Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1817-06-07

walking over thes1s ia mud wounded i
and Boney's lserses o. Me imperial
guards, that the men was Killed, was
running loose about in all directions.
1t our Tom had been little behiadY
in the rear, he might have catelle'l
horses enough to have had troop or
two like sir John Delapole. Lord
Wellington declared to us this morn
ing that it was the hardest battle that
he had ever seen fought in his life;
but now, thank God. all is over, and
we are very comfortable in Paris, and
| hope we shall remain here and have
our christmas dinner in Pariss!or
London cannot compare to it l hard
| ly knew how to spare time to write
this, for I want to 20 about the city.
for it is four o'clock and the letters
20 off at five; but | must say little
more on the other side We was all
very quiet in quarters till 18th Jane,
when the order came all at once, II
twelve o'clock at night, for every man
to be ready in one hour, and march
at one O'Clock; there we was all in a
,usrle. and off we goes, and it was not
light, there was no u,0on: the order
was, that the French was making dit
.trcnt movements on our left. about
twenty-five leagues from us; mind
the day Of the month"; say this
l,lay, the 10th. we marched till eleyet
O'Clock that night which was twent;
two hours march for us the first day,
and we walked thirteen leagues in
that time, or thirty-nine Englis!
miles; being dark, general Clinic,
ordered us to lie down on the roaf
side for two hours; so we halted
and every man. got half pint of rea
rum to keep up his spirits; we set of
] again at ten O'clock in the morning
on the seventeenth day Of June, an'
marched nine leagues. about foul
O'clock in the afternoon then ",
j was in front of the enemy, but thu
r, rain fell SO hard that the oldest sol
n diers there never saw the like in tlei
!, life; really thought that HEAVIER
and earth was coming together. Their,
/. was y few shots fired on both side
!, that night. but the guns would not q
oft. We WAS on one long hill, and tn,
=, French on another. facing us; there
p was large wood behind us. and Tor,
Wellington told us to get wood, an'
r make us large fires, and dry ourselves
and get our guns fit by day, as TIN
H enemy could not hurt us. So We made
q large fires and they was about four
miles in length and wlicA ti,r Frrnci
, saw il. they did the same, and it Wa,
!. one Of the most beautiful sights eve,
4 saw; and She next morning as saon a
flt was light we went at ii ding dong
5 aud drov, all before us. till yeslerdA,
+ the 7ih July. that we entered Paris
I INT ever since the 18th June. till IA
July, we have only laid down on III,
n ground with our clothes on; so 'cay,
8 you to judge il l am not fatiguei on,
d B,ucner rode by the side OF lor'
o wellington yesterday, when ", r,.l.
ii d Paris; As we was on tnc nds ...
'itcr the French army ev"r, y
:, We came TO. the people was I'LL IT, I.
Paris. and had taken away what g.,
r'u'd; ard British, Prussian al.
:, !'nsslan army. broke their lionsr
'pcn and piundered what was mos
nod, aud sci fire t. some. Wine WI
g nOrc plentiful than water, for all thei
:. eliars was full OF wine, the same 4,
;, fuckers is fall of cytler, and tle
was the frs' place the soldiers hrok
. open. ! have often been in cellars
i and what wine we could NOT drink an,
i, carry away. broke in the hea,,s of t'r
> Isasks ard let il run about. W
:, lnar"hed through towns as large q
=, Exeter. and us "a person 20 he seen
hut all locked up and window shut
), trrs fastened. There is &c this time
h upwards of 100000 soldiers in pari
Il and the suburbs; hut as for Bone
:, and his army. it is gone, God know
.Iwhere. When | have my answer {
4, this. shall write you again. Hope t
}. sleep sound o-night, so no more fror
+, your aitecl,ollate son,
Ill JOHN LEWIS.