The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

ST. 11ELKNA.

[Continued fre-n, Ye, terday's SUN.]

Plantation House, May 3, 18113.

SlR,—Tleferring to your letter to Count Bertrand, wherein

you state in one part, that you are not to stir ont of Lon:L-
wow!, and in a subsequtnt part, that you see it was the in-
tention, by stedecting you to such restriction (which you are
pleased to consider the same as those imposed upon the
)French prisoners), to oblige you to quit, I am directed
y the Governor to convey to you his sentiments as
fk: I 1 ow :

toodv of expression in the first instance, and the total
oloiA,;ion of all those exceptions which constitute the chief
e,,riety between your situation and that of the French
pri,.orrers, particularly that where you are allowed to quit
lungwood on asking the Governor's permission—the silence
observed in your letter to Count Bertrand, on all points con-
tained in the Governor's instructions appertaining to your
medical duty—the suhstitution of any inference whatever of
your own, in place of the instruction given before any ex-
planation was• sought from the authority which transmitted
it to you—your imt»ediatv appeal to Napoleon Buonaparte
end Count. Bertrand, even before you addressed your Naval
Superior—your preference of written communication over a
verbal one to Count Bertrand, with whom you had every op-
portunity of verbally communicating—of a verbal to a writ-
ten one to the Admiral, whose assent was required previous
to your waiting upon him, in both of which cases a pro-
clamation was to be broken through or an order dis-
obeyed—your disobedience of the Governor's orders ins
mediately ou receiving them, and your openly declared dis-
avowal of his authority when you went to wait upon your
paved superior, are circumstances upon which he shall not
make any further comment, than to say, that no purposed de-
sign to evince insubordination, to create the greatest possible
embarrassment in the Governor's relations with Ihe person
under his custody—to mislead, to inflame and irritate, and
to cover a doullle view of quitting a person whom you had
pledged yourself not to quit, and at the same time to make
the act appear that of the Governor, could have been well
devised. The Governor knows not in what degree the incon-
veniencies which your most insubordinate, disrespectful, and
extraordinary line of conduct may be remedied; but he shall
nevertheless not neglect his duty in pointing out what he
considers the conduct you ought to pursue.
He authorise, you, in the first instance, to, spew the in-
struction you bare received, and to point out the too marked
differences existing between its words and what you quote
from it in your letter to Count Bertrand, as above stated.

• He authorises you, at the same time, to controvert, upon
the Governor's declaration, that there was any intention on
his part to compel you sifter to resign or quit. He knew
before-hand of your intention to resign, hut it never siteied
into his mind that you could have been awaiting any order
that you might deem objectionable from him, to base the
tender of your resignation upon.

If it had not been from consideration of the state of Na-
poleon Boonaparte's health, it would have been the Gover-
nor's mcrst bounden duty not to have awaited the form of any
resignation from you, but to have removed you at once from
a situation which he considered you ought no longer to he
permitted to fill, as well from the unauthorised pledges you
had entered into with a person situated as Napoleon Buoua
pirate is, so long concealed from the authority you were
under (of which a new one appears in your letter to Count,
Bertrand), as your having rendered yourself a channel for
presentc, and bearer of private and unauthorised communi-
cations in regard to them ; not to speak of the acts and ►ine
of proceeding touched upon in the second paragraph of this
letter.

In not having removed you upon such manifest grounds of
impropriety, he has carried his personal consideration for Na-
poleon Buonaparte to the utmost extent which humanity
points out, and very far beyond what his public duty ought to
permit.

He now desires me to conclude with saying, that if Napo-
leon Buonaparte does not, in his present situation, derive the
full benefit of your medical advice, and dues not have perso-
nal recourse to the same, it i, your line of proceeding he shall
consider and treat as the leading cause, it being entirely the
result of your suffering yourself to he employed in matters
riot pertaining to your medical duty, in defiance of Proclama-
tion and the Governor's repeated directions to you, of your
Unlawful letter to Count Bertrand for Napoleon Buonaparte's
information, and of your openly declared disavowal of the
Governor's authority immediately after you bad written it.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) EDWARD %VYNYARD.
Barry O'Meara, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Mil. Sec.

Longwood, Mayl4, 1818.

SlN—According to the directions contained in your letter,
bearin; date the 3ii of May, I have communicated the orders
contained in Sir Thos. Reade's letter of the 10th April to
Count Bertrand.

In reply to some of the observations contained in your let-
ter, I have to remark that the French Prisonerscan leave Long-
wood without asking any person's permission, and that during
nearly three years which I have been here I have had no
reference to make for judgment or decision to any Naval
Officer, not even the Admiral, with respect to my duties as
Surgeon to Napoleon Buonaparte, since the period when Sir
G. Cockburn gave up the charge of him. On the I2th, as soon
as I received the orders of Sir Thomas Reade, I proceeded to
the Admiral, not to take his orders, but to consult him and
to crave his advice, as I would have done to my father, were
he in St. Helena, in consequence of having, since I have been
in the service, considered Admirals in that light.
1 am not in any wise culpable or accountable for the incon-
veniencies which may result from the extraordinary conduct
v.hich has been pursued with respect to me, as the order of
the loth of April was premeditated for a long time, and I
gave notice that it would be followed by an immediate resig-
iiiition.

My conscience would not permit me to tell Count Bertrand
that the Governor had not any intention to remove me from
my situation, or to say that I intended to give in my resigna-
tion, because I have already declared that assertion to be
v.!feer.

I have entered into engagements with Napoleon Mona-
parte, but with Napoleon Iluonaparte as a private individual,
ail which I entered into with the consent of Captain Mait-
land (.;eiptain of the ship.l belonged to) and Lord Keith, my
then immediate superiors.

If Napoleon Bnunaparte's health is altered for the worse,
it, consequence of the cessation of the performance of my
71.eiliyai functions about him, it is not my fault, hot the fault
cJv►C who, in opposition to evidence, to toy appointment)