The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-01 00:00:00

UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL.

This is an interesting and intelligent number,
with more variety than usual and more taste in
the selection of the topics The details of 4, The
Last Cruise of his Royal Highness the Duke of
Clarence,. as .Lord High Admiral of Great
uritain," is the most amusing article in the nutn.
le it is replete with freshness and animation,
and ; gives one or two bright glimpses of charac-
terWe subjoin an extract, descriptive of a
visit to Napoleon's house at St. t lelena
Previous to reaching the house, which is built on the
table-land of a small hill, we passed through a scanty
grove of treei, and dismounted at the door leading
into the billiard room of Longwood. The house consisted
of a ground-floor, with a roof exceedingly low ; the rooms,
few in number, were small, dark, and damp, and even
during the residence of the Emperor, when furnished, they
cannot but have been most wretched ; now the house was
quite dilapidated. The room where Wapoleon breathed his
la 4t,. contained a threshing-macbine; hie sitting-room had
been converted Lao 4 granary, and the library where he
p„,,ted the greater portion of his time, and dictated the
memoirs he left as a legacy to the world, was now a hen-
house! The bed-room, fitted up With stalls, served as a
stable; and the outhouses, once occupied by his faithful
Generals Montholon and Gourgaud, were appropriated to

alike purpose ! I ascended lo• the garret where young Las
Cases slept, but could scarcely stand upright in it. Is it
&subject of wonder that Napoleon should have complained
of ill-treatment, when the house given him as a residence
was taa Ind, that now it is only considered fit for a store-
house ? The garden in which he used to walk was still in
existence, but nothing about Longwood remained to indi-
cate that there hail resided Napoleon. The new house
erected by the British Government was comfortable, large,
and pretty ; it had been very handsomely furnished, but
the Emperor never occupied any of the apartments, his
health having been so bad at the time the house was
finished, that be would not remove from his old reeidence.
Whilst I was looking at Longwood, with that curio-
sity which every person would feel who ever heard of
Napoleon, and was remarking to one of my companions
that it was unfortunate England should have been obliged
to bear the odium of Napoleon's confinement, when she
was the only nation in Europe which gained nothing by
his detention, a young man who had joined our party,
merely because he thought it would be flee fun to have a
ride up the hill, and who knew no more about Napoleon
than that a General of that name fought the battle of
Waterloo, came up to me, after gaping about hies for some
time, and said, ' Well, this is a pretty house; what is the
name of it ?' Palmer !" said I, as I turned away and
mounted my home; ' twice to-day have I been delighting
myself with glorious visions of the past, and doomed to
have them banished by the common-place remark of some
ignorant being, whose heart or sense. are too dull to
appreciate the melancholy but pleasing sensation which,
one feels when contemplating scenes rendered so famous by
history as these.'"