Star.
London, England, 1821-07-10 00:00:00

BONAPARTE.

The following is an Extract of a Letter from an Officer on
tke St, lielerra station, dated 6th May, 1821: •
" I have just returned from witnessing an awful spectacle—
etc body of the deceased General Bonaparte, late the terror of
tkewhole of Europe. The Honourable Company's ship Wa-
terloo anchored here at three o'clock on the afternoon of the
61 instant, and Napoleon departed this life at ten minutes past six
o'clock, on Saturday, the Pith, after an illness of some time of a
omplicAed nature, dropsy, liver, &c. The cause assigned for
kb death by the medical men, was a cancer in the stomach.
" I may say I bad the earliest opportunity of seeing him, and
of being in his company, of any person on the Island, and nearly
ike List view and touch of his body. I lived under the same
roof for seven weeks on his first arrival, and had an opportunity
of having a great deal of conversation with him; during which
time he was very pleasaht and agreeable with the family I re-
sided with: since which I have seldom seen hint until to-day,
when he was laying in the full dress of a General of the Legion
of Honour, and appeared to be more like a person asleep than
a corpse, and very little altered, front when I first saw him.—
On his countenance there was an appearance of a pleasant smile.
" He is to be interred on Thursday next, at four o'clock, on
a spot chosen out by himself some time previous to his death.—
It is under a willow tree (about ten yards from a spring of water,
from which he has been supplied ever since his residence at
Longwood), in a valley called by the natives the' Detits Penhl
Nod; and at this moment there are 100 men employed cutting
a road fur the body to be carried along I he is to be buried with
the military honours of a General.
" The road to Longwood farms an almost level circle of three
miles round the place. where be is to be buried He has yeri.
led his assertion, that be would never live in the house erected
for him, which is finished and furnished ready, save and exes pt
some trifling work In the offices. As every comfort was con•
salted for hints no expense was sl'afsd-
" I saw Madame Bertrand and her family. She look. very
mach altered for the wane, as also does the Count. .3lontholon
stems to preserve his health better than any of the rest.
" Napoleon's death will cause a great revolution in the affairs
of this Lland ; some will be half ruined, and others will benefit
considerably by it."
Ezwer of a letter from a Naval Officer high in command en
the St. Helena station, dated St. Helena, May 7
"Bonaparte, for several days previous to his death, had his
sin's bust placed at the foot of his bed, and constantly kept his
eyes fixed upon it till he breathed his last. I went with the
Admiral to see his body, previous to the operation being per-
formed. He looked more like one sleeping than dead, nor had
die least appearance of sickness. His nose and mouth I was
particularly struck with, as being handsome. The countenance
was placid and serene. and there was something very noble and
comniandb gin it. If I had not known his age I should have
judged him nut more than forty. We are now busy converting
tine of our store-3hips into a trooper, and fitting the cabins under
the poop for Bonaparte's establishment. They, I expect, will
sail next week. We remain until orders come from England."

Another letter says—" The last words of Bonaparte have not
yet been recorded :, they were uttered in a state of delirium, bet
still thew what wet working in his mind :•—• Mons fa were the
first words, and afterwards he murmured what seemed to the
hearers to be Fete gramme.' He shortly afterwards said
• France, and never spoke again. The bead and face of Bona-
parte were immensely large in proportion to his body ; they may ,
with great propriety he said to be the only parts that could be
reckoned fine; his face, fourteen hours after his death, was one
et the most interesting that could be imagined, but from the ex-
treme Mit of the climate, the decay was so rapid that shortly
afterwards the features collapsed ; and by the time that he was
laid in state, after bis having been opened, the countenance had
oadergone a total alteration. The wounds on his body were
as follow small wound on the head, received from the
halbert of an English serjeant at Toulon ; one above the
knee, by a spent ball, received at Ratisbon ; and one near the
awl*, a deep musket baU graze, that he received in Italy
Ilis cranium did not give the satisfaction to the craniologists that
was anticipated. A great deal of trouble was taken by Doctors
Mitchell and Burton to have a cast of his face and cranium ; but
unfortunately the quality of the gypsum, which was only to be
procured from the Island, was such as rendered all their attempts
fruitless. A short time previous to his death, he scratched an
N with a penknife on a snuff-box, which he presented to Dr.
Arnott fur his attendance on him, and has left the above Gen-
tleman 500 Napoleons. His valet (Marchand) is a very superior
young man; it is said he has amply provided for him; and he
made him a Came, previous to his death, exacting a promise
from Bertrand and blontholon that they would respect hint as
such. It appears that Bonaparte, during his whole confinement
at St. Helena, never allotted any of his suite to relax in those
attentions and duties that he had formerly exacted as Emperor.
He always dined alone; no one was allowed to sit in his pre-
sence; and to insure the impossibility, be took care to have but
cite chair in his room. Indeed, from all accounts, Bertrand,
Montholon, and the rest of his suite, had no sinecure in their
retreat with the 1....0per0r, and they have at least proved their
fidelity, in their continuing with him until his death. The effects
at St. Helena are said to be left to Bertrand and Montholon ;
they wester, valuable, consisting chiefly of plate and the finest
Sew China; a most beautiful antique cameo snuff-box, given to
Mtn by the Pope, be has left to Lady Holland, with a slip of
paper snit written by himself, in acknowledgment of her kind-
sees; but the rest of Bonaparte's Will is kept a secret at 5...
Mama:

The greatest enemies of BONAPARTE are now
obliged to acknowledge, from Crezegte.alithority, that
with all his tailings, he had a good I:ea, t !

Last week the following, accident occurred in a sand-pit, on
Westward Common, near Lur.hwaite, in Cumberland :—A
man, named Armstrong, was proceeding to the spot for sand ;
aad seeing a young girl of his acquaintance standing at her door,
not far front the pit, he jocslarly said to her, " thou host often
begged an apron-full of sand, come now and help me to fill the
cart•" She took him at his word, went to the pit, and whilst
bath were busily engaged in dirgitl the sand, the soil, which
had been under:nlned, fell, and buried them; when taken oat,
Dinh were trite dead.