The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-07-09 00:00:00

PONAPARTE.

[PROM SATt RIMY'S 1.01400 N war %)

COLONIAL-OFFICK DowNixo-rntare, lt it 4. 1021.

Captain Crnkat, of the 20th Regiment, arrived this day
trim St. Helena, with a despatch, addressed to the Earl
Kellum, by Lieut.-Oenetal Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B.
which the following is a copy :
St. Helena, May 6,1821.
My Lord—lt falls to my duty to inform your Lord•
•uip, that Napolean Bonaparte expired at about ten
.mites before six o'clock in the evening of the 5111
instant, after an illness which hail confined him to his
:ii•artments since the 17th of March last.
Ile wls attended during the early part of his intlii-
F:sition, from the 17th to the 81st of March, by his own
blcdical Assistants, Professor Antormarchi, alone.
I;.,ring the latter period, from theist of April to the sth
4,1 313 y, he received the daily visits of Dr. Arnott, of
Majesty's 20th regiment, generally in conjunction
with Professor Antomarchi.

Dr. Short, Physician to the Forces, and Dr. Mitchell,
Pt incipai Medical Officer of the Royal Navy on the sta•
•ion, whose services, as well as those of any other medi-
c:if persons on the island, had been offered, were called
.von in consultation by Professor Antomarchi, on the
:•3 of May; hut they bad not any opportunity afforded
to them of seeing the patient.
Dr. Arnott was with him at the moment of his de-
cease, and sate him expire. Captain Crokat, Orderly
'Ulcer in etendance, and IM:•tors Shortt and Mitchell.
••iw the body immediately afterwards.
Dr. Amok remained with the body during the night.
Early this morning, at about %even o'clock, 1 proceed-
,. 1. to the apartment where the body lay, accompanied
t•v Rear Admiral Lambert, Naval Commander in Chief
• n this station ; the Marquis de Monntcheim, Cot 00000 in-
nioner of Ills Majesty the King of France, charged
'•itlo the same 4lntr also on the part of Ills 3lajentv the
•:•nperor of Austria : lirigadier-tieneral Coffin, Second
in Command of the Troops ; Thomas N. Brooke and
Thomas (freentree, Eigirs. Members of Council in the
Covernment of this island ; and Captains Brown, lien-
airy, and Marryat, of the Royal Navy.
After viewing the person of Napoleon Bonaparte,
which lay with the fare uncovered, we retired.

An opportunity was afterwards afforded, with the con-
'••trrence of the persons who had composed the family of
NI•:o1ron llossparte, to as many Officers as were desi-
r.•:r, Naval and Militarv, to the Honourable the East
!••dia Company's °dicers and Civil Servants, and to va-
t•ons other tmliyidnals resident here, to enter the room
i•• which the body law, and to view it. _ _

At two o'clock:this ;lay the botiv was opened, in the
pei.o.nre of the following (;rntlenien, Dr. Shortt,
.11. D. Dr. litehell, D. Dr. Arnim, M. G. Dr. Bur-
H. of his l.tiesty'slititii regiment, and Matthew
Pringstone, Esq., Sur; eon in the East India Company's
Swrsiee.
Professor Antrottarchi assist/NI at the dissection.
Deneral Ilcrtrantl and Count Montholon were present.
After a rarrfol examination of the several internal
r qrts of the hotly, the whole of the medical Gentlen en
wosent concurred in a report on their appearance.—
Tt,is report is enclos../1„
I shall ernes the hotly to he interred with the honours
Barr to a General Officer of the highest tank.

have entrusted this dispatch to Captain Crokat, of
ilis Majesty's 20th rreitnent, who was the orderly
in attendance upon the person of Napoleon 'Bona-
nal te at the time of his decease. ..e embarks on hoard
liis Majesty's sloop Heron, which Rear-Admiral Lam-
h has detached from the squadron under his COIIIIII2 ni
with the lattlligenre.
I have, Le. &e. der.
N. Lowy, Lient-Gen.
To the Right lion. the Earl of Bathurst, KM
&c.

Longwood, St. Helena, May C. IS2I.
REPORT or APPEARANCFS ox I.IIsSECTIoN OF THE BoDY

DE :NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

On a sttperfl,ial view the body appeared very fat, which
eate was confirmed by the first incision down its centre,
e here tie fat Was upwards of one inch and a half over the
ta•ousen. (to cutting through the cartilages of the
rake, and exposing. the cavity of the thorax, a tr:fling
e.thesion of the left pleura was found to the pleura cos-
tsais. About three ounces of reddish fluid were con-
t lined in the left e.r.ity. and nearly eight ounces in the
re:ht. The lungs were (vise sound. The pericardium
teas natural, and contained about an ounce of fluid.
The heart was of the natural size, but thickly covered
v•I'l fat. The *udder and ventricles exhibited nothing.
extraordinary, except that the muscular parts appeared
rather paler than natural.
ljpon onenlng the abdomen the omentum was found
r •inarkahl'y fat, an.l on exposing the mtoniaeli, that visons
as found the seat of extensive disease. Strong adlie-
sil•aiss eonneeted the whole superior surface, particularly
0010!It till. pyloric extremity to the concave surface of
t.le left lobe of the liver: anal on separating these, :in
tiker, which penetrated the coats of the stomach, was
di...inured one inch front the pylorus, sufficient to allow
the passage of the little tinter. The internal surface of
t stomach, to nearly its whole extent, was a mass of
r..ncerous disease or schirroos portions, advancing. to
cancer: this was particularly noticed near the pylorus.
The cardiac extremity. for a susall space near the termi-
nation of the (esophagus, war the only part appearing in
a healthy state. The stomach was found nearly tilled
r ith a large quantity of quid, resembling coffee grounds.
The convex *airfare of the left lobe of the liver ad-
h•-red to the diaphragm. With the exception of the ad-
hesions occasioned by the disease in the stomach, nu
ne healthy appearance presented itself in the liver.
The remainder of the abdominal viscera were in a
he.iltlay state.
.1 slight peculiarity in the formation of the left kid-
tt•-e was observed.

(Signed)
THOS. SHORT. M. D. and Principal Medical 0111..er.
ARCH. ARNOTT. M. D. Surgeon to the:Silk Reg.
CH I. MITI:Ili:IL M. D. Surgeon of 11. NI. S. Vigo.
Fit `CIS RURTON. M. D. Surgeon 00th Regiment.
ATTIIF.W LIVINGSTONE, Surgeon 11. C. Service.