"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎١‎٠‎٨] (٦٥٤/١٢٥)

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AFTER WATERLOO.
King stood alone, in a plain blue uniform with grey pantaloons.
His aide-de-camp, the Prince Charles of Mecklenburg, was near
him; the rest of the staff, among whom was the Prince Royal,
stood apart.
After divine service was finished, the regiments formed line.
The King passed down the line, and they afterwards marched
past him in divisions. I never can forget the emotions excited by
this scene. The plain but impressive piety of the clergyman, the
attention of his audience, their appearance and discipline, and
the spot where they returned thanks to God for the victory they
had gained, were all calculated to fill the mind with reflections.
Went to the top of Montmartre, from whence there is by far the
finest view I have yet seen of Paris. We afterwards visited le
Jardin des Plantes, and the fine menagerie and museum attached
to it. In the evening I dined with the Duke of Wellington, and
as I sate next to him, I had a great deal of very interesting con
versation. He has a very low opinion of the French as a nation,
and says at present they have not a man, either as a general or a
statesman, that can be called great. I discover from his con
versation it is meant to levy a heavy contribution upon them
(2,000,000/.). He said that he had been much abused in Eng
land because he prevented blowing up the Bridge of Jena. I
told him they had abused him more for giving Fouche a dinner.
"They do not know what they want in England; but if they
think an administration of honest and honorable men can be found
in i ranee, they are fools—there are no materials; and where all
aie rascals, you must take those who are most useful. If I had
not settled with Fouche when I did," he said, " the Duke of Or
leans would have been proclaimed King next day, and that would
have been a new trouble."
I spoke to him about the models at the Hopital des Invalides,
which the Prussians were plundering, and said I thought it a
gieat shame. He said he thought so too; but that if they were to
be taken, England had a right to a share. I said I hoped such
plunder would be stopped. We then discoursed about the pic
tures at the Louvre; and I expressed my opinion that the period
had arrived when a great lesson might be taught to France and
to urope, by the Allies disdaining to imitate the injustice of
uonaparte, and abstaining from depriving France of any native
woi v oi ait; but that justice should be satisfied by the restoration