CHAPTER XIII 



BONAPARTE ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND 

 From Notes and Queries, by permission 



THE story of the great Napoleon's voyage to 

 St. Helena has been told in various ways and 

 by different people, but never more intimately 

 than by the English surgeon on board the 

 Northumberland. Mr. William Warden kept 

 a record of the various conversations he had 

 with Napoleon and his principal attendants, 

 and of anecdotes connected with them : these 

 he at once committed to a journal, and it was 

 from its pages that the letters were composed 

 which he wrote to a friend at home, evidently 

 of his own profession. These letters were not 

 written with a view to publication, but, yielding 

 to the urgency of his friends, the author printed 

 them about 1816. 



The work was well known at that period, but 



