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34 directions, pursued by the Prussians, who inflicted relentless vengeance on all whom they overtook.

Napoleon hurried to Paris, where his disgrace and arrival were proclaimed on the 21st of June. He was prevailed on to repair to Rochefort, with the view of proceeding to the United States; unable to escape thither, he gave himself over, at the former place, to the protection of the British Government. After arriving at Plymouth he was banished to St. Helena, with an allowance of £12,000 per annum. He became seriously indisposed, in 1818, with a hereditary disease-a scirrous of the pylorus—and, refusing to take any medicine, he sank gradually till the 5th of May, 1821, when the ambitious Napoleon terminated his mortal career.