Edward F. Rimbault.
HARDMAN'S ACCOUNT OF WATERLOO.
(Vol. viii., p. 199.; Vol. ix., p. 176.)
I perfectly recollect reading, when a boy, a critique on this poem, and being much amused thereby. The critique appeared in the Literary Gazette or Athenæum, as well as I remember. I never saw the poem, but I recollect some of the lines quoted, which went nearly as follows:—
"The following morning, at break of day,
An orderly dragoon did come this way:
'Holloa! holloa! I say, give ear,
Is Adjutant Hardman quartered here?