seemed perfectly satisfied, provided she were allowed to accompany
her husband. She had with her one fine little boy, about four years
old, and I believe left another child at nurse in France.

Count Las Cases, though he bore the title of Counsellor of State, held
no official situation with Buonaparte; nor did I perfectly understand
how he came to accompany him on his departure from France, as he was
not with him in Elba: but the intimacy appeared to have been formed
since his return from that island. Napoleon was fond of his
conversation. He was of small stature, being little more than five
feet high, and slightly made. He always spoke of his master in terms
of enthusiasm, and resisted every application from his wife and family
to remain behind, being determined to follow wherever Buonaparte might
be sent. He took with him his eldest son, a quick intelligent boy of
thirteen.

Monsieur Maingaut, the surgeon, with all the domestics beyond the
twelve who went to St Helena, were conveyed in the Bellerophon to
Portsmouth, and from thence sent to Cherbourg, and landed there.
Monsieur Saint Catharine, a lad about sixteen, nephew to the Empress
Josephine, and a native of Martinique, was provided with a passage to
that island in one of our sloops of war.

Captain Prontowski, a Pole, was allowed to proceed to St Helena, some
time after the Northumberland sailed. Why this indulgence was granted
to him, I never clearly understood; but it was said to be in
consequence of the representations he made to the British Government,
of the very strong attachment he entertained to his fallen master,--a
feeling, as far as I could judge, which prevailed with equal force in
the breasts of all those who accompanied him from France, without
excepting Madame Bertrand, who, when not influenced by the horror she
entertained of being banished to St Helena, always spoke of him not
only with affection, but in the language of respect and enthusiasm.

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[Sir Walter Scott adds at the end of his notes:--

I declare against abridgement. You are publishing a great and
interesting national document, in which accuracy is everything,
and abridgement takes greatly from its authenticity. Anything
that can be pointed out as what might be personally injurious to
these individuals whose attachment to a fallen master renders
them objects of interest ought of course to be retrenched. But on