The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-22 00:00:00

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ST. UELENA, APRit, 19, 1518;
Sta,;--Your Letter to Omit Bevtrand, your direct disobe-
dience tu..the 'Governor4s orders, and opeu disavowal of his
authority immediately afterwards, would appear to render
other measures necessary than ttrat of replying to any letter
addressed by you to him, after such proceedings; but as it is
desirable your removal 'from LongwOod shOuld be combined
with a certain consideration towards the person on emu'
you are attending, I have_receired the Governor's directions
notwitbstandink to reply to your letter of the lath instant,

Firstly, The instructions I conviyeti to you, in his name,
on the tuth instant, do not, as you have stated, assimilate
you to the "French Prisoners" at Longwood, unless so- far
as a.conscionStieSs ui your having girCn cause to be so assis
militted. may have led you to suppose by implication such to
hare been the Govern Or's intention. ,

It considered as a restriction, they (Wes materially from
those imposed upon the French Officers, inasmuch as &cum-
statices might render a different hind of regulation necessary
for enforcing compliance with established rules otr the part of
a person in au official situation who may have given reason.
to suppose that he is capahle of misusing its trust and oppor-
tunities, than the foreign persons who are the uhji:ct of .their
rules, and who, however they might be disposed, could not
with the sonic facility evade them.

If, howeter, considered simply as an orderfor the more ex-
act
.performance of your medical duties, they impose no re 7
straint heyond.that which it is entirely in the Governor's dis-
cretion and authority to impose, a., it is in his opinion to
judge whether the only Medical Person attached to the Esta-
blipment at Longwood, and the only one in this Island whom
Napoleon Buohaparte has hitherio been willing fa consult,
shall be at liberty to quit the premises at any time he pleases
ox not, leaving in• the former case no Medical Attendant-at
-all on the spot, or givin6 occasion for calling in persons
whose visits there the Governor may nut be informed of, or
migl.t not think fit to concur in.

The instruction requires this permission for your quitting
Long'woW, but rhere it is granted it does not require (as, in
the case of the foreign persons when they pass beyond the
limits) that you should proceed unaccompanied.

The second paragraph' of your letter recites the stipulations
you made upon accepting your situation, avoiding, however,
to refer to the only document which contains them, viz. your
letter-to Lord Keith, and his•reply.
Thi: statement you have now presented is not a correct
transcript of that letter;- the omissions and additions to it are
,stated in the Paper annexed. You say all the conditions were
approved of by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Their Lordships'. naies have been thus most unwarrants
illy brought forward in apprOval of 4operadded conditiotrr
which they never could have spelt; but even if they had ap-
proved any3tich,, it is not likely they would consider them as
exempting you from obedience to local regulations.
The third paragraph of your letter says, the Governor ma-
nifested in June last some intention of.imposing upon you the
same restrictions as the French prisoners were subjected to,
and that on that occasion you communicated the stipulations
you made, and adding, yow would prefer giving in your re-
signation to submitting to any such testrictions,fr ,ut whence
ou draw the inference,that the instructions now conveyed to
you are a demand for ypur resignation.
The Governor desires me to controvert the fact of his
having ever used any expression to justify you in such a
conclusion or inlerence, as that he had an intention to, place
you under the same restrictions as those I imposed upon the
French prisoners, so called by you. Such intention, in fact,
was never in his contemplation, nor did any Officer of his
Staff, either at the time to which,you refer, or at any time
subsequently, ever hear hint express it, nor was any argument
on such point ever brought forward into discussion with you,
nor was any other stipulation or conditiou of your service
ever Made known to the Governor, to leave or to merit any
trace in his recollection, beyond•what was expressed in your
letter to him of the t4th August, 1915, and in your letter to
`Lord Keith, of which last, though you May not have been
aware of it, yOu, have left a copy with hies, but to neither of
which, as written documents, you have thought proper to
refer.

When yon left with the Governor the copy of your lett'errto
Lord Keith, which contains the only original condition to
which you are audio' ized to refer in any otliciitl communica-
tion to him, you did not make known any such stipulation as
that which is now introduced ; nor %%mild the Governor? have
admitted you to do so in any sense opposed to the due anti
necessary exercise of his authority, nor did you accompany
the delivery of-that paper with any'such declaration as that
which you now draw in inference Prow the superadded sti-
pulation: -

.Further, if a matter should arise for any'regulation which
might appear to place you under a similar restraint with the,
foreign persons at I.4ngwood, resulting from a breach or eva-
sion of any established role, whereby you might he rendering
yourself instrumental to their views, and counteracting the
disposition of your own Government, it is by you, Sir, the
measure would be forced, and nut by the Governor; and the
more present to your memory, such a declaration as that Fe-
ferred tO, the more premeditated on your part, and the more
compulsory on the Governor 'would you► line of proceeding.
in such case appear.
Your intention, however, to quit this Island was known in
England several mouths before the Governor knew it. How
does this accord with your promise to Napoleon Buonaparte
not toq'trit him as long as he remained in his present state ?
Of .the above determination it was your Gust duty to hare ac-
quainted the Governor, in order that Napoleon Bnonaparte
also Might hare been informed of it, and you ari! responsible
for any inconvenience which may result to bins by not having
done so.

In reference to that part of your letter in which you speak
of your independence and rights as British subjects, the Go-
vernor dues not consider your emancipation trom the tititiesof
a Surgeon of a man of war, to he employed equally under the
orders of Government in a particular duty on shore, grants
any new privilege on such heap.
If you were to return to your duty on board a ship of war,
and circumstances should require the Comroander of it to
convey an order to you not to quit it without his permission,
.700 .would not presume, nor would he suffer you to talk of
your rights and independence to'hiru, if acting in disobedience
to such order, particularly before any representation was
made against it, nor would a Naval .Court Martial pay much
attention to this,plvaii if such an act of insubordinAtioo wa,
brought to theit juttirent„

Disobedience to au order not to quit. the particular district
ou shore within which your ouly duty lies, w•it:isut sive ioi