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ch he had ensconced himself while the battle was going on. He was hailed with shouts of joy by his old friends, but to their sorrow they soon found that he had entirely lost his speech. To the usual salutation "Pretty Polly" he would only answer "Bom." In a word, Poor Polly was deranged. Tralaigar had not only killed Nelson and destroyed Napoleon's navy, but it had bereft Polly of her senses. The terrible cannonade of that awful day was forever after in her ears. To every term of coaxing and endearment she ever after could be brought to answer nothing but "Bom." So it is with the quadrilateral of the Times. The bullet that gained the battle of Austerlitz, in Moravia, killed Pitt in London. The bullet that gained the battle of Solferino made Raymond a madman for life. It served him as Gen Andrew Jackson said the explosion of the Peacemaker served Col Benton. It blew out the few brains he had without destroying his life. "Guns, bombs, bastions, batteries, bayonets, bullets,