'THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IN THE PENINSULA.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It is well known that Sir Arthur Wellesley, after his victory over the French at Vimiera, had to give up the com- mand of the British forces to Sir Harry Burrard, who in his turn was superseded by Sir Hew Dalrymple. The former failed as a strategist, the latter as a diplomatist. The frequent repetition of the names of the three commanders soon caused their surnames to be dropped, as will often happen under such
-circumstances, and led to the production of the following lines, which I had from an old Peninsular man many years ago, and which I do not remember ever to have seen in print :—
"Sir Arthur and Sir Harry, Sir Harry and Sir Hew, Sing cock-a-doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle-doo ; Sir Arthur was a gallant knight, but as for t'other two, Sing cock-a-doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle, doodle-doo."