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and Mr. Wildiiiiin. in January, 1.S15. lie says: - 



"Our fir.-it vii-w of him was from the window across 



the lawn, where we beheld, not what we expected, an 



iiili-r(>;tiir.:. .iiiiinated and martial (iKiirc, bnt a heavy clumsy 



FlGL'KE 160. 

 Napoleon. From a sketch made in April, 1S20. 



man, moving with a very awUward gait, and reminding us of 

 a citizen lounging in the tea gardens about London on a 

 Sunday afternoon. He was dressed in a large, but plain. 

 cocked hat, a dark green hunting coat, with a star, etc.. 

 on the left breast, white kerseymere breeches and white silk 

 stockings." 



In another part of the letter he writes :— 

 " Bonaparte must either be very dilTerent in his present 

 appearance and demeanour to what he once was, or we 

 have all been in a great measure deceived. In person he is 

 more like old Wardeniaat, of Batavia, than any man I can 

 name. This resemblance struck us all. To be sure, he has 

 not quite so large a belly, but in other points he does not fall 

 short in size. His face is scpiare, his colour sallow, and his 

 eyes jaundiced without reflecting one ray of light. His visage 

 generally was not unlike that of a Brazilian Portuguese. 

 Though still deficient in animation, his manner was abrupt, 

 rude and authoritative, and the most ungentlemanly that 

 I ever witnessed. While speaking he took snuff or seemed to 

 take it, for there was none in his box, and altogether treated 

 us in the same manner as in his worst humour he was wont 

 to do." 



Captain John Barnes's "Tour through the Island 

 of St. Helena " was published in London a vear 

 after the Raffles visit. The coloured frontispiece 

 " Napoleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena "' 



is now reproduced. It must, for obvious reasons, 

 have been engraved by K. B. Fcake from a sketch of 

 earlier date, and does not in any case show the 

 deterioration s])oken of so unHatteringly by Sir 

 Stamford Raffles, who declared he came to Long- 

 wood with a predisposition in favour of the 

 illustrious e.xile. There is no description of 

 Napoleon to be found in Captain Barn^'s common- 

 place te.xt, but amongst the subscribers to the work 

 are Lieut. -Col. Dodgin, C.13., Lieut. Dodgin and 

 Ensign Dodgin, all of the 66th Regiment. 

 Lieutenant (afterwards Captain) Dodgin, as Mr. 

 Watson points out, is responsible for the portrait of 

 Napoleon executed in 1820, now given. (See Figure 

 160.) Another of Barnes's subscribers was .Mr. 

 Dcnzil Ibbetson. 



The only uniform Napoleon ever put on at St. 

 Helena was that of the Chasseurs de la Garde, the 

 green coat with red facings, white breeches and top- 

 Iwots, shewn in the Barnes frontispiece ; but on 

 November 28th, 1815, he dropped the uniform (only 

 to be resumed on special occasions, such as his move 

 to Longwood on December 10th, 1815), and put on 

 a cut-away tail-coat, brown or green, with white 

 lireeches and silk hose, a small hat with tricolour 

 cockade and the plcjcj lie and ribbon of the Legion of 

 Honour. The green coat was an old htmtins? 



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Napoleon as portrayed by Captain Dodgin 

 66th Regiment in 1820. 



