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the Emperor Napoleon.
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midshipmen who conducted the fatigue parties at Longwood. On one occasion a remarkably handsome and high-born young reefer attracted his notice, from the activity he displayed in setting his men to work in erecting a commodious marquee out of a studding-sail. He inquired his name, and when he heard it was the Honourable G. C., be remarked that he was one of the very few instances in which he had observed high birth combined with so much amiability and intelligence. We told the emperor we had the pleasure of being acquainted with the young middy he so much admired, and that he was the most popular of any of his young companions in the ward-room. I related to the emperor our first introduction to him, which was on our return from the admiral's ball, when we saw him elevated in a cart, surrounded by his brother middies, shouting at the top of his voice, "Lord W.'s carriage stops the way;" and true enough the way was stopped, as

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