“Hoping you may long enjoy health to pursue the interesting occupation for which your soldierly qualities and intelligence so well fit you, I remain, etc. “EDWARD MACREADY, major unattached; of the 30th, at Waterloo.” The following document is to the Author, and probably it will be to not a few of his readers, deeply interesting: it is from the late lamented colonel Gurwood, whose labour in collecting and publishing the Wellington Dispatches, whilst it rendered an invaluable, perhaps an unrequited service to his country and to civilization, broke his health, and bore down his gallant spirit: “70, LOWNDES-SQUARE, LONDON, June 18th, 1843. “SERGEANT-MAJOR COTTON, “I have had a set of the _Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington_ packed up to be forwarded to you, which I shall endeavour to send you on the return of king Leopold to Brussels, to the care of sir G. H. Seymour, her Majesty’s minister, to whom I shall write to inform you when they arrive. “The marquis of Anglesey has much enhanced the value of my present to you, in writing his name in the title page at my request, and he appeared much pleased at gratifying an old soldier of his regiment. “Very faithfully yours, “J. GURWOOD.” A RELIC. On the 15th of May 1846, colonel Macdonald, of the Royal artillery, visited the Author’s interesting collection at Mont-St.-Jean, of arms, etc., spoils of the Waterloo campaign. The gallant veteran recognized his own sword of a curious workmanship, that had been lost on the field, when he was wounded. This precious relic the colonel left with the Author, giving him the following certificate: “This sword I wore at the battle of Waterloo, and after I was wounded my servant left it on the field. “ALEXANDER MACDONALD, colonel, “Royal horse artillery[113]. “WATERLOO, May 15th, 1846.” Amongst the kind presents which the Author has received from his countrymen, for his Waterloo Museum and library, at Mont-St.-Jean, he gratefully mentions the following: “_Selections from Dispatches, etc., of the Duke of Wellington, by colonel Gurwood_; “Presented by Lieutenant-Colonel N. Norcliffe, K. H., of Langton-Hall, Yorkshire, to his fellow soldier, Sergeant-Major Cotton, late of the 7th hussars. “July 25th, 1842.” “BLACKHEATH, July 30th, 1846. “SERGEANT-MAJOR COTTON, “Alderman Moon rejoiced in being able to gratify the patriotic feelings of an old Waterloo hero, and at once offered to present you with a copy of his celebrated engraving of the Waterloo Banquet, which he trusts you will frame and place in your Museum. “FRANCIS BENNOCK.”