104 SIB ROBERT WILSON. 



Alexander's staff in the Russian campaign, 

 and with that potentate entered Paris in 

 1814. But the military career of this gal- 

 lant and enterprizing officer is too well 

 known, as well as his participation in effect- 

 ing the escape of the condemned Lavalette 

 from his dungeon in the Conciergerie, for 

 me to descant upon. 



At the time I speak of he was under a 

 cloud if the displeasure of his sovereign, 

 who had exercised his prerogative by eras- 

 ing his name from the Army List for 

 the part he had taken in the funeral of 

 Queen Caroline, deserve that appella- 

 tion. 



If there were one man more than ano- 

 ther, who, by his exploits during the war, 

 both in the Peninsula and on the Con- 

 tinent of Europe, had most delighted 

 me, and in whose treatment I felt the 

 deepest sympathy, which I believe was 

 common to the whole nation, it was this 

 chivalrous and high-minded gentleman. It 



