short--the recriminations mutual, and, for the first time perhaps,
the fallen Emperor heard himself addressed in that tone of equality and
indifference to which, for so many years, he had been a stranger.
Thenceforth the course of his journey carried him more and more deeply
into the provinces wherein his name had never been popular, and
contemptuous hootings began by degrees to be succeeded by clamours of
fierce resentment. On more than one occasion the crowd had threatened
personal violence when the horses were changing, and he appears to have
exhibited alarm such as could hardly have been expected in one so
familiar with all the dangers of warfare. But civil commotions, as we
have seen in the case of the revolution of Brumaire, were not
contemplated by Napoleon so calmly as the tumults of the field. At this
time besides he was suffering under a bodily illness, the fruit of
debauchery, which acts severely on the stoutest nerves. It is admitted
on all hands that he showed more of uneasiness and anxiety than accords
with the notion of a heroic character. At length he disguised himself,
and sometimes appearing in an Austrian uniform, at others riding on
before the carriages in the garb of a courier, reached in safety the
place of embarkation.

A French vessel had been sent round from Toulon to Cannes, for the
purpose of conveying him to Elba; but there happened to be an English
frigate also in the roads, and he preferred sailing under any flag
rather than the Bourbon. His equanimity seemed perfectly re-established
from the moment when he set his foot on the British deck. He conversed
affably with Captain Usher and the officers; and by the ease and
plainness of his manners, his intelligent curiosity as to the
arrangements of the ship, and the warm eulogies which he continued to
pronounce on them, and on the character of the English nation at large,
he succeeded in making a very favourable impression on all the
crew--with the exception of Hinton, a shrewd old boatswain, who, unmoved
by all the imperial blandishments, growled, at the close of every fine
speech, the same homely comment, "humbug." Saving this hard veteran, the
usual language of the forecastle was, that "Buonaparte was a very good
fellow after all"; and when, on finally leaving the _Undaunted_, he
caused some 200 _Napoleons_ to be distributed among the sailors, they
"wished his honour long life, and better luck the next time."

He came within view of his new