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Excerpt from Pages and Portraits From the Past, Vol. 2 of 2: Being the Private Papers of Sir William Hotham, G. C. B., Admiral of the Red
Fugitive was rendered impossible and on July 14th, Napoleon sent the fateful, but cunning, letter to the Bellerophon, ' off Rochefort, throwing himself upon the hospitality of the English people. Sir Henry, whose ?ag was on board the Superb, ' learnt that Bonaparte had signified his intention to embark on board the Bellerophon if he could be received between the hours of four and five in the morning of July 1sth; and on that day the Admiral stood on deck watching the momentous passage of the French brig Epervier, ' which conveyed upon the first stage of a final captivity the man before whom Europe had so recently trembled. At the moment when Napoleon quitted the brig, for the last time cries of Vive l'empereur! Rent the air, but these were hushed to silence ere he reached the Bellerophon, ' visibly Emperor no more. Later that same day Sir Henry visited and dined with the prisoner, while the following morning, July 16th, Napoleon returned the visit, arriving by arrangement on board the Superb to breakfast with Sir Henry. In a communication, copied by Sir William Hotham, which was written by Captain Senhouse (afterwards vice-admiral Sir H. F. Senhouse), flag-captain to Sir Henry, that officer describes graphically this memorable event.
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