of Waterloo, in which he was mortally wounded "in the middle of the action." He died the death of a hero. The following is too interesting to be omitted in the life of Major-General PHILIP KEARNY, as it regards a near kinsman whom he greatly resembled in magnanimous characteristics. "The Duke's personal staff, who had shared so many glories and dangers by the side of their commander, fell around him in rapid succession. The Prince of Nassau, one of his aids-de-camp, received two balls. The gallant General DE LANCEY was struck with a spent cannon-ball while animating and leading back to the charge a battalion of Hanoverians who had got into confusion." Here permit the writer-who is of Hollandish or Dutch descent, and right proud of a race which has produced the best soldiers and sailors on record, from the days of JULIUS CÆSAR and PHARSALIN, through nineteen centuries of unsurpassed patriotism and renown, down to HASSELT and ANTWERP in 1831-2-to make a remark in justice to his people, and put the saddle on the right horse. Prejudiced authors have stated that the Dutch and Belgian troops (then united under one crown, that of Holland) behaved the worst at Waterloo. The exact contrary was the fact. As a general thing they displayed remarkable tenacity. It was some of the German contingents who behaved so badly in this campaign, and none so shamefully as a regiment of Hanoverian cavalry, the "Cumberland Hussars," whose "dastardly conduct" caused them to be subsequently disbanded and their Colonel cashiered. The Dutch, under CHASSEE, "the bayonet General,' who won immortal honor in 1832 for his defence of Antwerp against overwhelming numbers of French and Belgians, faced the music, like the Dutch infantry at Fleurus, 1700, and at Almanza, 1707, and did as well as any English, not only at Quatre-Bras-a fight in its relation to our Gettysburg, equivalent to BUFORD's magnificent stand on Oak Ridge, 1st July, 1863, but in that— "first and last of fields! king-making victory !" But to return to General DE LANCEY "He exclaimed as he fell, 'Leave me to die; my wound is mortal; attend (or look) to the Duke, and do not waste that time on me which may be usefully employed in assisting others.' These orders were too promptly obeyed, and, when on the following morning, the bloody field was traversed, he was found yet living, and to the satisfaction and joy of his friends, hopes-fallacious ones, alas !—were entertained of his recovery. He was removed to the village of Waterloo, and Lady DE LANCEY, who had arrived at Brussels a week before the battle, had the sad consolation to attend her dying husband, who expired six days after the battle-a martyr probably to his generous disinterestedness." His fate is enshrined in the verse of Sir WALTER SCOTT, ¶ XXI. of his poem,."The Field of Waterloo :" "Period of honor as of woes, What bright careers 'twas thine to close !— DE LANCEY change Love's bridal wreath Ah! though her guardian angel's shield Through his friend's hearts to pierce his own !” The second son of STEPHEN DE LANCEY, PETER of the Mills, likewise filled a conspicuous place in the early annals of New York. He married ELIZABETH, daughter of the distinguished Colonial Governor, CADWALLADER COLDEN, and settled upon a large estate known as the "Mills," on the Bronx River, at West Farms, Westchester County, State of New York. He became the ancestor of that branch of the family known as the "Westchester DE LANCEYS.” PETER DE LANCEY of the Mills, like all the rest of his Loyal family, suffered through his fidelity to principle. The following beautiful lines were written by a stranger, an Englishman, who visited the old DE LANCEY Manor, in Westchester County, State of New York, about fourteen miles from the city of New York, expecting to find some memorials of that gallant, courtly, and eminent race still existing. But alas! in the same manner that war, exile, confiscation and death, had smitten and scattered the proud owners, so had flood fire, and improvement (?) laid waste or altered their once ornate possessions. A pine, towering in its native majesty, alone survived to mark the spot where once a flourishing Loyal family exhibited its stately hospitalities or enjoyed the sweets of a home, the abode of prosperity and ability. A contrast so marked, between the past and present, moved even an alien, and in poetic numbers he recorded his sympathy and chronicled the desolation:" "Where gentle Bronx, clear winding, flows His shadowing banks between ; Memorial of the fallen great, The rich and honor'd line, And once the light-foot maiden came, To sculpture with the dearest name "And now the stranger's foot explores And scarce one kindred heart restores His memory to the plain; And just like one in age alone, The last of all his line Bends sadly where the waters moan-- "Oh greatness! o'er thy final fall, The feeling heart should mourn, Nor from DE LANCEY'S ancient Hall With cold rejoicing turn: No! no! the gen'rous stranger stays To weep-as tells of other days DE LANCEY'S ancient pine." PETER DE LANCEY's eldest daughter, ALICE, married RALPH IZARD, of South Carolina, who shone as a patriot and a statesman in our Revolutionary struggle. Their son, GEORGE, (set down as RALPH, Junior, in the family tree) IZARD, rose in 1814 to the rank of MajorGeneral in the United States Army, which he entered as Lieutenant of the regiment of Artillerists and Engineers in 1794. This gallant officer experienced the same fate in 1814, which was in tended for TAYLOR in 1846-'7, and was experienced by HOOKER before Gettysburgh in 1863. He had just completed all the preparations to which is due the defeat of the British at Plattsburg, in 1814, when he was superseded by MACOMB, just as HOOKER was superseded by MEADE. PETER's daughter, SUSANNA, married Colonel THOMAS BARCLAY, B. A. His son, JAMES, was colonel of a regiment of Loyalists, and died in exile. Another son, WARREN, displayed such gallantry when only fifteen years old, in the battle of White Plains, 1776, that he was made a Cornet of the 17th British Light Dragoons at that early age. JANE, fourth daughter of PETER DE LANCEY of the Mills, married Hon. JOHN WATTS, Junior, then Recorder of New York, afterwards founder of the LEAKE and WATTS Orphan House. The bridal festivities at Union Hill, in the borough of Westchester, on the evening of 2d October, 1775, were sufficiently gay to receive a conspicuous notice in the "Gazetteer" of the day. These were the grand-parents of Major-General PHILIP KEARNY. This JOHN WATTS will be referred to more at length hereafter. Many others of the family distinguished themselves in official positions, and even some of those who chose a military career may have been omitted in this notice. Not a few of their descendants served with honor in th Union ranks during the last civil war. Three great-grandchildren of this pair, brothers, came out of the struggle with the U. S. brevets of Colonel for services, at the age of twenty-one, Lieutenant-Colonel, at eighteen, and Major, at nineteen. That the men of the race whose blood flowed in the veins of Major-Generals STEPHEN WATTS KEARNY and PHILIP KEARNY rose to such high commands, speaks sufficiently for their ability and fitness for the profession which they selected and in which they shone. That the women of that same race chose soldiers for their partners, testifies in what direction their predilections ran. Their children were worthy of their mothers; those mothers "worthy to bear men. Major-General PHILIP KEARNY had a double portion of this blood, through his grandmother and great-grandmother. Will any one deny that his career was worthy of the most glorious of his ancestry? CHAPTER II. THE KEARNY AND WATTS FAMILIES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS. "An affectionate regard for the memory of our forefathers is natural to the heart; it is an emotion totally distinct from pride. * * They are denied, it is true, to our personal acquaintance, but the light they shed during their lives survives within their tombs, and will reward our search, if we explore them. If the virtues of strangers be so attractive to us, how infinitely more so should be those of our own kindred; and with what additional energy should the precepts of our parents influence us, when we trace the transmission of those precepts from father to son through successive generations, each bearing testimony of a virtuous, useful, and honorable life to their truth and influence." LINDSAY. AS EARLY as 1716 we find a KEARNY settled in Monmouth county, New Jersey. He came from Ireland, and was a man of note. His son, PHILIP KEARNY, was an eminent lawyer, who died 25th of July, 1775, a little less than a year before the Declaration of Independence. One of his sons, FRANCIS, entered the Royal service, and was a captain in the corps of Colonel BEVERLY ROBINSON, known as the Loyal American Regiment of New York. In 1782 he appears as a Major in ALLEN'S Corps of Pennsylvania Royalists. He rose to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy, went to Ireland after the war, married, and would seem to have settled and died there. This family were very particular about the spelling of their name, and if such a thing were possible, the General would turn in his grave with indignation if he knew that his name was written and printed with two E's, Kearney, instead of Kearny. PHILIP KEARNY, the son of the first PHILIP, "removed to Newark, and left children, whose descendants are set down as living in New |