saw foreign service again in the campaign of Waterloo. After the peace, he was placed upon half-pay. In 1824 he was ordered to Canada, having the brevet rank of major (I should have noticed that at Waterloo he only held the rank of second captain, although commanding a troop--Sir Alex. Dickson, whose troop it was, being otherwise employed). In 1837, being then a lieutenant-colonel, he was again sent to North America, and commanded the artillery in Nova Scotia at the time when the Maine boundary-line threatened to terminate in a war between this country and the United States. He subsequently commanded the garrison at Dover, after which he retired from active service, although, being colonel-commandant of the 9th Brigade of Royal Artillery, he was never placed on the retired list. From that time to the period of his death, at the advanced age of eighty-five, he continued to reside at Cowley Cottage, near Exeter. Another addition to the numerous books which have been published about Waterloo will hardly seem out of place at a time when the subject has been revived both here and in France. It would seem that men’s interest in this great “World Battle” is as strong now as fifty years ago; and although this little contribution will not elucidate any of the questions that are agitated, still (as far as memory serves) it is the first account of the campaign given to the world by an artillery officer, and may add another stone to the cairn raised to the glory of the British army and its immortal chief. At any rate, the surviving veterans of this stirring epoch will rejoice to go again over the scenes of their younger days; while the lovers of peace will congratulate themselves on the cessation of such strife between two noble nations, whose last (and may it continue to be the last) hostile _rencontre_ took place upon the plain of Waterloo. CAVALIÉ A. MERCER. TRIPOLI, SYRIA. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. PAGE Preparations for Departure--Reports of Fugitives--Embarkation and Departure--The Voyage--Off the Coast--First View of Ostend--Aspect of the Coast--Ostend Harbour--Its Dangers-- Unceremonious Landing of Dragoon Horses, 1 CHAPTER II. Confusion at Landing--Scene on Shore--Difficulties--Confusion on the Beach--A Catastrophe--The Town by Night--Difficulties of the March--Night Quarters--A Pleasant Change--Return to Ostend--Waiting to Start--Costumes of the Natives--Scenes in the Town--A Wreck--Fearful Scene--Impressions of Ostend, 14 CHAPTER III. Change of Scenery--Arrival at Ghistel--Our Quarters there--Again on the March--Arrival at Bruges--Our Hotel--First Impressions of Bruges--Present and Past--The Stadthouse and Cathedral--Mass in the Cathedral--The Worshippers--The Ramparts--Dinner, 32 CHAPTER IV.