passage is cited from Livy, lib. xxi. c. iv.]

1. Nothing is more remarkable in the Duke than his habit of
prompt obedience to his superiors and employers, and this shines
forth as much when the triumphant Commander-in-Chief of the
Allied armies at the end of the Spanish war, as in his early
campaign in India. He was always ready to serve when, where, and
how his services were required, and so I believe he is now.

2. In India he was employed by Lord Wellesley and Lord Lake in
all the most important and difficult military enterprises and
civil transactions.

3. Napier says some of Wellington's operations were daring to
extravagance, some cautious to the verge of timidity, all founded
as much upon keen and nice perceptions of the political measures
of his adversaries as upon pure military considerations--and 'he
knew how to obey as well as to command.'

4. He told me himself that he was obliged to do everything in
person. His despatches show that he thought of everything, wrote
of everything, directed everything.

5. During the battles of the Pyrenees he slept wrapped in a
cloak, under a thick bush, and the shot fell so near him that he
was urged to remove to a less exposed place.

6. He was always dressed in his plain blue coat; he rode very
good horses.

7. Here ends the parallel and begins the contrast. No general
ever exhibited to the world a nobler example of mildness and
humanity, of the most perfect and invariable good faith, of
severe truth, of inflexible justice, of scrupulous honesty, of
reverence for religion, and regard to the precepts of morality.
Cruelty is not a modern vice; no general is cruel in these days.
I doubt if there has been any great deed of cruelty committed
since the Thirty Years' War, the sack of Magdeburg, and the
exploits of Tilly and Pappenheim. Turenne ravaged the Palatinate,
but that was Louvois' cruelty, not Turenne's. There were no
military cruelties perpetrated in the revolutionary wars that I
remember.

February 18th, 1838 {p.059}

[Page Head: THE BALLOT.]

On Thursday night came on the Ballot, and its advocates divided,
as they said they should, 200. Lord John Russell, though ill,
came down and spoke against it. Peel made a good speech, and
complimented John on his conduct. All the Cabinet Ministers voted
against it except Poulett Thomson, who stayed away. The result is
the creation of a strong impression that the Ballot will
eventually be carried; Brougham says i