Journey from Lausanne to Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples - Residence at
Naples - The theatre of San Carlo - Rossini's operas - Gaming in Naples - The
Lazzaroni - Public writers - Carbonarism - Return to Rome - Christmas eve at
Santa Maria Maggiore - Mme Dionigi - Theatricals - Society in Rome - The papal
government - Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino - Louis Napoleon, ex-King of
Holland - Pope Pius VII - Thorwaldsen - Granet - The Holy Week in Rome - The
Duchess of Devonshire - From Rome to Florence by the Perugia road.
CHAPTER XV
APRIL-JULY, 1818
Journey from Florence to Pisa and from thence by the Appennines to
Genoa - Massa - Carrara - Genoa - Monuments and works of art - The
Genoese - Return to Florence - Journey from Florence through Bologna and
Ferrara to Venice - Monument to Ariosto in Ferrara - A description of
Venice - Padua - Vicenza - Verona - Cremona - Return to Milan - The Scala
theatre - Verona again - From Verona to Innspruck.
CHAPTER XVI
JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1818
Innspruck - Tyrol and the Tyrolese - From Innspruck to Munich - Monuments and
churches - Theatricals - Journey from Munich to Vienna on a floss - Trouble
with a passport - Complicated system of Austrian money - Description of
Vienna - The Prater - The theatres - Schiller's Joan of Arc - A
Kinderballet - The young Napoleon at Schoenbrunn - Journey from Vienna to
Prague.
CHAPTER XVII
SEPTEMBER, 1818-MARCH, 1819
The splendid city of Prague - The German expression, "To give the basket" -
Journey from Prague to Dresden - Journey from Dresden to Berlin - A
description of Berlin - The Prussian Army - Theatricals - Peasants talk about
Napoleon - Prussians and French should be allies - Absurd policy of the
English Tories - Journey from Berlin to Dresden - A description of
Dresden - The battle of Dresden in 1813 - Clubs at Dresden - Theatricals -
German beds - Saxon scholars - The picture gallery - Tobacco an ally of
Legitimacy - Saxon women - Meissen - Unjust policy of Europe towards the King
of Saxony.
CHAPTER XVIII
MARCH-APRIL, 1819
Journey from Dresden to Leipzig - The University of Leipzig - Liberal
spirit - The English disliked in Saxony - The English Government hostile to
liberty - Journey to Frankfort - From Frankfort to Metz and Paris - A.F.
Lemaitre - Bon voyage to the Allies - Return to England.
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CHAPTER I
MAY-JUNE, 1815
Passage from Ceylon to England - Napoleon's return - Ostend - Bruges - Ghent -
The King of France at Mass - Alost - Bruxelles - The Duke of Wellington very
confident - Feelings of the Belgians - Good conduct of British
troops - Monuments in Bruxelles - Theatricals - Genappe and Namur - Complaints
against the Prussian troops - Mons - Major-General Adam - Tournay - A French
deserter - General Clinton's division - Cavalry review - The Duke de
Berri - Back to Bruxelles - Unjust opinions about Napoleon and the
French - Battle at Ligny - The day of Waterloo in Bruxelles - Visit to the
battlefield - Terrible condition of the wounded - Kindness of the Bruxellois.
BRUXELLES, May 1, 1815.
I proceed to the fulfilment of my promise, to give you from time to time
the details of my tour, and my reflections on the circumstances that occur
at this momentous crisis.
To me, who have spent the greatest part of my life out of Europe, the whole
scene is so new that I am quite bewildered with it; and you will, I am
afraid, as I write on the impulse of the moment, find my ideas at times
rather incoherently put together.
