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O´MEARA BARRY EDWARD: (1786-1836) Irish Surgeon who accompanied Napoleon to Saint Helena and became his physician. ...

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O´MEARA BARRY EDWARD: (1786-1836) Irish Surgeon who accompanied Napoleon to Saint Helena and became his physician. An excellent content A.L.S., `Barry O´Meara Surgeon´, seven pages, folio, Longwood, 5th May 1817, to Lieutenant Colonel Reade. A very lengthy and extremely interesting autograph letter in which O´Meara complaints about his equivocal situation in Saint Helena, accuses Lowe of not receiving him, and states in part `..Our government had granted to Napoleon Bonaparte the privilege of taking with him to St. Helena three of his officers, twelve servants and his surgeon, and that I had been pointed out by Count Bertrand to replace the French surgeon; but that not being willing to relinquish in my will my character of as a British officer I had made conditions that I should be placed on the list as a surgeon on full play and that I should be paid by the English government and consequently should not ever be considered as out of the protection of the laws of my own country…´ further clarifying `I am not subordinate to any other than the Governor, not in a military point of view or as a naval officer, but by a civil title and as surgeon to Napoleon Bonaparte.. I know well, Sir, that military obedience is passive and does not admit of hesitation or objection but it is not so with civil obedience and still less so in a person charged with an employment of so delicate nature as I am..´ O´Meara protests against the calumnies said about his person and threatens with denouncing in tribunals the tyrannical behaviour of Lowe, and states `For the due performance of my medical functions until now I have considered myself as not having any explanation to render except to Napoleon Bonaparte himself. He has never made any complaint against the manner in which I have fulfilled them. Indeed on the contrary, I have frequently been applauded by him... I made an open engagement to attend Napoleon Bonaparte…independent of all hatred or national prejudice.. I deny the intentions which you attribute to me of desiring to quit Longwood..´ and before concluding O´Meara warns `I have always considered that St. Helena is not a man of war, that the Governor is not the Captain and that I am not the surgeon of it, but that St. Helena is a government of one of our possessions, that sir Hudson Lowe is the Governor and commands by virtue of a civil title and that I form one of Napoleon Bonaparte´s suite.. His Excellency may perhaps reflects upon the terrible responsibility which weight upon him if (as possible and very probable) Napoleon Bonaparte, deprived of assistance, has to die before the expiration of the five or six months required to obtain an answer from England.´ Professionally repaired to the centre folds. G £3000-4000 Hudson Lowe (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish Officer and colonial Administrator. Best known for his time as Governor of St. Helena as gaoler of Napoleon Bonaparte.