The National Register.
London, England, 1821-07-08 00:00:00

DEATH OF BCONAP.IIITE.

This event took place on the sth of May last—
from a eery consideral,.e degree of indisposition,
under which the Ex-E..yeror had for some time
labmre.l it was not whoby unexpected, and was an-
uouticed by the arrival on Wednesday last of Capt.
Crokatt, of the loth 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-
p, suns, 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 skeleton. Food only added to
his rain, and his stomach which was ulcerated in
an extraordinary degree, lost all its functions, and
nutrition moat have for a long time ceased to have
any effect. Thus ended the mortal career of a man
whose military and pclitical life has no parallel.—
Without. patronage or high birth he rose by the ex-
ercise of his matchless talents to wear an Imperial
Diadcm, and made monarchs tremble at his nod.—
Previtms to the enterprise, which ended in his ruin,
he held the destinies of Nations in his grasp—he
moved them us he skose, 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 Al ilitury Cap-
LIM, and an able Statesman, so eminently blended.
The' vicissitudes of this unprecedented Monarch's
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 :sland, bereft of the
association ()Ibis wife and child. In his character,
though then 2. were many dark shades, many bright
parts appeared, which furnish a mirror to existing
Sovereigns to learn how to act. In his living lie
was abstemious, and in mental exertion and corpo-
real activity he aus never surpassed. He saw with
Lis own eyes, and never acted on any representa-
tions from his Ministers that he did nut 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 (lid 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.
went and taste. Nothing, during his high career,
was so glorious to him as the dastardly fear of him,
which was evinced by the Allied Sovereigns after
his reverse of fortune—nothing so disgraceful to
them as tne 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 from his mistaken reliance on the
nimbleness of the British Government, and on the
magnanimity of his present Majesty, then Prince
Regent.

The following extract of a letter dated St. Helena,
Nay 7, unnuins some further particulars relative
to the closing scene of Buonaparte. It was written
Ly an English officer who was on the island at the
time of his death, and had ample opportunities of
verityilig his statements

,* iT. HELENA, MAT 7.

•• As it was die expressed wish of Buonapartt that his body
shouid he ulr. red, and as it was also most desirable to the autho-
rities here, 'hat the true seat of his disease should be ascertained,
it took plire at two o'clock yesterday, the day after his death.—
These new p MS own surgeon, who operated, the surgeon
of the ship, nd live miler surgeons; the Deputy Adj.•
General, and Btigiute Major, with Bertrand and Minitholou.—
t 1 am the chest was operadd, the liter was found to be perfectly
sound, with not a mark of disease about it. The French surgeon
even cut it through with his dissecting knife, and all the surgeons
voo were pi esent agreed that nu •• liver complaint" had ever
existed. Su much for the discernment of Messrs. O'Meara and
Istokiie. But when they pnweeded to the examination of the
swim-ch. all the surge. !Ill.:4114 Celled out • There is the seat
of the disease.' It was a • catn.or of the stomach the bailie diS•
order, I understand, of wl.ir!‘ his lather died; there was also a
nude in one part of it large enough to admit the point of a man's
finger. The inetLcal alien nininimously agreed that it could not
have been produced by the climate, or by depre slain of mind,
and that • he must have died,' as M.ulaine Bertrand exclaimed
when tie pearance of his disorder aAs described to her, ' had
be beau in the midst of his glory at Atisterlitt.' With regard to