There is something high-minded in this feeling as repressing individual self glorification, but it is also cold and unsympathising; and curiously in accordance with the fact that Wellington was not by taste or choice a soldier, and only won battles because command had become his duty, and his abilities were transcendent. To despise fame for self, is the noblest quality possible, but it is carrying it too far to be careless of justly meting it out to others. With the same feeling, the Duke for many years prevented the distribution of the Peninsular medals, thinking (and justly) that there is a certain pettiness in making every service expect a reward in immediate decoration, and that a soldier should be content with the sense of having done his duty. Such a wonderful series of campaigns as those of Spain and Portugal might perhaps have justly been considered to deserve not to be thus passed over as mere common incidents of the service, but we believe that a loftier mood of mind was thus fostered than by the contrary extreme at present prevailing.

Colborne shared that same feeling that the Duke had expressed, namely, that there was something unworthy in stickling for his own fame, and with almost unexampled patience and dignified modesty, he never stirred a finger in self assertion, he answered questions with the clear accuracy of his wonderful memory, but never put his claim forward. Mr Leeke relates the following anecdote of him in his old age, on the authority of Mr. Yonge:

Meeting him in London a little while ago, at the house of a lady (the same friend, we may add, who foretold his future greatness), she, hearing us talk over some of the occurrences of the war, remarked, "How proud you gentlemen must feel at the recollection that you had a share in those great events." To which he replied very gently, "Proud! no, rather humbled, I think." How characteristic this is, is it not? It puts me in mind of two lines in the Christian Year, on S. Philip and S. James's Day. The stanza ends :— "Thankful for all God takes away,

Humbled by all he gives."—Leeke, vol. i. p. 103.

We did not, in fact, enter into these particulars so much for the sake of extolling the prowess of the 52d, or of showing why the honour of the decisive charge of Waterloo remained a moot point till after the Duke's death, as in order to illustrate the grave, retiring modesty that characterised the leader of of that charge.

Immediately after the battle, the regiment was marched on towards Paris, in considerable difficulties, for during the battle, the Belgian peasants placed in charge of the baggage had contrived to appropriate the whole of it, and many were the stories in after years told of the inconveniences thus occasioned. One officer, catching a pony that had belonged to a French campfollower, found in the saddle bags two woman's shifts of very

coarse material, but which, as well as the pony, did him valuable service. Another, mentioned by Mr. Leeke, sent his servant to find him a pair of trowsers on the field, Mr. Leeke himself marched in a pair of boots lent him by Sir John Colborne, and on arriving at S. Cloud, a whole bevy of the officers plunged into an ornamental lake, and handed round a single rusty razor, wherewith to prepare themselves for entering Paris. Mr. Leeke had the good luck to obtain compensation for his loss of baggage, but he had reason to believe that only one other officer in the whole army was equally successful.

Early in the morning of the 7th of July, General Adam's brigade entered Paris,-ground which, 400 years before, English troops had trodden under the victor of Agincourt,--and were encamped in the Champs Elysées. The 52 were not allowed to be idle there, but were kept regularly to their drill, and practised in the half-face movement in column, which had hitherto been peculiar to the Prussians, but for the first time was adopted among the English by Sir John Colborne. It fell to the charge of parties of them likewise to guard the packing of the pictures, statues, and other plunder of Napoleon at the Louvre, and of the great Athenian horses that had become the property of Venice. It was expected that the Parisian mob would resist the removal of these trophies; but they were in a stunned condition, worn out with excitement, and appeared indifferent at the time.

The regiment remained in the Champs Elysées till autumn, and then were marched northwards, being destined to form part of the army of occupation. Their quarters were around Terouenne and S. Omer, including the village of Enguingatte, the scene of the battle of the Spurs, where, curiously enough, the ancestors of two of their number had distinguished themselves: namely Sir John Leeke, who was knighted at the siege of Tournay, in 1522, by Henry VIII., and Sir John Clerke, who made the Duke de Longueville prisoner at Borny, near Terouenne, and was permitted to add the fleur-de-lys of Orleans to his coat of arms.

The three years spent in France was a period of much enjoyment. The troops were quartered in country villages, and small towns, and were in general on friendly terms with the inhabitants, who certainly hardly ever manifested any resentment against their conquerors, the few exceptions that here and there occurred proving the rule. The officers had much opportuni-y for field-sports; they shot and coursed, crossing the ploughed fields in huge pattens, and they obtained a pack of fox-hounds, which furnished them with much amusement.

This seems to be the place to speak of the general character

of the regiment. Recruited after the ordinary fashion, it was impossible but that there should be some reckless good-fornothings brought into it, men never flinching in courage, but ready to plunder and prone to excess; but, in general, the discipline and high spirit of the corps either forced them to correct themselves or expelled them, and the non-commissioned officers were men of most admirable steadiness and strong sense of duty. The old sergeant, who insisted on using his last strength for Waterloo, was one instance, and many more might be found of men who reached the highest standard of soldierly conscientiousness; and this at a time, be it remembered, when scarcely anything was done by authority for the morals or welfare of the soldier. An attempt made by the officers of the 52d to induce the men to save their money, and form a regimental savings bank, was supposed prejudicial to the service by possibly enabling them to purchase their discharge, and directions were sent from the Horse Guards that the sums collected should be restored, with what unhappy effects can easily be believed, Among those who earned much respect in the regiment was Quarter-Master John Campbell, who served with it forty years and on leaving it was made a Military Knight of Windsor. The officers subscribed 2007. as a testimonial to him, the chief part of which he expended in furnishing a room, which he called his 52d room.

Another most distinguished person was John Winterbottom, originally a cloth-weaver of the parish of Saddleworth, Yorkshire, who, in a time of distress, enlisted at eighteen years of age, in the 52d, as a private soldier, and by his combined gallantry and good conduct rose from the ranks, received a commission in 1803, and was beloved and respected alike by officers and men. As adjutant, and afterwards as paymaster, much responsibility fell upon him, and his fulfilment of his duties, his alertness, integrity, gentlemanly conduct and consideration for all who fell in his way, conduced greatly to the high reputation of the Regiment. The men said of him that he was 'just like Sir John Colborne,' and when he died of yellow fever at Barbados in 1838, his brother-officers could not look back without tears to what they owed to his influence, and 140 of their number combined to put up a tablet to his memory in the parish church.

The character borne by the officers themselves among their fellow-soldiers is perhaps best sketched by Captain Cook, of the 43d, in his work on the reminiscences of the war :—

The 52 were highly gentlemanly men, of a steady aspect, they mixed little with other corps, but attended the theatricals of the 43rd, with circumspect good humour, and now and then relaxed, but were soou again the 52d.

The influence which, above all, stamped this character on the officers, may be gathered from the following anecdotes of a young ensign of the 52d, whose character was well known for promptness of decision, and firmness in following a course which he felt to be honourable and necessary :

'When he was at Brussels, prior to the 18th of June, he was ordered to the rear with a detachment of invalids, and had gone back a day's march, when he met a party proceeding to the front to join his own regiment, the 52d. As an engagement was daily expected, he was anxious to be present, and, with this view, asked the date of commission of a young officer who was with the party he had thus met, and finding that this officer was junior to himself, he assumed the command of the whole, directed his junior to take charge of the invalids going homewards, and next morning astonished his commander by making his appearance with the regiment.

'After the regiment had marched to Paris, and was there quartered, the same officer was tempted, for the first time in his life, to the gaming table, and lost a sum of money, which to him was considerable. Feeling himself bound to discharge this debt as a man of honour, he was placed in serious pecuniary difficulty; but his was not a mind to despair, nor a heart to shrink under embarrassment. Difficulty, in his case, was but an occasion of contriving how to overcome it, and he was not long in forming the resolution to withdraw from the mess of his regiment, and to cut off every self-indulgence until his debt should be defrayed. With this determination, he went to his commanding officer, Sir John Colborne, acquainted him with his position, and requested to be allowed three months' advance of pay, and to live by himself on rations until he had paid off his losses. This request being acceded to, he lived alone in his tent for six months, during the whole of that time refusing all invitations to parties, and nothing could induce him to break through his purpose of living upon the smaller allowance until his debts were honourably liquidated; nor did he ever again allow himself to be drawn into the excitement of the gaming table.'-Hist. Recd. pp. 264, 265.

If the smartness and efficiency of the Regiment was in great part owing to Sir John Moore, the deeper qualities of self-control and high principle were infused by the example and influence of so true a specimen of Christian chivalry as Sir John Colborne; and recommended by the warmth and kindliness of a disposition, which, while keeping up control, and rendering a liberty impossible, detested the act of punishing, and in fact made punishment hardly ever necessary.

Sir John Colborne's religion was, however, of the old orthodox school, a rule of life implicitly observed, but reserved as to expression, and only manifesting itself to the world in the appointed forms of devotion.

Now the years immediately following the peace were, as is well known, a period of great activity with the Evangelical party. They were, in truth, at that time the progressive side of the Church; and though persons bred up in the old doctrine and practice, and who had never as it were lost their bearings, still remained constant and distrustful of novelty, such as had never before thought seriously were almost certain to imbibe

the peculiarities of the more earnest party which had awakened them. Two or three of the officers of the 52d became imbued with these views, and among them Mr. Leeke, whose impressions were deepened by a threatening of decline, which forced him to go to the Mediterranean on leave, so that he only joined again in 1821, at Dublin. His book is a curious blending of his military and religious experiences, told with the extraordinary simplicity of unreserve peculiar to his party, and extending to the smallest incidents. He cannot relate an incident at a ball, a fox hunt, or a theatre, during his unconverted days, without entering at length his protest against these enormities, and when he comes to his return to his regiment after his conversion, he gives us to understand that all, save Captain Gawler and himself, were in a state of great darkness, though, by his own showing, evil habits could not have been very prevalent, since he declares that only once at mess was anything said against which he thought it needful to protest, and that then, though he was told it was no business of his (he was a subaltern of twenty-three or four) the conversation ceased: a forbearance which goes far to establish the character of those concerned for 'circumspect good humour.'

One other protest he describes, when he went out of the room to avoid talk he disapproved; but he confesses that 'I was 'never afterwards urged by any of my brother-officers to do anything I told them I thought was wrong;' and considering that most of them were his seniors, and that he has ingenuously related to us no small number of his own previous, not mischievous but rather absurd, scrapes, it must be confessed that he met with forbearance that might have convinced him that there was principle in them that would not interfere with anything good, however obtrusive and exclusive.

There was a great endeavour on the part of the 'converted' officers to spread their religious convictions among the soldiers; large distributions of tracts were made, and prayer-meetings held, and Mr. Leeke gives several examples showing that real sentiments of religion were then deeply impressed on men who had had little opportunity of imbibing them before; and, with his characteristic honesty, he gives also the per contra account. One remarkable history he gives, which can be perfectly corroborated, of a man called Pat Kelly, who had been remarkable both for daring and for plundering in the war. In a dispute with a sergeant at Dublin, he uttered the imprecation that he 'wished that God might strike his tongue stiff in his mouth' if he did not report the other. He had no intention, even when he spoke the words, of so doing; but in the night a terror came over him lest he should be taken at his word, and trying to