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Title: Before and after Waterloo
Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814)

Author: Edward Stanley

Editor: Jane H. Adeane And Maud Grenfell

Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30564]

Language: English

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BEFORE AND AFTER WATERLOO

[Illustration: _Le courier du Rhin perd tout en revenant de la foire de
Leipsig._]

BEFORE AND AFTER WATERLOO

LETTERS

FROM

EDWARD STANLEY

SOMETIME BISHOP OF NORWICH

(1802; 1814; 1816)

EDITED BY JANE H. ADEANE AND MAUD GRENFELL

LONDON

T. FISHER UNWIN

ADELPHI TERRACE
MCMVII

(_All rights reserved._)

ECHOES OF PAST DAYS

AT

ALDERLEY RECTORY

[Illustration: _Edward Stanley D.D._

_Bishop of Norwich_

_n. 1780 ob. 1849_]

CONTENTS

PAGE

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EDWARD STANLEY 9

CHAPTER I
NEW FRANCE AND OLD EUROPE 25

CHAPTER II
AFTER NAPOLEON'S FALL 73

CHAPTER III
UNDER THE BOURBON FLAG 97

CHAPTER IV
ON THE TRACK OF NAPOLEON'S ARMY 144

CHAPTER V
THE LOW COUNTRIES 199

CHAPTER VI
THE WATERLOO YEAR 235

CHAPTER VII
AFTER WATERLOO 247

_The originals of most of the letters now published are, with the
drawings that illustrate them, at Llanfawr, Holyhead._

_Some extracts from these letters have already appeared in the "Early
Married Life of Ma