The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-13 00:00:00

THE LATE COUNT DE LAS
CASES.

Emmanuel Count de Las Cases, Marquis of
Caussade, traced his issue to a noble family, one
branch of which, established in Spain, produced the
very worthy and noted Bishop of Chiapa, Barthelemy
de Las Cases, whose historic and other works have
kng placed him in the first degree of literary
eminence.

At the period, antecedent to the Revolution, Las
Cases was an officer of Marine. At the time, how-
ever, when the nobles of the country emigrated in
great numbers from France, Las Cases in 1791,
became one of their number. He then made the
campaign of 1792 in the capacity of a simple volun-
teer, and afterwards embarked at Rotterdam, and
finally came to London. While in our metropolis he
sedulously applied himself to the compilation and
arrangement of a large historical and geographical
,Atlas (Atlas Historique et Geographique), which he
published under the pseudonym of " Lesage." At
.the close of 1779, Las Cases returned to France,
where he for some time carried on the trade of a
bookseller; and in 1804 published in a new form his
" Atlas," which he had subsequently much enlarged
and brought to some degree of perfection.
Warmly attached to Napoleon, he was made by the
latter a Baron of the Empire in 1808, and begged
permission to make, as a volunteer only, the Antwerp
campaign in the following year. After this expe-
dition, he was appointed Chamberlain to the Emperor,
and subsequently, a Master of Requests, in the section
of the Marine. Some time afterwards he was charged
with a mission into Holland, ..and in .1811 presided at
the Council for the Liquidation of the Public Debts
in the Illyrian Provinces.
. After the disasters of Waterloo, Napoleon having
been compelled a second time to quit France, M. de
Las Cases, solicited permission to accompany him,
arid-he followed him to St. Helena, with one of his
sons, His society was both a resource and a conso-
lation to the proscribed Monarch ; and during this pe-
riod he taught the Emperor the English language,
and wrote, under his dictation, several historical me-
moirs. For causes which cannot be examined into or
developed in a memoir of this nature, Las Cases was
arrested, with his son, on the 27th of November, 1816,
by order of Sir Hudson Lowe, and conveyed
to the Cape of Good Hope, where he suffered
a long captivity. Being conducted from thence into
England, he was cast upon the Continent, and wan-
dered about some time escorted as a prisoner. On
ru.:* arrival. at Frankfort, liberty was granted him
I.4idel: the protection of • Austria. For two years he
sojourn- 'et: in Belgium, and then returned to France,
sled himself in his retreat by putting
which he had brought from
St:lielena. The tivt; first of' his Memoirs appeared
Nivnh:Zehretne.%:.nents
And are too well known to
hreeaJdainngnar
worldof to need fttither reference to their
,
contents. -
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VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Theodosia, Paimbeuf to
North America, Ist inst., by the John Dunn, arrived at
Port Talbot. Black Dog. Liverpool to Gibraltar, 28th '
ult., off the Burlings, by the Albion, arrived at Falmouth.
Corinth, Philadelphia to Rottenlam, lat. 49 lon. 15 ;
ll(ilketromp, Oldendorp, lat. 49, lon. 8, by the Antonia,
arrived off Falmoulh. Nimrod, Havannah to Hamburgh,
23d ult., lat. 39, lou. 45 ; Lord Ramsey, Liverpool to
New York, 26th ult., lat. 43, lon. 32 ; Lady Campbell,
of Waterford. 30th ult., lat. 48, lon. 19 ; a large steamer
standing west, 31st ult., lat. 49, lon. 16, by the Leila,
[ arrived at Liverpool. Ocean Queen, of London, 22nd
ult., lat. 39, N., lon. 15, W. ; Industry, of Penzance,
84 days from Alexandria, 24th ult., lat. 41, lon., 1
;
Duke of Gordon, Penzance to Demerara, 28th ult., lat.
47, N., lon 8., by the Mary and Ellen, arrived at Scilly.
Lydia, Pernambuco to Trieste, 2d April, off Cape De
Galt, by, the Williatn, arrived at Strotnness.
The Royal Court of Appeal will decide on Satur-
day, the lit inst., on the appeal of Messrs. Carrel and Costs,
Directors (Go ma) of the onto&i _ entl63
es.L. aga it the
sentence, condemning them jointly to a fine of,ooo francs,
for having published the Journal without the signature of the
manager, and Coste to ahe of lopo from, for a false
declaration of the property of the security (cautiottrionent)
; of the Jo'-- comiteMs