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was pale, and his beard of an unshaven appear- 

 ance. His forehead is thinly covered with dark 

 hair, as well as the top of his head, which is 

 large, and has a singular flatness ; what hair he 

 has behind is bushy, and I could not discern 

 the slightest mixture of white in it. His eyes, 

 which are grey, are in continual motion, and 

 hurry rapidly to the various objects around him. 

 His teeth are regular and good; his neck is 

 short, but his shoulders of the finest proportion 

 the rest of his figure, though a little blended 

 with Dutch fatness, is of very handsome form." 



On returning on deck the Emperor engaged 

 in conversation with Lord Lowther, Mr. Lyttel- 

 ton, and Sir George Bingham for an hour before 

 dinner. He complained of the severity with 

 which he was treated in being consigned to pass 

 his days on the rock of St. Helena. In a con- 

 versation the author had with Count Bertrand, 

 the latter complained in very forcible terms of 

 the needless cruelty of sending them to such a 

 place ; he said that the Emperor had thrown 

 himself on the mercy of England from a full and 

 consoling confidence that he should there find 

 a place of refuge : 



" It would have been no disgrace to England 



