Show th e bosto transcript transi VP t arty J bair 11 til 3 j WELLINGTO wellington NAND AND NAPOLEON t lathe recollections by samuel rogers just published in london we hind find several very interesting statements concerning bonaparte in the chapters headed duke uke of wellington wellin ton ay we make liberal extracts and ani the reader will bear in mind that the words quoted are those of the duke himself in speaking tair rogers of his great antagonist at waterloo wellington remar remarked kedi bonat bonaparte arte bonacarte 1 I never saw though during t the ii e batt battle battie e of Water waterloo too we were once I 1 understood within of a mile of each other I 1 regret it much for he was a most extraordinary man to me he seems to have been at his acme at the peace of tilsit and gradually to have declined afterwards the duke thus continues his comments on napoleon at waterloo he had the finest armyde ever commanded and everything up to the onset must have turned out as he wished indeed he h e could not have expect expected ed to beat the si si ansas he did at ligny bligny in ird III four hours but two such armies as those at waterloo have seldom met metia if I 1 may mat judge from froal what they did on that day jt it wab was wa a battle of giants a battle tle of giants glants many of my troops were new but tha new fight well though they manoeuvre wp ill better perhaps than many who have fought and bled As 49 to the way in which some our ensigns and lieutenants braved danger the boys just come from school it exceeds all bel be lief they ran as at cricket in again speaking blea king of napoleon the duke baldt bonaparte in lix my opinion committed 1 onto of lis lib ills its greatest errors errora when be he meddled with spain for the animosity of the people wab was wa a unconquerable and it was almost impossible to get us out of that corner I 1 have often said it would be his ruin though I 1 might not live to ta tosea see sea it A conqueror like a cannon balls ball bail must go on if lie be rebounds his career caner is over bonaparte was certainly as clever a man aa as ever lived but he appears to me roe to haye have want ed sense on many occasions 1 3 at one time 1 I expected him h im there in spain aina in persona person and hen hun by himself I 1 should have haxe regarded at least as an accession of meny men the following statement shows how the di dl were at fault on an important occasion slon alon 11 when bonaparte left elba for france I 1 was at vienna and received the news from lord Burg hersh our minister at florence the instant it came I 1 communicated it to every member odthe of the congress and all laughed lau iau hed the emperor of russia most of all ahat was in ine your kis our letter to his majesty this morning said his physician for when he broke t the he eal seal he clapped his hands hands and burst out a laughing various were the conjectures as to whither he lie was gone but acne would hear of france all were sure that in france he would be massacred mars maBs aued by the people when he appeared there I 1 remember Talley Talleyrand randa rands 3 words BO so well pout four pour la france non mon none 11 the meeting of wellington and blucher on the field of waterloo when the shock of battle had ceased and the hack and calage had bad begun gun has been described and painted here hore i thedus dukes es account emch differs very much from the pictorial representations of the scene when all was over blucher and I 1 met at lamaison la maison blaison rouge etwas it was midnight when he ciame came and riding up he threw hia his arms arma round me and kissed me on both cheeks abt aft I 1 st in the saddle I 1 was then in pursuit and as hia biff troops were fresh I 1 halted mine and left the business to him in the day I 1 was for some time encumbered with the corps they would not leave me say what I 1 would we cupped supped afterwards together between ni night ht and morning mornin in a spacious tent erected in ae the valley for that teat that purpose pozzo di borgo was there among others and at my request he sent off a messenger with the news to ghent where whereto louis louls uis the eighteenth breakfasted every morning irka bow window to the street and where every morning the citizens assembled under it to gaze on him when the messenger a russian entered the room with the news the king en embraced braced him and all embraced nelvo h him mp and one another all ail albov over er the house an emissary of rothschild was in the street and no sooner did dia dahe he see these demonstrations than he took wing win for london not a syllable ea escaped e Al aped fromnic lips at bru bruges es at ostend or at margate argate nor till Roth rothschild sll sli sil had taken his measures oil on the stock exchange e wab was the intelligence telli gence communicated to lord liverpool from the lips of lord hardinge mr rogers sot st down abood story of the previous fight in which the prussians had been so terribly cut up before the battle of ligny bligny said lord hardinge in which I 1 lost my arm about noon blucher thinking that the french wem were gathering more and more against him requested that I 1 would glandt a and solicit tho the duke for some assistance mas das istance f I 1 set out but I 1 had not proceeded far for the purpose when I 1 saw a party of horse coming toward me and andi that they had short tails I 1 knew at once that they were english 1 D lish and saon soon distinguished the duke if he was wa s on his the prussian headquarters thinking thinking that they might want some assistance and he ae instantly gave directions for a supply of cavalry how are they forming he inquired in column not in line I 1 replied the prussian soldier says bluch er will not stand in line then the artil lery iery viii will play upon them and they will be beaten damnably so they were atthe last waterloo dinner when my health was drank as usual and as usual I 1 rose to return thanks I 1 stated staled briefly this occurrence and thi th duke when I 1 alluded to it cried hear haar aar h sar 1 11 from the prince de talleyrand mr rog erg era eini eirl learned earned a fat opta about ackie the he t emperor Em we may as well throw in m here litie 1 that despatch which Boni bonaparte parte published bublik lied on his retreat from moscow was it if written by himself by himself certainly which is the best beat portrait of him that which represents him at malmaison it is done by isa bey the bust I 1 gave alexander Baring done by canova is excellent it stands too low at present did he shave himself always though he was long abou about tit it shaving a little and then conversing if anybody was with him A king by birth said he smiling is shaved by another lie he who makes himself roi shares shaves himself 7 many stories are related of the privations of a soldiers life the ile duke stated that for many years in the peninsula he undressed very seldom never for the first four years the following passage from the experience of the veteran soldier is v very r suggestive ug 11 estive 1 I speared seven or eight e wild boars baars in a f orest forest in cleady an eastern aster abter practice the largest struck the sole of my foot with his tusk when I 1 thrust my lance into his spine andaas and was turning my iny horse 0 off at the 0 instant aa as I 1 always did the rest of the party set up ashout and I 1 believe it gave me more pleasure this achievement than anything I 1 ever did ift in my life lord hill killed one on foot but the difficult thing was to kill one on horseback whoever threw the first lance into a boar claimed it as his it appears from these thebe conversations that the duke occasionally contemplated writing commentaries ment aries on his campaigns in the manner of casar and sir francis vere of caesar he was a careful student had caesars caesara Cae Cx sars commentaries menta ment aries rits with me in india ap he says and learnt much from them fortifying my camp every night as be he did I 1 passed over the rivers ashe asha aa he did by means of baskets and boats of basketwork basket work only I 1 think I 1 improved upon him constructing them into bridges and always fortifying them and leaving them guarded to return by them if necessary in another place lace re referring erring to this longing to be 9 come hla hia is own historian the duke says 1 I 1 should like much to tell the file truth but it if I 1 did I 1 should be torn to pieces here or abroad I 1 have indeed no time to write much as I 1 might wish to do so and I 1 am still december 1827 too much in the world to do it the duke had no very high opinion of those who wrote on his warlike operations and of this he made no secret the ube severe severer verdict on scott would have been very annoying 01 to the romancer had he heard it Scott la life of napoleon Napoleo iw of no value the tolerable part of it is what relates to his retreat from moscow I 1 have thought much on that subject and have made many inquiries concerning it I 1 gave him my papers ile he has used some not all P of ot southey the great duke also thought meanly napier has great materials and means well but he ia is too much influenced by anything that makes for him even by an assertion in a newspaper I 1 do not think much of southey the subaltern is excellent excelle t particularly in the Amp ame american rican expedition ce t to new orleans he all he sees i |