Sir, – Your editorial (June 19th) describes the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo as a "major setback . . . for the ideas of democracy and equality".
Napoleon had declared himself to be an hereditary emperor, had married a Hapsburg, had installed his siblings as kings of European states and had conferred a second aristocracy on France. So much for democracy and equality! – Yours, etc,
SEÁN McDONAGH,
Raheny,
Dublin 5.
Sir, – Further to Frank McNally's excellent "Irishman's Diary" (June 18th), on a visit in recent years with my daughter to the Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London, I failed to find any reference to General Von Blücher. I asked why of the gentleman at reception. His answer was "General who?" – Yours, etc,
N KAVANAGH,
Rathfarnham,
Dublin 16.