552 LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, C.B., R.A. 
execution. The fellow I want to have brought up is Lefebvre;! 
think of their having put Soult? in the second article. 
You can form no idea what destruction the Prussians committed. I 
was quartered in a large town on Jerome Bonaparte’s estate ; they had 
destroyed every piece of furniture and window in the whole place. As 
for Jerome’s palace, which he had quitted only a week before, most 
superbly fitted up, they had absolutely pulled the wainscots out of 
every room; green and hot-houses they had also torn to pieces, and 
thrown the whole of his hbrary into the fish-ponds. I had very little, 
indeed no pity for the French, having witnessed their work in Spain and 
Portugal. In many places the French plundered the towns through 
which they passed, fearing the Prussians would otherwise do so. 
Now I think I have kept you quite long enough, my dear John; I 
will conclude with requesting you will make my very kind regards at 
Twyford, Somerset Farm and Woolwich. Give my love to Cussy 
and Willen, tell them I hope they pay great attention to their dancing 
and singing. I shall expect to find them very much improved on my 
return, Pull Master Rob’s ear for me and make him growl. 
Believe me ever your very 
Affectionate friend, 
Tom Dyneley. ~ 
In conclusion it may be recorded that the writer of these letters was 
very popular in the Regiment. An officer who served under him wrote 
the other day, as follows: ‘Colonel Dyneley commanded the R.A. 
when I was in Canada. He was a great favourite with all who 
knew him; kind, genial, hospitable and full of good stories.’’—Kd. 
1 Lefebvre-Desnouettes was taken prisoner in the cavalry action at Benevente in 1808, and was 
accused by the English of breaking his parole. He commanded the light cavalry of the Imperial 
Guard at Waterloo. He escaped from France in 1816, having been engaged in a plot for Napoleon 
before the landing and lost his life in a shipwreck.— Bourrienne (Phipps edition), Vol III., p. 542, 
note 2. 
2 Soult did not join Napoleon before the King left the country as Ney did, and so was not tried 
