The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-04-02 00:00:00

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we in env ether way, it weeld afford her great pia:-
Pere to comply with nee wishes. Availing myself of
this gP111.,004 offer, I sent by her, for my friends in
London, a few trills, whi:h hod belonged to the Ea:-
iosrer. such es a small silver inkstand, some words of
of kis writing. +of a lock of his heir; these I called
6 I'.cl .i relies.' in the note *Yids accompanied
them. Sirs. Skelton. is her reply, sass kind stioneh
to wore ore,- skid ft..• would slot NI to treat them
'with all the core awl resprrt which they merited; het
chattiest Mit she t utd not help confesong to me
the •rernit felt to appropriate II small
plosion ..1 site mriogripl.y In horself.
"lire (Woo. Lose did not, however, imagine, slut
I contil venter.. or was disposed to state what these
a:port ant 4,111.111 were ; but I had too much regard
for throe (rsewood io the transaction to be filen: in
each a ease. sad Avoid have been truly morrified
bad it ceetod the heat uneasiness to Mrs. Skelton.
is hose note I was badgered to retain, merely from mo.
rises of moped and the recollection rif her many civi-
lisios. Colonel Skelton end hit Lady are 111 most
omiaLlo couple, to whom we had don. infleite in.
jury, though certainly without being able to avoid
• ; sod who, notwithstanding all they suffered es
oar account, redoubled their kindness and atten-
tions towards us ell. Our arrival in the Wend dis-
possessed them of Longwood : it then led to the
aeppression .f Colonel employment, finally
sending both back to Europe, with the loss of the
Corlonel's place and molt:mews.

."Lersly epp►ernl the moat important part of th•

eisieed Isomers, is the Governor's estimation at least ;
I allude to the famous clandestine demonetise which
lad caused my arrest. They had been carefully Iran-
' scribed, with the esception of 110100 passages that the
copyist could nut make out ; these I bad the very
eimapectiol complaiseisre to restnre myself. In one
of them I had 'riposted my London friend to ascer-
tain, whether my Lord Holland had received the
papers which I did myself the honour of addressing
to his Lordship. Here Sir Hudson Lowe had recourse
to the greatest amenity and kindness, fur the ;tarpon
of finding out what the obscure passage meant. He
agreed with me In thinking, that he had Ho right
*Latium -to force •n esplansti 0000 of it from me; add.
hot, hew very much the affair would be simplified
and abridged by such a proof of condescension se
any part; together with many other ob titles to
the same elfoct. I replied, with still more solemnity
than the Governor had used, that in the above article
consisted my onsets mane! and as my words were
eite le iy noted by his Secretary, letstillneed to dictate
to the latter by saying, that the answer I had just made
was the onemost co 00000 nt to my education and prin.
ciples, that any other might have led him into doubts
as to my -veracity ; end that my nature was oriels es
net to impose the troth of my assertions to the slightest
suspicion: that haying said thus mach, le prove the
itsteerity of my intentions, I would now add, that I
bad never, in the whole coarse of my life, had any
commiiiiicatiot• whatever with Lord Holland. This
welooked for finale produced a scene every way
worth. of the tsge ; nor would it be easy to describe
the an sloes Governor's surprise, the vacant Mare if
his i,:firrys, fillets pan of the reporter, or my
own feelings eseltation over the motley group
ma h:oh sor:,•-andeal me. .1 had in fact thwermitted, in
the servant's returning to Longwood previous to his
leaving St. Helens, to entrust him with sem* midi.
tictisl documents for the perusal of Lord Holland,
explanatory of our situation and sofferiogs. I had
not the honour of knowing his Lordship, eseept
the noble digelty sod superior eievatiou of his public
conduct ; but to address the hereditary legislator of
Iris country, and a Member of the Upper House, in
the language of truth, appeared to me perfectly fere-
pref•mi -dile, without being by any means incen.iste it
wl:., h., Lordship's sense of propriety. On lb* ether
hand, 1 could not help persuading myself. that sock a
proceeding was not ooly decorates in itself, bet might,
the end, prove highly favourable to the honour
end character of England. They did ant, however,
give me time enough to 'Wise the foregoing part of
my intentions; end, as 1 afterwards supposed, were
too precipitate in making the discovery* ; for, on the
arrest's taking ploce,l bed nocloolit in my own mind,
but that a regular snare bed been laid for me; yet the
governor gave me his word, that be Ins's, nothing
whatever if such a plan; arid 1 was the more will.
log to believe the assertion, en his having the can.
(lour to acknowledge, that sppearaoces went quite
sufficient to justify my suspicions.
"Although removed from the reemptecle to which I
was first conducted, end lodged in a less intolerable
habitation, yet even here my confinement was of the
most tignrous description. Prevented from bolding
tomesuoication with tiny person except the attend-
tents, my new residence+ was directly opposite to I
Longwood, from %hick it was separated by some
sleep ravines. Whenever my eyes were raised, that
object of my thoughts and wishes presented itself.—
I sew its edisliffreo, and could easily retrace all therm
habits so familiar to we while living there; bet it was
Impossible to distinguish a single inhabitant. There I
was something so truly mortsfjing its the feeling re
whirls this species of suffering gave rise, that it re.
minded me of the Tartars of antiquity : sod to
the also.e torment was added another, not less tan.
talizing, which recurred incessently to harass my
mind : the Emperor was tntallly ignorant of the
motives that led to my violent removal, fatality
mould have it so! What then could be think, our
tearing those about his person speak of my clendes.
line correspondence ? Whet would his °Oldens end
sentiments be ea such au unexpected occasion ?-
110 W Ibis be to account for my dissimulation towards
himself ? One who, from habit, no less thee at-
lactiment, would not have moved a step, cr hour&
rid a single word, without making my intention
known to him. I contrasted the error 1 had thus
committed, exaggerated as it was by my fears, with
tile affecting affability of his last coneetsatioa, and
which was only terminated by wry arrest. Whets
sammisned to attend the officer, who bad been die. 1

• T Cow's Morellos' were, 10 Aare writer* a tenor roe-
Wisig:iiiirstsrl sad reveres, rd .-ewes to Lord outland, of
the mader whirl She Omen" of Largwood laroused,
topper be espies of .owe of the forsoweis weird by
s.r Hodson Lowe; and enortodiee by ;wryest An Lordship so
tulartit the nose for the eowidtranott of the Pedometer. This
irt,et, the refirald Was Its hare pet is the imme-
doorly after lomdmo ; aor the Comet Leaden ft trod
we. veseirell, is the other, t.. foreman, whether It had been
Reirived. lied Sir firoltes Lowe waited somber day or two,
the letter world hate hero wrist". sod deliortnl to the rerc.oi
the seat nme be tame to Lmuwooll.
• • Liccombei Wage.

patched In drag me away, I happened to be walking
with the Emperor its the geodes:it* wn Mire obese;
ful, and seemed in much better spirit! than •seal.—
Same oranges, which are very soiree in St. Ilelesia,
had just been sent to him by a lady, the wife of
a gallant and distinguished naval officer. From his
being extremely partial to this (reit, the servant was
directed on bring then, to the spot, in which we then
stood. Here, leaning with his back against a tree,
he accepted himself in peeling some, after which I
was cleaned to have my portion, and the Emperor
•ten insisted, that I should put one into my pocket.
It was at the closes( such an interview, that the dis-
graceful manner in which 1 was treated by Sir lied-
son Lowe might well base indeced him to suppose,.,
there was something very inexplicable in my con-
duct : jedging from appearances, he was teen justi-
fied in reproaching me, and of doubting my fidelity.
This painful reflection afflicted me more thee I can
describe, and evidently preyed on my health. Forte.
surly, the Governor came anon otter to restore my
tranyeillity. listing opened the conference with a
long preamble, be proceeded to say, that be had jest II
received a letter for me : that what had recently et.-
cured gave him the right to withhold it ; bet, knew.
fug hew dear the ►end which wrote it was toes•, and
the high 'aloe 1 set upon the sentiments it traced, he
would praises the letter, notwithstauding the strong
personal reasons he had to peruse • contrary
coarse. It was from the Emperor ; end although
he merely showed mos a few detached eairscis,
they drew tears from me in the pouted. When
your Ilighous has reed this cosseting testimony,
of which a espy is annexed*, yes win rowdily con-
ceits what I felt en reeding theta! 'Had I suffered
a shoesaud deaths for him, they week' bete been
most amply requited by such a letter ; and Sir lied.
Inn Lowe is entitled to my warmest gratitude for the
happiness he thus conferred on Inc.