A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century volume 2
A History of the British Empire in the Nineteenth Century volume 2
Marcus R P Marcus Robert Phipps Dorman
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On the whole he appears to have been fairly cheerful and much more con- tented than the small band of friends who followed him into exile. Five years had passed when the first symptoms appeared of the malady which was afterwards to prove fatal. Increasing discomfort and pain in the stomach supervened, and on May 5, 1821, he passed quietly away. He was buried with full military honours in a valley on the island, and it was not until 1 840 that his remains were removed to their final resting-plac...e in Paris. Whatever ' our nation, whatever our disposition, whatever our knowledge of Napo- leon, we can still say, " This was a man. " By the time the ex-Emperor had given himself up to Captain Maitland the allies had reached Paris. Louis XVIII. Was restored to the throne, the executive of five dissolved itself, and Wellington for a time exercised almost supreme authority. Now that the dangerous work was done, the condition of France was freely criticised, and in England dissatisfaction was expressed at the manner in which the King had governed during the year before the return of ^ On May 27, 1816, Lord Stuart, Ambassador at Paris, considered it his duty to acquaint Castlereagh with the fact that the frigate appointed to carry out Count Dupuis, the Governor of the Isle of Bourbon and the French establishment in the East Indies, was the Amphitrite, navigated by the crew who received Bonaparte at Rochefort last July, and whose goodwill was con- ciliated by large sums of money during the few days before he surrendered to the British.
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