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KALttfGlI, (N. C.) , . . " , ' ; . - . . ' '! , i-iLJ - ' - . ' ...- , nMimifidioUin a naiiia tn nrnaprvft lllft bfiftlimft iinA AYA.v Knitlinat-il V. lhftrft urn Inn I nf. an ilm..t 1 .. . ' , i iehalkiHsun the doom on which we recoenized much exfiitemenf-efTpirit for this physical in- tltcir nambert. .. preP.n -fi t lil. nl I l-.. n MnMM.. niliikpa VAnvpnipiiitft r It a miiiifi fait aWtim ai ffin 1 1 m a I ... I t be naid in advance; No pape-. to be continued lon- gcr, thaft Vtfee months atu-r a year's subscription be comes dueVand notice thereof shall have been given. tvrrucnunt tmicxccci'ing 14 ncs, are inserted thrice lor onw acmr, ana ior, j.weiuyuv; mvinuow- cjifcrtt insertiqn j-it(d n iixe proportion ner iner is a J-retttci-iiumi)erf liftes tlan,f6urtetf. . vrl'So subscription can in any fcase be Kctoytii without p.yifieiii oi at ie;i!.t yt ww v,-"r-v puimtsd. weeklt, bt TrtoMAS w. Scott. the well-known names of celebrated oihcerg, convenience tu be mueh felt, either at the time 2lr-wow fcftewards-TJife ineri wercfcesh frow a- Quarters We were immediately surrounded by (hepeo pie. offering for salej with great importunity toamenU ; aud their toil, thoneh severe, was short. Never did a British army take the field in i fijner condition. The cavalry, especially, fustd aliUlc boo entitled rvisir'l jV&Bers -in Julyr- iSiSrrbeing tkitjlit ax amount vf tht Meld of WaUrloo, with anort stotcti ojinu ' n,Lit. nt both afmiefi.bif &miiftjtJmila6!$i Eia. MvocatiJ published by. CampVtf, tM f eai ltrtetf aud altbtt' Hte have reftd inncli of tiiU inet with; atacbe4; unecdotestiken 'fcom tfii very wrk', yet, we 'have never seen any itiiint; of tlietkind, eitber 'aiicient or modern, thareouW so ri vet the wndiv ided attention and xcite so deep an interest aii-t he events related in CliHjiter 3, aiid wlucb, therefore, we now lay beftre;oarr.aeriJ---'it;Jmu8t'en(y b borne in 'in.d,' that Jt' is the relation of a Seofc'wian, . und uttabfe Allflfwanee shourd be in ade for cer tain nation! feelings that occasionally but not sllaudably appearTV. F. Ev.'l'ost r" vit to rm FIELD. Forest of &ijue-i Village of Waierloii Sta - tion f Lorn ellington Descriplion of the fieldDiscinirnin bivouac Spirit of an Irislj Oflieer Splendid charge of the Life Guard Numbers of the .two Hrmiesr-Kx-- elainaiTon of Bonaparte. Witli thaf copiltet of feelings, which the ex pectatioti of sunn seeing; the scene of Such a bat- tte" arWfterltiniT! atti rnlfy occaiowdioiir party? consisting of three,' was. in readiness byCsJx in the mornuig on .the iint of July. When we had inountetl 6ur carrla-e, we cilled to the pos-tiIlio9-r-rrnr''?) Monsieur, V An glais," he answered with a smack of his whip, and an emphasis whicirsho wed that he feltphat canductin Englishmen, there,' was conducting them to their own proper, domain. There had been rain during the night and the morning' was gloomy j having as we wee tiild, the same ap pearance as that of the 18th of June ; of course we would not have exchanged it for the bright est sunshine. The grbund wonjd be we(, but relics of the field; pari iciilarW the jcagleslilelt, the beneiit of fighting before losing the ef whicirthe French soldiers wore aseap plates.lfefcU of their superior keepins, Uy the toils and A few cuirasses, both' the back andt the breast privations of a campaign. pieces, were likewise held up to us, as well as sabres, btt-ifts, and other spoil. - , We drove a niileior"ard to the Still sntallr haoilet' ol Mo mi .St. Johnby a gradual ascent or tue roau 5 ui -rigut ana jeit or runicn, ibb Oritish ui iny biutuaehed un the eye of the bat l Id; Uiiviijg advanced oyer thi? high" ground in the, moniiug to the souiheru slope lacing, the enemyi ou rair opfla ground, without an advan tage to decide thjlauj 4f .the .worlilfr-r:: " Mont Wt.JiTini 'quite behind the Bfitish line j and had its name given by Bonaparte to what was properly the farm-house of La llaye Sainte- which he did succeed in cartyiug j but certainly he iuver was so far advanced as Aloat St. John ; indeed he never did, for more than a few minutes at any time, succeed in penetrating the English Hue. , . s We left our carriage at this last, hamlet jand walked on to the field with m-rvoui anticipa tion -To the right and left were I he multipli ed marks of t)ie artillery wheels, as rivalling "lightning's course iu ruin St iu speed'' they had careered to their station in the memorable line. Whols tracts, were marked by the feet of the cavalry often fetlock deep in ihemnd. The last homes of the braVe began to appear, with the larger tumuli of their horse?, mure frequent as we approached the scene of c s'st. Keeping still tlio great roau, we came to a tree winch formed the precije centre of the liritish line, TfieweTr cTiosan station liiitn, when hot The Irish otiicer, formerly mentioned as my travelling companion to Paris, recounted the ef fect of Ute wet bivouac on himself, in a man tier whieh fives a strikim? view of tbe hich feel- ing ofitile men who sustain in tbe field the hon our -jf our couatry. When he got up about )T'clefc in the morning, he could tool stand &iya M Tiolcnt shivenn j but fell down in. the miid jigain. He made several efforts, but in vaio. W ithout dreaminei when he recounted the circuinstftuee, of an inference favorable to himself, .whieh he was not aware that I was drawing, he diseribed bis feelings to have been periect agony arising jrom the dread that he should not be able to do his duty. An hour or two, and a little brandy revived him ; and when he found he could stand, his relief of mind a- mounted to the most exquisile joy he ever felt 2 I. : I if.. XT . A n j. . l ' - . iu ins use. i ei xiiu,uuv lerocious enemies were full in his viewhe disliuctlv heard the shout of Vive I'Empereur," the" fcignul for the tremendous onset ; death was cumins on in its most threatning Pipcct ; in the gloom of the morning, tue vast, broad, aud deep masses of the enemy, with their mighty reserves, yet further & further bacfcTil! they scorned to meet the llor nzon, appeared, as he expressed himself, as if (lie forest ot oigne had changed its situation Vet did (Ins tearless youth reel as will nnmberf, 0ay sometime- nZlllrtX- u W1 ,n Highlandera and 8eotm lated individoal klou Z f J ' I Bonaparte knew the number ef hi W j j voted Adversaries Wel S li !, ;adyd presumption Expressed iSJi?1. U,Ual 4 forest. His fear was that they would wcane Claimed, on fir" mg their order of baltli.. h L t" Ah ! I he them then, these Rr,i;ci. -A J-obecqnlitimdS his heart leap for joy, when he found himself able, for the ho nor ol Ireland to stand up to the cumin storm ; olhrinillinTrW rteDneida occasioMaliy visiiin'; other parts of the pusition to contirm the uiitKnching spirit Vf his gnllant comrades. It co:;i;naiided a full ..view of the intermediate plain, and the whole of the enemy's vast force npon liie ad verse slope and country beyond it with every miivement uiudtt'or threatened by him..- Nothing is mora falsa than the French apol ogy, (added to never-failing prett'tire of being overpowered by numbers) that l!.e 13: it ish po siti on wu n a l u rally s troy'-, aij d ea re fu I i y fo r ti&fid. Unentrenehv! stood the British ahfiv, ijoni its vvnote positiiii, on a bu.tm so scntle. s a v m. . . ... , a. 1 V" O V Poll '-at .flfcrWg pace : . l. m lft,..J , i v in -iillonnr al lull sncil to fha hAIIV IT. I..IVIT1I1IVIICCU. . . . f.ifuuv. IJk'J f 1' - O . ivar.nir;out tin: si-.nn ot tt-ar i beard in Paris, an -'olfieer t.f the 23th, with ihesmne manly absence ;of self-gratulatian, give a similar account W his own trials on the nemorable dawn of Waterloo. Who nan won der ahlhe virtue with which the entire day was u laHed,,,yejisii$.b , wexe, the feelingL with which the buttle was wailed for, and begun ? . ; When cooking their , breakfasts, the troops .vere called upon to desist by the spirit-stirring (reparative from the.aids-tio-camp passing at full gallop iSlaiid to your drmSy the Feeiith are moving." Thev had moved. i An immense ii -..itJf-Tojr.. jnr.tr a-. ' : LATEST FROM LONDON. ' By flte i ships America; and Lindzee, from Loudon,the Ld,tfr. f the Mercantile AdJeJ Ml IjflnflAn i n . -. f of June, inclusive, from K Tn!..1?" extracts are made. , . ; vn,uS i u Ym 'T PfS8 tne America fc" ftt "ague, and ; Ms"ur minister to nain.w-j.A k.k a4 Faris the last of May. Mr. Stuart, Cbancelior of thAmeriean Con sulate at London, ha arrived in the America, with dispatches for government, . S.nce our ast, the Pans papers of Thursday have arrived , and tni, morning we receivej those ot Friday. Another vnh .1 (GruycrJ has heen sentenced td be shot for the i fnmv on. After driving three or four miles, ve entered the awful forest' ef Soigne. It covers an iro- Plinense .extent 01 eouniry iroin east iu ci, uui J is only' abaut six or seven miles broad, where the road passes through it to Waterloo. The imuressions of an Eriiriishman on enter. in this wtod, are much enhanced by, tlm know- of suiinlv ofshirrtiniber i'tiTiS'apoleon's naval schemes aT Antwerp, and a lr?ady.had built se veral ships of tie line The same t .rest wnicu was itedjBdlto ftirncsif the iheans" of hjerbu miliatlon, protected the r ar of fier victorious army, on the day, when, single handed, England, at one . blow, destroyed the power of her des troyer foreVe.r.' ' .' ' Everjf lof. of the road was interesting, as it held its very, straight course through the wood. We codtraited the e;l no my. quiet of our journey a few- jieasants going to their early labor, Uh its' aeeuniulattrd horrors on the day of the "retreat H the baggage and wounded of the ar my t the multitudes w ho ilropt anil uieu ; me nnmbers whiiVere crtishcd.to death ; the hur ry, the alarnvWhe confuHion the. cries, and shrieks, and Hmns of that dreadful scene, T and the itot,e8Ungunt;.oeeaOSfoBei3ii7 tPidil v and afel v. by a miracle, holdiRf- I wav la the middle of it. Our carriage kept - the naved chaussre. or cectre of the way ; the two sides, of about 15 feet wide each, being dcen and rniiddv as thev were on the ereat oc vcaHion. The whole breadth of the road seemed to be 40 or 00 IVet. The trcef which bounded on etlh side were tall, aud k r trimmed likr vi.rv hlr?!i hedre or sereen: b. nd them iirinie- diatelvif uiiiienced the? thick: wood, in all the arrav of cuirassiers h ad.-c Ire adY swept across U5-q., eajbacra.ssj.he: K.rijish..de - w if 1 tpi p r, ratcu auiuu urn aa.iy the very bayonet ol their opponents, who tnrew ,.uarJ j1!J(j ,n&ifl covered t I.e tiiemseives into squares, their only entreue!,-j o , . . . , lhe ,oUor 0f the k. JtUI, J is so 1 na on. Lourur JtztraordinarS of Friday Morning. -Several individuals have bee the tribunals aecused of having .tolea about a thousand weight of irunnowder. from ... Government xMagazmt-s, and sold it to BuMuri. the hre-worker. The carriage which convey! " ed it bavins been, slonirod the 28th ult. gave rise to a great number of sun, posiUous and commetarie8. The quantity of powder a, greatly, magnified, antfthe whole was said to have been coutrired by eondpiraton against the State. . J y 1 TWI " Faris Journals to the 1st instant. nA m.. ve oss ders.Mail, have arrivedUU morning. The as- Maced, is pow contradicted from authority. 4 npnts . fn rfeeive the charge 1( was, (0 use favourite English phrase, just thence j'or a fair set to ; a clear field, jaiid no favour." . - We had the go-d fortune to meet with a very intelligent 'English officer, who had been in the action, and who had that day paid his first v is it to the1 lield, alter reeoverui! ol From lord Wellsngtoirs station, and gazed on-the wko.e secnei not Uaung Ujihi f the enirassjers-more unequivocal, . ex break silence tor some minuies. auu wj, --,. the iexnunaWoii of the battle Ua.u u was now the silence of the twst sepulchre ol o.oool., aflcr their firHt omiit.; .... men. contrasted with, the roar and ihe carnage , iiliinnt nr nr;de ;R universal in the coun- .... 1 .jl. nnnlliop clil! IjjIivI 1 ot tne naiue. 1 HBgiymiij jto"'' irre!u of riaturi1. Here the wotiniieu na crawled, and died in gn at BTimbers; much bag eatr had been plundered ; and the whole pop- nbifinn nf th country' had Hed for safety ll,.r- nojiliim iinintod nut the. little mounds where men and horses had been interred ; they were apparent every liuud red yards. These pul.ture hud been hurried and imperfect, espe cially of the Iiorses ; oecasmual hoots, and even liitiba. shnuinsr tliLunselves, Often' liayonet scabbards stuct out ; and caps, shoes, and pie ees iifeldth. safeiAlv in the doom distiuaruisha 'Vie from the mud in which they lay, gave indi cation of t hp snots where many a soldier, after bleeding in the field, tnd toiling along the rojxd to expected aid and eoVnfort, unassisted, almost unuilied. bV the self-ect'aEed sufferers ho'Saw him fall, and siiTik to rile no cidrCi Some rain fell as we we're-hestowidr a passfne survey up ou these ktreetinsr monttments of the hravein a situation tire most dismal we had ever beheld Waterloo's village, ami the small neat chuteh " With-itabrick built dome.lwas now in urview "situatedln a recess of thetwood evidenlly clear fed for it. The road , wail now nuite out pf thi i forest ; which however, blackened the whole region to cast and west is far as the eyeeould reacti. name his -wound. we stood first dash at the enemy on the t8ih ot June 5 (he commencement only of much 'good service (ifth'irs throughout the day. No charge on th.it field is described as more. inagni!iu:iit than ihia.the tirbt from these brilliant and icemen-. 1 'IM. . .1... AI. ..nt uiuilAll tlkf.nV i mis t r nc rs - ,,e suuetk Miis iuv i.fqi.vv. ... j ut cleared (he whole iront the dav was the Hie eiteiuy ; a ai.rma ! attacked j.,aud,iu ua part of end was valued by us, as peculiarly suitable 10 the scene we were;Contempiating. - e I'ougi ationis incalculably aided by viewing the scene oi a memorable battle. The actors being gen erally lamiliar to ns, we eau easily. people t he held with them ; and become therby artually iresent. in conception, at the. mument ot Hie event. Indeed, so very snnpie is uie nu Waterloo, that a conception of very ordinary power may quite take jt in irorn descnpliun a- otie. Although Here and uiere, yarieu oy nie- qualities'and iiiHliilations, it will serve all pop-l uiar purposes to sav, tnai ui.ine iiiiMeen.iHi each other of about'a mjlc, the cdnjehdiug ar mies 'occupied parallel high grounds, sloping with almost equal declivity, tit a .lain ot about lalf a nine broad wtncii inierveneu. "$5' ish line, or rather (wo liues extended aboat a mile and a half J the French mitssessometlnng more than two miles. '1 he Brussels load, raa at riirht anfflea throub both armies; twrming try, because of the 'well earned disHiietion of . ' a . 11 , i . n.l II 7tll the .household troops 01 notn arms, auu .. anVvoice is hailed the wise, abandonment of that system, so .unjust to the-m, which kept ! hem exainsivly for show, and denied to the BritUh mona'cii the high sight of a uircle of proved mediatelv around his person, of the game cast with those who, carry his iiame with to the remotest quart er of the the crntrc of each . Ml.'.. are the vi-iiajres In this poor hamlet, which history 1? to with veneration a . Alludincta an anecdote wliicb. has already' been .tracted m a former paper, of 2 young Englishwoman IIIHLnHITl', , ; long as time endures, On this road, in one I in of Waterloo, and Mont ttt. ' . . mm . . . Jolui, and the farm houses ot .Jua Uaye ftainte, and La Belle' Alliance ; and the. only other place which requires to be refcrred'to, js the memorable Chateau of liogmhljWtradvaiiced a slnrt vvay in front of nearly the right of the British position, the roan irom- nnissei i Nivelles, which brauches oil at Vateito Jr .m the great road already described, passed i he tiht-oY"Vte"aroiy'j' which lksfc being thrown baack into aciirye," crossed the angle formed ,,v tho two toads like the scale ot a quadrant -a uumber of small roads and foot-paths intersect ed the field in all directions, none of any im portance in the affair, excepting always those which admitted -the brave Frussians to thMr f. lb, .-hir-v of delivrintr the world. V The .whole Will at once ne uusKai-" jj glancing at the plan annexed t,o volume. The uieht before the hattje, the troops lay daun, already drenched with the heavy ram, . . ' . - 1. o .1.- ...... ....I ; lilimm nB in-tftte deep muu 01 ic s',vy "'"-V "T must have remarked, that by a singular fatality our brave army have often had very unfavorable r,.r ihoir s-reater exploits. The coun- w Ko1 Kaon nWf flrV till the inevenleut ol tne 1 V a ...11 L 'Ln nn MlB I7IU. yroops from their canionmeuiaj uut,uu -v iio .i n nrrnniinner auu iicumiua . : .' t .. . . . ! 1 1 1. k m i 1K0 their 01 Id I ' ;. 'a?, westobiim.OiJr command ing spot, the lirst ihuu-jht was most. H itwrally of the numbers of i n a c jnle iu! iug ar mir.s re s .ctively. ; Fhe Brit isU e re's uaed bylion a jarle himseli'at 80,000, aiid-eertaiutv they have never been made out to Slave bsien mora. t.i tliese not more umu oW ,vere aelualiy British ; the rest were Oermans,! Bellian's and Dutch. There was assuredly no corps of Frusiaus in the battle before the eve- 'I'lie -French armyT5aitily;"-were 130,000, lu. oii.rm'iu balance in their favor ot 50,000 iiun; and, he it never forgotten- l' ...t.'it-ii'a ug.t. iriuim nf France. Alar- X I 5 t M I - - i he valuable services of that gentleman ean- not ye o uibjcmbcu wnu. iue uuao ui uci linctou is expected at Paris, where it is sup. I posed he will remain till September, his Grace ' having made all necessary arrangements on the- frontiers. A considerable change is operating: iti the temper, the vigilance, and the vigour of the French Government, since the explosion at . Grenoble and elsewhere." This we find proved more by our private letters tharihy the Public Journals.' There is one ' important paragraph in these papers, under the head of V ienna, which com' mences the report that the llussian Army is to be kept upon the war footing, 7 , The King of France has very properly dis tributed the forfeitecL property of the rebel lions family of? Bona parte among the soldier aud otneers who had lost the pensions earned by their wounds in battle, and has in this rei nect made uo distinction between the royalists of La Vendee and those who had serred under Bonaparte prior to the first restoration. ,;'.r. ':-.".;;' ' junk 6. From the Paris Journals we have this day made s.omeJurtherextracts-A misunderstand- . . .' ' ' . . . : u tn ili llnL-p nf t)t- s.ial it ey, in ms jusuima-i "' . ranto, calls them that tine and uumerous ar my a character at once decisive ol t.he question,-when it is eonsiderd what.that army must have been- which a French marshal vo old think of so "charaetiirsiiig JJt Theigrt tiah published ia Faris'by a French ollicer, vrrpd (a. Htiites in wlaiu tcrmSa with- : . . a : a A ; ni 11 1 ft !i n n il cert a . n I Y Willi Ue reverse, of interest lo exaggerate, hattH Fretui&iriy which attacked the Duke ot Wel I inatou, was1 120,000 at roiig. His teslimooy is the more satisfuctory as to the absolute numbers of the-Fcenclf, that with true national leeuug in his iffiiorauce of; the truth he waicrousiy -rereads the British force, al lgs 'rfsu masses out of the wood oJ-H-ngne mi as u.ey were needed; pourcraser var itnuw., .1 Li.j nliimn nfthe French, in .1... n.:. .K arm ivpra a mile ana a nail from the utmost skirts ot the wooa, a m oueman wihin it ': and so lo "'"VT.h .1 i..i k; ,nde: and of the French suard too, were often routeu by the bold, dash a)most without intermission, tut. uie mo.iuua oi Waterloo,, when it ceased; and the weather . .. S , if .. ' "( - j -V - "' ivWIa tb-splate prcfixca to hs vox)t-Ed. E. P. meof-4 - 4. 4 . .1iifa1ivO?ifi!i..' MowemVknowMnge Ot 1 faisspieu... v-- ? l.?rlL?: mt of. hitrh rank who wit neased.it I esteem it a gre addition to tnsJOTraUve inmwy points oi view. . , . ' To crush" by numbers" ' '. s ing had arisen between the Swecdish Court and ' t he-Prte. To the approaching" Diet at Frank ' fort is to be referred, a dispute between Aus tria and Sardinia, respecting the fortresses in Italy. These subjects Jogetper with the dis-' put.; in Wirtemburg ana. uauen, wuicu wm come before t he sauie Die t, w i 1 1 afford oppor (unities for Ube mediation of Kassiay and ttte 1 other great Powers, ,r '. '.Jfr t We are euneerned to state," says the Bath paper of this inornng, that a disposition to tumult exhibited itself among the loner class-, es at Yeovil on Tuesday, but, by the temperate conduct of the principal inhabitants, it was , suppressed without any material damage being done. ' - - - 1 . w understand, tnat the statement which has appeared in several of the papers, of th appointment of the Earl of Dalhousie as Gov ernor and Commander inChief of NoVa Scotia is erroneous. . u;n.p Antonv of Saxony, is expecteaio re- nouiice lis eii iu .? iuc iuuci h.vv v. --"- " . . r . u . m warn A irn ir. . n n u.n - . . m 1 iur 111 1 1 1 1 1 i: n iiiuiiuiiiuui - ciumi) ... - , - . . , i.-...i-in marrv an Austrian Archdutchess " ... . o- rri ln the SbefiiTs Court yesteraayj oir 1 uouia u.,l ..htained a. verdict with 1000i...aamge . i .1. .. hf a lif nrnlni-Newsnai ..Ainci aa. ill a.aii iniiiia ui a w r- , , oerfor a libel contained in various paragraph last winter, insinuating ? j -j; - 1. eldped with the Marquis of Abercorn j insinua j . ' 1 ; f ivna tint till. tions tor wnicuj 11 scc "11 i ,J slightest foundation.. The Pla.nt.ff offewd tu relinquish the damage- ui.u ri. -- thor. ; - V-nd-i. -.'.r. nf Sunday last arrived thit 1 ue i - that ihptrt forenoon. We were in. expectation, that toey1 would hare brought us the judgment Sif war on General Bomaire and li.s Aid-de- Camp,Tho"h 4.
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