New-York tribune., 1900-05-27
CRONJEiS KEEPER.
HE IS LORD BATHURST. WHOSE GREAT
GRANDFATHER SENT NAPOLEON
INTO EXILE
From the Matin Paris).

From the Matin Paris)
looked at the company At the table oppo-
site me were the officers clad in red tunicS and
some gentlemen in smoking Jackets. The menu
was passed round. Terrible moment! | know
nothing of English dishes
will you allow me to help you sir? | have
lived much in France, and L might be able to
tell you to what dishes of your country
correspond"
harp playing on stormy night would nor
cause me greater joy. 1t is my neighbor on the
left who addresses me thus. with just that slight
hsping so becoming to foreigners.
/ pour out my thanks.
"Oh, the least thing we can do is to help YOU
since you are the only Frenchman here"
do not repent it.
Il would wager" says my neighbor. that you
believe in English pride in their contempt of
the French, and in British sans-gene."
try in my turn to find some amable phrases;
then, Are you going to the Cape, madam?'
NO sir; to St Helena"
Profound astonishment my part, "Ah, all
England, it seems is going to st. Helena"
say to myself.
And you. Sir?'
Il too, am going to st. Helena, madam"
All what a SurpriSei"
81 going to see the grave of Napoleon"
You are right to do So he was such great
figure am going to rejoin my husband, who
has command of the island
"Oh, the hazard of the voyage l am sitting
next the Countess Bathurst, whose husband is
in command at St. Helena, and who is descend
ed from the very Minister that sent Napoleon
into exile. The father of Lady Bathurst is the
proprietor of The Morning POST
How Odd IL is! she says with q smile; 1t
was the great-grandfather of my husband who
eXiled your Emperor, and it is my husband who
is charged with guarding Cronje. But rest as
sured that he will be better treated than Ma
pOleon."
You think then that Napoleon was badly
treated?"
"Oh, don't speak of it, it is one of the most
deplorable pages of our history. 1t the
fault of that stupid Hudson Lowe, whom they
ought never to have selected, and who was so
little of a gentleman. He wrote lying letters to
London, hid the real state of the Emperor, and
deceived all the world. This unfortunate man
has contributed more than anything to give
the reputation of being cruel"
The Countess stopped. Then. eXcitedly: 1T
like that idea of calling him General Bona
parte 1t was stupid, and mean and
less, Just if he had not the right, more than
any one to be treated emperor to the end,
he who was nObly vanquiShed. That Hudson
Lowe is a disgrace to US Unfortunately, CrOnje
is not the equal of the other, and his exile will
be less talked about"
The conversation continues about Napoleon,
me that the manuscript of the Memorial of st.
Helena" belongs to her husband.
But how" said she, ARE you going to put up
at St Heena?"
AT the hotel
But there isn't One!'
She laugh very gayIy. We'll you must go
and put up at Longwood. Besides there you
will be on French soil"
What"
Didn't you know it? 1 didn't before the jour-
ney. LongwOod given to France under Ma
pOleon Ill L wanted to buy it when my hus-
band sent there, and 1T thus that /
learned the fact"
Then 1 shall still be in France"
To be sure you will