from insults and outrages. If baseness is carried to the degree of envying him this refuge, it has been determined to leave him no other than the tomb. Labouring for two years under a chronic hepatitis, a disease endemic in this place, and for a year deprived of the assistance of his physicians by the forcible removal of Doctor O'Meara in July, 1818, and of Doctor Stokoe in January, 1819, he has experienced several crises, during which he has been obliged to keep his bed, sometimes for fifteen or twenty successive days. At the present moment, in the midst of one of the most violent of the crises that he has yet experienced, confined to his bed for nine days, having only patience, diet, and the bath, to oppose to the disease; for six days his tranquillity has been disturbed by threats of an attack, and of outrages which the Prince Regent, Lord Liverpool, and all Europe well know he will never submit to. As the wish to debase and to insult him is daily manifested, he reiterates the declaration he has already made. That he has not taken, nor will he take any notice, nor has he ordered, nor will he order any answer to be given to any despatches or packets, the wording of which shall be done in a manner injurious to him, and contrary to the forms which have been established for four years, to correspond with him through the intermediation of his officers; that he has thrown, and will throw into the fire, or out of the windows, those insulting packets, not wishing to innovate any thing upon the state of affairs that has existed for some years. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Longwood, 16th August, 1819. This declaration I have been informed was called forth by the following circumstance: while Count Montholon was sick, Sir Hudson Lowe, ingenious in inventing new vexations, refused to correspond with Count Bertrand, and wanted to insist upon having a direct correspondence with the emperor, either by the visit of one of his officers twice a day to him, or by letter. To attain this, he sent Sir Thomas Reade or another staffofficer to Longwood several days, who entered the house, proceeded to the outer door of Napoleon's apartments, against which they continued to knock for some time, exclaiming, "Come out Napoleon Bonaparte !"-"We want Napoleon Bonaparte!" &c.; concluding this scene of uncalled for outrage by leaving behind them packets of letters addressed to "Napoleon Bonaparte," written in the usual Plantation House style. The following extract of an official letter transmitted by me to the Lords of the Admiralty, and dated the 28th of October, 1818, containing a statement of the vexations inflicted upon Napoleon, will shew that the fatal event which has since taken place at St. Helena, was most distinctly pointed out by me to His Majesty's ministers, possibly in sufficient time to have PREVENTED its occurrence, had they thought proper to have altered the system pursued towards that illustrious personage. "I THINK it my duty to state, as his late medical attendant, that considering the disease of the liver with which he is afflicted, the progress it has made in him, and reflecting upon the great mortality produced by that complaint in the island of St. Helena, (so strongly exemplified in the number of deaths in the 66th regiment, the St. Helena regiment, the squadron, and Europeans in general, and particularly in his majesty's ship Conqueror, which ship has lost about one sixth of her complement, nearly the whole of whom died within the last eight months,) it is my opinion, that the life of Napoleon Bonaparte will be endangered by a longer residence in such a climate as that of St. Helena, especially if that residence be aggravated by a continuance of those disturbances and irritations to which he has been hitherto subjected, and of which it is the nature of his distemper to render him peculiarly susceptible." (Signed) To John Wilson Croker, Esq. Secretary to the Admiralty. BARRY E. O'MEARA. The document in the Preface to the Second Edition, containing the Protocol of the conference at Chatillon was first read by Sir Robert Wilson in his place in the House of Commons in the presence of Lord Londonderry, who, when questioned by Sir Robert admitted it to be authentic. The following lively Description of an Excursion from James's Town to Longwood, and of some of the Peculiarities of the Island, was written on the spot by a Lady who resided there for a considerable time afterwards. "St. Helena, November, 1815. "ST. HELENA is a shocking place to travel in. Such roads, such hills, such precipices. They call it five miles, but I am sure it seemed to me to be fifteen. Mountain upon mountain, rock upon rock: I verily believed that I had reached the clouds. But this I am certain of, that I passed through three distinct climates. After leaving the town, and until I reached the Briars, the scorching heat of the sun took the skin from my face and blistered my lips. The narrow road between two black and barren rocks was so suffocating that I was nearly overcome. Then when I reached the Alarm-house, only a mile and a half farther, a strong gale of cold wind blew my hat into the Devil's Punch-Bowl: I expected that myself and my horse would have followed it, as the animal could scarcely keep his legs. On arriving at Hut's Gate, about three-quarters of a mile further, the climate again changed, and thick mist came scudding down from Diana's Peak, which enveloped |