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`` They have not ; on the contrary , shortly before I escaped , an aide-de-camp was despatched to Gembloux , to hasten his coming . And the troops , for they must be troops , were debouching from the wood yonder . They seem to form a junction with the corps to the right ; they are the Prussians . They arrived there before noon from St. Lambert , and are part of Bulow 's Corps . Count Lobau and his division of ten thousand men were despatched , about an hour since , to hold them in check . '' `` This is great news , '' said Lord Uxbridge . `` Fitzroy must know it at once . ''