10 MAY 1902, Page 15

THE LEGEND OF WATERLOO.

[To THE EDITOR OP TRY "SPECTATOR."' offer you a contribution to the legend of Waterloo. Amongst the papers of my late father I find a letter written to him by Lord Stradbroke in 1879 about short service in the Army, in which this sentence occurs : "During the Peninsular campaigns they were all fourteen-years men, or for a longer time. It was the best British Army ever seen, and the Duke of Wellington told me that if he had commanded them at Waterloo, instead of an army of young soldiers and second battalions, the whole business would have been settled in four hours."—I am, Sir, &c.,