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Miscellaneous . ... . iv.-- ? ? , * ^"Wateh loo. Tha fcfcwing ti. fakeu from JKjiffrfi's Tour in France, Germany, fcc. ?The Morning after our Arrival in Brussels, Lieut.. H - and myself starfwTTn a cabriolet for Waterloo. On leaving Bnksels, we turned to the right, and toon entered tbe for est of Hoignies, through which we continued to travel till we reached the village of Waterloo. The vis tasextramely fine, amt if there wero rto other attractions to -Waterloo, thk circumstance would render it a rid? we'd worthy the occupation of a leisure morning. W%reached mount St. Jean, which is about a mile and a half from Waterloo, (and at which place the battle was fought,) about ten. Wqiireakfasted at a little au berage at tbe end of the village, and IBiving obtained the famous Jean Baptistc La Ooste, who was llona parte's guide on the meinorahlc occa sion ottftr battle; a* our Cicerone, -\yq proceedfedja view the ground. . The high road through Waterloo to Gharleroi parses - directly alon'<* the centre of the scene of action.? Tbe first object that arrested our at JtiniiulL vyas a solitary tree, oil a lit tle elevation, and ou a rising ban~k close on the rjglit hand v side of tbe road, yljii is cal(cd W ellingtou the circumstance tliat it :iras the station occupied by Lord Wellington ? if he can be said * to have had any station at all, for he was perpetually riding, about to ani mate his men, and. during the whole .of the day performed. the service of a colonel to the respettive regiments that needed the inspiration of his " resence. But it was ' the rallying oirtt foHiis staff, mid .there he was requontly liiinself. J?st behind that tiepjr a-cavt ftaih over the farm, crosses the road. It lids a bank of about ihrpf.ieet iu height on each ottr">-o4nw-40d ves from the fury of the ene ray's fire, by lying down upon the ' 8 round until they were wanted.-^ ?ne officer Who was Wg thi* lane, was greatly alarmed and extremely restless. ? His comrades cried to' 1 him, that if he was afraid; the |&|f I tlung-ij^cpahHl^ would be to lie still? h>)t hft> would lift uu bj, head I to see what waa going on, and that 1 instant a fttnnon ball carried it off.? - 1,16 roW'?.a jitite be Sk * tree ,wo ?",?r ,rees> ?6. &st about forty or fifty yards from the road, and the secoudibout the same distance from the first. |fy <he first, Gen. Picton fell, and by the second, Lord Uxbridge lost Ida leg? -and a. iitUa farther to the ? left, V.Wv Colonel Ponsonby W?ts killed. Far to the left in that w the wood from which tha Pmsm&BSjfcUied out/t four, un d5f Bulow, and at. seven, under LOwl Wellington iu,. ? miimtbrfj us our guide expres sed himself, the French were all in flight.1 Not many yards from Well ington tree, ou the hank close by the *?ad side, Colonel Gordon, his Aid; decamp, receiytjff his mortal woortdf A itofale monument of Mack marble is now creating uulhtfspot, to per< petuate tho memory ;tif the event, by hi* ma fcnd five hrttheft t from U stands, clo*ojo the tight aide ?fj t|ie roatV? Thtiie the Hanoverians of the German ? legnnis fought, till all their ammunition exhausted, and then, to tH$aWo?il?t of fo^r' hun dred they were .put to the bayonet l?y tlifi French. - This sectns to ? have lw>eu the inily circftmslnme of omis sion, with which Lord Wellington charged himself nfter the engage ment. "We ought,'' Uid he, 'to have made a holo in tho wall at the bn< k of the house,, and have supplied them liy that method with. ammunition ? but I could not think of everything The hoose and burn face each oilier? the yard i* between theih and they connect cd at fhrtr g:il>l* ends by hiyjh walls .. *4 T . m . ? ? 1 . . .. XL I I roofs, and ti tribe rs of tin*' house aud j . bam, are iparks of the cai*uou and inusquetry, and on the w alts of the barn, are still to be Been the stains of the blood that was spilt, whsn their ammunition being exhausted, the i>oor fellows were unable any longer to resist, and the French forcing their way into the inclosure, mowed them down like corn. We enquired for the old woman who re mained uuinjured in the cell&r of the luump ihiringihi* wKnlf* nf the acfiori, but were told that she was not there, as the family who then had the farm had siuce removed.1 At the top of the hill, a quarter of a mile from the farm house of La Haye Sainte, on the left hand side of the road, is the poet house called La Belle Alliance, and about half way between the farm holtse and the Belle Alliance where the High bauks^ on either side of the road defended iiimiYoin die enemy's canUou, which passed over his head, was the prinei pal station of Boaaparlc during the greater part of the action, and where the guide said he remained five boura at one time. We Imlted like ex hausted heroes, for we were weaqr with wartTngliT the mud, .and dren clicd with rain, at- the Bell Alliance. 1 took a glato of eau-de-vie, while we warmed onr?clye? Bj? the tire which blazed on the hearth, in the miserable kitchen. , The woman of the house told us she was there at ? the lime of the battle,' "but ' that she fled to the woods duriug the heat of the action, and on her .return she found the house filled with the woun ded. It was hear this place that Wellington andBlucher met after the action. , - ^ . la -Cost? said, that Bonaparte spoke but little* during tho battle? aud When tlie fate of the day was de termined agaiu?t him, he dimply criedv^jjh ifi all ovtr," and fleil? He was a9 pale as death. La Coste was with lum till four in the morn ing, when he w** dismissed. AV hat moat of all struck me, and must ir think Atrlke every body is the uarrovP compass of the ground in which two sucli large armies were engaged, and so terrible a slaughter took place. Itwus jbgjt M JLa Coste observed, a battle, It was a massa cre ? and the. Duke df Wellington is uhderstood to consider - it as : by no means so lust an exhibition of his skill in military tactics as many of ^former engagements. ^The Held <h Waterloo is now rich in waving corn, ripening for the sickle- of the husbandman. ;What a scene must it have been when death was the yeapej^gnd gathered iu bis thousands oY sheaves to the gardner of -tho gravel ^ And what a scene will be again when the trtiup of the Archangel awake the sleeper* that repose henr.ath its cTods, and the mighty armies that day annihilated shall start up to life upon the plain on whieh they foil! I never heard a sermon so impressive as the silence that Yeigned around me on the fiebf of Waterloo. 1 aoold not but con nect their everlasting destinies with the thousfchds of the dead upon who** dust 1 trod; The eternity that seem ed to open there 'upcpt my view, peopled with; the spirit of the slain, was an awful scene. * Hie bitterness of the dving oti tbr JtoM of WUle ? the widow* crhk-? the orphan's tears \ ? ffift Agonies* of surviving fKehtfehip *^-W?re all forgotten. T ot*ljf saw the immortal soul hurried unprepar ed, and, perhaps, blaspheming, in-! to the presence of il^ftod y - 1 shud dered at the con tern t^atio^ iild felt how deadly a scetit'ge, Itpiv hitter a curse is wan , ? 0T - 9? w : : A yoking lady >as tery . much in love with a youf\? -officer \ but that JitUs delicacy. which prevails among the female sex would not permit her to disclose, her pussiou. However, her attentions were unremitted, end she whs* lavish hi hi*r compliments when opportunity would permj*. Hut the officer l?eh\$ a delicate men, and inioxytfyieitfpd in these maUeix, I be wai, therefore* Mucanai'u4i$ ui Iffct meaning; and it remained for the young hjrfy either t? be more expli cit or cotftiinie iu all tbeL torture m\\ 1 gusjwrfse. Tlie former t&J&g her . choice, she araileci herself <ff a cir-r cu instance which happened one i!ay^ when tliejf dfned together. JFhere wrre fowls, audi aj*cafcity cf platen, bo that the young officer had hardly worn for his fragment# ; which (the youD? lady taking notice of, aud re solving to seize the present happy moment, turned about, and, wiiji : an expressive look, ?? Pray* sirt lag your bonks 4 ipilk mi Bg.'V-Tlte officer took the A u<f, and an eclmrcis fitment took place that evening. - ?Ifc . .v* .-V- ? - J \ *? "L_^ ? ? : ? Foreign Scraps London, August ?9. ? A supple ment to the London Gazette was published last night, containing fur ther accounts of the military opera tion* in India. They furnish the de tails of the reduction of several forts including the attack and storming uTltie furti;esfi "of "X al nic r , On tins occasion Maj. (Jordan auci Captain McGregor were killed, and Lieut. Col. Murray, deputy adjutant gene ral, was desperately wounded, ; hut sanguine hopes were entertained' of his recovery. ' The garrison, ctKisist in^ of 300 Arabs, were treated as re bels, and put to the sword. * Paris, August .5,? Iirelligeiicc from Vicna of the td Aug. nnnouce, that the latest accounts hem Con stantinople represents the negocia tious hat ween llussiaand Hie Porte, as proceeding in the most lively mauner.? The same news announces a great victory by the sqjt of the Pa cha of Kgypt over the ,/Weehabites, in the taking tlieir capital. ^ .-In consideration of' receiving the sum of ?50,000 piastres, as a presen t, .the Pacha of Egypt has consented (o shut his eyes -fp the devotion of the Catholics, who way in tuture i>ay their homage the tomU nrf our Saviour at Jerusalem, without mo jeatatiup,3\ ; > * < *?# ? v ,, CvJiatantinvpfoy July 10. ? In the night on the 7th, a tire tiroke . out within the gate of Odan Kapussa, which destroyed near 800 houses and a small mosque. It was the more destructive, as it caught the iw*-\ re works, which caused a terrible, explosion, and by which near 100 persons miserably perished, and ma ny were iyuch injured. p SPAIN, ' I * ; ' A ~ '1 The tditor \* iiidehted to a highly esteemed friend for theveuhjoioed ex* tract, which is from a source so res pectable as to entitle it to undoubted credit. The information ft contains points to a change in the affairs of Spain of great importance, but such as tKe knowledge of past orcm-rance* iuthat kingdom will ?aJk*fy everjr in flecting miud is not at mil iinprthM ble.-^-Bdft. fed, Guz. . 1 Extract from a letter' tvriUn by atuUeman in London, well know in America, to another in flit J city. . v, " Politically we liave little new The meeting of Mm Hoverei Aix-la-Chapelle is [the - tiiat will attract mtich attcnti ters from Bpain ^peak of it, event not to be doubted, that \ : lntion will break Hint tb^re very, shortly, having for its object the el- < pulsion of Ferdinand, (lie recal of the bfU)ifche*t^tberMe8,:aitft tlie old ' King Charles to be put at the liead of a.jtoArtsentative ^ovefament. It is sain, efforts will be r made, i (o obtain the sanfctionof the assent- ' bled ftf|ver?igns for this new order of thing*! IIAYTI. St j Thomas, t3. We have received accounts from Hay It, stating that Boyer hail totally defe&ted the army under dhristophe, between Sf. Marks anil Port-Ku-Prfrice j that Chrisiophe left MKK) men Killed on the field, &r. u I pve jett this, as well an all other news, as I receiv e it, always taking earn to ?)vey<AjrO&~ |. iy -ih&t which is gaircraity ?leitn'?<f {V - " - ; SOUTlI AMliUIi; A. ^Tue.uirrespondent of the Demo cratic Press,- at St? Thomas^ gives euconrageiiig irccounts of the state cf the Patriots of Venezuela. Gen. Mr.* rioo, wiiu JMlO^Well disciplined tro*>t>*ris acting yi fulfctmcert ; Pn ez. has 2000 moil; of whom 800 aref English" ^valry ; S:tra*sa lias 2000 tiirn, chiefly^ cavity, ? n TStnly oT 3000 <v as collecting under Ajuzuati we. agaiji hope UkU the Uaynfc ro^af ImtcljVry in Venezuela is nearly at ltd eiut. ~w ~ ?V . ifigflta Jtluceii)mun. - * Norfolk, (jft. 1J2T ? r\$re announce with much (lie arrival oi' the if. S* frigate #j|]ace< Ionia 1)^ j. J)o\\ ? ue?j Esq. commander, in 4*iffi>stf< Hhe came in on Saturday afternoon and /proceeded immediately Jo the N^Vy-Yard at Goapovt. v b^e was dismasted in u severe gale, which commenced from 8. E. on hatuiday^ 87, longj 55, aud shifted on tlm morning of the 5?tli,vto N. W. dm iiig w hick site bad her mizzcu-maat carried a Way by the hoaiti j hur fart? arid main-mast* sprung, and < was compelled to cut away her fore and main top mast, with the loss of scma other spars of iuferior consequence, aud three of her bwts.^jteacoiz.' Commodore Perry avd Capt. Ileal h. 1 lie unfortunate dispute iiejtweeu these two gfeutlen^rha* beejt the subject of vari<&j^ eommentv and hart excited (xinittderable interest throughout the union. . Commodore Perry conceiving that an atopemen* was ncceasary for having* ]o a trio went of foigetfulness, raised his hand 6? an officer holdihg a commission under the government, capt. Death the satisfaction hempnred. The meeting took phico yesterday vJheujUuiMio dure Piirry received the lire of Cap lain Heath, without injury ? reserv ing bi? tire, and reiu*jingt at the san^e time, to exercise said right ; and Captain Heath, satisfied ait Ibis gallant ahd magnanimous atonement, the parties iiepwtea^ndlhija lion ourably 1 termi|}e<L Jfew jpdUmsupt difference,^ will hereafter (>e buried m oblivion. ,?s We have wtdM several tfipu tnenU relative td this traduction, (Wbicb lye shall publish to mor o .v) . goy wl^^^e^UMU C<Hn. for fryhas conduct^lnmscTfmtlic moat honourable maunej- fit , this aflitir, Altai justified I ho favourable opinion entertained of ldi? gaUautry aud ?oo<t of the murdvr of major to he huugftt Albany on tmm ***? ' It U fa fa waters of Lake Oota '?| II 1 . a By .IqBWLo' J'^kc Ivrie^ by < nt l Canal from the head of tweU ?? Creek to ftie Chippy?* > sixar. Hurveyg Imve^heen made, and. the idaji found to lia nether diffloult hqbJ sses? JSJtea navigation from faf Lake* trealj nrc the La Chine and Skgant carrying places. Ware tOaae remoy ved h, rot-aim of Canala, the trarh; of I all tlte prfhcigal aettleipeuU e? each side of the liken and |i>r?r would glide iuto Montreal : n/at 1*00kl lie great American Cai^l arterial It W pair the value and ilO|K>^a^H:e 01 tMl extensive mlatuOH^Ktoi'4 Tte Duke Of Hichmoofl, My Goffrnqr of the CariadfcV ha? peett on a tour I trough the prffViM^juuf atc#ngly re commends the orMkitiluftiE, 3 \o urnat~ AX As persons $racautu>iudr not t*tr*<fo for a Not* of Hand of mine, i^iven to Thontu* Campbell, to* $?6oj dated. on or before the December, \H\7. At ( consider, that &aui Note was given foe un souiK^ propci t> Samuel l^nvyct. S *7*rf\ 13(9. - " * " 1