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Recollections and Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court PRICE TWO SHILLINGS dhptain (ikonoto's Kr cailr tins atoAMrttefr i.\, fair -, [1 ;-,i ' \§mm ^ i rj ;Iwfl i 1 Ji IBBimmh r' j^^^^sK.w'-sy.^^B '^mbhl IS £ I "^r. -*t-33IIB&^''-:!S •=*se~^ ^j»Ji*£^*WBg " 3AU. HUSHES. tOBDWILTOM 1 CAPTAIN «tHONO*. COUN O'QRSAV •\ ,A Nip c f II DER, X CO. L I Emory University Library m $) In Memoriam M t Ruth Candler Lovett ty KECOLLECTIONS AND ANECDOTES. RECOLLECTIONS AND ANECDOTES OP THE CAMP, THE COUKT, AND THE CLUBS. By CAPTAIN GEONOW, FORMERLY OF THE FIRST FOOT GUARDS. A NEW EDITION. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE. 1870. CONTENTS. PADS My Entrance into the Army, . 1 Departure for and Arrival in Spain, . 2 The Uniform and Bearing of the French Soldier, 5 Major-General Stewart and Lord Wellington, St Jean de Luz, .... Foolhardiness, .... 10 Discipline, ..... 12 Sir John Waters, .... 14 The Battle of the Nivelle, . 18 The Passage of the Adour, 21 Arrival of the Guards at Bordeaux, . 23 Mrs Mary Anne Clarke, . , 25 Mrs Mary Anne Clarke and Colonel Wardle, 28 Society in London in 1814, 31 The Italian Opera—Catalani, 34 Dining and Cookery in England Fifty Years Ago, 36 The Prince Regent, .... 38 The Princess Charlotte of Wales at a F6te in the Y ear 1813, at Carlton House, 40 Bpau Brummell, , , . 34 vi Contents. PAGE Romeo Ooates, ...... 47 Hyde Park after the Peninsular War, . 52 London Hotels in 1814, . .53 The Clubs of London in 1814, .... 65 Piemarkable Characters of London about the Years 1814,1815, 1816, ....... 58 The Guards Marching from Enghien on the loth of June, . 64 Quatre Bras, .... ... 66 General Appearance of the Field of Waterloo, . 68 The Duke of Wellington in our Square, ... 69 The French Cavalry charging the Brunswickers, . 70 The Last Charge at Waterloo, e . 73 Huguemont, ....... 74 Byng with his Brigade at Waterloo, .... 76 The late Duke of Bichmond, ..... 77 The Unfortunate Charge of the Household Brigade, . 77 The Duke of Wellington's Opinion of the English Cavalry, 78 Marshal Excelmann's Opinion of the British Cavalry, . 79 Appearance of Paris when the Allies Entered, . 80 Marshal Ney and Wellington, .... 85 The Palais Royal after the Restoration, ... 86 The English in Paris after the Restoration of the Bourbons, 90 Les Anglaises pour Rire, . 92 Coaching and Racing in 1815, .... 94 Parisian Cafes in 1815, . 95 Review of the Allied Armies by the Allied Sovereigns in Paris, 97 Conduct of the Russian and Prussian Soldiers during the Oc- cupation of Paris by the Allies, . 98 Contents. vu PAGK The British Embassy in Paris, .... 99 Escape of Lavalette from Prison, .... 100 Duelling in France in 1815, . 104 Pistol-Shooting, ...... 114 The Faubourg St Germain, ..... 115 The Salon des Etrangers in Paris, .... 120 The Duchesse de Berri at Mass at the Chapelle Royale, 123 Lord Westmoreland, ...... 124 Alderman Wood, ...... 125 The Opera, ....... 125 Fanny Elssler, ...... 126 Charles X. and Louis Philippe, .... 127 Lord Thanet, ....... 128 Lord Granville, the British Ambassador, 128 Marshal Blucher, ...... 128 The Prussians in Paris, ..... 130 Jew Money-Lenders, ...... 131 Lord Alvanley, ...... 136 General Palmer, ...... 138 " Monk" Lewis, ...... 143 Sir Thomas Turton, ...... 145 George Smythe, the late Lord Strangford, 147 The Honourable George Talbot, .... 148 A Dinner at Sir James Bland Burges's, in Lower Brook Street, Autumn, 1815, ...... 149 Lord Byron, ....... 151 Shelley, ....... 154 Robert Southey, the Poet, ..... 156 Vlll Contents. PAGE Captain Hesse, formerly of the 18th Hussars, 157 Visiting in the Country, 159 Colonel Kelly and his Blacking, 160 Lord Allen and Count D'Orsay, 161 Mr Phelps, 162 The late Lord Bloomfield, 162 The Eight Hon. George Canning, 163 Mrs Boehm, of St James's Square, 164 Dr Goodall, of Eton, . 164 Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Leinster, and Lord Normanby, 165 The Duke of Gloucester, 165 Lady Cork, 166 The Duchess of Gordon, 166 The late Mrs Bradshaw (Maria Tree), 167 Ladies' Jewellery and Lovers, 170 The late Lord Henry Seymour, 171 France and the French, 174 Three Heroic Brothers, 178 French Historians of Waterloo, 180 Napoleon at Waterloo, 183 After Quatre Bras, 185 The Battle of Waterloo, 186 Colonel Colquitt, 191 Captain Chambers, Picton's favourite Aide-de-Camp, 192 Captain Bobert Adair, of the 1st Guards, 192 Ensign Somerville Burges, of the 1st Foot Guards,. 193 Percival, of the 1st Guards, 194 Sir Colin Halkett, • • 194 Contents. IX PAGE Captain Curzon, . .194 Captain, afterwards Colonel Kelly, of the Life Guards, and our Cavalry Charges, . .195 Charge of the Heavy Brigade, . .196 Lieutenant Tathwell—Ill-treatment of a Prisoner by the French, 196 Sir W. Ponsonby, Lord E. Somerset, Sir John Elley, and Sir Horace Seymour, .... 197 The Honourable George Darner and Colonel Muter, 197 Hougoumont, . 198 Meeting of Wellington and Blucher, 199 Sufferings of the Wounded, . 200 Excesses of the Prussians, 201 P6ronne la Pucelle, 201 Vse Victis, 202 Napoleon's Mistaken Opinion of the English Army, 203 Sir Frederick Ponsonby, 204 Narrow Escapes—Reception in London, 205 Conduct of the English and Prussian Armies during the Occu- pation of Paris, 206 Dr Keate in Paris, . 207 Shaving in a Minute, and Colonel Ellison, 210 The Duke and Mr Creevey, 212 The Duke's Razors, 213 Mademoiselle Mars, 213 Mademoiselle Rachel, . 215 Sir James Kempt and Mr Davies, . 219 The Corn-Law Riots and Lord Castlereagh, 220 Then and Now, . 221 Contents. FAG* Sumner, and other Eton Mastera, 232 Count Montrond, 234 Sir Pepper Arden. father of Lord Alvanley, 240 John Kemble, .... 241 Revolution of 1848, 243 Rogers and Luttrell, 252 The Pig-faced Lady, 255 Balzac and Eugene Sue, 257 Alexandre Dumas, 261 Civility Rewarded, 264 Party at Manchester House in 1816, and the Regent's Etiquette, 267 The British Embassy—Lord and Lady Granville, 268 Hoby, the Bootmaker of St James's Street, . 271 Hairdressing Fifty Tears Since, and Tails to Servan 273 Twisleton Fiennes, the late Lord Saye and Sele, 275 Buried Alive, .... 275 Count D'Orsay, 277 The Spafields Riots, . 251 Mad as a Hatter, 283 Harrington House and Lord Petersham, 254 Townshend, the Bow-Street Officer, . 286 Mademoiselle Duth6, . 259 A Strange Rencontre, . 290 Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, 291 The Bonaparte Family, 294 Paris after the Peace, . • 299 The Opera in Paris in 1515, . • 303 The Countess of Aldborough, . 305 Contents. XI PAOB Electioneering in 1832—Grimsby and Stafford, 308 Countess Guiccioli and Madame Dodwell, 311 The Light Company's Poodle and Sir F. Ponsonby, 313 Extravagance—The Duke of Marlborough, Grandfather of the present Duke, .... 314 Malibran and Grisi, . 316 Lord Alvanley, 319 Sally Lunn Cakes—The Etymology of the Word " Bun," 323 Picton's Opinion of our Officers, . 324 Admiral Nagles, . 326 The Late Lord Scarborough, . 327 Potage a la Pompadour, .... 327 Bearding the Lion in his Den, . 329 A Mad Friend, ..... 331 Lord Althorpe, . 332 O'Oonnell, ....... 333 Snuff-taking, .... 334 Petition against my Eeturn for Stafford, and Lord Campbell, 336 The late Lord Dudley, .... 337 CAPTAIN GRONOW'S RECOLLECTIONS AND ANECDOTES. My Enteance into the Aemy.—After leaving Eton, I received an Ensign's commission in the First Guards during the month of December 1812. Though many years have elapsed, I still remember my boyish delight at being named to so distinguished a regiment, and at the prospect of soon taking a part in the glorious deeds of our army in Spain. I joined in February 1813, and cannot but recollect with astonishment how limited and imperfect was the instruction which an officer received at that time ; he absolutely entered the army without any military education whatever. We were so defective in our drill, even after we had passed out of the hands of the sergeant, that the excellence of our non-commissioned officers alone prevented us from meeting with the most fatal disasters in the face of the enemy. Physical force and our bull-dog energy carried many a hard-fought field. Luckily, nous avons change tout cela, and our officers may now vie with those of any other army in an age when the great improvements in musketry, in artillery practice, and in the greater rapidity of manoeuvring. 2 Departure for and Arrival in Spain. have entirely changed the art of war, and rendered the individual education of those in every grade of command an absolute necessity. After passing through the hands of the drill ser- geant with my friends Dashwood, Batty, Browne, Lascelles, Hume, and Master, and mounting guard at St James's for a few months, we were hurried off, one fine morning, in charge of a splendid de- tachment of five hundred men to join Lord Wel- lington in Spain. Macadam had just begun to do for England what Marshal Wade did in Scotland seventy years before ; and we were able to march twenty miles a day with ease until we reached Portsmouth. There we found transports ready to convey a large reinforcement, of which we formed part, to Lord Wellington, who was now making his arrangements, after taking St Sebastian, for a yet more important event in the history of the Penin- sular War—the invasion of France. Departure for and Arrival in Spain.—We sailed under convoy of the Madagascar frigate, commanded by Captain Curtis; and, after a favour- able voyage, we arrived at Passages. Our stay there was short, for we were ordered to join the army without loss of time. In three hours we got fairly into camp, where we were received with loud cheers by our brothers in arms. The whole British army was here under canvas ; our allies, the Spaniards and Portuguese, being in the rear. About the middle of October, to our great delight, the army received orders to cross the Bidassoa.
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