of an anecdote of a Spanish officer at the siege of Gibraltar, related by Drinkwater in his narrative of that siege.[17] When the British garrison made a sortie, they carried the advanced Spanish lines and destroyed all their preparations; the Spanish officer on guard at the outermost post was killed, but on the table of his guard room was found his guard report filled up and signed, stating that “nothing extraordinary had happened since guard-mounting.”

Mr L. of Northumberland, having proposed to me to make a tour with him to Aix-la-Chapelle and the banks of the Rhine, I shall start with him in a day or two.

[1] Sir Wiltshire Wilson (1762-1842), Commander of the Royal Artillery in
    Ceylon, 1810-1815.—­Ed.

[2] Pulci, Morgante, canto XVIII, ottava 114-115.  The Giant Morgante
    meets the villain Margutte and asks him if he be a Christian or a
    Saracen.  Margutte answers that he cares not, but only believes in
    boiled or in roasted capon: 

      Rispose allor Margutte:  A dirtel tosto
      Io non credo pio al nero ch’all’ azzurro. 
      Ma nel cappone, o lesso, o vuogll arrosto....

[3] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, iv, 63, f.—­ED.

[4] A work of H, Verbruggen of Antwerp (1677).—­ED.

[5] Lord Bruce, Earl of Ailesbury, caused this fountain to be erected in
    1751, as a token of gratitude to the town of Bruxelles where he had
    lived in exile.—­E.D.

[6] Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (1741-1811), elevated to the peerage in
    1802.—­ED.

[7] Xenophon, Education of Cyrus, II, 4, 4.—­ED.

[8] Astley’s Amphitheatre, near Westminster Bridge.—­ED.

[9] Uncle Toby, in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.—­ED.

[10] Lieutenant R.P.  Campbell, aide-de-camp to Major-General Adam.—­ED.

[11] In May, 1815, the officer commanding-in-chief at Tournai was
    General-Major A.C.  Van Diermen.—­ED.

[12] Karl Friedrich Ludwig Moritz, Fuerst zu Ysenburg-Bierstein (1766-1820),
    took service with Austria (1784), with Prussia (1804), and later with
    Napoleon (1806), who commissioned him as brigadier-general.  The
    shameless conduct of this officer is exposed by B. Poten, Allgemeine
    Deutsche Biographie, vol.  XLIV, p. 611.—­ED.

[13] The battle at Ligny was fought on June 16.—­ED.

[14] The facts and dates here given are of course inaccurate; but this
    proves that Major Frye wrote his text in the very midst of the crisis,
    and that his manuscript has not been tampered with.—­ED.

[15] Baron van Capellen, a Dutch statesman, was governor-general of the
    Belgian provinces, residing at Bruxelles.  He was afterwards
    governor-general of Dutch India.  Born in 1778, he died in 1848.  His
    memoirs have been published in French by Baron Sirtema de Grovestins
    (1852), and contain an interesting passage on that momentous day,
    18th June, 1815.—­ED.