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RECOLLECTIONS
of the
EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

CHAPTER I.

There points the Muse to stranger's eye,
The graves of those that cannot die.

A SLIGHT DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND.—ITS APPEARANCE FROM THE SEA.—CONSTERNATION AT ITS THREATENING ASPECT.—SINGULAR POSITION OF ST. JAMES TOWN.—THE BRIARS.

My object in the following Memoir is to confine myself, as far as possible, to what concerns Napoleon personally. Having, however, many reminiscences, unconnected with him, of the happy days of my childhood, and feeling that they might be interesting to the public, especially to those who visited the island during the emperor's

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