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waistcoat , in the warm work of public speaking ; but Cass does utter the feeling of immense numbers among his countrymen . It is an important political fact , therefore , tha _, t when _advocating _thti cause of Franklin Pierce , Ge _« _eMl 0 &* S _advocates the cause American Intervention iii Murope . ' T _& at idea is already on the march , _afid it marches bravely .
Elsewhere we have noticed the tiifeat of waylike invasion from another side . Wliile Wellington was expiring at Walmer , the people of Paris were reading in the Constitutionnel a threat of invading England . And about the same time , La Nation , of Brussels , was reporting that there is a plan of the kind in discussion at the Elysee . These almost simultaneous events are likely enough to make the English public attend a little more to the subject , and to recognise the fact that ,
however mad , such a project is not absolutely impossible . Napoleon and Wellington were studying military science simultaneousl y at Brienne and Angers ; both have lived , conquered , and died ; England has almost outlived her pride in Waterloo , France has not outlived her chagrin ; Wellington is succeeded by a Marquis of Douro , Napoleon is succeeded by a Louis Napoleon ; and in the meanwhile Lord Carlisle is lecturing at Morpeth on English literature .
Yes , that is an important fact . Lord Carlisle is an admirable example to his order ; and if the House of Lords were a College of Preceptors , he would be among its most distinguished professors . English literature has been , is , and long will be , a great power in the world ; but just now that press which has no literature at all except what the audacity of Emile de Girardin can thrust through the curtain of the Censure , claims more attention than . the finest of poems or treatises . And the House of Lords ought to be something more than a College of Preceptors .
Writing as we do this week under the very shadow of our great national bereavement , we turn with sickening and disgust to that capering , falsehearted , cruel charlatan , under whose auspices France is content to dance in chains . Louis Bonaparte has set off on his month ' s tour to the south to test the population . The enthusiasm that is to greet him is despatched from Paris at so much per ton , ready made . Flags , illuminanations , fireworks , all is sent from Paris : that city which , having tau ght revolution , is now to teach enslavement .
Thc deadly-pictured satire in Punch , which represents a railway train as fitted up with a travelling surgery , and an undertaker tendering his card to a passenger , befits the week , eventful in the casualties of the rail . Our postscript of last Saturday reported the unexplained accident on the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway , in which a train , rushing on to a curved embankment at a rapid rate , sends its engine down one side , and its carriages down thc other . Surmises that the line was not sound
were _eontraduted by some witnesses , and were not affirmed by the jury at the inquest . On the Exeter and Bristol Vine a train dashes down an incline at Creech , to pass under the Chard canal bridge and up the opposite incline ; : after crossing the builded foundation under the canal , it begins to dance on the soft clay of the bank , an axle-tree is broken , and the driver is killed .
At Leighton , on the North-Western , Reynolds , the driver of an express , responds to the fiag of " caution , " b y that g esture of the ancient E gyptians which the gamins of London call " taking a sight , " dashes into the assistant engine , which has been helping him up au incline , and could not find time to get out of the way of his headlong
career , and he— -type of railway managementis killed . Another assistant engine has been helping a train , near Leighton , on the same line , ami is dashed by it across the rail ; and if no one was hurt , it was not the fault of the railway methods . Punch caricatures , not the _rccklessnoatf , but thc providence of railway _nuuiagorw .
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Arthur Wesley , for such was his original name , was born in Ireland , in 1769 , whether in Dublin or at his father ' s country seat , Dangan Castle , Meath , is not known ; neither is the day of his birth at all certain : biographers name the 1 st of May , but the Duke of Wellington kept it on the 18 th of June . His father was the Earl of Mornington , of musical fame ; and his family was descended from the Coney ' s or Cowley ' s , originally from Rutlandshire , one of whom was adopted by a Mr . Wesley , owner of Dangan Castle , Meath , from whom Arthur descended . His father died in 1 * 781
and Anne , Countess of Mornington , daughter of Viscount Dungannon , was left with a numerous family . Arthur was first sent to Eton , thence to a school at Brighton , and finally to the military school at Angers , in France , where he studied for six years under Pignerol , of engineering fame . On the 7 th of March , 1787 , Arthur Wellesley , being in his 18 th year , became ensign of the 73 rd Foot . His promotion was accordingly rapid , but not more so in its first steps than in examples visible at the present day , and much less so than in the case of some of his contemporaries . He remained a
subaltern four years and three months , at the expiration of which period of service he received his captaincy . The honour of having trained the Duke of Wellington would be highly regarded in the traditions of any particular corps , but so numerous and rapid were his exchanges at this period that the distinction can hardly be claimed by any of the regiments on the rolls of which he was temporarily borne . He entered the army , as we have said , in the 73 rd , but in the same year he moved , as lieutenant , to the 76 th , and within the next 18 months was transferred , still in a subaltern ' s capacity ,
to the 41 st foot and the 12 th Light Dragoons , successively . On the 30 th of June , 1791 , he was promoted to a captaincy in the 58 th , from which corps he exchanged into the 18 th Light Dragoons in the October of tbe following year . At length , on the 30 th of April , 1793 , he obtained his majority in the 33 rd , and in September be was made lieutenant-colonel . But ho had meanwhile been acting as aide-de-camp to the Earl of Westmoreland , Viceroy of Ireland ; and serving in the Irish Parliament , to which he was sent in 1790 , by the family borough of Trim .
At length , however , he was ordered on active service , and embarked with thc 33 rd , for the Low Countries , in May , 1794 . The first military operation performed by the conqueror of Waterloo was the evacuation of a town in the face of the enomy . The 33 rd had been landed at Ostend ; bnt when Lord Moira , who had the chief command of tho reinforcements sent out , arrived at that port with the main body , ho saw reason for promptly withdrawing the garrison and abandoning the place . Orders were issued accordingly , and though thc Republicans , under Pie / iegru , were at tho gates of tho town
before the English had quitted it , the Z _3 rd was safely embarked . Lord Moira by a Hank march effected a timely junction with tho Duke of York at MulincB . Colonel Wellesley look his _eorjis round by the Scheldt , and landed at Antwerp , whence he moved without delay to tho head-quartern of tho Duke . Thin wm in July , 1794 .. The operations whieh followed , and which terminated in tho following spring with tho ro-omharkation of tho British troops at Bremcrlohe , a town at the mouth of tho _Weser , constituted Arthur _Wellesloy ' fl
lirst campaign . The 33 rd returned to England , reposed a few month ! ., and set sail again in the autumn of 1796 , for Calcutta , whero the regimont and its colonel arrived in February , 1797 . Soon after tho Earl of Mornington , tho brother of Colonel Wellesley , arrived in Calcutta , as Governor-Oonernl . Colonel _WolleHley was i * ow a prominent officer . When Tippoo , the Sultan of _Myttoru , threatened the English possessions , Colonel _Wellesloy was _entrusted by General Harris with tho task of _organizing and drilling tho Madras contingent _dowtinod to act against Tippoo . Tho
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army of the MM _^ r _* ctifeftain amounted to 7 o no _* that df tk feri % _bntf to about 50 , _( S > but T ° _*«» > highly _& cijp lipV effective . The rlu "V ** _campaign _yas _& S _fciii & us siege and _caphS rf «? . the patata and the death «> f Tippoo It Zt V enn a-W _ellington is toll to have met _\ vTth his onTv < _fe that aud ib _WaH hm that he wrote the first ofhl _rS _^" _despatches . s _Pushed _TMre wa * ft * _** _£ » . or gtove , which was an " _porlafat _Jtost ; _afid Wellesley was ordered Z T , _**" with the 33 rd , and a native battalion , who _ZnT ? supported by another detachment of similar 2 " * under Colonel Shawe . This was the famous aff _" _^ which so much has been said , and which with f various colourings , has been described as the fi * _l vice of Arthur , Duke of Wellington . On _receKn _T order , Colonel Wellesley addressed to his com _™ g ? e the following note : — c ° _mmander
_"SS ! AjrMfflinauai HABEIS ' C 0 MMA _^ . . _tc _* r c -r , , " Camp , 5 th April , 1799 " Mt _deab Sib , —I do not know where vou _m _* . ! A post to be established , and I shall therefore be _> SS _? Jt you if you will do me the favour to meet me _thk „«¦ noon in front of the lines and show it to me I of " meantime I will order my battalions to he in readiW Upon looking at the tope as I came in just now it „ peared to me that when you get possession of the _banlr < the nullah , you have the tope as a matter of eourse asth latter is in the rear of the former . However von _¦««/ best judge , and I shall he ready . ' 7 "e the " I am , my dear sir , your most faithful _sertant " _Akthub _Wbliesiet "
This letter has been often appealed to as evidence of that brevity , perspicacity , and decision afterwards recognised as such notable characteristics of the great Duke ' s style . Without stopping to challenge the criticism , we would rather point to it as signally exemplifying the change which had taken place in the young colonel's official position since we last saw him in
the Dutch campaign . Instead of simply conducting a regiment , we now find him , though still onl y a colonel , in command of a powerful division of an army , influencing the character of its operations , corresponding on terms of freedom with the general-in-chief , and preserving his despatches for the edification of posterity . Reserving , however , any further comment on these
circumstances , we must now state that the attack in question was a failure . Bewildered in the darkness of the night , and entangled in the difficulties of the tope , the assaulting parties were thrown into confusion , and , although Shawe was enabled to report himself in possession of the post assigned to him , Colonel Wellesley was compelled , as the general records in his private diary , to come , "in a good deal of agitation , to say he had not carried the tope . " When daylight broke , the attack was renewed with instantaneous success , showing at once what had been the nature of the obstacles on the
previous night ; hut the affair has been frequently quoted as Wellington ' s " only failure , " and the particulars of the occurrence were turned to some account in the jealousies and scandals from which no camp is wholly free . The reader will at once perceive that the circumstances suggest no discussion whatever . A night attack , by the most natural of results , failed of its object , and was successfully executed the next morning as soon as the troops discovered the nature of their duties . After the capture of the place , Colonel Wellesley was
appointed both commander-in-chief and civil governor of Mysore . His next adventure was the defeat of ft robber chief , named Dhoondiah Waugh , who had gathered great forces , and assumed tho title of " King of the Two Worlds , " This waa Wellesley ' s first campaign . For several weeks Dhoondiah , by doubling and countermarching , succeeded in eluding his pursuers , and it seemed doubtful how long tho expedition might bo protracted , when Colonel Wellesley received an offer from native to terminate tho whole business ; fiy _^ i jiwui 11 iiv ! u \ j W 11 UIU 11 U "v
a _wn "" . . .. _« . . rt _, „ a stroke of a poniard . His reply was as follows : _^ offer a public reward by proclamation for n man ' _^ and to make a secret bargain to havo it taken nw » y » aro two different things ; tho ono is to bo done ; other , in my opinion , cannot , by an officer at tno 1 of his troops . " Tho contest was continued , w _^ " _*^ . ' on even terms . Moro than onco did tho Uritis 1 _^ _^ mander succeed in driving Ids adversary into a P ( W 1 manner Hiicceeu 111 urivmg inn uu y w » _v * ( j ; _i ol
_, from which thero appealed no escape , but ns on _^ tho wily freebooter dofeat the imperfect v . _p l _« uic 0 j * . ty allies , or avail himself of somo unforeseen oppo » . for eluding his pursuers . At leng th , on tho 1 . _^ September , 1800 , after two months of a « iimp » h _^ which he had extemporized from his own _™ H 0 UJ . eIlt ) tho mean * of the commissariat and _eng ineer _dep" _^ . _j _, nnd had subsisted his army almost by his o \ Colonel _Wollosley came upon the camp of ln » _^ Though the whole force with him at that mom _^ Minted but of four regimont * . of cavalry , harass _^ _^ over-worked by constant marching , ho at 01100 _^ a daah" at his prey , and put _liifl army to the ro
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He , _whaib Hi § _ft have been _fil _& tMtotti _& i to call the Duke for upwards of a quarter of a century ; he who rivetted British power in India , who routed Napoleon ' s Marshals in Spain , and who finally routed Napoleon himself at Waterloo , has at length succumbed to death ; and all England with one mighty heart mourns his loss . Oil Tuesday afternoon , after a succession of convulsions , the Great Man died at Walmer Castle .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18091852/page/2/
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