Part 35 (1/2)

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LIX WATERLOO

CHARLES JAMES LEVER--1806-1872

_From_ CHARLES O'MALLEY

”This is the officer that I spoke of,” said an aid-de-ca, bare-headed and without a sword ”He has just ive your lordshi+p soeous costue were known to me; but I was not aware, till afterwards, that a soldierlike, resolute looking officer beside him, was General Graham It was the latter who first addressed me

”Are you aware, Sir,” said he, ”if Grouchy's force is arrived?”

”They had not: on the contrary, shortly before I escaped, an aid-de-ca And the troops, for theyfrom the wood yonder--they seeht--they are the Prussians They arrived there before noon from St Lambert, and are part of Bulow's corps Count Lobau and his division of ten thousand men were despatched, about an hour since, to hold thee ”Fitzroyhe dashed spurs into his horse, and soon disappeared amid the crowd on the hill top

”You had better see the Duke, Sir,” said Graham: ”your information is too important to be delayed Captain Calvert, let this officer have a horse; his own is too tired to goof you,” added I, in an under tone; ”for I have already found a sabre”

By a slight circuitous route, we reached the road upon which a ons, and tuainst the attack of the French dragoons, who more than once had penetrated to the very crest of our position Close to this, and on a little rising ground, froouton stood, surrounded by his staff His eye was bent upon the valley before hi columns of Ney's attack still pressed onwards; while the fire of sixty great guns poured death and carnage into his lines The second Belgian division, routed and broken, had fallen back upon the twenty-seventh regiment, who had merely time to throw themselves into square, when Milhaud's cuirassiers, ar down upon the _chevaux-de-frise_ of the best blood of Britain, stood firm and motionless before the shock: the French _mitraille_ played mercilessly on the ranks; but the chasic, and in vain the bold horseth the word ”fire!” was heard within the square, and as the bullets at pistol range rattled upon theainst the deadly volley Men and horses rolled indiscrie of our dashi+ng squadrons, who, riding recklessly upon the foe, were, in their turn, to be repulsed by numbers, when fresh attacks would pour down upon our unshaken infantry

”That colu squadrons?” inquired the Duke, pointing to a Belgian regiade with the seventh hussars

”He refuses to oppose his light cavalry to cuirassiers, my lord,” said an aid-de-camp, who had just returned from the division in question

”Tell hiround,” said the Duke, with a quiet and iiment was seen to defile from the mass, and take the road to Brussels, to increase the panic of that city, by circulating and strengthening the report, that the English were beaten,--and Napoleon in full uess, Sir?” said Lord Wellington turning to me

”About twelve thousandthem?”

”No, Sir; the Guard are in reserve above La Belle Alliance”

”In what part of the field is Buonaparte?”

”Nearly opposite to where we stand”

”I told you, gentlereat attack The battle , as he spoke, to the plain beneath us, where still Ney poured on his devoted columns, where yet the French cavalry rode down upon our firm squares

As he spoke an aid-de-camp rode up from the valley

”The ninety-second requires support, my lord: they cannot er, without it”