Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at Bibliothèque nationale de France (http://gallica.bnf.fr) and The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org). [Illustration: book's cover] BEFORE AND AFTER WATERLOO [Illustration: _Le courier du Rhin perd tout en revenant de la foire de Leipsig._] BEFORE AND AFTER WATERLOO LETTERS FROM EDWARD STANLEY SOMETIME BISHOP OF NORWICH (1802; 1814; 1816) EDITED BY JANE H. ADEANE AND MAUD GRENFELL LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN ADELPHI TERRACE MCMVII (_All rights reserved._) ECHOES OF PAST DAYS AT ALDERLEY RECTORY [Illustration: _Edward Stanley D.D._ _Bishop of Norwich_ _n. 1780 ob. 1849_] CONTENTS PAGE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EDWARD STANLEY 9 CHAPTER I NEW FRANCE AND OLD EUROPE 25 CHAPTER II AFTER NAPOLEON'S FALL 73 CHAPTER III UNDER THE BOURBON FLAG 97 CHAPTER IV ON THE TRACK OF NAPOLEON'S ARMY 144 CHAPTER V THE LOW COUNTRIES 199 CHAPTER VI THE WATERLOO YEAR 235 CHAPTER VII AFTER WATERLOO 247 _The originals of most of the letters now published are, with the drawings that illustrate them, at Llanfawr, Holyhead._ _Some extracts from these letters have already appeared in the "Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley," but are here inserted again by kind permission of Messrs. Longman, and complete Bishop Stanley's correspondence._ _Portions of letters quoted in Dean Stanley's volume, "Edward and Catherine Stanley," have also been used with Messrs. Murray's consent._ _In addition to the MSS. at Llanfawr, Lord Stanley of Alderley has kindly contributed some original letters in his possession._ _J.H.A._ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "LE COURIER DU RHIN" _Frontispiece_ _Sketch brought to England 1814 by General Scott of Thorpe, one of the detenus in France for ten years after the rupture of the Peache of Amiens, mentioned page 73._ BISHOP STANLEY _To face page_ 2 _By John Linnell. From a drawing in the possession of Canon J. Hugh Way, Henbury._ MARGARET OWEN, LADY STANLEY " 10 _From a miniature in the possession of Lady Reade-Carreglwyd, Anglesey._ "FLIGHT OF INTELLECT" " 17 _Humorous sketch by E. Stanley._ EDWARD STANLEY, 1800 " 25 _By P. Green. The original in the possession of Lord Stanley of Alderley, at Penrhos, Anglesey._