1822. ] 
Napoleon is interred in a picturesque 
place, situated in a valley, near a place 
called Hut’s Gate. After his arrival in 
the island, Marshal Bertrand lodged at 
Hut’s Gate, while a house was building 
for him near the Emperor, who made 
frequent visits to him and his family. 
They often walked to a fountain of 
water, which is very good, and esteemed 
the best in the island, and carried with 
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them a glass to drink from it. Madame 
Bertrand and the Marshal were always 
with him, and he often said to them, 
“Tf it is destined that I die on this 
rock, let me be buried in this place,” 
pointing to the willows near the foun- 
tain. 
No. 1 represents the Tomb-Stone— 
No. 2 the Spring. 
BURIAL PLACE OF NAPOLEON. 
NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS, 
——>—_ 
To JAMES HENRY MARSH, of Chenies 
Street, Tottenham Court Road, for 
certain Improvements on Wheeled 
Carriages. 
\ITESE improvements may be con- 
sidered as of two parts; first, the 
form of the interior of the nave box of 
the wheel, and secondly the mode of 
attaching the pannels of the carriage to 
the frame-work. The patentee proposes 
to make the interior of the box tri- 
angular, square, or polygonal, instead 
of cylindrical, asheretofore. The nave- . 
box being of any of these forms, so 
small a part of its surface will come in 
contact with the axle, that the wheel 
will revolve much more freely and with 
less friction than in the present cylin- 
dri¢al boxes, where the axle and box 
are nearly in contact with each other 
all round, 
The patentee does not confine himself 
to any regular form, but claims to make 
the interior angles of the box with 
blunted or rounded corners ; or to use 
cylindrical boxes with longitudinal 
ribs, to reduce the surface of contact. 
and leave interstices for the reception 
of the grease, or other matter used to 
reduce the friction. 
In his improvements in the construc- 
tion of the carriage body, instead of 
boarding the roof or pannelling up the 
back and upper quarters as usual, he 
proposes to leave them open or in ribs, 
and to close the spaces with shu‘ters, 
doors, or flaps, with rebates on their 
edges; and these flaps or shutters are 
attached to the frame-work on hinges, 
so as to enable them to swing. The 
external joints of the rebates are cover- 
ed by slips of metal screwed down, 
which may be displaced when required. 
These improvements are proposed to be 
added to old carriages of any descrip- 
tion. 
An improvement in the construction 
of the perch and wings of carriages is 
also proposed, which cousists in the 
use of bent timbers, instead of cutting 
the perch and wings across the grain 
out of straight wood, in a curved ran 
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