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[ appeared in 1815, as a translation from the French, in Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk, by Sir. It was afterwards set to music by G. F. Graham, Esq. in Mr. Thomson's Select Melodies. Sir Walter says that "the original made part of a MS. collection of French Songs, found on the field of Waterloo, so much stained with clay and with blood as sufficiently to indicate the fate of its owner." Mr Lockhart informs us, that the original romance,

was written, and set to music also, by Hortense Beauharnois, Duchesse de St. Leu, Ex-Queen of Holland.]