might be presented to the emperor; you thought proper not to transmit it, because it was not sent to you by the express desire of your government. It is said also, that other books sent by their authors have not been transmitted, because some of them were inscribed to the Emperor Napoleon, and others to Napoleon the Great. The English ministry is not authorised to order any of these vexations; the law, although unique, by which the British parliament regards the emperor Napoleon as a prisoner of war, has never prohibited prisoners of war from subscribing to journals, or receiving printed books-such a prohibition takes place only in the dungeons of the Inquisi

tion.

The island of St Helena is ten leagues in circumference; it is inaccessible every where-brigssurround the coast-posts are stationed on the shore within sight of each other, which render impracticable any communication with the sea. There is only one small town (James Town) where there is an anchorage, and where vessels touch. To prevent an individual from quitting the island, it is sufficient to guard the shore by land and sea. To lay an interdict on the interior of the island can therefore have no other object than to deprive him of a promenade of from eight to ten miles, which it would be possible to make on horseback, and the privation of which will shorten the life of the emperor. The emperor has been established at Longwood, exposed to every wind, and where the land is sterile and uninhabitable, without water, and not susceptible of any cultivation. There is a circuit marked out of about 1200 toises; at about 11 or 1200 distance a camp is established on a hill, and another camp in an opposite position at the same distance; in short, in the midst of the heat of the tropic, there is nothing to be seen but camps.

Admiral Malcolm having learned the

utility which the emperor would derive from a tent in that situation, caused one to be set up by his sailors, at twenty paces distance in front of the house; it was the only place in which a shade could be found. The emperor had as much reason to be satisfied with the spirit that animated the officers and soldiers of the brave 53d regiment, as he had been with the crew of the Northumberland.

The house at Longwood was built to serve as a barn for the company's farm. The deputy-governor of the island had since built some chambers; it served him for a country house, but it was not in a proper habitable state; workmen had been employed at it for a year, and the emperor has been continually subjected to the inconvenience and insalubrity of inhabiting a house in the progress of building. The chamber in which he sleeps is too small to contain a bed of ordinary dimensions; but every alteration at Longwood prolongs the inconvenience of having workmen there. There are, however, in this miserable territory, beautiful situations, presenting fine trees, gardens, and good houses. There is, besides, Plantation House; but the positive instructions of government forbad you from giving up this house, although much expence would thereby have been saved to your government-an expence incurred in fitting up at Longwood a hut, covered with paper, which is already unserviceable.

You have interdicted all correspondence between us and the inhabitants of the island-you have, in fact, placed the house at Longwood au secret—you have prevented any communication with the officers of the garrison; it seems, therefore, to be your study to deprive us of the little resources which this miserable territory affords; and we are here, just as we should be, on the insulated and uninhabited rock of A scension. During the four months that you

have been at St Helena, you have, sir, rendered the situation of the emperor much worse. Count Bertrand has observed to you, that you violate even the laws of your legislature, and that you trample under foot the rights of general officers, prisoners of war. You have replied, that you act according to the letter of your instructions, and that your conduct to us is not worse than is dictated by them.

I have the honour to be, GENERAL COUNT DE MONTHOLON.

After I had signed this letter, I received yours of the 17th August, in which you subjoin the account of an annual sum of 20,000l. sterling, which you consider indispensable for the support of the expences of the establishment at Longwood, after having made all the reductions which you thought possible. We do not think we have any thing to do with the discussion of this point. The table of the emperor is scarcely provided with strict necessaries, and all the provisions are of the worst quality. You ask of the emperor a fund of 12,0001. sterling, as your government will only allow 80001. for all the expences. I have already had the honour of informing you, that the emperor had no funds-that for a year past he had neither written nor received any letter; and that he is altogether ignorant of what has passed, or is passing, in Europe. Transported by force

to this rock, without being able to write or to receive any answer, the emperor is now entirely at the mercy of the English agents. The emperor has always desired, and is still desirous, to provide himself for all his expences, of whatever nature, and he will do it as soon as you render it possible, by taking off the interdictions laid upon the merchants of the island with regard to his correspondence, and directing that it should not be subjected to any inquisition on your part, or by any of your agents. Thenceforth, the wants of the emperor would be known in Europe, and those persons who interested themselves in his behalf might send him the funds necessary to provide for them.

The letter of Lord Bathurst, which you have communicated to me, gives birth to strange ideas. Are your ministers then ignorant that the spectacle of a great man in captivity and adversity is a most sublime spectacle? Are they ignorant that Napoleon at St Helena, in the midst of persecutions of every description, to which he opposes nothing but serenity, is greater, more sacred, and more venerable, than when seated upon the first throne in the world, where, for so long a time, he was the arbiter of kings? Those who, in such a situation, are wanting to Napoleon, are blind to their own character, and that of the nation which they represent.

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