The Real Martyr of St Helena
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In fact, for some time he led a " double life, " posing at Longwood as a devotee of the exile, and at Plantation House as the confidential agent of the Governor. It was only when he quarrelled with Sir Hudson and had to be removed from the island, that he came out as his avowed enemy, and to wreak his vengeance, pursued him with malignant slanders ever afterwards. We have from his own pen the view he took of his duty at Longwood. Writing to his friend, John Finlaison, of the Admiralty, to whom ...he was in the habit of freely unbosoming himself, he said, " I could not make a ^practice of communicating Bona- parte's language to Lowe, as it would produce no good purpose. On the contrary, it could not fail to aggra- vate, and render ten times worse the bad understanding which already prevails between them, and my situation would be converted into that of an incendiary, neither am I 'placed about him as a spy. Doubtless I would think it my duty, and would instantly communicate to Sir Hudson any suspicions I might have of a plan for taking him off the island, or if I saw any improper communication, ' ' BAKRY O'MEARA 115 As this doctor subsequently figured largely in the troubles which arose during Sir Hudson's governorship, and was an active agent in the campaign of calumny afterwards conducted with such malignity against that functionary, it will be opportune here to give some account of his career, ^ Barry Edward O'Meara was born in 1786, and entered the Army in 1804 as Assistant-Surgeon to the 62nd Regiment, with which he served in Sicily and Calabria, and in Egypt in 1807.
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In fact, for some time he led a " double life, " posing at Longwood as a devotee of the exile, and at Plantation House as the confidential agent of the Governor. It was only when he quarrelled with Sir Hudson and had to be removed from the island, that he came out as his avowed enemy, and to wreak his vengeance, pursued him with malignant slanders ever afterwards. We have from his own pen the view he took of his duty at Longwood. Writing to his friend, John Finlaison, of the Admiralty, to whom ...he was in the habit of freely unbosoming himself, he said, " I could not make a ^practice of communicating Bona- parte's language to Lowe, as it would produce no good purpose. On the contrary, it could not fail to aggra- vate, and render ten times worse the bad understanding which already prevails between them, and my situation would be converted into that of an incendiary, neither am I 'placed about him as a spy. Doubtless I would think it my duty, and would instantly communicate to Sir Hudson any suspicions I might have of a plan for taking him off the island, or if I saw any improper communication, ' ' BAKRY O'MEARA 115 As this doctor subsequently figured largely in the troubles which arose during Sir Hudson's governorship, and was an active agent in the campaign of calumny afterwards conducted with such malignity against that functionary, it will be opportune here to give some account of his career, ^ Barry Edward O'Meara was born in 1786, and entered the Army in 1804 as Assistant-Surgeon to the 62nd Regiment, with which he served in Sicily and Calabria, and in Egypt in 1807.
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