Poor Marshall Ney's fate is decided. He was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried into execution not on the _Place de Grenelle_ as was given out, but in the gardens of Luxemburgh at a very early hour. He met his fate with great firmness and composure. I leave Paris to-morrow for London. [47] Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, VI, 20, 7. [48] Virgil, _Aen_., VI, 620 (temnere _divos_).--ED. [49] Louis Wirion (1764-1810), an officer of _gendarmerie_, commander-general of the _place_ de Verdun since 1804, was accused in 1808 of having extorted money from certain English prisoners quartered in Verdun (Estwick, Morshead, Garland, etc.). Wirion shot himself before the end of the long proceedings, which do not seem to have established his guilt, but had reduced him to misery and despair.--ED. [50] Richard Brinsley Sheridan's (1751-1816) _Pizarro_, produced at Drury Lane in 1799.--ED. [51] Three brothers Zadera, all born in Warsaw, served in the Imperial army.--ED. [52] Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ III, 2, i.--ED. [53] These words mean, or are supposed to mean, in French and in Dutch: "I don't understand" (_je n'entends pas_).--ED. [54] Horace, _Carm._, IV, 2,39.--ED. [55]John Chetwode Eustace (1762-1815), author of _A Tour through Italy_ (2 vol., London, 1813), the eighth edition of which appeared in 1841.--ED. [56] Theodoric was a Goth, not a Lombard.--ED. [57] Of course, _Silva Beleni_.--ED. [58] Perhaps Clement François Philippe de Laâge Bellefaye, mentioned in the _Souvenirs_ of Baron de Frénilly, p. 94. His large estates had been confiscated in the Revolution.--ED. AFTER WATERLOO PART II CHAPTER VI MARCH-JUNE,1816 Ball at Cambray, attended by the Duke of Wellington--An Adventure between Saint Quentin and Compiègne--Paris revisited--Colonel Wardle and Mrs Wallis--Society in Paris--The Sourds-Muets--The Cemetery of Père La Chaise--Apathy of the French people--The priests--Marriage of the Duke de Berri. March, 1816. This time I varied my route to Paris, by passing thro' St Omer, Douay and Cambray. At Cambray I was present at a ball given by the municipality. The Duke of Wellington was there. He had in his hand an extraordinary sort of hat which had something of a shape of a folding cocked hat, with divers red crosses and figures on it, so that it resembled a conjurer's cap. I understand it is a hat given to his Grace by magnanimous Alexander; St Nicholas perhaps commissioned the Emperor to present it to Wellington, for his Grace is entitled to the eternal gratitude of the different Saints, as well as of the different sovereigns, for having maintained them respectively in their celestial and terrestrial dominions; and it is to be hoped, after his death, that the latter will celebrate for him a brilliant apotheosis, and the former be as complaisant to him and make room for him in the Empyreum as Virgil requests the Scorpion to do for Augustus: