The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-09 00:00:00

DEATII OF BUONAPARTE.

This event took place on the .sth of May last—
from a very considerable degree of indisposition,
under which the Ex-Emperor had for some time
laboured it was not wholly unexpected, and was an-
nounced by the arrival on Wednesday last of Capt.
Crokatt, of the 20th regiment, the officer who was
in personal attendance upon him when he died:
Napoleon suffered exceedingly from the nature of
his complaint, which was a cancer in the stomach,
but he bore his sufferings with philosophic com-
posure, not permitting a sigh to escape his lips.—
The depredations on his constitution for six weeks
previous to death were rapid and severe, as he was
reduced almost to a sLeleton. ro.AI only added to
his pain, and his stomach which was ulcerated in
an extraordinary degree, lost all its functions, and
nutrition must have fur a lung time ceased to have
any effect. Thus ended the mortal career of a man
whose military and political life has no parallel.—
tvithou t. patronage or high birth he rose by the ex-
en ise of his matchless talents to wear an Imperial
Diadem, and made monarchs tremble at his nod.—
Previous to the enterprise, which ended in his ruin,
he held the destinies of Nations in his grasp—he
moved them as he chose, and his very name had not
only a magical influence on his Military Legions,
but struck terror into those Continental Sovereigns
by whom he was opposed. No man was a more
acute judge of human nature than Buonaparte, and
in no man was the character of a great Military Cap-
tain, and an able Statesman, so eminently blended.
The vicissitudes of this unprecedented \lonarch'►
life furnish an awful lesson to those who wear a
crown. He who ruled a mighty empire was at
length doomed to eke out the miserable remnant of
his life in a barren and insipid !bland, bereft of the
association of his wife and child. In his character,
though there were many dark shades, many bright
parts appeared, which fUrnish a mirror to existing
Sovereigns to learn how to act. In his living he
was abstemious, and in mental exertion and corpo-
real activity he was never surpassed. tic saw with
his own eves, and never acted on any representa-
tions from his Ministers that he did not first inves-
tigate and approve; and though occasionally pas-
sionate and petulent in his temper, still he seldom
committed an error which, from his extraordinary
presence of mind, he did not instantly repair.—
During his reign the most usefUl and stupendous
works were begun and contemplated, and every part
of France exhibits some grand proof of his improve•
mcnt anti taste. Nothing, during his high career,
was so glorious to him as the dastardly fear of him,
which was evinced by the Aliied Sovereigns after
his reverse of fiatune—nothing so disgraceful to
them as tae studied brutality, and unnecessary pri-
vations he was forced to submit to during a five
years of confinement, which, we regret to add, com-
menced only front his mistaken reliance on the
nobleness of the British Government, and on the
magnanimity of his present Majesty, then Prince
Regent.

e Wowing extract of a letter dated St. Helena,
May 7, contains some further particulars relative
to the closing scene of Bunnapartc. It was written
by an English officer who was on the island at the
time of his death, and had ample opportunities of
vet ifying his statenieuts :

•'ST.IIEI.I Ar 7.

• As. it wa, the expressed wish of Iltionaparte that his body
should lie opened. and as it was also most d: suable to the autho-
rities here, that the true twat of his disease should be ascertained,
it took place ut two o'cluel yesterday, the day after his death.—
There were p essent. his own surgeon, who ululated, tlw surgeon
of the Admiral's slop, and five oilier surgeons. the Deputy Auj.-
Gcneial, and Biigade Major, with Bertrand and Monthulun.—
When the chest was opened, the 'ism was fount! to be perteet4
sound, with not a mark of disease about it. The French surgeon
even cut it through with his dissecting knife, and all the surgeons
who were present agreed that no •• liver complaint" had ever
existed. So much tor the discernment of Messrs. O'lteara and
Stokoe. But when they proeeethvl to the t minitnation of die
sioinach, all the surgeons to.itintly called out • Tillie is the scat
of the disease.' It was a • cancer of the stiosiacli ;' the same di,.
order, I understand, of Tellico his lather died; Mere was also a
hole in one part of it large enou,;ll to admit the point of a man's
linger. The medtcul torn uo .nc...ousiy agreed that it could MA
luerc been produced by the 6 ..tc. or by rlepr,:.i.ion of mind•
and that • he must have die h' as Aladiune Bertrand exclatinal
when the appearance of his ,c 6 der e.O deaeribed to her. • had
lie been in the nudat of hi.. gkry at A it.dcrlitz.' With rig rid to