situation, under some new treaty, the man who had just broken a most solemn one, was out of the question.  To let him remain at large in the midst of a country close to France, wherein the press is free to licentiousness, and the popular mind liable to extravagant agitations, would have been to hazard the domestic tranquillity of England, and throw a thousand new difficulties in the way of every attempt to consolidate the social and political system of the French monarchy.  In most other times the bullet or the axe would have been the gentlest treatment to be expected by one who had risen so high, and fallen so fatally.  This his surrender to Captain Maitland—­to say nothing of the temper of the times—­put out of the question.  It remained to place him in a situation wherein his personal comfort might as far as possible be united with security to the peace of the world; and no one has as yet pretended to point out a situation preferable in this point of view to that remote and rocky island of the Atlantic, on which it was the fortune of the great Napoleon to close his earthly career.  The reader cannot require to be reminded that the personage, whose relegation to St. Helena has formed the topic of so many indignant appeals and contemptuous commentaries, was, after all, the same man, who, by an act of utterly wanton and unnecessary violence, seized Pius VII. and detained him a prisoner for nearly four years, and who, having entrapped Ferdinand VII. to Bayonne, and extorted his abdication by the threat of murder, concluded by locking him up during five years at Valencay.

The hints and threats of suicide having failed in producing the desired effect—­and a most ridiculous attempt on the part of some crazy persons in England to get possession of Napoleon’s person, by citing him to appear as a witness on a case of libel, having been baffled, more formally than was necessary, by the swift sailing of the Bellerophon for the Start—­the fallen Emperor at length received in quiet the intimation, that Admiral Sir George Cockburn was ready to receive him on board the Northumberland, and convey him to St. Helena.  Savary and L’Allemand were among the few persons omitted by name in King Louis’s amnesty on his second restoration, and they were extremely alarmed when they found that the retreat of St. Helena was barred on them by the English government.  They even threatened violence—­but consulting Sir Samuel Romilly, and thus ascertaining that the government had no thoughts of surrendering them to Louis XVIII., submitted at length with a good grace to the inevitable separation.  Napoleon’s suite, as finally arranged, consisted of Count Bertrand (grand master of the palace), Count Montholon (one of his council of state), Count Las Cazes, General Gourgaud (his aide-de-camp), and Dr. O’Meara, an Irish naval surgeon, whom he had found in the Bellerophon, and who was now by his desire transferred to the Northumberland.  Bertrand and Montholon were accompanied by their respective