The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-11 00:00:00

nUONAPARTE:

{arrnAnt OP it LETTER, DATED PARIS, SEPT. 8.1
" I dined yesterday with Dr. A NTOMARCIII, Ni_
POLEON'S physicirth. You will allow that one
cannot help feeling a great interest in conversing
with a person who has given the last drops of
water to such a raian, and I therefore readily ace
cepted the invitation to meet him. The Doctor
was very circumspect; but I have collected many
interesting gleanings from conversation with him
which I gave you as I got them. Buonaparte
occupied himself often with gardening; and under
his immediate superintendence bowers and grottos
were erected in the garden at Longwood. Gen.
Bertrand, Maclam Bertrand with the children,
and Dr. Antomarchi, assisted him on such occa-
sions. His usual dress .was that of .a Chinese
gardener--enankins, and a large straw hat.
. Within the last eight months of his life he could
scarcely move out., and was obliged either to
rest on the sofa, or in his easy chair he suffered
considerably, and was in consequence exceed-
ingly morose : he had lost full two thirds of his
corpulence: His last words certainly were
Te& .elonee,' but without any cormexion ; for
what he uttered was in a convulsive state, and no
other words could be distinctly understood. DOI.,
ing hie illness his son was the principal topic Of his
conversation : he-never conversed on• politics, at
least the Doctor said so. The priests Vireee sent
to. him by his mother, one old man (Buonavita),
and the other a young man. The first could not
bear the climate, and was. obliged to return to
Europe. Since their arrival mass was read every
day at Longwood, and the Doctor said, ' flat
moil. en Lon Ciretierz.' Buonaparte expressed
much disgust at tire old priest's smelling of tobacco
—he disliked smoking and smokers. Ile had
entirely left off taking snuff. You have seen it
noticed in the papers that he sent a present to
Lady Holland. The. circumstances that r led to
it are extremely honourable to her -Ladyship.—
Lady Holland was never personally known to
Buonaparte, but since his confinement she had
been enremitting in her attention to him, by
constantly providing him with articles for his
table which else thought would be agreeable to
him ; also by sending him books, and contributing
in many other ways to his domestic comfort. He
sent her a Cameo of great value as a token of
gratitude :it was on a snuff-box which the Pope
presented to Napoleon.—ln contradiction to all
:the anecdotes in English and other newspapers,
the Doctor assured me that the Emperor (he
never called him otherwise than tEinpercur)
never had any female attendant in his household,
nor was any One in attendance on him during his
confinement at St. Helena.—The veneration with
which the Doctor spoke •of him is beyond any
thing, of the sort I ever witnessed. Speaking
of Bertrand, -he always styles him le Grand
Marechal. Madam Bertrand was always allow-
ed to enter his room without being announced.
—Napoleon- was' quite resigned to die. in St.
Helena. He often conversed with Antomarchi of
events of his earliest age, and recollected the
most trilling-acts of. his childhood : the Doctor
being a native of Corsica, they generally conversed
together in the idiom of the island, which wria
quite familiar to Napoleon. The house at.Long-
wood was exceedingly small and uncomfortable,
and damp beyond conception; the new house was
not yet finished, arid it was Buonaparte's inten-
tion, had he lived, never to inhabit it. The
library of Napoleon consisted of the hest classics,
and through the kindness of Lady Holland and
other friends, he had a fresh supply of what was
new and interesting, every three months, sent to
him under Lord Bathurst's seal. Dinner was
always served on the plate ( service d'argrn:)
with the Imperial Arms on it, otf which he dined
at St. Cloud. Dr. Antomarchi found a proper
stone on the island, with which he had prepared
plaster, and succeeded very well in taking a
cast of his bust after his death : unfortunately it
had beeniiiipped to Leghorn, else I might, per•
haps, have had a sight of it. The Doctor has
intended it as a present to the mother of Brio-
naparte, whom he styles Mndarne Mere. The hair
of his head as well as his beard had been.shaved..
and sent to his relations, his household each
retaining some small quantity of it. The Doctor
had a small lock of it in a brooch. I had it in
my hand, and confess, and 1 am not ashamed to
say so, that my feelings wcre very acute at the
moment, and 1 perceived something like_ a tear
in my eye. The Doctor could not obtain per-
mission to embalm the body, not would the Go-
vernor (Sir IlUdson .Lowe) allow any inscription.
The remains were first_placed in a coffin of tin,
then in one of mahogany ; these two in one of
lead, and the upper are again in mahogany : all
four were well secured under the inspection of
lir. Antomarchi. I could not learn any thing
respecting the life of himself, which Buonaparte
was said to have written ; but it is probable, at
all events, that nothing was done in it after the
arrival of Antomarchi, as he declined in health
during those two years. Montholon, who came
over with Bertrand and his family,has permission to
return to Frances but Bertrand,who has been con-
demned to deathparcontumace,has not yet received
that permission. Dr. Antomarchi brought over' his
journal of the two last years' attendance on Na-
poleon, ready for publication. Several of the
London booksellers were anxious to obtain it,
and I think he said that: he had sold them the
copyright. The Doctor, who is about 32 years
old, was sent out to St. Helena by Letitia,'
mother of Napoleon. The point on which I was
_most anxious to obtain information, was the cause
of the non-appearance of the Doctor's name,
along with the rest of the surgeons, to the official
report of the causes of is death., and the ap-
pearance of his body after it. He was never,
asked to sign it, but his opinion was well known,
as he had frequently declared it without reserve
to be, that the death of Buonaparte was owing
to the climate."

Another alteration as to the time of the arr7t al
and departure of the London and Edinburgh mails
is, we hear, in cow( mplatiou. Should the re-
ported alterati )n take p ace, the mail from the •
south will reach 'Durham about 5 o'clock in -the •
morning, and will pass through, on its retuin
from the north; at 8 o':lock in the evening.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM •THE MORNING PAFERS,

September 11.

E 3131E5.l
We are no longer alarmed by the warlike ru-
mours or .prognostics contained in the foreign
prints; still, as heretofore, they bear a double
aspect. Letters from Odessa of the 14th tilt.
state merely, that Baron Strogonoff had arrived
there on the night preceding, having sailed from
Constantinople on the 9th. Much importance is I
ascribed by some people to the immediate dis-
patch of couriers from Odessa, to the Russian
Admiral at Sebastopol; the General, Wittgen
stein, in Bessarabia, and to St. Petersburgh it-
self. It is pretty obvious that couriers would be
dispatched, as a thing of course, though not so
CinT that their mission must have been the ne-
cessary harbinger of hostilities. Letters have
reached town from St. Petersburgh, of .a date
three days more recent than those from Odessa
—namely, of the 17th ult.: those which we have
seen are from respectable sources, and are
of a pacific nature. We learn at the same time
that some others of an opposite tendency have
come to hand; but nothing has yet been commu-
nicated to us on which we could feel our-
selves justified in surrendering our hopes that
peace for the present may still remain unbroken.
The enthesiasm of many of the German youth in
favour of the Greeks is not so difficult to account
for, as we find it to understand their schemes
of military co-operation ; nor is it very easy to
reconcile the encouragement, at least negative,
-which these adventurers appear to receive from
the higher powers throughout Germany, with
their positive prohibition to export arms, &c., to
the disturbed provinces of the Turkish empire,
and with their disavowal of all partnership with
the insurrection, throughout the countries on. the
Danube. The Gazette de France announces that
Morino is put upon his trial ; that the club of
modern Jacobins, de la Fontana, has accused
Don Carlos, the King's brother, of being at the
head of a counter revolutionary conspiracy, and
that a new crisis is dai}y expected at Madrid. It
is to be observed, that the French Ministerial
papers are in the habitof inserting such unfounded
or grossly exaggerated descriptions of the state
of parties, and of the prospects impending over
Spain, that they have lost all title to credit or
respect, except where they are confirmed by less
suspicious authority.

[MORNING POST.]
Contrary to the hopes and assertions of those,
whose interests require that Turkey should not
be disturbed in her present feast of blood, Baron
Strogonoff has not only sailed from Constantino-
ple, but has landed at Odessa. This intelligence
was brought yesterday from various quarters.—
French Papers to the Bth inst. first communicated
it, and it was afterwards confirmed by private
letters from Odessa, of as late a date as the 15th
of July. It is really curious to observe the efforts
made, both by the letterwriters, and by a large
portion of the public Press, to deny the import-
ance of the Baron's return, as they formerly de-
nied its probability. " The knowledge of this
circumstance," say some of the correspondents,
" has tended very much to remove the apprehen-
sion of a war between Russia and Turkey."—

" It is evident," says one of our contemporaries.,
44 that apprehensions of a war between RUssia
and Turkey have nearly subsided." Now what
has produced that evidence ? The very fact which'
the whole world has been told must be regarded
as the signal for hostilities, whenever it should
t2ke place! But perhaps the manner in which
it occurred may have changed its nature ;—the
arrival of the Baron at Odessa may haVe been
followed by no symptom of increased activity ;
the fleet and armies may have received no orders,
and the Baron himself may have shewn, by for-
bearing to communicate' any intelligence disas-
trous to the Porte, that he did not consider him-
self at liberty to display a hostile feeling towards
it. How stands this part of the case, and what
are the 44 evidences" on which both coPiespon-,
dents and contemporaries argue, when they as-
sert, " that the apprehensions of war have nearly
subsided ?" They are these, as stated in their
own letters and Journals:—" That Baron Stro-
gonoff, with his entire suite, arrived
.at Odessa
on the 13th ult., and that the Governor, Count.
Langeron, instantly dispatched three Couriers;
one to Count Orloff, Admiral commanding
the fleet of Sebastopol ; another to Count de
Wittgenstein, Commandant-in-Chief in BesSa-
rabia ; and the third to St. Petersburgh.—
Now what would have been the most natural
inference to be drawn from this? Would it not
have beeft that the Commanders of the fleet and
the army having been previously.instructed to
consider the arrival of Baron Strogonoff as the
signal. for hostilities, couriers were immediately
dispatched to inform them that the signal was
given and that the time for action was come,
whilst another was sent. to Petersburg!' to an-
nounce the opening' of the campaign ? With
respect to' the language used by Strogonoff
at his arrival. instead of being that of a man
who conceived that matters were still in de-1
bate, and that a guarded , conduct was • ne-
cessary, he was the first.to announce g 4 that the
greatest portion of the Ottoman fleet had been
taken, by the Greeks, and that among the pri-
soners was the Turkish Admiral, Cara AIL"—
This is evidence, we believe, which, if not quite
decisive of the actual commencement of hostili-
ties, affords stronger Presumption in favour of
-war than of peace ; yet it is that upon which
the opponents of the Greeks found the asser-
tion, that" the apprehensions of war have nearly
subsided !" 'We do notrecognize on this occa-
sion•their.usual 'keenness of perception, or so-.
lidity of argument.; neither do we quite forget
that none are so. blind as those who do not
choose to see, or that there' is such a thing as
voluntary deraisonmeni.. A few days must now
put an end to all speculations on this important
subject. Whether ours shall prove to have been
correct or erroneous we cannot pretend to decide;
all we contend for is, that they are 'neither la-
Poured nor forced) but spring -from the most

simple and natural construction of the intelli-
gence before us ; whereas those of our opponents
contradict all its points, are far-fetched, and
scarcely attain even the appearance of plausi-
bility.
[BRITISH PRESS.]
It may now, , as we think, be sufficiently col-
lected from the Paris and other Continental
Papers, that Turkey has fully assented to. the
demands contained in the ,Russian Ultimatum ;
and if such •be the case, there seems to be no
cause to discredit the pacific tone which the
greater part, of the communications from the
Continent have lately assumed. Upon the other
hand, however, we learn by intelligence _from
Odessa, that Baron Strogonoff has actually ar-
rived in that town, having left Constantinople on
the 9th of August. If this fatter event had hap.
pened some two or three weeks previously,
it -would have been regarded all over Europe
as an infallible assurance of war, but occur-
ring just at this particular moment, we think
that it can be explained without the neces-
sity of inferring so hostile a disposition.—
Russia having required from Turkey the ful-
filment of certain conditions as the alternative
by which alone war was to be avoided, could
not upon her part, consistently with the ordinary
principles of justice and honesty, refuse to per-
form her implied stipulations if Turkey should
declare her resolution of fulfilling the conditions
prescribed in the ultimatum, even though the ac-
quiescence of the Ottoman Porte might not have
been expressed within the precise period, which
was somewhat imperiously limited by the Cabinet
of St. Petersburgh. in a matter of such deep
and serious moment, a 'day or two ought not to
be esteemed of much importance when weighed
against the horrors and vicissitudes of war, the
more especially as in the present case the-object
of the war may be obtained by the voluntary
concession of the offending party.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There is no receiving through the Ttench Pa-
pers any accounts of the state of Spain which
may be relied on. The Ultra Journals exagge-
rate and distort every occurrence unfavourable
to the constitutional system. The . Liberals, on
the other hand, do what they can to conceal. or
excuse the popular excesses at Madrid, by-garb-
Hugs and omissions. It may be inferred, how-
ever, with some certainty, upon a comparison of
both sides, that the stability of, the Govern-
ment was not for a moment threatened ; that
the mass of the, people of the metropolis took
no share in the tumult ; and that' the, rioters
consisted only of a few hundreds of those dis-
orderly persons who may be found in all great
cities, particularly. upon occasions of political
excitation.---General Morillo has addressed alet-
ter to the Jouruals, in which he exculpates him-
self entirely, it would appear, to the satisfaction
Of the public.—His letter is praised by all the
Journals, even the most democratic, and an al-;
cade has come forward to confirm, by his oath,
the truth of the General's statement, and the
moderation of his conduct— Morino demands an
investigation of his conduct, which was shortly
to take place.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
It is difficult 'to describe the enthusiasm dis-
played in the cause of the Greeks in Germany.
The newspapers of that country teem with ac-
counts of associations and subscriptions in every
quarter. The fair sex, whose participation is
oftmn attended with such important results in
cases of this nature, have particularly distin-
guished themselves on the present occasion.—
" Though persons of every age and of both
sexes," it is said, " take-the warmest interest in
the cause of the Greeks, which has such claims
on all Christendom, and on civilization in ge-
neral, yet it seems reserved for. the female
half of our species, and our youth, to dis-
play this interest most keenly, and to give
most effect to their sentiments by deeds." In a let-
ter' from the Maine, in the Algenzeine Zeitung, it
is stated, that " in several of the large towns of
that part of Germany female associations are form-
ing on the model of those to which the Liberation
War gave rise." The enthusiasm among the
Young thew is not confined to' the students at
Unive,rsities, but extends to the scholars of the
academies and inferior schools.—" In one of the
neighbouring towns," says the letter above alluded
to, " the scholars of a Gymnasium opened a sub-
scription, in which the smallest contribution
amounted to a month's pocket money." What-
ever may be said of the interest taken by
the people -of Germany in this cause, selfish
motives cannot Certainly be imputed to
•
tnem. They can promise to themselves
no particular commercial advantages from
the overthrow and expulsion of the Turks—they
have no object of national ambition to promote.
If is natural, however, that in a country in which
education has-long been on a most liberal footing,
and where classical literature, in particular, is
most assiduously cultivated and extensively dif-
fused, an interest more than usually intense
should be taken in the Greek struggle.

[NEW TIYIF.S.]
If any thing'could astonish us in the conduct
of The Times, it would' be the matchless impu-
dence with which that most profligate Journal
argues for a', verdict of Wilful Murder, in the
case, of Honey. One thing, however, is very re-
markable, The Times itself feels that this atro-
cioua argument cannot be maintained, with a
shadoW of plausibility, but by the assertion, that
there was no authority for opening Cumberland-
gate ! This is really too barefaced, in the very
Journal which has, for weeks together, been
loading the King's Govertinfiint with abuse for
giving the orders by which that measure was
authorised. Did' the Government, or did it
not, direct the Funeral to pass by the New-
road ? it did, there is an - end of the
question. Ave ; but say the advocates of
the doctrine of Wilful- Murder, Sir Robert
Biker had given up the orders of Government ;
'.he had yielded to •the mob ; the- mob had ob-
.tained a. victory over him, and taken his parole to
pass in front of Carlton House. To this there
are two answers ; first; the statement is false. Sir

Robert Bak&i, on ills oath, swears he had not
promised to Obey the will of the mob ; he. had
not given up tlc.e orders of Government ; he
still meant to get to the New-road, if prac-
ticable : but, secondly, will any man have the
monstrous impudence to contend that the act of
a riotous mob, or the forced consent of a timid
Magistrate acting "under the terror of the mob,
could annihilate the authority of Government.
Sir Robert Baker was not sent tO controul, but
to facilitate the execution of orders which had
been given long before, which were officially
communicated the preceding night to the Sheriff,
from which Government never had for an instant
departed, and which were, to all intents and pur-
poses, the law on the subject. The Times calls
attention to the evidence of Corporal Haywood
and Private Henchman, who• both declare
that they used force against the people who for-
cibly shut the gates. They did so, "because the
people. would not obey their orders"—and they
not only had a right to do so for this reason, but
they were bound in duty to do so. Let any
Juryman or other person aslehimself what would
have been the. consequence had any individual
soldier refused to force open the gates. He
would have been liable to be brought to a Court-
martial, and shot I---And yet for obeying the same
order he is to be hanged !—Monstrous I—Many
of our Correspondents complain that we have not
noticed with proper reprobation certain circum-
stances in the conduct of the Jurors, against
which (as it is. stated) the public in general ex-
claim very loudly. We would rather err on the
side of forbearance ; and we do not wish to an-
ticipate a Verdict (however probable) not per-
fectly consonant to the justice. of the case. Above
all, we rely on the Coroner's doing his duty;
Which if he does, we think few Jurors will have
the hardihood to act in direct and gross violation
of their oaths.