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occasion to wliicli his noble friend had referred, when 

 he (Lord Saltoun) commanded the Light company 

 of the Grenadier Guards in the wood in front of 

 Hougomont ; and when he had been sent three times 

 to him, with orders from the General, and had received 

 the reply, " Don't distress yourself ; you need not 

 remind me of my duty," and monstrous glad he felt 

 when out of the wood. They all knew the result of 

 that defence, and the influence it exercised on the 

 battle of Waterloo. 



His Grace, upon being requested by the noble 

 Chairman to propose a toast, rose and said : He 

 had always felt himself to be bound by orders, and 

 on no occasion had he felt more grateful than in 

 rising to follow the commands of the chair. He 

 therefore rose to give the "Medical Officers of the 

 Army and Navy, and Civil Departments of both 

 Services." 



" Among them was, of course, included a very 

 important branch of the Service — the Commissariat, 

 which John Bull had always felt to be a most 

 important service ; for brave as the British soldier 

 was, he could not fight upon an empty belly. As 

 for the medical officers, every man present knew 

 their value, and by land and sea had felt their 

 kind skill and attention. It was well known how 

 Mr. Guthrie, whom they were happy to see among 

 them, had benefited the army by his exertions." 



