De Béranger, "Complainte d'une de ces Demoiselles a l'Occasion des Affaires du Temps (Février, 1816)," _Chansons_, 1821, ii. 17. Compare a retaliatory epigram which appeared in a contemporary newspaper-- "These French _petit-maîtres_ who the spectacle throng, Say of Wellington's dress _qu'il fait vilain ton!_ But, at Waterloo, Wellington made the French stare When their army he dressed _à la mode Angleterre!_"] [it] _Oh Wellington_ (_or "Vilainton"_)----.--[MS. B.] [478] Query, _Ney?_--Printer's Devil. [Michel Ney, Duke of Elchingen, "the bravest of the brave" (see _Ode from the French_, stanza i. _Poetical Works_, 1900, iii. 431), born January 10, 1769, was arrested August 5, and shot December 7, 1815.] [479] [The story of the attempted assassination (February 11, 1818) of the Duke of Wellington, which is dismissed by Alison in a few words (_Hist. of Europe_ (1815-1852), 1853, i. 577, 578), occupies many pages of the _Supplementary Despatches_ (1865, xii. 271-546). Byron probably drew his own conclusions as to the Kinnaird-Marinet incident, from the _Letter to the Duke of Wellington on the Arrest of M. Marinet_, by Lord Kinnaird, 1818. The story, which is full of interest, may be briefly recounted. On January 30, 1818, Lord Kinnaird informed Sir George Murray (Chief of the Staff of the Army of Occupation) that a person, whose name he withheld, had revealed to him the existence of a plot to assassinate the Duke of Wellington. At 12.30 a.m., February 11, 1818, the Duke, on returning to his Hotel, was fired at by an unknown person; and then, but not till then, he wrote to urge Lord Clancarty to advise the Prince Regent to take steps to persuade or force Kinnaird to disclose the name of his informant. A Mr. G.W. Chad, of the Consular Service, was empowered to proceed to Brussels, and to seek an interview with Kinnaird. He carried with him, among other documents, a letter from the Duke to Lord Clancarty, dated February 12, 1818. A postscript contained this intimation: "It may be proper to mention to you that the French Government are disposed to go every length in the way of negotiation with the person mentioned by Lord Kinnaird, or others, to discover the plot."