- ED. [14] The Facts And Dates Here Given Are Of Course Inaccurate; But This Proves That Major Frye Wrote His Text In The Very Midst Of The Crisis, And That His Manuscript Has Not Been Tampered With.

- ED.

[15] Baron van Capellen, a Dutch statesman, was governor-general of the Belgian provinces, residing at Bruxelles. He was afterwards governor-general of Dutch India. Born in 1778, he died in 1848. His memoirs have been published in French by Baron Sirtema de Grovestins (1852), and contain an interesting passage on that momentous day, 18th June, 1815. - ED.

[16] Not before half past eleven. - ED.

[17] John Drinkwater, also called Bethune (1762-1844), published a well-known History of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783. - ED.

CHAPTER II

From Bruxelles to Liege - A priest's declamation against the French Revolution - Maastricht - Aix-la-Chapelle - Imperial relics - Napoleon regretted - Klingmann's "Faust" - A Tyrolese beauty - Cologne - Difficulties about a passport - The Cathedral - King-craft and priest-craft - The Rhine - Bonn and Godesberg - Goethe's "Goetz von Berlichingen" - The Seven Mountains - German women - Andernach - Ehrenbreitstein - German hatred against France - Coblentz - Intrigues of the Bourbon princes in Coblentz - Mayence - Bieberich - Conduct of the Allies towards Napoleon - Frankfort on the Mayn - An anecdote about Lord Stewart and Lafayette - German poetry - The question of Alsace and Lorraine - Return to Bruxelles - Napoleon's surrender.

LIEGE, June 26.

Mr L. and myself started together in the diligence from Bruxelles at seven o'clock in the evening of the 24th inst. and arrived here yesterday morning at twelve o'clock.

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