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An opportunity was afterwards afforded, with the concurrence 

 of the persons who had composed the family of Napoleon Buona- 

 parte, to as many officers, naval and military, as were desirous 

 to the Honourable the East India Company's officers and Civii 

 servants, and to various other inhabitants resident here, to enter 

 the room in which the body lay and to view it. 



At two o'clock this day the body was opened in the presence 

 of the following medical gentlemen : — 



Dr. Short, M.D. 



Dr. Mitchell, M.D. 



Dr. Arnott, M.D. 



Dr. Burton, M.D., of H.M. 66th Regiment, and 



Matthew Livingstone, Esq., surgeon in the East India Company's 

 service. r J 



Professor Autommarchi assisted at the dissection. General 

 Bertrand and Count Montholon were present. 



After a careful examination of the several internal parts of the 

 body, the whole of the medical gentlemen present concurred in a 

 report on their appearance. The report is enclosed. 



I shall cause the body to be interred with the honours due to a 

 general officer of the highest rank. 



I have entrusted this despatch to Captain Crokat, of His Majesty's 

 20th Regiment, who was the orderly officer in attendance upon the 

 person of Napoleon Buonaparte at the time of his decease. He 

 embarks on board His Majesty's sloop Heron, which Rear-Admiral 

 Lambert has despatched from the squadron under his command 

 with the intelligence. 



I have, etc., etc., etc., 



H. Lowe, Lieut. -General. 



To the Right Hon. the Earl Bathurst, K.G., etc., etc. 



The Report of Appearances on Dissection of the Body of 

 Napoleon Buonaparte. 



Longwood, St. Helena, 

 May 6. 



On a superficial view the body appeared very fat, which state 

 was confirmed by the first incision down its centre, where the fat 

 was upwards of one inch and a half over the abdomen. On cutting 

 through the cartilages of the ribs, and exposing the cavity of the 

 thorax, a trifling adhesion of the left pleura was found to the pleura 

 costalis. About three ounces of reddish fluid were contained 

 in the left cavity and nearly eight ounces in the right. The lungs 

 were quite sound. The pericardium was natural, and contained 

 about an ounce of fluid. The heart was of the natural size, but 

 thickly covered with fat. The auricles and ventricles exhibited 

 nothing extraordinary, except that the muscular parts appeared 

 rather paler than natural. 



Upon opening the abdomen the omentum was found remarkably 



