[Footnote 547:  Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., pp. 47, 59 (small edition); “Last Voyages of Nap.,” p. 198.]

[Footnote 548:  Sir G. Bingham’s Diary in “Blackwood’s Mag.,” October, 1896, and “Cornhill,” January, 1901.]

[Footnote 549:  Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., p. 64.]

[Footnote 550:  “Last Voyages,” p. 130.]

[Footnote 551:  “Castlereagh Papers,” 3rd series, vol. ii., pp. 423, 433, 505; Seeley’s “Stein,” vol. iii., pp. 333-344.]

[Footnote 552:  See Gourgaud’s “Journal,” vol. ii., p. 315, for Napoleon’s view as to our stupidity then:  “In their place I would have stipulated that I alone could sail and trade in the eastern seas.  It is ridiculous for them to leave Batavia (Java) to the Dutch and L’Ile de Bourbon to the French.”]

[Footnote 553:  Forsyth, “Captivity of Napoleon,” vol. i., p. 218.  Plantation House was also the centre of the semaphores of the island.]

[Footnote 554:  Mrs. Abell ("Betsy” Balcombe), “Recollections,” ch. vii.  These were compiled twenty-five years later, and are not, as a rule, trustworthy, but the “blindman’s buff” is named by Glover.  Balcombe later on infringed the British regulations, along with O’Meara.]

[Footnote 555:  Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., pp. 77, 94, 136, 491.]

[Footnote 556:  Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., pp. 135, 298.  See too “Cornhill” for January, 1901.]

[Footnote 557:  Surgeon Henry of the 66th, in “Events of a Military Life,” ch. xxviii., writes that he found side by side at Plantation House the tea shrub and the English golden-pippin, the bread-fruit tree and the peach and plum, the nutmeg overshadowing the gooseberry.  In ch. xxxi. he notes the humidity of the uplands as a drawback, “but the inconvenience is as nothing compared with the comfort, fertility, and salubrity which the clouds bestow.”  He found that the soldiers enjoyed far better health at Deadwood Camp, behind Longwood, than down in Jamestown.]

[Footnote 558:  Despatch of Jan. 12th, 1816, in Colonial Office, St. Helena, No. 1.]

[Footnote 559:  Lord Rosebery ("Napoleon:  last Phase,” p. 67), following French sources, assigns the superiority of force to Lowe; but the official papers published by Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 397-416, show that the reverse was the case.  Lowe had 1,362 men; the French, about 3,000.]

[Footnote 560:  From a letter in the possession of Miss Lowe.]

[Footnote 561:  Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 139-147.]

[Footnote 562:  See the interview in “Monthly Rev.,” Jan., 1901.]

[Footnote 563:  Bingham’s Diary in “Cornhill” for Jan., 1901; Gourgaud, vol. i., pp. 152, 168.]

[Footnote 564:  Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 171-177.]

[Footnote 565:  Lowe’s version (Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 247-251) is fully borne out by Admiral Malcolm’s in Lady Malcolm’s “Diary of St. Helena,” pp. 55-65; Gourgaud was not present.]

[Footnote 566:  B. Jackson’s “Waterloo and St. Helena,” pp. 90-91.  The assertion in the article on B. Jackson, in the “Dict. of Nat.  Biography,” that he was related to Lowe, and therefore partial to him, is incorrect.  Miss Lowe assures me that he did not see her father before the year 1815.]