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London, England, 1815-08-23 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

• • the •,
. _ His Royal Highness 'tine* 'Regent Nu been pleased, in
the Imam and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve of the
85th Regiment being in future styled the 86th (or Duke of York's
Own) Regiment of Light Infantry, and also to permit the Rogi-
men; to bear ou its colours and appointments, in 'addition to $lll
other badges or devices which may have been hetetofore granted
to the Regiment, the motto, " Mao spiendore resurgo."
lst Regiment of Dragoon Guards—SerjeantsMajer Thomas
Brown to be Adjutant (With the rank of Cornet), vice Slielva,
killed In action.
2d Ditto—Lieutenant Augustus F. Berkeley, front half-pay of
the 4th Mersin' Guards, to be Lieutenant, without purchase.
12th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Edward Weight, Gott. to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stacey, promoted. •
linti Ditto—Cornet Arthur C. Lowe to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Blacken, promoted; Edward W. Stopluni,
to be Cornet, without purchase.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—William Cornwall, Gent.
to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Selway,
promoted. •
12th Regiment of Foot —To be Lieutenants, without purchase—
Ensigns Jobs bt. John; Thomas Vincent.
To be Ensigns, —s-• Archer, Gent. vice St. John; Honourable
Butler, vice Vincent.
19th Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns John
Whiteford, vice Johnson, promoted; Robert Bonney, vice
Colclough, promoted; Valentine Brown, vice Dickson, pro-
moted in the New Brunswick Fencibles.
l'o be Ensigns—William aDarby, Gent. vice Denney ; Charles
Frederick Elderton, vice Brown.
24th Ditto—Enskm IL Everard, hum the 86th Foot, to be En-
elm. without purchase, vice Wigutore, promoted in C4C
Garrison Battalion.
41st Ditto—Ensigu William Drummond, from the 89th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, We'd Barnard, promoted in the
, . 47th Vow.
4W Ditto—Volunteer Ronald M'Donald, from the 70th Foot,
to be Ensign, without perchase, vise Cowell, whose appoint-
ment has not ttkeu place.
45th Ditto 4-James Dunlop, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Carstairs' promoted; Assistant-Surgeon John Jobson,
from the 60th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Radford,
who exchanges.
47th Ditto—Ensign James Weir, from half-pay of the 9qth
Foot, tube Ensign, vice Carmichael, who exchanhes; :;urgvott
James Scutt, Irons halt-pay of the Regiment, to be bergctet
Assistant Surgeon James Hurst, from ditto, to be Assiszant-
Surgeon.
49th

Robert Bartley, to be Captain of a Com-

pany, without purchase, vice Vitsgeraid,. promoted iu the sth
Royal Veteran. Battalion.
54th Regiment of Foot—Captain George F. Stack, from the lot
Garrison Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice Pigott,
who exchanges.
56th Ditto-.-Assistant.Surgeon Henry W. Radford, from the
4Sth Foot; to be Ashihtant surgery, vice Jobinn, who exchanges.
sfith Ditto—Thontah iloiyoake, Gait. to be Enhion, by purchase,
vice Campbell, promoted.
60th Ditto--To be Maim's., without porchase—lirevtt-Mitjor P.
Mauriage, 'ice Brown, appointed to the Pm tuguese Aimy;
Brevet-Major John Mac.vlahon, vice Grant,
To he Captain ot a Company, by purchase—Lteutenant lion.
William S. Bernard, twill the let Dragoon Guard*, v.ce
blacMahon.
'fir be Licuttuant,without purchase—Lieutenant William Henry
Sperling, from the York Cbaiheurs.
let I/mu—Brevet Lieutmuit•Colonel Genrge Miittlebury to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, viers name, killed in action; Brevet
Major Lewis Watson to be Major, vice Muttlehttry.
To be Captains of Cotupanies—Lieutvnanto K. Hiker, vice Cur-
zon killed in action; Duncan !'Pherson, vice Hobhoule,
killed in action; Charles Freeman, vice Blackwood, killed iu
. action; William Harrtson, rice Wathon.
To be Lieutenants—Ensigns Edward Hodder, vice Wightwick,
killed in action; William Bartlett, vice Baker; k; B. Dobbin,
vice M'l'hersou; Charles Seward, vice Freeman; H, D. Keith,
vice Harrison.
To be Ensigns—Juhn Birlow, Gent. vice Bartlett; Robert Cor-
bet; Gent. vice Dobbin; George 'halation, Gent. vice Seward;
Hon. William Hamilton, vice Keith; Volunteer ---
without purchase, vice Hodder.
7111 Ditto—William Henry butler, Gent. to be Ensign, vice
Page, killed in action.
61st Ditto—John Palmer, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase,

vice Dickens, promoted in the Ski GamLir Battalion.
83d Ditto—Lieutenant Cuthbert Eccles. !ruin hilt-pay of she
dlst Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Millie, who exchanges.
86th Ditto—George Harrison, Gent. to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Eves aril, appointed to the 114th Foet.
98th.Ditto—Lieutenant William Stretch, from half-pay of the
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell, who exchanges.
97th Ditto—Lieutenant John Curran, from half-pay of the Stith
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice i)awbrawa, who exchates.
sth West India Regiment—Leicester Viney Smith, Gent. to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice IiaITOW, who resigns.
Royal West India Ranson—Brevet Major John Campbell, from
the 46th Foot, to be Major without purchase, vice lirereton,
promotedlio the Royal African Corps.
ist Garrison Battalion--Captain Robert Pigott, from the 54th
Foot, to he Caktaiti of a Company, vice :tack, who exchanges.
0d Ditto— Iu be Litutenants—Ensign Robert William GyhJil,
vizu Kusbeli, apiluitatil to the lible Rayal Veteran itavatiou ;
- Ensign nanrucl R. Dickens, irons ',int Ivot.
1,70 be Lucien—Richard. Cruker Reid, Gent. vice Gyhon.
Veteran Battalion—hump William Halliday to be
Lieutenant, vie Crampton, deceased; Lieutenant Heron
to be Adjutant, vice Crampton, deceased.
Bth Ditto—Captaiii Edward VArzy, truth ;he 60th Foot, to be
-Captain tit a Comyruy.

lIIRRVET.
To be Lieutenant• Colonels in the Army—Major George Muller,
of the 2d Battalion ot the Line Kings German Legion; Major
Andrew Hamilton, of the 4th %Vest- hulls Regiment. . •
To be Majors in the Army—Captaiii .itontas Mylne, of the 79th
toot ; Captain Thomas Pivots, of the 7th Light Dragoons ;
Captain Sampson S swell, ot the l ..th Light Dragoons; Cap•
tain the Hon. Robert (Ault:its, of the lost or Ureuatlier Regi-
ment of Guards.
To be Major on the Continent of Africa only—Captain John
peddle, of the 12th foot. •
To be Captain on the Continent of Africa only—Lieutonant
Thomas Campbell. of the Royal Staff Corps.
Royal Corsicau Mangers—Breves Lieutenant-Colonel A. Schtun-
atielketel, to be Lieutenant-Col Olit.l" without purchase, vide
Barclay, appointed she I st Grenadier it egiment ot Foot Uu.srth ;
Brevet-Major D. Rood to be Major, vice Schummellwrel;
and Lleuttuant Paul Zerbi to be (ap‘ain of a Company, vice
Rossi.
Sicilian Regiment—Lieutenant M. Aylmer Dalton, from haVpay
ot the Chassenrs Britanniqurs, to be Lieutenant, vine indict,
who exchanges; Emile Ross Smith, Gent. to be Elisign, with-
out purchase, vice Henry, promoted.
MCbIORANDO/4.
Lieutenant Illay Robb, of the 4014 Foot, is superseded, being
absent without leave.
'I he appointment of the under-mtniioneil Officers, as stated hi
the Gazeitts of i Sth May last, nth alto sail ultinto, and 12th hist
have 'sot taken place:
Veteran Battalion—Captain John Armstrong, from the Retire/1
List of the late 19th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Captain.
Hospoal Staff—Stiff-Surgeon bpence, trout half-puy, to be Stir-
.g...tin to the Forces.
I. btafl-burgeoir. Alexauder. Madill, ftom half-pay, to be Surgeon
to the races.
tat Royal Veteran Battalion—Captain \V. Creswell, from the late
sth Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Captain.
2d Ditto—Lieutenant John Maclean, from the late 6th Royal
Veteran Battalion, to he Lieutenant ; and Ensign 1). Kennedy,
Born the late 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, to be Ensign.
ERRATA in the Gazettei of 4th May, lel 9., 9th June bat,' 27th
ultimo, and 12th instant.
23d Riot_,-For Ensign George Allan, (rein the Cambridge Mi-
litia,
to be Second Lieutenant, read Ensign Thomas Allan,)
tram the Cambridge Militia, to be Second Lieutenant.
--IFor Hugh Cameron, Gent. to be En-
sign,lAWart.ealtdaditiawßenegcain wmnet
ran, Gem. to be Ensign.
7341 foot—ForThonias Bingham, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, read Thomas Bigham;Uept. to be Ensign, by purchase.noserrais STAIR.
FoorfDaimißectinelruSiurilegn .--:..- Grant, from half-pfy, to be Surgeon
oDistrict, read District Surgeon Jolla Grant,
from half-pay, to be Surgeon to the For.ces.
For Purveyor's Clerk James Sherwin, to be Deputy Purieyorlio
the Forces, read Purveyon Clark Jame Sherri., to be Deputy
Pureeyor to the Ewa%

'r isrr In 'WAFJ RL4 b.

OSTEND,
(Ptivate been.)
ag Y wonder more London visitors do not come to
Waterloo ; the B ages take you fromhence to Ghent.
fcir about lOs. the Dilfgence, from t hence to Bruxelles,
7i. 6d.( a Fiame far the day, to Wa erho aid hick,
20a. Opposite the Inn, at a cottage where the Earl
of Uxbridge was carried, you are shewn a neat gat.
den, in the centre of four paths, a little hillock, with'
a flower planted thcreou, shews the sepulture of his.
Lordship's leg ; in an inclosuie, further behind this.
cottage, are interred several English Officers ; one.
only, Colonel Fitzgerald, of the Life Guards, has a
stone with an inscription over him : many have been;
taken up and transmitted to England ; you then pro-'
teed to Waterloo, the house of Jean Baptiste La'
Costs. called Belle Alliance, from whom I obtAinedi

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the following particulars :
" About five in the morning he wa, taken prisoner.
to serve as guide, and conducte,d with his hands tied
behind him (that he might not escape as a former
man had done) to another house, belonging to him,
opposite to which Bonaparte bad slept. Observing
the French soldiers plundering and destroying this
house, he cried : Bonaparte asked what he cried'
for? he replied, " because your soldier; are destroy.
ing all my property, and my family h.,ve no W:tt-re
to put their head." Bonaparte said, ,‘ Do yi,u not
know that I am Emperor; and can recompense you
an hundred times sts much ?" He was piaced on a
horse immediately between Bonaparte atid iris first
Aide.de-Carrp, his saddle tieing tied to the saddle. of
a trooper behold him, that be might not escape.—
They proceeded a little beyoed Btdk Alliance, and
Bonaparte took the ground no a small eminence on
the opposite side, a sort of body guard of twelve
pieces of artillery, very light, surrounding them.—
From this spot he could command both Liles. lie
first observed..." How steadily those tro, the
ground ; how beautifully those ca V shy form, r:7ards.:,
ter cluilnux Grir e ! Qui Son! eel hawse cavalierr? Cr:
'811:t des traver troupe:, Mai: dam one demi heure je les
couperai en pieces." Observing low the chasms in the
British rein:admits were filled op, I:ie instant they.
were made by his artillery, lie 4-x.:l...imed—,4
!waves troupes romnie ilt ifs in:wile:a
:ref Bien fres He asked I. c Coste the particulirs
•if every house, tree, wood, !king ground, Scc. with
which he seemed well informed, holding, a map in

his left hand, and intent upon the action ;ill the day,
incessantly taking snuff from his waistcoat rocket, in
large pinches, of which he vielently snuffed up about
halt, throwing the other half from him with a strong
exertion of the arm and thumb and finger, as if from
vexation; this was al the refreshment he took tor 1.1
hours ; he frequently placed his left hand Nem the
neck of La Coste's horse, to speak to the Aide-de-
Camp on the. other side of Lim. Seeing La Coste
flinch at the shower of shot, he replied—" a) not
stir, my friend, a shot will kill you equally in the
back as the front, or wound you more disgracefully."
66 About half past five, hearing the fire of the.
Prussians on the right of his rear flank, leaning his
hand on the neck of LaCoste's horse, aed seeing the
Britiea cavalry, from their tight and left flanks,
making a tremendous charge that would have en-
circled his personal position, exclamed---4 11 fret que
/lOW tour sauvent.' Retreatiog, with ail his Stall, about
forty yards along the road, and within alma twenty
yards of the house, Bede Alliance, he halted, and
putting the glass to his eye, saw the Critish cavalry
intermingled, pele mete, and furionily cutting tile
French troops in pieces. like exclairned--, ter-
ribles cc: Chevaux Cris." (rne.tning !At: Szr,t, Greys,
which had particularly doting the day, and at that
moment, attracted his attention) /17;e: nous 41.-pechet-
nors depecher.' They and all the cavalry ui:enced
a gallop till they got about three leagu‘s beyond
Cliarleroy, where they limited, and pitched a tete upon
a grass plat, about nine at night. •A fire was ki.lzlied,
and refreshment placed upon a chait, which
parte took, the first for fourteen hours, standing with
his back to the fire, with his hands generally
him, conversing with a circle of nine, whose horses La
Cone bad been ordered to hold till the party, about
two in the ;horning, broke up, when cacti taking his
horse, the servant of the last gave La Coste a Napo-
leon d'or, which he exchanged, alter A twenty-tour
-hoars fast, to refresh himself and family.
" La Coste is a very intelligent peasant, lives in
the shattered house • Belle Alliance, shews the room
where the 'Prince of Waterloo and Blucher shook
bands, which he did not see, and conducts visitors all
over the ground, describing every particular. The
labservatory, he says, was erected before the action,
nod had nothing to do with it. The ground is now
mostly ploughed up, and there is by no means now
so horrid an appearance as I have seen in some ;alien
lin Spain after an action. •
" This statement of La Coste contradicts the ac-
count of the new guard crying to the old 6 Se sauve
ri petit,' that expression might easily have changed
in running through the army, from the first text—
s Blast que sour nail sauvone.' About an hour before
d rotate, Bonaparte examined, 6 I *boll rot thous to
'pieces, yet it is a pity to destroy such brave troops.'
• 66 The latter part corresponds much with an ac-
count I had from an Officer that accompanied me in
this inspection. About an hour before the finish, he
said an Aide-de.Carrap came to the Duke of Welling-
ton, telling him that the 5.h divizaoir was reduced
from 4,000 to 400, and that their keeping their post
was utterly ineffectual, ' I cannot help it,' said the
Chief, • they most keep their ground with myself to
the last man. Would to GOD the night or Blucher
would come !' Near an hour after the fire was heard
by the British in the rear'rf Bonaparte's right flank—
,We will beat them yet,'iried he. The charge was
sounded, the most dreadful havoc coninteeced, and a
victory closed the 18th day of June, which established
a British Generalship and the British army as the
first in Europe.
" On the left of alt the Bronswickers, in a firm
square, &lade a breastwork of carnage ; the Scots bri-
gade next. A brigade of Hanoverian Landwehr
on their right, forming their square aukwardly, Co-
load Cameron, of the 92d, who was killed after-
wards, culled to them to form as they did, which they
obeyed, and stood; the next, a Dutch brigade, by not
forming alertly,, were cut to pieces. This battle
proved the fact of what we vulgarly call lettern.
" The French cavalry, in proof armour, repeatedly
and repeatedly 'charged our squares, their .cannon
opening chasms, the British infaotry ditninjshed and
• .2dissing the Seim Grey,.

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diminished, were infleible impet.letrable to to
lag. At Salamanca, our heavy c.ivaliy, with no ar.
moan., charged their squarett totally routed
with most horrid carnage, for having, after they had
c'a!l•A for and received 'quarter, on the cavalrfretniii,
taken up their pieces and fired on them."

'CHiRdiCTER OF BONAPARTE,
BY Tlig ARCEIRIsEIoP 11 MECIII.IX.

. ,
Napoleon is eclipsed from the scene of the
Dead as to royal and civil life,. all revelations with
respect to him are-allowable. None are any longer
prohibited, none illiberal. He is a character in his?
tory.. he has entered into the domain ot
All the world talks of him and accuses him. For
my part, I have another task to ftilfil ; that-of tx-
plaining him, which is not the least chtli:u.lt.
• The mind of Napoleon was vast, but after the
manner of the Orientals. From a natural d:sp..si-
tion he would turn toWards Eastern grandeur,how.
over little he might be placed in that direction ; hut
from a contradictory habit, he always fell back, as it
were by his own weight, into iguohle detail.. Al war,:
great in first ideas, low an I wortliles in die leconsi'.
His. purse was like his mind ; it had a tefitroui
a sordid corner.

His genius, fitted alike fir the great theatee ^f tl.e
,vorld, or for a stage of buffoons, resembled a Roy I
mantle thrown over the party-coloured jack t or 'a
harlequin. He was the, min of extremes—the m rt
who having commanded the Alps to loiver their
heads, the Simplon to smooth its rugged Iron:.
the sea to approach or remove its banks, ends all hy
delivering himself up to an English man of war.
Endowed with wonder:lll, with infinite sagacity ;
sparkling with ititellect, on every questien be seiz
he created nor or unperceived views ; aboultding
vivid imagee, picturesque in animated and pointed
expressions, what he said was rendered more penetra-
ting even by the inaccuracies cf his language, which
always bore some slight impression cf a foreien
idiom ; sophistical. and subtle, and extremely versa-
tile, though a distinguished mathematician, he never
argued except oa ground which he had climea t
himself, and then, whether right. or wrong, he def,r.
sled himself with all the 'correctness of a geometrici.a.
His errors were, therefore, interminable, and though
he dissembled much, lie was still of.tener deceived
than a deceiver. Hence arose that aversion which he
was often observed to shew to truth. He did not op.
pose it as demonstrated truth ; on the contrary, he
rejected it as folly, as something incompatible wits
that which appeared to him to be mid..
Still with him illusion surpassed faisehonti. Er-
pressions of disdain and contempt were constantly in
his mouth. He had formed tar himself rules or op-
tics different from those of other men. Join to these
dispositions, corruption, the daughter of pride, die
intoxication of success, the habit of drintieg out Of
an enchanted cup, and of having hit head turned seith
the incense of the universe, and yon will be In the
way towards an explanation of the mind of a nsai!,
who, un'ting in his inconsistencies all that is greatest
and meanest amongst mortals ; all that is most. ma-
jestic in the lustre of sovereign power, most prompt
in command, with a taint of every thing ignoble Ana
base, even in his greatest enterprises, combining
the character of a subverter of tia-ones, that of a lark.
ing spy, presented a sort of JapiterScapits, a spec-
tacle which had hitherto never appealed on the
of the earth.
Napoleon was insane—not Item the derareniett
of the mental faculties, but from that perdue ex
gersted opinion of self, in consequence in which every
thine is overdone, which prompts one to go on with-
out ever calculating, to spend constantly Without
ever reckeniag ; wlecli makes a man who fiat
evercente many obstacles, come at last to lielie.ve that
he will always overcoine them; or that there are e‘i
longer any obstacles far laird. The fecility which
Napoleon had always found itt, obedience Made hint
conclude that he 1):1,1 nothing Co do but trf
and that When he snohe, execetiun would in-
fallibly :Row.
Such was the foily of Ntpeleen to which I eoutd
ass a degrees, and which f might attacii w the eiv)ch
of the battle of Wagratn, or of ins marriage, An err&
at which his reason ccastng to gede him„ or, perhaps,
to appear to himnecessary, lie abarlhined himself;
encenstraineJ, lathe exaggerations which disorgenised
France, and have terminated in htr nun.
As to his mind, or what has been 'called his ge-
nius, If nothing ha's ever been more celebrated, no-
thing also has been less justly appreciated. With
sortie It was immensity, with Others nullity. Sublime
with ruse, contemptible _with another. Even now,
when the meteor is dissipated, there is as little veer.
dance as triter ; so true it is that calmness, ti e cond-
deration of times, circumstances, and means s.lehais
guide us its forming our opinion of men.
But doubil ss an irnmen:Ae weight has not pressed

on the world without possessing some specific gra-
vity. The most brilliant military career has t/een
the lot of one destitute of all the clualitieS which con-
stitute the Great Captain: Prodigious labruis
hive
not been conceived, proseenten with inLiedible
firmness, and executed without some ot those quali-
ties which constitute a statesman ot the tiist oraer.
flowevit, misfortunes such as the rri ild never ex-
perienced, a hatred such as it never exhaled—a posi-
tion such as never was created by man, Inst by a .c-
-ries of faults surpassing in ex;rnt and obstinacy, alt
those which ever caused the ruin of any Wet- t f na-
tions:—.m end hopeless tram its lowness, and still
more shameful to the world who hasten:lvied than to
him who received adbritiuns ; such is the character
of a career which has been divided tietween the
highest flif;!its and the lowest falls; betwevb the "nun
brilliant grandeur and the most abject klagradatioai
between the citremes of ability and ut

It is said that the Duke Of EASItANO Glint r) re.
ceived three bayonet wounds in an uss:ess resistance
he made against the soldiers charged to secure his
person.
Large orders are daily received from Paris for
Tickets and Shares in the Lottery winch is to be
draw.; TO-MORROW. This proceeds, no doubt, from
that spirit for adventtire which all the natives of the
Coptineut are known to possess ; indeed, when we
consider the very limited number of Tickets, the
quantity and amount Of the capitals, and the trifling
risk by which they may be obtained, we canin,t won-
der at the claire evinced by all classes to partake of
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