proceeding was the sprightly travesty of the petition, appearing
in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ on behalf of the carpenters, entreating
his majesty to wear a wooden leg himself, and to require this of all his
subjects, since otherwise the advent of peace bade fair to ruin the
joiner's trade in wooden legs.

8 Page 148. The Duke of Cumberland has never been considered what is
prettily called a "lovely character." His temperament, which would not
even brook that certain gentlemen, whom he denominated with a profane
adjective "old women," should talk to him "about humanity" (and it may
be said in passing that these hopeful "old women" were most obviously
condemned to disappointment at least), his rigid discipline of his own
troops, and his unparalleled brutality to the enemy, leave the devotion
exhibited for him by his soldiers to be accounted for only by the
admiration which they felt for his personal courage, which was very
great, and of which Walpole tells a good story about this time,--of
course before the days of anaesthetics: "The Duke of Cumberland is quite
recovered after an incision of many inches into his knee. Ranby [the
surgeon] did not dare to propose that a hero should be tied, but was
frightened out of his senses when the hero _would_ hold the candle
himself, which none of his generals could bear to do: in the middle of
the operation the Duke said 'Hold!' Ranby said, 'For God's sake, Sir,
let me proceed now--it will be worse to renew it.' The Duke repeated, 'I
say, hold!' and then calmly bade them give Ranby a clean waistcoat and
cap; 'for,' said he, 'the poor man has sweated through these.' It was
true; but the Duke did not utter a groan."

9 Page 168. It is with a renewal of confidence in the better aspects of
human nature, and the genuineness of such sanctions as control civilized
war that we realize that the French and English officers encountering
dangers so far transcending legitimate perils as those pervading Indian
fighting manifested individually, now and again, a true and soldierly
sympathy with one another, and sought to protect the helpless in their
power, often liberating those exposed to torture at the hands of their
savage allies. For the methods of the Indians were by no means
ameliorated by association with their civilized comrades, and they could
scarcely be held subject to any control. Washington himself, whose
capacity in authority amounted to a special genius, even when only a
young prov