“ At first there was a dreadful preponderance of British slain, which looked very ill; but more in advance, the revenge made itself dreadfully marked, for ten, French lay dead for one British. The field was so much covered with blood, that it appeared as if it had been completely flooded with it; dead horses seemed innumerable; — and the peasantry employed in burying the dead, generally stript the bodies first. Of Course these people got a vast booty, when they returned out of the neighbouring wood, after the battle; many of them some hundred pounds. ”

“ But horrific as the spectacle of a field of battle must be, when covered with the dying and the dead; and the dreadful sufferings to which the actual combatants are necessarily exposed; there are other painful emotions — there are other evils attendant on a state of warfare, which humanity has cause to deplore. ”

“ When you have placed yourselves, for an instant, in that situation, you will learn to sympathise with those unhappy countries which have sustained the ravages of arms. But how is it possible to give you an idea of these horrors? — Here you behold rich harvests, the bounty of heaven and the reward of industry, consumed in a moment, or trampled under foot; while famine and pestilence follow the steps of desolation —There the cottages of peasants given up to the flames; mothers expiring through fear, not for themselves, but their infants ”