General Savary and
Lallemand on board the Northumberland, where they went for the purpose
of taking a last farewell of their master. I had very little
conversation with him myself, but they remained with him a
considerable time. When I was about to return to my ship, I went into
the cabin to tell them they must accompany me. They approached him in
the after-cabin, where he was standing, when he embraced each of them
most affectionately, after the French manner, putting his arms round
them, and touching their cheeks with his. He was firm and collected;
but, in turning from him, the tears were streaming from their eyes. On
getting on board, all the squadron got under weigh, the Tonnant and
Bellerophon to return to Plymouth, the Northumberland, with two troop
ships in company, to proceed to St Helena. The following day she was
joined by a frigate and several sloops of war from Plymouth, when she
made sail to the westward.

Having now brought my narrative down to the period of Buonaparte's
quitting the ship, it only remains for me to give some account of his
person and character, as far as it fell under my view. In doing so, I
shall endeavour, as far as possible, in the same spirit with which the
foregoing narrative is written, to avoid being biassed, either by
favourable or unfavourable feelings towards him. What he may have been
when at the head of the French Empire, with the destiny of the
greater part of Europe under his control, I have no peculiar means of
knowing; all I can pretend to do is, to describe him as he was on
board the Bellerophon; adding a few anecdotes, which have been omitted
in the course of the narrative, as serving to throw some further light
upon his character.

Napoleon Buonaparte, when he came on board the Bellerophon, on the
15th of July, 1815, wanted exactly one month of completing his
forty-sixth year, being born the 15th of August, 1769. He was then a
remarkably strong, well-built man, about five feet seven inches high,
his limbs particularly well-formed, with a fine ancle and very small
foot, of which he seemed rather vain, as he always wore, while on
board the ship, silk stockings and shoes. His hands were also very
small, and had the plumpness of a woman's rather than the robustness
of a man's. His eyes light grey, teeth good; and when he smiled, the
expression of his countenance was highly pleasing; when under the
influence of disappointment, however, it assumed a dark gloomy cast.
His h