The life of Napoleon Bonaparte - 1895 Author:William Hazlitt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to come to Plantation-House to meet Lady Moira, I told Bertrand to return no answer to it. If he really wanted me to see her, he would have put Plantation-House ... more »within the limits; but to send such an invitation, knowing I must go in charge of a guard if I wished to avail myself of it, was an insult . — It appears," added he, " that this Governor was with Blucher, and is the writer of some despatches to his government descriptive of part of the operations in 1814. I pointed them out to him the last time I saw him; and asked him, 'Is that you, Sir?' He replied, Yes. I told him they were full of misrepresentations and nonsense. He shrugged up his shoulders, appeared confused, and said, ' I thought I saw all that.' If those letters were the only accounts he transmitted, he betrayed his country. " A few days after, in consequence of another visit from the Governor, he expressed himself thus —" Here has been this ill-favoured wretch to torment me again. Tell him that I never want to see him, and that I hope he may not come again to annoy me with his hateful presence, unless it be with orders to despatch me. He will then find my breast ready for the blow; but till then, let me be rid of his odious countenance: I cannot reconcile myself to it." Buonaparte's aversion to this man appears to have been instinctive, and as just as it was involuntary. From this time the whole of his intercourse with the Governor and his agents was nothing but a series of petty affronts, carried more and more into outrage as the irritation increased, or of ineffectual remonstrances against compulsory submission to them. " Your government," said he, " are mistaken, if they imagine that by seeking every means to distress me, such as sending me here, depriving me of all communication with my nearest and dearest ...« less