Extract from a Diary of Rear-Admiral Sir George Cockburn: With Particular Reference to Gen. Napoleon Buonaparte, on Passage from England to St. Helena, in 1815. On Board H.M.S. "Northumberland," Bearing the Rear-Admiral's FlagSimpkin, Marshall, 1888 - 96 sidor |
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Sida 13 - ... (It is clear he is still inclined to act the sovereign occasionally, but I cannot allow it, and the sooner therefore he becomes convinced it is not to be admitted the better...
Sida 19 - N., longitude 8° 2' W. On the 1$th August, it was calm most of the twenty-four hours, but still we were attended by a disagreeable swell. I did not see much of General Buonaparte throughout this day, as owing to his appearing inclined to try to assume again improper consequence, I was purposely more than usually distant with him, and therefore, though we exchanged common salutations and high looks, nothing passed between us worth noticing.
Sida 95 - Longwood, and he seemed tolerably satisfied with it. though both he and his attendants have since been complaining a good deal. The general having stated to me that he could not bear the crowds which gathered to see him in the town, he has at his own request been permitted to take up his residence (until Longwood should be ready) at a small house called The...
Sida 93 - I might have heard of an intention to nrrest him at that time, and of opposing his plans, were all nonsense and without any foundation in truth, for his plans had been too long and too carefully laid to admit of being so counteracted . After he became First Consul, he said, plots and conspiracies against his life had, however, been very frequent, but by vigilance and some good fortune they had all been discovered and frustrated.
Sida 62 - ... constantly denied it, has not been hitherto generally credited, and which has been also, very recently, flatly contradicted in a publication stated to have been written by a person who never quitted him for fifteen years. In the course of this evening's conversation, Buonaparte also mentioned to me particulars of what passed between the Queen of Prussia and himself at Tilsit, when (to solicit that Magdeburg might be left to Prussia) she joined the royal party already assembled there. He said...
Sida 66 - ... and so forth ; to which he only answered that he should ever consider it one of the greatest misfortunes of his life that it had not been within his power to obey her majesty's commands in this affair, begging her, however, to believe it would always afford him the highest gratification to be able to meet any wish of hers, and adding more civil speeches of this kind ("mats...
Sida 28 - Grouchy's division, and assured me he knew early in the 27 day the Prussians were closing on his flank ; that this, however, gave him little or no uneasiness as he depended on General Grouchy also closing with him at the same time, and he had ordered a sufficient force to oppose the Prussians, who were in fact already checked...
Sida 87 - ... Bonaparte to-day walked and talked a very considerable time with the admiral, giving him a succinct account of his rise to the eminence from which he is now fallen. Bonaparte said it was owing to the want of officers at the beginning of the revolutionary war that he was sent for (although then but a young captain of artillery) from the northern frontier, where he was serving, to take the command of the artillery before Toulon ; that almost immediately after his arrival at this station he had...
Sida 89 - ... (Bonaparte) retired in disgust, and putting on the dress of the Institute of Paris, to which he then belonged (having been elected to it in consequence of his proficiency in mathematics), he continued in Paris, endeavouring to keep quiet and from the armies, which he said, however, he should at last have been obliged to have joined, perhaps in a subordinate capacity, had not the advance of the Austrian general De Vins into Italy, and the retreat and alarm of the French army opposed to him, spread...
Sida 94 - Bonaparte said (from what he afterward learnt) that previous to this plot being discovered it would probably have proved fatal to him, had not Georges insisted upon being appointed a consul, which Moreau and Pichegru would not hear of, and therefore Georges and his party could not be brought to act.