Indiana State Sentinel

Wellington and Napoleon.
In a volume of Sayings and Writings of the Duke of Wellington, just published, the following is a letter to the Duke of Beresford, from Lord Wellington:
"You will have heard of our battle of the 18th. Never did I see such a pounding match. Both were what the boxers call 'gluttons.' Napoleon did not manoeuvre at all. He just moved forward in the old style, in columns, and was driven off in the old style. The only difference was, that he mixed cavalry with his infantry, and supported both with an enormous quantity of artillery. I had the infantry for some time in squares, and we had the French cavalry walking as if they had been our own. I never saw the British infantry behave so well."
The Albany Evening Journal justly observes, that the man who, amid the dead and wounded of that sanguinary conflict, could write in a spirit of such indifference and levity as characterizes this Letter, must be utterly lost to all the sympathies of humanity.
The following incident related of Napoleon, evinces that he was influenced by a much more creditable feeling on a similar occasion:
"He was riding late one day over a battle field gazing on the dying and dead that strewed the ground by thousands about him, when suddenly 'those evening bells struck up a merry peal. The Emperor paused to listen, his heart softened, memory was busy with the past: he was no longer the conqueror of Austerlitz, but the innocent happy school boy at Brienne, and dismounting from his horse he seated himself on the stump of an old tree, and to the astonishment of Rapp, who relates the circumstance, burst into tears."