Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original. The issues tabulated below should be noted, along with the resolutions.
Variants of proper names have been replaced with the most commonly accepted version, in order to facilitate text searches.
The formatting and punctuation in the Index, which covers all four volumes, has been normalized where necessary to follow the intended styles.
There were a number of instances in the text where quoted material was missing either an opening or closing quotation mark. The proper placement is not always obvious, but the most plausible choice has been made in each case.
One instance occurs on p. [247], when Las Cases is paraphrasing a passage from Barry O’Meara’s book Napolean in Exile: the passage beginning ‘only wanted to make’ is as suitable a place as any to re-assume the quotation and make sense of the closing quotation mark several lines later.
(See [O’Meara])
The references in the table below are to the page and line in the original printed text. Entries for the index will have an indicator of the column as the second digit.
| [10.8] | delivered up defenceless to the barbarians.[”] | Added. |
| [34.38] | he had just em[lp/pl]oyed; | Transposed. |
| [44.10] | [“]When, at length, they determined to treat | Added. |
| [49.16] | that would inev[eti/it]ably have been imposed | Replaced. |
| [49.22] | Inserted in that Jornal | Added. |
| [51.8] | yet the pro[gid/dig]ies of his return | Transposed. |
| [54.11] | Vimereux, Amblet[ue/eu]se, and Etaples | Transposed. |
| [58.27] | But the object which particular[l]y engrossed | Added. |
| [58.40] | and Decr[e/è]s, the minister, indefatigably prosecuted | Replaced. |
| [67.42] | they would have given me every proof of it[.]” | Added. |
| [68.37] | better and better pleased with your book.[”] | Added. |
| [73.9] | answering any inq[iu/ui]ries he might make | Transposed. |
| [74.35] | (this he pronounced very emphaticall[l]y) | Removed. |
| [81.1] | the Minister Decr[é/è]s, on the subject here alluded to. | Replaced. |
| [92.10] | a whim on the pa[s/r]t of the conqueror? | Replaced. |
| [94.38] | Then, after a few moments[’] silence | Added. |
| [105.38] | but Frederick the Great.[”] | Added. |
| [112.40] | saying, [“]I go to oppose the enemy, | Added. |
| [113.20] | the deg[ar/ra]ding conditions which were transmitted | Transposed. |
| [121.6] | upon Paris[, /. “]Here I wanted firmness,” said he; | Replaced. |
| [122.9] | “Yes,” said the Emperor, [“]and those orders | Added. |
| [122.21] | It is certain that at Fontain[e]bleau | Added. |
| [125.36] | The victories of Cham[p]-Aubert, Montmirail, | Added. |
| [126.23] | he would never allow it[ it] to be said | Removed. |
| [130.36] | from delica[c]y to the Emperor Alexander. | Added. |
| [136.1] | that he had int[ne/en]ded to make choice | Transposed. |
| [136.21] | one of his Ministers (the Duke Decr[é/è]s) | Replaced. |
| [141.15] | the most su[r]prising character | Added. |
| [143.34] | that it should be sup[p]ressed | Added. |
| [148.22] | [“]But,” it was asked, | Added. |
| [148.41] | Historie critique et raisonn[e/é]e | Replaced. |
| [157.4] | of the monstrous in[s/c]onsistency of a Minister | Replaced. |
| [164.29] | and a man of considerable fortune.[”] | Added. |
| [169.26] | [“]At the same period, | Removed. |
| [180.30] | [“]I have seen the plan of my own battle | Added. |
| [193.15] | the Duke d’Engh[ei/ie]n, who might now be convicted | Transposed. |
| [208.8] | I therefor[s/e] wrote to the Governor | Replaced. |
| [212.10] | You have spok[o/e]n to me, Sir | Replaced. |
| [214.11] | to converse with me re | Added. |
| [215.42] | ready for you some time[;] it was written | Restored. |
| [221.22] | the first article of his in | Added. |
| [221.35] | those persons who are in | Removed. |
| [230.7] | [“]You are too advantageously situated | Added. |
| [241.14] | to permit me [s/t]o seal them with my arms | Replaced. |
| [242.22] | [“]Dec. 31, 1816.” | Added. |
| [246.27] | describes the Emperor to have said[,] | Added. |
| [247.5] | that Sir Hudson Lowe said[,] | Added. |
| [247.8] | [“]only wanted to make an instrument of him | Added. |
| [251.20] | [vieing] with each other | sic |
| [262.38] | he was acting in[ in] conformity with orders | Redundant. |
| [263.38] | the reproach of having addr[e]ssed no complaint | Added. |
| [265.11] | to depend entirely on my own resour[s/c]es. | Replaced. |
| [268.6] | I had been so exce[e]dingly unwell | Added. |
| [272.6] | visited in our solitude [h/b] numerous officers | Replaced. |
| [285.9] | Thus I was absolut[le/el]y a prisoner | Transposed. |
| [286.13] | Our b[i/e]rth was small, dirty, and inconvenient | Replaced. |
| [306.29] | it was found nec[c]essary to allow me | Removed. |
| [327.9] | if they never had been tran | Added. |
| [328.29] | and not to cho[o]se for him | Added. |
| [329.40] | to be thus compromised[./?] | Replaced. |
| [330.1] | and by removing or with[h]olding | Added. |
| [332.23] | of the feelings of the illustrous victim? | Added. |
| [337.29] | of your laws to foreign solicitations.[’] | Added. |
| [347.31] | without incurring my anger—--[”] | Added. |
| [348.36] | also the pe[e/c]uliar circumstances | Replaced. |
| [352.41] | and pronounce[d] in the last instance | Added. |
| [368.20] | on board the Bel[l]erophon> | Added. |
| [370.30] | is inspired with the [c/s]ame sentiments | Replaced. |
| [371.5] | [“]I have at last received | Removed. |
| [371.14] | [“]My health is still as indifferent | Removed.T |
| [394.5] | [“]You are a physician,” replied he laughing, | Added. |
| [394.19] | near the limpid stream of this pure water.[”] | Added. |
| [409.28] | in order to dis[c]harge my legacies. | Added. |
| [413.1.45] | Army, the French, conspiracy in,[ in] Egypt, i. 133 | Removed. |
| [414.2.33] | his wretched accommo[c/d]ation there | Replaced. |
| [414.2.51] | his ideas on the armies of the An | Removed. |
| [414.2.53] | politic[e/a]l schemes of, | Replaced. |
| [414.2.54] | contrasts th[a/e] characters of his | Replaced. |
| [419.1.32] | Chateaubr[an/iand], M. de, his writings, | Replaced. |
| [421.1.54] | Holland, public works of Napo[f/l]eon in | Replaced. |
| [424.2.64] | —continued ill-treatment of, i[i/v]. 350 | Wrong volume. |
| [425.2.15] | Protestan[t]ism and Popery | Added. |
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