The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-24
NAPOLEON'S EXILE s VASTLY HARDER ETHAN Ex-KAISER'S
Great Corsican Was Guard ed Like Felon on Lonely
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I there May 5. 1921, his turbulent ? spirit passing out on the stormlwings , of a tempest that shook the house he Jay in and uprooted the trees sur rounding It. -
 Only eighteen months have elapsed since the last glorious imitator- of his schemes of world conQuest-the war lord of Berlin-found sanctuary in Holland and began his period of retribution as the guest of a neutral nation, the little lord of a luxurious icountry estate and a spectacular saw iyer of souvenir logs.
 A hundred years has not served to abate the worlds interest in the man of St. Helena In eighteen months the man of Amerongen has been al- lonost forgotten.
 Invariably in these days of retro- fspection one finds the mind travelling curiously back to contrast the fates neted out to these two great dis turbers of the worlds peace, and T especially the attitude toward them of the nation they both hated-or professed to hate-England, the chief arbiter of the destinies of leach of them.
 With the Hohenzo1lern she was content for a formal demand for his extradition and a diplomatic shrug of the shoulder when it was refused. 
 who came of his own choice into her hands. ..
 Banished~to a. lonely rock in mid ocean, he was even there guarded like a doomed murderer beneath the eyes of ''death watch" and his daily life subjected to jealous regula- tions and surveillance unparalleled for tyrannica1 pettiness.
 It is an oft told story-that story Ia acf n St Helena--a flood of literature has cast all sorts of lights and shades upon it. It is a story that Englishmen would willingly forget.
 The attitude of the average Eng lishman of today toward 1t is re- fected by the English statesman, Lord Roseberry, in his book, "Napo- leon, the Last Phase" which is an impartial sitting of all the evidence in the case.
 Were it possible" he says refer ring to the memoirs of St. Helena, "we would ignore all this literature, as it is peculiarly painful for an Eng glishman to read. He must regret that his government even undertook the custody of Napoleon, and he must re- gret still more that the duty should have been discharged in spirit SC ignoble and through agents so unfor- tunate.
 "If St. Helena recalls painful mem aries to the French, much more poig tant are those it. excites among ourst Ives"
 Napoleon, after Waterloo. surren- dered his person to Great Britain, suppliant for her hospitality. It was his hope, that, like the Hohenzollern of today in Holland, he would be allotted a country estate in England and be permitted to end his days as ga country gentleman"
 The allies of that day passed the matter up entirely to Englands decf sion-they were willing that England should be answerable for him. Ma poleon was not even permitted te land on England's shores.
 We wish" Lord Liverpool, the prime minister, wrote to Lord Castle reagh, foreign secretary, that tht 4 King of France would hang or shoo Bonaparte, as the best termination O the business"
 The King If France not takint kindly to this gentle hint, Napoleon was sent to St. Helena, and Sir Hud son Howe, "the most execrable O jailel.s," was chosen to take charge O him, replacing the resident governor of the island, who, it was thought might be disposed to be too amiabl. inclined toward the troublesome cap tive.
 Though there was only one harbo on the island-the port of Jamestcv- and it was guarded by a formidabl fortress, Sir Hudson Lowe scattere his patrols from one end of the islam to the other tn. every direction.
 Sentry was added to sentry san battery to battery to render more in accessible what was already impreg nable. Surrounding the house a -- Longwood, in which Napoleon wa quartered, a regiment of infantry, park of artillery and a company c cavalry always were encamped.
 Small detachmentS of soldiers wer kept, day and night, at close interval everywhere within sight of each othe with a chain of sentries between ther so close that they almost touche each other.
 On every hill there was a signs post and even the highest mountai peaks were controlled by sentries z all hours. Two brigs-of-war circun navigated the little island every da and a frigate was placed at the onl two places outside the port where was physically possible to make landing. No foreign vessel under ar pretext, was allowed to communicat with the shore.
 It would seem that with these pr, cautions the caged conqueror ws safe enough to be allowed the privac of his own house, but Sir Hudsc Lowe thought otherwise. He was T. Quired to show himself every day one of the British guards and if rode out for his health or took a wa, a British officer traile0 along.
 Once, when Napoleon was i'll, ar did not show himself for coup of days. Sir Hudson Lowe sent an o ficer ? to Longwood with the thre that if the captive did not exhit himself to the orderly by 10 o'cloc his doors would be broken in a1 his bedroom entered by force ar that any of his suite that resists would be removed from Longwood.
 The guards were even instruct' by Lowe to peek through the ke holes or in the bathroom windows get their daily view of the prisone
 In addition to Lowe's shadowil system. the allies had their represe tatives on the island, whose duty was to get daily peek at him.
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