Before and after Waterloo

_Some extracts from these letters have already appeared in the "Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley," but are here inserted again by kind permission of Messrs. Longman, and complete Bishop Stanley's correspondence._

Portions of letters quoted in Dean Stanley's volume, "Edward and Catherine Stanley," have also been used with Messrs. Murray's consent.

In addition to the MSS. at Llanfawr, Lord Stanley of Alderley has kindly contributed some original letters in his possession.

J.H.A.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"LE COURIER DU RHIN" Frontispiece

Sketch brought to England 1814 by General Scott of Thorpe, one of the detenus in France for ten years after the rupture of the Peache of Amiens, mentioned page 73.

BISHOP STANLEY To face page 2

By John Linnell. From a drawing in the possession of Canon J. Hugh Way, Henbury.

MARGARET OWEN, LADY STANLEY " 10

From a miniature in the possession of Lady Reade-Carreglwyd, Anglesey.

"FLIGHT OF INTELLECT" " 17

Humorous sketch by E. Stanley.

EDWARD STANLEY, 1800 " 25

By P. Green. The original in the possession of Lord Stanley of Alderley, at Penrhos, Anglesey.

THE PRISON OF THE TEMPLE " 31

Sketch by E. Stanley, 1802.

THE GUILLOTINE AT CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE " 43

Sketch by E. Stanley,

LORD SHEFFIELD " 73

By Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. From an engraving in the possession of J.H. Adeane, Lanfavar, Holyhead.

KITTY LEYCESTER, MRS. EDWARD STANLEY " 82

From a drawing by H. Edridge, A.R.A., at Alderley Park, Cheshire.

PARIS, 1814. OLD BRIDGE AND CHÂTELET " 108

E. Stanley.

PARIS, LA POMPE, NOTRE DAME " 115

E. S.

PARISIAN AMUSEMENTS " 141

E. S.

THE CATACOMBS, PARIS " 143

E. S.

LAON. HOUSES AND TOWER, 1814 " 161

E. S.

BERRY AU BAC " 164

E. S.

VERDUN. BRIDGE " 168

E. Stanley.

FRENCH DILIGENCE " 193

E. S.

DUTCH SHIPS " 199

E. S.

DUTCH DILIGENCE ON BOARD A BOAT " 219

E. S.

GOAT CARRIAGE FOR THE LITTLE KING OF ROME " 223

E. S.

DUTCH TABLE D'HOTE " 226

E. S.

OLD HOUSES, SAARDAM " 228

E. S.

PETER THE GREAT'S HOUSE, SAARDAM " 230

E. S.

DUTCH FISHERMEN " 233

E. S.

DUTCH CARRIAGE " 234

E. S.

CORN MILLS AT VERNON " 247

E. S.

FRENCH CABRIOLET " 260

E. S.

HOUGOUMONT " 263

E. S.

INTERIOR OF HOUGOUMONT " 265

E. S.

LA BELLE ALLIANCE " 267

E. S.

WATERLOO " 270

E. S.

GHENT. ST. NICHOLAS " 274

E. S.

PORTE DE HALLE, BRUSSELS, LEADING TO WATERLOO " 276

E. S.

PARISIAN RAT-CATCHER AND ITINERANT VENDORS " 300

E. S.

THE GREAT GREEN COACH " 306

E. S.

ALDERLEY RECTORY page 308

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF EDWARD STANLEY

The letters which are collected in this volume were written from abroad during the opening years of the nineteenth century, at three different periods: after the Peace of Amiens in 1802 and 1803, after the Peace of Paris in 1814, and in the year following Waterloo, June, 1816.

The writer, Edward Stanley, was for thirty-three years an active country clergyman, and for twelve years more a no less active bishop, at a time when such activity was uncommon, though not so rare as is sometimes now supposed.

Although a member of one of the oldest Cheshire families, he did not share the opinions of his county neighbours on public questions, and his voice was fearlessly raised on behalf of causes which are now triumphant, and against abuses which are now forgotten, but which acutely needed champions and reformers a hundred years ago.

His foreign journeys, and more especially the first of them, had a large share in determining the opinions which he afterwards maintained against great opposition from many of his own class and profession. The sight of France still smarting under the effects of the Reign of Terror, and of other countries still sunk in Mediævalism, helped to make him a Liberal with "a passion for reform and improvement, but without a passion for destruction."