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  THE

  SURRENDER OF NAPOLEON


  BEING THE

  NARRATIVE OF THE SURRENDER OF BUONAPARTE, AND
  OF HIS RESIDENCE ON BOARD H.M.S. BELLEROPHON,
  WITH A DETAIL OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS THAT
  OCCURRED IN THAT SHIP BETWEEN THE 24th OF MAY
  AND THE 8th OF AUGUST 1815


  BY

  REAR-ADMIRAL SIR FREDERICK LEWIS MAITLAND, K.C.B.




  _A NEW EDITION EDITED, WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY_
  WILLIAM KIRK DICKSON

  WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
  EDINBURGH AND LONDON
  MCMIV

  _All Rights reserved_




NOTE.


After Sir Frederick Maitland's death in 1839 his papers passed into
the hands of Lady Maitland, who liferented his property of Lindores in
Fife until her death in 1865. They then passed with the property to
Sir Frederick's nephew, Captain James Maitland, R.N., and on his death
to his brother, Rear-Admiral Lewis Maitland, my father, from whom they
came to me.

The preparation of the present volume has been undertaken by Mr.
Dickson at my request.

                                             FREDERICK LEWIS MAITLAND.

LINDORES, _December 9, 1903_.




PREFACE.


"You are publishing a great and interesting national document.... The
whole narrative is as fine, manly, and explicit an account as ever was
given of so interesting a transaction." So wrote Sir Walter Scott to
Captain Maitland after reading the manuscript of his _Narrative of the
Surrender of Buonaparte_. It is undoubtedly