other of my brave friends, who so gloriously fought at the battles of the Nile, I do feel, for I am a man, that it is impossible for me to serve in these seas with a squadron under a junior officer

Nel. I felt strongly, messmate, and I expressed myself strongly, it was not the first time the Lords of the Admiralty had wounded my feelings.

Wel. "Could I have thought it--and from Earl Spencer; never, never was I so astonished as your letter made me. As soon as I can get hold of Trowbridge, I shall send him to Egypt to endeavour to destroy the ships in Alexandria.

Nel. That was my intention.

Wel. "If it can be done, Trowbridge will do it; Sir Sidney writes to Sir W. Hamilton, that he shall go to Egypt and take Captain Hood, and the squadron under his command; he has no orders from you to take my ships away. Pray grant me permission to retire."

Nel. That is my letter, and I think, messmate, you will admit, I had good cause to feel warmly on the subject. Do they give Earl St. Vincent's answer. Wel. Yes, he says, "I am not surprised at your feelings being outraged at the attempt Sir Sidney Smith is making to wrest a part of your squadron from you. Nel. Pray mark, messmate, what St. Vincent says.

Wel. I have received much the same letter from him as the one you described to have been addressed to Sir W. Hamilton, a copy of which, with my answer, you have enclosed, and orders for you to take him immediately under your command. For the sake of your country, and the existence of its power in the Levant, moderate your feelings, and continue on the station; with leave to go home in my pocket, I dare not avail myself of it, because I think his Majesty's service would suffer by my absence; employ Sir Sidney Smith in any manner you think proper, knowing your magnanimity, I am sure you will mortify as little as possible, consistently with what is due to the characters senior to him on the list.

Nel. You see, messmate, the painful position I was placed in.

Wel. Perfectly so. Buonaparte at St. Helena, often spoke of you, and also Sir Sidney Smith.

Nel. Ah! Tell me more of St. Helena; I think you broke off where he was making himself particularly agreeable to the young ladies.

Wel. We are informed from good authority, that he demanded to be styled and treated as Emperor.

Nel. Emperor indeed! why, messmate, he must have felt that the Emperorship had completely ship-wrecked him; no, no, General Buonaparte was his forte; the sword in his hand was more fitting than the sceptre. No, no, messmate, had you not have sent him to St. Helena, it is possible Europe would have come to the last man. But go on.

Wel. Many accusations were brought, by Napoleon and those about him, against the government of England, in regard to the accmomodation at Longwood, the arrangements concerning the household establishment, and the regulations adopted with a view to the security of his person. His house (with the exception of the governors) was the best on the island; from the begininng it was signified that any alterations or additions, suggested by Napoleon, would be immediately attended to; and the framework of many apartments were prepared in England. Nel. Strange, messmate, that the man who had commanded so many palaces, should at last be stowed in a portable box, knocked up by English carpenters, it certainly drove in the last nail to his

"Strange eventful history."

Wel. Truly so; it does seem more like a romance than truth; the portable rooms sent from England were to be fitted up according to the pleasure of Napoleon. He had for his own immediate personal accommodation a suite of rooms, consisting of a saloon, an eating room, a library, and a billiard room.

Nel. To him, messmate, knocking the balls about was a poor substitute for knocking Europe about.

Wel. True; though a much more harmless game-he had also a small study. Nel. Poor Nap, I should say, often in a brown study.

Wel. Quite possible. A bed room and a bath room.

Nel. But, alas, not for him lethe water.

Wel. No; and various English gentlemen accustomed to all the appliances of modern luxury, who visited him at Longwood, concur in stating that the accommodations around him appeared to them every way complete and unobjectionable.

Nel. Perhaps messmate, he might, with some truth have replied "None know were the shoe pinches but them that wear it,"

Wel. Very good, he had a good collection of books, and the means of adding to these as much as he chose.

Nel. How many persons did his suite consist of?

Wel. His suite consisted in all of five gentlemen and two ladies; the superior French and Italian domestics about his own person were never fewer than eleven. Nel. A very good body guard, for a prisoner.

Wel. The sum allowed for his domestic expenditure, was 12,000, per annum. Nel. A large sum for a retired General. (Aside, you could find money for the Child of Destiny, though not for my dear child.)

Wel. And in addittion to this the governor of St. Helena had authority to draw on the treasury for any larger sum, in case he should consider 12,000l. as insufficient; and notwithstanding that wines, and most other articles, heavily taxed in England, go duty free to St. Helena; yet, complaint was made that this income was not adequate; nay, that it was not munificent, for a person in Napoleon's situation.

Nel. It was a larger income than is allotted to the Governor of any English colony.

Wel. With the exception of the Governor-General of India; and twice as large as a British Cabinet Minister. They also complained about the deficiency and inferior quality of wine; on examination, it appeared that Napoleon's upper domestics were allowed each day, per man, a bottle of claret, costing 6c. per dozen, without duty.

Nel. More than my officers had.

Wel. And the lowest menial employed at Longwood, a bottle of good Teneriffe wine daily; The table of the fallen Emperor himself was always served in a style. at least answerable to the dignity of a general officer in the British service.

Nel. Messmate, Bonny at all times was a troublesome customer to please, and as a prisoner I'm sure it must have been almost an impossibility to have satisfied him, no, no, had

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kept watch at St Helena, over the "child of destiny," he would have complained and some allowance ought certainly to be made for such a wholesale manufacturer of kings and princes being shut up in a wooden box (perhaps heart of oak,) was enough to try his temper, he might have a little altered his famous saying "From the sublime to the ridiculous," and have exclaimed, From the palace to the cottage there is but one step. But bear a head.

Wel. One of his casual visitors, I think M. Ellis, says, "There never perhaps was a prisoner, so much requiring to be watched and guarded, to whom so much liberty and range for exercise was allowed; with an officer he might go over any part of the Island, wholly unobserved; his limits extended four miles, partially observed eight, and over-looked twelve.

Nel. A perfect sliding scale, messmate, liberal as you thought it, I dare say Nap. often saluted it with a Sacre.

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pity for the poor; they made use of the people as a ladder to help them to power by fine speeches and promises, goad them almost into open rebellion, but when they found themselves seated in Downing street, they became most heartess oppressors.

Nel The scoundrels !

Wel. Were I to relate to you, Nelson, a thousandth part of modern Whig infamy, I have no doubt.

Nel. You would put my fin in motion, so go on with King Joe.

Wel. The government of Joseph, or, I may rather say of Napoleon's creatures who governed him, was a compound of good and evil. He made some important alterations in the constitutions, and introduced as many elements of that of France as the people could bear. He suppressed the monastic orders, appropriated the revenues to his own use, abilished feudal rights, and made other changes injurious to the higher and favourable to the lower classes. He would, perhaps, have become popular; indeed, any government, after that of the contemptible dynasty which had fled, was likely to be hailed as a blessing.

Nel. No doubt of that.

Wel. His own necessities, and still more the exactions of Napoleon, compelled him to levy oppressive contributions on his subjects; while some defects of his personal character exposed him to their ridicule.

Nel. Poor Joe!

Wel. Too feeble to exert any moral force, he was the passive instrument of Napoleon's most unpopular measures; too idle to trouble himself with the affairs of his kingdom, he abandoned the reins to a set of needy and profligate ministers. The only occasions in which he shewed any thing like activity, was in upholding the pageantry of royalty.

Nel. Like master, like man, messmate, as with Nap. so with Joe, clinging to the purple, and worshipping Brummagem crowns. I have heard of "Reckoning without your host," but I never knew it more perfectly exemplified than in Joseph and his brethren."

Wel. Very good, Nelson, they certainly were a striking illustration of the old adage. In 1808, Joseph was called to a more brilliant, but also to a more thorny destiny in Spain, he was well aware that the fierce Spaniard was somewhat more difficult to manage than the slavish Neapolitan, and he had the good sense to refuse the proffered dignity.

Nel. What did Nap say to that?

Wel. We are told, that Joseph's inclinations were not thought worth consulting, and he was forced to pass the Pyrenees.

Nel. Poor Joe!

Wel. His reign at Madrid was not, as far as depended on himself, much unlike what it was at Naples; the passive agent and mere tool of his brothers will, he was neither oppressive nor cruel in his character; the same idleness the same incapacity, the same habits of dissipation.

Nel. "Wiid oats are not confined to England, messmate; poor Joe, it seems, had not yet done sowing.

Wel So it appears. His general character, in short, rendered him, with his new and high-minded subjects, an object rather of redicule than of hatred. The military defence of his kingdom was intrusted to Generals, who, oftener disputed than obeyed his eommands.

Nel. They would not have done so with NAP.

Wel. Indeed they would not, he was said to be "the mere shadow of a monarch. One portion of the country was in continual insurrection; another was possessed by a powerful foreign enemy, so than his authority extended no farther than the space actually occupied by the French army; even then it was merely nominal; the real power was invested first with the Emdernr, next with the Marshals.

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Nelson. A perfect puppet. Nap. was determined that kings manufactured by him should not be able to boast of being

"Every inch a king."

Wellington. Truly so; his kings were like Shakspere's they merely" strutted and fretted their hour upon the stage."

"Poor Player,"

Nel. Good, messmate; though you can hardly carry out the sentence, for Nap would not even permit them to indulge in a little

Wel. True; that part of the drama Buonaparte did himself. Like the modern theatres he was an advocate for the star system.

Nel. Explain.

Wel. The managers of theatres engage an actor or actress, who, by dint of puffery, and very often, with little real talent, to take the leading part in a play or opera, this person is called a star, and all the merits of the play is supposed to be concentrated in this star, who receives an immense salary; in many cases more than the Prime Minister), the other performers, however excellent in their respective parts, are thought nothing of; all the applause and money is lavished on the star, Mr. Ranter, in Macbeth, or Hamlet, receives all the homage; Macduff in vain may lay on ;" and Horatio, and even the Ghost, be he ever so ghostly, cannot share the honours with Mr. Ranter! he alone is the

"Observed of all observers."

Ranter for a time is the Napoleon of the stage; he will bear no rival near his throne; as with Ranter's mimic Princes, so with Buonapartes, each must be subservient to the star.

Nel. I understand; like actors, Joseph and Jerome must merely walk through their characters, and be satisfied with playing "second fiddle" to the "Child of Destiny." But tell me how Joseph got on in Spain.

Wel. We are told " finding the sceptre too heavy for his feeble hands, Joseph more than once prayed to be relieved from the unwelcome load." Nel. I'm not surprised at that.