St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-03
THE IRON DUKE.
Stories Of Neutrality-suspicious.
Mistake-How ROthschild Got

Stories of Neutrality-suspicious.
Mistake-How Rothschild Got
the News.
Pail Mali Gazette.
A small but interesting volume has
been published by MI. Murray. con-
tanning an account Of conversations be-
tween the Duke of Wellington and
Earl Stanhope from 1881 to 1851. Origls
nally printed in 1856, for private circu-
lation only, the interest which it eNs
cited led to Republication in it's present
form. n
Nobody. said the duke, could ever say
exactly when the battle commenced.
Lord StanhOpe asked him what was the
total number of killed at Waterloo. +
The duke replied: son both sides
there must have been between 10000
and 10000. 1t is impossible ever to say
exactly what the French lost. | re-
member seeing a large French column
entering the wood behind Hougoumont
and one about as large going out on aIl--
other side: l said. This is the oldest
maneuver L ever saw; but on looking
more closely l found that the last
column consisted only of wounded.
There were thousands limping off from
the field.''
At dinner I asked him whether he
could make out Napoleon at Waterloo
on the opposite heights. No, l could
not-the day was dark-there was a
great deal of rain in the air. l made
out Soult most plainly. had an excel
lent telescope. | saw him come up-all
the officers took off their hats as he
turned towards them. l saw him spy
ing at us--write and send off letter;
knew what he was writing Qaughlng),
and gave my orders accordingly, but SO
plainly did | see him that am sure L,
should have known himagain anywhere.
Soult was not the ableSt general ever
opposed to me; the ableSt after Napo-
lie II was, think. Massena. Soult did
not quite understand a field of battle;
he was an excellent tacticlan-k knew
very well how to bring his troops to the
field, but not so well how to use them
when he had brought them up"
NAPOLEON said the duke, chad
never SO fine all army as on that oc-
casion. He was certainly wrong in at
lacking at all. There were four armies
going to enter France-before the har-
vest-and in a country much .ex-
We should have be Been reduced
to many traits for subsistence
in fact don't hesitate to say that the
Prussians were already in great diff
culties. AS for me, l have always
taken most special care of the sub
sistence of my troops. Napoleon might,
after providing for the other frontiers,
have stationed himself somewhere on
the Meuse with nearly 100000 men. He
might have played again the same game
which he had played so admirably the
year before-that campaign OF 1914 l
consider the finest he ever made-he
might have Unanswered from one In
vading army to the other, and attacked
them separately. He did so for long
while with success in 1914, but at last
lost patience. and threw himself on the
rear of the allies. 1t is odd, but Ger
tainly WlntzingerOde and his COSSackS
took him in. He ought to have taken
the same line in 1915, and might have
given us great trouble, and had many
chances in his favor. Instead OF this.
by Waterloo he put an end to the war
at once. But the fact is, ne never in
his life had patience for a defensive
war"
The duke said that the news of
Waterloo was brought over by a Jew in.
the service of ROthschild. He EN-
barked at Ostend, and nobody on board
the vessel knew of it but he. The way
he got at it was this: He was at Ghent,.
looking in with crowd at the window,
when messenger arrived to the king of
France, and he saw that the king, after
reading the letter, embraced the mes
senger and ''kissed him all around the
room and all about the house." Upon
this the Jew felt sure that the news was
victory, and without an instant's de-
lay set off upon his journey to England.
At Ostend he saw Malcolm, but told
him nothing, nor did he to any one
until he reached Rothschild's house in
the city. He afterwards went to Lord
Liverpool. Lord Marlborough added
that before they sailed from Ostend
they saw dragon run down to the
beach. take off his cap, aud wave it in
the air. The other people OH board all
wondered what it could mean, and none
guessed; but the Jew had still the COM
pOSrlre to keep his secret.