ABSTRACT
First published in The Examiner, IX, 16 June 1816, pp. 369–70. For the continuing pieces on Bonaparte in St Helena, see The Examiner, IX, 30 June 1816, pp. 401–2; 28 July 1816, pp. 465–6; 1 December 1816, pp. 753–5. After the Hundred Days, Bonaparte was, of course, taken into British custody and placed on the island of St Helena, where the British were certain he could not escape. Hunt would later comment on Napoleon’s treatment; see, for example, The Examiner, X, 23 March 1817, pp. 177–9. Hunt uses Napoleon’s greatness, despite all his failings, to strike a contrast with the restored monarchs who, in Hunt’s view, have all Bonaparte’s weaknesses with none of his strengths.
