OLIVER ELLIS;
OR,
The Fusiliers.
BY
JAMES GRANT, ESQ.
(Late 62nd Regiment),
AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "THE AIDE-DE-CAMP,"
"SECOND TO NONE," ETC. ETC.
A New Edition
LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL;
NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET.
1865.
PREFACE.
"In regard to prefaces," says the author of "Curiositiesof Literature,"—"ladies consider them so much space for alove story lost, though the Italians call them la salsa dellibra,—the spice of the book."
Be this as it may, I must mention that many of the menwhose names occur in these pages, bore the part ascribedto them during the operations of Sir Charles Grey's armyin the Antilles.
A duel, nearly similar to that which is described as havingtaken place on board of the Adder frigate, actually occurredon the deck of one of H.M.'s ships-of-war when lying in aSouth-American port, in 1821.
The situation of the wreck in the Isle of Tortoises wassuggested to me by the discovery of a mysterious vessel ina cavern of the island of Baccalieu, when I was at FortTownsend in Newfoundland, where it excited much speculation.
As a few Mexican dollars were found on the rocks near,she was supposed to be Spanish; and such rumours werecirculated of the vast treasure she contained, thatH.M.S. Comus was despatched from Halifax to investigate thematter; but the hull contained a few dead bodies alone.
That the marvellous might not be wanting, there wastold a story of a gigantic anchor being thrown by the seaon the desert shore near her. There it lay for a time, till aparty came to remove it; but it had vanished, like thetreasure,—by no mortal agency, of course!
26, DANUBE STREET, EDINBURGH.
May, 1861.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.
1.—BOYHOOD
2.—THE MINISTER
3.—MESSRS. HARPY, QUIRKY, AND MACFARISEE
4.—APPLEWOOD
5.—THE WILL
6.—AMY LEE
9.—SEQUEL TO THE STORY OF THE WILL
10.—MAHOGANY v. LAW
13.—THE PRESS-GANG
14.—...