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DOUBTS ABOUT WELLINGTON'S ACCOUNT
OF HIS VICTORY
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMAN
The editor of the Albany Register, in his paper of the 8th inst.
came out with the following sage remarks --
"We this day give, from the Columbian, a string of rumours,
which have followed in the train of the British Official Account
of the late great battle in Belgium. They represent Bonaparte's
affairs in so desperate a situation, that he has once more
abdicated the throne ! The Editors of the Columbian appear to
think this one of Johnny Bull's airy dreams; and we have very
little doubt it will prove indeed "such stuff as dreams are
made of." Whoever read, with an impartial eye, Wellington's
account in our last, must have perceived that the noble Duke,
while he claimed the victory, was labouring through his whole
communication, to conceal a defeat. It was, we believe, just such
a victory as the Wellingtonian legions gained at Bridgewater, and
at New Orleans."
Other democratic editors very plainly saw a decisive defeat of
the English and Prussian Armies, in Wellington's account of the
battle. But they overlooked one material fact -- viz. -- that
Lord Wellington, in all the tremendous scenes in which he has
been engaged, has never made half the bluster on paper, that was
made by the officers of our late army, whenever they took a
British corporal's guard.
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