Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/64
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    862 863 NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA. [NAPOLEON I.] READE (sir THomas, xT.). Autograph Draft Report on his official visit to Napoleon at Longwood. 7 Pp. 100... Cireg 1816. £10 los A lengthy and, important report, relating to an official visit by Sir Thomas Reade to Napoleon at Longwood; concerning the deportation of four members of Napoleon’s household. Giving in full the conversation which took place, and mentioning Le Comte de Las Cases, Captain Charles Piontkowski and Le Comte de Bertrand and his wife. ‘* According to the Governors Directions I proceeded to Longwood and immedi- ately upon my arrival there I sent word, by Dr. O’Meara (Medical Attendant to Napoleon in St. Helena) to tell B that I was come to wait upon him with a communication from the Governor, | ‘* He (Napoleon) read it for some moments but did not seem to understand it perfectly—he asked Ct. Las Cases, to whom he delivered it and directed him to read it in French, which he did. ‘He then asked me what four Persons were to leave him, remarking at the same time there are but four—to which I replied that I could not tell—he then said are they officers—to which I made the same answer. ‘‘ As to Capt. Piontowski, he said, I do not even know who he is—they tell me, he was a soldier in my Guards at Elba, and that is all I know about him. ‘‘T went to Marshall Bertrand. . . . I told him I had been to Longwood with a communication to General Buonaparte and I shew’d him the Paper—After he had read it he asked if I knew what Persons were to leave Longwood — I answered not.’’ Kte. This report refers in all probability to the arrest and deportation of the Marquis de Las Cases and his son Comte de Las Cases, which took place in December, 1816. The date of the interview may safely be fixed circa, October, 1816, when Sir Thomas Reade was received by Napoleon. Captain Chas. Piontkowski, a Polish exile, came to St. Helena at the end of 1815; also the Comte de Las Cases was present when the communication was presented. NAPOLEON AND SIR HUDSON LOWE. [NAPOLEON I.] READE (sir THomas, xr.) Deputy- Adjutant-General at St. Helena. Memorandum, in the Autograph of Sir T. Reade, of part of the conversation which took place between Napoleon and Sir Hudson Lowe, Governor of St. Helena, on the 18th of August, 1816, relative to what Sir Henry Keating, Governor of Bourbon, had said concerning the book Mr. Hobhouse had sent to the Emperor, but which had been retained by Lowe on account of the “ Imperial inscription ”’ on the cover. 21% pp., 4to.
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