Note 61 — BATTLE OF ORTHES. 27th. February, 1814.

“I walked down to the bridge with Lord Wellington yesterday (6th March, 1814,) and found him limp a little, and he said he was in rather more pain than usual, but it was nothing. At dinner yesterday, he said he was laughing at General Alava having had a knock, and telling him it was all nonsense, and that he was not hurt, when he received this blow, and a worse one in the same place himself. Alava said it was to punish him for laughing at him.”—Larpent’s Journal.

In “Recollections, by Samuel Rogers,” recently published, there is a remark of Wellington’s in allusion to the above circumstance:—“The elastic woven corselet would answer very well over the cuirass. It saved me, I think, at Orthes, where I was hit on the hip. I was never struck but on that occasion, and then I was not wounded. I was on horseback again the same day.”