the captivity of Napoleon, they would require to see in extenso all the documents of importance which support the views put forward in the narrative. These, therefore, are published at the end of the present work, and may be considered as the Pièces Justificatives of the history.
I must also thank Lieutenant-Colonel Jackson, Professor of Military Surveying at the East India College at Addiscombe, for his ready and obliging willingness to give me every information in his power respecting events in which he was an actor, and respecting persons of whom he is now one of the very few survivors. In conclusion I can only express my earnest hope that this work may be the means of rectifying some erroneous views, and enabling the public to form a just opinion respecting one of the most interesting episodes of history. It will be to me a source of sincere and lasting satisfaction if I have, with the most rigid adherence to truth, and by the mere force of facts, succeeded in vindicating the memory of those who have been long calumniated, and proving that neither the British Government nor Sir Hudson Lowe was in fault as regards the treatment of Napoleon at St. Helena.