The rock down which this beautiful cascade had flowed
from the time of the Flood, and which had created a scene of beauty
universally admired, was blown up with gunpowder by this man, who could
probably appreciate no more beautiful sight than that which presents
itself from a window in Gray's or Lincoln's Inn, of which he was a member.
CAPTAIN HESSE, FORMERLY OF THE 18TH HUSSARS
One of my most intimate friends was the late Captain Hesse, generally
believed to be a son of the Duke of York, by a German lady of rank.
Though it is not my intention to disclose certain family secrets of
which I am in possession, I may, nevertheless, record some circumstances
connected with the life of my friend, which were familiar to a large
circle with whom I mixed. Hesse, in early youth, lived with the Duke
and Duchess of York; he was treated in such a manner by them as to indicate
an interest in him by their Royal Highnesses which could scarcely be
attributed to ordinary regard, and was gazetted a cornet in the 18th
Hussars at seventeen years of age. Shortly afterwards, he went to Spain,
and was present in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged;
receiving a severe wound in the wrist at the battle of Vittoria. When
this became known in England, a royal lady wrote to Lord Wellington,
requesting that he might be carefully attended to; and, at the same
time, a watch, with her portrait, was forwarded, which was delivered
to the wounded Hussar by Lord Wellington himself.
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