and ascending a conical hill, without tree or shrub, yet covered with grass to the summit-one of those hills which the hunters and trappers call bluffs'-it stood still and looked upon the scene below; and so did Red Mocassin, perhaps with less eager eyes. On the prairie beneath, about a hundred huts were huddled together, seemingly without regard to order; yet they environed a circle that was open and spacious, as if the Indian beaux were ambitious of a wide promenade-ground. Horses stood by the side of the huts, with boys bestriding them, while the braves and chiefs were holding a council in the largest lodge in the village. Red Mocassin stood and gazed upon this remnant of his tribe with sorrow; and as he compared their former greatness with their present degradation, he asked himself the cause of the falling off. War,' he muttered-war destroys the roots of the red nations, and the branches wither away. The redskin follows the buffalo, like a wolf pursuing a jaded steed, instead of asking his mother earth to give him back tenfold the treasures he scatters into her bosom; he buries his tomahawk in the brain of his brother, instead of burying the ploughshare in the prairie: and thus we depart to return no more.' As he spoke, a wild clamour rose from the village; the shrill scream of children mingled with the yell of the aged squaws, and the lean, snarling dogs lent their yelp and howl to swell the chorus. He observed the women and children rushing tumultuously from the huts, and dashing wildly into the prairie, waving their hands and yelling discordantly; he saw them drive a stake into the ground, and pile dried prairie grass around it; and then he saw the crowd fall back and form a motionless circle, while in the centre stood a group of hags, binding a woman to the stake. Red Mocassin was a warrior-a chief, who had 'drank the blood of his enemies,' and whose step, as he followed their trail, prognosticated death. He hated the Sioux, for they had slain his father, the Death Cloud, and he had torn scalps from their braves and squaws, without compunction, in revenge for the deed. But as he now looked upon the preliminaries to the torture, he remembered the words of White Fountain, and his heart was stirred within him. At last he saw the warriors of the nation join the crowd, to gaze upon the immolation, with gleaming blades and fiery eyes, and he knew that he would be bold of heart who would rescue the victim from the pile. 'Now, White Fountain,' said the redskin to himself, as he threw his blanket from his shoulders, drew his wampumbelt tightly round his waist, and gathered the reins into his left hand now, White Fountain. The white man's Great Spirit will help Red Mocassin, for he goes to do what is pleasant in his sight. The Sioux maiden shall not sing her death-song yet,' he said, as he put his steed in motion and descended the bluff, at the same time drawing his hunting-knife. Red Mocassin was beautiful, very beautiful, in the eyes of the Winnebagoe maidens, for he had followed the steps of Death Cloud into battle when he only counted sixteen summers, and he was a great chief now, though he yet only counted twenty-four suns. The songs of the prairie birds' and forms of the bounding fawns' had neither been heard nor seen in his lodge. He was alone; and though the braves of his nation had murmured at his celibacy, yet he had not asked for one of their daughters. Red Mocassin loves the white man's clearing better than the prairie,' they would say; he has a red face, but his heart is white. Did we not know him to be a warrior, we would think that some medicine had transformed him into a squaw. He tills the maize patches, and he teaches our young men to do so;' and the aged chiefs would shake their heads and mutter their doubts of Red Mocassin, though in their hearts they loved him. Yes, Red Mocassin was beautiful; and as he now urged his steed to its utmost speed, and sat in his strength and majesty, like an angel of good, the wondering crowd gazed upon him in awe, for they thought him a winged spirit, and not a man. He bounded through the human circle, and scattering the torturers with the sweep of his armed hand, he cut the bonds of the victim, and, swinging her upon the horse's back, bounded once more up the bluff, · and had disappeared ere the Winnebagoes had recovered from their surprise. Red Mocassin's face was radiant with pleasure as he led the young Sioux girl towards Ralph Gordon and his wife, after a ride of two hours before his pursuing kindred; and Ralph's face and Mary's were lighted up with equal joy, when the girl, in low, musical tones, told of her unhoped-for rescue from death. She was a Sioux, she said; the daughter of a great chief. She had strayed into the forest to gather cranberries for her mother, when two Winnebagoe warriors had seized her, and borne her away to their village. The Winnebagoes were the enemies of her people; and for the feuds which some long-forgotten insult had generated, she was to suffer a cruel and lingering death. She had been saved by a mighty warrior, before whom the Winnebagoe braves had shrunk, as if from the glance of the great Wahcondah; and the warrior had borne her to the paleface, who had taught him how sweet it was to save. The home of Ralph Gordon became the home of Morning Dew; and she sung the songs of her people in such soft and gentle tones that Ralph's little children would cling round the red girl and kiss her as she sung. The sun rose and set, and Red Mocassin came and departed as regularly. Morning Dew listened for his step, for it was music to her ear. Ralph and Mary taught her many a mystery,' and she was so gentle and docile that she heard their voice, and profited by their instructions. Her lover brought her robes, dressed in the most exquisite manner, and venison and buffalo's flesh from the prairie; till, lifting her again upon his steed, he bore her back to his lodge, no longer a Sioux, but the wife of a Winnebagoe. Ay, Ralph Gordon, disciple of the law of kindness, these were the effects of the teachings of thy faith! Red Mocassin's lodge now stands in the centre of a cultivated patch, and around him are a hundred such, created by his example. The Winnebagoe is no longer the foe of the Sioux, for the sons of Red Mocassin call a chief of the Iroquois grandsire; and they often come with their father and gentle mother to dance with the children of the White Fountain and Sunbeam, while their parents listen to Ralph, as he tells them of a world of peace and love. CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON. SECOND NOTICE. NAPOLEON seems to have exercised an almost magical influence over those with whom he came in contact. He had the secret of winning, perhaps we should rather say, commanding love. From the hour he embarked in the Northumberland, according to Count Montholon, he grew in the good graces of all the English who were permitted to approach him. He mingled and conversed familiarly with the officers, and often with the crew of the vessel. He breakfasted in his own apartment, and did 'not appear among the English till about four o'clock, when he passed into the saloon, and amused himself with a game of chess or picquet till the admiral came to pay his respects to him, and to take him to dinner.' Very soon after dinner he invariably quitted the table and walked on the deck. 'One day,' says Count Montholon, he perceived the master of the vessel, who, not having the honour of an epaulette, although responsible for the safe conduct of the vessel as a pilot would be, avoided coming in his way. He walked straight to him, questioned him about his rank and functions on board, conversed long with him, and concluded by saying to him, Come and dine with me to-morrow.' The astonished master could not believe that the invitation was not a malicious trick of the midshipman who interpreted; it was obliged to be repeated to him, accompanied by an explanation of the Emperor's custom of honouring merit in whatever rank he found it. But,' said the poor man, quite overcome with so much honour, the admiral and my captain will not like a master to sit at their table.' 'Very well,' answered the Emperor, if they do not, so much the worse for them; you shall dine with me in my cabin.' This was a pleasure to the whole crew, and formed the subject of general conversation among us. When the admiral rejoined the Emperor, and learned what had just passed, he affected much graciousness in assuring him that any one invited by him to the honour of sitting at his table, was, by this circumstance alone, placed above all rules of discipline and of etiquette, and sending for the master, he assured him that he would be welcome to dinner next day. From this day forward, the crew, the squadron, and all the soldiers of the 53d regiment, were to the Emperor what | French soldiers and French sailors would have been.' The Northumberland cast anchor in the roadstead of St Helena, not far from James Town, on the 16th of October; and on the following day Napoleon set foot on the land of his exile. With the main features of the island most of our readers are probably familiar. A brief extract from our author's description of it may not, however, be without interest : are formed on all sides, from the upper level to the bottom of the sea; which gives St Helena from some distance the appearance of a shapeless mass of black rock, surmounted by a regular cone. The nearer one approaches the more frightful does it appear. The valley of James Town seemed to me like the entrance into Tartarus. On whatever side you look, and at whatever height, nothing is seen but ranges of black walls, as if constructed by the hand of man to connect the points of the peaked rocks: no trace of vegetation-nothing, in fact, which announces the presence of man; a wall and a vaulted entrance conceal the town. Undoubtedly, when once on shore, the feeling of happiness overpowers this first sensation; for then the pretty street of James Town, its fine houses, and its botanic garden, have acquired a still greater value in our eyes.' Our space compels us to pass over many interesting incidents which happened from the time of Napoleon's arrival in St Helena till his settlement at Longwood. About four months after he came to Longwood, Sir Hudson Lowe arrived, accompanied by his wife and two daughters. At like for Sir Hudson, as the following passage testifies :— their very first interview Napoleon conceived a strong dis Who The island of St Helena is 2000 leagues from Europe; 900 leagues from any continent, and 1200 leagues from the Cape of Good Hope. It is a volcanic formation in the The impression produced upon us by the appearance of midst of the Atlantic, 15 deg. 55 min. south latitude, and Sir Hudson Lowe was different according to our different 5 deg. 46 min. west longitude. Its peak, called Diana's characters and modes of thinking, and perhaps also in proPeak, raises its dark summit to a height of 3000 feet portion to the pains which he took to please us; but after above the level of the sea, and is seen at a distance of the first day, the Emperor said to us: That man is male60 miles. The soil of the island consists of lava, cooled at volent; whilst looking at me, his eye was like that of a different degrees of fusion, and ploughed up with deep hyæna taken in a trap; put no confidence in him. We ravines. A fruitful mould is only to be found in places complain of the adiniral-we shall perhaps regret him; where it has been carried by the hands of men, with the for in truth he has the heart of a soldier, whilst the geneexception perhaps of a few valleys. Some small portions ral only wears the dress. His appearance and expression of wood crown the lower summits of Diana's peak; every- recall to my mind those of the Shirri of Venice. where else, what appears from a distance to be wood, is knows! perhaps he will be my executioner. Let us not, merely a sort of wild broom, imported from Ireland by an however, be hasty in forming our judgments; his disposiIrishman who wished to make use of it as firewood, and tion may, after all, atone for his sinister appearance." It sown on a farm which he endeavoured, without success, to required the whole of the Emperor's instinctive rapidity to establish at Longwood. In a few years, this plant covered receive this impression at the first sight of Sir Hudson Lowe. all the sides of the ravines round about. The East India In fact, Sir Hudson Lowe had something prepossessing in Company has also made some useless attempts on the plain his appearance. At that time he was a man between forty of Longwood: we, at least, have found no mark of cultiva- and fifty years of age, above the middle size, with the cold tion to be compared to that of the worst farm in Poland. and gracious smile of a diplomatist; his hair was beginning Everywhere that the lava and the scoria have not been left to turn grey, but still preserved the primitive tints of light bare-this is a greyish matter, somewhat similar in colour brown, although his long and lowering eyebrows were of a to potter's clay, and has in some places acquired sufficient deep red; his look was penetrating, but he never looked consistency to be used instead of soft stones in the building honestly in the face of the person whom he addressed; he of houses-it can be cut with a knife like chalk. It does was not in the habit of sitting down, but swayed about not resist the drippings of water; the moisture of the soil whilst speaking with hesitation, and in short, rapid sendestroys it in a few years, if care is not taken to enclose it tences. It was undoubtedly his eye, which had something in hard lava, or in stone brought from Europe or from the treacherous in it, that made an impression upon the Emperor. Cape of Good Hope. All the stone for the construction of Sir Hudson Lowe was a man of great ability, and had the the Emperor's house was sent from England. We have extraordinary faculty of giving to all his actions such a been assured that the first navigators who landed at St colouring as suited the object which he proposed to effect. Helena found nothing there but pheasants and goats. I An excellent man of business and of extreme probity, have nothing to say against these two species of animals. amiable when he pleased, and knowing how to assume the I think, however, that, in the number of the natives of the most engaging form, he might have acquired our gratiisland, rats have been forgotten, for St Helena is covered tude, but he preferred the disgraceful reprobation which with them; and their number was so great at Longwood has followed him to the tomb. He was said to be a good when we came to live there, that they frequently came father and a good husband. I know nothing of him in any running under our table whilst we were at dinner, and relation, except in his connexion with Longwood, in which walked about in our rooms without appearing at all dis- the whole of his conduct was marked with a stamp of an turbed by our presence. We were never able to destroy insatiable hatred-outrages and vexations completely usethem entirely, though we waged a deadly war with them less as regarded the Emperor; and I should have said, during more than five years. Their presence was, besides, with a profound conviction of its truth, that the death of not always inoffensive. General Bertrand was bitten the Emperor was his object, had he not said to me, on the rather severely in his hand during his sleep; a maid-ser- 6th of May, 1821, with all the accent of truth-' His death vant was also bitten by them, as well as one of the horses is my ruin.' The ruling vice of Sir Hudson Lowe's chasent from the Cape for the Emperor's use. St Helena is racter was an unceasing want of confidence-a true mono21 miles in circumference, and is only to be approached mania. He often rose in the middle of the night-leaped at three points the valley at the mouth of which James out of bed in haste, from dreaming of the Emperor's flight Town is built, Linion Valley, and Sandy Bay; these two-mounted his horse, and rode like a man demented to last points, however, do not afford good anchorage. The roadstead of James Town is, on the other hand, safe and easy of access; the largest vessels can ride at anchor there; and as a protection against the sea, natural walls of lava Longwood, to assure himself, by interrogating the officer on duty, that he was labouring under the effects of nightmare, and not of a providential instinct; and yet, notwithstanding this, the impression on his mind was so lively that he could never decide on leaving Longwood till he received our word of honour that the Emperor was in his apartments. There was then almost an effusion of gratitude on his part, and he excused himself for having disturbed us in the middle of the night.' About Napoleon's treatment of the kind and amiable Josephine all good and Christian men are agreed. His separation from her was the determining point of his destiny; from that hour his star began to pale. The testimony we find him bearing to her affection and devotedness only proclaims the heinousness of his offence: We lived together,' said he, like honest citizens in our mutual relations; and always retired together till 1805-a period in which political events obliged me to change my habits, and to add the labours of the night to those of the day. This regularity is the best guarantee for a good establishment; it ensures the respectability of the wife, the dependence of the husband, and maintains intimacy of feeling and good morals. If this is not the case, the smallest circumstances make people forget each other. A son by Josephine would have rendered me happy, and have secured the reign of my dynasty. The French would have loved him very much better than the King of Rome, and I never would have put my foot on that abyss covered with flowers which was my ruin. Let no one, after this, think upon the wisdom of human combinations; let no one venture to pronounce, before its close, on the happiness or misery of life! My poor Josephine had the instinct of the future, when she became terrified at her sterility; she knew well that a marriage is only real when there is an offspring; and in proportion as fortune smiled, her anxiety increased. She built her hopes on my adoption of Eugene, and this was the cause of all the disagreements with my brothers. She never asked anything for her son, and, with a perfect tact, she never even thanked me for any thing which I did for him, so much had she it at heart to convince me that Eugene's political fortune was not her own interest, but rather mine. I was the object of her deepest attachment, and I am so convinced of it,' he added, smiling, that I believe she would have left the rendezvous of love to come and find me. If I went into my carriage at midnight for a long journey, there, to my surprise, I found her seated before me and awaiting my arrival; if I attempted to dissuade her from accompanying me, she had so many good and affectionate reasons wherewith to oppose me, that it was almost always necessary to yield; in a word, she always proved to me a happy and affectionate wife, and I have therefore preserved the tenderest recollec tions of her.' In the course of his conversations, as recorded in these volumes, we find Napoleon very frequently reverting to the scenes of his childhood and youth, and always in a style to indicate that, like the rest of mankind, he regarded his early years as the happiest of his existence. The following, illustrative of this statement, is not without its moral: 'What recollections,' said Napoleon, crowd upon my memory, when my thoughts are no longer occupied with political topics, or with the insults of that wicked man. I am carried back to my first impressions of the life of man! It seems to me always in these moments of calm, that I should have been the happiest man in the world with 12,000 francs a-year, living as the father of a family, with my wife and son, in our old house at Ajaccio. You remember its beautiful situation-you cannot have forgotten it! You have often despoiled it of its finest bunches of grapes, when you ran off with Pauline to go and satisfy your childish appetite. And Madame Joue-into what a rage she put herself, and how she scolded that poor Pauline, upon whom the whole storm always burst! Happy hours! the natal soil has infinite charms; memory embellishes it with all its powers, even to the very odour of the ground, which one can so realise to the senses, as to be able, with the eyes shut, to tell the spots first trodden by the foot of childhood. I still remember with emotion the most minute details of a journey during which I accompanied Paoli. More than five hundred of us, young persons of the first families in the island, formed his guard of honour; I felt proud of walking by his side, and he appeared to take pleasure in pointing out to me, with paternal affection, the passes of our mountains, which had been witnesses of the pendence. The impression made upon me whilst I listheroic struggle of our fellow-countrymen for natural indeened still vibrates in my heart. Come, place your hand upon my bosom! see, how it beats!' and it was true, his heart did beat with such rapidity as would have excited my astonishment, had I not been acquainted with his organisation, and with the kind of electric commotion which his thoughts communicated to his whole being. It is like the sound of a bell,' added he; there is none here-I am no longer accustomed to hear it. The sound of a bell never strikes my ear, without carrying back my thoughts to the sensations of my youth. The Angelus' bell led me back to pleasant reveries, when, in the midst of earnest thoughts, and burdened with the weight of an imperial crown, I heard its first sound under the shady woods of St Cloud; and often have I been supposed to have been revolving the plan of a campaign or digesting an imperial law, when my thoughts were wholly absorbed in dwelling fact, the dominion of the soul-it is the hope, the anchor of upon the first impressions of my youth. Religion is, in safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity! what a power would it still have, did its ministers comprehend their mission!' The expenses of the establishment at Longwood,' says terference on the part of Sir Hudson Lowe, in the slightest our author, were a continual cause of chicanery and indetails of domestic life. He was not even satisfied with making arrangements respecting the quantity and the quality of the provisions for the Emperor's household, but the expense. I received a note from him on the 17th of he even required that the Emperor should contribute to August, which was to prove to me that the expenses still exceeded the allowance, notwithstanding the reductions which he had ordered to be made, and that it was necessary, therefore, in order to avoid any further reductions, which he himself allowed would be unsuitable, that I should place at his disposal 200,000 francs a-year, or, if I preferred it, 16,000 francs a-month; he came to Longwood to communicate this verbally to the Emperor. 6 Hudson Lowe, You push the annoyance so far as to enter Deeply affected by the insult, the Emperor said to Sir into the most contemptible details; you have the audacity to endeavour to make me believe that no changes have taken place since your arrival; that I mistake your intentions, and would entertain a very different opinion of you, if I knew you better. No, sir-no, I should not change my opinion; generals are known by their victories, or their noble actions. How should I know you in any other relation than that of my jailer? You never suffer a day to pass without torturing me by your insults. Where have you ever commanded anything but bandits or deserters, the refuse of every country? I am well acquainted with the names of all the English generals of distinction; I have never heard your name mentioned except as a brigand chief; you have never commanded men of honour. You say you have not asked for the government of this rock; but you forget that there are certain employments which are never conferred upon any, except such as are especially distinguished by the manner in which they dishonour themselves. Executioners do not solicit the disgrace of their employment; and whilst inflicting tortures on the unfortunate whom they are about to kill, like you, they say, I only obey my orders, and if I were less skilful you would only suffer the more.' Moreover, I do not believe your government to be so blinded by their hatred towards me, as to have disgraced themselves by prescribing the infamous course of conduct which you pursue. In short, do not weary me any more with the disgusting details of your regulations respecting my table. Send nothing to Longwood if you choose; I shall go and sit down at the table of the officers of the brave 53d; I am persuaded there is not one of them who will refuse to share his dinner with an old soldier like myself. You have full power over my body, but my mind is, and will remain, beyond your reach; it is as proud and full of courage on this rock as when I commanded Europe.' the health of Napoleon, we have the following notice towards the close of the second volume, accompanied with certain severe reflections on Sir Hudson : "The health of the Emperor continued to get worse and worse. I saw him more frequently than any one, and conse Our readers will recall the well-known lines of Byron in quently I was better able than any one else to trace the causes the Age of Bronze,' and 'Smile to survey the queller of the nations In consequence of certain demands made by Sir Hudson to the effect that Napoleon should contribute in part towards the maintenance of the establishment at Longwood, the latter enjoined his secretary to send him in reply all his plate broken into pieces. The count, thinking this order was only the result of a momentary impulse of indignation, did not immediately obey it. The next morning the Emperor partially revoked it, and ordered that as much should be preserved as was necessary for his personal service. Several splendid pieces were broken, and sent for sale. The demand of Sir Hudson not having been withdrawn, this was twice afterwards repeated : When Sir Hudson Lowe was made acquainted with this third and last despatch, and the purchase of the china, he saw that he was conquered; came to express to me his lively regret, and plainly showed how much afraid he was of blame from his government. He told me that he only acted on the conviction that we had a great quantity of gold at Longwood; that he had been assured of this; and that he would never have allowed a single piece of plate to be broken, could he have supposed that matters would go so far as to reduce General Bonaparte to eat off dishes like those of the lowest colonist in the island; that he would send immediately to the Cape of Good Hope, and procure a suitable service, until such time as he could receive one from England. The Emperor was enchanted with the account which I gave him of this communication; but his joy was changed into perfect disgust when he sat down to his dinner, served on the china brought by Cipriani. The physical effect upon him was such that he ate nothing, and said to me on leaving the dinner-table, It must be allowed, my son, that we are all great children. Can you conceive that I could not conquer my disgust at this badly-served dinner? -I, who, when I was young, ate from black dishes; in truth, I am ashamed of myself to-day.' Let the shame be of short duration,' replied I, for to-morrow your Majesty will dine with appetite.' 'I hope so,' answered he, 'for this would be too foolish.' His joy was infantine, when, next morning, Marchand brought to him, in the bath, his soupe à la Reine as usual, in the little silver gilt bowl which he had been accustomed for many years to see. He could not help thanking me with a smile for my disobedience, and I was greatly put to it to keep my secret till dinner-time; but I kept it, so great was my hope of giving him a few moments of agreeable impression when he saw his dinner served as usual. I was right; for when he entered the dining-room he took me by the ear, and said to me, in his joyous tone, Ha, ha! Mr Rogue, you took upon yourself yesterday to make me pass an uncomfortable quarter of an hour; it is my turn to-day!' I confessed to him, that, not being able to resolve to take from him his last luxury, I had put aside what was necessary for his personal service; but that, to make up for this, I had been obliged to take away all the plate used by the grand marshal. He laughed very heartily at the fraud which my solicitude for his comfort had suggested to me, and said, Upon my faith, you have done well! and so much the better, that you have succeeded with this bandit, Lowe, as well as if I had not a silver dish left. As to Bertrand, so much the worse for him, if he has nothing but china! It was his advice which I followed." Of the injurious influence of the climate of St Helena on of the malady, which was manifested so often and under such different forms. His chest could not endure the effect of the moist atmosphere of Longwood, and still less the sudden changes of temperature to which it was subject. In fact, the thermometer at St Helena varies ten degrees per day, according as the sun is above or below the horizon. I have remarked that great heat produces no effect on the Emperor; he had already been accustomed to it in Egypt; but moisture of climate exercises a terrible influence on his health. I have frequently seen him, after coming in from a ride at night, suffer from attacks of cough so violent as not to cease till vomiting ensued. It was in the midst of these new apprehensions for the health of the Emperor that Sir Hudson Lowe presented himself before me, to complain that we consumed too much firewood; and that it was unreasonable for the Emperor, under the tropics, to have a could only arise from a wish on his part to cause more fire every day in his bedroom. He even asserted that this expense to England. I recalled to his recollection that it was not long since the boards of the bedroom had sunk, and suddenly a gush of stagnant water sprang from a sort of marsh which extended along two-thirds of the room. 'But,' said he, since I have had the boards repaired, and the water emptied out, it seems to me that there is no further occasion for a fire.'—‘In that room, certainly,' answered I; but what do you say respecting the others, where the boards are rotten, and the walls covered with moisture?' and at the same time I pointed out to him with my finger proofs of what I advanced. However, Sir Hudson was uneasy on account of the Emperor's state of health, and he proposed to the grand marshal to have one of those wooden barracks, which can be set up and taken down at pleasure, erected for him at the end of the library, in order,' said he, that General Bonaparte may be able to take exercise without being exposed to the sun and the rain.' When this proposal was repeated to the Emperor, he merely shrugged his shoulders and murmured between his teeth, Disgusting irony!' The Emperor at last decided upon addressing to Lord Liverpool a long memorandum, in the form of observations, on the bad treatment he had experienced. The grand marshal committed this sealed despatch to the officer on duty. The bad temper of Sir Hudson Lowe increased continually, and at last became such, that Bertrand and I did not know what means to use so that the Emperor might not hear of his outrages. Poor O'Meara, on his part, was exposed to all his ill-humour. Sir Hudson Lowe wished him to issue bulletins after his fashion; the Emperor heard of this, and refused O'Meara's assistance, however much he might have need of it. Long and painful discussions followed; Sir Hudson at length yielded, and it was settled that no bulletin should be issued without having been previously shown to Bertrand or myself; and in order to avoid any occasion for an insult, it was settled that the Emperor should merely be designated as the patient. This simple announcement of a fact will say more than any commentary.' The next extract which we present to our readers is peculiarly interesting as the record of an anniversary whose recurrence must always have awakened a host of recollections in the mind of the fallen hero : 6 The 1st of January, 1817, arrived, yet more melancholy than the 1st of the January preceding had been. The departure of Count Las Cases had left painful impressions on us all. There are some anniversaries more dreary than all others, because they naturally bring back a series of recollections which force one to compare the past with the present. The 1st of January-this family festival, at which the Emperor at the Tuileries was first saluted by a wife whom he adored-by a son who was his hope-by a people nexions, to discover the person with whom the manuscript had been deposited. A fortnight had not elapsed when M. de Talleyrand presented himself at St Cloud, having carefully placed in his portfolio, as minister of foreign affairs, the packet, which he had received from Lyons the evening before. The Emperor eagerly looked through it, and found there, to his great surprise, some fragments of letters to M. Butafoco, and a republican profession of faith, under the title of Souper de Beaucaire.' These writings bore the impression of the excitement produced in the head of a young man by the events of the revolution. He committed them to the flames; but he preserved, notwithstanding their quite as republican tendency, a history (partial) of Corsica, and a memorial of the sentiments which it was most necessary to impress upon men for their happiness. The Academy of Lyons had rewarded this treatise with a gold medal, and this homage from a learned body was a precious souvenir of his youth.' Our closing extract refers to certain proposals and schemes for the relcase of Napoleon from his captivity, none of which, however, he could be prevailed on to accept. We have also the well-known story about the bust of his son, and with it we take our leave of these volumes. Though Count Montholon's work has partly been anticipated by others, we doubt not it will be sought after and read, as it deserves to be, with eager interest. whose happiness was his principal occupation-by four beings who were his brothers by blood-and, finally, by ten or twelve more who called themselves his brothers in affection-presented itself this time as a dreary gateway to a year still more dreary than that which had just passed. Instead of the Tuileries-our miserable habitation; instead of our France, so often regretted-St Helena, so often lamented; instead of the caresses of a family, the congratulations of courtiers, the shouts of a nation, and the homage of Europe-the good wishes, though without hope, of some companions in captivity, whose numbers might at any moment be diminished by the caprice of an odious jailer. The Emperor received with kindness our good wishes and our homage. I believe you,' said he to us; but I only expect from fate that death which will terminate my misfortunes. You yourselves see that every day is marked by some new outrage; I pity you, for the more proofs you give me of your devotion, the more you must feel my sufferings. Let us hope, at least, that Mr Lowe will allow me to pass this day without condemning me to remain shut up in my room to avoid meeting him in the garden. Your children shall dine with me. I wish their joy to be complete. Come, Hortense, you shall have the first present.' The hopes of the Emperor were not, however, to be realised; and the insult would forcibly have brought back his thoughts to his cruel position, had not General Gourgaud kept till the next day the secret of the pretended mistake, which caused him to remain for an hour the prisoner of a sentry. One of the sentries of Hut's-gate interpreted his 'Several ships arrived from India and the Cape, and orders wrong, and arrested General Gourgaud, who was almost all the officers of these vessels obtained permission only set free at the expiration of this sentry's guard by the to be presented at Longwood. It was on this occasion that corporal who relieved him. The grand marshal hastened Captain availed himself of the opportunity to place to Sir Hudson Lowe to complain, but obtained no other his services at the disposal of the Emperor, and offered to answer than the general one, that it was an error which conduct him wherever he pleased. He said that this feelshould not be repeated; and yet a week afterwards the ing was inspired by his strong indignation at the conduct same error occurred. How, indeed, could it be otherwise, pursued by the English government, and, above all, at when a sentry, who interpreted his orders in our favour, that of Sir Hudson Lowe-an indignation, he added, which received a hundred lashes, whilst the interpreting them was shared by all classes in England, with the exception against us was merely considered as an excess of zeal, a of a few private friends of the ministers. The Emperor proof of fidelity, a mark of bad intentions towards us? We listened with the kindest interest to this noble and generous learned on this occasion that Sir Hudson very frequently offer, but refused to accept it. It was about the same gave orders to the sentries during his rides, without the period, that one of the officers of the garrison conceived a commanders of the detachment knowing anything of them, plan of escape, the success of which was almost certain. except by the report of the corporal who had relieved the His plan was to reach the shore at a point of the coast sentinel to whom such extraordinary orders had been opposite to James Town, which was guarded merely by a given, in direct opposition to the rules of military service. post of infantry; small boats alone could approach the We heard also, that the soldier who had arrested General shore at this place, but a boat well provided with rowers Gourgaud, had received from Sir Hudson positive orders would have been sufficient to enable the fugitives to reach to arrest any Frenchman who should present himself at the vessel appointed to receive them. This point was only Hut's-gate to pass, except he were accompanied by an an hour's walk distant. But whether the Emperor at this English officer, even if it should be General Bonaparte time had relinquished all idea of desiring to escape, or himself. But Hut's-gate was within our limits, which whether he doubted the sincerity of the offers which were extended for more than a mile beyond this in two direc-made to him, or the possibility of their success, he refused tions; in the third direction alone, Hut's-gate formed the to accept them. In its proper place, I will record another boundary. The dinner was really a family dinner; all the offer of a more serious kind, which I was commissioned to expenses were borne by our children, and their childish make to him, and the reasons which he assigned for its rehappiness awakened in the Emperor the remembrance of fusal. Two ships just arrived, the one from India and the his youth; his first love and his first meditations on hap- other from China, brought to Longwood new subjects for piness returned to his recollection. He took pleasure in grave disputes with Sir Hudson Lowe; a master-gunner repeating to us his long conversations with the Abbé Ray- had been commissioned to present the Emperor with a nal, in speaking to us of his correspondence with this cele- beautiful marble bust of the King of Rome, made at Flobrated man, and of what he had written under his inspira-rence, and which was said to have been made in compliance tion. The correspondence of the Emperor with the Abbé with the orders of the Empress Maria-Louisa, to be preRaynal, and the manuscript of his first literary work, had sented to the father and husband as a testimony of her been confided by him to an inhabitant of Lyons, whose affectionate remembrances. But what consequences might name he had forgotten. He related this to M. de Talley- not such a message produce, according to the imagination rand, in one of his after-dinner chats with him under the of Sir Hudson Lowe! It was perhaps all a conspiracy! shade of that beautiful allée of horse chestnut trees which The bust might contain a correspondence of the very highest began at St Cloud, just opposite to his cabinet, and he wit- political interest! Not to suffer it to go to Longwood, and nessed some regret at not being able to see again these to break it in pieces, was in his opinion the advice of sound first impressions of his youth. M. de Talleyrand was too reason; but what recriminations, and what an echo would good a courtier to let such a good opportunity of doing these recriminations find in public opinion, should we besomething agreeable to his master escape him. He said come acquainted with these facts, and happen to divulge nothing, but his first care on returning to Paris was to them! When you are in doubt, abstain, says the proverb, and send for M. Dérenade, one of his most intimate friends, Sir Hudson Lowe followed its advice. Six days were allowed and the most suitable man in France, by reason of his to pass without the bust being brought to Longwood, acuteness, his general information, and his literary con- although on the day after the arrival of the Baring wo |