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 iis.xiLJ.rLYio.i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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X. SATl RDA.Y, JULY 10, 1915.

CONTENTS.-No. 289.

NOTES : Waterloo, 21 Mrs. Barber's 'True Tale,' 23 Bibliography of Irish Counties and Towns, 24 Une Chasse au Maringouin, 25 Wolves in France Henry Colburn " Chapel," Nautic il Term, 26 Valentine Green. Mezzotint Engraver The Statues of London The Old Coburgh Gardens, Dublin, 27.

QUERIES : ' The Virtuosi, or St. Luke's Club ' St. Saviour's, South wark 'The Gentleman's Calling' and 'The Whole Duty of Man,' 27 ' The Scourge' " Forth shall come an Aske "William Hamilton Maxwell Origin of Quotations Wanted Capture of Trincomalee, 28 Portraits by James Lonsdale Bloomfield : Disraeli Hazlitt : " Freemen of Highgate "Hassocks Heraldic Query Peat Family A Phantom Parliament Agnes, Daughter of Louis VII., 29 ' Excerpta Legationum ' Mrs. Barrett, nee Tyers Mrs. J. P. Kemble, nee Hopkins Margaret Scott, aetat. 125 ' Revelations of Peter Brown,' 30.

REPLIES :The "Dominion" of Canada, 30 Professors at Debitzen, 31 A "Pound" for Prisoners A Russian Easter, 32 Miss Barsanti " Sacramentum "Epigram on Thomas Hearne Heraldic Query : Boteler Arms, 33 Corpus Christi in England : Post - Reformation, 34 Napoleon and the Bellerophon Flag of the Knights of Malta Hugh Price Hughes and Baron Plunket, Primate of Ireland J. Hill Authors Wanted Munday Surname J ;)hn Udall, 36 Tomb of Alexander the Great" Bell " Bible -German Soldiers' Amulets Notes on Statues at the Royal Exchange, 37" London Bridge is broken down "Cheeses in Ireland Origin of ' Omne Bene,' 38 Parish Registers Goats with Cattle Duignan Biblio- graphy, 39.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole 'Form of Abjuration used by Eighth- Century German Converts' The Nineteenth Century ' "The Burlington.'

French Books.

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WATERLOO.

(Concluded from p. 3.)

I SUBJOIN two more letters written by the Rev. Spencer Marian from Brussels with reference to the battle of Waterloo :

IV.

[To his father.]

Brussels, June 19, 1815.

. . . .Up to the 15th of this month every thing appeared perfectly tranquil, tho', as I mentioned in my last letter, the campaign was expected to begin soon. Cricket was .going on at Enghien, where the two brigades of Guards were quartered. The Duke of Wellington expressed his intention of giving a ball on the 21st, the anniversary of Vittoria, and the Duchess of Richmond had a ball that very evening, the loth, to which all the beau monde of the British army was invited.

There were present the Dukes of Wellington and Brunswick, the Prince of Orange, Lord Uxbridge, &c., &c. In the course of the evening a courier arrived with the intelli- gence that the French were advancing in force on the side of Charleroi and Namur. and the Duke, who read the despatch in the ballroom, immediately ordered the officers to repair to their quarters by day- light. A sad gloom overspread the enter- tainment, and a trying scene of leavetaking followed. The French, commanded by Napoleon, had penetrated three miles on this side of Genappe : you will see the account of the engagement of the next day in the Duke's despatches. To use his own words in a note to the Duchess of Richmond, he was " successful tho' with inferior forces." The Duke of Brunswick, who was at the ball, was killed, having seven bullets in his body. Two others fell, about whom I was much interested : Lord Hay, a fine young officer, who had been here a great deal, shot through the heart (he was A.D.C. to Genera] Maitland in the Guards), and Tom Brown, whose brother I knew at Christ Church, and of whom I had seen a great deal since I have been here, and liked exceedingly. He was a protege of A. Cowper and a most amiable good young man. The Duke slept at Genappe that night, having driven back the enemy. The opinion here was that had he had more cannon up he would have done more with less loss, for our loss was very severe. The same evening the French made a night attack on the Prussians with a body of 10,000 cavalry, took them by surprise, and placed about 14,000 hors de combat, being dispersed all over the country. Blucher, who had all along sustained the left of the British, tho' he had not been engaged, sent in the morning (Saturday) to tell the Duke that he could not get his people together, and the latter deemed it expedient to retire, tho' right sorry to do so, for he had anticipated the giving Bonaparte a complete beating that day, so advantageously did every thing appear from the success of the day before. However, he retreated to a position about nine miles from this city. The French followed, but at a respectful distance. On Saturday morning the atten- tion of the Bruxellois was taken up with the wounded, who arrived by hundreds. I never saw so dismal a sight. Poor fellows, some without an arm, some without a leg, covered with blood and dust, worn with fatigue and hunger, some fainting, others raving with pain, were brought crowded upon carts and waggons under a burning