Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-13
The News Of Waterloo.
HOW THE STORY OF GREAT BATTLE WAS TOLD
BEFORE THE DAYS OF TELEGRAPES.
From the New York Sun

HOW THE STORY OF 4 GREAT BATTLE WAS TOLD
BEFORE THE DAYS OF TELEGRAPHs.
From the New York Sun.
n year or two ago an enterpr;sing English
publisher got out reprint of the London Times
OF June %. 1915. Although its four pages are
but sixteen inches long by ten in width, their
contents. more than their small size, form q
contrast TO those of the mammoth Times OF to-
day. In place of being q record of national
humiliation, they tell of Englands browning
mercy"-the victory of Waterloo.
The Times correspondent on this occasion
was the Duke of Wellington It's only account
of III battle Is his dispatch to Lord Bathurst,
i Inc enieL Of the war department dated Water.
comparatively modest in tone, occupies nearly
the whole of the second page, but the account
OF the battle of Waterloo fills less than a coll
umn. The rest is devoted to the actions at
LigEy and Quartre Bras to subsequent military
movements, and to a short list of the more
distinguished persons who were killed and
wounded In reference to the part the PruS-
slams look in the battle the Duke says:
L should not do justice to my feelings or to
Marshal Butcher and the Prussian army if did
not attribute the successful result of this ardu-
Gus day to the cordial and timely assistance
received from them.
In contrast to this military modesty is the
boastful editorial ON the next page. Here is a
part Oft:
Such is the great and glorious result of those
Britain met and frustrated the audacious at
tempt OF the Rebel Chief Glory to Wellington,
:,
Buonapartes reputation has been wrecked and
his last grand stake has been lost in this tre-
mendous conflict. Two hundred and ten
pieces of cannon captured i'm a single battle but
TO the blush the Boosting column of the Place
ue Eendome. Long and sanguinary, indeed,
N we iear, the conflict must have been; but the
ooidnesS OF the Rebel Frenchmeu was the bold
ness of despair, and conscience safe heavy on
those arms which were raised against their
sovereign, against their Oaths and against the
peace and happiness OF their country. We con-
hdently anticipate great and immediate de-
1ectlon from the Rebel cause. We are aware
that great part of the French nation looked
TO the opening of this campaign with a super
stitlous expectation of success to a man,
wnom, though many of them hated, and
10 look on as the first captain of the
age. He himself went forth Boosting in his
strength and still more in his TALENT s. 3
but he did not take into the account that he
was to be opposed by abilities superior to his
own. That unpalatable truth his vanity would
not allow him to believe nor would it easily
find credit with his admirers: but the 18th of
June, we trust, will satisfy the most incredu-
lOus. Two hundred and ten pieces of cannon!
paired? Besides, what has become of his in
vlncible guard, of his admired and dreaded
cuirassers? Again we do not deny that these
were good troops, but they We're encountered
by better. We shall be curious TO learn with
what degree of coolness, of personal courage
and self-possession Buonaparte played his
stake, on which he must have been well aware
that his pretentiOns to empire hung. 1t is clear
that he retreated; nor are we prepared to hear
that ne neu Win coWafdlce; but we greatly SuS-
pect that he did not court an honorable DEATH
We think his valor is of the calculating kind
and we do not attribute his surviving the abdi-
cation at Fontanebleau entirely to magma
nimity.
Further on the article refers to Ney as a "per-
Jured wretch" and hopes that he and his ac-
completes i'll baseness and treason will be left
alone as marks for the Indignation of Europe
and just sacrifices to insulted French honor
An official announcement of the victory by
Bathurst to the lord-mayor, a list of the killed
and wounded, headed with the name of
"Brunswick's fated chieftain,' some gossip
about the battle from a gentleman who left
Brussels the day after, and few local para
graphs comprise about all the remainder OF the
reading matter, the first and last pages of the
small sheet being devoted almost entirely to
advertisements. The price of the paper was
SiXpence.