Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: Journal de la vie privée et des conversations de l'empereur Napoléon à Sainte Hélène, Deel 5H. Colburn, 1823 |
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Pagina 292 - Greeks adopted a new method, writing their lines alternately from the right to the left, and from the left to the right.
Pagina 242 - Portuguese, although united to these powers by treaties of alliance, and making war conjointly with them.
Pagina 249 - London, an account of his travels in France, took the trouble to send it, as a present to the Emperor, but you did not think yourself authorized to deliver it to him, because it had not reached you through the channel of your government. It is also said, that other books, sent by their authors have not been delivered, because the address of some was, — To the Emperor Napoleon, and of others, — To Napoleon the Great.
Pagina 243 - Prussia, that sovereign would not have forgotten that it was optional with the Emperor, after the battle of Friedland, to place another prince on the throne of Berlin ; he would not have forgotten, in the presence of a disarmed enemy, the protestations of attachment and the sentiments which he expressed to him in 1812, at the interviews at Dresden.
Pagina 247 - Buonaparte, and gave him only the title of General. The title of General Buonaparte is, doubtless, eminently glorious ; the emperor bore it at Lodi, at Castiglione, at Rivoli, at Arcole, at Leoben, at the Pyramids, at Aboukir ; but for seventeen years he has borne that of first consul and emperor ; which proves that he has been both first magistrate of the republic, and sovereign of the fourth dynasty.
Pagina 249 - The English ministry are not authorized to order any of these vexations. The law, however unjust, considers the Emperor Napoleon as a prisoner of war ; but prisoners of war have never been prohibited from subscribing to the journals, or receiving books that are printed ; such a prohibition is exercised only in the dungeons of the inquisition.
Pagina 246 - He sent to the King of England, Count Otto and General Andreossi, who resided as ambassadors at the Court of Windsor. When, after...
Pagina 253 - Helena, in the midst of persecutions of every kind, against which his serenity is his only shield, is greater, more sacred, more venerable than on the first throne of the world, where he was, so long, the arbiter of Kings ? Those, who, fail in respect to Napoleon, thus situated, merely degrade their own character and the nation which they represent!
Pagina 252 - ... care would seem to be taken to deprive us of the few resources afforded by this miserable country, and we are no better off here than we should be on Ascension Rock. During the four months you have been at St. Helena, you have, Sir, rendered the Emperor's condition worse. It was observed to you by Count Bertrand, that you violated the law of your legislature, that you trampled upon the privileges of general officers, prisoners of war. You answered, that you knew nothing but the letter of your...
Pagina 251 - Longwood house was constructed to serve as a barn to the company's farm ; some apartments were afterwards made in it by the Deputy-Governor of the island ; he used it for a country-house ; but it was, in no respect, adapted for a residence. During the year it has been inhabited, it has been always in want of repair, and the Emperor has been constantly exposed to the inconvenience and unwholesomeness of a house, in which workmen are employed. His bedchamber is too small to contain a bedstead of ordinary...