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EXTRAC' FR'M THE OFV!CIAL coE i%SPoNt)htiCE

THE MARITIME Plißt,F.Cr Or ROCHEFORT,

Roclivfort, July )7, 1815.,

au),-1 have the honour to Iu your.;-
Ex th.it hi. Brit:iintit., 'Majesty's ship the
13t letup' on; on board of which •N:liolcon
arle et Onitked On the 15th of the month, set

EnOxiclyesterday, the 166) :it one iu the

saii •

" This ship carries, besitles that personage, 4l
the persons who have attached. themselveS to his
fortunes. The list is here adned : they were at
first divided among the frigates LaSeale and La
Aleduse : they afterwards assed.: on the 14th, in
thee' sing, to the brig l'Epervier, whence they
were conveyed,, in the boats of the English divi-
sion, commanded by Admirll Sir Henry Hotham.
" List of the principal personages embarked on
board the Bellerophon with Napoleon Buona-
.
part e

" Lieutenant-General Count Bertrand, Grand :Slarshal of
the Palace.

" Tie Countess Bertrand and tlit,:e children.

" Licuteuaut•Gctieral the Duke of llovigo.

Licutenatit-C;illeral Lallentatid.:
" Th'e Baron Gourgaud, Aiie-de-Carp

tin Napoleon.

" The Marshai.de-Camp 31°0 holon-Semonville, ditto.

The (outitess Mouth°lott-Setnomille and a child.
" The Count Las Casses, Counsellor of State, and his son.
" M. Itesiguy, Chief of a Squadron, Orderly Officer.
" M. Planat, Chief of a Squadron, ditto.
" M. Autrie, Lieutenant, ditto.
" Nl,Sehniz, Chief of a Squadron.
" M. •P:ointkorski,, Captain.
" M. Mereher; Captain.
" M. Maingaolt, Surgeon of Napoleon.

[Here follow the names of forty iudiridnals composing the
suite of Napoleon, and of the othipassengfers embarked with

(Signed) " Baron DONNEFOUX.
" To his Excellency the Minister of Marine and Colonies."

REPOCT MADE TO HIS EXCELLENCY TILE MINISTER

oF MARINE AND COLONIES, \BY THE CAPTAIN

OF A FRIGATE, DC RIGNY,.,S,FECIALLY SENT TO

ROC LI EFOitT

" MY Loup—l have the honour to send to
1-our Excellency a detail of the information which
I hive collected, relative to the tni:ision. With
11'10 .6) I was charged to Rochefort.,
" At►i ving at. this port, on the morning-of the
ISth, I learned that Napoleon 13nonaParte bad
stilt.<l for England, in the blip of his Britannic
I\laje3ty t ie Belleraphon; Capt. -Maitland, on use
Ithh of JuLy, at•hall-past 1 o'clock in the after-
noon.

instrtictions directing me to have official
tounnonicat iOll3 OD this subject with Admiral Ho-
tham; commanding' the English station,.l home-
ly wrote to him, tending at thy same time
rite di2patoies of Mr. Croker, ::,:ecretary of the
Admiralty of 141ligland, of which 1 was the hetirer.
ltlese letters were conveyed 'to rt..
t Lieutenant de Vaisseau Fleurian, whom your
Excelleacy had joined with me.
" It results from the different Lommunications
which I have had with the English Admiral and
-the 'Maritime Prefect, that Napoleon, on arriving
at Rochefort the 3d of July, resided at the Pre-
fcct's house till the Bth. Urged by Geu: Beeler,
who wits charged to escort'him to hi. goine. on
board, and by Biro!) Bonnefoux, the Maritime
Prefect, to avail himself of every opportunity of-
fered by witul and title, heat last resolved to em-
bark in the boats„ which waited for him every
ride, and went On board the Saale at Oat night,
his retinue between that 'frigate and the
Medusa.

Next' day, the 9th, he landed on the isle 'of
Aix, it'd vihite:! the tortifications.
" On the 10th, the %rinds were favourable for
putting et) s'. a, but tile English cruisers and the
Inuonlight left the frigates:: but little hope of
escape.

" nom the 10th to the llth Napoleon sent in
a flag of truce .on hoard the English ship the
Belleroi,hoih, Messrs. General ..Sai:ary and. .Las
liaise' This flag ot truce rethrnee on th.e
" From the Ilth to the 1211 t, Napoleon learned
from his Erother Joseph, the ,dissolution of the
Chambers,. and the King's entrance-into Paris.
Up to tills last moment, Buonaparte had often
expressen an opinioh, that ate Chambers would
recall him, miether;.:he wished thus to impose
**purl the authorities around lira, or really che-
rished that tope.

• " Ou the 12th,. he laittled on the Isle of Mx,
with his suite and baggage, and on the night of
the 12th two half-decked boats arrived there front
Rochelle. It would appear that Napoleon had
purchased them with the design.of ..embarking in
them,•aud attempting, under cover of night, to
reach a Danish- smack, and which it is supposed
Ile mad bargained, -and which was to wait for hint
at the distance of 30.0 r -10 leagues. Why he did
not await himseit of these arrangements is un-
kilo ; probably because they appeared to hint
too hamrdous.

"On the night of the 13th he went on board the
French brig ipervier, and on the evening of the
14th Cienerai ':ticker, who ban been varltYing on
hoard the English cruizers, havtna returnea, Na-
poleon caused his suite and haggale to hs put on
`board the Epeij‘ier,
‘• On the morning of the vessel was
perceived making sail as a tia.r of
truce t ovva
.
rils
the Admiral's ship ; the state of' the sea not per-
wittiog it to approach rapidly, sinne English
boas came to meet them, unit conveyed:the pi -
bengers on board the Bellerophon, On this oc_
c,iiion Lieutenant JourdAn, Commandant of the
rEpervier, thought it his duty to 4,k null accord.
ingtv obtained from the Captain nf rite Bellero-,
. ,
piton, a wratetuccrtiticate of thUtt-Unier of Buti-
miparte uu houi:d that vessel.. '
•‘ On the Sadie day a fri4att' on the station
weighed and made sail for England:-
~" Out the Itit it, the Belier Option set sail at .lAle 7
rtSi nice in the afternoon. The little wind there
Las since been, together with its direction do not