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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 , that when advocating the cause of Franklin Pierce , Ge ^ e ^| C | ^ iflvoca ^ the cause of American Intervention in Jfh ffi ope ! That idea is already on the march , anq \ t marches bravely . Elsewhere % ve have noticed the $$¥£ &t of warlike invasion from another side . "Wt $ Ie Wellington was expiring at Walmer , the people of Paris were
reading in the Constitutional 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 simultaneously 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 taught revolution , is now to teach enslavement .
The 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 la . st 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 the other . Surmises that the line was not sound
were contradicted by some witnesses , and were not affirmed by the jury at the inquest . On the Exeter anil Bristol line a train dashes down an incline nt Creech , to ~ " rmss under the Chard canal bridgeandupthe opposite Incline : after crossing the buildcd foundation under the canal , it begins to dance on the soft clay of the bunk , 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 flag of " caution , " by that gesture ? of the ancient Egyptians which the gmains of London call " taking a sight , " dashes into the assistant engine , which has been helping him up an 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 , and 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 recklessness , but the providence of railway managers .
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 1781 ,
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 Prance , 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 Toot . His promotion was accordingly rapid , but not more so in its first steps than in examples visible at the present day , and muchness 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 the following year . At length , on the 30 th of April , 1793 , he obtained his majority in the 33 rd , and in September he was made lieutenaut-colonel . But lie 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 , howover , ho was ordered on active service , and embarked with the 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 enemy . The 33 rd had been landed at Ostond ; but when Lord Moira , who had the chief command of the reinforcements sent out , arrived at that port with the main body , ho saw reason for promptly
withdrawing the garrison and abandoning tho place . Orders wore issued accordingly , and though tho Republicans , under I'ic / iegrti , wore at tho gates of the town before , the English had quitted it , tlie 33 rd was safely embarked . Lord Moira by a flank march eflected a timely junction with the Duke of York at Malines . Colonel Wellesley took his corps round by the Scheldt , and landed at Antwerp , whence ho moved without delay to tho head-quartern of the Duko . This was in July , 1794 . Tho operations which followed , and which terminated hi tho following spring with tho ro-oinbarkation of tho British troops at Bremerlohc , a town at
the mouth of tho Wosor , constituted Arthur Wollesjcy h firat campaign . Tho 83 rd returned to England , ropoHod a few months , and sot wail again in tho autumn of 179 ( 5 , for Calcutta , whoro the regiment and it « colonel arrived in February , 1797 . Soon after tho . Karl of Mornington . tho brother of Colonel Wollosley , arrived in Calcutta , as Governor-General . Colonel WollcHley whh now u prominent ottloor . When Tippoo , the Sultan of Mysore , tlu-oatonod tho English posHCrthioiih , Colonel Wellesley wan entrusted by General Harris with tho task of organizing and drilling tho Madron contingent destined to ivot against Tippoo . Tho
JT 7 f ^ S ^^ lNtam amounted to 70000 ™ ? , sfft ^ ° ° > °° o > buttwr > highly <« & lHi •»* ' e « fe « tive . The iSt ^ S * campaign wa f fff fe ^ us siege andcapture of \ l- patitm and fWlfeatti 6 * Tippoo Yi ^ f I nn « a-Wellington' fa , said to % e met wii his < 3 S * «! S ** and f t was here ffcat he- wrote the first of his JS £ ? despatches . ' . ^"" Jnsned Theje was a « W / ' or grove , which waa an . - P ( ? w £ Wl a - d Welle 8 ley w »* ordered to taW with the 83 rd , and a native battalion , who was tn \ supported by another detachment of similar ata ™ J ? under Colonel Shawe . This was the famous affair * which so much has been said , and which , with sni various colourings , has been described as the first vice of Arthur , Duke of Wellington . On receiving «?" order , Colonel Wellesley addressed to his conCS the following note : — r
TO METrTEH-ATrT-&EirEfiAI . HA . RBIS , COMMANDED T * r CHIEF . * -it- « T . " Camp , 6 th April , 1799 " My -d-ejlB . Sib , —I do not know where you mean tl , post to be established , and I shall-therefore be oblieedT you if yqu will do me the favour to meet me this afW ° noon in front of the lines arid show it to mo t * l , j . i t . : n «_ j . i xa _ i ' - . * . c * AIi tne meantime I will order battalions t
my o be in re adiness " Upon looking at the tope as I came in just now it ' ed peared to me that when you get possession of the bank of the nullah , you have the tope as a matter of course as the latter is in the rear of the former . However , you are th best judge , and I shall be ready . " I am , my dear sir , your most faithful servant , " Abthttk Weliesiey "
This letter has been often appealed to as evidence of tbat 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 coloneFs official position since we last saw him in the Dutch campaign . Instead of simply conducting a
regiment , we now find him , though still only 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 Shawewas 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 ^ t once what had been the nature of the obstacles on the previous ni ght ; but tho 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 wholly free . Tho reader will at once perceive that tho circumstances suggest no discussion whatever . A night attack , by the most hatural of results , failed of its object , and was successfully executed tho 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 ot a robber chief , named Dhoondiah Waugh , who had gathered great forces , and assumed tho title of " King first
camof the Two Worlds , " This was Wellesley ' s paign . For several weeks Dhoondiah , by doubling and countermarching , succeeded in eluding his purs uers , and it soemod doubtful how long the expedition mign * bo protracted , when Colonel Wellesley received « n offer from a native to terminate the whole business i > y a stroke of a poniard . His reply was as follows : oiler a public reward b y proclamation for a man a ' > and to make a secret bargain to havo it taken away , are two different thingH ; tho one is to bo done ; i other , in my opinion , cannot , by an officer at tho tlierei
of hi » troops . " Tho contest was continued , , on even terms . More than onco did the British c mander Hucceed in driving his adversary into a posi ^ from which thero appeared no OBcape , but as o ci the wily freobootcr dofoat tho imperfect vigil * " ^ allies , or avail himself of some unforeseen "PP " of for eluding his pursuers . At length , on tho ' « ' ^ September , 1800 , after two months of » ctiWV , lkil which ho had extemporized from lib own ™ ^ mont ( tho ineaus of the commissariat and engineer < Jep ^ and had subsided hi * army ahnoat by hw « £ y . Colonel Wellenloy cume upon tho camp oi ' ^ Though tho whole force with him at that i " "" . aiatodbutof four regiment * of cavalry , luir " ° <( jnftdc ovor-worked by constant marching , bo "t onw fl a dash" at hi » proy , and put hia army to tho rouu
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TBff DEATH OF THE GREAT , DUIiE OF- WELLINGTON
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He , whom men . b # ve been acevistomed to call tht Duke for upwards of a quarter of a century ; In vho rivetted British power in India , who route * Napoleon ' s Marshals in Spain , and who finalh outed Napoleon himself at Waterloo , has at lengtl succumbed to death ; and all England with on < nighty heart mourns his loss . On Tuesday after noon , after a succession of convulsions , the Grea ' Man died at Walmer Castle .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 886, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1952/page/2/
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