pieces'of artillery, very light, surrounding
them. From this spot he could -coMmandbbth
lines. Ile first observed, " How steadily those
troops -take the ground !. How beautifully those
ea'alry foim !—Regardcz ces *chevaux Gris !
Qui soot ces beaux cavaliers ? Ces .sont des. braves
troupes, suais tans tine demi heure je les cue-
Feral en pieces. Observing how the chasms in
the British squadrons
.were filled up, the instant.
they were blade. by his optill'ery, he exclaimed
" Quelles braves troupes!. coninie ifs §e travaillent,
traraillent tres biers, tres bier? !" Ile asked La
Coste the part ietilars of every house, tree, wood,
rising grown!, &c. with which he seeined well in-
formed, holding a map,io his left hand, and in-
tent upon the action all the day, incessantly tak-
ing ,snuff from his waistcoat-pocket, in large'
pinches, of which he violently snuffed up about
'half, throwing the other half from him with ra
strong exertion Of the arm and thumb and finger,
as if from vexation ; this was -all the refreshment
he took for 14. hours , he frequently placed his left
hand upon the tieck of La Coste's'horse,qo speak
to time Aid-de.!Camp on the other side of him.—
. Seeing ta Coste fiiikich at. the shower of shot, he
replied; ".Do not s4ir, my friend, a shot will kill
_ you equally in the back as the front, or wound you
more About half past five, hear-
ing the fire of the Prussians _On the right of his
tear flank, leaning his hand on the neck of La
Caste's horse, and seeing the British Cavalry, ft omit
their right and lett flanks, mikint, a tremendous
charge that would have encircled his personal po-
sition, he exclaimed,—." It faUt yue nous nous saw=
tons.," retreating, with all his Staff, about forty
yards along tire road, and within about twenty
yards of the house, Belle Alliance, he halted, and
, putting the glass to his eye, saw the British ca-
. vairy intermingled, pele melt, and 'furiously cut-
ting the French troops in pieces. He exclaimed;
Quelles kriiblcs ces Chevaux GriS i" (meaning
:the Scots Greys, which had particularly during
the day, and at that moment, attracted his atten-
tion.) - lout nous (ITN:her nous aepecher."—
. They and all the cavalry commenced a gallop till
they gat about three leagues beyond CharieroY,
.wh-ere they halted, and pitched a tent:upon a grass
plat, about 'nine at night. A fire was kindled, and
iefreshment placed upon a chair, which Buona-
parte took, the first for fourteen hours, standing
xvith his hack to the fire„ with his hands generally
behind him; conversing with a circle of nine,
whose horses La Coste had been ordered to hold
till the
,party, abOut two in the morning, broke
bp, when each taking his horse, the servant of the
List
.gave La Caste a Napoleon d'or, which he ex;
_changed, after a 24 hours fast, to refresh himself
and family.
La Coste is a very intelligent peasant, lives in
the shattered house Belle Alliance, 'stews the
room where the Prince of _Waterloo and Blticher
shook hands, which he did not see, and conducts
Tititors all over the ground, describing every par-
ticular. The observatory, he says, was erected
before the action, and had nothing to do with it.
Tire ground is nommostly ploughed up, and there
is by no means now .so horrid an appearance as I
- bave seen in some places in Spain after an action.
On the left of all, 'the Brunswickers, in a
firm square, made a breastwork of carnage ; the
;Scots brigade next, A brigade of Hanoverian
Landwehr on their right, forming their square
auk wardly., Colonel Cameron., of the 92d, who
:was killed afterwards, called to them to form
as they did, which' they obeyed, and stood ; -the
tiext, a Data) brigade, by not forming alertly,
were emit to pieces. This battle prottetl the fact of
What we vulgarly call boUont. • • ,
The French cavalry, in proof armour; repeatedly
and repeatedlyeharged our squares, their cannon
bpening cilasits, the British infantry diminished
and diminished, were inflexible and impenetrable
to time last. At Salamanca, our heavy cavalry,
with no 'armour, cintrged their sqUares, totally
routed,theat with most horrid carnage, for haw-
ing, atter they had called for and received guar-
ter, On the cavalry retiring,. taken up theiep,ieees
and filed on them.
it- Meaning. time Scots Grels4

An iron cable has lately been -invented, and
ivied in a vow to the West Indies. It is re.
ported to answer the most sanguine expectation.
RI. CAL.LAMAED, one of the tnost distinguished
'sculptors of France, who had been indispoSed fan
or.
sotue months with a nervous fever, has put
'stud to his own existence.