[24] At one time I thought this a French _ruse de guerre_. I remember the man perfectly, with his silver arrow and chain attached to his black shoulder-belt. In Sir John Sinclair’s ‘Translation of Baron Muffling’s Account,’ London, 1816, and at p. 29, I find that about 4 P.M., whilst the cuirassiers, after charging through the 1st British line, were roaming over the interval between it and the 2d, “the enemy advanced a battalion on the plain of the platform, at hardly 500 yards’ distance from the position, so as, perhaps, to establish his infantry on this side of the little wood of Hougoumont and in La Haye Sainte.” Could this have been the one? At p. 35 he says, “The shot from Bulow’s artillery reached the British, and the Duke was obliged to send notice of it.” Query--Did the Duke observe this himself, or was it communicated to him by my black hussar? [25] Here were more cuirasses than men; for the wounded (who could move), divesting themselves of its encumbrance, had made their escape, leaving their armour on the ground where they had fallen. [26] In some accounts of the battle, and visits to the field, &c., it has been stated that this garden was a scene of slaughter. Totally untrue! As I have stated in the text, I did not see above two or three altogether. There certainly might have been more concealed amongst the vegetation, but they could not have been many. [27] During the remainder of the campaign Milward carried it; and on returning to England I even rode into Canterbury followed by my lancer--a novelty in those days. Whilst in retirement on half-pay, it was suspended in my library; but on going to America in 1823 I deposited it in the Rotunda at Woolwich. On my return in 1829 the lance was gone. In 1823 or 1824 it seems Lieutenant-Colonel Vandaleur, of the 9th Lancers, came to Woolwich to look for a model. Mine pleased him, and he took it to St John’s Wood Riding-House, where it was tried against others in presence of the Duke of York, and approved of as a model for arming the British lancers. After a long hunt I at last found it at the Enfield manufactory, spoilt completely, the iron-work and thong taken off, and flag gone. It cost me a long correspondence with the Board before I succeeded in getting it restored and put together. When I received it from him who had so long wielded it, the flag was dyed in blood, the blade notched, and also stained with blood; inside the thong was cut Clement, VII., probably the number of his troop. [It is now in the possession of Dr Hall, an old Waterloo man, and sincere friend of my father.--ED.] [28] Sir George Wood incurred the Duke’s extreme displeasure for not securing and parking the French guns immediately after the action, for the Prussians got hold of many of them; and it was only through the indefatigable activity of Sir Augustus Frazer that they were regained--partly by coaxing, partly by blustering. However, they were all recovered. MESSRS W. BLACKWOOD & SONS’ _PUBLICATIONS_.