s of white
long-cloth, a small fire-place, a shabby grate and fire-irons to match,
with a paltry mantelpiece of wood, painted white, upon which stood a small
marble bust of his son. Above the mantelpiece hung the portrait of Maria
Louisa, and four or five of young Napoleon, one of which was embroidered
by the hands of his mother. A little more to the right hung also the
portrait of the Empress Josephine; and to the left was suspended the
alarm chamber-watch of Frederick the Great, obtained by Napoleon at
Potsdam; while on the right the Consular watch, engraved with the cipher
B, hung, by a chain of the plaited hair of Maria Louisa, from a pin stuck
in the nankeen lining. In the right-hand corner was placed the little
plain iron camp-bedstead, with green silk curtains, on which its master
had reposed on the fields of Marengo and Austerlitz. Between the windows
there was a chest of drawers, and a bookcase with green blinds stood on
the left of the door leading to the next apartment. Four or five
cane-bottomed chairs painted green were standing here and there about the.
room. Before the back door there was a screen covered with nankeen, and
between that and the fireplace an old-fashioned sofa covered with white
long-cloth, on which Napoleon reclined, dressed in his white
morning-gown, white loose trousers and stockings all in one, a chequered
red handkerchief upon his head, and his shirt-collar open without a
cravat. His sir was melancholy and troubled. Before him stood a little
round table, with some books, at the foot of which lay in confusion upon
the carpet a heap of those which he had already perused, and at the
opposite side of the sofa was suspended Isabey's portrait of the Empress
Maria Louisa, holding her son in her arms. In front of the fireplace
stood Las Cases with his arms folded over his breast and some papers in
one of his hands. Of all the former magnificence of the once mighty
Emperor of France nothing remained but a superb wash-hand-stand
containing a silver basin and water-jug of the same metal, in the
lefthand corner." The object of Napoleon in sending for O'Meara on this
occasion was to question him whether in their future intercourse he was
to consider him in the light of a spy and a tool of the Governor or as
his physician? The doctor gave a decided and satisfactory answer on this
point.

"During the short interview that this Governor had with me in my
bedchamber, one of the first things he proposed