193

_E. S._

DUTCH SHIPS " 199

_E. S._

DUTCH DILIGENCE ON BOARD A BOAT " 219

_E. S._

GOAT CARRIAGE FOR THE LITTLE KING OF ROME " 223

_E. S._

DUTCH TABLE D'HOTE " 226

_E. S._

OLD HOUSES, SAARDAM " 228

_E. S._

PETER THE GREAT'S HOUSE, SAARDAM " 230

_E. S._

DUTCH FISHERMEN " 233

_E. S._

DUTCH CARRIAGE " 234

_E. S._

CORN MILLS AT VERNON " 247

_E. S._

FRENCH CABRIOLET " 260

_E. S._

HOUGOUMONT " 263

_E. S._

INTERIOR OF HOUGOUMONT " 265

_E. S._

LA BELLE ALLIANCE " 267

_E. S._

WATERLOO " 270

_E. S._

GHENT. ST. NICHOLAS " 274

_E. S._

PORTE DE HALLE, BRUSSELS, LEADING TO WATERLOO " 276

_E. S._

PARISIAN RAT-CATCHER AND ITINERANT VENDORS " 300

_E. S._

THE GREAT GREEN COACH " 306

_E. S._

ALDERLEY RECTORY _page_ 308

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EDWARD STANLEY

The letters which are collected in this volume were written from abroad
during the opening years of the nineteenth century, at three different
periods: after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and 1803, after the Peace of
Paris in 1814, and in the year following Waterloo, June, 1816.

The writer, Edward Stanley, was for thirty-three years an active country
clergyman, and for twelve years more a no less active bishop, at a time
when such activity was uncommon, though not so rare as is sometimes now
supposed.

Although a member of one of the oldest Cheshire families, he did not
share the opinions of his county neighbours on public questions, and his
voice was fearlessly raised on behalf of causes which are now
triumphant, and against abuses which are now forgotten, but which
acutely needed champions and reformers a hundred years