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Dll. O'MEARA.
" To Lientetumt-Colonel flit THOMAS ItiABB, Ce
Adjutans•Csemseal,.fite. &c. &c.
a LONGWOOD, MAY S, 1818.
" Excellency the Governor having prohibited my
writing direct to him by a letter of Major Gorrequer, dated the
£3d of April, I beg of you to lay before him the following obser-
vations upon the letter which you wrote by his directions on the
11th of April last.
" I persist in my assertion, that at the commencement of June
last, and antecedent and subsequent to it, his Excellency the
Governor made known to me intentions of subjecting me to the
same restrictions as the French, saying, that since I was Napo.'
leon Bonaparte's Surgeon, and forming part of his family, I
ought to be subjected to the same restrictions. To which I as
that our Government had granted to Napoleon the pd.
vilege of taking with him to St. Helena three of his Officers,
twelve servants, and his Surgeon,
n and that I was pointed out by
Count Bertrand to replace the French Surgeo, but that Wit
being willing to relinquish my character as a British Meer, I
bad made conditions that I should be placed on the list as a Bar-
, geon on full pay, and that I should be paid by the English Go-
vernment, and consequently should not ever be considered as',
out of the protection of the laws of my country. Lord Keith,
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Govern-
went, had it in their power to refuse a compliance with these
stipulations, but in that case I would not have accepted the em-
ployment, and would have preferred remaining upon half pay,'
after the paying off the Bellerophon, to being employed as a Sur-
geon in an equivocal situation, which might lead to a supposition
that I had fora moment renounced the character and other titles
appertaining unto a British Officer. As a proof of this, I sent
to his Excellency my letter to Lord Keith.
" It is not as a Naval Surgeon that I am placed about Napo-I
'eon's person, who might just as well have chosen one from'
amongst the Army Surgeons, or amongst the Private and Civil
Surgeons or Physicians practising in London or Edinburgh, be-
,cause the decision of our Government was, that he should take
with him his Surgeon, and Lord Keith proposed to send a vessel
to France expressly fur the purpose of bringing him one ; and
before authorising me to accept of Count Bertrand's proposal,
his Lordship insisted that Count Bertrand should write an one
cial letter to him, in which he made known that Napoleon de-
mended me as his Surgeon, in place of the French Sutgeon.
" If the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty caused mete
be borne as Supernumerary Surgeon of the Northumberland,'
Newcastle, and Conqueror, it was on account of my own de-,
mend en be kept upon the list of Surgeons on full pay, and, was
just the same as if their Lordships had placed me on the books
of the Bag ship at the Noretottio.outh, or Ilynionth kaz
rundihat to me by ordeeArdirildmiralty, as l!iargenti to Na-
poleon Bonaparte), but this does not confer any right or autho-
ritrupon the Officers of the Conqueror, or the Admiral over me
personally; indeed, the Admiral signified as much to me, and his
Excellency the Governor himself, has repeatedly told me the
saute; and moreover, prohibited my communicating to the Ad-
miral any thing relative to Longwood. If the Captain of the
ship, upon the books of which I am borne, or even the Admiral,
has uo right to give me any orders in the extraordinary mission
with which I am entrusted, I am not subordinate to any other
ntan titan the Governor, nut in a military point of view, or as a
navaeOfficer, hut by a civil title, and as Surgeon to Napoleon
Bonaparte, with the charge of whom he has been entrusted, and
as such, I have never failed in executing whatever he imposed
upon me, except inasmuch as I found it ,ontrary to my honour.
I know well, Sir, that military obedience Is passive, and does
not admit of any hesitation. or objection ; but it is not so with
civil obedience, and still less so in a person charged with an em-
ployment of so delicate a nature as I am. I am'a poor man, and
ten years service in the navy have not enriched me, and I stand
in need of my situation in order to gain a livelihood, but I am
ready to sacrifice it a thousand times over sooner than allow a
stain to be, directly or Indirectly, cast upon my character.
" For the due performance of my medical functions until now,
I have considered myself as not having any explanation to ren.
der, except to Napoleon himself. Ile has made no complaint
against the manner in which I have fulfilled them. Indeed, on
the contrary, I have frequently been applaudiel by him as well
as by other patients in his suite for the zeal with which I admi-
nistered my profeAsional assistance.
" When I accepted the situation, I made known to Count
' Bertrand that I would not willingly quit Napoleon so long as be
remained in the unfortunate situation in which he was placed,
and in the presence of Captain Maitlacd I made an open engage-
ment to attend Napoleon and the Officers of his suite, indepen-
dent of all hatred or national prejudice, of any influence what-
ever in the administration of my professional assistance as a me-
dical man, and that I would employ as muchzeal, attention,and
fidelity towards them as could be expected from me by one of
any own countrymen. I deny the intentions which you attribute
to me of desiring to quit Longwood, and assert it to be unfounded.
" You declare that it was known in England, and make a
supposition that I was the person who nude such intention
known, which supposition you argue upon as being correct;
am ready to remain at Longwood provided (as I said in my
letter of the 19th of April) I am allowed to exercise my voca-
tion as before the 10th of Aprll, end with the same indepen-
dence. From the first day of.his Excellency's arrival be appear-
ed desirous of sending me away, although I had never given
.him cause to do so, probably because I belonged to the Navy,
and that having been demanded by Napoleon I had nut been
appointed by his Excellency himself. Upon this occasion I had
often opportunities of making known what a wide difference
Napoleon nude between a Surgeon who had been chosen by
himself and any Surgeon belonging to the Army, let him he
who he would, and that those who imagined if the person in
whom be had confidence was removed he would bestow it upon
another, knew his character very badly.
• " You say, Sir, that if I were onboard a man of war, I would
be obliged to obey every order I received from the Captain. I
grant this, agil that if I were ordered to cook the victuals of the
sick I would comply with it, because the design of this would
be for the good of his Majesty's service and for the honour of
his flag, and because military, obedience does not adtilt of any
deliberation ; but I have always considered that Sr. Helena is
not a man of war, that the Governor is not the Captain, and
that I am not the Surgeon of the crew; but that'St. Helena is'
a Government of one of our possessions, that Sir Iludson Lowe'
is the Governor and commands by virtue of a civil title, that I
form one of Napoleon's suite, and am attached to his person
with the functions df Surgeon.
" I do not reply to the different suppositions'you have made,
otherwise than by deelarirg them calumniei. I have made with
Wades& las pact which I meetioned above, and such as exist
bemoan all men of honour, and lit every society of gentlemen.
Yon, insinuations do not inspire use with the smallest fear.—
With li pure conscience, and born an Englishman, nothing is to
be dreaded from such engines of tyranny, nor from half or
quarter proofs. A Jury or a Court-martial is the privilege of
every Englishman, and is his guarantee against every act of
arbitrary power—is the guarantee of the weak and the simple
against fhe powerful; and if the fluverumetii accepts my resig-
uation, rather than allow um to cautiiiiir to peasant my avoea-

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