The Sun.
London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

POISONING THE SICK AT JAFFA.

We returned to Jaffa on the 24th May, and
remained there till the 29th. This city, but
lately the scene or a terrible necessity, was once
more to behold the same necessity of command-
ing death. Here have I a rigorous duty to
fulfil : I shall fulfil it, and will declare what I
know—what I saw. Some terts were erected
on a little eminence near the gardens which sur-
round Jaffa on the east. The order was secretly
given to blow up the fortifications, and, on the
276, upon the signal appointed, we suddenly
beheld the town uncovered. An hour after-
wards, the General, attended by Berthier, with
several physicians and surgeons, and the ordi-
nary staff, entered his tent. I accompanied
him. A long and melancholy deliberation en-
sued respecting the probable fate of those in-
curably sick of the plague, and their term of
life. After the most conscientious discussion,
it was decided to anticipate, by a potion, an
inevitable death, which must take place a few
hours later, hut under circumstances more griev-
ous and painful.
Bonaparte rapidly traversed the fallen ram-
parts of the little city, and entered the hospital.
There were here some with amputations, some
wounded, many soldiers afflicted with opthalmia,
uttering lamentable cries, and the plague patients.
The beds of the last were to the right, on en-
tering the first ward. I walked by the General's
side. I affirm never having seen him touch a
single infected patient. And why should he
have touched them ? they were in the last stage
of the malady. No one spoke a word. Bona-
parte knew well that he had no safeguard against
infection, and that to expose himself needlessly
was to expose his army, who had no hope save
in him. He traversed the wards quickly,
switching the yellow top of his boot with the
whip which be carried in his hand. While
moving rapidly along, he repeated these words...•
" The fortifications are destroyed : Fortune has
been against me at Acre: I must return to
Egypt, in order to preserve it from the enemies
that are coming : The Turks will be here in a few
hours. Let all who feel themselves able, rise and

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come with us, they shall be transported: Jo
litters and on horseback." There were lisvell
sixty plague patients. Whatever has been PO
of numbers above this, is exaggeration. Their
total silence, their complete exhaustion, or imi.
versal languor, announced their approaching end.
To carry them out in that state was evidently to
inoculate the army with the pestilence. Ali the
various theories and accounts of this evenit-
of
which I am by no means ignorant, are fabrications
or fables. The fact ought to be frankly avoivrdr
proving, at the same time, its indispensable;
though painful necessity. For my part, I &do
what I believed then to be true—what I bellee
now to be true. 1 cannot say that I sat, the
potion administered ; I should tell an untruth.
lam unable, therefore, to name any person,
without hazarding something incorrect,. But 1
know quite positively that such determinstien
was taken---and ought to have been taken, int,.
deliberating. That the order, in cortaequetnein
this determination, was given, and that the phte
patients died, are facts which I guarantee ((VPe
discovery of the truth. How is that vieb
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formed the whole subject of conversation stbeee•
quarters, on the morrow after our departuttips,
Jaffa, as a thing not to be doubted; OP
which we spoke as a lamentable necessql
which was spread throughout the whole. Ont.
public report; that which men regarded 017'tis,
the details only requiring explanation r411.:"',
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become an atrocious invention to Tully
right in the case of the seven
of a hero ? Napoleon's own statement front..
is
Helena is in the main correct, exeePi
the number, which signifies nothing. If it!?
acknowledged did receive the opiate, the IWO
equally justifiable in the case of silty, to 001
I believe it was administered, and for velint'
know it to have been ordered. If
_ wrong,
crime was the same in either case. HiB roft
big on its propriety, necessity, and even l'1178„
pity, is but a repetition of that which evey:H
and he among the rest, employed and or eight, which
twenty years before at Jaffa.—Constabiii, g •
cellany, Vol. LVlL—Metnoirs Nark°ll'
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