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 s. xii. JULY 3, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1915.

CONTENTS.-No. 288.


 * Waterloo, 1 Folk-Lore of Cyprus, 4 John

Hardy, Winchester Scholar, 5 "Two razes of ginger" W. H. Duignan Bibliography " To go west " An ingenious Epitaph, 6" La Garde meurt, mais ne se rent" pas " Faults of Index-making, 7.

QUERIES : Armes et Ecussons Anglais a la Cathedrale de Bayonne Talma as Hamlet Figure Subjects by James Lpnsdale, 8 Smith of Bowldown : Jenner Family Timothy Constable Pegler and Hetty Pegler's Tump Weltje Haggatt and Barnard, Knglish Consuls at Aleppo Price : Robins : Bulkeley : Kirkman ' Uncle Tom's Cabin ' Crawford, Actor William Sheldon James

Inverness and "Author of

Quotation Wanted" All is not gold that glisters " Alderman Fowler of Rochester Inscription to be Deciphered Clerks in Holy Orders as Combatants "What the devil !" "Felix opportunitate mortis," 10.

HEPLIES : The Site of the Globe, 10" Alter" in a Latin Epitaph John Camden Hott^n, 13 -Ghostwick George Offley Repudiation of Public Loan "Cyder Cellars," 14 The Ludgate or Grafcon Portrait of Shakespeare Derwentwater Memorial George Wallis, Antiquary and Gunsmith John Stuart. Edinburgh Twentieth-Century

Brogden, 9 Sam Bough : Views in Aberdeen" Gentle and

English, 15 Families of Kay and Key " Poilu " The Identity of Isibella Bigod, 16 Ben Jonson : Pindar- Nancy Dawson Notes on Statues at the Royal Exchange George Bodens, 17 Author Wanted London M.P.'s 1661: Love: Tenison Disraeli's Life: Emanuel The Judgment of Solomon" The Ice Saints," 18.

"NOTES ON BOOKS : 'Folk-Lore Notes : Gujarat A Calendar of Suffolk Wills' 'The Berks, Bucks, and Oxon Archaeological Journal' ' The Library Journal  The Fortnightly '-'The Cornhill.'

^Notices to Correspondents.

WATERLOO.

I AM proud to be allowed to present 'N. & Q.' with the following extracts from private letters on the subject of the most clearly decisive single battle of the modern world. The letters were "written by an uncle of mine, the late Rev. Spencer Madan, M.A. (1791-1851), for- merly Canon Residentiary of Lichfield Cathedral, and Vicar of Batheaston and Twerton in the county of Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was admitted a Canoneer Student in 1810, and graduated B.A. (when he gained a Second Class in Classics and a First in Mathematics) in 1813. Very shortly afterwards, and before he was ordained, he was appointed tutor to the younger sons of the fourth Duke of Richmond, and in that capacity was at Brussels with the Duke's familv

at the time when the stirring events narrated in the letters were occurring.

I feel sure that readers of 'N. & Q.' will agree with me in feeling most grateful to the present owners of the letters for so kindly giving me permission to print them in these pages.

I.

[To his brother William.]

Brussels, March 20, 1815. . . . .We heard about this time last year of the appearance of Blucher at the gates of Paris and of the behaviour of Napoleon in accepting his life with the squireship of Elba. How different is the picture now ! Behold him again at Paris preparing to engage the world in arms ! When we re- ceived the news of his landing at Antibes " there or thereabouts " it was the general hope that he would be knocked on the head by some fellow in a village or at the corner of a wood, with a rifle barrel or a brickbat. The Moniteur, which was the only intelli- gence which we received except private letters, gave us to understand that the whole enterprise was that of a madman, and that from the numerous desertions he must be soon left without a follower, and that he would be hunted like a wolf in the mountains. Such was the state of ignorance in which we tept (which was the case at Paris, as I have informed by an English gentleman who left it the day before Napoleon entered 't) till the Moniteur containing the news of he King's flight and Boney's advance to Fontainebleau arrived. Private letters to he Prince [of Orange] reported that he was it Amiens with 50,000 men on the 22nd, and at that time, 24th, probably at Lisle [sic], advancing towards Belgium to regain as far as the Rhine. Up to this the Duke [of Richmond], who directs his family as he would an army, thinking perhaps that we could riot sustain a siege here, gave orders for us to retire upon Antwerp ; however, upon hearing that 40,000 Prussians were arrived at Louvain, he thought it best to stay. The consternation in this city upon hearing the above intelligence respecting the advance of Bonaparte was inconceivable, and the circumstance of the Guards being ordered to march next morning for the frontiers increased the panic. The English, except two or three families, departed next day for Antwerp. Lord Waterpark* was found by F. Russell pacing the Hall with


 * The third Baron Waterpark (1765-1830).