The Glqbe bas this strange tale. " When Bonaparte died
at St. Helena, it is well known that his heart was extracted with the design of being preserved. The British physician who had charge of that wondrous organ had deposited itin a silver basin, among water, and retired to test, leaving two tapers burn- ing betide it in his chamber. While lying thus awake, he heard, during the silence of the night, first a rustling noise, then a pluuge among the waterin the basin, and then the sound of an object falling with a rebound on the floor—all Occurring with the quickness of thought. Dr. A-- sprang from his bed, and the cause of the inttusion on his repose was soon explatued ; it was an enormous rat,Aragging the heart of Bonaparte to its hole. A few momenta more, and that which before had been too vast in its ambition to be satisfied With the sovereignty of Continental Europe, would have been fuuud even in a more degrading position than the dust of Creaar stopping a beer-barrel—it would have been devoured asfhe supper of a rat."
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