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he was pursued and oyertaken by the 
people belonging to the Marechal de 
Layardin, and, when the valets pulled 
off his bonnet, to salute their master, 
they were overwhelmed with asto- 
nishment at the sight of the horn. 
Trouillet was afterwards taken to 
court, and presented to Henry iV.; 
but, when made a common spectacle 
to the Parisians, as some singular 
wild beast, he took it te heart, and 
died of chagrin, 
_Aldobrandi reports the case of a 
young peasant, who earried on his 
head_ahorn about the size of the mid- 
dle finger. He was but a child, and 
was remoyed in 1689 to the hospital 
of Bologna, for the excision of this 
vegetative product. 
Mr.Scudder, proprietor of the New 
York Museum, reports that he has 
seen and handled a horn seven inches 
long, taken from the head of an 
elderly lady, after her death. It had 
grown onthe mastoid apophysis, along 
the ear, and.on the root of another 
horn, which had been previously am- 
putated. 
About. six years ago, a man was 
exhibited in the Philadelphia Mu- 
seum, who had on his sternum a horn 
four inches in length, and who felt no 
other inconyenience from it than what 
its size and weight excited. 
Dr. Chatard, of Baltimore, relates 
his haying seen at New York, some 
years ago, an old woman who had on 
her nose a horn about an inch ia 
length, and shaped like that of the 
rhinoceros. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
ORIGINAL LETTER of an OFFICER in 
the SQUADRON to which the EMPEROR 
NAPOLEON surrendered, to @ FRIEND.® 
Basque Roads, July 1815. 
“MY DEAR SIR, 
‘A FTER a fortnight’s extreme 
“anxiety in pursuit of “Napoleon 
lé Grand,” mn scouring backward and 
forward the whole of the French coast 
from’ Bourdeaux to the mouth of the 
Hoire,’and examining, from the truck 
to the keelson, every vessel in our way, 
lest the fugitive should escape, he has 
“*\This narrative is inserted from respect 
to-some\of its ‘facts; but we have necessa- 
rilysbeen<ebliged to retain some: of the 
writer’s subordinate feelings and preju- 
dices. .Heprobably never read Whitworth’s 
Correspondence, or enquired who were the 
criminal authoys of the late wars.—Ep. 
Survender of Napoleon described, 
[June fT, 
been at, length, to our great satisfac- 
tion, secured, ‘contrary to all. expecta 
tion, by a peaceable surrender, 
On the morning of the 1st,of July, 
while lying at anchor within Isle Dieu, 
a lieutenant.in a twelve-oared cutter, 
from his Majesty’s ship! Bellerophon, 
surprised us with dispatches that Bo- 
naparte had quitted Paris, supposed 
for Rochfort, preparatory to,an im+ 
tended escape from France, and) re- 
quiring our assistance forthwith, We 
were indeed much amazed; for the 
most sanguine among us had not, be- 
lieved the defeat at Waterloo ‘had 
been so complete. 
Not a moment was lost m proceed- 
ing with the intelligence to Admiral 
Hotham, in the Superb, lying in Qui- 
beron bay. On the 3d arrived there 
at three o’clock, communicated with 
him, and instantly set off again to join 
the Bellerophon, cruizing off the en- 
trance to Basque Roads. 
On the 5th, at four o’clock, came 
close to her; found the Endymion, 
Myrmidon, and Dwarf cutter, in-com- 
pany, all recently from Plymouth, 
With these Capt. Maitland remained 
to blockade the Antioche or Oleron 
passage, while this ship was ordered 
to seal up the Breton passage, allow- 
ing nothing to come out or go in with- 
out the minutest examination for the 
expected fugitive. It may be|meces- 
sary to say, if you have not a chart of 
this coast at hand, that Basque Roads 
is a great bay, defended from, the 
ocean, by two considerable islands, 
named Rhé and Oleron; affording, 
except in extremely bad weather, se- 
cure anchorage for the largest fleets. 
Near the main is Isle D’Aix,;,under 
the guns of which the French ships 
anchor, distant about three miles from 
where the English fleet, during war, 
lies. Four or five miles above. this 
isle is the mouth of the Charente, 
leading to Rochfort; and about seven 
miles to the northward stands the 
town of Rochelle. The passage be- 
tween isles Rhé and Oleron forms the 
middle and principal, entrance . to 
Basque .Roads; the Breton passage 
the northern entrance, not practicable 
however for ships.of the line or large 
frigates; and to the southward. isa 
third..avenue of nearly.the same de- 
scription. . This also was watched. 
At six in the, morning, of. the 6th of 
July, when.on our station, chased and 
boarded a large, ship under) Prussian 
colours, just come out of the Charente, 
though 
