Now of compassion deep,
Of inextinguishable ire
And of unconquered love.’
There still survive two English witnesses of Napoleon’s funeral, for Public Opinion of the 28th March 1903 contained a letter from Mr. G. B. Bennett of Cape Town, who states that he was born at St. Helena on the 30th November 1816, that he attended the funeral, and that his sister, three and a half months old, was also present in her nurse’s arms.
The daughter of Sir Hudson Lowe, born at St. Helena in 1818, is also still living, unmarried, at Balham, near London. Considering, however, the strained relations between her father and Napoleon, she is scarcely likely, in her nurse’s arms, to have seen the caged lion.
PS.—Miss Clara Lowe died at Tooting on the 7th May 1904.
APPENDIX
A (see p. [34])
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT