| identifiant | 59_Masson_SH |
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| fait partie de | Masson |
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| est validé | oui |
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| date | 1819/08/29 00:00 |
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| titre | Lettre d'Hudson Lowe à Napoléon |
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| texte en markdown | <h1><span style="font-family:Chivo;font-size:60%;line-height:1;"><b>59_Masson_SH -</b> HUDSON LOWE À NAPOLÉON</span></h1>
<h2 data-kind="letter-context;" style="text-align: right; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal">Castle Jmaes Town, 29<sup>th</sup> August 1819</h2>
The undersigned, lieutenant General and governor of the Island of St Helena, has the honour to make known to Napoleon Bonaparte, that having received several reports from the orderly officer at Longwood, taking his continued inability to obtain a daily view of Napoleon Bonaparte's person, and Napoleon Bonaparte although said to be indisposed, having declined to admit the visits of Dr. Arnott principal medical officer on the Island of St. Helena, or of Dr. Verling the physician in attendance at Longwood, or of any British medical officer, who in conformity to the rule laid down in Earl Bathurst's introduction of the 30<sup>th</sup> November 1818, might give assurances morning and evening of his being indisposed and actually at Longwood, the undersigned feels himself in consequence under the principal but unavoidable necessity, of making known to Napoleon Bonaparte, that pursuant to the instruction contained in Earl Bathurst's letter of the 6<sup>th</sup> October 1818, he has granted to the orderly officer such means, as it may be found necessary to employ, for removing an obstruction he may find opposed, in obtaining daily access to the place where Napoleon Bonaparte may be seen.
The orderly officer has also been authorized in the event of any opposition being made, or resistance or attempt at resistance shown to him, on the part of any of the persons in attendance upon Napoleon Bonaparte, whilst in the operation of his duty as abovementioned to instantly remove from Longwood the person, or person by whom such opposition may be made or resistance shown, and such person or persons must further bear the immediate consequence of, and be held responsible for all such consequence or may result, from his or their act. The undersigned having further observed by the reports received from the orderly officer that notwithstanding the regardful manner in which he was directed to perform his duty, by the instruction conveyed to him on the 11<sup>th</sup> August 1819, of which copy with enclosures were sent to Napoleon Bonaparte on the 11<sup>th</sup> and 23<sup>rd</sup> August 1819, he has found the doors of Napoleon Bonaparte's residence closed to him, and experiences a constantly recurring difficulty of meeting with the attendants of Napoleon Bonaparte, to make known his desire of being admitted to him, has instructed the orderly officer upon those days when he may not have seen Napoleon Bonaparte before the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to proceed at once to the hall or outer apartment of his residence, and to that part of the house where his attendants are most likely to be met with, and if he should not find in person to convey a message to Napoleon Bonaparte, acquainting of his desire to be admitted to see him, to act of himself in procuring the means of admission, following in this respect, as far as possible, the rule laid down in the instruction conveyed to him on the 11<sup>th</sup> August 1819, and not having recourse to any means of force, unless where he finds that he cannot obtain admission without it.[^1]
Hudson Lowe, Lieutenant General
[^1]: Expédition, Bibliothéque Thiers, fonds Masson, carton 8, fol. 256. |
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