Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-09-14
RICHM MOND WHIG,
WELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON.
KhcoLLIcIioSs oi rHE rorr ROGERS.
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From he Boston Transcripf. JuIv II,L
In the Recollection" 10y Samuel Roger Just pub
hshed In London, We find several interesting -at.
riens concerning Bonaparte in the cl,ap,e,s headed
" Duke OF Wellington We make liberal extracts tber.
from, aud the reader will bear in mind that the word.
quoted are those Of the Duke himself In speaking to
hr Rogers OF his great antagonist Waterloo weine
ton renarked BonaporteI nep,r sa though during
the ha'te oil Waterloo We we're once, understood with
la quarter of n mil. of each other regret il much
Tor he was most extraordinary man. To me he seems
to have been at his the Peace OF Til.t and
gradually to have declined aiterw Tn. Duk. hu
contnue- his comments Napoleon:
AT Waterloo he had the finest army he ever com,
manded aud everything up the onset nu>t hay. turn
ed out as he wished Indeed he could have expect
ed To beat the Pussians he did st Liguy Ia fou,
hons But two such armies iho>e at Waterloo have
seldom met, If may Judge from what they did on that
day IL was battle Of giants! a battle of giants =
Many oil my troops were new but the new tght ell
though they maneuvre Ill better perhaps than many
~ho have fought and bed As the way i'm hieh sou,
OF our ensgns aud ieutenans bIaye danger-thr BOYS
Just come from schoo-t exceeds all belief They ran
~ at cricket"
In again speaking of Napoleon, the Duke said
'BonaParte. In my opinion committed one OF his
greatest errors when he edled with SPAIN for the ami
mostly of the people unconquerabe aud il VA. AZ
most impossible To get u out of that have Of
ten said II would be his ruin; though might not live to
see H. A conqueror, like cannon ball. must 90 on
If he rebounds, his is Bonapar was crr-
t~iny rs clever man A. ever lived but he appears To-
me TO have wanted sense on nlany occasions At one
time expected him there in Spain in person. and him
by himself should have regarded least as an accession
of ~, men"
The following statement shows how the dploma,ist.
were at fault on an important occason
when Bonaparte left Elba for France was at Wien.
ns, and received the news FROM Lord Burghcrsh our
Minister at Florence The instant it came Icommuncat-
ed IL to every member OF the Congress and all laughed
the Emperor OF Russia most OF ALL What was in your
letter TO his Majesty this morning. said his pl,, scian;
Tor when he broke the SEAL he capped his hands and
burst out laughing Various were the conectures a.
To whittier he had gone but would hear of France
All were that in France he would be Inassacreed by
the people when he appeared there remember Taley-
rands words so well Pour Ia Frdaee-N.,n ="
The meeting OF ellington and Butcher ON the field of
Waterloo, when the shock OF battle had ceased and hack
aud carnage had begun has been described and painted
uere Is the Dukes account, which differs very much
from the pictorial representations of the scene
When all over, Butcher and met nc La Maison
Rouge IL was midnight when he came and riding up
he threw his arms round me- and kissed me on both
cheeks as sat in the saddle then pursuit; but
s troops fresh halted mine and ef the business
TO him In the day, was for time encumbered with
tie corps diptonGtiYnS They would leave me saw
what would We supped afterwards together between
night and morning. in spacious erected in the VAL
ley Tor that purpose. Pozzo iii Borgo there among
others, and at my request he oil a messenger with
the Ghent where Louis the eighteenth breakfast
ed every morning in bow-wiudow to the street and
where every morning the citizens assembled under il 20
gaze on him. When the messenger, Russian entered
the room with the news, the King embraced him. and all
embraced him, and one another, all the house An
emissary OF Rohsehlds in the street and no soon
did lac these demonstrations than be took wing for
London. Not syllable escaped from his ip- al BrtIp
at Ostend, o: at Margate tl Roihschd had taken
his measures on the change. the intelligence comm-
nicated to Lord Liverpool"
From the lips OF Lord llarlinge Mr. Rogers set down
good story OF the previous fight in hich the Prussians
had been 50 terribly cut up:
Before the battle of Ligny, said Lord Harding in
which lost nv arm about noon Bucher thinking that
the French were gathering and more against him
requested that would go and solicit the Duke for some
assistance. out but had proceeded far for the
purpose, when saw party Of horse coming towards
me, aud observing that they had short tails knew at