The death of General Whichcote, which took place on Wednesday,
deprives the country of one of the very few re- maining officers who fought at Waterloo. When the General went to Belgium, he was, however, already a veteran, for he had served for three years in the Peninsula. He was born in 1794, went to Rugby, where he was fag to the futpre actor,. Macready, and thence—in 1810—entered the Army. He was at once sent to Spain, and with his regiment, the 52nd, took part in the chief battles of the campaign. When Napoleon escaped from Elba, the 52nd were on their way to New Orleans, but were recalled to Belgium, and at Waterloo played a prominent part in the fight. They claim, indeed, to have given the coup de grdce to the Imperial Guard. While the allies were occupying Paris, young Whichcote was on guard at the Louvre, and saw the museum disgorging the spoils of Europe. It is impossible hot to feel a, sense of regret at the snapping of these last links with a great past.. Very soon the Napoleonic epoch will be as much a matter of history as the reign of Augustus.
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