Napoleon's Appeal To The British Nation, On His Treatment At Saint Helena
Charles-Tristan Montholon
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NAPOLEON’S APPEAL TO THE BRITISH NATION, ON HIS TREATMENT AT SAINT HELENA.
NAPOLEON’S APPEAL TO THE BRITISH NATION, ON HIS TREATMENT AT SAINT HELENA.
THE OFFICIAL MEMOIR, DICTATED BY HIM, AND DELIVERED TO SIR HUDSON LOWE. London: Printed by Macdonald and Son, Cloth Fair , FOR WILLIAM HONE, 55, FLEET STREET, AND 67, OLD BAILEY, THREE DOORS FROM LUDGATE HILL . 1817. Price Two-Pence....
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APPEAL, &c.
APPEAL, &c.
M. SANTINI, Huissier du Cabinet de l’Empereur NAPOLEON, arrived at Portsmouth from St. Helena on the 25th February 1817. He affirms, that Napoleon, on his arrival at St. Helena, was treated by Sir George Cockburn with respect and delicacy. He was afterwards transferred to Longwood, once a farm belonging to the East India Company. In this wretched asylum he still remains. His sleeping chamber is scarcely large enough to contain a bed and a few chairs. The roof of this hovel consists of paper, coa
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Memorial.
Memorial.
General , I HAVE received the Treaty of the 3d of August 1815, concluded between his Britannic Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, and the King of Prussia, which accompanied your letter of the 23d of July. The Emperor Napoleon protests against the contents of that Treaty. He is not the prisoner of England. After having placed his abdication in the hands of the Representatives of the Nation, for the advantage of the Constitution adopted by the French People, and in favour of h
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