Lallemand; who were extremely
urgent to know how they were to be disposed of; protesting, most
vehemently, against their being given up to France, as a breach of all
faith and honour. Madame Bertrand again tried to induce Lord Keith to
use his influence with our Government, to prevent Bertrand from
accompanying Buonaparte to St Helena.

As soon as the Admiral had left the ship, Buonaparte sent for me, and
showed me the same paper Lord Keith had communicated to me in the
morning. When I had read it, he complained vehemently of his treatment
in being sent to St Helena, saying, "The idea of it is perfect horror
to me. To be placed for life on an island within the Tropics, at an
immense distance from any land, cut off from all communication with
the world, and every thing that I hold dear in it!--c'est pis que la
cage de fer de Tamerlan. (It is worse than Tamerlane's iron cage.) I
would prefer being delivered up to the Bourbons. Among other insults,"
said he,--"but that is a mere bagatelle, a very secondary
consideration,--they style me General! they can have no right to call
me General; they may as well call me Archbishop, for I was head of the
church, as well as the army. If they do not acknowledge me as Emperor,
they ought as First Consul; they have sent Ambassadors to me as such;
and your King, in his letters, styled me brother. Had they confined
me in the Tower of London, or one of the fortresses in England,
(though not what I had hoped from the generosity of the English
people,) I should not have so much cause of complaint; but to banish
me to an island within the Tropics! They might as well have signed my
death-warrant at once, as it is impossible a man of my habit of body
can live long in such a climate."

He then expressed a desire to write another letter to the Prince
Regent; and I carried it the same afternoon to Lord Keith, by whom it
was immediately forwarded to London.

Generals Savary and Lallemand this day made many appeals to me on the
injustice of our Government delivering them up to France; saying they
had not a doubt it was intended, else why except them from
accompanying the Emperor, as they were both married men, and Savary
the father of a large family:--it was not the wish of either to have
gone to St Helena; but their being expressly excepted, and their names
appearing in the list of proscribed, was but too sure a proof of their
intended fate. Savary added, "Were I to be allowed a fair and
impar