Bonaparte, in his feebleness, no longer occupied himself except like a child: he amused himself by digging a little basin in his garden; he put a few fish into it: the mastick employed in cementing the basin contained copperas, and the fish died. Bonaparte said: "Everything I love, everything that belongs to me is immediately smitten." About the end of February 1821, Napoleon was obliged to take to his bed and did not rise again. "How low am I fallen!" he murmured. "I stirred the world, and I cannot raise my eyelid." He did not believe in medicine and objected to a consultation of Antomarchi[411] with the Jamestown doctors. Nevertheless, he admitted Dr. Arnott beside his death-bed. He dictated his will from the 13th to the 27th of April; on the 28th, he ordered his heart to be sent to Marie-Louise; he forbade any English surgeon to lay a hand upon him after his decease. Persuaded that he was succumbing to the malady by which his father had been attacked, he requested that the report of the autopsy should be transmitted to the Duc de Reichstadt: the paternal direction has become useless; Napoleon II. has joined Napoleon I. [Sidenote: Napoleon's death-bed.] At this last hour, the religious sentiment with which Bonaparte was always imbued awoke. Thibaudeau, in his _Mémoires sur le Consulat_, tells us, with reference to the restoration of public worship, that the First Consul said to him: "'On Sunday last, in the midst of the silence of nature, I was walking in these gardens[412]; the sound of the bell of Ruel suddenly came and struck my ear and renewed all the impressions of my youth; I was moved, so powerful is the force of early habit, and said to myself: "'If it is thus for me, what effect must similar memories not produce on simple and credulous men? Let your philosophers reply to that!'"... "And, raising his hands to the sky: "'Who is He that made all that?'" In 1797, by his Proclamation of Macerata, Bonaparte authorized the residence of the French refugee priests in the Papal States, forbade them to be molested, ordered the convents to support them, and allotted them a salary in money. His variations in Egypt, his rages against the Church, of which he was the restorer, show that an instinct of spirituality predominated in the very midst of his errors; for his lapses and his irritations are not of a philosophical nature and bear the impress of the religious character. Bonaparte, when giving Vignale the details of the funeral lights by which he wished his remains to be surrounded, thought he saw signs that his instructions were displeasing to Antomarchi; he entered into an explanation with the doctor and said to him: