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third division ; and having dismounted , X » at dgwn ggt * km& sack waiting for the money ; the Frenchman stood b y the si&f of me- Here an unfortunate accident occurred ; while one $ 1 the men was cleaning the firelock of his musket , the piece went off and shot a corporal through the head , wounding also the arm of another man * The Frenchman was dreadfully frightened *
He turned as pale as ashes ; he perhaps thought the shot aimed at him , as the corporal fell dead beside him . It struck coe a ? a forcible example of the casualties that attend the adventuroui life of a soldier . I could not , indeed , help feeling for the p 00 ? corporal , who , after escaping through all the dangers of tbf previous night , now lost his life by a clumsy hand cleaning $ firelock . The money for our four-legged booty was sent out tome by a servant who had directions to accompany me to tl }
camp and bring back the mule , and I then parted , as I thought for ever , with the faithful Frenchman , and giving him $ 0 t of the money I had just received , advised him to return to Badajos . It may seem strange that I did not wish to remain in Badajos , but I was suffering from my wound and preferred the camp , because I thought I should there get more rest ;
hoift-« ver , a few days afterwards I was removed into the town f } & 4 admitted into hospital , where I continued under medical treatr ment until sufficiently recovered to rejoin the army , which I did near Ciudad Rodrigo . I have been in many sieges and in many actions , but I never witnessed such horrors as surrounded qqut when on the Forlorn Hope at the Siege of Badajos .
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SINCE HIS ACCESSION TO THE THRONE ; Showing the Progress of Political Philosophy , and hh contributions thereto . Sample and Sageman . 1 vol . 1887 . ' Happy idea ! A collection of the speeches of n ? le * & * $ &
trious a personage than his Majesty , William IV i What a treasure for posterity ! How much trouble wilt now be * p * itti to the antiquaries of succeeding ages ! Excellent and p » tri * tip mblishers , Messrs Sample and Sageman ! What a record 4 f ) raotioal political philosophy ! t—all condensed into one ipift \ Hi \ t d ^ dectttio volume , bound in the tarest cal £ Tbawfa , wntkpuWithers—it ehali have a niche in the Temple of ¥ * & *
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Sp $ ech 4 $ of hi * Mfyktiy , William IV . \ 7 *
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SPEECHES OF HIS MAJESTY , WJLUAM ft ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/47/
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