THE BOAR AND THE LEOARD
A NOVEL OF NAPOLEAN, WELLINGTON AND THE STRUGGLE OF WATERLOO
"WE CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE IT POSSIBLE THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PEACE AND QUIET, AND AN END TO bONAPARTE'S HORRORS ANMD DOMINION.  HE IS TO RETIRE TO ELBA.  I OWN I WOULD RATHER THERE WAS AN END OF HIM.  I DREAD HIS STARTING UO AGAIN." -HON. MRS. FRANCES CALVERT, APRIL 1814. 

AFTER NEWS OF NAPOLEAN'S RETURN, THE HAMILTON BROTHERS, FOND OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF HORSEMANSHIP, CHOSE TO SERVE WITH THE 1ST AND 2ND LIFE GUARDS, A CAVALRY REGIMENT  UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR-GENERAL LORD SOMERSET.  ALSO IN THEIR BRIGADE WERE THE ROYAL HORSE GUARD BLUES, AND THE 1ST DRAGOON GUARDS.

THEY SET OFF HURRIEDLY TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENT AND HEAD FOR THE CONTINENT.  THEY EMBRACED THEIR MOTHER SADLY, AND SHE GAVE HER CONSENT FOR THEIR VENTURE, HOPING THEY WOULD RETURN WELL AND SOON.  AS THEY SIAD THEIR GOOD-BYES, IN THE FOYER OF THE MANSION, THEIR FATHER DESCENDED THE STAIRS TO GET ONE LAST LOOK AT HIS CHERISHED SONS.
HE DID NOT SAY A WORD, RATHER STARED AT THEM HARSHLY.  HOPING TO CONVEY A LAST MESSAGE OF DISCERNMENT.  THE BOYS, FIRST TIMOTHY THEN MICHAEL, LOOKED UP AT THEIR STERN FATHER, AND TIMOTHY , SPEAKING FOR THEM BOTH, SAID, "GOODBYE." 

THE TIMES  REOORTED THE NEWS OF NAPOLEEON'S RETURN LATE, IN LONDON, AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT WERE ALWAYS VIEWED AS THIRD RATE:
     EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING WE RECIEVED                       EXPRESS FROM DOVER IMPOLITICALLY
     SPARED BY          THE ALLIED SOVREIGNS.  IT
     NOW APPEARS THAT THE HYPOCRITICAL 
     VILLIAN, WHO, AT THE TIME OF THIS
     COWARDLY ABDICATION, AFFECTED AN 
     AVERSION TO THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD
      IN A CIVIL WARFARE, HAD BEEN
      EMPLOYED DURING THE WHOLE TIME 
       DURING HIS RESISTANCE IN ELBA, IN 
        CARRYING ON SECRET AND 
         TREASONABLE INTRIGUES WITH THE
          TOOLS OF HIS FORMER CRIMES IN 
          FRANCE...
ON MARCH 12, 1815, CASTERLEIGH WROTE TO WELLINGTON: "THE PRINCREPORT, RELYING ENTIRELY UPON YOUR GRACE'S ZEAL AND JUDGEMENMT, LEVES IT TO YOU, WITHOUT FURTHER ORDERS, EITHER TO REMAIN AT VIENNA OR TO PUT YOUSELF AT THE HEAD OF THE ARMY IN FLANDERS."

THE OPPOSITION WHIGS PREPARED, IN VAIN, TO PROPOSE PEACE WITH NAPOLEON, BUT THE TIDES WERE ALREADY TURNIG FOP WAR.  TALLYRAND, IN VIENNA,, PRODUCED A DECLARATION, ONCE GRENOBLE FELL TO NAPOLEON.  HE SAW HIM AS SOON TO BE DISPLACED OF HIS OFFICE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN THE DECLARATION HE SAID, "THE POWERS CONSEQUENTLY DECLARE THAT SOCIAL RELATIONS, AND THST AS AN ENEMY AND DISTURBER OF TRANQUILITY OF THE WORLD, HE HAS RENDERED HIMSELF LIABLE TO PUBLIC INDICTMENT."

LIEUTEMANT FREDERICK MAINWARING OF THE 51ST FOOT SAID, OF THE NEWS OF NAPOLEAON'S RETURN:      :ONE MORNING IN MARCH I WAS SEATED WITH 
      TWO OR THREE OTHERS AT BREAKFAST, IN THE 
       MESS-ROOM: THE BUGLE-MAJOR CAME IN 
        IN WITH LETTERS AND AS USUAL LAIO THE 
         NEWSPAPER UPON THE MESS-TABLE.  
         SOMEONE OPENED  IT, AND GLANCESD  
          HIS EYES CARELESSLY AND COLDLY FOE A
           FEW MIOMENTS OVER ITS CONTENTS,
            WHEN SUDDENLY HIS COUNTENANCE 
             BRIGHTNED UP, AND FLINGLING THE 
              NEWSPAPER INTO THE AIR LIKE A 
               MADMAN, HE SHOUJTED OUT; 
                "GLORIOUS NEWS!  NAP'S LANDED 
                  AGAIN IN FRANCE!  HURRAH!  IN A 
                  INSTANT WE WERE ALL WILD-NAP'S
                   IN FRANCE AGAIN, SPREAD LIKE
                    WILDFIRE THROUGH THE
                     BARRACKS-THE MEN TUENED
                      AND CHEERE-NAY, THAT NIGHT
                      AT NIGHT AT MESS, THE MOMENT 
                      THE CLOTH WAS REMOVED , THE 
                      PRESIDENT ROSE AND DRANK 
                      SUCCESS TO OLD NAP WITJH
,,                    THREE TIMES THREE-OUR JOY
                      WAS UNBOUNDED, AND FEW , I
                       BELIEVE WENT TO BED THAT
                        NIGHT SOBER.
INDEED, NEWS OF NAPOLEON'S RETURN HAD CUASED QUITE A STIR OLUITSIDE OF FEANCE.  THE SOLDUERS WERE READY TO RETURN TO WAR, AND THE DIPLOMATS HAD HAD ENOUGH OF THE CORSICAN EMPEROR.  TIMOTHY AND MICHAEL;'S RACE TO JOIN THEIR REGIMENT AT THE PORT CITY OF HARWICH HAD BECOME SOMEWHAT OF A SPECTACLE IN ITSELF, AS THEY WERE\
CHEERED ALONG THE WAY BY THEIR COUNTRYMEN.

THEY WERE A DASHING SIGHT A DASHING SIGHT, DRESSED IN THE RED AND AND GRAY ATTIRE OF THE LIFE GUARDA; A  BLACK, BRASS PLATED COCKED HAT WITH A BLACK, HORSE-HAIR PLUME ON THE CROWN, SCARLET AND GOLD SASH, WHITE SHOULDER BELT, EPAULETS, AND KNEE-HIGH, BLACK RIDING BOOTS.  THE PORT CITY WAS JAMMED WITH SOLDIERS, SCURRYING UNDER ORDERS TO HASTEN THEIR MOVEMENTS ONTO TJHE DOCKED TRANSPORT SHIPS.  THE MOOD WAS ONE OF EXITEMENT; AND, AS THEY BOARDED THEIR TRANSPORT..  TIMOTHY AND MICHAEL LOOKED AT THE ENGLISH COAST FOR WHAT COULD BE THE LAST TIME.



 
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