The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1823-05-07

surgeon, who tells one story about him
at one time, and then unblushingly con-
tradicts himself as soon as he finds it
will best answer his purpose so to do
The Quarterly critick (Mr. Clifford, I'M
questionabIy) sets O'Meara in such a
light as, allowing the testimony to be
genuine, must bring upon him the scorn
and indignation of every honorable
mind. Out of his own mouth he con-
dennis him. shall mention one or two
of the numerous instances adduced by
Mr.. Clifford of O'AIeara's self-contra-
diction and duplicity.
O'Meara states in his book, that on
the arrival of the Marquis De Mon
chenu at st. Helena, Sir Hudson Lowe
refused Madame Bertrand permission TO
see and inquire of the Marquis the state
of her mothers health, whom he had
lately seen and that he rejected with
equal cruelty a similar desire from Las
Cases to inquire after bis ,1pife. This,
according to the book, occurred on the
9th of July, 1916. On the same day.
however, O'Meara writes to Sir Thorn
as Read the following very different ac-
| count -
"Madame Bertrand told me this
morning, that the letter she wrote to
Monchenu was at the express desire of
Bonaparte himself, repeated twice to
her; and that in case he had come up,
old Las Cases was to have Immediately
proceeded TO her house, in order TO have
an interview with him. If you think
Sir Hudson would like TO know the a.
bove circumstances, you had better
| communicate them to him."
Such in truth was the fact-the whole
was device of Bonaparte to open a
communication with the newly arrived
Frenchman-and O'Meara himself was
the very person who betrayed the plot,
and put Sir Hudson on his guard-Sir
Hudson, in consequence, adopting the
only course which man in his senses
could have adopted. Thus O'Meara,
possessing the confidence of all the par
ties, betrayed them all. Can more
outrageous instance of dupEcity be con-
ceived?
| Again, O'Meara, in his book, calls Sir
Hudson the poor, stupid, incapable Gov
! ernOur yet, in letter to this same
GoVernour, written at ST. Helena, he
says" 1t is unnecessary for me TO point
out TO an officer of your discrimination,
talents, and obserration," sc. Total de-
pravity, indeed
All these numerous notes, by which
O'aieara is thus made to convict him
self of prevarication and an utter 1isre-
| gard of consistency, have been presery-
ed, and are deposited for publick in
spection in the hands of Mr.. Gifford's
| publisher Either these notes are gen.
uine, or the distinguished officers, now
in England, to whom they were address,
ed, have been guilty of the most sense
less forgery.
The treatment of Bonaparte by his
conquerors has been with many amongst
US fruitful theme ofyituperation. The
English government, in particular, for
their participation in it, have long been
threatened with vengeance: they have
been denounced by village, bar-room,
and post-cffice politicians throughout our
land. Yet to all thinking minds, the
| general policy of the allied powers to-
wards the great exile must, believe,
stand fully justified. If the peace of
| Europe and the world was of any conse-
| quence, how else was it to be preserved?
Bonaparte's character and views had
been fully developed: his spirit would
never have rested while there was room
| for exertion. There was terrible en-
ergy about him. which, so long as he re-
| manned unshackled, would have kept
| the world in commotion. 1t is Idle TO
pretend, as many do, that he had the
good of the people at heart, or that he
was contending 10 behalf of the enslaved
multitude against tyrannical govern
ments: it is libel upon the common
| sense Of mankind to say So Bad as are
those governments, and abominable as is
their policy,the little finger of Bonaparte
was thicker than alltheirroyal loins. Yet
through the mouth Of surgeon O'Mearl
he says, " have always been of opinion,
that the sovereignty lay in the people. In
fact, the imperial government was kind
of republick." Let the bleeding and
desolated families, that furnished his le-
>gions with conscripts, rise up and call
his memory blessed. The judgment of
the Edinburgh tribunal on the general
| policy Of the Allies | may here quote as
carrying immense weight" Our opinion
upon the subject of the emperor's deten-
lion has always been favourable TO that
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