The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-11-16 00:00:00

S 2 11ELENA.

The Hampshire Hampshire Telegraph poblishes the follow.
lag eatract of a letter from St. 1101P1111 :-...
" St. Helena, Sept. 28, 181$.
" The Mosquito sloop of war sails to-morrow
for England : she is charged with dispatches from
Sir Hudson Lowe, (elating, it is understood, to an
intercepted correspondence, which has discovered the
existence of a plot, the object of which was the
liberation of Bonaparte from this island. I forbear
to mention the names, currently circulated here, of
those who are said to be implicated in this transac-
tion ; a banker's house in London, however, and two
Individuals in England, with others on the Continent,
it is rumoured, are concerned. Detection of the
plot was produced by the circumstance, it is said, of I
many letters, addressed to a person (the name of
which no individual is to be found here), lying on.
called for at the Post-oflice. Bonaparte is in very
good health ; he still, however, abstains from elm-
else, confining himself wholly within doors. Teel
t.
son assigned at Longwood foe the dertnere heater'
Gen. Goucgaud, is a quarrel bet woes' Men wed
fliers' Montholon. Gourgaud.hed been challenged
by the latter, but Bonaparte forbidding them to fight.
Gourgaud quitted. It is confidently. said, Bonaparte
has recently obtained the sum of 16,0001. in dollars;
through what means this weighty bulk could have.
been carried clandestinely to Longwood, is still a
matter of surprise. The discovery of the plot has
also brought to light where the whole of Bonaparte's
treasure is depo•ited. Bertrand some time since es-
spited, he could et any time command a million
sterling. Of the three Commissioners, one only re.
mains on the Wand ; those of Russia and Austria
are gone to Rie to take up their abode some time.
Bonaparte will not admit either one of them to his I
presence; the Austrian Commissioner, Briton de I
St urmer, who returned some weeks since to his Court,
did not, during the long period he remained on the
island, once see Bonaparte.
66 This island is not healthy for a continued re-
sidence; it is for many hours, every day, covered
with vapours and dense fogs, and it does not yield a
sixth part of sufficient vegetable substances fort he
use of the troops and seamen. The inhabitants are
wholly excluded front all means of livelihood ; no
ships are allowed to remain here longer than is abso-
lutely necessary: all supplies come from the Cape,
but they are very scanty, and what fresh meat is
afforded from this channel, is wholly engrossed by
the troops; the ships never get a meal of it ; sod.
during the last five months they have had only one-
third bread, no cocoa, and no peas; the deficiency
is wholly made up of rice. Dysentery, consequently ,
prevails much, and all the vessels have lost many
men ; the Mosquito has lost about 23 in three
months, and the Conqueror has scarcely -seamen
enoogh on board to work the ship. But, notwith-
standing this weak state the squadron has for fished
300 men to assist in building a new house for Bona-
parte, of the most capacious dimensions. The sea..
men, after the day's work is over, are marched to
another part of the island, to be emcamped for the
night. Every ship furnishes goard-boats, which row
round the island, and, as they approach the various
points, are always challenged by the sentinels.--
A short time since, one of the sloops of war, in
working to windward of the island, discovered
two men in a cave on the shore; she accordingly
sent a boat, and brought off two Yamstock (native)
Negroes, who had been fishing ; and who, it ap-
peared, used to get to the beach from the top of
the Cliff by a secret but dangerous path. A new
battery was consequently immediately erected, and
it was by this unknown outlet, It is said, that the
Great Man was to be carried off. We are constantly
amused with stories of schooners hovering off the
island; the cruisers certainly sometimes see such, but
never board them. A transport from the Cape lately
passed one close, lying to, to windward, about 80
miles from the island, which took no notice of her ;
she might, however, have been slaving, or lookioa
out for Spanish or Porteguese Indiatnen : she was 11
large long schooner of 18 guns, and apparently full
of wen. The troops here are more healthy then the
seamen are; many casualties, however, °cm among
the former—several sentinels have been lost by falling
ever the cliffs".