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neutral (hips with theifland of St. Helena during the time 
Napoleon Bonaparte (hall be detained there, &c.” 56 Geo. 
III. c. 22, 23. 
The papers of Sunday, July 30, announced the deter¬ 
mination of fending Bonaparte to St. Helena j and, as he 
regularly inquired for them, that part did not long efcape 
his notice. Indeed, it was now publicly fpoken of by 
every perfon. In the evening, he had the marks of much 
agitation in his countenance; but fome of his fuite were 
more ferioully affe&ed. About nine o’clock, as marffial 
and madame Bertrand were walking on the deck in earned 
converlation, fuddenly madame rufhed into the emperor’s 
cabin, threw herfelf at his feet for about half a minute, 
then, flying below to her own cabin, threw herfelf nearly 
out of the (tern window, when (he was fortunately caught 
by general Montholon. She continued delirious the 
whole night. 
On the following morning, lord Keith and general 
fir H. Bunbury waited upon Bonaparte, informing him it 
was the determination of the allied fovereigns to fend him 
to the above place, and granting permiflion to take with 
him part of his fuite. It was faid that he affured the ad¬ 
miral and the general, it was his fixed refolution never 
to quit the (hore alive. 
Notwithdanding the news had greatly affeCfed him, he 
continued to (how himfelf for about twenty minutes every 
evening, to the really-adoni(hing number of people, 
which daily increafed. It was with great difficulty the 
men-of-war’s boats could prevent the crowd approaching 
too near the (hip. The lad evening that he made any 
confpicuous appearance on the gang-way was on Tuefday 
the id of Augud, when he (bowed himfelf only for a 
fliort time on each fide. On Wednefday he did not (how 
himfelf at all. On Thurfday he came on deck again, and 
twice looked out at the darboard gangway, and that was 
only momentary. On Friday the Bellerophon got under 
weigh about one o’clock ; and, not having had a fatisfac- 
tory view of him, “ I went in a boat with a few other gen¬ 
tlemen, and followed the (hip till (he was fome didance out- 
fide of the breakwater. All this time he did not (how 
himfelf; and, as the (hip was working out, I take it for 
granted he was not on the quarter-deck. How'ever, as 
there was but one guard-boat rowing a-dern, the others 
being employed in towing the (hip, there being but a 
light air, we frequently ran up pretty near to her; and, 
in confequence of two ladies, who had embarked on-board 
a fliore-boat under the idea that having no gentlemen with 
them they would be fu(fered to approach nearer the veffel, 
and who feemed mod anxious to fee the renowned pri- 
foner (lie had on-board, they frequently danding on the 
thwarts of the boat, and waving their handkerchiefs, he 
at lad made his appearance at the dern-window of his 
cabin, evidently for the purpofe of fatisfying their curio- 
fity. He held his head out of the window, and inclined 
it downwards, as if he was reding on his elbow's, without 
his hat being on, which gave us a complete view of his 
face and head, which is very bald on the top, but, the 
hair on the fide being fuffered to grow long, we could 
perceive it was combed acrofs. He daid about a minute, 
and then retired. We followed him till we got within a 
ffiort diflance of Penlee Point; but he did not (how him¬ 
felf again. Indeed I did not expert it ; for, in a ffiort 
time after he looked out at the window, he drew the cur¬ 
tains of the cabin-windows; when I remarked that it was 
decidedly done to let us know that the lion was no more 
to be feen.” 
1 1 is affierted, and we believe with truth, that Bonaparte 
poffeffes the art of pleafing in a high degree, and is a per- 
feCl mader in flattery, the kinds of which he adapts with 
the greated (kill to the perfons whom he addreffes ; his 
manner is confequently fafcinating; and he is faid, by 
his attentions in a Angle week, to have gained the good¬ 
will of the whole (hip’s company 011-board which he had 
embarked. The government therefore determined that 
another veffel (hqiild convey him to the place of hi$ dedi¬ 
nation; and accordingly the Northumberland received 
orders to prepare for that fervice. Every poffible precau¬ 
tion was deemed neceflary to prevent the recurrence of 
thofe contrivances which have fo frequently been exhi¬ 
bited. The veffels employed were therefore inftruCted to 
fail off the Start, and to transfer the perfon of Bonaparte 
from one (hip to the other at a didance from the (hore. 
On the 6th, fir Henry Bunbury, accompanied by the 
Hon. Mr. Bathurd, charged with the communication of 
the refult of the government to Bonaparte, were conveyed 
on-board the Bellerophon by lord Keith’s yacht. Sir 
Henry was introduced to the ex-emperor; and, after 
mutual falutation, he read to him the refolution of the 
cabinet, by which he was informed of his intended tranf- 
portation, in a different Jhip, to the ifland of St. Helena, 
with four of his friends, to be chofen by himfelf, and 
twelve domedics. He received this intimation without 
any mark of furprife, as he faid he had been apprifed of 
the determination, but he proteded againd it in the mod 
emphatic manner ; and in a fpeech of three quarters of an 
hour, delivered with great coolnefs, (elf-peffeffion, and 
ability, reafoned againd the proceeding. He recapitu¬ 
lated the circumdances under which he had been forced, 
he faid, by the breach of the treaty made with him by the 
fovereigns of Europe, to quit the ifland of Elba ; that he 
had exerted himfelf to prevent the renewal of hodilities ; 
but that, when they became unavoidable, and that the 
fortune of war decided againd him, he yielded to the voice 
of his enemies, as they had declared in the face of the 
world that it was againd him only that they had taken up 
arms; he abdicated the imperial crown of France, in the 
full confidence that the allies would be faithful to their 
folemn declaration, and leave his country to the fettle- 
ment of its own affairs; then, unarmed, and with a view 
of feeking an afylum as a private individual in England, 
he had fird fought to be received under the king’s alle¬ 
giance, and under the protection of our laws, and had 
finally voluntarily put himfelf into the Britifn power. In 
this predicament he felt himfelf entitled to proted againd 
the meafure now announced to him; and in a long ar¬ 
gument, in which he ffiowed himfelf to be well verfed in 
our laws, he reafoned againd the a£f. Sir Henry Bunbury 
and Mr. Bathurd fay, that his manner was temperate, his 
language eloquent, and that he condu&ed himfelf through¬ 
out in the mod prepoffeffing way. Sir Henry could only 
anfwer, that he had no commiffion but to make known to 
him the refolution of his majefly’s miniders; but faid 
that he ffiould faithfully report the reafons that he had 
dated againd the proceeding. 
The Bellerophon and Tonnant put to fea from Ply¬ 
mouth Sound, on Friday, the 4th of Augud; and here 
we mud explain the datement, that they (ailed to avoid 
the fervice of a w'rit of habeas corpus. The faffs of the 
cafe are, that the concourfe of boats in Plymouth Sound, 
and the lofs of fome lives which had already taken place, 
induced the government to remove the Bellerophon to a 
greater didance; and the writ which is fpoken of was a 
fubpeena from the court of king’s-bench, obtained by Mr. 
Mackenrot, who had a caufe pending in that court, in 
which lie wanted the evidence of Napoleon and Jerome 
Bonaparte, and admiral Villaumez. Now a writ of habeas 
corpus, it is well known, is, in England, a very impera¬ 
tive and important document; and though, no doubt, 
in the prefent circumdances, fome means would have been 
found to render it ineffective, yet it was thought bed to 
avoid it by a fide-wind. The (hips were ordered away; 
and the officer arrived with his fubpeena at the houfe of 
Sir John Duckworth a few minutes after the Bellerophon 
had failed. 
The Northumberland failed from Portfmouth on the 
fame day ; and, on nearing Torbay on Sunday the 6th, 
perceived two line-of-battle (hips approaching her, which 
proved to be the Bellerophon with Bonaparte on-board, 
and the Tonnant with lord Keith. In a few hours the 
Northumberland hailed them, and a(ked after Bonaparte, 
who. 
