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Unwi by doy nam | nesse | chrech | kak | moy Wy by dayne | nessen | Chresmarim | Ny beingwa nass na | Wasskonie | day | lizwayness wit | Wyskak | chandak. Amen. H. M. In excavating for the line of the Great Wesfern Railway a few days since, a remarkably fine tusk of the mammoth was discovered lying in a bed of new red sand-stone, about seven feet below the surface.

Happiness. Such is our pride and weakness, that we consider happiness as our right, and misfortune as an injustice. A wise man, on the contrary, will consider a happy condition as a prize drawn in the lottery, which he had no right to expect, but which his good fortune secured for him.-Lady Blessington.

French Harbours. It appears from a statement drawn up by the administration of Bridges and Roads, that there are in France no less than 400 harbours and landingplaces.

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Photography.—The Literary Gazette mentions, that M. Bonafons, of Turin, has found in a catalogue of old Italian works :— "Descrizione di un nuovo Modo di Transportare, qual si sia Figura Disegnata in Carta Medianti i Raggi Salari; di Antonio Cellio. Roma, 1686. In 4to. fig. Thus truly verifying the old adage, "that there is nothing new under the sun.'

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A New Method of preserving Ironwork from Rust, communicated by M. Paymen to the French Institute, consists in plunging the pieces to be preserved in a mixture of one part concentrated solution of impure soda (soda of commerce) and three parts water. Pieces of iron left for three months in this liquid had lost neither weight nor polish; whilst similar pieces immersed for five days in simple water, were covered with rust.Liverpool Mercury.

The chief objects of interest in the ancient town of Antiphelius, are the tombs; the cliff, overhanging the town, is full of them, many being highly ornamented with architectural designs, and have some resemblance to the windows of the Elizabethan age, with their stone mullions, and are in imitation of buildings of wood, the joints representing wedged ties or dovetails, and the overhanging cornices being formed like the ends of beams of round trees, producing a picturesque architectural ornament.-Fellowes's Journal.

There is no greater satire upon man than. man himself. Inconsistency and absurdity seem in many the leading features of their composition; they run heedlessly on, confi

dent in the supposed safety of their purblind course, until some overwhelming storm, which a very small portion of common sense might have averted, comes on them unawares, and crushes them, probably for ever.

Oh, Time! time! how rapid are thine approaches to eternity! Of the past, there is nothing left but remembrance. A few brief years will render us insensible to every thing earthly: care, trouble, and anxiety, will then have ceased to agitate our bosoms, and GOD grant that the memory of the pleasures of this life may be lost in the enjoyment of that happiness which is the attribute of a blessed immortality.

How happy is he who can look upon the past with pleasureable regret, and forward with the hope that his days may be days of peace, and his exit the passage of the blest!

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The pulsation of the heart takes places 100,000 times a day; so that the pulse beats about 70 times in a minute.-Curtis on Health.

Constancy. The constant man looks up to heaven in full hope, even when it is darkened; as flowers, that open with the sun, close not, though they be hidden by clouds.

Cheerfulness.-David Hume declared he would rather possess a cheerful disposition, inclined always to look on the bright side; than, with a gloomy mind, be master of an estate of ten thousand a-year.

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The Lords of the Admiralty have sent a ship of war to the south-western corner of Asia Minor, for the purpose of transporting from thence to this country, a large collection of most valuable ancient sculptures and bas-reliefs, which have been described by Mr. Fellowes, in his account of Asia Minor, where many towns and cities, and a remarkable and nearly perfect ancient theatre,' hitherto quite unknown, have likewise been found.

An edition of the Classics, published about sixty years since, on the Continent, has this curious frontispiece. It represents on one side, Christ upon the cross, and on the other, a figure of the author, from whose mouth issues a label with these words; "Lord Jesus! lovest thou me ?? His question is answered by another label, affixed to the mouth of the figure, addressed: "Highly famed, excellent and most learned rector of Seger, imperial poet, and well deserving master of the school at Wirtemberg, yes, thou knowest I love thee!" H. M.

LONDON: Printed and published by J. LIMBRID, 143, Strand, (near Somerset House); and sold by the Booksellers.-In FRANCFORT, CHARLES JUGEL.

all Booksellers and Newsmen -In PARIS, by all

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The English Centre was in front of the Farm of Mont St. Jean, in the rear of which the above Inn stood.

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WELLINGTONIANA.-No. II.

[WE cannot do better, on our first publication after another ANNIVERSARY OF WATERLOO, than continue the subject taken up in a recent Number of the Mirror, (see No. 948,) and present our readers with further illustrations of that remarkable and decisive battle commemorated last Tuesday. It is a subject of congratulation that the honoured instrument who was

the hero of that day is yet amongst us, to give that event still a domestic and contemporary character; although, in respect of the carnage of the field, and its consequences on nations and dynasties, WATERLOO is a matter of history; one of the most emphatic pages in the chronicles of England; aye, of Europe and the world. General Muffling has published some remarks on this battle, which combine many elements of deep interest connected with the strategy and fate of the day, interesting not merely to the military, but to the general reader.]

"The position of the British army was good, but would have been much stronger, had the farm-house of Hugomont been situated in front of the centre, that is, on the high road of Genappe, instead of fronting the right wing. The buildings of the farm of La Haye Sainte were too small, and even had there been time sufficient to break loop-holes into the walls, the farm could contain only from two to three hundred men, and consequently could not have been made a point of moment.

"Buonaparte commenced the battle by advancing with the 1st corps from La BelleAlliance upon the left wing of the British army-as it is generally believed by the French, in order to attack it; but this is highly improbable, because otherwise he could not at the same time have directed the 2nd corps upon the farm of Hugomont. It is much more probable that Buonaparte had originally intended to attack the centre, and that he directed the 1st corps upon Papelotte, in order that, by a movement with it to the left, he might deploy his force.

"When, about five o'clock, P. M., the battle appeared to be lost, by the inconceivable negligence of not detaching upon Lasne, to protect the right wing, which would have required no more than two battalions, Buonaparte grew silent and pensive. From the height on which he stood, the ridge is visible which runs along the Dyle of Wavre: one of his suit discovered the smoke of Marshal Grouchy's artillery. This cheered Buonaparte: calling for an experienced general near him, he asked what, in his opinion, was the distance of Grouchy's fire? The general replied, he could not precisely tell, but he believed it a league and a half.

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Buonaparte then exclaimed, La bataille est gagnée, il faut forcer l'aile droite, et jeter es Anglais dans les défilées de Wavre: Allons, la garde en avant!'

"This was another wild idea, and it was the last. From every quarter aides-de-camp brought orders to advance, and Marshal Ney

relates, in his letter to the Duke d'Otrante, how General Labedoyère rode through the line, to spread the intelligence of Marshal Grouchy's arrival in the rear of the British and Prussian armies. By this time Count Bulow had attacked the village of Planchenoit, and part of it was taken; when reinforcements arrived, with orders from Buonaparte to attack. The French troops retook that part of the village which was lost, and advanced even beyond it.

"Had Count Bulow then been able to have

maintained the village of Planchenoit, the French army had not got off with the loss of its artillery only, but part of the troops would have been compelled to lay down their arms. Both parties were aware of the importance of the post, and the struggle for it grew extremely violent.

"During the battle of Waterloo, or La Belle-Alliance, Marshal Blucher received intelligence of Marshal Grouchy's attack in his rear; notwithstanding which, he did not for a moment waver in his resolution to continue his attack upon Buonaparte. Perhaps the greatness of this determination has not been duly appreciated; what a common general would have done is not the question; but such a report might have induced the most distinguished commander to measures of precaution, nay, to convert a powerful attack into a demonstration; and in both cases the fate of the battle would have been extremely precarious. May not Buonaparte, after discovering Grouchy's fire, have calculated, that the movement of that general, by paralizing the Prussians, would enable him, unmolested, to fall upon the British?

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"On the supposition that the Duke of Wellington had been beaten, and that during the battle (which was certainly not impossible) Marshal Grouchy had arrived by Limale, at Chapelle St. Lambert, the situation of the Prussian army, it will not be denied, could not easily have been more hazardous. In that case, defiles separated the 1st corps from the 2ud, the latter from the 4th, and this again from the first, and the enemy stood between all the three, and the 3rd. By the incessant rains during two days, the by-roads through the forest of Soignie were almost impracticable for artillery, and would, perhaps, have been in the enemy's hands. From all this, an experienced general would infer, that the safest operation was, to collect the strength of the three corps on the platform of La Belle Alliance, and to attack Buonaparte.

"The Duke of Wellington's perseverance and unshaken heroism on this great day merit the admiration of his cotemporaries and of posterity. It had been concerted, that the Prussian army should attack about two o'clock, but it was not till half-past four that the first cannon shot was fired."

[General Muffling enters into a consideration of certain charges brought against the allied

field marshals, which he analyzes under eight heads. One of the most serious, involving a consideration of the skill and forethought of the Duke of Wellington in the choice of the field, and the disposition of the allied troops in the seat of war, is thus disposed of :-]

"It is imputed to the Duke of Wellington as a great fault, that on the 18th he allowed Prince Frederick of Holland to remain at Halle; thus depriving himself of 18,000 men, who might have been so great a use to him in the battle.*

"The Duke of Wellington having resolved, on the 17th, to retire to the position of Mont St. Jean, was yet uncertain whether he should be able there to accept a battle against Buonaparte, or to be compelled to retreat still further.

"This arrangement included the following considerations:

1. The covering of Brussels.
2. The basis of a farther retreat

3. Such dispositions as afforded a field of battle, not indispensably requiring that the whole army should be assembled in the position, but its simply retaining possession of the field, because it yet remained to be decided whether a battle would take place or not.

"From the maps of that part of the Nether lands, it appears that three principal roads lead from Quatre-Bras to Brussels; that of Genappe and Waterloo; that of Nivelles, Braine-la-Leud, and Alsemberg; that of Nivelles and Halle.

"The necessity of occupying the great high road by Halle, on the retreat of the 17th, cannot be questioned; and thus, if it should become necessary, a farther retreat was provided for, in three columns, upon Brussels. Here the question is, what road could the enemy take with his left, to advance by Halle upon Brussels ?

"At all events, he must go by Nivelles: thence three roads lead to Halle; the first, by Braine-le-Compte and Tubize, four German miles; the second, by Tubize, two miles and a-half; the third, by Braine-le-Chateau, two miles.

"Now Tubize lies at an hour's distance from Braine-le-Chateau. A corps of 18,000 men, with its right upon the heights along the Vale of the Senne, so as to be able to cannonade Tubize, and with its left upon the heights behind Braine-le-Chateau, will fill up this position. In front runs the brook, taking its origin near the farm of Hugomont, in a deep valley. Here, it would appear, that Prince Frederick of Holland might have stood better, because he was only two hours' march from Braine-la-Leud, and by Wautier

• The Duke's foresight, it is said, was fully justified by the event; for on the morning of the 18th, one British brigade, and the Hanoverian brigade of Colville's division, were ordered to occupy the road from Braine-la-Compte to Halle, the enemy having actually moved a force in that direction. 2 C 2

braine had a road as good as any by-road to be met with in this country.

"The high road of Braine-le-Compte, by bize. Preparations, therefore, were necessary Tubize and Halle, crosses the Senne at Tufor blowing up the bridge, and every measure was to be taken to detain the enemy, should he attempt here to flank the right wing.

"The motive for placing Prince Frederick at Halle, perhaps was, it being already known to be a good position, and because three high roads united at Halle; it was thus meant to secure the enemy's inability of undertaking anything against Brussels. In regard to Halle, the following calculations may be made:

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"Halle is at four hours' distance from Braine-la-Leud; of course the Prince must have arrived at the latter place seven hours after the Duke's despatching orders from the position at Waterloo.

"It being decided on the evening of the 17th, in the first place, that the Duke would accept the battle; in the second, that the enemy was not advancing upon our extreme right, because he had not at all pursued us on the high road of Nivelles; why did not the Duke of Wellington in the night transmit orders to Prince Frederick, who in that case could easily arrive in the position on the 18th at noon?

"Granting all this, nay, even more, granting that this measure was dictated by every military principle, let us not forget the following considerations :

"In the first place, as. has been already observed in the narrative of the preparations for the battle of the 18th, that the Duke of Wellington had pledged himself to Marshal Blucher to accept the battle, if the Prince would approach with two corps to support him.

"Whether the Duke of Wellington, in computing the force necessary to oppose the enemy, had reckoned on the possibility of calling Prince Frederick to the battle, is not known; but this much is certain, that, conformably to Prince Blucher's answer, more troops must have appeared at the battle than the Duke originally expected; and this possibly may have decided him to let Prince Frederick remain at Halle, as his presence was less necessary at Mont St. Jean, from the hopes there were of great aid from the Prussian army.

"In the second place, how important it was for the King of Holland to preserve Brussels, it is unnecessary here to discuss. The political importance of that possession may be collected from the confidence with which, while he advanced, Buonaparte relied on his friends in the Low Countries. The King of Holland having 30,000 men with the army, it may easily be imagined, that the Duke of Wellington would make every effort to cover Brussels, in order to avoid the reproach of having neglected anything contributing to the protection of the capital.'

Return of the Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of the British and Hanoverian Army under the Command of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G., in the Battle fought at Quatre Bras on the 16th June, 1815.

[From Col. Gurwood's "Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington."]

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On the Retreat from Quatre Bras to Waterloo, on the 17th June, 1815.

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The greater number of the men returned missing had gone to the rear with wounded officers and soldiers, and joined afterwards. The officers are supposed killed.

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