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.