A beautifully constructed and marvellously well-appointed _nécessaire_, comprising some seventy pieces, a few in solid gold and many mounted in the same metal (a present from Marie Louise to Napoleon on the eve of his departure for the Russian campaign of 1812, and designed and carried out under her immediate supervision). Several parts of a solid silver service, engraved with the Imperial arms. A large silver chronometer. A green velvet cap. A mahogany liquor case, containing two leather-covered bottles, one filled with rum and the other holding a small quantity of sweet wine. A pair of spurs. Two fine merino mattresses. An assortment of the finest bed and other linen. Many toilet requisites, among them a cake of Windsor soap. A steel camp bedstead, still in position on the carriage, in the case made to hold it under the boot. A uniform, sword, and cocked hat. A rich and costly Imperial robe. A handsome diamond head-dress, or tiara. A pair of pistols, loaded, found in recesses at side of seats. Many gold medals with Napoleon’s portrait and name engraved upon them. An article devoid of intrinsic value, but nevertheless possessing an exceptional interest--namely, a musket-ball flattened out to the shape of a thin medal, found carefully put by in the secret drawer at the back of the desk; a missile, maybe, that ended the days of a friend, or one possibly that endangered Napoleon’s own life. A considerable number of mounted and unmounted diamonds found secreted in various parts of the carriage, three hundred of these stones alone being discovered in the above-mentioned _nécessaire_. [Illustration: NAPOLEON’S ATLAS] [Illustration: NECESSAIRE (Interior)] [Illustration: NECESSAIRE (Exterior)] [Illustration: RAZOR, TOOTH BRUSH AND GIMLET] [Illustration: SILVER BOX (Side view)] [Illustration: SPOON AND TABLE NAPKIN] [Illustration: PARTS OF SILVER SERVICE] [Illustration: SILVER BOX (TOP VIEW) AND TWO GOBLETS] [Illustration: PARTS OF SILVER SERVICE] [Illustration: TELESCOPE] The jewels and other articles easy of acquisition fell, for the most part, to the lot of Major von Keller’s men of the 15th Prussian Infantry Regiment of the Line, which was that night under the command of General Count Gneisenau. The coach was drawn by a team of six of the finest brown Normandy horses, four driven by the coachman, the leaders under the control of a postilion.