OSTEND. Motives for travelling, description of Ostend,
celebrated sieges, fortifications, sluices, population,
how supplied with water, female dresses, church,
gun-boats, cannon, ramparts
BRUGES. Canal, treckschuyt, scenery, avenues, populas
tion, manufactories, ramparts, Hotel de Ville, bells,
church of Notre Dame, splendid tomb of Charles the
Bold, repaired by order of Napoleon, similarity in
their fate; le Musée, first picture ever painted in oil
colours, Van Eyck, convent of St. Jean, church of St.
Salvador, convent of English Nuns, church of Notre
Dame, of St. Jacques, of St. Anne, of St. Gele, and of
Jerusalem, walk round the city, basin, extensive
ancient commerce, Order af Golden Fleece
GHENT. Ghent Barge, excellent dinner, in Flemish
style, canals, former consequence; the birth place of
Charles V., two hundred and seventy priests ar
rested by order of Napoleon, British manufactures
burnt, bleaching grounds, botanic garden, public li
brary, Protestant service, the prison church of St.
Bavo, crypt church of St. Michael, the minnikin
chapel, remarkable large roof, the grand Beguinage,
the ramparts, Qtho Castle, remains of Moorish, Spa-
nish and Gothio architecture, King's house, collec
tion of paintings, church of St. Pierre, Hotel des
Ville, Academy, Literary, Agricultural and Botani-
eal Societies
BRUSSELS, Diligences, ramparts, Brussels founded,
ancient palace, burnt in 1731, barriers, population,
hackney coaches, the Park, nightingales, statues, soil,
fossils, botanic garden, fountains, Lord Bruce's
"BRUSSELS. Architecture, cliurch of St. Gery, cathedral
St. Gudule, tapestry, Grand Sablon church, Beguin
Nuns, Beguinage, Jesuits church, church St. Finisterrej
Notre Dame de la Chapelle, St. Caudenberg, in la
Place Royale, his present Majesty inaugurated there 33 to 4t
BRUSSELS. Hotel de Ville, Maison du Roi, improve-
ments in Place Royale, stables, subterraneous commu̟-
nications, Houses of Parliament, statistical returns,
monasteries and cond
BRUSSELS, Antwerp canal, l'Allee Verte, insects, Brus-
sels bombarded, ramparts, new prison, Hotel of the
Duke d'Aremberg, French entered Brussels, Palace of
Lacken, Empress Josephine, tapestry, concert room,
ship in Brussels lace, forest of Ardennes or Soignes,
Chateau Tervuren, Prince of Orange's new palacey'
river Senne, rides round Brussels, Boitsfort, Vilvorde,
Tindal, Penitentiary, Beguinage, sun dial.
BRUSSELS. Antwerp, its antiquity, population, the
introduction of Christianity, extensive population,
treckschuyt from Brussels to Antwerp, English garden,
Palace of Lacken, humorous anecdote, la Place de
Meer, the Scheldt, the exchange, the giants, the..
churches, St. Boromee, St. Jaques, St. Andrew, the
Dominicans, St. Augustins the Cathedral, pictures by
Hubens, collections of paintings, the docks, the citadel,
the arsenal, le chapeau de paille, Napoleon's new-
planned city gardens of Smets
, 53 to 64
Introduction of Christianity, Catholic Processions, grand
annual procession
Protestant churches for the British residents, birth of the
Invention of the art of printing, first performed in Brus-
sels in 1478, Imperial and Royal Academy of Belles
Lettres, la Bibliothéque, rare books, Cabinet of Natural
History, remarkable large oak plank, free lectures
Universities, Royal School at Brussels, la Musée or pic-
ture gallery, collection of the Duke d'Aremberg, Mu-
see Lupus, names of the principal modern artists
Observations on commerce, its ancient extent in Belgium
and Flanders, intercourse with England
Political Economy, population of principal places, prizes
of grain, beggars, prevalent disorders, shooting season,
state of the standing army, new weights, and measures
on the French system, coins, British charitable fund 205 to 226
Facts relating to the Battle of Waterloo, error in com- nhà
municating the advance of the French timely to the
Duke of Wellington, the troops assembled, march but›
of Brussels, Duke of Brunswick killed, situation of the
two lines, desperate attack of the French on Gomont,
farm and wood partly taken and retaken, attack on
the British centre, death of Ponsonby and Sir Thomas
Picton, the Scotch Greys, taking of La Haye-Sainte,
arrival of the first division of the Prussian troops, com-
mencement of the great crisis, the Old Guard ordered
into action, intrepidity of the British troops, Napoleon's
attempt to turn the left of the Allied Army, the attack
of the lancers and cuirassiers, General de Lancy's no-
ble conduct and death, Sir Alexander Gordon's death,
Napoleon took his last station, his defeat and flight,
strength of the two armies, miscellaneous anecdotes,
inscriptions on the monuments erected in Waterloo
church
Anecdotes relating to the Duke of Wellington, his diffe-
rent promotions, conduct of the Prince of Orange,
proceedings at Brussels during the battle, humanity of
the citizens of all ranks, concluding observations
and after the battle of Waterloo
No. II. General Observations for the use of travellers 263 to 264
No. III. Conveyances from Brussels
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