[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.

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