THE

LAST DAYS

OF THE

S.H.1825

EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

BY

DOCTOR F. ANTOMMARCHI,

HIS PHYSICIAN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

1825.

ORDON

PRINTED BY S. AND BENTLEY DORSET STREET.

"

TO

CORSICA,

THE LAND WHICH GAVE HIM BIRTH,

AND

WHICH HE HAS NEVER CEASED TO LOVE.

F. ANTOMMARCHI.

PREFACE.

I HAD not intended, for the present, to embody the recollections I have pre

served from St. Helena: but works are rapidly succeeding each other; in some of which Napoleon is described as a man of a violent temper, constantly irritated, and pursuing with base hatred all those who formerly surrounded him ; whilst others, arming his own hand against himself, represent him as seeking to terminate at Fontainebleau that