The Sun.
London, England, 1816-07-24 00:00:00

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EXTRACT Or A LETTER VRONIiT. lIELANA, JUNE 3.
" Instead of NAPOLEON'i COttlitioll having been,
*a's-was supposed by a few, considerably amelior-
ated by the chants of Government, spFte addi-
tional restrictions were judged necessAry to be
laid on. These fiw some day's produced an un-
pleasant effect on his mind, and were probably the
cause of Lis cntifining himself closely to his chant-
..
ber for several days. lie has, however, been seen
within it few days back driving in his carriage.,
and occasionally riding with 'his accustomed velo-
city within 11s limits, as he most religiously per-
sists in his resolution of not 'riding out with a
Uritish Officer.

• "'A letter, purprirting to be written from St.
Helena,. has appeared in some of the public papers
Which have lat6ly reached this ;, anti were it not that
a few of the circumstances mentioned in it have a
distant .relation to. %Oat really. occurred, though
,miserably garbled and scandalously misrepresent-
ed, one would suppose that it -never was the pro-
dnctionaf a person resident in St. Helena ; as one
would imagine-that an inhabitant, or even a tem.
.pornry soperneri, woad have had opportunities
of learning uneedotes less distantly removed front
the truth, than 'those 'which form the subject
Of It.,
" The author of the letter in i-jues.,i ut is so
grostly ignorant of that which he pretends to re-
late with great accuracy, that he does not even
know the, name of the Officer on duty at Long-
wood. In the first place no Such circumstance
occurred as BuonaParte's ordering Captain Pop-
pleton to ride in the rear, and that the privilege
of riding abreait of him was not for him. Neither
did he .(the Captain) refuse to accompany .Napo-
leon out the following day, or aPprise him that he
intended for the future to ride
,with him in uni-
forth. The assertion of ,Captain P. having taken
the. precaution 'of sleeping, in. a room through
which Buonaparte must necessarily pass_ on his
way to his own, is tot) ridiculous to need contra-
diction, were it not that such a.statement, If left
tmeontradicted, might with a few affect tue rept'.
tation of a most respectable 'English Officer ,(who
has always Performed the (not unfreeuently) 'un-
pleasant -dutietr of his situation, in the most deli-
cate manner).
. •
""The statement respecting the Polish Captain
is equally false, and more scandalous. Instead
of Napoleon - having turned his back neon hint
(the Polish Captain), and asked Las Cases " who
'that man was I" he received him in the most po-
lite manner, and conversed with hint upwards of
two hours. Immediately atterthis Napoleon dis-
patched one of his suite to ask him what he stood
in need of---money, clothes, linen ? With direc-
tions if he had none of the latter clean after so
long a voyage, to furnish him with some at his
own. To this was added an order for 40Z. or &W.
which MA inimedialely paid. He 'also had lion
to dinner with him for several days after..
" Equally true with the abovementioned letter,
are those which state that Napoleon eata.a tchaa
pig smot(tered with onioni for breakfast ; and
eight fowls for dinnerl Tbe writers of such ab-
surd stuff must either be inconceivably silly, or
have most contemptible opinions of the under-
standings of those to- whom they address them ;
or they would never ettempt to thrust slid, a far-
fago tit stupid lies down their throats. HoweVer,
they seem to be greedily swalloteed by some of the
Jotroallitt.. This circumstance threw from Bud-
liar/AXIS one day a remark, that he supposed the
Editors of -some of the English Papers 'would
make him eat a live bull at one meal, horns and
all! This anecdote I have heard from a person
who was present.
• " Some time back Sir H. and Lady D. Mrs.
MsChntack, Alii.Wetherall, with several other
ladies and gentlemen, were iutrodisced to him in
the-garden-to all of Whom he was extremely affa-
ble, and they departed highly pleased with their
reception. When it, vresmentioned to bim after-
wards, that the todies were particulerly gratified,
and that they were surprised to. and hint so 'diffe-
rent a person from what he had been represented,
he is said to have replied laughing " I suppose
they imagined that I was same strange kind of
animals with two great horns sticking out of my
heed.?
" It has been asserted that he has frequently
reviled the memory of Weber, and even b; some
that he had caused his assassination. Quite the
contrary would appear from the very.bendsome
manner iii which be speaks of him. A short time
back he,expresied himselt in the following Man-
ne!. Klcher had lived., the English would
never have taken Egyp't with an army without
valry and few artillery. The Turks were nothing.'
Kleber, Kleber;' repeated he, ' was an irrepar-
Able loss to France and to rim., He was a min of
the brightest talents,.und a General of the great-
est bravery:'- -" AtCllOll,l he dhserired, I, was -a
brave men,,bui destitute of talent.'
" Tbe friends mid relatives of the late lamented
Sir John Moore would probably be not displeased
to hear the following tribute of applause paid to
his memory, by an enemy whose capacity to judge
need not be pointed out :—" Moore," said Na-
poleon, " was a brave soldier, an excellent offi-
cer, and a man of talent. He thistle a few
mis-
takes, which were probably inseparable front the
difficulties by which he was surrounded, and most
likely caused by the incorrectness of his informa-
tion having misled him." Thie he repeated, ob-
serving, " that Moore had comnianded the reserve
in Egypt, where be evinced considerable talent."
4' He died," added he, " gloriously ; he died like
a soldier." Speaking about St. Helena, he 'tab-
serVedr, " that inch was thh deplorable state of
the Mind; that the inhabitants coneidered the
absence Of actual want, oe the lack of starvatibo,
as the greatest blessing. For example,'' said lie,
" went the Other day to tad there
they said to hith, ' Oh 1 bow happy you meat be
to have fresh sheet every day at dinner I Ohl if
we could but enjoy illal, how happy we should
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" it was stated, some time back; that Napoleon's
maitre d'hotet, arid Otheta of hii aiiiti, Lit
a paper (Vat Want to Ordeki libeiveti from Eng.