FOOTNOTES:
[103] See, page 229, the proclamation of Louis XVIII to the French people, dated Cambray, the 28th June, 1815.
[104] See lord Bathurst’s dispatch of the 7th July, and the Duke’s answer of the 13th, Gurwood, vol. XII, page 557.
[105] See the duke of Wellington’s dispatch to lord Bathurst of the 8th July. (Gurwood, vol. XII, page 549,) detailing a conversation which took place with the duc d’Otrante at Neuilly, on the night of the 5th July; the whole of which turned upon a recommendation given by the duc d’Otrante, that the king should give a general amnesty.
[106] “As well as the duke of Wellington recollects, there is in the war department a letter from the prince d’Eckmühl to marshal St.-Cyr on this subject, in which he urges every argument against the proclamation of the 25th July, excepting the 12th article of the convention of Paris.”
[107] Scott.
[108] La Haye-Sainte.
[109] See the covering of this book.
[110] Gneisenau was the chief of the Prussian staff. He was at once the life and soul, main-spring and working head of their army.
[111] At Leipsick, Napoleon selected his own position, and there he chose a field with a defile over a morass, a mile and a half broad, which probably was the principal cause of his defeat.
[112] Several ladies were on the field on the morning of the 19th, going about like ministering angels tending the wounded. How truly in this instance do Scott’s lines picture the soft sex!
[113] Brother to sir John Macdonald, the adjutant-general at the Horse-Guards.
[114] I wish I were as positive of every part of my narrative. E.C.