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47_Masson_SH| identifiant | 47_Masson_SH |
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| fait partie de | Masson |
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| est validé | oui |
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| date | 1818/11/04 00:00 |
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| titre | Lettre d'Hudson Lowe au comte Montholon |
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| texte en markdown | <h1><span style="font-family:Chivo;font-size:60%;line-height:1;"><b>47_Masson_SH -</b> HUDSON LOWE, GOUVERENEUR DE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE AU COMTE MONTHOLON</span></h1>
<h2 data-kind="letter-context;" style="text-align: right; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal">Castle, 4<sup>th</sup> Nov 1818</h2>
The governor pursuant to instructions he has received from Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, has the honour to communicate as follows:
“That Cardinal Fesch having represented to the Pope the desire of General Bonaparte to have a priest resident [at] Longwood, in whom he may confide & having made an application to the Prince Regent for permission to procure and send to St Helena a Roman Catholic priest to attend on General Bonaparte, his Royal Highness who had seen no reason to withhold his assent to this application on behalf of General Bonaparte, had signified his consent that Cardinal Fesch should, agreeably to General Bonaparte's wishes select a priest for that purpose, and that this priest should have permission to reside at Longwood, subject to such conditions as it may be necessary for him previously to subscribe.”
The governor has the honor further to make known that Earl Bathurst having received in the governor's recent dispatches, General Bonaparte had expressed a wish to have a French surgeon of known reputation established at Longwood, and to have a cook in whom he could place confidence, his lordship had availed himself of the same opportunity to make General Bonaparte's wishes on this subject known to cardinal Fesch, leaving it to him to select persons for both these situations, to proceed to St Helena, in company with the Roman Catholic priest and under similar engagements as to the restriction of their cohabitation and intercourse with the inhabitants of the Island.
Earl Bathurst has added he would not fail to give the governor the earliest information of the names of the individuals selected for these offices & of the probable period of their departure from England.[^1]
[^1]: Expédition, Bibliothèque Thiers, fonds Masson, carton 8, fol. 196. |
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