The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-25 00:00:00

BUON.A.PALITE.

[FROM A-PARIS PAPER.I

The Princess Borghese, Buonaparte's sister, long solicited
the British Government for leave to join her brother at St.
Helena. She obtained permission, and Was making the neces-
sary preparations for the voyage when she was informed of
Buonaparte's death. M. Bonavita, the priest, who left St. He-
lena in May last, has transmitted to this Princess the follow-
ing letters, to which the spirit of party endeavours to give im-
portance :

COUNT DE 31ONTHOL073' TO THE PEENCE'S BORGHESE,

AT 1103tE.

" MADAME—Napoleon has charged me to give yoU an ac-
count of his health. The malady in his liver, which attacked
him manyijears ago, and which is mortal iii this climate, has in
the course of six weeks made a frightful plogress. The amelio-
ration produced by the care of pr-Automarchi has not continued,
and many relapses took place during the concluding six months
of last year, and the disease renders him weaker every day.—
Napoleon is extremely feeble, and can scarce support half an
hour's ride in a carriage, with the horses walking. He can
just walk in his chamber without assistance. To his liver com-
plaint is added 'another disorder which belongs to this climate
—his intestines are strongly attacked ; his digestive organs no
longer fulfil their functions, and his stomach rejects all which
it receives. For some time Napoleon has eaten neither meat
nor bread, nor vegetables ;- he lives but upon potted meats
and ices. Count Bertrand wrote in September last to Lord
Liverpool to demand the removal of the Emperor -to a
more favourable climate, and to convince him of the ne-
cessity of its being in the neighbourhood of mineral waters ;
I have given M. Bonavita a copy of this letter. The Governor,
Sir Hudson Lowe, refused to transmit it to his Government,
under the vain pretext that it gave to Napoleon the tide of
Emperor. Monsieur .Bonavita departs to-day for Rome; he
has experienced the cruel influence of the climate of St. Helena;
one years residence in this island will cost him six of his exis-
tence. The letter which M. Automarchi has written to Car-
dinal Fe,sch will give your Highness the circumstantial details
of the krnperor's disease. The journals of London constantly
publish letters under the head of St. Helezia, which abound with
lies, and which are fabricated to deceive Europe. Napoleon
hopes that your • Higluiess will endeavour to make known
the real state of his malady. He dies without succour, on a
frightful rock; his agony is terrible. Receive, Madam, &c.
(Signed) " BIONTHOLON."
COPY OF TUE LETTER FROM GENERAL COUNT BER-
TRAND TO LORD LIVERPOOL.

" Longwood, Sept. 3, 1820.
" My LoRD—I had the honour of wnting to you on the 25th
of June, 1819, to inform .you of the situation of the health of
the Emperor, who, since the month of October, 1817, has been
attacked by a chronical complaint in the liver. Dr. Automar-
chi arrived here in September last ; he dedicated all his care to
Napoleon, who obtained from it some relief ; but since this phy-
sician has declared, as appears from his notes and bulletins,
that the decease had reached a poi,nt at which. the aid of medi-
cine could do nothing against the pernicious effects of the cli-
mate; that mineral waters appeared to him to become neces-
sary; that so long as he remained at St. Helena his life would
be only a long agony, and that he could hope for no relief but
by returning to Europe, his strength being entirely worn out
by a residence of five years in the dreadful climate of St. He-
lena ; by the privation of every necessary, and by the bad treat-
ment of which he has been the object.
" In consequence, the Emperor commands me, my Lord, to
demand, as the only means of preservation which remains to
him, to be transferred to Europe.
(Signed) -" BERTRAND:"
COPY OF A LETTER FROM THE MILITARY SECRETARY
TO GENE.RAL BERTRAND.

" Plantation House, Sept. 8, 1820.
" Stu,—The instructions addressed to the Governor not per-
mitting him to receive letters in which the title of Emperor is
given to Napoleon BuOnaparte, 1 am commanded to return that
which you have addressed to Sir Hudson Lowe ; you will find
it enclosed.

" The Governor commands me at the same time to observe
to you, that he has never received the letter which you state
that yogi addressed to him, the 25th of June, 1819, for Lord
Liverpool.
(Signed) " GOERtGNER, Military Sec."
There are three decisive observations to be made on these
letters.

1. The allegation that the climate of St. Helena is unhealthy
was never made until that island was chosen for the prison of
Buonaparte. On the contrary, all travellers spoke of the salu-
brity of the island; all sick navigators went there for their re-
covery. Even Buonaparte did not resort to this argument in
the two first years of his residence. He then pleaded that "he
had not been made prisoner of war in a formal manner." It
was in 1817 that the island of St. Helena suddenly became
insalubrious.

2. The demand of being transferred to another place was
made to the British Government by Buonaparte himself ; but
Lord Bathurst, in a speech delivered in Parliament, declared
that the British Government would not accede thereto, as there
was no other place in the world, where, if he remained a pri-
soner, he could enjoy •so much liberty; that if he were re-
moved, it would be necessary to confine him more closely ; and,
finally, that as long as he might be detained he would always
complain.
3. It had been formally notified to Buonaparte and to the
persons of his suite " that England only regarded him as Ge- •
neral Napoleon Buonaparte, because the English Government
had never recognised•lum as Emperor, and the dignity of First
Consul had ceased to exist ; that consequently any letter in
which the title of Emperor was given him would not be sent to
England." The persons of the suite of Buonaparte knew,
then, perfectly well, that by obstinately giving him the title of
Emperor in their letters, they, prevented the Governor from for-
warding them. The non-departure of the letters is then, the
result of their own obstinacy ; and if that non-departure has
had influence on the fate of Buonaparte, that man, however
great in other respects, must have died the victim of his love of
etiquette.
Be this as it may, the arrival or the non-arrival of these let-
ters in Europe was a matter of indifference, as the Governor
was ordered to keep a daily account of the state of Buonaparte,
of his wants and his wishes, and to transmit that account to the
British Government. The contents of these letters were there-
fore known. These publications only serve to deprive the pri-
soner of St. Helena of the historical colouring under which it
was wished to make his last years appear.

NAPLES, AVG. 4.—The Prince of CANOSA has
been removed from his place ; the Duke of Ascom has been
appointed in his stead, the KING having first agreed to certain
propositions made by the Duke. All the heads of the police
have been changed, and the persons appointed, particularly the
three Directors in Chief, are persons highly esteemed 'in the
kingdom.—A duel took place a few days since' between his
Highness the Prince of in the Austrian Army, and a
Russian Officer, who was travelling in Italy. The quarrel was
owing half to LOVE, and half to a NATIONAL DISPUTE (ac-
cording to the authority most to be depended on); the Russian,
however, was very severely wounded, and is still confined:—
The Prince has left the Kingdom.—On Thursday last
(August 2), about three hours after midnight, we felt a smart
shock of an earthquake in thii city ; we however learn that the
force of the convulsion was most forcibly felt at Castellamare
and the promontory that runs beyond Sorrento. We have just
received an account from an English friend, who is staying for
the bathing season at a monastery in Sorrento, of the consterna-
tion it occasioned among the brethren—The Austrian regi-
ment Lichtenstein arrived from Lombardy a few days ago, and
it is said the regiment Alexander will shortly follow.