discuss whether a little more or little less restriction should be imposed, that they had thus to examine Sir Hudson Lowe at their bar: How and when did he escape? In the early part of the evening, and from his garden. Had his garden no sentinels? The sentinels were removed. Why were they removed?- General Buonaparte desired it; they were hurtful to his feelings; they were then removed, and thus was he enabled to escape. What would their Lordships think of such an answer? He begged them to consider the situation of Sir Hudson Lowe-in what a painful and invidious station he was placed. If General Buonaparte escaped, the character and fortune of Sir Hudson Lowe were ruined for ever: and if no attempts were made to effect that escape, there would not be wanting some, from false motives of compassion, to reproach him for those restrictions which had probably prevented those attempts from being made. It was now said in the memorial, that the residence pitched upon for General Buonaparte was unpleasant and unwholesome: he could only say, that this was not the general account of that place. It had formerly been the house of the Lieutenant-Governor, and it was not the custom for lieutenant-governors to choose the most unpleasant and unwholesome spots: neither had this been the former opinion of General Buonaparte himself. When the General had first been sent there, it was left to the discretion of Sir G. Cockburn to fix on a residence for him, with only one exception, namely, the house of the Governor. That choice was to be directed by a view to the safe custody, and, as far as was consistent with that, by the consideration due to his comfort. Soon after his landing, General Buonaparte rode out with Sir George Cockburn, till he reached Longwood, with which, at first sight, he was so much captivated, that he wished to remain there, and not to go back to the town. He was told that it would be impossible so soon to remove the Lieutenant-Governor's family. He then wished a tent to be erected, which it was also represented would much incommode the Lieutenant-Governor; but he was assured that the occupants should be removed as soon as possible. As they returned, they came to a house prettily situated, which belonged to Mr. Balcombe, near which a detached room had been built. General Buonaparte expressed a wish to occupy that room, and after Sir G. Cockburn had in vain endeavoured to dissuade him from it, he took up his abode there for the time. It was but two days after, however, that his attendants complained of this harsh usage, as they termed it, in placing the Emperor in a single room. This was the manner in which the compliance of Sir G. Cockburn was received. So many alterations were made

at Longwood, that General Buonaparte remained in that room three months. Constant improvements or alterations were made at Longwood, on account of himself or his suite, which delayed his removal; for the fact was, that he was unwilling to remove from Mr. Balcombe's, on account of the facility of communication with the town. During his residence there, he was circumscribed to a small garden, beyond which he never moved without a guard. He did not, however, at that time, make any complaint; but he now, for the first time, complained of restrictions on his liberty, when he was allowed to range within a circuit of eight miles, if he pleased, unattended. When the prisoners were first sent to St. Helena, orders were given to send out a frame for the purpose of constructing a house for General Buonaparte. When the materials arrived, Sir Hudson Lowe wrote to the General, whether he would like to have a new house erected, or additions made to the old one. He received no answer; but in two or three weeks he went to the General to endeavour to obtain a decision from him. The General answered that he should prefer a new house, but that it would take five or six years to build, while he knew that in two or three years, either the administration in this country would be overturned, or a change would take place in the government of France; and in either case he should be released. As this was all the answer Sir Hudson Lowe could get, he proceeded to make alterations in the present house. General Buonaparte then objected to this, though it was done for the purpose of lodging his attendants. He (Earl B.) did not object to General Buonaparte's choice either of the new house or the old one, or between alterations and no alterations; but he objected to this- that he made every attempt to make his residence convenient for the foundation of a charge against the Governor, and that he watched the moment when an attention was paid to his wishes, to make that attention a source of complaint. He should now advert to the subject of the expense bestowed on the maintenance of that individual; but he should previously mention the rumour, that St. Helena had been mentioned at the Congress of Vienna, as a place to which Buonaparte might be removed from Elba. It was one of those rumours, whether received from foreigners or Englishmen, in which he could assure the noble Lord he was quite mistaken. There was no mention at the Congress of such a proposition. As to the expence of the establishment of General Buonaparte at St. Helena, it had been at first, from the want of arrangements for regular supplies, unavoidably great; but it had always been in contemplation, when those arrangements were made, that the expenditure should be considerably

reduced. The permanent expence of the establishment of Buonaparte had from the first been fixed at 8000l. a-year, though it was of course contemplated that the first year would much exceed that expence. In fixing that allowance, the Government had been somewhat guided by the expenses which the Governor of the island had been found to have incurred. That Governor was paid by the India Company: his salary was 1800l. a-year, and his table expences were paid, as he was bound to receive and entertain all the passengers in the company's ships touching at the island. Those table expences had been found, on an average of years, to be 4700l. a year, in all 6500%., which was regarded as afair criterion of the expence of supporting an establishment on that island. As General Buonaparte was not subject to those expences which the Governor had been obliged to incur, 80007. a year was deemed a fair allowance: that estimate, it was to be remembered, had been given in to the other house of parliament, as the probable expence of that establishment; and the instructions of Sir H. Lowe on this subject were founded on it. This sum was considered sufficient to provide General Buonaparte with all that could be considered as suitable for a person in his situation. Instructions were, however, transmitted to the Governor, informing him, if it required more for the support of General Buonaparte than what had been considered sufficient for that purpose, if he thought any additional luxury necessary beyond what could be provided for the sum fixed in this country, His Majesty's Ministers were inclined to allow it. Sir Hudson Lowe, in answer, said, he thought the establishment of General Buonaparte could not be suitably provided for under 12,000l. a-year. An intimation was immediately given that the sum of 12,000l. was agreed to by His Majesty's Ministers. If their Lordships considered this too small a sum for the expences of General Buonaparte, he only wished them to recollect that Sir Hudson Lowe himself was only allowed 12,000l. for all his expences, of whatever nature they might be. A fortnight after the receipt of the letter from this country, General Buonaparte entered into a negociation with Sir Hudson Lowe, in which he undertook to furnish the whole of his expenditure, amounting to 17 or 18,000l. himself, if he had permission to correspond with any banker, provided the letters were allowed to be sealed, and provided all the money so received should be wholly at his disposal; and so confident was he that he had this money at his command, that he offered at once to draw for it; and he assured Sir Hudson Lowe that he might advance the money with safety, because he had no doubt that his draft would be accepted.

In stating this,

he did not mean to say, that because General Buonaparte possessed funds, and even large funds, that, therefore, the Government of this country ought to make him pay for the expences of his establishment out of these funds; but he said this, that having given him so high an allowance as 12,000l. a-year, such an allowance as they gave to their own Governor, who was exposed to great expences, and who had to receive the visits of the inhabitants, and of the commissioners of the allied powers; surely, if this sum was sufficient for the Governor, it was sufficient for General Buonaparte; and, if he wished for more than this, it ought to come out of the funds, and large funds, at his own disposal. There was one other point which he should notice, as it related to a statement in a publication formerly mentioned by him;

that one bottle of wine a day only was allowed for each person, and that if this allowance was drank by any of the individuals on the establishment, he could get no more. In order to ascertain the expenditure of any establishment, it was usual to calculate on a certain quantity of such things as were used for each individual per day. It was by no means intended, that the same quantity should always be drunk by such individual. With respect to the calculation of one bottle per day, for each person, it was one which would be considered in this country as not an unfair one: this was the allowance for His Majesty's table. A bottle a day for each person was considered by military gentlemen as sufficient for the supply of their messes; sufficient for themselves, and for such company as might be invited to their mess: it was not usual to allow more one day with another, to any person in the prime of life. But to show how liberally the allowance to General Buonaparte was calculated, he should read to their Lordships an extract from the estimate for his table, in which this very article of wine was minutely specified. There was an allowance of strong and weak wine. The quantity of weak wine was 84 bottles in the course of the fortnight; but he should put that out of the question, and merely state the quantity of the other description of wine. Of that better sort of wine, there was no less than 266 bottles in one fortnight, applicable wholly and entirely to General Buonaparte and his attendants. The particulars were— 7 bottles of Constantia, (or 14 pint bottles); 14 bottles of Champaign; 21 bot tles of Vin de Grave; 84 bottles of Teneriffe; 140 bottles of Claret: in all, 266 bottles.

"The number of persons connected with General Buonaparte, excluding those of tender age, amounted to nine: so that there was an allowance of nineteen bottles in one day, for ten persons; and taking one day with another, the allowance might be con

sidered two bottles a-day for each grown person. In addition to this quantity of wine, forty-two bottles of porter were allowed every fortnight, being at the rate of three to each individual. Having stated so much, he trusted he had convinced their Lordships, that there was not any ground whatever for apprehending that they were acting towards General Buonaparte with any thing like severity. Those persons who were placed under his controul had behaved in the most insolent manner towards the Governor ; and if their Lordships were willing to lend an ear to every complaint proceeding from them, there would be no end to their complaining. With respect to the Governor, he could not support his authority unless he endeavoured to enforce obedience to all the dispositions which he was by his instructions appointed to make. If they thought that Buonaparte ought not to be detained at St. Helena, then dismiss him; but if they thought that he ought to be detained, it would be unjust to throw such a heavy responsibility on the Governor, and at the same time prevent him from enforcing such measures as the secure detention of his prisoner demanded from him."

Of the last two years of Buonaparte's eventful life we have nothing to record. It has been repeatedly asserted in the daily prints, that he was occupied in preparing memoirs of his own extraordinary life. Indeed, several assumed productions of his pen have been published in this country; all of which, without an exception, have been publicly denounced as spurious by the Count de Montholon. Of the conversations purporting to have been held with the Ex-Emperor, and the justifications entered into by him, as to particular points of his moral and political conduct, which have been at various times given to the public, the greater part are, we have reason to believe, equally unauthentic.

It only remains for us now to mention the death of this wonderful man, which took place at St. Helena, May 6th 1821, after an illness of about six weeks' duration.

The cause of his death is said to have been a cancer in the stomach: a disease which had been fatal to his father. Previous to his decease, Buonaparte expressed a desire that his body should be opened, in order that the real nature of his complaint might be discovered. This was done, and the stomach was found to be the entire seat of the disease, where