The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-27

four hours. Every human precaution was
adopted BY Sir George Coekburn to prevent
his escape, and those mentioned were enough
to render il impossible.
But all this was not enough. for the prison.
err retained his cheerfulness under those re-
s,rctons. The British A.inistry resolved to
make him drink the cup of misfortune to tho
dregs-tc inAict upon him every degradation;and
humiliation that malice could invent. ltwas not
enough that he should feel himself prisoner;
he was to be treated as a felon. For the pur-
pose Of insulting the most extraordinary man
Of modern times in his misfortune, they were
not long in finding proper tool. They Sc
lected from the whole army and navy, abound
ing in miscreants of the vilest description, as
the experience of America in the war of 1912
can testify, man equally devoid of decency
and humanity-equally insolent to the unfor.
tunate and Bringing to the powerful. Happily
for mankind, monsters are rare, and it is be-
lieved that, even in the services mentioned,
there existed nothing like this execrable scoua-
drel. His very name has been damned to ever
lasting notoriety, and no man now heers that
OF Sir Hudson Lowe, that does not visit it with
a mental imprecation.
Ii is needless here to recapitulate the re-
morseless malignity with which this monster
prosecuted his victim until he brought him to
| an untiinely end. The best that can be said in
| his defence is, that he was but tool in the
hands of ministry who,as O'Meara justly OBJ
serves. desired to bury Napoleon's mind with
his body" In vain did they endeavor to keep
guarded the fearful secrets of his prison-house.
They ranspired in spite of all the precau-
tions they could take. They have assumed
their own place in history and there they will
remain, preserved from oblivion only by the
indestructible nature of that name with which
they are associated. Who would have remem-
bere1 Flaminius, had he not been embalmed in
the infamy of having pursued the exiled Han
nibal to death. The very Romans detested and
avoided him, and it was in in that he alleged
that Hannibal might still have proved dan
gerous enemy TO Rome. His indignant coun-
trymen replied, that mean and ungenerous &C.
| tons can never be beneficial TO great nation,
and that if such defence were allowed, muir
der, poison and every other crime by which
an enemy might be gotten rid of would be JUS
tifabe.
In his moments of gu let, when not racked
by disease, or tormented by his gaoler, Napo-
Icons communications to O'Meara were of
the deepest interests ofsuch interest, indeed,
as could be created only by him. To
those who wish to see the man as he really
was we heartily commend this book. Time
has verified nearly all of its statements, and
in spite of the disposition to reject it on
the part of those whose interest it was to repre-.
sent the great captive as monster in human
shape, it is considered authority by all the
world. As he himself foretold, Napoleon is far
better estimated by posterity than he was by
his contemporaries. Every year, every day,
brings into holder relief the gigantic proper
| tons of the man. The wretched vermin who
tortured him to death, in vain endeavored to
destroy tn evidences of his life and genius
At this day, he has more enthusiastic admir-
ers than all the men that have ever lived from
the creation o fine world and whether that
admiration be just or unjust, ii increases with
the distance from the age in which he lived.