The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-13 00:00:00

BUONAPARTE.

(Front The Morning Chronicle.)
The following is a Translation of the Observa-
tions of BuoNAPARTE (with the exception of two
or three words) upon the Letters of Lord BA-
, uu UST; which we gave yesterday in the original
I've:pet). We insert also again the Letters
L,Prd BATHURST, ill order that NAPOLEON'S
Commentary upon them may be more distinctly
onderstood.:—
Lt.:l"ritEs DE LORD BA- TRANSLATION.

TH URST.
Extract—H. LOWE. OBSERVATIONS AP-
Downing-street, Jan. 1, 1918. PROVED BY NAPOLEON.
have received and The store-ship, the Bark-
for w.o ded to the Earl of Li- worth, anchored in the roads
tr•rpool the scaled packet en- of St. Helena on the sth of
c:osed in your dispatch, which May, and on thel9th ditto Sir
professes to contain the obser- Hudson Lowe sent to Count
vat ion. of General Buonaparte Bertrand, without any accom-
upon certain extracts from a ponying. remark, the annexed
P-port which appeared in extracts from Lord Bathurst's
fr he Morning C4ronitle, of a Correspondence.
Speech which I had occasion
to deliver in the House of

Lords upon the subject of his
treatment at St. Helena.
Although Count Bertrand's On tbe7th of October, 1517,
conduct gave you fair reason Count Bertrand sent to Sir
to infer that the packet con- Hudson Lowe a sealed packet,
tained nothing upon which it addressed to Lord Liverpool.
could be necessary to require It contained observations
your observations or reply, made upon Lord Bathurst's
aud Ilicrehy induced you so speech, delivered i❑ Parka-
far to deviate front your in- went on the 18th of March,
structions as to transmit it 1817. This packet was sent
unopened, yet, as it is found, scaled up, because the Elri-
on perusal, to contain a ge- perur Napoleon had added
rieral complaint of " your these words—" I approve
treatment of General Buono- these observations; I desire
parte, tint only from the time they may be laid before the
of your arrival at St. Helena, eyes of the Sovereign and
to the latest period to which people of England." Had Sir
any' thing I said could have Hudson Lowe insisted 011011
referred, but continued by a its being opened, Count Ber-
note at the close of it, up to trand would have broken the
the very day tu which it was seal in his presence, and put it
delivered to you;" I consider into Ices bands open (Sir Hnd-
it my duty, previous to my son Lowe did make himself
laying it before the Prince acquainted with the contents
Regent, to transmit to you a of the packet; of that there
copy by the first optfortuuity. are proofs.) There was no
Had the General delivered occasion for these observa-
the packet to you unsealed, as tions to be communicated to
the regulations (he knew) re- Sir Hudson Lowe, since they
quired, for the purpose of be- were in reply to a public •
Mg transmitted home, I should speech delivered by the M
by this time most probably !niter in the month of March,
have been enabled to lay the 1817. The voluminous COM-
ChargeS and your answer fully positions of insults, cilium-
before the Prince Regent. The rates, and abuse, invented
delay which must now take against the French at. Long-
place has been altogether oc- wood, and dispatched by
casioned by the disingenuous every mail going from St. He-
conduct which has been prat- lena to London, are not im-
tised upon you; and although parted to the French until
it is difficult to understand the English Government have
what advantage General Buo- deliberated upon them. A
napartc could have expected charge made by one of the
to derive front it, if his object parties concerned, is an un-
had been the fair investiga- just act, and null of itself.
tion of his case, it will, lam If, then, these observations
sure, in the event of any other were not communicated to the
sealed letters being sent to Prince Regent, so much the
you for transmission, prove to worse fur the British Govern-
you the expediency of not per- ment; for the English nation;
nutting any feeling of delica- for her Constitution, so much
cy to interfere with the strict boasted of and now so much
execution of your instruc- despised ; and for the liber-
tions. ties of her people ; for, cer-

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have the honour, &c. tainly, such an occurrence
Signed) BATHURST. could not have happened in
Russia, nor in Austria, nor
even in COtiStilllfillople!
It would be right that the
complaints of the Fiencu
should be sent unsealed to Sir
Hudson Lowe, if the charges of
Sir Hudson Lowe were commu-
nicated before their departure
from St. Helena to one of the
French Officer:, so that the
calumnies, falsehoods,ana un-
truths, ought be pointed out.

Extract—H. LOWE.
Colonial Office, Downing,
street, Jan. 1, 1818.
SIR—I have received and
laid before the Prince Regent
your dispatch, No. 89, in
which you transmit various
communications which have
passed between yourself and
Count Bertrand, relative to
the restrictions imposed upon
General 13nonaparte, and the
possibility of admitting any
further relaxation. _ . _

From a review of the Pa-
pers transmitted by you, it ap-
pears, that the complaints ad-
vanced by General Buona-
parte against the restrictions
imposed upon him may be
comprehended under two
heads :-
Ist, He complains, that the
contracted extent of the li-
mits within which he may
take exercise, unaccompanied
by a British Officer, and the
posting of Sentinels round
Longwood at sun-set, debar
him from takingexercise; and,
idly, That his intercourse
with the inhabitants is sub-
ject to your intervention; and
his correspondence with them
subject to your inspection.
As Count Bertrand has ad- At length, after two years
mitted that the first head of then, it is known in London,
objection has been obviated that the time for walking in
by your recent extension of this country in the summer is
his former limits for exercise, from five to seven o'clock in
and by the other arrange- the evening. Therefore, the
meats which you considered subject of posting the senti-
yourself authorised to adopt, nets at six o'clock in the
it is not necessary thatl should evening is resumed. Never-
advert particularly to that theless it is now 30 days since
part of the discussion, further this letter was communicated
than to express my approba- at Longwood, and still are
tion of the relaxatiom in this the sentinels posted at six
particular, to which you have, o'clock. Sir Hudson Lowe,
out of regard to the health of without making tiny mention
General Buonaparte, been of the matter, gave a written
induced to accede. order to the Corps de Garde
Considering it, however, to allow the French to pass
not improbable, that (not- till nine o'clock in the even-
withstandingthe acquiescence ing, and verbally he daily gave
of Count Bertrand in the ex- orders for them not to be al-
isting arrangement with re- lowed to pass after six o'cleck
sleet to the sentries) the in the evening. Sir Hudson
posting of them at sun-set may Lowe still goes on as before,
again he brought forward as a consequently he must have
OfILISC of complaint, I deem it confidential instructions of a
advisable to acquaint you by contrary tendency to those
this opportunity, that the ut- which are published !
most degree of indulgence
which can be consented to,
would be to defer posting
them till 9 o'clock during the
beat of the slimmer months,
and that only under the con-
dition t hat General Buona-
parte should at that hour be.
seen by the Officer at Long=
wood, with a view of insuring
his being in the house at rho
time when the guards are sta-
tioned round it.
The second head of com-
plaint, viz, the restriction im-
posed upon his intercom se
and correspondence with the
i okibitants, is one upon which
there can be but little pros-
pect of satisfying all the prit-