Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November-December 1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/662
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lor 1655—continued. not, and thus throwing a real bar in the way of any extension of his present riding limits. Says he has replied to Napoleon’s strictures in French. I have endeavoured to be as moderate as possible, carefully omitting any- thing which might tend to create fresh discussion . . . Where the attack is all on one side, that the accuser thinks himself at liberty to use every weapon that falis under his hand—fair or foul—and has a shield in his own adversity against any arm but that of self defence being raised to resist his blows, the contest has every advantage for him... 1656 GourGaup (General Baron) A.L.s. 1 p. 4to, St. Helena, Mars, ce 11lme, 1818, to Sir Hudson Lowe : Monsr. le General Baron Gourgaud declare sur sa parole d’honneur a S. E. le Lieutenant General Sir Hudson Lowe Gouverneur de Ste. Helene qwil n’est porteur d’aucuns Papiers, pamphlets ou Lettres, de la part des personnes & Longwood contraires aux reglemens etablis pour leur detention et autres que ceux qui ont été visités. 1657 Lowe (Sir Hudson), Instructions, signed, for the Orderly Officer at Longwood, 34 pp. folio, Plantation House, 1st May, 1818: He is to see or obtain satisfactory information of Napoleon Buonaparte’s being on the spot twice in the twenty-four hours. To see that none of the established Orders or Regulations are infringed. He is to be prepared at all times to attend upon Napoleon when he may desire to pass the limits, but should he approach the Coast or any Fortified part of the Island, the orderly officer is respectfully to request him to turn in some other direction, ete. 1658 Montcuenu (Le Marquis de) French Commissioner, A. L. (8rd person), $ p. 4to, Jamestown, 28 May, 1818, to Sir Hudson Lowe, accepting his invitation for the King’s birthday 1659 MontHoton (Comte de) A. L.s. 4 p. folio, Longwood, 26 June, 1819, to Sir Hudson Lowe, thanking him for getting a passage to Kurope for the Countess de Montholon 1660 VeErtine (Dr. J.) Surgeon at Longwood, A.L.s. 2 pp. 8vo, Longwood, 13 August, [1819], to Major Gorrequer, A.D.C. : I had formerly occasion to converse with the Governor upon the subject of my acting as Interpreter when communications were to be made by Captain Nicholls to the persons at Longwood, and he then coincided fully with the ideas I expressed to him, etc. 1661 NicHoLus (Captain George) Orderly Officer, A. L. s. 14 pp. 4to, Longwood 13 Sept., 1819, to Major Gorrequer, A.D.C. : Not having been able to obtain a sight of Genl. Bonaparte before 10 o’clock this moruing, I requested the General’s chief valet to inform him that I wished to be admitted to see him. Marchand said that it was impossible for him to carry such a message to Napoleon Bonaparte, and further added that the General was then in his bath, where it was probable he would remain til 2 o’clock. He also stated that Napoleon Bonaparte was unwell. I took Lieut. with me and proceeded to Count Bertrand and requested that he would have the goodness to inform Napoleon Bonaparte that I wished to be admitted to see him in the execution of my duty solely. The Count said ‘* he would carry my message to him.”
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