[Footnote 576:  Gourgaud, “Journal,” vol. i., p. 105.]

[Footnote 577:  He said to Gourgaud that, if he had the whole island for exercise he would not go out (Gourgaud’s “Journal,” vol. ii., p. 299).]

[Footnote 578:  Gourgaud’s “Journal,” vol. i., pp. 262-270, 316.  Yet Montholon ("Captivity of Napoleon,” vol. i., ch. xiii.), afterwards wrote of Las Cases’ departure:  “We all loved the well-informed and good man, whom we had pleasure in venerating as a Mentor....  He was an immense loss to us!”]

[Footnote 579:  Gourgaud, vol. i., p. 278; Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 381-384, vol. ii., p. 74.  Bonaparte wanted this “Journal” to be given back to him:  but Las Cases would not hear of this, as it contained “ses pensees.”  It was kept under seal until Napoleon’s death, and then restored to the compiler.]

[Footnote 580:  Henry, vol. ii., p. 48; B. Jackson, pp. 99-101; quoted by Seaton, pp. 159-162.]

[Footnote 581:  Forsyth, vol. iii., p. 40; Gourgaud’s “Journal,” vol. ii., pp. 531-537.]

[Footnote 582:  “Apostille” of April 27th, 1818.  As to the new house, see Forsyth, vol. i., pp. 212, 270; vol. iii., pp. 51,257; it was ready when Napoleon’s illness became severe (Jan., 1821).

If the plague of rats was really very bad, why is it that Gourgaud made so little of it?]

[Footnote 583:  “Journal” of Oct. 4th, 1817.  On the return voyage to England Mme. Bertrand told Surgeon Henry that secret letters had constantly passed between Longwood and England, through two military officers; but the passage above quoted shows who was the culprit.]

[Footnote 584:  Forsyth, vol. iii., pp. 153, 178-181.]

[Footnote 585:  Stuermer’s “Report” of March 14th, 1818; Gourgaud’s “Journal” of Sept. 11th and 14th, 1817.]

[Footnote 586:  Described by Bertrand to Lowe on May 12th, 1821 ("St. Helena Records,” No. 32).]

[Footnote 587:  Lord Holland, “Foreign Reminiscences,” p. 305.]

[Footnote 588:  Gourgaud, vol. i., pp. 297, 540, 546; vol. ii., pp. 78, 130, 409, 425.  See Las Cases, “Memorial,” vol. iv., p. 124, for Napoleon’s defence of polygamy.  See an Essay on Napoleon’s religion in my “Napoleonic Studies” (1904).]

[Footnote 589:  Lord Holland’s “Foreign Reminiscences,” p. 316; Colonel Gorrequer’s report in “Cornhill” of Feb., 1901.]

[Footnote 590:  “Colonial Office Records,” St. Helena, No. 32; Henry, “Events of a Military Life,” vol. ii., pp. 80-84:  h also states that Antommarchi, when about to sign the report agreed on by the English doctors, was called aside by Bertrand and Montholon, and thereafter declined to sign it:  Antommarchi afterwards issued one of his own, laying stress on cancer and enlarged liver, thus keeping up O’Meara’s theory that the illness was due to the climate of St. Helena and want of exercise.  In our records is a letter of Montholon to his wife