points I mentioned; and that he thought there was nothing in the Treaty that militated against existing engagements with us.

Prince Wolkonski and Lord Aberdeen drank tea with me. An account was brought in of the bridge at Königstein having been burnt by the Allies, by means of a machine sent down the river. Towards night, Raffer returns from Prague with a long letter from Sir Charles.

Lieut.-Genl. Sir Charles Stewart to George Jackson, Esq. Prague, October 20th, 1813.

MY DEAR JACKSON.

I am very much obliged to you for your long despatch and private letter. I will send home the former as soon as opportunity offers, for it contains a great deal of useful and sensible observation. I cannot, however, go with you to the full extent of your condemnation of the Austrian Treaty.

I fully discussed it with Lord Aberdeen, and from our joint view of the instrument, it contains as much general principle with as little embarrassment to the great contracting parties as possible. With this view as a great foundation it was formed. It has its wisdom on the one hand, yet on the other, looking to the interests of particular Powers, I agree that agree with you it has its drawbacks. On the whole, however, I am inclined, as is Lord Aberdeen, to take the spirit of it, and appear satisfied.

We must always remember how slow Austria came to the collar. Connected as she is, there are many

great difficulties for her to meet. Prussia is secondary in the whole of this, nor can you or I raise her into a principal engine, with the two autocrats on her flanks.

The grand but de la guerre is laid down, and the grand words in the Treaty, and those which must be our appui, are, “La dissolution de la Confédération du Rhin. L'indépendance entière et absolue des états intermédiaires entre les frontières des monarchies Autrichienne et Prussienne, reconstruits d'après l'échelle mentionnée cidessus d'un côté, et le Rhin et les Alpes de l'autre.'

By this, I conceive, that the independence of everything on this side of the Rhine and Italy is included. With regard to Sweden, if neither Russia nor Prussia think it necessary to force Austria to become a guarantee for Norway, I do not think England need do so. It is indeed a question we had best not stir just now. If the Danes should take a turn one cannot say what necessity might bring about at a general arrangement. In the main, I think it best not to object to or distrust or find fault with this alliance. How far better is it than we could have dreamt of, even a month since. What we may do in our treaty with Austria is another point. I hope Aberdeen will well consider this, and no one can do so with better judgment.

Will you thank the Chancellor most cordially for his last very kind note. I do not answer it, as I am unwilling to plague him unnecessarily. Tell him also that I am afraid we shall make no progress here in raising and enrolling the German prisoners,

on the plan, as far as possible, of a British force, for service in Hanover; as the whole-except, perhaps, a hundred and fifty who are in hospital-have been marched to the rear, God knows where. I am ignorant where I could send an officer after them, and unless some steps are taken to befriend our attempt and give us a fair trial with Austria, she will take the whole of them, of every description; and all my proposal, and effort to raise this Legion falls to the gound.

My wound is doing very well. Has Lord Cathcart any despatches about my going below? If he has not told you, pray ask him. I have not a line from England.

Believe me ever, &c. &c.,

CHARLES STEWART.

Diaries.-Sept. 23rd.-Baron Binder assures me that hopes are entertained of Bavaria joining the Allies. With a view to that much desired event Count Metternich has gone over to Prague. I confess that I do not myself indulge the hope of so speedy a conversion, though no doubt she will be compelled ultimately to come over to us.

With the aid of Count Löwenhjelm, I have succeeded in obtaining the intercepted Treaty between. France and Denmark, with a note upon it from Bassano to Bonaparte. I send them over to Prague to Sir Charles by Baron Harthausen, who has just arrived from England with despatches from Lord Castlereagh, and who returns forthwith. I take also this opportunity of sending home letters.

Letters.- Toplitz, Sept. 23rd.-I have received nothing from you, my dear mother, or indeed from any one, later than the middle of August; but more frequent opportunities for communication will I doubt not soon offer, supposing only the inclination to exist. For what I have said to my brother is no flighty expression, but my firm persuasion, namely, that if Bonaparte does not get deeper and deeper into a scrape it will rather be the fault of the Allies than any credit due to him.

I shall probably be stationary here for some time. Sir Charles is going north again as soon as his wound will let him, which most likely will be next week, and the Courts, at least, will hardly leave these for any other quarters than Dresden!

Nothing can be much worse in point of comfort than Töplitz. It is full; stuffed, beyond anything you can imagine, and at this moment, owing to the longcontinued torrents of rain we have had, a complete bed of mud. To say that the mud is ankle-deep is to give you only half an idea of its depth; fancy, then, what pleasant walking it must be; while, as for riding, both horse and rider soon become so thickly bespattered and plastered from head to foot as scarcely to be recognizable. But you know I care for nothing of that sort, if only our affairs here go on well.

Yesterday by accident we had a fine afternoon, of which Rumbold, Count Löwenhjelm, with another friend and myself, availed ourselves to ride up to the top of a high hill near this town, whence we had a fine view of the whole of the plain that lies between

Had we been there on seen the whole of the The French were very within this week their

the mountains towards Prague on the one side, and the boundary of Saxony on the other, stretching out like a panorama before us, and which has been the scene of all the late actions. the 30th, we might have brilliant affair of that day. close upon us, and even to sharpshooters have remained in the clefts of the rocks, not half a German mile from this town. Many unwary stragglers have been popped off in this way.

By a letter from Francis I see that he was expecting a visit from Madame Moreau. She will have received then, probably at Lyndhurst, the intelligence of her husband's melancholy fate. This will have been a most painful circumstance for my brother, though no less fortunate for her. For the General could not have selected an agent more capable than Elizabeth of executing with the utmost feeling and delicacy the mournful commission of communicating the afflicting news to his wife. By the next messenger I hope to forward a cast of Moreau's face to my brother. Rapatel is fearful of its being seen by Madame Moreau. He says he is sure it would greatly distress her. The General was not at all altered. Lord Byron's lines might most appropriately have been applied to him. His loss is considered by most persons here to have been one of the greatest that could have befallen the Allies, whilst Bonaparte is said to have declared himself consoled by it for the loss he had experienced of some able Generals of his own. Though I had seen much, and heard more of General