[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.

[16] Not before half past eleven. - ED.

[17] John Drinkwater, also called Bethune (1762-1844), published a well-known History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783. - ED.

CHAPTER II

From Bruxelles to Liege - A priest's declamation against the French Revolution - Maastricht - Aix-la-Chapelle - Imperial relics - Napoleon regretted - Klingmann's "Faust" - A Tyrolese beauty - Cologne - Difficulties about a passport - The Cathedral - King-craft and priest-craft - The Rhine - Bonn and Godesberg - Goethe's "Goetz von Berlichingen" - The Seven Mountains - German women - Andernach - Ehrenbreitstein - German hatred against France - Coblentz - Intrigues of the Bourbon princes in Coblentz - Mayence - Bieberich - Conduct of the Allies towards Napoleon - Frankfort on the Mayn - An anecdote about Lord Stewart and Lafayette - German poetry - The question of Alsace and Lorraine - Return to Bruxelles - Napoleon's surrender.

LIEGE, June 26.

Mr L. and myself started together in the diligence from Bruxelles at seven o'clock in the evening of the 24th inst.

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