Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-02-11
Haydonana.
Extracts from Haydon's Letters and Table Talk
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
Under date of June 2S, ls45, HaydoI
writes while looking at the cartoons
and frescoes. to-day, the Duke of yelling
ton came in and toppled away, looking yer,
little at anything. Rogers was there; anc
it was curious TO see old Rogers totter NJ
to the Duke. who turned around and said
How dye do p giving Rogers squeeze
which made him writhe. c. Greville ther
came up, and the d ke at once began &c
laugh and talk with him only. There II
nothing so awkward to a man in the mid
die class as making up TO a man of high
rank. who, the moment he has noticed him
turns round and leaves him to follow OIL
make the best of his way Rogers had this
encounter to-day. Rogers was a man oi
genius, the friend of Byron, yet the Duke
did not familiarize with him ; but the in
slant Greville came up-one of his own
class-joking, chatting. and laughing be-
gan, without any further notice of Re-
gers"
There are numerous anecdotes in these
letters and in the ''Table-Talk OF the Duke
of Wellington. "What a singular look,
writes Hayden, "the Duke Of Wellington
always had, with his greyhound eye, hrs
eagle nose, and singular mouth like help
less infant learning to whistle This spite
ful description was noted down, however,
alter " Wellington had turned a cold shOul-
der upon some of Haydon's pet schemes.
In 1910, when the Duke of Wellington sat
to Hayden for picture representing him
on the field OF Waterloo, with his favorite
horse Copenhagen, twenty years after the
battle, the painter was highly delighted"
with his subject. tie declares that the
Duke told stoiy better than any man be
] ord alf
TIE FIRST NAPOLEON.
We quote one anecdote of Napoleon-a
scene in which the great soldier appears as
il on canvas, or more so. Hayden puts the
story in the mouth of Rigo, a French artist
who was in Napoleon's Egyptian expedI-
ton, but the words are evidently HaydOns's
own
"Rigo said the night before the battle
, of Aboukir he lay on the ground IN the
! same tent with Bonaparte. About mid
night Bonaparte told Berthier and the rest
/ to 90 TO sleep in their cloaks till daybreak.
RigO said he was never near BOnaparte bat
he was attracted by his physiognomy
there was something in his face 80 acute,
50 thoughtful. 50 terrible. that 1t always
impressed him and that this night. when
the rest were buried in sleep. he could not
help watching him. In little time he OBJ
served Napoleon take the cOmpasses and
chart OF Abouklr and the Mediterranean
and measure and then take ruler and
draw lines. lie then arose. went to the
door of his tent. and looked toward the
horizon then returned and looked at his
watch. After moment he toJk a knife
and cut the table IN all ways, like l boy.
lie then rested with his head on his hand,
looked at his watch for some time. went
again to the door of his tent, and again re-
turned TO his seat There was something
peculiarly awful in the circumstances, the
dead silence of the night, the solitary lamp,
lighting up Napoleon's features the Gen
erals sleeping. the feeling that the Turks
were encamped near. and that before long
q dreadful battle would be fought. RigO
saw he could not have slept. Presently
Napoleon looked around to see that all
slept. RigO shut his eyes In a short time
Napoleon called them all up, ordered his
horse. and asked how long u diy-break.
They told him an hour. The army was
then got under arms. Napoleon rode
round. spoke To the Col0nels and soldiers.
told them IN his energetic manner that AT
mIleirJm them lay Turkish army hich he
expected hy 10 % clock that morning should
exist no longer Before 10 they were an
INITIATED"
TALLEYRANp.
The portrait Of Talleyrand is anything
but fittering no dat. but apparently
about 1888
IL met that patriarch Of dissimulation
and artIiiee Mlleyrand. but once and only
once and never shall forget HIM. lie looked
ike toothlcss boa of intrigue, with moth
ing left but his poison To see hisimpenetra-
bic face at game of whist. watching every
J.. 9 lta
own figure or face, save the slightest per-
eeptible twiIch in tne lip, was a SIGHT never
to be forgotten. 1t was the incarnation oi
meaning without assumption
LORD BRoUGHHAN.
Here are some stories as TO Lord Broug-
ham
Lord I.yttleton told me that nobody was
50 fond OF childish Jokes as Lord Brougham.
One night at iull-dTess dinner at Lord
Grey's, Lord Brougham sat on one side,
the Duke OF Sussex on the other, and Lord
Lytileton next. In the middle OF dinner
Lord Brougham put his head behind
Lord Grey and made all sorts OF hOr-
nd grimaces at Lord Lyttleton.-they
were very old 'frienis-unti. Lord Lyt-
tletoa, 10 escape bursting out laugh
ing, said My Lord Chancellor. may
| have the honor of taking wine with
you p They drank wine, but as Lord
Brougham was drinking his, he turned
up the whites of his eyes with such
Gu absardiy methodisiical twItch a. to send
Lord Lyule.on into fits OF suppressed
laughter
After Brougham's acceptance Of the
Chancellorship be took Lord Grey's
house In Berkeley square, aud when he
gave it up IN 1884 Bromley, Lords Grey's
agent, told me that never was a house left
III such a filthy condition. The bedrooms
were simply uncomfortable. and hidden IN
the handsome satin curtains IN the draw
ing-room be found kitchen candlestick
anu black lead tor the CRATES The furni-
ture was nearly all ruined by i'll usage and
neglect and. although Lord Grey gave
Brougham two months in excess OF his term
to move out, it was next to impossible to
get him out, and when he went. instead
OF paying up the arbltrated sum, Tor he had
insisted on arbitration as TO daUages, he
sent check short Of AS. The check was
returned, and in three days the full amount
was sent. Brougham was certainly want
ing in delicate feeling in all the common
transactions of life
SHERIDAN.