Star.
London, England, 1821-11-15 00:00:00

BONAPARTE.

The following anecdotes are extracted from a work
which has recently appeared at 1).11k, under the title
of " Captivity of Bonaparte at St. Helena."

ge BON AP ART E for some time considered himself
attacked by an internal disease, which would speedily
prove fatal to him. He sometimes mentioned it. ac-
companied with sombrous ptesentin:ents. But
was supposed to be nothing more than the wander-
ing of an active imagination left unemployed. Some
weeks before his death, he laboured with a spade in
his garden, so long and so severely, as almost to faint
from fatigue. Somehody suggested to him the pro-
bable injury to his health ;—' No,' said he, it can-
not hurt my health—that is lost beyond all hope. It
will but shorten my days.'
4‘ BERTRAND one day urged him to labour with
more assiduity. '‘ It is beneath tre,' said he, to be the
histoi ian of my own life; ALEXANDER had his Qum-
-Ems CURTIUS, and I shall have mine. At all events,
my life is recorded in my achievements.
4,6 A short time before his malady 'became serious
he abandoned his reserve, and became familiar with
everybody. He set a high value upon BERTRAND,
but did not like him. He said to him, one day at
table—' BERTRAND, it was not your attachment to
me, but your love of
.glory, that brought you to. St.
Helena—you would immortalize your name as my
jdus Achates (the faithful companion of the Hero of
the /Eneid). A little girl only nine years old, the
daughter. of a serjeant of the gat rison, often kept him
company. He took great pleasure in . speaking to
her; and on her corning always kissed her on the
cheek. He constant)), provided himself with fruits
or sweetmeats for her, and shortly before his death
hung round her neck a small gold watch, by a gold
chain. ' Jima; said he, ' wear this for my sake:—
With a penknife he engraved on the cover, clumsily
'enough it is true, these words—' The EMPEROR to
his little friend, .fut.re.' He sometimes amused him-
self in giving this little child a lesson in drawing from
the surrounding '1,011744in scenery, with the most
laughably whirwical figures and objects interspersed.
His predilection for this child is extraordinary; she
had nothing interesting in her person, and was in ca-
pacity rather below. the average of girls of her
age.—The 2d of April was the day on which he was
observed to be seriously indisposed. He rose early
and walked in the garden. Ile,after a few minutes,
sat upon a bank, apparently faint. MONTHOLON went
up to him, and asked him if he was take.. ill ? Yes,'
said he, feel nausea and sick stomach. the avant-
couriers of death.' Count MONTHOLON smiled. BONA.
PA RTE took his arm and said, My friend,' we must
not laugh at death when he is so near us.' The little
JULIE soon appeared with a basket, and caught his
attention. He brought her into the saloon, where
breakfast was prepared, and filled her basket with
different sweet things, adding a bottle of liqueur,
with these words, This is for your father, to drink
my health.' One day he sent for a jeweller, to alter
or repair some trinkets, and asked him if he could
make a silver coffin? The jeweller tried to shift the
question; BONAPARTE repeated it—' I shall die,' said
he, in a few weeks. Goo forbid that we should.
lose your Highness,' said the other. GOD grant that
I may die soon—very soon,' returned BON APA lITE ;
I am well convinced that life is not a blessing but
a curse.' He then approached a piano, touched the
keys for a few moments, producing some vague, but
not inharmonious movement, and ended with playing
his favourite air—
° Richard ! 0 mon Roi !
L'Univers iabandonne !

—He often stretched himself on a sofa opposite the
garden window, and read with a loud voice from Te-
lemachus, or the Henriad. Ile inquired one day, with
great eagerness, whether an English journal could be
procured him? With some difficulty a newspaper
was provided. He took it, and glanced over it hastily,
and suddenly ezclaiu.ed—• Ah ! Naples ! Naples!
poor Devils--MuRAT was the bravest King they
ever had; but he did not know his subjects. They
are all Lazzaroni from the Duke of down

to the lowest beggar !' The morning of the day on
which he died, he said,' Death has nothing to affright
me. For three weeks Death has been tem companion
of my pillow. Now be is about to embrace me, and
bear me away for ever."

An Inquest was recently held in the Board-room of the Mid.
dlesex Hospital, on the body of Jane Ryan, an infant of twenty
months old, who was actidenrally burnt to death on Monday
se'nnight. It appeared that the parents of the deceased lived In
Peter-street, Golden-square, and occupied the garret. That day
they went out, as usual, leaving four children in care of the eldest
girl, who is eleven years of age, and who, in the course of the af•
ternoon, went out for some tea and sugar, and during her absence
the accident happened. As well as the Jury could collect from
the brother, a child six years old, his sister set fire to a piece of
string, which had been tied round her waist; this caught her
clothes, and burnt them. The boy ran down stairs, calling out
that his sister was burning, when a lodger came up, and observed
the child's clothes were entirely consumed, and her body burnt
in a most shocking manner. She wrapped a coat round the de-
ceased, and carried it to the I lospital. The House Surgeon de-
scribed the infant to have been most dreadfully burnt, and there
wai not the slightest hope of recovery. The deceased expired
early on the following morning. 'The Jury returned a verdict
I to that effect.

Tuesday night en Inquest was held at Guy's Hospital upon
the body of W. Henson. D. lkssard, a Waterman, said, the de.
ceased, who was also a waterman, plied at Cherry Garden-stairs.
On Monday fortnight witness was pushed against the deefasetl
by some of the others, when he fell with his nose again[ the
stairs, by which it was much cut. Witness picked bins up, when
he complained of being much hurt in the arm. He sat about an
hour on the bench, and then went home. Next day he went to
the public•hotsse, and dined off beef .steaks, and had some gin.
Deceased threatened to apply to the law; and they gave him
15s. which he accepted as a compensation for his loss of time;
saying, he should be able to work again in a couple of days. Mr.
GALF, a Dresser in the Hospital, said, that when brought to the
Hospbali ;he deceased bad a mark on his shoulder. Since his
death his body had been opened, when a quantity of water was
found lodged in the cavity of the chest, the symptoms of a linger-
ing disease, and which was the immediate cause of his death.--
The Jury, however, returned a verdict—That lie met Ids death by
the conduct e some u•olerwen, tut zeta did nut intend Idm injury.