The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-04 00:00:00

Hams (not to exceed
I 41b. each)
Coals

bushel 45
80s. I
90s.
Wine,
Bottles.
Champaign, or Yin de
Grave - - • -
Madeira. -
Cons tantia -
Claret

Fish (in value)
Milk • (do.)

Daily Extra Expendi
1 Dozen of Eggs £0 5 0
81bS of Butter, at 3s. 1 4 0
2lbs Wax Candles, at
3s. 6d. - 0 7 0
3 Fowls, at Os. each 0 18 0
41bs Sugar Candy, 2s. 0 8 0
21bs Loaf Sugar 0 6 0
11b. Cheese - 0 3 0
Vegetables . 010 0
Weekly E.
Two Turkeys - £3 0
One Ham - - 3 0
One roasting Pig - 011
The above expenditure does not contain the meat bought by
the 'Ffench, from three to five sheep weekly; and two calves
monthly.
Mr. O'Meara's Appendix account of St. Helena, p. 423, v. 2.
" Tea is the only commodity to be purchased cheap. We
found on our arrival that provisions were scarce ; indeed the
necessaries of life were to be procured with great difficulty,
and at an exorbitant rate. Such was the scarcity of cattle,
that killing a bullock was an affair of state, and a regulation
existed (but Mr. o'lll. does not assert that it was then prac-
tised upon), prohibiting the inhabitants from slaughtering even
their own cattle, without having obtained official permission
from the Governor and Council. The sheep are very small,
weighing from 20 to 30 lbs. each, ( Welsh mutton we map sup-
pose.) Mutton, when to be had, sells from Is. fid. per lb. to 25.;
fowls, from Os. to 10s. ; ducks, 10s. ; geese 15s. ; a turkey,
.235. to 40s. ; veal, about 2s. per lb. ; pork, Is. 3d. ; cabbages,
frOm 10d. to 2s. 6d. each ; carrots, Is. per dozen ; potatoes, Os.
to Bs. per bushel ; eggs, per doz. ss. to Os. ; peas, sometimes to
be had, but exorbitantly dear. The principal supply of fish is,
mackerel, which is caught in abundance. There are albicore,
boneta, hulls eyes, cavally, and at times, but very rarely,
turtle. There is a sort of cray-fish, called long-legs, and some
species of crabs." -

One bottle of Pickles £0 12
Three bottles of Olives 1 4

It appears from the above list of articles furnished by Go.
~Triunent, that of the solids, 180 lbs. were, as it regards the 45
persons, composing the prisoner's family, not influenced by
price; and the public may judge from their own experience,
whether four pounds of solid food, taken together, is or
is not a sufficient daily allowance at an average of the men,
women, and children, enumerated in the above list :—but to
this average of 4 lb., must be added the poultry, the confec.
tionary, the eggs, fish and vegetables, &c. ; and that the
French were permitted to make up what they considered to be
deficient, to as large an extent as they pleased, from their own
purse, which was stated by Buonaparte himself to be an
immense sum, seven millions of francs, and there appears,
at any rate, 12,0001. lodged at his disposal in a private bank in
London ; but he chose from time to time, as stated in the jour.
nal, to sell his plate for this purpose. The truth will be found,
on the perusal of Mr. O'Meara's own statement by every un-
prejudiced person, 'to be very diffifrent from what he seems to
wish it to be thought, for the prisoner and all his people were
well fed ;--and under no further restraint than was necessary for
his safe keeping. The dwelling, which was assigned to him,
was the best which at the time could be procured; and sufficient
for the residence of any private Gentleman. It appears that
the situation was, in some respects, too much exposed to be
agreeable at all times, and Buonaparte fixed upon this circum-
stance as a foundation for his complaints—endless and ever
the same repeated; but hundreds of Englishmen, who' had the
misfortune to be appointed his Guards, shared his fate in
this particular, without the burthen, it must be confessed,
of the crimes which brought him there. But the British
Government, with a liberality which this unworthy man
little merited, accommodated him at a vast expense, to
the best of its ability ; which he, from ill-temper, cer-
tainly did not enjoy ; for that enemy to all repose, which
accompanied him from Elba to St. Helena, afforded him none
of those consolations which invariably proVe a balm to inno-
cence within, under any outward distress. One other subject
of complaint is stated to be connected with what his own act of
abdication deprived him,—The title of Emperor. This, and
the Regulations copied above, induced the poor creature it
seems to confine himself to the house, in spice of the continued
remonstrances of his medical advisers, who assured him that
such means would terminate fatally, which proved to be the
case on the sth of May 1821, after a residence in the Island
of five years, six months, and 22 days.
The following is an extract from the Journal, at p. 184, v. 2.
" Have you ever heard," said he, " that Lord Wellington
was the-person who first proposed to send me to St. Helena?
I replied, that I had heard so, but that I did not give the re-
port any credit. "ifit be true," said he, "it will reflect but
little honour upon him in the eyes of posterity." • Mr. O'Mea.
ra's note on this passage is as follows :—" It is said that the
Duke of Wellington returned to England from India in a fri-
gate commanded by Captain (now Sir George) Cockburn, and •
remained at St. Helena for some days, during which time he
narrowly escaped death •by drowning, having been upset in a
boat in one of the squalls; so prevalent at that anchorage; also,
that when Napoleon was at Elba, his Grace suggested to the
Congress,. that he should be removed from thence to St. Helena,
urging the latter place to be the best adapted for his perpetual
imprisonment, from his own local knowledge. I merely give
this report as an on dit, though I know that it is believed by
many. If true, however, perhaps the-Duke may esteem it to
be one of his most brilliant achievements, and only surpassed
by the manifestation of generosity and humanity he displayediin •
the fate of his old Antagonist Ney."
Here Mr. O'Meara,—in the first place says, that he disbe.
heves this vague charge ;—secondly, he argues upon it as if it
were true ; though, in fact it was the very advice which it be..-
came his Grace as is friend to his country and mankind in ge.