Facts Illustrative of the Treatment of Napolon Buonaparte in Saint Helena
Facts Illustrative of the Treatment of Napolon Buonaparte in Saint Helena
Theodore Edward Hook
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This is curious ; not that I mean to say that this master of a merchant-ship might not have dined with this surgeon of a King's ship fifty times, and no human being would care about it : but it is worthy of remark, because, if O'Meara did say to the author all he states him to have said, the stories of Buonaparte's serious disorders fall to the ground, upon the simple declaration of the very man who is brought to prove their existence ; and if O'Meara did not dine with him at the 53rd mess, we ...may easily estimate all the other Jcicts which are contained in these letters by the one which is detected not to be truth ; and how he could have missed an opportu- nity of dining in company with him, liaving met him at tlie mess, I do not see. However, he goes to liis room, and is tlumder-struck at tlie employ- ment he finds him engaged in. One would have imagined, by the way it is noticed, that the body physician had been flying a kite with Master Na- poleon Bertrand, or playii^g marbles with little 1 114 Bliss Montholon : but instead of this, he finds him "pounding drugs in a mortar.
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