No. II.
The reader will observe that the letters from which I make the following extracts, were written at three o’clock in the morning of the battle.
To Sir Charles Stuart.
“Waterloo, June 18th, 1815,
three o’clock A.M.
“MY DEAR STUART,
... “You will see in the letter to the duc de Berry the real state of our case, and the only risk we run. The Prussians will be ready again in the morning for anything.
“Pray keep the English (in Brussels,) quiet, if you can. Let them all prepare to move, but neither be in a hurry nor a fright, as all will yet turn out well.
“I have given the directions to the governor of Antwerp, to meet the crotchets which I find in the heads of the king’s governors upon every turn....
“Wellington.”
(Gurwood, vol. XII, page 476.)