as the medical journal of cholic and cough had already done; but the details of a hepatitis which never existed might be a little difficult to manage. Some light will be thrown on this part of the subject by quoting a passage from a letter of Sir Hudson Lowe to Count Bertrand, dated April 21, 1818, and which O'Meara or his friend published in the Morning Chronicle of the 24th of August of the same year. 'Your letter states that " Napoleon Buonaparte has been sick these seven months of a chronic disease of the liver." To a question put to Mr. O'Meara on the 25th of March, one month ago, he replied, after a great deal of hesitation and unwillingness to name any specific disorder, saying, at first, a derangement of the biliary system,-that" if called on to give it a name, he should call it an incipient hepatitis; and that even this might have been wholly avoided by taking exercise as he had recommended."' This doubtful testimony as to incipient hepatitis was given, as our readers will observe, just six months after the recorded existence of the disease in its confirmed state! O'Meara, however, was soon relieved from any treatment of this chronic hepatitis; but immediately on his arrival in England, the following paragraph appeared in a paper printed at Portsmouth where he landed. • Mr. O'Meara left Buonaparte in a very dangerous state of healthhis complaint is a confirmed disease of the liver, which his dull inactive life contributes most powerfully to increase-the liver is greatly enlarged, and discovers a tendency to give pain, which we understand is the next stage of the disorder towards suppuration and the destruction of life.' It was in July, 1818, that O'Meara left his patient in the stage of the disorder next to the destruction of life,' yet it is not till two years and a quarter after, in September, 1820, that we find Count Bertrand beginning to make the expected use of the chronic hepatitis; he writes a pathetic letter to Lord Liverpool to acquaint his lordship, that the patient can no longer struggle against the malignity of the climate; that all the time he remains in this abode will only be a state of painful agony; that a RETURN to EUROPE is the only means by which he can experience any relief.'-vol. ii. p. 503. But while all these worthy persons were thus endeavouring to excite sympathy for a fictitious malady of the climate, a real hereditary disease made its appearance, and, after about six months progress, terminated fatally on the 5th of May, 1821. The symptoms of this disease had, as we learn from the testimony of his medical attendant, no resemblance whatever to hepatitis. '10th April, 1821.-Buonaparte placed his hand over the liver, and said to me le foie; upon which, although I had done it before and ' given given my opinion that there was no disease of the liver, I again examined the right hypochondriac region, and not finding any indication or fulness whatever-(though O'Meara had found symptoms of suppuration three years before)-and judging from the symptoms in general, I told him that I did not apprehend that there was any disease of the liver; that perhaps there might be a little want of action in it.'-Arnott's Account of the last Illness of Napoleon Buonaparte, p. 9. On opening the body, it was found that the patient had died of a disease which is affected by no climate-a cancer, or schirrous state of the stomach; and the report of five surgeons, who examined the viscera, testifies that with the exception of the adhesion occasioned by the disease of the stomach (of which he died), no unhealthy appearance presented itself in the LIVER.'-Arnott's Account, p. 26. and Dr. Arnott further states, on Buonaparte's own authority, that his father died of a similar complaint; and it has been reported, and never, that we know of, contradicted, that he had himself always been suspicious of some disease of this nature. 6 If these facts be so, our readers will know what to think of Mr. O'Meara's chronic hepatitis of 1817, and of the prudent fear that just then seized him of tiring his readers with medical details.' We do not mean to say that Buonaparte may not have been affected in 1817 by the first approaches of the complaint of which he died in 1821-that is a question which never can be decided; but it is certain that he had no disease of the liver, no illness induced by the climate, and that O'Meara's statements upon this point are just as true as the rest of his book. We should not have approached this subject at all, if duty had not obliged us. The thoughts of Buonaparte, reduced to that state to which we must all come, subdues all feeling of personal hostility. We rejoice not,' to use the beautiful sentiment of Ecclesiasticus, over our greatest enemy being dead, but remember that we die all.' Against his triumphal car, we raised our feeble efforts; but we follow with different feelings his hearse; and we should not, in an article written, as this is, with a strong spirit of hostility towards the actions of a living man, have alluded to the last scene of his career, if Mr. O'Meara had not, in his Appendix, inserted the letters which we have quoted, and suppressed the report of the persons who opened the body, clearly with no other view than to give countenance to his own imposture of chronic hepatitis, and to confirm the false idea which his whole book inculcates-that the climate of his inhospitable prison, and the conduct of his barbarous keepers, had prematurely terminated the life of Buonaparte. We, on the contrary, feel,-and in this and in several preceding articles have, we hope, proved,-that he was treated with as much respect as was due to his station, and with as much indulgence as was consistent with his security;-that the British nation, whose children he had for twenty years imprisoned and slaughtered, and whose general ruin he had, by force and fraud, invariably pursued, forgot the despot in the prisoner; and remembered, in their treatment of him, no more of his former power, than was necessary to guard against his resumption of it. To this we add our mature and solemn opinion that, in accordance with this national generosity, those who had the painful responsibility of his custody, bore with exemplary patience and forbearance the accumulated provocations with which he assiduously insulted them; and never gave him or his partizans any cause for their complaints, except their judicious vigilance to prevent his escape, and their steady refusal to acknowledge his imperial dignity. ERRATUM. Page 49, 1. 20. for Pope, read Roscommon. In exchanging the couplet of the former for that of Roscommon, as more familiar, the name was overlooked. Pope's lines are 'No pardon vile obscenity should find, Though wit and art conspire to move the mind,' NEW ANTIQUITIES. ANCIENT Unedited Monuments, principally of Grecian Art. By James Millingen, Esq. F.A.S. 11. 10s. The Architectural Antiquities of Rome; consisting of Views, Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Ancient Edifices in that City. By G. L. 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