He not only exempted him from the punishment, but also gave him some money.

I recollect that one dark night we heard a noise like that occasioned by a man falling into the sea.

Bonaparte instantly caused the ship to be hove-to until the supposed victim was rescued from certain death.

The men hastened from all sides, and at length they picked up-what ?--the quarter of a bullock, which had fallen from the hook to which it was hung.

What was Bonaparte's conduct?
He ordered me to reward the sailors who had exerted themselves in this occasion even more generously than usual, saying, "It might have been a sailor, and these brave fellows have shown as much activity and courage as if it had." After the lapse of thirty years all these things are as fresh in my recollection as if they were passing at the present moment.