Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-12-02


rnnntrvp,en stood like ROCKS agars. e merry tg'ohS Vi
France Jerome Bonaparts, guide t"'a US Nau anu
bitter tears amid Lie ruins O. TIE t'<'' t;a.L
mont, where he led on hIs soldiers III d 'u had
AGAINST the English right. The Marquis oi hhs' .; i
come there TO show the spot where he nag .s 't'
and tomb stone shewn upon wnch " I "
Epgls!nan annually d:nod The i9lh OF eFt'S w.
The French indeC d. seldom visit " ateipo 'iouS" :,
lerloo is not far from their borders But Inc E"9S
come there in myriads and buy balls All" D. -,
which it is prohahe cnargh has beeD already "ous"' ~
; fill a common sized city. We Americans 20 'i'' wv, r
uninerested Spectators and iut &c OF the eVe'ss r
that great day, and of the SUCCEEDING VITA gFeacl
ness The company the English were in, When 'hry t
| drove Napoleon from the e!d-tie band oil hoy n:'t
we Justly exccrae; and EnglislIncn at ms uy
eSecrale them too for Russia has not only ceS'" 49,
wre,cied reina oflnserabe Poland butts i!'e1
England in The East, while Prussia ana
Germunc States, are the na'ural enemies %, i''s p
cipps England revived, re-cr"ated all th'Sc loM.ts'
whom Napoleon was sweeping from Inc emln, uut e
spirit England conureG up Is no" ieaF'"''y ""D""s
her and She must make France her Old enemy hc pre-
Snnt ale Droyded s!, wishes for nrce upon land 10
match her former friends. England gained "'hns ny s
ballc of Waterloo though Austria gfasIFu a'i anu
nice in her clutches the King ut riedihont ts No''
and Poland was -pariUncd among the Northern row.
ers Whether the world has gained or not oy t!s uo'h
fall of Napoleon on that day, IS question an A'srcan
may justly raise. True, Napoleon was y run, u"I
murderer even and Il ialhiess to the PtIhc!Pss
which created him. bat lie one OF the modest OF mat
class Of Cssars whom mankind kn3" not "iet'i'r u
love hate; and he was The representation oi ,ha @rI
principle which is at this day struggling all over Tue
Continent France except against hereditary despotNH
If any man was bora 10 command his reno" man.
it was such man as be. If England had let him Alone
he would in his arbitrary way, Is lrue nave put
the Continent Il century ahead Of where 1t now Is, ana
have made all nations over whon he r1led, Inc Prac''
cal People that the English aud the Americans are
Indeed do not know whether TO regret iat ' was HUI
the victor or to be content that he vanqusl"d
do not know that can give you any particulars '
the present appearance Of tile field a" Waterloo" "hch
would be of interest. The monuments That have bten
erected there, the nansoleuns rather, were somewhat
dscurcd hy th9 French wtrn: after tha rtv'ul.o' IN
pcrium they seirncd from The successful siege OF Ant
werp The French soldiers at that tune, we we're tnid
ran over tie ground crying and screaming Ike raging
madmcn ard were for up.hravng every memorial {"
their defeat, but their Generals, 10 their CREDIT res
trained them. and even pat garrison upon the huge Py
randi that the Ilui!and"rs erected IN honor OF te 'Glo
rs. tbs huge mound "i earth 200 ce high, with non
upcn tie top, holding The globe under his claw, We as
cended as il gave ns view Of all the surrounding
country The Prince Of Orange it is said was wound.
ed upon this spot: and all Brgium which WAS giYen
to tie King o! the Netherlands as his portion Of the
Waterloo spul, has been wr"sied from h'nl s'aSe
that day by revolution, and thus from ts Prince SG 8.
Orange his lGsa aHGGs$sr: Inc to which this
held is now put is the same as it was IN June l7lo
when so many thousands Of soldiers trampled The then
L,rh Grain under their fret All open, unicnced as IS
The Whole Of France aud Belgium in general. the COM
balans had other distractions than The yielding gal
which readily fell before them. do not see That blood
Tins prutusely SHE'D has ierzcd the SOIL but it the bo
dies had been suffered to and upon the ground,
increased fertility would prnLaby have been The result
The slain buried in pits without regard to form or
manner tunlbled in upon anoher-slrippeu naked
as they had been by the prasanry-and now and lhcn
hole can be seen in Of these pits, where some
curious hand has been examining Tor skull &c
casonaI!y human bone IS seen upon the ground,
but this is often, for many years ut cultivation and
curiosity have nearly returned The ground to what was
when the opposing armies pitched battle upon It, Limp
ing begGars follow you, and tell You they were wounded
there Women and girls your heels. with balls and
buttons sell The marks o. the cannon balls are very
visible upon and walls The road 10 Brussels is rs
it when Napoleon led on his guards, crying out,
"Courage my childrcn-see the road 10 Brussels But
the ruad to Brussels then made impossible by The
heaps of dead, piled upon horse, and horse upon
) man. The tree under which Wellington stood stands
there no longer The earth taken away for the mound
in honor of The Prince of Orange has somewhat lessen
ed elevation. The inn where Butcher and Yelling
is yet there and called the Belle Alliance
Upon leaving the field, rode to the village Of Wa
terlo, This village is very Unlocking affair in Anne
rcans definition Of village, but very good one in
FrrnchmanS SWISS estimation. There is bat one
street in it, and that is the road and The houses on Tins
street not many, and small The church q! Wa.
tcrloo is small and is full nf monuments in honor M Eng
s officers slain, with eptaphs commemorallng Their va
Tor. Cicerones unumerabie almost throngcd around, TO
she's: all that was I" be seen, or C"rm'SS'Gtrc rs
they call themselves in this part Of the country ms
church the Whole village of Waterloo even, and all B!us
sells filled with wounded victims ailer the battle MOL
house but took in It's soldier. As English native
tongue and as Of course taken for English as all
Americans upon the Continent. (hs indeed occurring
constantly, that we fancy at last that we really arc
EDgllshmen) oar Ccerores rGHid take us 10 see where
the Ter of the Marquis of Anglesra buried and Tic
slab erected in honor of il Tie eg of the Marquis Of
Ang!eSca buried buried with marble slab aud IN
epilaph upon it How emiu"u,ly English this -
How perfectly characteristic of john Bull and yet lnw
ridiculous, how very silly Thousands Of poor fellows
were ecat"nibs Of dead were !gd-
died pronscuous together; and yet the Har2HIS 81 An.
gIesea has monument, and the person who owns The gar
den where is buried, and the b0ot in which is leg
wounded, derives qnc revenue from the English visit
ers, showing them The place where The leg buried,
and the where The leg cut of, and The tG"i III
which The icr .lnrquiS boot would make tie for
tune any in England It is like Tic 'uotl f saint
in Italy. OH, Mr.. Marquis Of AngesPa. il you man
of sense. an tId y"u are 90 Waterloo, buy your
leg, buy ynur boot, lear down your monument cost what
il may-tr traveller upon this broad earth ur!.ss
he CONES from your land but gives you laugh and
when lie the grace r your leg, and thinks
OF the thousands and thousands OF That mighty multitude
of dead who only lost their legs, but their heads,
their in the same great struggle which cost you THIS
thus higll-honored leg! b.
(fro,a tie Caicdo.ian (Ediubvrsh) Mercury Of Oct.
| DiysER Hon CuA;;lts y. MURRAY, (who
rcc.atIy returned to Europe fr"m visit TO this coln-
try Jon Thursday, the 20'h ut dinner was given 10
the tiuI. Chnrirs Augustus Murray in the Red Lion
Inn. Fakirk, al which present persons Of every
grade in politics. So greatly respected is Mr. Murray
by every who knuws him, and so universally Is he
enaeareu 10 the inhabitants of this district, that all par
ties We'd in welcoming him back to his native country in
Il way which would he credtabe tn themselves and no.
norabe to him. aud tina, the great object Nigh, no. be
nar"d by any arring in feeling drns was ag'ecd
that politics should far possible bc kept out Of view.
! Notwithstanding, however, this arrangement. cnnInu-
ed recurring bursts Of applause sufficiently testified that
the great minority Of The meeting Liberals in their
political sentiments; but it is only doing Justice 10
those of different creed to remark that they made
handsome allowance for any unnlcnonal deviation
from the general arrangement ard that nothing bat the
greatest friendship aud cnrdaly prevailed throughout
the eYesing. The chair filled by Provost Salmon,
who ably supported by Mr.. Aiken, the first Baltic,