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terms, of the injustice of such a measure. As, however, the Admiral's barge was seen approaching, and I was obliged to go upon deck to receive him, I had very little conversation with him at that time.

As soon as the Admiral had left the ship, Buonaparte sent for me, and shewed me the same paper Lord Keith had communicated to me in the morning. When I had read it, he complained vehemently of his treatment in being sent to St. Helena, saying, "The idea of it is perfect horror to me. To be placed for life on an island within the Tropics, at an immense distance from any land, cut off from all communication with the world, and every thing that I hold dear in itc'est pis que la cage de fer de Tamerlan (it is worse than Tamerlane's iron cage.) I would prefer being delivered up to the Bourbons. Among other insults,"

said he,-"but that is mere bagatelle,

a very secondary consideration,- they style me General! they can have no right to call me General; they may as well call me Archbishop, for I was head of the church as well as the army. If they do not acknowledge ine as Emperor, they ought as First Consul; they have sent ambassadors to me as such, and your King, in his letters, styled me Brother. Had they confined me in the Tower of London, or one of the fortresses in England, (though not what I had hoped from the generosity of the English people,) I

should not have so much cause of com

plaint, but to banish me to an island within the Tropics! They might as well have signed my death-warrant at once, as it is impossible a man of my habit of body can live long in such a climate." He then expressed a desire to write another letter to the Prince Regent, and I carried it the same afternoon to Lord Keith, by whom it was immediately for.

warded to London.

I felt convinced that Buonaparte, after the notification he had received, would be too much depressed in spirits to make his appearance on deck this day, and sent a boat to some of my friends, who were waiting in hopes of seeing him, to say there was no chance of his coming out, as

he was much distressed at the communi

cation which had been made to him. I was, therefore, a good deal surprised, on turning round, to find him standing at my elbow; and I can only account for his shewing himself as usual, by supposing, either that he was not, in fact, so much annoyed as I had believed him to be, or that he was actuated by a desire of creating a feeling of commiseration among the English people on his behalf. At dinner he conversed as usual, and,

indeed, it was quite astonishing with what elasticity his spirits regained their usual cheerfulness, after such trials and disappointments. He never, in my hear ing, threatened to commit suicide, nor do I believe he did on any occasion; the only expression I ever heard him make use of, that could in any way be construed into such a threat, was, that he would not go to St. Helena, "Je n'irai pas à St. Hélène."

How different was the conduct of his domestics! Numerous were the angry remonstrances, peevish declarations, and foolish threats, uttered by these people. In a conference with Lallemand, Montholon, and Gourgaud, the latter is represented to have said, "You may depend upon it the Emperor never will go to St. Helena; he will sooner put himself to death; he is a man of determined character, and what he says he will do." "Has he ever said he will put himself to death ?” I asked. They answered, "No; but he has said he will not go, which amounts to the same thing; and, were he to consent himself, here are three of us who are determined to prevent him." We may add the remark, made by Lord Keith, to Captain Maitland, on repeating to his Lordship the conversation we have just laid before our readers; " You may tell these gentlemen," said his Lordship, "who have threatened to be Buonaparte's executioners, that the law of England awards death to nurderers, and that the certain consequence of such an act will be finishing their career on a gallows."

Amidst the rather serious details of this romance of real life, we are relieved by an episode of an amusing kind. We allude to an attempt of some individual-an eccentric one, certainly, if he was moved by no political machinery from behind-to precautionary measures taken by serve a subpoena on Napoleon. The Lord Keith and Captain Maitland, to elude the pursuit of this terrible person, whom they designate as a carried in his pocket the means of lawyer, and who, they conceived, letting loose on mankind the Scourge of Europe, as he was often called, appear to us to be somewhat ludicrous. The whole matter indeed, from beginning to end, is truly far

talked of the magnanimity of his surrender. But the probability is against him; for his circumstances were of too desperate a character, as we have already stated, to admit of his longer lingering within reach of his enemies on the coast of France. The following is the passage :

cical. The great importance of the trust which was confided in the gallant officers certainly justified more than ordinary precaution, and called for the strictest vigilance they could display; but it was certainly too much to allow this terrible individual, in his cock-boat, to chase our cruizers, as he seems to have done. This, however, he manages to do, and the Admiral and Captain Maitland are in turn chased by this dreadful man; and those who were never known to retreat while enemies' fleets were in sight, fly before him. The Admiral writes to Captain Maitland, "I have been chased all day by a lawyer with a Habeas Corpus. He my communications with you, stated that

is landed at Causand, and may come
off in a sailing-boat during the night;
of course keep all sorts of boats off, as
I will do the like in whatever ship I
may be in. KEITH." The precau-
tions of the sailors, as might have
been expected, were triumphantly
successful, and the lawyer is forced
to go off without obtaining his pur-
pose. The real transaction is now
known to have been this:-The de-
fendant, in a prosecution against him,
at the instance of a naval officer, for
a libel censuring his conduct while
on the West-India station, when a
French squadron was in those seas,
pretending it would aid his defence
to show that the French ships were
at that time in an unserviceable con-
dition, meant to do so by the evidence
of Napoleon. He accordingly ob-
tained a subpoena for him (Napoleon)
to attend as a witness on the trial in
the Court of King's Bench, and en-
deavoured himself, and not by a
lawyer, to get on board the Bellero-
phon to deliver it.

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We shall now present to the reader an extract, from which he will be enabled to gather the true character of the crafty Las Cases. This person seems to have been the most designing among the followers of the fallen Emperor. The wish, too, of Napoleon to impress on Captain Maitland's mind the magnanimity of the part he (Napoleon) had performed in surrendering himself, comes out in the course of the passage. It is quite possible Napoleon may have reasoned himself into a belief that he might have made a diversion in his favour by appearing on shore, and hence

On the morning of the 6th of August, (says Captain M.) when walking the deck with Monsieur Las Cases, he for the first time mentioned that he understood me to have assured him that the Emperor would be well received in England, and allowed to reside there. I replied, "I cannot conceive how you could so far misunderstand me, as I constantly, in

I could make no promises whatever;
that I thought my orders would bear me
out in receiving him on board, and con-
veying him to England; but even in
doing that, I acted very much upon my
own responsibility. You questioned me
frequently as to my private opinion, and
as I was quite ignorant upon the subject,
I could only say, I had no reason to be.
lieve he would be ill received." It did
not, however, require my assistance to
raise the hopes of those about Buona-
parte, respecting the manner in which he
was to be received in England, as one of
his followers, on the passage home, asked
me if I thought the Prince Regent would
confer the Order of the Garter upon him.
If there was any misunderstanding,
(which I cannot allow to have been the
case,) Monsieur Las Cases has himself to
blame. When he came on board of the
Bellerophon, for the purpose of treating,
he concealed his knowledge of the Eng-
lish language, which, as I had consider.
able difficulty in expressing myself in
French, could only be intended for the
purpose of throwing me off my guard,
that he might take the advantage of any
expressions that fell from me, or the offi
cers I had always present at our meetings.
Even after he was on board with Buona.
parte, though he acknowledged he could
read English, and always translated the
newspapers for his master, he affected
not to be able to speak it. What his actual
knowledge of the language was, the fol
lowing extract of a letter, from a friend
of mine on board the Northumberland',
dated at sea, August the 22d, 1815, will
shew: I do not know whether Las
Cases ever let you know he could speak
English; but this I can assure you, that
he speaks it very near as well as Ma-
dame Bertraud, and can hold a conversa-
tion, or maintain an argument in it, with
as much fluency as she can."

This forenoon I had a long conversa tion with Buonaparte. He complained bitterly of the conduct of the British Go. vernment, and entered, at considerable length, into the state of his affairs, when he determined upon the measure of repairing on board the Bellerophon. "There still," said he, "was a large party in the south, that wished me to put myself at its head; the army behind the Loire was also desirous of my return. At ten o'clock of the night before I embarked, a deputation from the garrison of Rochelle waited upon me, with an offer to conduct me to the army; in addition to which, the troops that were in Rochefort, Bourdeaux, and Isle d'Aix, amounting to twelve thousand men, were at my disposal. But I saw there was no prospect of ultimate success, though I might have occasioned a great deal of trouble and bloodshed, which I did not choose should take place on my account individually while the empire was at stake, it was another matter."

In the afternoon, Mr O'Meara, the surgeon, informed me that General Savary had made a proposal to him to accompany Buonaparte to St. Helena as his medical attendant; Monsieur Maingaut, his surgeon, being a young man with whom he was little acquainted, and had suffered so much from sea-sickness in the passage from Rochefort, that he felt averse to undertaking another sea voyage. He consulted me as to the propriety of accepting the offer. 1 told him it must depend very much upon his own feelings; but if he had no dislike to it, he had better accept the proposal, on condition that our Government consented and agreed to pay his salary; but in that case, an official communication must pass, through me, to the Admiral on the subject. This was the first intimation I received of Buonaparte having made any arrangement towards complying with the notifi cation he had received from our Govern. ment.

We must now bring our extracts to a close, and pass on to the conclusion of the volume. Our extracts, we fear, may have appeared too numerous and lengthy, but the deep historical interest of the volume, and the air of heroic romance thrown over the whole book, where so many persons known to every reader are introduced, have led us on, and must plead our apology. The following passages contain much that will interest all our readers. The story is told with pathos and effect:

He walked out of the cabin with a steady, firm step; came up to me, and Captain Maittaking off his hat, said, “ land, I take this last opportunity of once more returning you my thanks for the manner in which you have treated me while on board the Bellerophon; and also to request you will convey them to the officers and ship's company you command." Then turning to the officers, who were standing by me, he added, "Gentlemen, I have requested your captain to express my gratitude to you for your attention to me, and to those who have followed my fortunes." He then went forward to the gangway, and before he went down the ship's side, bowed two or three times to the ship's company, who were collected in the waist and on the forecastle. He was followed by the ladies and the French officers, and lastly by Lord Keith. After the boat had shoved off, and got the distance of about thirty yards from the ship, he stood up, pulled his hat off, and bowed, first to the officers, and then to the men; and immediately sat down, and entered into conversation with Lord Keith, with as much apparent composure as if he had been only go ing from one ship to the other, to pay a

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Napoleon Buonaparte, when he came on board the Bellerophon, on the 15th of July 1815, wanted exactly one month of completing his forty-sixth year, being born on the 15th of August 1769. was then a remarkably strong, well-built man, about five feet seven inches high; his limbs particularly well formed, with a fine ancle and very small foot, of which he seemed rather vain, as he always wore, while on board the ship, silk stockings and shoes. His hands were also very small, and had the plumpness of a wo man's, rather than the robustness of a man's. His eyes light grey, teeth good, and when he siniled, the expression of his countenance was highly pleasing; when under the influence of disappointment, however, it assumed a dark, gloomy cast.

His hair was of a very dark brown, nearly approaching to black, and though a little thin on the top and front, had not a grey hair amongst it. His complexion was a very uncommon one, being of a light sallow colour, differing from almost any other I ever met with. From his having become corpulent, he had lost much of his personal activity, and, if we are to give credit to those who attended

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him, a very considerable portion of his nental energy was also gone. It is certain his habits were very lethargic while he was on board on the Bellero phon; for though he went to bed between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, and did not rise till about the same hour in the morning, he frequently fell asleep on the sofa in the cabin in the course of the day. His general appearance was that of a man rather older than he then was. His manners were extremely pleasing and affable; he joined in every conversation, related numerous anecdotes, and endeavoured, in every way, to promote good humour. He even admitted his attendants to great familiarity; and I saw one or two instances of their contradieting him in the most direct terms, though they generally treated him with much respect. He possessed to a wonder. ful degree a facility in making a favour able impression upon those with whom he entered into conversation. peared to me to be accomplished by turning the subject to matters' he supposed the person he was addressing was well acquainted with, and on which he could shew himself to advantage. This had the effect of putting him in good humour with himself, after which it was not a very difficult matter to transfer a part of that feeling to the person who had occasioned it. Lord Keith appears to have formed a very high opinion of the fascination of his conversation, and expressed it very emphatically to me after he had seen him. Speaking of his wish for an interview with the Prince Regent, “D-n the fellow," he said, "if he had obtained an interview with His Royal Highness, in half an hour they would have been the best friends in England." He appeared to have great command of temper; for though no man could have had greater trials than fell to his lot during the time he remained on board the Bellerophon, he never, in my presence, or as far as I know, allowed a fretful, captious expression to escape him even the day he re

ceived the notification from Sir Henry

Bunbury, that it was determined to send him to St. Helena, he chatted and conversed with the same cheerfulness as usual. It has been asserted that he was acting a part all the time he was on board the ship; but still, even allowing that to be the case, nothing but great command of temper could have enabled him to have

say, a hot meal was served at ten o'clock in the morning, and another at six in the evening; and so nearly did they resemble each other in all respects, that a stranger might have found difficulty, in coming into the cabin, to distinguish breakfast from dinner. His maître d'hôtel took the joints off the table, cut them up in portions, and then handed them round. Buonaparte eat a great deal, and generally of strong solid food. In drinking he was extremely abstemious, confining himself almost entirely to claret, and seldom taking more than half-a-pint at a meal. Immediately after dinner, strong coffee was handed round, and then some cordial; after which he rose from table, the whole meal seldom lasting more than twenty or twenty five minutes: and I was told, that during the time he was at the head of the French Government, he never allowed more than fifteen minutes for that purpose.

The attachment of Napoleon to his wife, and his affection for his child, were very strong: Capt. Maitland says:—

One morning be began to talk of his wife and child, and desired Marchand to bring two or three miniature pictures to shew me he spoke of them with much feeling and affection. "I feel," said he, "the conduct of the allied Sovereigns to be more cruel and unjustifiable towards me in that respect than in any other. Why should they deprive me of the comforts of domestic society, and take from me what must be the dearest objects of affection to every man-my child, and the mother of that child ?" On his expressing himself as above, I looked him steadily in the face, to observe whether he shewed any emotion; the tears were standing in his eyes, and the whole of his countenance appeared evidently under the influence of a strong feeling of grief.

One more extract, and we have done, the matter is interesting, and as it is short, we offer it to our readers :

I never heard Buonaparte speak of the battle of Waterloo, or give an opinion of the Duke of Wellington; but I asked General Bertrand what Napoleon thought of him. "Why," replied he, "I will

sustained such a part for so many days in give you his opinion nearly in the

his situation.

During the time that Buonaparte was

on board the Bellerophon, we always lived expressly for his accomodation—en. tirely in the French manner; that is to

words he delivered to me. • The Duke of Wellington, in the management of an army, is fully equal to myself, with the advantage of possessing more prudence.'

Our readers, we are sure, will be

disposed to think with us, that this is a volume of no ordinary interest. It furnishes a most faithful historical representation of one of the most astonishing events the page of history unfolds. The thoughts and feelings of him who had occupied the most conspicuous point in his age's chronicles, when placed in circumstances of the most adverse fortune, are faithfully laid open. A moral chart, of a mind of most extraordinary confor

mation, is furnished, where we may contemplate its workings in a situation so laid open by evidence of every sort, that no veil can be thrown over to disguise or conceal any of its motives. It is, in short, a work which must be taken out of the common routine of modern publications, and must be viewed as a memorial to future ages of the very striking and singular historical events it records.

YOUR HIGHLAND BAGPIPERS-A SKETCH.

VARIOUS bands of breechless bar barians, called, in civilized language, Highland Pipers, descending from the mountains, make an annual invasion of the Low Country of Scotland about inidsummer. They direct their march towards Edinburgh; but on their way thither, they never fail to cause the most horrible alarm among the peaceful villages on their route, by their wild costume and manners, and the atrocious noise of their warlike instruments of music. They are invited by the enemies of harmony, whose numbers, it is to be hoped, are rapidly diminishing, to enter the metropolis of their country, for the express purpose of lacerating the ears, and levying contributions on the purses of the unoffending inhabitants. We can scarcely figure in our imagination a more glaring act of treason-not exactly against the constitution of the State, but-against the constitution of the human ear, as is committed by these domestic conspirators, when they unblushingly send messages to these wild mountaineers, encouraging their unwelcome visits. It is the practice of the Grand Turk to make the ears of captives be separated from their heads, and we have been accustomed to call this act of mutilation inhuman; not reflecting, it would appear, that we are guilty of a far more cruel act at home in this country, which we (upon what grounds we can't tell) call civilized, when permitting, as we do, the ears of our people to grow to all suitable and desirable lengths, yet leave them at the mercy of every screeching bagpiper, to be deafened, and hacked,

and tortured, as long and as cruelly as these Scotch cannibals think fit. It pains one to the heart to think that he lives in a country where such dreadful outrages on humanity are perpetrated, not only without the slightest punishment or censure, but with the applause of numbers of our civilized fellow-subjects.

But this is a commentary. Let us next turn to the facts of the case in reference to the bagpipers. A Society exists in London, composed entirely, we presume, of Highlanders, who, having been caught very young among the mountains, and reared by the care of some benevolent individuals in the Low Country in the habits of a more cultivated society, send a considerable sum annually to encourage the Edinburgh conspirators, by giving premiums to those of the mountaineers who shew themselves capable of producing the loudest and most hideous noises upon their bagpipes, and of exhibiting, in its most original and approved cuts, the scanty and (to all but themselves) indecent costume of their Alpine country. This affords great additional encouragement to the invasion of these members of the kilted tribes.

A day is fixed by the principal madcap admirers of every thing that smacks of the mountains and of peut reek, for a trial of the comparative merits of these pipers; and where would any mortal think this trial of barbarous skill should take place? If any one were told, for the first time, that it is in the very centre of the town, which now, it would appear most ludicrously, calls itself the

Modern Athens," he would scout

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