LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., R.A. 551 
until three days before the list came out, when the General told 
Gardiner he had done so. You know, John, many a man has got a 
Lieut.-Coloneley for writing a good despatch. I don’t think I 
should be entitled to one for this; however, I don’t care, I will send 
it, [ know you won’t pull it to pieces. I remember being laughed 
at at ‘T'wyford and told I had better remain a Captain, as being called 
a Major would make me look so very old; now I beg leave to state 
that it has had quite the contrary effect and that I look 20 years 
younger and am on uncommonly good terms with myself. 
I wish when you see Close you would tell him I shall be very much 
obliged to him if he will try and do something for Morgan; Iam 
afraid these Waterloo men may cut him out, for John Bull is always 
pleased with his last toy. I will enclose you a letter he sent my mother, 
wishing to set up a grocer’s shop and requesting her interest. If he 
attempts anything of the kind he will be ruined to a certainty. 
By my last letter from home, I find my mother is at Woolwich 
expecting another young Baynes. I must put by this extra 29. a 
day for them. You have a great deal to answer for in taking him 
over to Mottingham; however, if you have four more of the same sort 
I will take them all off your hands. 
You know, of course, we have lost poor Lloyd;! it is a happy release 
for him, poor fellow, his pain had been excruciating in the extreme 
from the moment he received his wound; this makes the ninth officer 
we have lost at Waterloo. 
Tam in daily expectation of a visit from the lawyer; I have told 
him to bring lots of money. Iam laughing at this moment, fancying 
I see you cutting up the chickens at Mrs. Moffats. You certainly did 
look uncommonly happy. Do not interrupt Mr. Metcalf at breakfast 
or dinner, but when you have an opportunity make my best respects 
to him. Iam glad to find you thought my likeness good, my mother 
wrote me ,word of Cussy’s exclamation. I hope by this time 
Engleheart has finished three or four for you; your father told me 
he certainly would go to him. 
I suppose this will find you at Brighton; now you really cannot 
do better than to take a run over and spend a few days with 
me. You; may tell Mrs. Douglas I will take the greatest care of 
you and Cussy, that I promise not to scratch you. I am now 
quartered within half a mile of Beauvais, which cannot be a long day 
from Dieppe. We have excellent shooting here, abundance of hares, 
partridges and quails; it will be some amusement to you to see me 
shoot. It seems quite uncertain how long we are to be kept in this 
country. Ihave seen two French papers this morning, one says two 
months, the other four years; go when we may, I think they will make 
pretty free with each others throats. Sentence has been passed some 
time since upon Labédoyére,’ but they seem afraid to carry it into 
1 Kane’s List, No. 922. 
2 Labédoyére was Colonel of a regiment which met Napoleon and joined him in the spring of 
1815, and was one of the Hmperor’s aides-de-camp at Waterloo. He was shot, though he might 
easily have escaped.--See Bourrienne (Phipps edition), p. 542, note 6, 
