[Footnote 567:  “Mems. of a Highland Lady,” p. 459.]

[Footnote 568:  In “Blackwood’s,” Oct., 1896, and “Cornhill,” Jan., 1901.  I cannot accept Stuermer’s hostile verdict on Lowe as that of an impartial witness.  The St. Helena Records show that Stuermer persisted in evading the Governor’s regulations by secretly meeting the French Generals.  He was afterwards recalled for his irregularities.  Balmain, the Russian, and Montchenu, the French Commissioner, are fair to him.  The latter constantly pressed Lowe to be stricter with Napoleon!  See M. Firmin-Didot’s edition of Montchenu’s reports in “La Captivite de Ste. Helene,” especially App. iii. and viii.]

[Footnote 569:  “Waterloo and St. Helena,” p. 104.]

[Footnote 570:  Lowe had the “Journal” copied out when it came into his hands in Dec., 1816.  This passage is given by Forsyth, vol. i., p. 5, and by Seaton, “Sir H. Lowe and Napoleon,” p. 52.]

[Footnote 571:  An incident narrated to the present writer by Sir Hudson Lowe’s daughter will serve to show how anxious was his supervision of all details and all individuals on the island.  A British soldier was missed from the garrison; and as this occurred at the time when Napoleon remained in strict seclusion, fear was felt that treachery had enabled him to make off in the soldier’s uniform.  The mystery was solved a few days after, when a large shark was caught near the shore, and on its being cut open the remains of the soldier were found!

It should be remembered that Lowe prevailed on the slave-owners of the island to set free the children of slaves born there on and after Christmas Day, 1818.]

[Footnote 572:  Quoted by Forsyth, vol. i., p. 289.  This letter of course finds no place in O’Meara’s later malicious production, “A Voice from St. Helena”; the starvation story is there repeated as if it were true!—­That Napoleon was fastidious to the last is proved by the archives of our India Office, which contain the entry (Dec. 11th, 1820):  “The storekeeper paid in the sum of L105 on account of 48 dozen of champagne rejected by General Bonaparte” (Sir G. Birdwood’s “Report on the Old Records of the India Office,” p. 97).]

[Footnote 573:  Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 330-343, 466-475.]

[Footnote 574:  I have quoted this in extenso in “The Owens College Historical Essays.”  May not the words “domiciled” and “employed” have aroused Lowe’s suspicions of Balcombe and O’Meara?  Napoleon always said that he did not wish to escape, and hoped only for a change of Ministry in England.  But what responsible person could trust his words after Elba, where he repeatedly told Campbell that he had done with the world and was a dead man?]

[Footnote 575:  Forsyth, vol. i., p. 310, vol. ii., p. 142, vol. iii., pp. 151, 250; Montholon, “Captivity of Napoleon,” vol. iii., ch. v.; Firmin-Didot, App. vi.  The schemes named by Forsyth are ridiculed by Lord Rosebery ("Last Phase,” p. 103).  But would he have ignored them, had he been in Bathurst’s place?]