WITH THE DUKE OR WELLINGTON IN PRIVATE LIFE. BY AN EX-AID-DE-CAMP. SECOND EDITION. LONDON SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET. 1853. 210.0.81. ΤΟ FIELD MARSHAL HENRY WILLIAM, MARQUESS OF ANGLESEY, K.G. G.C.B. G.C.H. WHOSE DARING DEEDS CONTRIBUTED SO ESSENTIALLY TO THE VICTORY OF SAHAGUN, AND WHOSE NAME IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WATERLOO, THIS VOLUME IS, BY PERMISSION, Bedicated BY THE AUTHOR. THREE YEARS WITH THE DUKE. CHAPTER I. The Duke of Wellington appointed\ ambassador to the court of France-Enthusiasm of the populace when an accident befel his Grace's carriage at Brentford -He dines and sleeps at Coombe Wood-Reaches Dover-Embarks at Deal, on board the Griffon sloop of war, for Ostend-Compelled to put in at Bergenop-Zoom-Visits the scene of the action-Antwerp. It was early in the month of August, 1814, I received the gratifying intelligence that I was to accompany the Duke of Wellington to Paris, where he had been appointed Ambassador to the Court of France. As at that period I had not numbered fifteen summers, it may easily be imagined how delighted B |