382 NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.ix. NOV. 12,1921. letter in town from Colonel Stewart (Lord Blan- tyre's brother) who has himself lost his left arm, stating that very nearly one half of the British Officers have been killed or wounded. The 42nd, the 79th and the 92nd and the first guards have suffered most of the infantry regiments, of the latter more than 30 officers (nearly the whole complement) have been killed or wounded. Of the Scotch Greys, only six officers left the field according to a letter from James Wemyss who is safe. Tom Trotter* was killed in the desperate charge which they made upon the Imperial Guards, he had only joined the regiment a few days before. James Simpsont has received two wounds, one in the neck and the other in the right shoulder, but his life is safe and he is doing very well. There is a letter from him scrawled with his left hand. I have heard nothing either of Frank Douglas or John Dirom, but amid such a loss there is little chance of their having escaped at least being wounded. David Baird of New- bythj is shot thro' the jaw. His father and mother were to set off to-day for Brussells to attend him. Poor Colonel Millar died on the 20th. I saw his father on the Bench this morning, he did not then know of it, but seemed in a dread- ful state of anxiety and his attention much distracted. Sir Wm. Delaney is still alive, his Wife had gone out to Brussells and is now with him. There is a Captain Menzies of the 42nd who has received 12 wounds, it is hardly expected that he will recover. Lord Bathurst in 'his speech quotes a fine letter from the D. of Wellington to Lord Aberdeen on the death of his brother,)] where he states that the glory which he had ac- quired was no compensation for the losses he had to mourn, but expresses his confident hope that it will accomplish the object of freeing Europe. Lord Uxbridge is likely to recover and has been created Marquis of Anglesea. A meeting was held to-day in the Parliament house for opening a subscription in aid of the Patriotic fund. The Lord Chief Baron ^ made a most eloquent speech and alluded most beautifully to the prowess of the Scotch Regiments to which even the foreign Newspapers give the honor of the day. He
- Tom Trotter was a son of Thomas Trotter,
Esq., of Mortonhall. t James Simpson, son of David Simpson, of Teviotbank, Roxburghshire, was wounded at Quatre Bras. He succeeded to the command oi the troops in the Crimea on the death of Lord Raglan, was created G.C.B., and died in 1868. $ David, afterwards Sir David Baird, 2nd Bart., of Newbyth (1795-1852) succeeded his uncle, the famous General, in 1829. William Miller, 1st Foot Guards, son of Sir William Miller of Glenlee (a Lord of Session with the title of Lord Glenlee) was wounded at Quatre Bras, June 16, 1815, and died the next day in Brussels. || Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander Gordon, brother of th( Earl of Aberdeen, was mortally wounded at Water loo and died at the Duke of Wellington's head quarters. j Robert Dundas of Arniston (1758-1819), on< of a long line of Scottish judges, was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in 1801. alluded too to the spot where he was speaking as the place " where in the antient parliaments of Scotland our ancestors exulted over the victories of those who never could be conquered." Walter Scott's speech seemed to give great delight though I could not hear it. He subscribed the profits of a poem on the subject.* To the melancholy ecital I have just been giving you I have to add
- he death of poor Fettes. His father had arrived
i fortnight before that event, and is quite incon- solable his honors and his fortune are now a Kurden to him.t Mrs. Tom Tod has been in great danger for this week past, a typhous fever suc- ceeding a bad recovery has almost been too much ! or her, she was a little better to-day, and the Doctors have some hopes from her holding out so long. I called on the Napiers | yesterday
- o take leave of them previous to their departure
'or England, and saw Lady Napier. They were
- o sail to-day, and would have a fine passage
down the firth. Dacre Lodge is the name of 3heir residence. They have purchased all the "urniture and everything upon the premises so jhat they have nothing to provide. Tell my Father that I pleaded the case of the Ashkirk Manse to-day along with Mr. Cockburn against the Church counsel. Lord Craigie had no doubt on the general point, but he took the case to report on Memorials to the Inner house. David Anderson and I have not yet been able to make any final arrangements about our tour, neither have we altogether fixed upon the destina- tion but we think it will be Ireland. Walter Scott Sir William Rae Sheriff Hamilton William Erskine and Mr. Stevenson are going round the coast of Ireland in their yacht at the same time, so that we may perhaps fall in with their party during some part of our tour. Tell Mary that her friend Miss Johnstone Brown is to be married next week to Mr. Inglis of Redhall. With kind remembrances to all at home remain my dear Mother Your dutiful and Affecte Son ALEX. PBINGLE. Mrs. Pringle of Whitebank, Yair with 100 Sterg. C. K. S. M.
- ' The Field of Waterloo.' In the Advertise-
ment (dated Abbotsford, 1815) Scott says^: may be some apology for the imperfections of this poem, that it was composed hastily, and during a short tour upon the Continent, when the author's labours were liable to frequent inter- ruption ; but its best apology is, that it was written for the purpose of assisting the Waterloo subscription." f The fortune of Sir William Fettes was applied, many years later, to the building and endowment of Fettes College, immediately outside Edin- burgh. t Francis, 8th Lord Napier (1758-1823; pater- nally Scott of Thirlestane, and a neighbour of the Pringles in the Forest of Ettrick), was for many years appointed Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land, which may have brought him to Edinburgh at this time. Probably the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.
