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The late Major Macready, describing a charge of the Imperial Guard at 
Waterloo, says, “ They halted and fired, I think badly. We returned the 
volley, ported, and giving an hurrah ! came to the charge. Our surprise 
was inexpressible, when through^the clearing smoke, we saw the backs of the 
Imperialists flying in a mass. Some guns from the rear of our right poured 
in grape among them, and the slaughter was dreadful. * * * 
Whosoever they (the guns) were, they were served most gloriously, and the 
grand metallic, bang, bang, bang, bang, with the rushing showers of grape 
which followed, were the most welcome sounds that ever struck my ears—- 
until, I married.” 
The artillery losses alone, at Waterloo, amounted to, 
Officers. N.C. Officers. Men. Horses. 
Killed . 6 6 74 388 
Wounded . 30 15 274 123 
Missing. — — 14 35 
Total ... 36 21 362 546 
The commanding officer of the horse artillery, Sir Augustus Frazer, thus 
describes a portion of the battle,— 
i( The earlier hours of the day were chiefly affairs of artillery; but kept 
down by the admirable and steadily continued fire of our guns * * 
The howitzer troop came up, and came up handsomely, their very appearance 
encouraged the remainder of the division of the guards, then lying down to 
be sheltered from the fire,” &c. 
“ Came up handsomely,”—A thing to be proud of, I think* 
To return to our subject. 
The first occasion on which the new projectile was applied on service 
appears to have been on the 31st April, 1804, against the Batavian settle¬ 
ments of Surinam : the British loss was three rank and file killed, five officers, 
and eight rank and file wounded. The colony fell into our hands. The official 
accounts state that “after a few shells from two mortars which we had got 
on shore, the firing on the part of the enemy ceased .”—-Annual Register, 
Major William Wilson, Commandant of the Artillery, who is thanked for 
his services, states the matter somewhat differently, however. He says, 
“ Shrapnel had so excellent an effect, as to cause the garrison of Fort 
Amsterdam to surrender at discretion after receiving the second shell. The 
enemy were so astonished at these shells as not to be able to account 
how they apparently suffered from musketry, at so great a distance as 
2050 yards.” 
A very fespectable range indeed, and very astonishing to the enemy, no 
doubt; 
We now turn to the operations at the Cape of Good Hope, under Sir 
David Baird. His army consisted of 6600 men, including 320 artillery and 
artificers. By the wreck of a transport, Brigadier-General Yorke, Command 
dant of Artillery was drowned, and the command of that arm devolved upon 
Major Spicer. After considerable trouble in disembarking, on account of the 
surf, the army, about 4000 strong, moved forward, and attacked the enemy in 
