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tion House, and asked whether they dis-cussed our visits to Longwood. I told him that the same sort of interrogation went on there, and that I was sure to be sharply (though good-naturedly) cross-questioned about what we did and what we heard, when in his presence.

One evening, whilst on a visit to Ma-dame Bertrand, we strolled up to see Mr. O'Meara, who happened to be engaged with the emperor; Cipriani, however, sent in to say that some ladies were waiting to see him, and on Napoleon hearing our names, he requested us to come in. We found him in the billiard-room, employed looking over some very large maps, and moving about a number of pins, some with red heads, others with black. I asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was fighting over again some of his battles, and that the red-headed pins were meant to represent the English, and the black