Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-09-08
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
The Londou Morning Chronicle Of
the oh of July, contains u long letter
t-rm Dir. O'Meara. late surgeon o!
Napoleon, in which he ridicuies the
statement Of the emperor having died
of q cancer. IS asserted IN the report
nj he Physiciaus. We have notsroom
FOR The whole letter, hat the following
extract will enable our readers to farm
pretty correct idea Of the writer.
opinion, T.Nat. .9dr.
"!t is very important first 20 observe
that thu report is not signed by pro-
lessor Antommarchi, although the go
'srnor asserts that the lohole of the
meSical gentleman concurred in a re-
pore on their appearance aud nex,iy
assert, without dread OF eopiradic.
tan, that no man ever saw an instance
OF cancer of the stomach proceeding
through all lis stages, from lis com.
meEcement to death in seven week
ana ore day. Cancer Of the stomach
Is tedious lingering disease, keeping
the patient in torture for months; bnf
mere We have The sfomach 10 neariy
us 'choIe ectent, anGSs Of cGEceroas
disease in seren lceehs -! With re.
spect TO the. assertion Of hereditary
cancer, promulgated through ii fabri
Gated letter by Chose who had the Ga,
zette report in their possession, ii is
zoo contemplate 10 be seriously resu-
ted. No respectable ancient author e.
yer mentioned, no modern prae,i-
n. 4:
desperate experiment practised upon
pubic credulity, too gross 20 impose
upon the most uniniormed, hut natu-
rally enansh TO be hazarded by those
VIII" are willing to impute the death Of
Inc victim to any other cause rather
than The true one. II is only surPri
eng that they have not followed il UP
by calculation of how many yesis
may eiapse before the stomach Of
young Napoleon is to enter upon its
pateroai Inheritance. The stury is too
ridiculous for argument, and those who
nave fabricated ii might just as well
assert The existence OF hereditary
drunkenness, or hereditary murder, or
any other mural depravity which may
happen TO be uppermost in their me-
mories. do not assert positively
the proximate cause of the death Of
Napoleon; that can only ne Known
with certainty TO the Almighty Dispo-
ser of life and death; but assert, un-
besitatingiy, that i, was hastened by
the treatment he experienced---by his
transportation 10 tropical climate
by the petty yexaiions inflicted in his
imprisonment; by the Dumberiess mi.
mute and studied notifications. which
none but q mind like his could have en-.
dured, and at length by that derapges
mfnt Of the digestive organs which
mental anxiety invariably produces.-
Such Is my opinion, not originating in
the Indignation OF the moment, but
formed and deIiberalcd long ago, and
delivered by rae in language not 10 be
misunderstood, at two different peri.
DDS Of Nspoleon's detention. | told
bis majesty's ministers, emphaticalIy,
that IT the same treatment was cont.
nued, 'his premature death might not
be so immediate, bot was quite as ine-
vitable as If it had taken place under
the hands of the 'exeeu,ioBer.' To
these documents / now direct the eyes
Of Europe, as The testimonies of my
Judgment, aud TO the erent point, for
The accuracy with which il was form
ed,