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squandered in a cause which, notwithstanding its apparent success, neither can be able, nor ought, finally, to triumph. Whilst not one individual amongst us, no, not Lord Castlereagh himself, can deny, that the sacrifices, indispensable perhaps with the perseverance of such a system, have brought us to the verge of a gulf which has swallowed up many other states and nations, and may therefore be expected to be fatal to our own. Our military glory may illustrate but not prevent our fall; and ruin may follow upon victory no less certainly than disgrace has been the companion of defeat.

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1. In page 35 it is stated, that an aide-decamp held the Emperor's stirrup. I am informed that it was either the Duke of Vicenza, or General Fowler, or an equerry, as those details were regulated with great exactness.

2. In page 37 it is mentioned, that the Emperor Napoleon had a habit of retracting his lips and apparently chewing. I since learn, that this movement was occasioned by a custom of keeping a piece of liquorice or comfits in his mouth, as a remedy against a cough, which frequently tormented him.

3. Colonel Charles Labedoyere is incorrectly

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called Colonel Henry Labedoyere in page 51, and page 122, and it must be mentioned that the statement respecting the regiments is inexact; it was the 7th regiment of the line which Colonel Labedoyere commanded. This 7th regiment of the line was composed of the 112th, and several other regiments; and the eleventh regiment had served with the Emperor. Labedoyere and his regiment, as is mentioned, marched out, or rather leapt from the ramparts, in the afternoon of Napoleon's arrival at Grenoble. The Colonel then drew an eagle from his pocket, placed it on a pole, and embraced it beforǝ the troops, who shouted Vive L'Empereur. He then broke open a drum which was full of tri-coloured cockades, and distributed them to his regiment.

4. The name of another general, and not Count Rapp, should be mentioned here. He did make dispositions to check the invasion, as may be judged from the anecdote afterwards. mentioned of him.

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5. In reading the account of the King's flight, the reader is desired to remark, that the story of the attempt to arrest Louis at Lille is mentioned with reserve. And it may here be told that Marshal Ney said on his trial, that he had received the order from the Emperor Napoleon, "to treat the royal family with the respect due "to misfortune." The conduct of Napoleon to

the Duke of Angouleme shows how much he wished the family of the Bourbons fairly safe out of France.

6. To the statement made respecting Augereau, I must add that the Emperor told his friends, that the reason of Augereau's disgrace was to be attributed to the following fact. Napoleon travelling to Elba met the marshal; got out of his carriage, had a long conversation with him, and embraced him at parting. When they stopped for the night, the Austrian commissary said to Bertrand, that he wondered at the manner in which the marshal had been received by the Emperor, as he had for some time been in good understanding with the allies. This conversation was related to the Emperor, who learnt also that it was believed at Lyons that the marshal had delivered up the town for a sum of money. This last persuasion may not be well founded, but it was believed at Lyons, where when the marshal appeared at the theatre, some one shouted out, are there any more towns on sale?" The Emperor was convinced of the fact, and said " he would forgive the injury personal to himself, but not that which had been so fatal to France."

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7. It may be worth while to mention an anecdote relative to the mass at the Champ de Mai. The question whether or not there should

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