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RECOLLECTIONS AND ANECDOTES

BEING A SECOND SERIES OF REMINISCENCES

OF THE CAMP, THE COURT, AND
THE CLUBS.

B Y C APTAIN R. H. G RONOW

F ORMERLY OF THE G RENADIER G UARDS , AND M.P. FOR S TAFFORD .

This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING

Text originally published in 1866 under the same title.

Pickle Partners Publishing 2011, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

Publishers Note

Although in most cases we have retained the Authors original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern readers benefit.

A FEW WORDS TO THE READER.

THE unlooked-for favour with which my first volume of Reminiscences was received by the public has induced me to bring out a second series, which I trust will meet with the same indulgence.

However slight the materials may be which form the foundation of this work, they may prove of some interest to my readers; being sketches taken from the life, or anecdotes for the exactitude and veracity of which I can vouch.

The personages whose names I have mentioned, or whose portraits I have attempted to draw, are very generally known in the fashionable, literary, or artistic world. I have endeavoured as much as possible to abstain from ill-natured remarks or com ments likely to offend the living, and if I have erred in this respect it has been involuntarily.

Though the battle of Waterloo is almost a hackneyed subject, yet it has been latterly so frequently brought forward by French writers of celebrity, that I have thought some further observations might not prove altogether without interest.

I must conclude with an apology for having introduced French and Italian words and phrases into an English book; but the fact is, that though our language is a far richer one than at least the French, there are certain words that cannot be rendered into their exact corresponding meaning by translation, and consequently the point of many jokes and clever sayings would be entirely lost.

R. H. GRONOW.

Contents

THREE HEROIC BROTHERS

FRENCH HISTORIANS OF WATERLOO

NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO

AFTER QUATRE BRAS

THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

COLONEL COLQUITT

CAPTAIN CHAMBERS, PICTONS FAVOURITE AIDE-DE-CAMP

CAPTAIN ROBERT ADAIR, OF THE 1ST GUARDS

ENSIGN SOMERVILLE BURGES, OF THE 1ST FOOT GUARDS

PERCIVAL, OF THE FIRST GUARDS

SIR COLIN HALKETT

CAPTAIN CURZON

CAPTAIN, AFTERWARDS COLONEL KELLY, OF THE LIFE GUARDS, AND OUR CAVALRY CHARGES

CHARGE OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE

LIEUTENANT TATHWELL: ILL-TREATMENT OF A PRISONER BY THE FRENCH

SIR W. PONSONBY, LORD E. SOMERSET, SIR JOHN ELLEY, AND SIR HORACE SEYMOUR

THE HONOURABLE GEORGE DAMER AND COLONEL MUTER

HOUGOUMONT

MEETING OF WELLINGTON AND BLUCHER

SUFFERING OF THE WOUNDED

EXCESSES OF THE PRUSSIANS

PRONNE LA PURCELLE

V VICTIS

NAPOLEONS MISTAKEN OPINION OF THE ENGLISH ARMY

SIR FREDERICK PONSONBY

NARROW ESCAPESRECEPTION IN LONDON

CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH AND PRUSSIAN ARMIES DURING THE OCCUPATION OF PARIS

DR KEATE IN PARIS

SHAVING IN A MINUTE, AND COLONEL ELLISON

THE DUKE AND MR CREEVEY

THE DUKES RAZORS

MADEMOISELLE MARS

MADEMOISELLE RACHEL

SIR JAMES KEMPT AND MR DAVIES

THE CORN-LAW RIOTS AND LORD CASTLEREAGH

THEN AND NOW

ETON MASTERS

COUNT MONTROND

SIR PEPPER ARDEN, FATHER OF LORD ALVANLEY

JOHN KEMBLE

REVOLUTION OF 1848

ROGERS AND LUTTRELL

THE PIG-FACED LADY

BALZAC AND EUGNE SUE

ALEXANDER DUMAS

CIVILITY REWARDED

PARTY AT MANCHESTER HOUSE IN 1816, AND THE REGENTS ETIQUETTE

THE BRITISH EMBASSYLORD AND LADY GRANVILLE

HOBY, THE BOOTMAKER, OF ST JAMESS STREET

HAIRDRESSING FIFTY YEARS SINCE, AND VAILS TO SERVANTS

TWISLETON FIENNES, THE LATE LORD SAYE AND SELE

BURIED ALIVE

COUNT DORSAY

THE SPAFIELDS RIOTS

MAD AS A HATTER

HARRINGTON HOUSE AND LORD PETERSHAM

TOWNSHEND, THE BOW-STREET OFFICER

MADEMOISELLE DUTH

A STRANGE RENCONTRE

ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD STRACHAN

THE BONAPARTE FAMILY

PARIS AFTER THE PEACE

THE OPERA IN PARIS IN 1815

THE COUNTESS OF ALDBOROUGH

ELECTIONEERING IN 1832

STAFFORD IN 1832

COUNTESS GUICCIOLI

THE LIGHT COMPANY'S POODLE AND SIR F. PONSONBY

EXTRAVAGANCETHE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, GRAND-FATHER OF THE PRESENT DUKE

LORD ALVANLEY

SALLY LUNN CAKES-THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "BUN."

PICTON'S OPINION OF OUR OFFICERS

ADMIRAL NAGLE

THE LATE LORD SCARBOROUGH

POTAGE LA POMPADOUR

BEARDING THE LION IN HIS DEN

A MAD FRIEND

LORD ALTHORPE

O'CONNELL

SNUFF TAKING

PETITION AGAINST MY RETURN FOR STAFFORD, AND LORD CAMPBELL

THE LATE LORD DUDLEY

The Reminiscences of Captain Gronow. Vol. II

THREE HEROIC BROTHERS Among my souvenirs of 1815 there is one that has always struck me as particularly touching in the annals of French gallantry and heroism, and which shews what men we had to contend with in Spain, Portugal, and Belgium. There were three brothers named Angelet, whose heroic deeds have not, to the best of my knowledge, been recorded in any of the Memoirs of that time, and who all died or were mortally wounded on the bloody field of Waterloo.

The eldest brother started for the army as a conscript; he soon after rose to the rank of serjeant, and for many acts of daring he was raised to the rank of an officer in a regiment of the line. When in Spain he was made prisoner by the guerillas, and as he was on the point of being massacred, his life was saved by an English officer; but he was imprisoned on the Spanish pontoons, where he suffered great hardships. He contrived, however, with singular daring and dexterity, to make his escape.

Angelet went through the Russian campaign as captain in the Imperial Guard, was named major in the 141st Regiment in 1813, and took a glorious part in the battle of Lutzen, where he was dangerously wounded by a cannon-ball in the leg. After his recovery, he returned to the Imperial Guard with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was engaged in all the battles of 1814. On the return of the Bourbons, he was named colonel of the grenadiers of the Garde Royale; but, on the escape of Napoleon from Elba, he immediately joined his glorious chief. After many heroic deeds at Waterloo, he received five wounds, and died at Brussels, after lingering in great agony for two months. His last moments were soothed by the presence of a beautiful young girl, to whom he was engaged to be married when he left Paris to conquer or to die.

The second brother, St Amand Angelet, was educated at the cole Militaire, was present at almost every battle in Spain, and for his gallant deeds obtained the cross of the Legion of Honour, (which was not then as easily won as it is now-a-days,) and the rank of captain. He received a wound in the leg at Orthes, and returned to Paris in 1814 to have it cured; though he was always obliged to go on crutches.

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