Show NAPOLEON AT at HELENA great conqueror bitterly resented banishment to island what napoleon thought ol 01 his ban ashment to st dehna may be gath ered from the following protest the idea of it Is a perfect horror to me to be placed tor life on an island within the tropics at an am L dense distance aiom any land cut oh arora all communication with the world and everything that I 1 hold in it est pis que ie cage de fer de tarn erian it Is worse than tamerlane s cage I 1 would prefer being delav ered up to the bourbons among oth er insults said he but that Is a mere bagatelle a very secondary con aide ration they style me general they can have no right to call me general they may as well call me archbishop for I 1 was bead of the church as well as the army it they do not acknowledge me as emperor they ought as first consul they have sent ambassadors to me as such and your king in his letters styled me brother had they confined me in the of london or one of the fort in england though not what I 1 had hoped irom the generosity ot the english people I 1 should not have so much cause for complaint but to banish to an island within the tropics they might as well have bignel my death warrant at once as it Is impossible a man of my habit ot body can live long in such a climate the surrender by admiral molt land |