spectful compliments to our common friends, and believe me to be always with much esteem,

Your affectionate friend,

(Signed)

F. ANTOMMARCHI.

P. S.-I offer the undoubted facts stated above, in opposition to the gratuitous assertions in the English newspapers relative to the good health which his majesty is stated to enjoy here.

From the Count de Montholon to Her Highness the Princess Pauline Borghese.

Longwood, St. Helena, 17th March, 1821.

MADAM, The emperor charges me to render to your highness an account of the deplorable state of his health; the liver complaint with which he has been attacked for several years, and which is endemic and mortal in St. Helena, has made a frightful progress in the last six months. The benefit which he had experienced from the care of Dr. Antommarchi, has not lasted: several relapses have taken place since the middle of last year, and every day his decay becomes more sensible; his weakness is extreme; he can scarcely bear the fatigue of a ride in the carriage for half an hour with the horses at a walk, and cannot

walk in his room without support. To the liver complaint another disease is joined, equally endemic in this island. The intestines are seriously affected; the functions of digestion are no longer performed, and the stomach rejects every thing it receives. For a long time the emperor cannot eat either meat, bread, or vegetables; he is supported only by soups and jellies. Count Bertrand wrote to Lord Liverpool in last September to demand that the emperor should be removed to another climate, and to let him know the absolute need which he had of mineral waters. I have entrusted M. Buonavita with a copy of the letter. The governor, Sir Hudson Lowe refused to allow it to be sent to his government, under the vain pretext that the title of emperor had been given to his majesty. M. Buonavita departs this day for Rome. He has experienced the cruel effects of the climate of St. Helena; a twelvemonth's abode here will cost him ten years of his life. The let-ters which Dr. Antommarchi has given to him for his enimence Cardinal Fesch, will give your highness fresh details upon the emperor's disease. The London Newspapers continually publish fabricated letters dated from St. Helena,* the

At the time Napoleon was in this deplorable state, letters were published in some of the ministerial newspapers, purporting to have come from St. Helena, and representing him to be in

intention of which evidently is to impose upon Europe. The emperor reckons upon your highness to make his real situation known to some English of influence. He dies without succour upon this frightful rock; his agonies are frightful!

Deign to receive,

(Signed)

Madam,

COUNT DE MONTHOLON.

From Count Bertrand to Lord Liverpool, alluded to by Count Montholon in the preceding Letter.

Longwood, 2nd Sept. 1820.

MY LORD, I had the honour of writing to you on the 25th of June, 1819, to let you know the state of the health of the Emperor Napoleon, attacked as it has been, by chronic hepatitis, since the month of October, 1817.

Doctor Antommarchi arrived at the end of last September, from whose treatment he at first found some relief, but since then, the doctor has de

perfect health; others describing him to be in the habit of going about the island shooting wild cats. Whether those letters were concocted in St. Helena or forged in London, I shall not attempt to decide.

clared, as will be seen in his journal and reports, that the state of the patient has become such, that the remedies can no longer struggle against the malignity of the climate; that he has need of mineral waters; that all the time he can remain in this abode will only be a state of painful agony; that a return to Europe is the only means by which he can experience any relief, his strength being exhausted by a stay of five years in this frightful climate, a prey to the worst treatment.

The Emperor Napoleon charges me to demand of you that he shall be transferred to an European climate, as the only mode of lessening the evils to which he is a prey.

(Signed)

COUNT BERTRAND.

P. S.-I had the honour to send this letter to Sir Hudson Lowe under un cachet volant which he returned to me with the addition of the inclosed letter. This induces me to send it direct to you. I suppose that he has taken a copy of it, which he will send you along with his own observations, and that this circumstance shall not have caused any delay.

(Signed)

Longwood, 3rd Sept. 1820.

COUNT BERTRAND.

Letter sent by order of Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand in reply to the preceding one.

Plantation House, 2nd. September, 1820.

Sir,-The governor's instructions not admitting him to receive any letter from the persons residing with Napoleon Bonaparte, where the title of emperor is given to him, I am directed in consequence to return you the inclosed.

The governor at the same time desires me to observe, that no letter* was ever received by him from you, to the address of Lord Liverpool, of the date of 25th of June, 1819.

I have the honour to be, &c.

Proclamation, in which the authority of Parliament is assumed by the Governor of St. Helena. (Referred to in Vol. II. p. 283.)

PROCLAMATION by Lieut.-General Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B. Governor and Commander in Chief, for the Honourable East India Company, of the island of St. Helena, and com

As Sir Hudson Lowe refused to receive or to forward letters in which Napoleon was not styled as he thought proper to name him, the letter alluded to was sent to England by a private hand.