We received the English papers of the 4th of this month by special dispatch … This is how the Courrier gives the news: ‘Buonaparte is no more: he died on Saturday 5 May at 6pm following a sluggish illness that had kept in him bed for over forty days. The French press announced the following on 7 July 1821: Napoleon on his Deathbed on St Helena, by Denzil O.