1822.] 
verses, because in both the originals 
which we have before us, nothing in- 
dicates which composition Bonaparte 
pecterred. 
é mon jeune héritier, délicieuse image ! 
Oui, voili bien ses traits, son aimable 
candeur. 
Tl ne vit plus pour moi ; sur cet affreux rivage, 
Il ne viendra jamais s’appuyer sur mon 
ceeur. 
O mon sang! O mon fils! que ta douce pré- 
sence, 
A ton malheureux Pere épargnerait d’ennui! 
Doucement je verrais s’éleyer ton enfance ; 
A mes vieux ans plus tard tu servirais 
Wappui. 
Seul, tu me tiendrais lieu de couronne et de 
gloire. 
Avec toi, sur ce roc, je serais dans les cieux. 
T’embrassant, j’oublierais que vingt ans la 
victoire, 
M’avait mis en Europe au rang des demi- 
dieux. 
These verses alone are worth a whole 
commentary on the sorrows with which 
Bonaparte was devoured. 
This sketch of the troubles of every 
kind to which Napoleon found himself 
a prey, and of which the excess alone 
drew a confession from him, may give 
an idea of these which he had the 
strength to concentrate in his soul. It 
is by supplying their loss by reflection, 
that we are justified in supposing that 
this mass of sorrows, which weighed 
with so much force on his existence, 
may naturally have hastened the period 
of his death, if it was not the first and 
sole cause of it. 
Time, whose iron hand generally 
rends asunder the veils of obscurity, 
may ou this occasion well be excused 
from lending her aid, and leave un- 
solved the primary causes of the death 
of this extraordinary man. 
The following anecdote is sufficient 
to prove that Napoleon did not always 
resent personal injuries: 
On the 12th of March, 1811, the stu- 
dents of one of the Imperial Lyceums 
received for the subject of composition, 
the speech of M. de Fontanes to the 
Emperor, on his return from his last 
campaign against Austria. This speech, 
commencing with the words, “ Sire, 
the University, &c.,”? was, as usual, a 
tissue of eulogies from beginning to end. 
One of these young students, whom 
M. de Chateaubriand is pleased to call 
4 young barbarians,’’ soon after he had. 
taken down the subject, instead of 
translating the proposed eulogy, quitted 
his form, went up to the professor, and 
delivered to him his note-book, on 
Last Six Months of Napoleon, 
51 
which he had written the following 
lines of I. B. Rousseau : ‘ 
‘¢ Et je pourrais forcer ma bouche 
A louer un héros farouche 
Né pour le malheur des humains !” 
which may be thus translated: “ And 
can J force my lips to praise a ferocious 
hero, born for the misfortune of man- 
kind !” 
We know not who it was that wisheil 
to sacrifice this young man ;—but it is 
not the less true that Napoleon was in- 
formed of the circumstance. “ Has 
this young man any talents ?”’ demand- 
ed he— does he promise to became 
a good soldier?” On assuring the 
Emperor that he was one of the ablest 
students of the class—“* Very well,” 
added Napoleon, “ leave him to give 
vent to his passion ; I shall present him 
with a handsome epaulet, and he will 
one day be one of my best officers.” 
The following is the TESTAMENT Of NAPO- 
LEON relative to his private property. 
This day, April 14, 1821, at Longwood, 
in the island of St. Helena. 
This is my testament, or act of my last 
will :— 
I leave to the Comte de Montholon 
2,000,000 francs, as a proof of my satis- 
faction for the attentions he has paid to 
me for these six years, and to indemnify 
him for the losses which my residence in 
St. Helena has occasioned him.—I leave 
to the Comte Bertrand 500,000 francs.—I 
leave to Marchand, my first valet de cham- 
bre, 400,000 francs; the services he has 
performed for me are those of a friend. I 
desire that he may marry a widow, sister, 
or daughter of an officer or soldier of my 
old guard.—To Saint Dennis, 100,000 
francs.—To Novarre, 100,000 francs.—To 
Pijeron, 100,000 francs.—To Archambaud, 
50,000 francs.—To Cuvier, 50,000 francs. 
—To Chandelle, idem. i 
To the Abbe Visnale, 100,000 francs. I 
desire that he may build his house near 
Ponte Novo de Rossino. 
To Count Las Cases 100,000 franes.—To 
Count Lavalette, 100,000 francs. 
To the Surgeon in Chief, Larrey, 100,000 
francs. He is the most virtuous man I 
have known. 
To Gen. Lefevre Desnonettes, 100,000 
francs.—To Gen. Drouet, 100,000 francs. 
—To General Cambronne, 100,000 francs. 
—To the children of General Muton Du- 
vernais, 100,000 frances. —To the children 
of the brave Labedoyere, 100,000 francs. 
—To the children of General Girard, killed 
at Ligny, 100,000 francs.—To the children 
of General Chartrau, 100,000 francs —To 
the children of the virtuous General Tra- 
vost, 100,000 francs.—To General Lalle- 
mand, the elder, 100,000 francs.——To Costa 
Bastilica, 
