Delaware gazette and peninsula advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1814-1820, 1818-10-10

fOuRnt, VII all Nutfi ointHh"'No
exhausted, and thea. to the amount OF
four hundred, they were quito the l,ayo
net by the French. This seems to have
been The only circumstance OF OMISSION
with which Lord Wellington CHARGED
himself after the engagement, "Wel
Ought" said he" to have made holej
in the wall al the back OF the house, and
have supplied them by that method with
ammunition--but / could not think OIL
every thing" The house and barn iacei
each other the yard is between them .
they are connected al their gable endsl
| high walls; withiH tins enclosure werel
the Hanoyerians.
Every where III the walls and roois;I
and timbers OF the house and barn are]
marks of the cannon and musketry, and
on the walls Of the barn are still to 6e|
seen the stains the blood that WAS split
when their ammunition being exhausted
the poor fellows were unable any longer
to resist, and the French forcing their
way into the enclosure, moved them
ldnwn like corn We enaured for the
old woman who remained uninlured in
the cellar of the house during the whole
of the action but were told that he was
, rot here, as the family WHIT then had the
4 farm had since removed.
At the top of the hill, a quarter OF a
mile from the farm house of La Fla Sainte
OH the left hand side of the road, IS the
post house called La Belle Alliance. and
about half way between the farm house
and the Belle Alliance, where the high
banEs on either side of the road defended
him from The eneny's cannon, which
passed over his bead vas the principal
$ station OF Bouaparfe during the srestei
j part OF the action, and where the guitlt
/. said he remained five hours at one time
Il We halted like exhausted heroes, tor We
, were weary with waaing in he mud, arr
trenched wiz, ram, a. the Belle Alliance
| took a glass OF cau-tle-yle, @lalle w
warmed ourselves by the lire which bAz
cti ~ liic iGearth, iii tie miserable knchcI
line woman If the house told US she va
u there at tile time oi the battle. but tina
!. size Ned to the wuotis during the heat 0
y the acl,on and on her return she team
"a he hVusc ti.ld WITH The wonnded.- /
"as near TINS place thai Wellington ant
e .lucher met alter the action.
e La Coste said, hat Bonaparte spnk
but little daring the bartie and whel
the !ale otlthe day WAS de- erminsd agains
him, he Simply crl>d, :. Il j. all over,
and a Il He WAS as pale as death. /.
Coste was with him. I'll fourth the morn
sling. when he was dismissed.
What NOS, Of all strn.k ne, and ma.
in | think strike every body is the narro'
:ii compass Of The ground il which sue
nj large arnIles were engaged, and so lerf
i bic slaughter TOOK place. 1t WAS ne
IS as La Coste observed, battle, it was
III massacrc.-and the Duke of NVelingto
iejs understood 10 Consider II is by Il
rclneaus JUst On e>hioiion of his ski
- ID military 'aclics as mary OF HIS lormt
/ ISngagemtn's.
:. i'he field OF Waterloo is now rich in W;
nj ing corn, lipening tor he sickle OF ii
III ausbantman. What a scene must
IL have been wnen death was the req per,
ed gathered IN his thousands OF shgases
&c The garner OF the grave! And what
H., scene viii il be AGAIN when the ipum
S OF the Archap ..el shall a~oke the sieel
he ers that repose beneath its closs, and Il
TO mighty armies that day annihilated sha
STARR up 10 Lille upon The PLAN OH whlt
to they lei, !: nevel heard L sermon 50 ii
re pressive as the silence that resisnt
;ct around me On Toe field oil NWGterlo
ryll could not but connect their eycrlastir
is desiinies with the thousands OF Il
deidead upon whose dus' | trod ! he
on terniiy that Sc med to open there up,
as my new peopleu with the spirits OF Il
on slain, was an awfa scene HE n,tts
on ness Of The dyin9 o. h field OF battle.
ng the widows crie,-tht orphans tears,
myth asonivs u su' wing triendsi,i
er. were ali forgotten | Only saw the il
81 mortal soul hurlied unprepared, al
his perhaps biasp enin., INTO the presen
int of lts God snud,.ered at the conteI
fly plaIion, and felt now deaJly scourge
art war.
1t
5ht Extract Of teller. Trilten By J'e
ops nessenn lately al The iS'aud Of Nd
hei gorittd. 10 his friend III .NaSitcili,
,er Alter @sitln:s al, last i,i,' 20 "
eds visited the shore Of the Island
DIES MafSMitta, where l saw a ms,rai
the ,et OF beings and a number Of ,
lie iii RS Of the army and navy OF [
TO Feir,o,s Of South America, amo
ut 9 whom we're many English Office
Of Iust arrived frem England, who eu'
Tree the service, and are determined
; OF putt il as early rs possihie.-.--Sol
o ,. English officers have been 10 the s
~" inl IiErpn nIntihs I'D hAuu M,