790 
PARIS. 
Uxbridge, earl of, makes an unfuccefsful 
attack on the French, 536. 
Warden's Letters from St. Helena, 566. 
Water, fcarce and dear at Paris, 489. 
Waterloo, 536 ; battle of, 538-549. 
Wellington, duke of, commands the allied 
army againft Napoleon, 531; at the bat¬ 
tle of Quatre Bras, 532 ; remarks on his 
conduit, 534, 5; retreats, 535; prepares 
for the battle of Waterloo, 536 ; his 
force, 538 ; his pofition favourable, 539 ; 
difpofttion of his troops into fquares, 
540; h is intrepidity, 541, 2; at length 
gains the battle, 5445 does juftice to 
his opponent, 549 ; his proclamation upon 
entering France after the battle, 553 ; 
his forbearance in the attack upon Paris, 
555 ; and in the fpoliation of the mu- 
feum, 578. 
Whitbread, moves an addrefs to the prince 
regent to continue at peace v. ith Napo¬ 
leon, 520 ; negatived of courfe, 321. 
Willon, Hutchinfon, and Bruce, affifr in 
the efcape of Lavalette, for which they 
are imprifoned three months, 585. 
Wine-hall, 490. 
Wool-market, 489. 
Wrede, commander of the Bavarian troops, 
reaches Paris, 553. 
In p. 571. we exprefied an opinion, that Napoleon’s 
confinement would not end but with his life. That opi¬ 
nion, or prophecy, was written at the moment of its ac- 
cor.iplifhment, though impoffible to be known to us. 
Our N° 1265 was publifhed on the 12th of May, 1821 ;> 
and that extraordinary man had expired on the 5th of the 
lame month. He was taken ill on the 17th of March, 
and kept to his apartments to the day of his death. Du¬ 
ring the early part of his indifpofition, from the 17th to 
the 31 It of March, he was attended by his own medical 
affiftant, profelTor Antommarchi, alone. During the 
latter period, from the ift of April to the 5th of May, 
he received the daily vifirs of «Dr. Arnott, furgeon of his 
majefty’s 20th regiment, generally in conjunction with 
profelTor Antommarchi. On Tuefday, the ill of May, 
was the firlt time Napoleon’s cafe was confidered to be 
dangerous. Wednefday, the 2d, he got werfe. Thurs¬ 
day his life was defpaired of. Friday he was Somewhat 
better, having taken a little ref re fit merit. Saturday, the 
5th, at five o’clock in the morning, no hopes were enter¬ 
tained of his recovery 5 and precilely at ten minutes pall 
fix o’clock in the evening, he terminated his mortal life. 
His age was 52; he was born in 1769, the fame year that 
gave birth to his great and fuccefsful adverfary the duke 
of Wellington. 
As it was necefiary that the chief officers of his majefty 
on the illand fltould’ be qualified to teftify officially the 
death of this illuftrious exile; accordingly, the next 
morning, the 6th, at about feven o’clock, fir Hudfon 
Lowe, the governor, proceeded to the apartment where 
the body lay, accompanied by rear admiral Lambert, na¬ 
val commander in chief on the ftation ; the marquis de 
Montchenu, commiffioner of the king of France, charged 
with the fame duty alfo on the part of the emperor of 
Aultria ; brigadier-general Coffin, fecond in command of 
the troops; Thomas H. Brooke, and Thomas Greentree, 
efqrs. members of council in the government of the 
ifiand ; and captains Brown, Hendry, and Marryat, of 
the royal navy. After viewing the perlon of Napoleon 
Bonaparte, which lay with the face uncovered, they re¬ 
tired. An opportunity was afterwards afforded, with the 
concurrence of the perfons who had compofed the family 
of Napoleon, to as many officers as were defirous, naval 
and military, to the Eall-India Company’s officers and 
civil fervants, and to various other individuals refident 
there, to enter the room in which the body lay, and to 
view it. 
As it was the exprefied wi(h of Napoleon that his body 
fiiould be opened, and as it was alfo raoft defirable to the 
authorities there that the true feat of his difeafe fhould 
be afeertained, it took place at two o’clock, in the pre¬ 
fence of the following medical gentlemen : Dr. Shortt, 
principal medical officer; Dr. Mitchell, furgeon of the 
Vigo ; Dr. Arnott; Dr. Burton,furgeon in the 66th regi¬ 
ment; and Matthew Livingllone, efq. furgeon in the 
Eaft-India Company’s fervice. Profelfor Antommarchi 
operated in the difle&ion. General Bertrand and count 
Montholon were prefent. When the cheit was opened, 
the liver was found to he perfectly found, with not a mark 
of difeafe about it. The French furgeon even cut it 
through with his diflecting-knife ; and all the lurgeons 
who were prefent agreed that no liver-complaint had ever 
exifted. But, when they proceeded to the examination 
of the ftomach, all the furgeons inftantly called our, 
“ There is the feat of the difeafe !” It was a cancer of 
the ftomach ; the fame diforder, it is faid, of which his 
father died: there was a hole in one part of it large enough 
to admit the point of a man’s finger. The medical men 
unanimoufly agreed that it could not have been produced 
by the climate or by depreffion of mind ; and that “ he 
niuft have died,” as madame Bertrand exclaiiped when 
the appearance of the diforder was deferibed to her, “ had 
he been in the mi alt of his glory nt Aufterlitz !” 
Napoleon was perfectly aware of the nature of his com¬ 
plaint, and frequently deferibed it to thofe about him, 
but was never able to convince his furgeons that he had 
a juft notion of ir. Mr. O’Meara and Mr, Stokoe always 
infilled that Napoleon had a liver-complaint, brought on 
by the climate, and the mode of living he was partly 
forced to. His friends and adherents always re-echoed 
thele complaints; and Mr. O’Meara has lince'publifned 
fome angry remarks upon the report of the government- 
furgeons. The idea of an hereditary cancer of the fto- 
mach, perhaps, will not gain much credit with medical 
men ; but, as the complaint was really cancerous, on the 
ftomach, not hepatic, not produced by the climate, it will 
be pleafing to Englifhmen, and to Napoleon’s friends in 
every country, to beconfcious that the treatment of that 
extraordinary perfon did not contribute to Ihorten his 
life. 
With regard to the body’s lying in ftale, and the gene¬ 
ral admifiion of the inhabitants of the ifiand to view it, 
fir Hudfon Lowe left the matter entirely to the option 
of Bertrand and Montholon, who both wifhed that it 
fiiculd be the cafe. Accordingly, in the afternoon, foon 
after the examination of the body by the furgeons, he 
was dreffed in his green uniform with red facings and all 
his (tars and orders. This gave rile to a report, that he 
had been dreffed up before lus death in full uniform, and 
had died fo, like Frederic the Great of Pruffia. lie was 
placed on a (mail brafs tent-bedliead, which he had with 
him in molt of his campaigns. Under him was his cloak 
of blue cloth, embroidered with iiiver, which he wore at 
the battle of Marengo, which ferved afterwards for the 
pall of his funeral. The room where the corpfe lay was 
final), and covered with black cloth ; at the head of the 
corpfe was the altar. The prielt, marlhal Bertrand, count 
Montholon, and all the fervants, were in attendance. His 
perfon feemed imall, and rather diminutive (exaCt height 
five feet leven inches) ; but the finenefs of the counte¬ 
nance exceeded expectation : the face appeared to be 
large, compared with the body ; the features pleafing and 
extremely regular, ftill retaining a half-formed fmile ; and 
mult have been truly impofing, when enlivened by a pene¬ 
trating pair of eyes. His Ikin was perfectly fallow, 
which feemed to be its natural colour. 
The body of Napoleon was not embalmed. His heart 
which Bertrand and Montholon earneltly deiired to take 
with them to Europe, was reftored to the coffin, but it 
remains in a filver cup, filled with fpirits : and the fto- 
mach, which his furgeon was anxious to preferve, was 
alfo reftored, and is in another filver cup. At length 
the whole remains were consigned to three coffins; one 
of lead, one of plain mahogany, and an cuter one of oak, 
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