The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-07-19
RgcolIgtrloNs or WELLINGTON.

Samuel Rogers Recollection" have been
raNlishea and Jus. row. when every one talks
II war and what Napoleon /, dad de- and what
Napoleon III win do, his memories OF Wei.
Aaxten Will h. rad with aSidity. We es-
tractsoma Of them
We Nrst of all pick out the Dnkes opinion
Of the mighty antagonist whom ne met eniy
onee--Aad then so crushed THAI ha had no need !
10 meet him second time. Wellington him-
self il speaking of Napoleon
"Esnsparte to my opinion, committed one /
OF his greatest errors when he fueddled with .
Spain FOR the luminosity of the people was {
unconQuerahle, aud IL Was almost impossible /
10 GET as out OF thai Corner. have often said F
Il would be his ruin though might not live )
20 see it, y coa9uoror, like a cannon haIl,mnSt F
g. on, II be rebounds, his career IS over
(BSnaparte was certainly As clever inaa as (
ever lived, bat he appears Ia me 10 nave want.
ed sease on many occasions.} A. one time
expected him ;herc fin Spainl in person, aud
him by himself should have regarded At least
as an accession OF i0GoG men"
Here is aa anecdote Of Waterloo told by tie
Duke:
"De Lancv was with me sad speaking 10 me
when he was struck We were on point o.
land that overlooked The plain, sud had Inst
been warned of by some soldiers, Out rs
saw well from 1t. and as two DIVISIONS were
engaging below, had said never mind when
hall came ieapIng along en- f'eArHe', rs II Is
called. and striking hun on the hack, sent MN
many wards over the head ofhis horse. Hefeli
on his face, and bounded upward and fell again.
All the staff aIsnouB ted and ran TO ham, and
when l came up he said, pray tell them 10
leave me, and let me die in peace had him
conveyed into The rear, and two days after
wards, when, on my return from Brussels, 1
saw him in barn, h" spoke with such strength
that said, tfoT had reported h'm among me
kiiled,) why, De Lancy, You Will have The nd
vantage Sir only il Castle Rackrenti You
viii know what Your friends said olyon after
You We're dead Il hope / SHALL he rep!ied
Poor fellow We had known each other ever
since we We're boys But had 70 time TO IN
sorry; went on with the army and never saw
him again"
Tallevrand. on another occasion. says.
ole lB1napariel was with the army OF Eng
land at Boulogne when he heard OF Mock :
being AT Tim. III IL had been mine To place
him, / should have placed him there In an
instant the army was in full march and he in
Paris. I attended him TO Sttashurg and was
alone with him in HE house Of the PrelrCt-1n
one Of The chambers tnere-when he fell. and
foaIned nj the mouth. 'Fermez Ia porte, he
cried, and from that moment lay AZ dead on
the floor. Berthier came 10 the door. 'Dn ne
peut pas entrer.' In about half an hour he
recovered but ~bac would have been my Sit
uation If lie had died Before Gayhreak he
was in his carriage. and in less than sixty
hours the Austrian army had capltuiated.'
Mr.. Rogers adds a note ID this conversation.
"The story of NapoIeon's illness at StruS-
burg repeated 10 L1cien, who listened 20 II
with great sang iTJId. 'liaye you ever heard
IL before = Never. II is an intirmlty TO which
many great men have been subiect-Cesar
among others. Ny brother was once before at
a SMILEY he was defeated believe =. r.
The meeting of Wellington and Butcher on
the field Of Waterloo, when the shock OF battle
had ceased and the hack and carnage had be
gan, has bean often described and painted
!ere is the Dphe account, which dIlir Is very
much from the pic -ylial Representations Of the
scene:
when all vss over, Butcher and met at
La Mason Rouge. II was midnight when he
came and riding uq, he thr " his arms round
me, aAd kissed mo ON both cheeks rs | sat in
has 7. tl4RsaI r.yJy and IN
troops were fresh, / halted mine, ana lett the
business 10 him. Ia the day was for some
time encountered with the Corps DiYiomGti4Ue.
They would not leave ne, say what WOuid.l
We supped afterwards together between night
and morning, IN spacious tent erected in the
valley for that purpose PoHzo Ill Borgo was
there am 5ng DtheT3; and ~ my request, he
sent of q messenger with the news to Ghent,
where Louis the Eighteen breakfasted every
mJrDng in a b0w-wlndoW to the street, and
where every morning, the citizens assembled
under 1t to gaze him. When the messen-
ger, Russian, entered the room with the
news, the King embraced him and all en-
braced him, and one another, all over the
house. An elnissary ri Rothschild was in the
street: and no sooner did he see these demon-
STATIONS than he took wing for London Not
n syllable escaped from his lips at Bruges, at
Ostend, or At MaTgatc, nor, till RothsChlld had
taken his measures on the Stock Exchange
was the intelligence communicated to Lord
Liverpool"
From the lips of Lord Hardmge Mr.. Ro-
fight. in which the PTussian, had been 80 ter
ribly cut up:
Before the battle Of Iigny lsaid Lord IIar-
dingel, in which l lost my arm about noon,
Butcher, thinking that the French were gath
ering more and more against him, requested
that would go and solicit the Duke for some
assis lance. / set oUt; but had not proceed far
for the purpose, when / saw party of horse
coming towards me; ana observing that they
had short tails, knew al once tha' they were
English, and soon distinguished the DUKE
He on his way 10 the PrusSian headQuaT-
ters, thinking that they might want some as
distance and he instantly gave directions tor
supply of cavalry. How are they forming I
he inquired. In column. not in line re-
piled. The Prussian soldier, says Butcher, will
not stand in line Then the Artillery Will
play upon them and they VIII be beaten dam /
naby.' SO they were. At the last Waterloo !
dinner, when my health was drunk, as usual, ,
and as usual | rose 10 return thanks. stated T
briefly this occurrence, and the Duke, when | .
alluded to il, cried Hear, Hear"
There If another aneCdote of Waterloo which +
we must cite:
1.-TWO days before the battle of Waterloo
the Duke came in TO Lady Mornngton's room +
at Brussels, saying: Napoleon hts invaded +.
Belgium order horses, and wait b Antwerp
for further Instructions When they Were
there at Antwerp AlaNa entered their room F.
waving bloody handkerchief, and in formed I
her that a victory was gained and that they
must return forthwith 10 Brussels. She and /
her daughter had not been there Ia. Brussels
haitian hour when the Duke arrived, ana walk
ing up ana down the apartment in a state Of
the greatest agitation he burst into tears aud
uttered these memorable words The next .
greatest misfortune, 10 losing u battleis 10 gain
such victory his
There was a SPY in the habit Of going from
camp 10 camp We called him boa Uran lie /
Ia Rosa; and he dined with and the French .
alternately. Who is he and what is LIE : said .
Aiava when ne saw him at table. "A Span /
lard, an Andaiusian,' they replied. No Span
lard, said Alayai 'lIe may W. Cagliostro or
anybody eise but no Spaniard' He was for
ever talking, as Frenchmen ALWAYS are and
always at my elbow. lie had lust left th.
French, and he said TO me when | was recon
nolterihg, do You wish 10 see Marshal SoultF
certainly There he is, them | looked
through my glass, and saw hi = distinctly-go !
distinctly as 10 know him Instantly when |
met him afterwards in Paris as did several :
umes though never 10 exchange ten words (
with him lie was sitting on his horse anu
writing dispatch on his hat while an Aide
oe-CaInp waited by him; 10 whom when lie
had done, he delivered IT. pointing with much
estrnestncss In one direction again ana again
! see enough replied and gave the glass to
another, saying TO him. Observe which yyay
hat gentleman goes lie galloped off as di-
"a, ana knew al once as | thought, where
tae ailack was 10 be made. That Is my weak
est point said 10 myself, and l Dreparpd ac-
oordlaeIyi OF such use, as l had always mann
Ialaed are glasses. He (S0utl looked much
tusier than now, and lust ds his son now does /
rat MN thoroughly the next day or the day
u,et, and drove aim back into France"
me opponent Tor whola the Duke Of Wei
Jns'on had the greatest respect was Massena
~ toi II ssena was opposed to me, and in /
.thn ned, never slept comfortablyr he said |
- Rogers This IS lhe highest form OF COM |
pitmeht. Massena said TO Wellington, in the /
sI.ihe spirit owe these grey hairs 70 YOU" |
h!s "as AT n diAner party in Paris. The say /
ings are charac toristic OF the TWO countries
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