e, _ibid._]

[323] [Charles Angelique Francois Huchet, Comte de La Bedoyere, born
1786, was in the retreat from Moscow, and in 1813 distinguished himself
at the battles of Lutzen and Bautzen. On the return of Napoleon from
Elba he was the first to bring him a regiment. He was promoted, and
raised to the peerage, but being found in Paris after its occupation by
the Allied army, he was tried by a court-martial, and suffered death
August 15, 1815.]

[324] {432} See _Rev._ Chap. viii. V. 7, etc., "The first angel sounded,
and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood," etc. V. 8, "And
the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with
fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood,"
etc. V. 10, "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star
from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part
of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters." V. 11, "And the name
of the star is called _Wormwood_: and the third part of the waters
became _wormwood_; and many men died of the waters, because they were
made bitter."

[325] Murat's remains are said to have been torn from the grave and
burnt. ["Poor dear Murat, what an end ...! His white plume used to be a
rallying point in battle, like Henry the Fourth's. He refused a
confessor and a bandage; so would neither suffer his soul or body to be
bandaged."--Letter to Moore, November 4. 1815, _Letters_, 1899, iii.
245. See, too, for Joachim Murat (born 1771), proclaimed King of Naples
and the Two Sicilies, August, 1808, _ibid_., note 1.]

[326] {434} ["Write, Britain, write the moral lesson down." Scott's
_Field of Waterloo_, Conclusion, stanza vi. line 3.]

[327] {435} ["Talking of politics, as Caleb Quotem says, pray look at
the conclusion of my 'Ode on Waterloo,' written in the year 1815, and
comparing it with the Duke de Berri's catastrophe in 1820, tell me if I
have not as good a right to the character of '_Vates_,' in both senses
of the word, as Fitzgerald and Coleridge?--

'Crimson tears will follow yet;'

and have not they?"--Letter to Murray, April 24, 1820.

In the Preface to _The Tyrant's Downfall, etc_., 1814, W. L. Fitzgerald
(see _English Bards, etc._, line 1, _Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 297, note
3) "begs leave to refer his reader to the dates of his Napoleonics ...
to prove his legitimate title to the prophetical meaning of _Vates_"
(_Cent. Mag._, July, 1814, vol. lxxxiv. p. 58). Co