Star.
London, England, 1815-08-08 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF BONAPARTE.

No direct accounts have yet been received from
either the NORTRUMSERLAND Or the BELLBROPHON,
and of course nothing is yet known respecting the
transfer of Boxitearrz from the latter to the former;
but there can be no doubt that there were two of the
ships seen in the offing from Torbay on Sunday, al-
luded to in the subjoined letter. It would be absurd
to offer any conjecture respecting the behaviour of
BONAPARTE on this occasion. We have been told
that he was to kill himself or drown himself, &c.
Had such an event occurred, we may conclude that
the vessels would have put back ; but on the con-
trary, they went out to sea with a fine breeze from
the W.N.W.

" TORBAY, JULY 6.

" Three sail of the line and a sloop of war came to
anchor t!iis afternoon near this Bay ; but at such a
distance from the shore as to prevent any one dis-
tinctly seeing what they were about. One of the ships
bore the Rig 4 an Admiral, and is no doul t the
111LIXIBIKL1ND I there is also little doubt but she
has been' receiving on board NAPOLEON BONAPARTE"
as boats have been passing constantly fiom one ship
to the other. They are now all under weigh, with a
fine breeze at W N.W. and will soon be out of sight.
There has been no communication whatever between
them and the shore.*

A Gentleman who spent the whole of the last
seek at Plymouth, and saw BOICAPARTI regularly
every day, assures us that most of the accounts pub-
fished in the papers were very incorrect, and that
instead of appearing deeply affected at the idea of
being removed to St. Helena, or threatening to kiil
himeelf, the obdurate miscreant displayed consider:
able cheertulitess. At the very time when it was en.
portt d Madame BSIITKAND in a fit of despair had at-
copied to throwhervelf into.the sea, he saw that Lady
and her husband gaily conversing with the Corsican,
oho frequently laughed. He was present at the time
the BaLLaaortamt sailed on Friday last. Whilst they
were weighing anchor, B3NAPARTit stood on the
de~icreading a izewspaper ; he afterwards went down
to the :tan-gallery, where Madame BIatTRAND and
the Commutes. MONTUOLOW had placed themselves. He
was omen smiling, and apparently in good spirits.—
He warstmll, there with the same company,. which
was joined by the rest of his Officers, when the ship
sailed, and remained till distance concealed him from
the public view.
Front the whole previous history of the man, the
partict.'-ars which we have just stated, appear much
more credible than the stories that have been so in-
dustriously circulated of his boisterous lamentations;
threats of assassination. Bc. ke. No, no f BONAPARTY
is none of your self-killing gentlemen : he clings to
life as the chief blessing upon earth ; and, in this
respect at least, he is a sound philosopher. " While
there is life there is hope ;" and therefore he bas
always fled from the face of death when he could not
command victory. Nor has his hope been entirely
frustrated : circumstances have again and again put
him at the head of new armies, and enabled him to
try his fortune—and he is too much of a fatalist.
not to believe it possible that circumstances may yet
occur to bring him again upon the stage. In this we
may be allowed to hope he will be disarpointecl, but
it must not be concealed that the possibility of his
ever reaching Trance. after he quitted Moscow, was
every whit as problematical as the possibility of his
being able to escape from St. Helena, again to in-
volve the world is all the horrors of war and anarchy.