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LOWE HUDSON: (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor ...
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LOWE HUDSON: (1769-1844) Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Saint Helena 1816-21 where he was the 'gaoler' of Emperor Napoleon. An intriguing A.L.S., H Lowe, four pages, 8vo, London, 20th September 1822, to a gentleman, marked 'Private'. Lowe announces 'The Solicitor General gave it to me as his decided opinion that I ought not to publish anything in my own name pending the question as to a prosecution' and also makes a reference to John Stoddart who has begun to make use of some documents, further remarking 'Mr. Goldsmith of the British Monitor had something in his last Tuesday's paper and is I believe a little mortified to find that it was not copied with the Courrier or some of the other papers. He means to go on, I believe, with the subject, and perhaps some of his articles may merit to be repeated or at least commented upon. It might perhaps be of use also if the articles in the New Times were repeated in some of the other papers, particularly the Sunday ones. When the documents come out they will have enough to comment upon without borrowing reflections from others'. Lowe concludes his letter by writing 'Dr. Stoddart threw a fresh, but not a new light on the true origin of all the attack against Govt. & against me. I believe the parties to, in some degree, regret it, but they are not less the cause of almost all that has ocurred'. VG
John Stoddart (1773-1856) English journalist and lawyer who served as editor of The Times and later established The New Times as a rival daily newspaper.
Lewis Goldsmith (c.1763-1846) Anglo-French publicist who undertook secret service missions for Napoleon Bonaparte, although later became strongly anti-republican and, through his British Monitor, denounced the French Revolution.
The content of Lowe's letter is undoubtedly associated with Barry O'Meara's book Napoleon in Exile, or A Voice from St. Helena which charged Lowe with mistreating Napoleon and caused something of a sensation on its publication in 1822.
