| identifiant | 45_Masson_SH |
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| fait partie de | Masson |
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| est validé | oui |
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| date | 1817/10/26 00:00 |
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| titre | Mémoire composé de plusieurs extraits de lettre d'Hudson Lowe au général Bertrand |
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| texte en markdown | <h1><span style="font-family:Chivo;font-size:60%;line-height:1;"><b>45_Masson_SH<-b> GÉNÉRAL HUDSON LOWE, GOUVERNEUR DE SAINTE-HÉLÈNE AU GÉNÉRAL BERTRAND, GRAND MARÉRÉCHAL DU PALAIS</span></h1>
<h2 data-kind="letter-context;" style="text-align: right; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal">St Helena, 26<sup>th</sup> October 1817</h2>
**Extract of a letter written by Lieutenant General Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand on the occasion of the Officers and other persons who had accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to St Helena signing the Declaration upon which their residence permitted on the Island. 8th October 1816.**
“In offering the declaration for signature the Officers and other Persons will however understand, they will not bind themselves irrevocably by it, to remain on the Island of St. Helena, as I am authorized to admit their departure within a reasonable time after they may have made any application to me to this effect.
They will in such case be sent to the Cape of Good Hope, where they will be under the protection of the Governor of that colony.”
“They will be furnished at the time of their departure with what may be necessary for their voyage.”
“I am further instructed to acquaint those to whom the declaration may be presented for signature, that whilst remaining on the Island of St. Helena, they and all individuals of their family who are resident on the Island, will be subject to the provisions of the act of Parliament 56 Geo. 3 Cap 22 (copy of which is enclosed) by which all persons who are subjects of His Majesty or owing allegiance to him which allegiance they do owe whilst they are permitted to reside in his Dominions, assisting in or privy to the escape of General Bonaparte, are considered guilty of Felony, and it is to be clearly understood that, should any of them be convicted of such offence, the law will be rigidly enforced against them.”
“A compliance with all the Rules and Regulations provided for the safe Custody of General Bonaparte will also be demanded from them, as the indispensable condition on which their protracted Residence in this Island is permitted.”
“Any infraction of these rules or disrespect to the government under whose protection they are living, or to the authorities by whom its regulations are enforced, will be regarded as a breach of the conditions on which their residence is permitted, and subject them to immediate Separation from the person of General Bonaparte, or to removal from the Island.”
**Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand dated 12th October 1816**
“No Pecuniary Transaction whatever can be permitted to take place without my previous sanction and concurrence.”
**Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand, dated 15th October 1816**
“I can henceforward receive no communication which has relation to the Affairs of General Bonaparte, in which any other title is given to him than that by which he is called in the convention signed at Paris by the Allied Powers, and in the acts of the British Parliament.”
**Extract of a letter from Lieutenant General Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand dated 26th October 1817**
“At the time of your having been required conjointly with the Officers and other Persons who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to this Island, to sign the Declaration upon which your further Residence here would be permitted, it was your particular desire to me I would deliver to you in writing, the Heads of the various Regulations to which you might be subject.”
“I have now the honour to enclose a paper containing the Heads of the principal Regulations in force, as I consider them to be, at present established.”
**Viz., The letter of the 8th October 1816 above transcribed.**
“The same attention will expected from the officers and other persons who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte to this Island, to the observance of these Regulations, as was required by the Letter which was annexed to those of the 9th October, and the same rule will apply to all points not expressed in the enclosed Paper, as was communicated to you in that Letter and referred to in mine of the 12th October 1816.”
**Copy of the Regulations transmitted to Count Bertrand with Sir Hudson Lowe's Letter of 26th October 1817 (containing with the above extract the rules now in force) is hereunto annexed. Heads of regulations referred to in Sir Hudson Lowe's letter to Count Bertrand of 26th October 1817.**
Limits
Longwood and the Plain of Deadwood with all the space lying between Longwood and the New Road by Woody Ridge, the road by Hut's Gate in front of the Alarm House as far as Mr. Brooke's and returning from thence to Longwood either by the same road or the upper Foot Path that leads through the grounds of Dr Kay and Mr Torbet are established as the limits during the day.
After sunset sentries will be placed round the garden enclosure of Longwood House extending as far as the lodge at the entrance of the grounds.
The limits will considered as closed when these sentries are posted which will be usually at about a quarter of an hour after the evening gun has fired and before it begins to grow dark.
Should Napoleon Bonaparte be desirous of extending his ride beyond the limits during the day-time or desire to remain out after the evening sentries are placed, an English officer will be constantly in waiting to attend upon him.
At 9 o'clock sentries will be placed round the house as heretofore.
Officers of the army and navy, respectable inhabitants of the island, and strangers touching at it, whose names may have been sent to, or left at Longwood, will be permitted to visit there as heretofore, upon application to the government, or to their respective authorities with the concurrence of Napoleon Bonaparte himself, or upon an invitation from him.
It is subjoined to the governor by his Instructions, that all letters addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte or his attendants, must be first read by him, before they are delivered to the persons to whom they are addressed, and that all letters written by him or them; must be subject the same regulation. He is further instructed not to allow of any communication excepting through his agency.
Pursuant to the above instructions, no correspondence by letter, note or otherwise can be allowed to take place without his knowledge or assent.
To facilitate however, the transmission of cards of invitation or any open note or paper on urgent and indispensable business within the island, where an inconvenient delay might arise, in sending it to the governor, the orderly officer stationed at Longwood, is instructed to receive and transmit it at once to its address, informing the governor, where required, of the same.
All other letters and papers whatever it is requested may be delivered to the orderly officer, under a sealed envelope, to the address of the governor, who will use the same method, for those which he may transmit through the orderly officer to them.
All regulations not expressed under any of the above heads will remain in force as heretofore established.[^1]
Signed: Hudson Lowe, Lieutenant General
True copy T. Reade, Lt. Col. & D.a.G.
[^1]: Bibliothèque Thiers, fonds Masson, carton 8, fol. 170. Le document porte le tampon de la bibliothèque de Sainte-Hélène. |
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