act of England, but of Austria) was in itself justified by obvious political considerations; and that England would have given good reason of offence to the King of France, had she complied with Napoleon’s repeated demands, to be styled and treated as Emperor—­if these things be granted, we do not see how even the shadow of blame can attach to the much-abused ministers, on whom fortune threw one of the most delicate and thankless of all offices.  His house was, save one (that of the governor), the best on the island:  from the beginning it was signified that any alterations or additions, suggested by Napoleon, would be immediately attended to; and the framework of many apartments was actually prepared in England, to be sent out and distributed according to his pleasure.  As it was, Napoleon had for his own immediate personal accommodation, a suite of rooms, consisting of a saloon, an eating-room, a library, a billiard-room, a small study, a bedroom, and a bathroom; and various English gentlemen, accustomed to all the appliances of modern luxury, who visited the exile of Longwood, concur in stating that the accommodations around him appeared to them every way complete and unobjectionable.  He had a good collection of books, and the means of adding to these as much as he chose.  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; and the sum allowed for his domestic expenditure was L12,000 per annum—­the governor of St. Helena, moreover, having authority to draw on the treasury for any larger sum, in case he should consider L12,000 as insufficient.  When we consider that wines, and most other articles heavily taxed in England, go duty-free to St. Helena, it is really intolerable to be told that this income was not adequate—­nay, that it was not munificent—­for a person in Napoleon’s situation.  It was a larger income than is allotted to the governor of any English colony whatever, except the governor-general of India.  It was twice as large as the official income of a British secretary of state has ever been.  We decline entering at all into the minor charges connected with this humiliating subject:  at least a single example may serve.  One of the loudest complaints was 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 L6 per dozen (without duty) and the lowest menial employed at Longwood a bottle of good Teneriffe wine daily.—­That 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—­this was never even denied.  Passing from the interior—­we conceive that we cannot do better than quote the language of one of his casual and impartial visitors, Mr. Ellis.  “There never, perhaps,” (says this gentleman), “was a prisoner, so much requiring to be watched