Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Journal de la vie privée et des conversations de l'empereur Napoléon à Sainte Hélène, Part 8

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases

H. Colburn, 1823

Contents

• Official Decision respecting my Removal to the CapeArtful: 8
• Correspondence continuedThe Governor disconcerted: 16
• 1: 19
• Last FarewellSealing of my PapersDeparture: 30
• Passage from St Helena to the Cape a space of eighteen: 40
• MY RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE: 93
• Removal to Newlands the Governors Country Residence: 120
• Residence at TygerbergThe name of Napoleon familiar: 133
• PASSAGE TO EUROPE: 148
• VOYAGE FROM THE THAMES TO FRANKFORT: 162
• RESIDENCE IN GERMANY: 187
• FROM MY ARRIVAL AT OFFENBACH UP TO: 304

Popular passages

Page 252 - WP VAN NESS. NATHANIEL PENDLETON, Esq. In the evening of the same day I received from him the following answer : No. XI June 26, 1804. SIR, I have communicated the letter which you did me the honour to write to me of this date, to General Hamilton.

Page 237 - I am a mother, and my son's life is dearer to me than my own. In the name of Him whose essence is goodness, and of whom your imperial and royal majesties are the image, I entreat you to put a period to his misery, and to restore him to liberty. For this, I implore God, and I implore you, who are his vicegerents on earth. Reasons of state have their limits ; and...

Page 238 - ... life is dearer to me than my own. In the name of Him whose essence is goodness, and of whom your imperial and royal majesties are the image, I entreat you to put a period to his misery, and to restore him to liberty. For this, I implore God, and I implore you, who are his vicegerents on earth. Reasons of state have their limits ; and posterity, which gives immortality, adores, above all things, the generosity of conquerors.

Page 92 - On the following day, I received a visit from one of the captains of our station at St. Helena. Knowing the state of my son's health, he brought a medical gentleman along with him. This was a mark of attention on his part, but the introduction occasioned, for some moments, a curious misunderstanding. I mistook the Captain's medical friend for his son or nephew. The grave Doctor, who was presented to me, was a boy of eighteen, with the form, the manners, and the voice of a woman.

Page 19 - I am," &c. The Governor was very much vexed by my determination of not returning to Longwood, though I could not exactly guess the reason why. However, my resolution was fully confirmed on the following day, when he came to me, and after a long and very obscure preamble, respecting his sincerity and good intentions, he told me that to facilitate my communication with Longwood, he would consent to forward my first letter to Count...

Page 43 - A man is appointed to take the command here' (you, Sir, were the person alluded to) ' who holds a distinguished rank in the army ; he owes his fortune to his personal merit ; his life has been passed in diplomatic missions at the headquarters of the Sovereigns of the Continent, where the name, the rank, the power, the titles of the Emperor Napoleon must have become familiar to him.

Page 261 - ... which he is placed, and until he has regained his moral independence in what concerns the exercise of his functions. 9.— It is thus that a false representation is made by causing bulletins to be issued by a physician who has never seen me, and does not know the state in which...

Page 266 - ... months past the Emperor has only quitted his apartment occasionally, though very seldom, in order to pay a visit to my wife. He has hardly seen any one, unless it be two or three Frenchmen who are here, and the English Ambassador to China.

Page 237 - Do not render unavailing the entreaties of a mother, who thus appeals against the long series of cruelties that has been exercised towards her son. In the name of Him, who is in essence goodness, and of whom your Imperial and Royal Majesties are the image, I entreat that you will interest yourselves to put a period to my son's misery, and to restore him to liberty. For this I implore God, and I implore you who are his Lieutenants on earth. Reasons of state have their limits ; and posterity, which...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Journal de la vie privée et des conversations de l'empereur Napoléon à Sainte Hélène, Part 8; Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Journal de la vie privée et des conversations de l'empereur Napoléon à Sainte Hélène, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
• Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases
• Publisher: H. Colburn, 1823
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Mar 20, 2007