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the Emperor Napoleon.
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been seen at St. Helena; and a young island lady, Miss De F———, who was with us, would not believe that the solid mass in her hand was really frozen water, until it melted and streamed down her fingers. I recollect ending the morning's diversions by cutting from Napoleon's coat an embroidered bugle, and running away with it as a trophy. I now regret that I did not keep it; but, like most other relics and valuable mementos, I gave it away—it was attached to the coat he wore at Waterloo.

The emperor asked me one day, whether I was acquainted with Captain Wallis, who commanded the "Podargus;" and on my replying in the affirmative, he said, somewhat abruptly, "What does he think of me?" It so happened, that, in the case of this officer, the prejudice against Napoleon (and indeed against every thing French, at that time common to all Englishmen) was sharpened, upon the whetstone of painful

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