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dinary name. The admiral thought it to be his duty to write on the subject to London; there the matter at present rests.

A name is now given to me, which has the advantage of not prejudging the past, but which is not in the forms of society. I am always disposed to take a name which enters into ordinary usage, and I reiterate that when it shall be judged proper to discontinue this cruel abode, I am willing to remain a stranger to politics, whatever event may occur in the world. This is my opinion; whatever else may have been said on this subject is incorrect.

No. VII.

Translation of the Remarks made by Napoleon on the slip of paper, containing the Governor's reply.

1. THE Conduct which has been pursued here for six months, cannot be justified by some detached phrases of a correspondence with the minister. A long and voluminous ministerial correspondence, is an arsenal provided with arms of every description.

2. The last regulations would be considered as

injurious and oppressive at Botany Bay; whatever may be said upon it, they must be contrary to the will of the English government, which approved the regulations which were in force until the month of August last.

3. All the observations which Counts Bertrand and Montholon have made, have been useless. A free discussion has been interdicted by menaces.

No. VIII.

Letter from Count Bertrand to Sir Hudson Lowe, relative to the presents sent by Mr. Elphinstone.

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Longwood, 9th of July, 18—.

GOVERNOR, I have received the five cases which took the trouble of sending to me, containing a chess-board and men, a box of counters, and two work-baskets in ivory, sent from Canton by Mr. Elphinstone. The emperor was surprised to perceive by your letter, that you think your duty required that those objects should not be sent. If I acted," you say, "in entire conformity to the established regulations, I ought to have delayed sending them up." In this case, M. Governor, it would have been pleasing to us had you retained them.

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But to what does this refer? Is it because those articles have not passed through the channel of the ministers? In the restrictions of the minister, it is said, that letters must come through his channel, but not articles of clothing, busts, furniture, &c. We have constantly received from the cape of Good Hope, many articles which have been sent to us. Besides, Lord Bathurst, in his speech, and you, yourself, in one of your letters, have denied, with indignation, that letters sent by the post, or by other opportunities, have been sent to London to be returned to this place. This cannot, nor has not authorized you to retain such objects as busts, furniture, books, or any other goods, which have no connexion with the security of detention.

Can it be because there is a crown upon the counters No regulation can exist without being made known to us. Now, it never has been signified to us, that we cannot possess objects upon which there is a crown. It would be necessary, in that case, to make a new pack of cards for us, because on those which we possess, there is a crown. The linen, and the small quantity of plate, which remains to us, are often sent to town, and are marked with a crown.

But from whom has this regulation, of which you speak, emanated? From your government,

which alone, according to the bill, has the right to make any? Your minister declared before parliament, that no restrictions whatever had been made since those which had been printed and communicated to Europe, and which your predecessor possessed, and which had been sent to you. He added, that you have not made any restrictions, but solely adopted measures of execution. Effectively you have not the right to make any.

The emperor does not desire favours from anybody, and wishes nothing from the caprice of any person whatever; but he has the right to be informed of the restrictions which are imposed upon him. Your government, the parliament, and all nations, have the same right. I therefore beg of you, sir, to communicate to us those new restrictions, and if such exist, they would be in contradiction to the assertion of Lord Bathurst, that they should have no other object than the security of detention. The emperor charges me to protest against the existence of any restrictions or regulations which shall not be legally notified to him, prior to being put in execution.

(Signed)

I have the honour, &c.

COUNT BERTRAND.

No. IX.

Letter from Count Bertrand to the Gunner.

Longwood, 16th July, 1817.

I HAVE received, sir, the marble bust of young Napoleon. I have given it to his father. It has imparted to him the most sensible pleasure. I regret that you have not been able to come and see us and give us some details, which are always interesting to a father in the actual situation of affairs. It results from the letters which you have sent, that the artist esteems the value of his work to be one hundred guineas. The emperor has ordered me to send you a draft for three hundred pounds sterling.* The surplus is to indemnify you for the losses which he knows you have sustained in the sale of your little venture, as you were not permitted to land; and the chicaneries you have experienced by that event, which was in itself very simple, and would have procured you marks of esteem from every man of feeling.

Be so good as to communicate the emperor's thanks to the persons who have paid him this ami̟able attention.

By means of some unworthy tricks, the poor man did not receive the money for nearly two years.

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