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In the month of August, of this year, the first introduction of gas lights into the streets took place, in Golden-lane, in the city of London; and in October, the King of France, Louis the Eighteenth, landed at Yarmouth, and, under the title of the Count de Lille, took up his residence at Gosfield Hall, in Essex.
Cheever, in rising, met the glance of his wife, and the look of questioning and wonder that passed did not escape the hostess. "But, my dear Mrs. Kildair," said Mrs. Jackson with a little nervous catch of her breath, "what is it? I'm getting terribly worked up! My nerves " "Miss Lille?" said the voice of command. "Yes."
Message from the Tuileries My interview with the King My appointment to the office of Prefect of the Police Council at the Tuileries Order for arrests Fouches escape Davoust unmolested Conversation with M. de Blacas The intercepted letter, and time lost Evident understanding between Murat and Napoleon Plans laid at Elba My departure from Paris The post-master of Fins My arrival at Lille Louis XVIII. detained an hour at the gates His majesty obliged to leave France My departure for Hamburg The Duc de Berri at Brussels.
The German ambition was to push their right as far south as the mouth of the Seine, while the Allies hoped to thrust their left to the north until it joined the Belgian Army at Antwerp. Maud'huy had entered Arras on 30 September, and some of his Territorials pushed forward to Lille and Douai.
The Prince was glad indeed to have brought to a successful issue such a difficult siege. The position of Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne at the army continued to be equivocal. He was constantly in collision with M. de Vendome. The latter, after the loss of Lille, wished to defend the Escaut, without any regard to its extent of forty miles.
If the measure were postponed much longer, all Flanders, half Brabant, the whole of Holland, Zeland, Gueldrea, Tournay, Lille, Mechlin, would be lost forever, without a chance of ever restoring the ancient religion." The country, in short, was "without faith, King, or law," and nothing worse could be apprehended from any deliberation of the states-general.
The dominion of Baldwin of Lille, Baldwin the Debonair, Marquis of Flanders, and just then the greatest potentate in Europe after the Kaiser of Germany and the Kaiser of Constantinople, extended from the Somme to the Scheldt, including thus much territory which now belongs to France.
But of all things in Lille, or indeed elsewhere, there is nothing more striking than the old Bourse the great square venerable block, blackened all over with age, its innumerable windows, high roof, and cornices, all elaborately and floridly wrought in decayed carvings.
On reaching the suburbs of Lille advance guards had to be sent out, as any point of vantage might have concealed an enemy machine gun. The canal on the west of the city was reached about 5 o'clock. The bridges had all been blown up, but the Pont de Canteleu, though broken in two and half in the canal, afforded a means of crossing one at a time. At this bridge the greatest excitement prevailed.
Neither on the Belgian coast nor on the Lys which protected Lille did the German line budge one inch in three months' strenuous fighting; and the salient created by that campaign between the coast and the Lys melted like wax in the furnace of the German offensive ten months later.
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