REMINISCENUES AND
ANECDOTES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1903.
which had been wrought by a year's campaign. | 'and' in the meantime another and more im.
ing; the edge was off everything but their swords and their spitit; and it was this un. The Boer War, while partially, or wholly conquerable spirit of the British soldier to contributing to the Federation of the Empire, which Captain Hay, often testifies which en- has been the means of making cons derable abled the sorely-pressed army to pull through. addition to literature, quite apart from the drift The darkest hour is said to be before the of "Khaki" productions. Of these A Few dawn; and after the spring of 1813 nothing was Reminiscencer and Anecdotes by Captain to prevent that march acros Spain which is William Bay, C, D, (Simpkin and Marshal) and one of the purest glories of British arms. The An Autobiography of Lirutenant-Gene al Sir | Battle of Vittoria, on the 21st of June, which was Harry Smith, Haronet of Aliaal on the Sutle responsible for the name of our late beloved G. C. B. (Meeway), may be 'honourably men Queen, seemed to Hay" the most total over- tioned. Both these contributions were lying throw of the Grand Army of France that could in the hands of their respective relatives in well be imagined" He spent the first half of manuscript forms for the space of over half a 1814 on the staff of the Earl of Dalhousie in de- century, both chnelly relate to the eventful lightful quarters at Bourdeaux and gave full period between 1800 and 1825, and it is dis. play to his somewhat unseemly fondness for tressing to learn that they certainly never practical jokes. In Portural despite the strict would have seen the light but for the sudden orders of the Duke, he had known how to do and special attraction of the nation to the himself well if it were only by taking quarters condition of our aimy and to the quite in the house of the priest, which was sure 'e accidental interest in Sir Harry Smith and his be the least attractive and the best provisioned wife aroused by the siege of Ladysmith. While in the village. Once in the pass of Villa Valle, reading these books we live for a litle at the he put up his friendl Evans to a joke or two; very heart of England in one of the epochs they decapitated a sheep, but had to lie long best worth living in, and although they are is in hiding with the carcase, which was finally the hands of the public since more than a year eaten. After twn years Evans turned up in the Anecdotes and Reminiscences will lose Hay's bedroom at Bourdeaux, while the latter nothing by any amount of repetitions.
was hurriedly dressing to dine with Lord to array himself in a complete outfit of Hay's best, while seeming to walk about the room; then "How do I look?" he asked, with the bandle of the door in his hand. “Oh, very well." "Then, good morning," he said, looking the door from outside, and adding. "Recollect the pass of Villa Valle." Of the many fresh facts here given about Waterloo, we can only mention that four days after the battle Hay saw "several patrols of Prussians shooting their own and the French wounded soldiers, who were beyond recovery" and that in spite of the seeming barbarity, he felt this
Intimations.
pudent fellow, stopped in and won her 1" Thus did Harry, Smith win his passionately loving
A CONTENTED WOMAN. Aside from form or features, she has an wife, his guardian angel, throughout "a restless life of war in every quarter of the globe." She attractiveness all her own.. The bloom on her made the campaign of Spain, of France and of cheek, the elasticity in her step, the ring of her Waterloo, with him in the most romantic man voice, her enjoyment of life-all these are ner; she was the darling of the army; every one magnets which draw others to her side, from the Duke downwards called her Juana ; ¦ Wonderful and valuable as it is, health is not she was introduced to the Emperor of Russia so difficult a thing, to obtain as some dis- by Wellington as ma petite guerriere Espagno-couraged ones think. des; and from her the too famour Ladysmith women arise from impure blood, impaired nutrition, low vitality and general debility. Modern science furnishes the most successful of remedies for these conditions—namely
was named
The most admired Peninsula warrior, "in | ferior to no one but the Duke" was the noble John Colborne (afterwards Lord Seaton). No where else that we know of does Wellington appear so amiable, to truly great, as here. Out of many good anecdotes ofhim we can mention but one, which was inspiration to Harry Smith in after life of the Duke, when everything had gone wrong at the stiff battle of Toulouse, exclaiming: "Ha, by God, this won't do; mu t.try something else." Harry Smith learned Orleans that the Americans were no! accustomed to the civility of war, like our old associates the French" and nearly lost foot through their firing upon his flag of truce. For Waterloo (where he had two brothers both unhurt) he received, when barely
at bew
Most of the troubles of
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in gratitude of the will of renders is dud Dalhousie. By good acting Evans managed 28, a Lieutenant-Colonelcy and C.B.; seven body, and brings happy surprises to feeble, KAMAKURA MARU
Lo Mrs. S. C 1. Wood, for at last publishing
the Renini'cences and Anccdfetes and we really owe every bing to her interest and plea-ant fill piety. As a child she so delighted to hear her fathe's tales of the Penins la and if Waterloo that betweco 18yo and his death in 185; he wrote them down for her. There is a singular difference in our personal knowledge of the fighting under Wellington, and the equally find fighting under Marlborough a century earlier.
was the best thing that could be done.
The autobiography of Sir Harry Smith has rested through all these years, in the hands of Sir Edward Holdich, his old aide-de-camp, and is now edited in masterly style, and with are self-suppression. by his great-nephew, Mr. Moore Smith. Although at least two
William Hay was descended from the first Marquis of Tweeddale, and was born at Spott House, near Dunbar, in October 1791. He was given his first commission, in 1809, in the sand Light Infantry, at the express wish of his father's friend the famous Sir John Moore, lately dead. Sir John had devoted special attention to this regiment-which by the way is now stationed in Bombay-and had stipulate ed that the yearly allowance of young officers in addition to pay had berer not exceed oustanding battles, Alwal and Boomplats, A year, and in no case should exceed 10 are for ever associated with his name, Harry About a year was spert in garrison life, during Smith was not in the first line of warriors in his which time Ensign Hay gloried in peaching,ing Wellington. Among his close associates and practical contemporaries Lord. Seaton, Lord Keane, and Lord Gough, attained higher horours. But unlike these Harry Smith both bud and did strite. His pen has remedied
and marched with his regiment to London to help to quell the Bardett rints. In the summer
of 1810, when not eighteen, the longed for
order to the front came, and he left Portsmouth
s'renuous generation, that immediately follow-
what was lacking in his fortune, and we can now him far better thin we shall ever know some of his more famous comrades,
The first volume of these memoirs bring the ale down to 1829, when Harry Smith was nearly 32. It tells of South and North America, aho e all of the gloriou - Peninsula, Watering, and France then of Scoilard, Nova Scotia and
analca.
1787, at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire. His father was a country surgeon, a delightful character as he here appears in glimpses, and
in a Dug carrying with him an unsolicited gift of £50 from his mother. After a month's voyage he landed in lisbon reaching head- quarters, wo evenings after the bail of Busaco, just time for Wellington's great retreat as fine as any battle, upon the hights of Torres Vedras. "The weather was wet and cold, and the roads in the most dreadf. state, and I shall never forget the shock to my nervous system on seeing the careless way the bodies of dead men were trodden ra as we passed them lying. in the muddy roads! He was gay and contented, taking small thought
one who was somehow able to launch his eleven for the morrow:"my clothes were never off my back or my shoes off my feet any nighthren rather expensively in life. Harry Smith got his commission in the 95th Regi- during that winter." He must have been an
ment (afterwards the famous Rifle Brigade) in, exception among the officers of that day, in
May 1803. Two years later he was in the dis- that he never belted, or drank spirits: but ba
astrous expedition to Buenos Ayres the conduct was the cause of much betting through his
He of which he condemns vehemently. At Monte feats in pedestrianism and in riding
one occasion, to have tidden Video-he was nursed in-a-kind-Spanish family, claims, on
the old lady of which was in vain eager to fifteen miles and back again, over dreadful
have him take her daughter, plus $20,000-with mountain passes on a little Portugye ́e ma'e,,, within two hours and a holt. Years afterwards, herds and houses. He entered upon the great Peninsula Campaign, in 1828, with the ad- in Canada, he had a horse which often took him "across the show in a light sledge, twenty miles vaninge of knowing Spanish. He was never in the hour." He was once knocked off his really subaltern, for in South America he horse by a large, white-headed eagle, one of had been adjutant; he was given command
bis return, and company от hundreds which were feeding on the dead. Here
Company, as later in France, he noticed the herds of Spain, he either had a
as brigade-major, was the associate, and wolves which followed the armies.
often the director, of generals. He took
: Martinets in that, as well as in every age, were not wanting and "an act of diabolica! tyranny" on the part of a General Crawford is thus related. On a hot march he had ordered men, for the rake of refreshment, to wade waist-deep through a stream, stationing him- self, with his staff, in the middle of the bridge; yet observing two or three of the 95th take some water in their hands to cool their parched mouths-instintly the ball was sounded the brigade ordered to retrace their steps, the whole division formed into hollow square, and these unfortunate men paraded, stripped and flogged." Ensign Hay approved himself so well during his first year at the front that in the summer of 1811, doubtless helped by the Tweeddale in- fluence which he commanded, he was given a lieutenancy in the "swell" 12th Light Dragoons, He was loth to leave his beloved first regiment, but the temptation- was loo great for "a poor walking ensign to bed me the owner of a charger at once and to enjoy the comparative comforts of a cavalry regiment, such as the rath then had, just fresh from England with naw outfits while "we were in rags." He had no more than time to admire the smartness of his now comrades than he fell seriously ill, from fatigue and over-eagerness, and had to be invali- ded home while s'ill so young that he rarely had occasion to look in a glass, since he had no beard to shave. He returned to the Peninsula in 1812 as an experienced old stager, aged tweaty, in time for Wellington's disastrous ro- treat from Bargos, the horrors of which are so little known in comparison with those of Naps-
of A
in
07,
part in the unspeakable awful retreat to Corrunna, and says:
'On embarkation many
fell asleep in their ships, and never awoke for three days and night, until in a gale we reached Southampton." He got to his home a living, still active skeleton, near naked, and eaten up with vermin "; and he never forgot the tenderness with which he was received. tri the spring of 1809 he was back in the Penin- su'a, which he never left until four and a half years Inter, through the Pyrennes. He was badly wounded in the ankle at the Coa in ko; but this was the only wound of his life, and was the means of getting him the brigade. majorship of the 2nd Light Brigade.
-Of the rich stories that are to be found on every other page of the volume, space prevents us from quoting except two. Once the Brigade enters at night & village already occupied by Lord Hill, every hole full up. General Vande leur, the amu'ng Irish Brigadeer, walks into a nice clean file room, with a cheerful fire, tenanted by a Captain of the Waggon Tmin. "Who are you, Sir!" asks the General, and the poor Captain answers, saying that there are his quarters. "I; air, am General Vandeleur, and am d--d glad to see you in my quarters for five minuter! The Captain quietly picks up his traps and retires, no one knows whee
Again after the dreadful storming of Badajos, April 6th, 1817, our soldiers committed atrocities upon the citizens worse than the French ever did. Among the sufferers was 題 handsome and spirited Spanish girl
leon's exactly simultaneous retreat from Mos of barely fourteen, fresh from the convent,
cow. "The roads word strewn with dead and named Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon, She was dying men dropped from exhaustion and fatigue, descended from Ponce de Leon. I one morning counted thirteen men dead staying with her married sister, who brought around one fire should say starved to death." her in desperation to the English camp to put Terrible things were done, as well as suffered, her in charge of any officer who would protect by our desperate men and Hay could not help hor, Johnny (afterwards Sir John) Klukaid wondering what our tyrannical General Crave and Harry Smith were standing at the door of -ford-would have done had he been alive and Smith's tent when Juana came up in such witnessed the scene; at least to be consistent, dire misery and helplessness, begging for pro he must have banged half the famished soldier.", tection, but even then, beautiful as the day, On finally rejoining his regimen. Hay, had with "delicate freshness-more English than been amated at the change in their appearance Spanish" Kinkaid loved her, but was slow,
|
years later he neglected a chance of being
knighted.
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THE CANTON LAND COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE FIFTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be held in the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 14, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 18th July, 1995, at 11 A.M, Accounts and the Report of the General Mana. for the purpose of receiving a Statement of gets for the year ending 30th June, 1903.
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KOBE and YOKOHAMA.. SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and Brisbane.......
KOBE
SAILING DATES.
FRIDAY, 17th July, `at
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FRIDAY, 17th July, at
4 P.M.
WEDNESDAY, 22nd July, at
Noon.
MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANT-SATURDAY, 25th July, at
WERP, VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and PORT SAID ......... BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and
COLOMBO ..... (VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE, U.S.A, VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE and YoxQILAMA
{KOBE and YOKOHAMA
Daylight.
MONDAY, 27th July, at
4 P.M..
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Daylight.
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For further information as to Freight, Passage, Sailings, &c., apply at the Company's
Hongkong, 16th July, 1903.
ORIENTAL
PENING
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NAV
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E Steamship
"BALLAARAT," Captain F. R. Summers, carrying 11 Miesto's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 18th instant at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for th above Ports.
steam
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The West Point Building Co., Limited.
[838 Hongkong, 14th July, 1903.
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NOTICE is bereby given that Messrs. SHEWAN, TOMEB & Co. have This Day been Ra-appointed to act as AGENTS. of the WANGHAI STORING COMPANY. until further notice...
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