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reception of the names and tributary effusions of 

 the visitors gives ample evidence of the feelings 

 which a visit to this spot produces in their minds, 

 and displays the characteristic fervor of the 

 nation.* 



Such may be the feelings of the former; but the 

 majority of the English display a recklessness of 

 manner, or mere feelings of common curiosity, 

 on visiting a place so interesting. No one ought 

 to visit this spot without reflecting on the life of 

 him, whose sceptre fell from his grasp, and left 

 him to live and die an exile, attended only by a 

 faithful few, — all they asked was 



" To divide 



Every peril he must brave ; 

 Sharing by the hero's side 



His fall, his exile, and his grave." 



Close to the grave is the clear spring whence 

 the water for his use was procured, and on once 

 visiting the spot, he selected it as his resting- 



* After the revolution at Paris, in 1830, and the tri-coloured 

 banner had again waved over the towers of France, when the 

 first French ship arrived at St. Helena, with that revolu- 

 tionary standard at her gaff, her commander and crew visit- 

 ing the tomb, placed a tri-coloured cockade upon it, glorying 

 in " restoring to him his colours, under which he had so often 

 led the French nation to victory, and which ensign was again 

 the emblem of liberty to France." 



