TAILIEUCHUNG - The Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of Antwerp

And all this was done with that ease and grace which should be the characteristics of a dignitary of the established English Church. I had accompanied Mr. Horne to the Rhine; and we had reached Brussels on our return, just at the close of that | The Relics of General Chasse A Tale of Antwerp Anthony Trollope DODO I WI PRESS The Relics of General Chasse A Tale of Antwerp THE RELICS OF GENERAL CHASSE That Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms living by its own laws resting on its own bottom with a king and court palaces and parliament of its own is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is full of old towns fine Flemish pictures and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men Belgium as it is now called in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant was a part of Holland and it obtained its own independence by a revolution. In that revolution the most important military step was the siege of Antwerp which was defended on the part of the Dutch by General Chasse with the utmost gallantry but nevertheless ineffectually. After the siege Antwerp became quite a show place and among the visitors who flocked there to talk of the gallant general and to see what remained of the great effort which he had made to defend the place were two Englishmen. One was the hero of this little history and the other was a young man of considerably less weight in the world. The less I say of the latter the better but it is necessary that I should give some description of the former. The Rev. Augustus Horne was at the time of my narrative a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England. The profession which he had graced sat easily on him. Its external marks and signs were as pleasing to

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