The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-29 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FRO2iI PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
The Moniteur has not any news of its own to-
dly respecting the war or the Congress, with the
exception of an account from Florence, which com-
pletely confirms the fact of the enthusiastic war
feeling in Italy. The volunteers offered themselves
so eagerly that a sufficient number has been ob-
tained for the present, and further emolument is
temporarily suspended.
It is estimated that the total value of the pro-
perty destroyed by the bombardment of Valparaiso
amounts to 73 millions of francs.

The coming Congress has inspired confidence of
peace in some quarters, but I have looked in vain at
the Paris papers to-day to discover any general
anticipation of the kind. The Journal des Debats
says, in a kind of official tone, that the circum-
stances are not such as to inspire great hope.
Yesterday was decidedly the most attractive
racing day of the season. The Emperor and
Empress and all Paris were in the Bois de Bou-
logne. The Grand Prix de Paris for the last four
years has been won by two French horses and two
English horses, so matters are now equal in this
respect between the countries. This year the Duke
of Beaufort's Ceylon has carried away the prize. I
subjoin an account of the races in their order, ac-
cording to the authentic list :

Prix d'Arraenouville, 2,000 f.
Novateur
Lalla Rookh .
Prix des Pavilions, 6,000 f.
Gontran (C. Pratt) 1
Vertugadin 2
La Favorite (G. Pratt) ,3
Amount of the prize, 6,750 f., • 950 f. for the
second.

Prix de liendon (Handicap).

Czar
Mercedes .
Pilaus 3
Amount of the prize, 10,500 f., 500 f. to the
second.

Grand Prix de Paris. A work of Art presented
by the Emperor, worth 10,000 f., and 100,000 f.,
half given by the City of Paris and half by the
five principal railway companies, for horses foaled
in 18(33 of any country. The second to receive
10,000 f., and the third 5,000 f. Weight, about
901bs. Distance, 3,000 metres. 95 horses en-
tered.
Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, by Idle Boy—Pearl
(Cannon) 1
Mr. Merry's Primate
Count Batthyany's Mazeppa 3
Count Lagrange's Auguste
Betting-5 to 4 agst Ceylon. Thrace was a
splendid one. Auguste led at first, but was soon
distanced at the ascent ; Fernand Cortes, Mazeppa,
and Maravedis were ahead, but it was soon evident
that the chance was between Ceylon and Primate.
Ceylon won by a length. Amount of the prize,
182,600 f. I have already described the cup pre-
sented by the Emperor. 11 ran.
Prix du Conseil General, 4,000 f., for entered horses
and mares of three years and upwards of any
country. The winner to be demanded for 7,500 f.
Distance, about 2,800 metres. 12 ran.
Salambo II 1
Equivoque
Chantilly

Betting—Even agst Salambo 11., 6 to 4 agst
Chantilly, and sto 1 agst Equivoque. Equivoque
beat Chantilly by half a length for second place.
The races in the Bois de Boulogne on Saturday
were not very well attended. The following is the
order of the running :
Prix du Mont Valerien, 2,000 f.
Virilis
Gaulois
Maravedis
Fleurette (Count Lagrange) 2
Prix de la Ville de Paris, 6,000 f.
Solitaire
Matamore
Prix de l'Empereur, 4,000 f.
Vertugadin
Baionnette

Prix de la Neva, 5,000 f.

Paris is very full of foreigners just now, and pick-
pockets appear to be even more abundant than
usual. The Paris papers seem to take a malicious
pleasure in attributing all the pocket abstractions to
English artists. They certainly abound now, and
generally speaking do what is called a good stroke
of business. Their favourite haunts are the stations
where people wait for places in the omnibus. On
Saturday the Police who arc on the watch at the
Palais Royal in plain clothes arrested three of the
fraternity. Tx° are English and one Italian. A
vast number of purses were found upon them, many
filled with gold. A pocket-book found on one of
the Englishmen contained 7,800 f. in bank notes.
The Paris evening papers at the present time
compete with each other very actively in the publi-
cation of supposed facts and surmises respecting
war. People rush to the stalls and buy them with
great avidity. This accounts for the multiplication
of false rumours. Paris politicians will have news
of some sort, and the evening papers can hardly
avoid giving it to them. The most prominent lie
of the day is a supposed treaty between France,
Prussia, and Italy. The Moniteur has thought this
report worth contradiction. It is stated that the
despatches of the three Governments speak of the
Venetian question as " the Italian differences."
The present railway traffic in France seems to be
enormous. It appears from the table of the Western
Railway Company, just issued, that in 1865 the
number of travellers who went from the Paris
station to various towns was no less than 13,645,592,
or more than a third of the population of France.
Probably a greater number travelled by the
Northern Railway.
A mechanic of Lyons has applied the principle of
the mechanism of the Jacquard loom to musical in-
struments. His first experiment was with the
accordion, and it was quite successful. Pasteboard
is used to change the tunes, in the same way as in
the manufacture of stuff to vary the patterns, and
thus any one may play in the same manner as with
the hand-organs. The Jacquard Accordion will
figure at the Exhibition.

Two remarkable pictures have just been pur-
chased on account of the city of Paris from M.
Boittelle, Senator, formerly Prefect of Police. One
is a view of the Hotel de Ville in 1751, at the time
of the fetes given by the municipality in celebration
of the marriage of the Duke de Bourgogne, son of
Louis XV. The other is a representation of the
Palace of the Tuileries in 1753. They are both the
production of a French artist, M. Raguanet.
Shakspere is rather in the ascendant in Paris.
" Richard the Third" has been done into a three-
act drama, by M. Victor Sejour, for the Porte St.
Martin ; but those best versed in the tragedy would
find it most difficult to recognise as our great bard's
delineation of the " crooked-backed tyrant." The
French dramatist, however, retains one incident—
Richard is killed on the battle-field. Although
Rieh::rd, however, is not exactly " himself again"
on the French stage, M. Sejour's drama has for the
moment caused the withdrawal of the " Biche de
Bois," which has been the rage for some 400 nights.
The other version of Shakspere is at the Theatre
Lyrique, in the shape of a comic opera, words by
M. Jules Barbier, music by Nicolai. The " Merry
Wives of Windsor "under the title of " Les Joyeuses
Conimeres,"
The laughter was fast and furious, on the first night
particularly,
highly delights the Paris audiences.
in consequence,of an additional mishap
to Falstaff. In an interesting part of the opera,
Falstaff's stuffing gave way bodily, and would have
fallen on the stage but for the hasty retreat of the
actor, Ismael, 'rho, however, eventually made the
best of the incident, by an exclamation to the effect
that it was another trick of these women.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

ITALY.
FLORENCE, May 29.
It is believed that the enrolment of volunteers
will be recommenced shortly.
25,000 volunteers have already left for their
quarters.

About 25,000 more have entered their names
in the offices of the Committees awaiting the order
for recommencing the enrolment, in order to enter
the corps.

FRANKFORT, MAY 29.

An extraodinary sitting of the Federal Diet will
take place to-day, at which the letters of invitation
to a Conference addressed to the President by .Eng-
land, France and Russia, will be submitted to the
members. It is expected that the Diet will ap-
point a special committee to report thereon. The
Diet will also appoint a committee to report upon
the Limburg question.

SPAIN.

MADRID, MAY 28, Evening.

In to-day's sitting of the Congress four amend-
ments were proposed to the bill requesting extra-
ordinary powers, brought forward by Marshal
O'Donnell.-

The Ministry will accept some modifications in
the bill.

MADRID, MAY 29.

The health of Senor Alonso Martinez still con-
tinuing to fail, he has finally resigned his seat in the
Cabinet as Minister of Finance. His resignation
has been accepted by the Queen, and Senor Cano-
vas del Custulo, Colonial Minister, has been pro-
visionally entrusted with the direction of the
vacant Ministry.
The Bank of Spain has advanced 25 millions to
the Government.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 22.

Riza Pasha has been appointed Grand Master of
the Artillery, in place of Halil Pasha, who has
been dismissed. This measure has had a bad local
effect.

The order for the Turkish troops to enter the
Principalities has been suspended.

MEXICO.

Advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th instant states
that the Emperor Maximilian has succeeded in nego-
tiating a heavy loan in Europe.
The Republicans have suffered a total defeat at
Michoacan. The Imperialists have occupied Tains-
tarn., Republican accounts state that Mendez had
captured the French garrison of Jonuto, the only
Imperial force in Tabasco. It is reported that
Escobedo, with 2,000 men, is marching on Mon-

terey.
The Washington papers publish a report asserting
that Santa Anna is acting as a French spy.

FRANCE.
PARIS, iuAy 29.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
" The identical notes, inviting the different
Powers to a Conference at Paris have arrived at
their destination. It is believed that favourable
replies may be relied upon."

In the Corps Legislatif yesterday the report on
the Budget was laid on the table. M. Jules Favre
reminded the Chamber that it had still to discuss
the Mexican question, and that on the occasion of
the debate on the Budget the Government had pro-
mised that the documents relating to that question
should be presented to the Chamber.
M. Vuitry replied that the Government would
see what documents it was possible to publish in the,
present state of negotiations between France and
Mexico. " But," added the Minister, " the
Chamber understands that in the present position
of affairs the publication of the despatches must be
accompanied with great prudence and reserve."

BOURSE, May 28, Two o'clock.—The remarkably
favourable symptoms manifested on Saturday and
the consequent 'formidable advance in quotations
have been but of short duration. To-day a totally
opposite movement has been inaugurated, and the
descent in prices almost as rapid as the previous ad-
vance. This state of things has been caused by a
telegram announcing the occupation of the Danu-
bian Principalities by Turkish troops. Threes, for
the account, have fallen If. 121 c., the price now
being 64f. 75c. This stock has been dealt in as low
as 641. 40c. Italian Fives have receded 2f. 25c.
to 41f. 50c. Credit Mobilier shares have declined
21f. 25e., viz., to 536 f. 25c., and Spanish Mobilier
221. 50c.—to 272 f. 50c. Credit Foncier have lost
15f., they are at 1,070 f. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte
101.—at 735 f. The Railway Department is simi-
larly affected, Northern Shares losing 15f. ; Lyons,
17f. 50f. ; Lombards, 17f. 50c. ; and Austrian, 10f.
Three o'clock.—The market has closed on the fol-
lowing quotations :

II per Cents 94 Bank Shares —
Do. end month — Italian Loan 4l 60
3 per Cents. 64 90 Do, end month 4l 55
Do. end month 64 60 Mexican Loan 33
Credit Mobilier ... 510 Do. Bonds 235
Do. end month ... 537 50 Spanish Threes -
Credit Fonder — Homo Debt —
Do. end month 1160 Deferred
VAYS.

RAIL

For Account.
Orleans
Northern lOBO .
Lyons and Mediterranean.... .....
Southern 530
Western 530
Eastern 5lO
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 303 75
North of Spain ll7 50
Saragossa l5O
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

65 --

MARKETS.---This Day.

HAY.

SILITHFIELD.—Meadow hay £1 4s to £5 108 ; clover,
£5 5s to 16 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
Trade heavy.
CUMBERIAND.—Sfeadow hay, £4 4s to £sl2s Od; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
A fair inquiry.

WILITECHAPEL.-31eadow hay, £1 4s to £5 lOs ; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 6s per load.
A dull demand.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—The public sales havebeen brought to a termina-
tion, and prices have not varied to any important extent.
5,380 purchases have been offered, all of which were with-
out reserve.

SuoAß.—Only a limited amount of business has been
done, and but a small quantity is announced for public
sale during the week, prias being without material
change.

COFFEE.—Business has remained very quiet, but su-
perior descriptions of Ceylon arb at steady prices. The
arrivals have been on an extensive scale, and the imports,
as compared with those of the corresponding period of last
year, sha X a considerable increase

Bic-R.—Only moderato dealings have been reported in
cleaneq descriptions, at steady rates.
Tdvaow.—The heavy monetary pressure of last week
acted with full foie° upon the tallow market, causing the
suspension of several houses at Liverpool and elsewhere,
whose tallow, held under advance, was thrown upon the
market for immediate sale. This state of things seems
almost to 'have reached its worst; if so, an advance on
present moderate rates may be looked for. There is more
tone in the market to-day. Buyers offer 408 Gd for June,
and 44s Gd October to December, sellers asking Gd per cwt
more ; ready tallow, on the spot, is 40s 6d to 41s ; town
tallow, 40s 6d, not cash. The last Petersburg advises
bring the price 56i to 57 silver roubles for August, and
the exchange 26} to 41. The first shipment from thence
has already arrived. Sorts aro still scarce ; a cargo of
Odessa arri\ ed last week, which has all been disposed of.
More may be expected in a few Weeks.

LITERATURE.

A Grand Old Soldier.

The Memoirs and Correspondence of Field-Marshal
Viscount Combermere,. G.C.8., 'etc. By Man
Viscountess Combermere and Captain W. W.
Knollys, 93rd Sutherland Highlanders. Two
r Volumes. Hurst and Blackett.
A mere glance at the frontispieces adorning these
two splendid' volumes will be found at once—
before their perusal has been commenced—fairly to
captivate the reader's imagination. They present
to view these contrasting frontispieces, the vera
effigies of the noble veteran whose history the work
relates. They pourtray the heroic soldier whose
existence is therein celebrated--on the one hand
precisely as he looked at the very outset of his
career, and on the other band precisely as he looked
towards its conclusion. " COLONEL STAPLETON
COTTON in his Twenty First Year" are the words
inscribed under the first Frontispiece, the Fron-
tispiece, that is, to the First Voitime. " FIELD
MAnsirAL VISCOUNT COMBERMERE in his Ninety-
First Year" are the words inscribed under the
Second. Between those two dates, consequently,
there extended an interval of exactly seventy years'
duration ! Between the limning of those two por-
traits the living original whom they represented had
passed through a whole life, a life of fully " three-
score years and ten "—according to Holy Writ the
allotted age of man. And no idle or insouciant life
either, but a busy, active, energetic life—a life passed
in the full glare of public events--a life not obscure,
but, on the contrary, illustrious, and in many re-
spects magnificent. Looking at these two likenesses,
and remembering the history and character of the
dauntless soldier they represent, it is hardly possible,
we take it, to look at them unmoved. There is some-
thing, to ourselves at least, really affecting in the
mere comparison of those two widely-separated de-
lineations of the same countenance. The blooming
comeliness of early manhood upon the one, with
the not one jot less knightly comeliness of veteran
age upon the other. Nay, turning from one of
these frontispieces to the other, we should almost
be fain to accord our preference to the representa-
tion of the chivalric old Field-Marshal, as he ap-
peared in his ninety-first year, rather than to the
portraiture of the same man as a stripling Colonel
of twenty-one in the old-fashioned uniform of the
Twenty-fifth Light Dragoons. Handsome at the
very outset of his career, he was handsome to the very
close of it. A true-souled gentleman—ingrained,
to the backborre, to the core of hig heart, to the
innermost recesses of his nature—Stapleton Cotton
bore himself, as such, befittingly, in every phase of
his career, even in the very look and manner of him,
certainly in all the more notable words and actions
of his life from the far away beginning of it—a
beginning removed from us by very nearly one
whole century—down to its ultimate conclu-
sion, when the heroic old man breathed his
last, peacefully, in his bed, being then more than a
nonogenarian. Reading his life as it is here
admirably well related by his widowed Viscountess,
and by Captain W. W. Knollys, of the 93d
Sutherland Highlanders, it is impossible to do so
without a sense of exhilaration. It is as though we
were hearing tell at last, for once, of some one born
not simply with a gold spoon in his mouth, but
with a good round dozen of them, full-weight,
unalloyed, hallmarked, and king's-patterned. It is
like reading at length of some oue to whose christen-
ing all the Fairies had been asked without any excep-
tion whatever: even the spiteful one having been
propitiated by a timely invitation. Born on the 14th
of November, 1773, at Llewenny Hall, in Denbigh-
shire, Stapleton Cotton was to survive until—his
ninety-third year having commenced—he tranquilly
breathed his last breath on the 21st of February,
1865, at his old ancestral estate of Combermere
Abbey, down in Cheshire. Thrice during the
lapse of that long lifetime he was married. First,
in his twenty-eighth year, on the Ist of January,
1801, to the Lady Anne (who died in 1807),
daughter of the third Duke 'of Newcastle.
Secondly, in his forty-first year, exactly a year be-
fore the Battle of Waterloo—namely, upon the
18th of June, 1814—to Caroline (who died in 1837),
daughter of Captain Fulke Greville, grandson of the
fifth Lord Brooke. Thirdly, in his sixty-fifth year,
on the 2d of October, 1838, to Mary—joint author
with Captain Knollys of these enthralling memorials
—Mary Woolley, heiress of Robert Gibbings,
Esquire, and grandniece of Lord Combermere's first
commanding-officer, when (five-and-seventy years
ago, that is, in 1791) Stapleton Cotton, as a young
ensign, or, rather, second-lieutenant, of eighteen,
joined, at Dublin, the first regiment to which he
was appointed on leaving Westminster School,
namely, the 23d, or Royal Welch Fusiliers. Less
than a month after his thus joining his first
regiment, to be precise, on the 16th of March,
1791, Stapleton Cotton became lieutenant, doing
duty as such for two years in the Welsh Fusi-
liers, until, on the 28th February, 1793, he was made
Captain by purchase of the 6th Dragoon Guards or
Carabineers. Quartered with that regiment at
Bruges and Ghent, he there in Flanders first saw
service, first fleshed his maiden sword, first smelt
gunpowder in actual conflict on the 16th of April,
1794, at Premont and Cateau. Immediately prior
to this, his earliest entrance upon the battle-field,
he had, through family interest, been promoted
at the precocious age of one-and4wenty, first of all
to the Majority of the 59th Regiment, and
directly afterwards to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy
of the 25th Light Dragoons. Such were the
earliest steps of the young soldier on his first
entrance upon his public career—a career that
afterwards, by reason of many brilliant acts of
prowess, and by more than one resplendent
achievement, became world-fatuous and historical.
Himself the descendant and representative of two
ancient and distinguished families—the one the
essentially Saxon race of the Cottons of Cheshire,
their family seat prior to the Conquest, however,
having been at Coton, in Shropshire--the other the
old Bavarian house of the Salusburys, one of whom,
Adam, came over to England with William the Con-
queror—Stapleton Cotton (second son and fifth
child of Sir Robert Sainsbury Cotton, Bart., M.P.
for Cheshire, by Frances, daughter and heiress of
Colonel Stapleton, uncle to Sir Thomas. Stapleton,
afterwards Lord Le Despencer) won a peerage for
himself and for his descendants by the valour of his
arms, winning, at the same time, the baton of a Field
Marshal, the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Grand
Cross of Hanover, the Star of India, the Colonelcy
of the First Life Guards, the Order of the Tower
and Sword of Portugal, and the Order of St.
Ferdinand of Spain, besides a variety of minor
decorations. Moreover, he was not only a Vis-
count, a Baron, a Baronet, a Field Marshal, as
well as the possessor of all those other dig-
nitieS and insignia already enumerated—he was
in his time Governor of Barbadoes, Gold Stick in
Waiting, Constable of the Tower of London, Lord
Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, Commander-in-
Chief in the West Indies, Commander-in-Chief in
Ireland, Commander-in-Chief in. India, for an in-
terval even (during the temporary absence of Lord
Amherst) discharging the duties of Governor-Ge-
neral at Calcutta—but, above all this, beyond all this,
he gainedfor himself in the Peninsular War the glory,
the power, and the responsibility of Commander-
in-Chief of the Cavalry ! He who, several years be-
fore the close of the last century, had been actively
engaged against Tippoo Saib, who but a few years
after the commencement of the present century
had commanded a brigade in Portugal, who had been
present at Talavera, had been second in command to
Wellington at Salamanca, had conducted with con-
spicuous gallantry the siege of Bhurtpore—he who
had drawn the sword in the service of England
upon the Flemish Fields before the now Sas,ntris
had begun to parcel out Europe among his Satrap.
Kings, before he had crowned himself with the
diadem of Charlemagne, before even he had as-
sumed the Consular fasces after driving the Con-
script Fathers of the Directory before him out of the
orangery at St. Cloud—that same Stapleton
Cotton, who, as a handsome young Colo-
nel of Dragoons, was often partner for
the dance, down at Weymouth, with the then
youthful Princess, afterwards Duchess of Gloucester,
was riding but a veryfew years since, arrayed in his
Field Marshal's uniform, and bearing the symbol of
Lis office as Gold Stick in Waiting, at the right hand

of the Queen, when her Majesty reviewed the
Volunteers in Hyde Park. He who, as an infant,
had been dandled in the arms of Dr. Johnson's Mrs.
Thrale.—afterwards Airs. Piozzi, by birth, what
every reader of Boswell will remember her to have
been, Hester Salusbury, and, therefore,
a blood
relation of our hero—yet more recently than upon
the occasion of the Hyde Park review, took a con-
spicuous part in a great Court pageant, the
last of .all the Court pageants, however, that
!le was destined to attend, namely, when
he appeared, his breast one blaze of orders, in the
gorgeous procession filing into St. George's Chapel
down at Windsor when the Prince of Wales *as
married. All through the lengthened career of
this grand old soldier we are enabled to follow
him step by step, incident after incident, from bis
cradle to his coffin, through the eight hundred and-

thirty-seven pages of the Memoirs and Correspon-
dence here portioned out into these two thoroughly
readable and most entertaining volumes. Volumes
penned by his faithful relict the Dowager ViB-
- and by her ladyship's congenial collabo-
rateur, a young soldier already honourably known in"
the world of letters as a wielder at once of the pen
and of the sword, Capt. Knollys of the 93d Suther
land Highlanders. Those who bear in their remem-•
brance the long-familiar form and features of:
Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, as h 3 was.
known to this later generation until he disappeared
from the world, only as recently as last year, can-
not but read with interest such remote references to
him as that, let us say, occurring at page 21 of the
first of these two delightful volumes, where Mrs•
Thrale—writing under date Ist September, 1774,
to the late Field-Marshal's mother, to the moth''
of that old Lord Combermere, who died but the
other day in his ninety-third year—says of
him (then an infant)—" Stapleton has come on
visibly since we parted ; his stays grow tight
over the breast, I see, and I advised his maid to
put in a gore, as nothing can be more against
your liking than such confinement, I am sure." The
little mite of a weauling !—with the gore let into 1-Li
baby-stays by the nurse-maid !—fle who was after-
wards, upon so many a bloody battle field in Wu'
dostan and the Peninsula, to charge in helmet and
cuirass, sword in hand, at the head of his cavalry,
a preux chevalier like Roland, a beau sabreur like
Murat, at once a hero and a dandy, true to his anus'
tral motto, In Utraque Fortuna Paratus, going lot°
battle as though he were going on to parade, him-
self arrayed, that is to say, in all the splendour
of full uniform, his horse covered with the
most sumptuous housings. Following our her°
all through this narrative from its opening sen-
tence down to its conclusion, we watch him front
every point of view with interest, very often indeed
with the liveliest admiration. IVe have just nolt
seen him in the nursery—hardly out of his cradle.
We note next his removal, in boyhood, from home:-
care to the Audlem Grammar School, where he Ob-
tains weekly, or weakly tuition (spell it how V°
please)—having there among his companions Vernon
afterwards Archbishop of York. We pursue hi
course, later on, when he is removed to the great
collegiate school at Westminster, where he has among
his schoolfellows the late Marquess of Lansdowne:
then Lord Henry Petty, the late Field Marslw
Strafford, then known as Jack Byng, the F°e
Southey, Sir Robert Wilson, and Charles BunburY,
son of Colonel Banbury, the famous caricaturist'
lle is always, so to speak, tip-top, soineb°w'
in all his belongings and surroundingg'
this gay, blithe, impetuous, " bright-eyed, youtig
adventurer !" 'Young Rapid, he is called at home'
before he makei his first start in life or emerges
even from the playground. Descended, upon tbB
one hand, as we have seen, from those Saxon Cottelns
who were flourishing in England before the
coming of the Conqueror—descended on the
other from those Teutonic Salusburys who came over,
to England with the Conqueror, and who clainiel.
in fact (these last) to have sprung from a Sovereigil,
Duke of Bavaria Stapleton Cotton " endoweu
with ons of those iron constitutions lucre conall°,°,
in his time than in ours" (vol. i., p. 31) con.triVo
with a gay, riant air, as though the Battle of Life
were but a pastLaJ to him, to win the nobility his
father before him had disdained—nay, to will t";°
coronets, and the marshal's baton, and all the potePs
and glories we have before enumerated. How be
looked when starting upon the race let the follov
ing description indicate : • s
He was well calculated Co attract the attention of ladies
for, in addition to agreeable manners and lively and intel-
ligent conversation, ho was a decidedly handsome yotut
man. About 5 feet 8 inches in height, slightly but strong 70
built, and possessing great activity, he was an indefatigab,6
sportsman and an excellent pedestrian, even up to /jio
eighty-seventy year. A swarthy complexion, a prof asi°
of dark hair, thick eyebrows, and bright hazel eyes, &lacier_
by long eyelashes, gave him somewhat of a foreign aPP'!„,
ante. His glance was rapid, and the expression of
good-humoured, though when excited by anger it Pc); 1,0
be fiery
enough ; but, to do him justice, this was nedu°,
the case, 4
and any ebullition of temper was generally I°7
transient. The head was small- and well proportion;
the nostril open, and the nose aquiline ; while a rag .y,
Saxon chin indicated the firmness of character wilichtu'i:tg
tinguished him through life, and was indeed one ei
principal characteristics.
As a companion picture to which, take the subjoinei(!
account of him, as he appeared in what to others ,
the prime of manhood, but what to him was still h."t
his youth
At that time he was thirty-five years of age, and al5,
eidedly handsome man. Of middle height and stronz'l
though somewhat slightly built, he possessed great act'Da
of body, and was an excellent horseman. In his habit .0
was temperate to an extent not frequently met 10°3;
those days, yet withal he was of a sociable dispositt°d;
Though naturally hot-tempered, he was universally Hilts
for, courteous and pleasing in manner, he had ever a is
word for those of his subordinates with whom he
contact. Cheerful and fond of society, he fretriel!ol-
- the intervals of active operations or in winter
tars, amused himself byassembling the ladies of the 1t°171,0
bourhood at "those little parties called tertullio i° 01,
Peninsula, at which dancing, music, and flirtation all.coo-
bine for the entertainment of the guests. Like his 1,00,
trious chief, he was a great dandy, though with ni°l.e
`'ac-
cess. Resembling Murat in personal enterprise arta
lessness, he also resembled that prince of beaux sabre ° 'OO
carrying his love of dress into the very field of battle. is
the most perilous occasions, he was to be seen attire°lls
the rich uniform of a general of hussars, and mounted :a
horse covered with the most gorgeous trappings, Or .04
himself recklessly to a storm of shot. So notoriens tito
this habit, that it obtained him in the army of Win 00
name of the Lion d'Or. As calm and cool underball,
heaviest fire and at the most critical moments as at '',ese
his gallantry was so conspicuous that the writer of 1.:00,
pages heard one of Cotton's bravest officers liken, afte.ir to
lapse of upwards of half a century, his lamented chle;00
Ney. Surely no soldier was ever honoured by 6
noble panegyric. bed'
Enough, however, when all this has been rem° at
A. sketch of him at one time., is a sketch of himti
all times—that is at any rate in all essetios
particulars. For the man was of a nature th 3
one sense, could not grow old. He simplY 1311,03
out of life—he was never superannuated. 13e,,t00•
the last survivor of all the Generals of
He carried his dandyism with him to the very t-
--and oddly enough without any derogatioilii poth
ever from the dignity of his old age, so well
his age and his dandyism became him! His history 1,3c1i
told here as it is, gracefully and manfully, by ,rt 4
Combermere and by Captain Knollys—reads
like supplementary chapters from Froissart•
our heart, as Spencer's verse did the heart of hot°
as with the sound of a trump .i
et. The records old
given of his gallant deeds form a very As
of knightly honours and noble achievenere i 5
the vignette to the titlepage of one volume 1,.-" their
a charming sketch, by the hero's relict, octars,
his
picturesque home for eight-andltwentY Y. eti, ot
ancestral home for more than two-and-lun itoe,
Combermere. As the vignette to the etkele.l thi4
there is appropriately given a companion sk
ere 'die'
time from a photograph, of the Cornbe
a_ tr,ja
morial, a monument erected in memory
csblisrd.
cavalry soldier as ever put foot in stirrtglo
at the head of his troops, armed eal3-a-P,,, and ir°
and cuirass, through the stinging
storm of a battle-field.
I Pre-
WeCounci learn from Stutgardt that at
a that the teen
t.
sided over by the King, it was decided
be auto
jo
of the seventh and eighth year should
^ Wur.(-ul tll©
berg
In conaequence, the entire army of „s for
The hors' bee°
Knob,
to be put on a war footing. btase
artillery and cavalry are purchased' a_ii`he air/
arriving regularly ever since the 15tii at
rent depots.