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and vetting drunks ‘He Rattghiedl, and 
repeated what! he had® Said relative ‘to 
court-martial: Ty 48 trae)” suid: he, 
“then, that they até Seriding ont a neue 
and furnittive* for nies as “there “are 80 
many fies*in’ your newspapers, that I 
have my” dotibts, especially ‘as I°have 
heard nothing about it Officially 2”? 
' WISITCIN HIS “‘BED-ROOM, 
Tt was about fourteen feet by twelve, 
and ten or eleven feet in height. The 
walls were lined with brown nankeen, 
bordered and edged with common green 
bordering paper, and destitute of sur- 
bace. ‘Two small windows,’ without 
pullies, looking towards the camp of the 
53d regiment, one of which was thrown 
up and fastened by a piece of notebed 
wood. Window-curtains of white long 
cloth, a small fire-place, a shabby grate, 
and fire-irons to match, with a paltry 
mantel picce of wood, painted white, 
upon which stood a small marble bust 
of ‘his|‘son. Above the mantel-piece 
hung the portrait of Marie Louise, and 
four or five of young Napoleon, one of 
which was embroidered by the hands of 
ihe mother. <A little more to the right 
hung also a miniature picture of the 
Empress Josephine, and to the left was 
suspended the alarm chamber-watch of 
Frederic the Great, obtained by Napo- 
Jeon at Potsdam; while on the right, the 
consular watch, engraved with the cy- 
pher B, hung by achiain of the plaited 
hair of Marie Louise, from a pin stuck 
in the nankeen lining. The floor was 
covered’ with a second-hand carpet, 
which had ‘once decorated the dining- 
room of a lieutenant of ‘the St. Heiena 
artillery. In the right-hand corner was 
placed the little plain irov camp bed- 
stead, with green silk curtains, upon 
which its) master had reposed on the 
ficlds of Marengo and Austerlitz, Be- 
tween the windows there was a paltry 
second-hand chest of drawers; and an 
old book-case, with green blinds, stood 
on the left of the door Jeading to the 
next apartment: ‘Pour or five cane 
bottomed chairs, painted green, were 
standing here atid there about the room. 
Before the back-door, there was a Sereen 
covered with nankeen, and between that 
and the fire-place an ‘old-fashioned sola, 
covered with white Tong’ cloth, npon 
which reclined Napoleon, clothed in his 
white morning gown, white loose trow- 
sers and. stockings all.in one.,..A;che- 
quered, red, madras upon his-bead,: and 
his shirt collarcopen. without:a ‘cravat. 
His air was melancholy and tronbled, 
Before him stood a little round table, 
myselfto belong to-any particular coun- 
O'Meara's' Voice from St. Helena: 
with some hooks, at? thé ‘foot ‘Of whiels 
lay; in confusion tiponi thé carpet, a heap 
of those ‘whieh hé had aires perused, 
and at the foot of tlie’ sofa! facine him, 
was Suspended? a portrait’of’ 1 ress 
Marié Bwiise with Ker Son aytiere ns. 
Tnifront of the fire: place'sthtd TA¥ Cases 
with his arms folded over his breast; dnd 
some papers'in 6né of his hands.’ * ‘Oral 
the’ former ‘magnificence ‘of ‘the °dneé 
mighty empervr of France, nothing’ was 
present except a” superb”! washhatnd 
stand, ‘containing’'a’ ‘sitver' ‘basin,” atrd 
water-jug of the same’ metal in the left: 
hand corner. yeh 
Napoleon, affer’a few quyedoys o no 
importance, ‘asked me; inv Bofli ‘Pretich 
and Italian, in the ‘presence’ of Count 
Las Cases, the following! questions : ft 
“ You know that it wis m consequence 
of my application that yout-were appoint- 
ed to attend upon-me. ' Now Pwant'to 
know from you, precisely and traly, as'a 
man of honour, in’ What situation’ you 
conceive yourself to be, whether as my 
surgeon, as M. Maingaud was, or thie 
surgeon of 'a prison-ship and prisoners 
Whether you have ofdersto report every 
trifling occurrenée, or illness; or what I 
say to you, to the governor? Answer 
me candidly; What ‘situation ‘do you 
conceive yourselfio bein?” Dreplied,; 
‘As your surgeon, and to’attend upon 
you and your suite. I have réceived fio’ 
other orders, than to make ah immedi 
ate report in case of ‘your ‘béiie takett’ 
seriously ill, in order to havé! praniptly 
the advi ice and assistance ‘of other! phy- 
sicians.”  “ Virst obtaining my consent 
to call in others,” demanded hey“ ist’ 
not so?” I answered, “that TD weuld’ 
certainly obtain his previous consent.” 
Ife then said; “If you were appointed 
as surgeon to a prison, and to report my 
conversations to the governor, “whom I 
take’ to be an‘ capo di spioni, Twould 
never see you again. | Do not,” eonti- 
nned he; Cow my ‘replying that’ T ‘was 
placed about him as a surgeon, and by 
no) Means asa spy,) ““suppose ‘that I 
take you for'a spy; on the contrary, I 
have never had the least occasion to find 
fault with you, and I have a friendships 
for-you, and an ‘esteem for your charac- 
ter) a greater proof of which T'could not 
give you than ‘asking you candidly your 
own opimion of your situation ; as you, 
being an Englishman, and paid’ by the’ 
English government, might perhaps be 
obliged to do what T have asked.” I 
replied'as ‘before said, and! that) in my 
professional’ capacity T did not consider 
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