After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































 -  One of the fellows of Eton
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One Of The Fellows Of Eton College Actually Told The Late Mr Adam Walker, The Celebrated Lecturer On Natural And

Experimental philosophy, who was accustomed to give lectures annually to the Etonians, that his visits were no longer agreeable and

Would be dispensed with in future; as "Philosophy had done a great deal of harm and had caused the French Revolution."

With respect to my visit to Versailles, I was much struck with the vast size and magnificence of the buildings and with the ingenuity displayed in the arrangement of the grounds and the numerous groups of statues, grottos, aqueducts, fountains and ruins. Still it pleases me less than St Cloud, for I prefer the taste of the present day in gardening and the arrangement of ground, to the ponderous and tawdry taste of the time of Louis XIV, and I prefer St Cloud to Versailles, just as I should prefer a Grecian Nymph in the simple costume of Arcadia to a fine court lady rouged and dressed out with hoops, diamonds, and headdress of the tune of Queen Anne. Napoleon must have had an exquisite taste.

[32] Exceptions to this are, I understand, the Gallery at Florence, and the Museo Vaticano at Rome, which are both open to all and no fees allowed.

[33] Johann Wilhelm Archenholz (1743-1812), author of the Geschichte des Siebenjaehrigen Krieges, 1789. - ED.

[34] In February, 1781, before the declaration of war was generally known in the West Indies, Rodney's fleet surrounded the Dutch island of Eustatius, which had become a sort of entrepot for supplying America with British goods; two hundred and fifty ships, together with several millions worth of merchandise, were seized and sold at a military auction. The plunder of Eustatius was bitterly commented upon In the British House of Commons. - Lee Richard Hildreth, The History of the United States, vol. III, p. 335. - ED.

[35] The name is in blank. Major Frye may have meant Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey (1762-1798), the squire of Wexford who deserted to the Irish rebels. - ED.

[36] Tasso, Jerusalemme liberata, canto XVI, ottava 15. - ED.

[37] For instance, a Cuirassier, a Dragoon, a Grenadier, a Tirailleur, an Artilleryman.

[38] Major G. Colclough, senior major of the 33rd Regt. - ED.

[39] Virgil, Aen., II. 325. - ED.

[40] La Bedoyere (Charles Huchet, Comte de) distinguished himself in several of the Napoleonic wars, in particular at Ratisbonne and Borodino. Being a colonel at Grenoble, in March, 1815, he deserted to Napoleon's cause and was nominated by him general and pair de France. In July, 1815, he was arrested in Paris, tried for high treason and shot, August 19, in spite of Benj. Constant's efforts to save him. - ED.

[41] Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), author of Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle (1788), Celestina (1792), The Old Manor House (1793), etc. - ED.

CHAPTER IV

From Paris to Bruxelles - Visiting the plains of Waterloo - The Duke de Berri at Lille - Beauvais - Return to Paris - Remarks on the French theatre - Talma - Mlle Duchesnois - Mlle Georges-French alexandrine verse - The Abbe Delille - The Opera Comique.

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