sary_ to remove him from the neighbourhood of the countries in
which his name was the watchword of rebellion and discord--and that,
after all, Napoleon was a native of Corsica, one of the hottest climates
in Europe, and was at all times, constitutionally, able to endure the
extremes of heat much better than of cold--witness Egypt and Russia.

There was a rule that Napoleon's correspondence should all pass through
the hands of the governor of St. Helena--and this Sir Walter Scott
condemns. Had the English government acted on the Buonapartean model,
they would have made no such regulation, but taken the liberty of
privately examining his letters, and resealing them, after the fashion
of the post-office under Lavalette. It diminishes our regret when we
learn from Sir Walter Scott's next page, that, in spite of all laws and
severities on this score, Napoleon and the companions of his exile
contrived, from the beginning to the end, to communicate with their
friends in Europe, without the supervision of any English authorities
whatever.

The finishing touch is put to the picture of unworthy duplicity by one
of Napoleon's own followers, and most noisy champions, General Gourgaud.
This gentleman himself informed the English government, that at the time
when Napoleon, in order to create the notion that his supplies were
restricted beyond all endurance, sent some plate to James's Town to be
broken up and sold, he, Napoleon, had in his strong box at Longwood at
least L10,000 in gold coin.

There is one name which will descend to posterity laden with a tenfold
portion of the abuse which Napoleon and his associates lavished on all
persons connected in any degree with the superintendence and control of
his captive condition--that of Sir Hudson Lowe, a general officer in the
English army, who became governor of St. Helena in May, 1816, and
continued to hold that situation down to the period of the ex-emperor's
death in 1821. The vanity of Napoleon appears to have been wounded from
the beginning by this appointment. According to him, no person ought in
decency to have been entrusted with the permanent care of his detention,
but some English nobleman of the highest rank. The answer is very plain,
that the situation was not likely to find favour in the eyes of any
such person; and when one considers what the birth and manners of by far
the greater number of Buonaparte's own courtiers, peers and princes
included, were, it is difficult t