aristocracy, which English money and we may safely set all foreign nations at Austrian, Prussian, and Russian bayo- defiance; for that will soon give us cheap nets had re-imposed upon her. There Government, cheap religion, and will she is at work, establishing equal laws make us all, even the poorest of us, and cheap Government. The example feel, that we have something to lose; is too alluring not to be followed. Ac- that our lot may be worse; feelings that cordingly we see all Europe in commo- the millions of us have not had for many tion. Every-where the people are look-years past. ing to France as their friend. Belgium For these reasons I hail with joy this was the door, doubly and triply barri- great event. I look upon its accomcaded, to shut the French out of the plishment as inevitable, though intrigue rest of Europe, and prevent her from and bribery may cause it to be postlending a hand to oppressed people. This poned for a short time. The French event opens this door. It is, therefore, nation burns with impatience to wipe an event at which the people of all out the stain of Waterloo; for, though nations must rejoice, and at which the they well know the treason by which oppressors of all nations must tremble. they were defeated, yet the despots, and But how will this event affect us in their own amongst the rest, with the particular? Why, as every man of aid of an enslaved and mercenary sense saw that the Parisians, by their press, have caused it to be regarded as glorious deeds of July, actually produced a stain. They know well how false the putting out of the PRINCE OF WA- our Government's pretensions are, relaTERLOO, and the ministerial proposition tive to the "glory" of that affair; but to make that reform which had been this knowledge does not tend to discoffed at for so many years; so every minish their resentment; and every man of sense must now see, that this Frenchman, except he be a downright event relating to Belgium will have a sold traitor, absolutely fries with eagertendency to urge the Government on in ness to regain the "field of Waterloo,' the good work. For, it is another and which, he feels, will bring back everya most striking proof that the stability thing to where it stood before the first of Governments now demand great con- fall of Napoleon! And what a triumph cessions to the people, that the people for THE PEOPLE of every country! are no longer to be ruled on the princi- The great burden of the arguments ple of fear. I am aware that, taking against reform in England has, for the into view the change that has been last 16 years, been this:-" Look at made by the discovery of steam-naviga-" France; only look at France: the tion, the power of France to invade Eng- "French made a radical reform; and land and Ireland will be greatly aug- "what have they got by it? All their mented by the re-union of Belgium with" victories ended in defeat; and there France. But I know, at the same time," they are, with the Bourbons back that all the power of France, if it were again, with all their fine conquests four or even ten times what it is, would" taken away, with the white flag up present nothing formidable to England" again, with the defeat at Waterloo and Ireland, if the people were cordial in" sticking to them, with a national debt, their love of the Government; this they" and taxed as heavily as ever so that, would be, if they had meat to eat (as" be silent about reform; for, it will do their great-grandfathers had) instead of " you no good in the end; you must, at the accursed potatoes; and, if they have" last, come back again to potatoes, or have not meat to eat, it signifies, in my" BENETT'S Gallon loaf and 3d. aview of the matter, not a single straw" week for FOOD and CLOTHING.” who possesses, or what becomes of, the country. I am happy, however, in the thought, that they have again begun to eat meat. I trust that the Ministers will give us a real reform; and then

This was the great burden of all the arguments against reform, for sixteen years, ending on the 29th day of July last! It is gone! The brave Parisians put an end to it on that memorable day,

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and every good man on earth clapped himself at North Cray, in Kent) said, his hands with joy on the occasion; "He shall never quit that island; for every man felt that the victory had when that really greatest captain of the been won for the people of every coun-age fell because he had become an Emtry. This union of Belgium, however, peror, and had married an Austrian was necessary to make the thing com-when NAPOLEON was sent off to that plete. Very much mistaken are those miserable island, where he at last died who imagine that this aggrandisement of an "hereditary cancer;" then did I of France is an injury, or can be an in- say to this very CASTLEREAGH: "You jury, to the English nation. An injury," think you have triumphed, do you? indeed, it may be to the rulers of Hol-" Your triumph will be of short duraland, of Hanover, of Prussia, of the "tion: the gallant French nation will petty despots of Germany, of Russia" speedily recover: the Bourbons themand of Austria. To these rulers it may "selves must break your treaty, or be be an injury; but a benefit to the people "dethroned; France and Belgium will of every country. An injury to domi-" be together again: the debt conneering aristocracy every-where; but a" tracted in consequence of the war benefit to the industrious classes of" will hang like a mill-stone about your every community on earth. It is for" necks: the gallant French nation will our interest in all respects that Belgium "march where they please: England should belong to France. I have a "will be able to stir neither hand nor thousand good reasons for this; but," foot to retard their march, unless she one is enough, and that is, that it will" free herself from her debt; and this enable the French to establish cheap "she cannot do without breaking up Government, and will compel us to follow the church establishment, and, in their example in that respect. All our "great part, the whole body of arisdangers, all our miseries, arise from dear" tocracy."-Political Register, 24th Government. There is no good reason of September, 1814.-This, then, is the why England should not be governed day of my triumph. It has not come even cheaper than the United States of so soon as I expected, but it is come; America, and maintain at the same and, amongst all the millions upon time all her just rights and authority in millions of human beings, whose hearts the world. There is no reason why leap with joy at contemplating this this should not be; and to this cheap event, not one single soul feels the joy government the example of France, to a greater extent than I do, having and the immense increase of power that that cheap government will give to France, will, in the end, compel us

to resort.

the happiness to reflect, that my efforts may, in some small degree, have contributed towards the accomplishment of

that event.

War! Oh, no! We shall not go to "But" (as PEEL said to the Lord war to prevent the union of Belgium Mayor on the 8th of November), with France. The French now know" what shall we do with the Duke? (I have taken good care of that) all" What shall we do with the 'PRINCE that I know about the means which" OF WATERLOO""? What shall we this Government has of going to war; do with the memory of " Old Blucher," and they talk on the subject in a man- the drivel from whose beard the English ner which shows that they know it" ladies" vied with each other to kiss? well. They do know it well, and they What shall we do with the memory of leave us out of the question accordingly. that dear old man," who received And now is my day of triumph; now from the Prince Regent the Order of is my day of glory. When NAPOLEON the Bath, soon after he began to rifle had been put down; when NAPOLEON the museums at Paris? What shall we had been shipped off to St. Helena; do with the splendid quarto volume, when CASTLEREAGH (who, soon after- the text by my old printer's runner, wards, cut his own throat and killed BLAGDON, and the plates by ORME of

Bond-street, intended to hand down to if I had sense to estimate the past and posterity, the History of the immortal the present; if I had been thus raised; victory obtained over the French and if I had seen a whole people experiencthe Americans on the Serpentine River? ing what England now experiences, and What shall we do with the mound a in consequence, too, of transactions for hundred feet high, and the brass lion which I had been praised to the skies, thirty feet high, standing upon the I should, notwithstanding I might have mound, on the "Field of Waterloo," been as innocent in point of intention and put there at the expense of the as, I dare say, the Prince has been ; poor Belgians themselves to commemo- were this my case, I confess that, howrate the glory of the great George the ever criminal it might be, I should be Fourth, then the Prince Regent? What coward enough to call upon the earth shall we do with the "Hanoverian to open and swallow me. To have an monument," erected' on that field, and adequate idea of what the feelings of with the "Prussian monument," erected the Prince must be, supposing him to on the same field? What shall we do have as weak a mind as I have; and, for a place for the tax-eaters to visit at the same time, to furnish a warning and strut about upon, and spend our against the danger of indulging in the earnings at the sign of the Prince of dreams of glory and ambition, let me Waterloo, and that of the "Belle Al- insert here, from Debrett's Peerage, a liance"? What shall we do with "Wa-sort of history, or heraldic account, of terloo bridge," which the spinster specu- the glories of the Prince of Waterloo. lators first called the "Strand bridge," From the internal evidence of the writbut which was re-baptised in 1818, the ing, it must have come from the Prince great Prince Regent and the great himself, or have been written and proPrince of Waterloo being sponsors, mulgated by his authority. I recomaided and assisted by horse, foot, and mend it to the attentive perusal of all artillery, with all the pomp of glorious young men. They should read every war? What shall we do with the "Wa- word of it with attention; and here I terloo Places," the" Waterloo Squares," give it for that purpose, without the "Waterloo Terraces," " Waterloo Rows," addition or suppression of one single and "Waterloo Houses"? What shall we word. do to get these names out of our eyes and out of our heads? What shall we do with the tree, under which the great Prince sat while he was achieving the Waterloo victory, and which was afterwards dug up and brought to England, here to be planted, and now standing, I suppose, in the grounds at Stratfieldsay? What shall we do with the Waterloo triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner, representing the glorious achievements of the Prince and joining on to his own dwelling-place? What shall we do with the great naked Achilles, standing in Hyde Park, opposite the Prince's own window, erected (naked thing) at the expense of the "ladies of England"? "But," as PEEL in his agony said, on the 8th of November," WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DUKE !”

Different men are of minds differently constituted; but, speaking for myself, I am sure, that, if I were in this state;

ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WEL LINGTON, Marquess of Douro, Marquess and Earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington Douro of Wellesley, co. Somerset; Field of Talavera, and of Wellington, and Baron Marshal in the army, Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Horse-Guards, Master-General of the Ordnance, and Governor of Plymouth, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Knight of the Order of St. Esprit of France, PRINCE OF and legislative body OF THE NETHERWATERLOO, so created BY THE KING LANDS, VALUE 20004. PER ANNUM; but the right in other respects is much enhanced when it is considered that it is beTED IN THE VERY THEATRE OF HIS stowed IN LANDS AND WOODS SITUASPLENDID VICTORY. Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, and a Grandee of Spain of the First Class, Duke of Vittoria, Marquess of Torres of the Most Illustrious Order of the Golden Vedras, Count of Vimeira in Portugal, Knight Fleece, of the Spanish Military Order of St. Ferdinand, Knight Grand Cross of the Impe

rial Military Order of Maria Theresa, Knight | THE HEART AND MIND OF EVERY Graud Cross of the Imperial Order of St. ENGLISHMAN. Suffice it, therefore, to George of Russia, Knight Graud Cross of say, that THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD the Order of the Black Eagle of Prussia, cannot produce another instance of a conflict Knight Grand Cross of the Portuguese Royal and Military Order of the Tower and Sword, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of Sweden of the Sword, Knight Grand Cross of the Orders of the Elephant of Denmark, of William of the Low Countries, of the Annunciade of Sardinia, of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, and of several others, and Commander of the Forces of his Britannic Majesty in France, and of the Army of his Majesty the King of the Low Countries and his Majesty the King of France and of Navarre; born May 1, 1769, married April 10, 1806, the bon. Catherine Pakenham, 3d daughter of Edward, lord Lobgford, (who d. before his mother Elizabeth, in her own right countess of Longford,) and sister of Thomas, present earl of Longford, and has issue, Arthur, marquess of Douro, b. Feb. 3, 1807, and Charles, b. Jan. 16, 1808.

so severe, so sanguinary; in which the skill and coolness of officers were so admirably seconded by the discipline and bravery of soldiers; in which science was so eminently invigorated by the coolness of a universal courage, which had in its turn submitted its fervour to be tempered by the soundest discre tion; in which, in spite of these fair promises of victory, the fate of the battle was a long day so nicely poised, that the coming nightfall would have left it undecided, but for one of those almost SUPERHUMAN IMPULSES WHICH FALL ONLY ON THE GREATEST MINDS, to produce the greatest results. The Duke of Wellington, by seizing an opportunity which the delay of a moment might have lost, destroyed that army which had so long been the terror of Europe; clouded for ever the almost romantic fame of its leader, and crumbled his rebellious throne into dust.

A DUE MEASURE of gratitude for such services COULD NOT HAVE BEEN REN. DERED, but the nation DID ITS BEST: on the 23rd of June the thanks of both Houses of parliament were once more voted to him,

This ILLUSTRIOUS NOBLEMAN is the 3d surviving son of Gerrard-Colley Wellesley, earl of Mornington, in the Peerage of Ireland, (by Anne Hill, eldest daughter of Arthur, viscount Dungannon,) and brother of Richard, marquess Wellesley, K. G. &c. &c. (See Marquess Wellesley in the Peerage of Ire-" for the consummate ability" (to use the land.)

After giving a pompous account of his other exploits, he comes to the battle of Waterloo.

very words of parliament on the occasion) "unexampled exertion and irresistible ardour, displayed by him on the 18th of June;" and on the 11th of the following month, the additional sum of 200,000l. was granted to him towards the purchase of lands, and the building on them a suitable mansion; such estates to be holden by him and his heirs, in free and common socage by fealty, and rendering to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, on the 18th of June in every year, AT HIS CASTLE OF WINDSOR, ONE TRI-COLOURED FLAG, for all manner of rents, services, exactions, and demands.

However MARVELLOUS this series of eminent services, in which Providence had been pleased to crown the MOST SUBLIME EFFORTS OF HUMAN PRUDENCE AND COURAGE with the most unvaried success, it was but the prelude to that stupendous victory which, unparalleled in all its features, as well as in the vastness of its consequences, raised the character of this hero to a height never before attained by any captain. The beneficence of the King of France and the other sovereigns of Europe, was repaid by Alas! how flat, after this, would apthe French armies with the most detestable pear the plain names of GEORGE WASH treachery. The allies had no sooner withdrawn those troops, at the head of which they INGTON, JOHN ADAMS, THOMAS JEFFER replaced Louis on his throne, when Buona- 8ON, JAMES MADDISON, JAMES MUNROE, parte was again brought triumphantly from ANDREW JACKSON! How vapid! yet, Elba, and the King was once more obliged to when one reflects that the people of seek refuge in the bosom of foreign states. whom they have been the chief MagisEurope again rose, and the usurper advanced to meet its legions; it seemed trates, EAT MEAT THREE TIMES to have been ordained that the conflict A DAY, while those who live in the which had subsisted for more than twenty country where these fine titles abound, years should remain undecided till the TWO live upon potatoes, from the 1st of MIGHTY LEADERS who had so long electrified the world should, for the first time, January to the 31st of December; when meet hand to hand, and on the 18th day of Jane, this great conflict took place on the plains of Waterloo. To attempt to particularize any of the events of that day, would the limits of this work allow it, would be impertinent, for they ARE EN GRAVEN ON

one reflects on this, and when one knows at the same time that the jails of America are empty; that not sen mea have been hanged out of twelve mil lions, in forty years; that such a thing

as a special commission was never heard attempt an interference in Belgium and of in that land; that there are all the France, we should have to fight Jonaold laws of England and none of the than as well as the French and Belgians; new ones; that, under that mild and and, let it be remembered that I now gentle government, no standing army warn the Ministers of this danger. has been required, though it has carried When the WHIGS were in power before, on a triumphant war, by sea as well as they took up from their predecessors, by land against the undivided power of extended, and carried on, a most vigorthis great country itself: when one ous paper- -blockade." That finally reflects on these things, one is almost produced the war of 1812, followed up tempted to believe that the plain names as it was by CANNING and CASTLEof George Washington and of Andrew REAGH, with the aid of their sublime Jackson are worth all the titles, all the negociators, of whom one was the coronets, all the ribbons, stars and garters in the world.

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younger GEORGE ROSE. The Americans began that war with (to use the expression of the flippant and saucy Canning) "six fir frigates with bits of striped bunting at their mast-head." They ended it with a stout fleet, some of them seventy-fours, which fleet has been augmenting from that day to this; such being the natural consequences of a people being truly represented in their legislative assemblies, and of the savings of peace making provision for the expenses of war.

Leaving the Prince of Waterloo to the use of his titles, and to carry the TRI-COLOURED FLAG to Windsor Castle every month of June, or, rather, leaving bright Peel to discover what he shall do with him, let me now, in conclusion of this article, observe that we are not to talk of war, especially about Belgium, and shut our eyes to the circumstance that we are not to have such war as that without having something to do with Jonathan, who, let it be remembered, Now, be it known to our ministers carries a Long Tom in his stern. It and to this bothered people, that longwas said of old BINGHAM of Philadel-sighted Jonathan has taken a wonderphia (the father of Messrs. Alexander and ful interest in the recent Revolution in Henry Baring), who had been a super- France. Without a moment's hesitacargo, or something, on board a privateer, during the war of revolution, that he used to say, in the heat of the fight, "Never mind, my lads, while the Long Tom remains unshipped." It was said of him, or some other privateer's man, that being fired at by an English seventy-four, in order to bring him to and make him surrender, he returned the fire, but overloaded the Long Tom and got it unshipped. However he continued the fight, and got away; and when he was asked, after he got into port, how he could have the audacity to return the fire, he swore that if he had not unshipped his Long Tom "he would have took her!" I dare say that BINGHAM, who was a Yankee, (that is, a New Englander,) was, like the rest of his countrymen, as cool as a cucumber, and as brave as a lion; and certain it is, at any rate, that that cool race is now prepared for us; and that if our Government were so unwise as to

tion, his Ambassador at Paris acknowledged the new order of things. In the United States, joy at that event has been expressed in all sorts of ways. In the last Register, I inserted an account of the rejoicings at New York, to which I beg leave to refer my readers, if by chance they have overlooked it. Jonathan is even a cooler fellow than his ancestors. Show, for show's sake, is altogether contrary to his taste. There was not, be you well assured, a procession" three miles long," with all the display of the tri-coloured flag entwined with that of America, and will all the other demonstrations of joy and applause, without something more than mere enthusiasm being at the bottom! Jonathan never moves and never speaks without first duly thinking of the consequences. He did not make all that parade with LA FAYETTE, and heap upon the old general such marks of his gratitude (all which, however, he