The Rhode Island Republican

From the London Morning Post.

ATTEMPT TO EFFECT THE ESCAPE OF BONAPARTE.

A gentleman just arrived from St. Helena, gives the following particulars of the late attempt to effect the escape of Bonaparte from that Island. Our information is derived from a most respectable source, and we therefore, without hesitation, lay it before our readers just as we received it.

'An American vessel, apparently dismasted and otherwise injured, but purposely damaged, to avoid suspicion, made her appearance off St. Helena. The necessary repairs were entered on with the greatest activity, whilst schemes were prosecuting with industry in the interior. It had for some time previously been deemed expedient to have a daily view of the person of Bonaparte, by a person appointed for that particular duty; his medical attendant, however, now caused it to be notified, that the precarious state of the Emperor's health was such as to render it necessary that he should remain perfectly quiet at home, unannoyed by any personal inspection. In this feigned state of indisposition, the wily Napoleon secretly quitted his bed-room about midnight; by means the most artful he actually passed the guard, and eluding the vigilance of no less than seven sentinels, succeeded in reaching the beach. This was a juncture of high interest indeed! The means of escape which the Ex-Emperor was led so confidently to expect, were, however, not yet perfect. It had been concerted that a certain signal should be given by him on his arrival at the beach. The signal was to be given by hoisting a lantern at the end of a walking stick: but the boat which was to receive him not having yet sufficiently approached the shore, a single sentinel, (of whose station on the beach Bonaparte had not been apprised,) on perceiving the light, came up, and with a fidelity equal to his resolution, seized the once great Captain, whose very name had been the terror of millions. He instantly forced him to the guard-house, from whence he was conveyed back to Longwood, where, it is scarcely necessary to add, he has ever since been watched with increased vigilance, though not treated personally with any, the slightest degree of rigor.'