people were animated, when I tell you that,

excepting a few windows broken by a small body-guard of ragamuffins, who were in immediate attendance on the great lady in the morning, not the slightest political violence occurred to disturb the general harmony; and that the assembled populace seemed to be universally actuated by the spirit of the day, namely, loyalty and good humour. Nothing occurred to damp those happy dispositions; the weather was most propitious, and the arrangements so perfect, that no accident of any kind is reported as having taken place. And so concluded the coronation of George IV., whom God long preserve! Those who witnessed it have seen a scene calculated to raise the country in their opinion, and to throw into the shade all scenes of similar magnificence, from the field of the cloth of gold down to the present day.

"AN EYE-WITNESS."

The unfortunate intrusion, to which this letter alludes, occurred early in the day. The queen was refused entrance into the cathedral; and when she, at length, after several efforts, withdrew, the mob expressed their sentiments by breaking the ministers' windows. But the disappointment was fatal to her. She lost her spirits, shrank from society, declared herself tired of life, and, in less than a month, died.

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The ruling passion was strong even in death. She ordered that her remains should not be left in this country, but buried in Brunswick; and that the inscription on her tomb should be, "Here lies Caroline of Brunswick, the injured Queen of England." Thus perished* a being on whom fortune had lavished all the highest advantages of rank, opulence, birth, and station; the wife of a royal husband, the mother of a royal child; a queen, and Queen of England! yet in her life and her death scarcely to be envied by a galley-slave.

7th August, 1821.

THE battle of Jena, in 1806, had placed Napoleon at the height of power. The treaty of

Tilsit, in 1807, had confirmed it; and the Conference at Erfurt had indulged his love of display with the most profuse spectacle of vassal royalty. But, from that moment, the wheel turned; for the purpose of his career was done. He had scourged the profligacy of the continental courts; he had scattered, like chaff before the wind, the armies that had been so long the instruments of the blind violences and sanguinary ambition of the great continental thrones,- thrones that, under the name of Christianity, had exhibited in their private excesses and public ferocity the spirit of heathenism. Prussia the infidel, Austria the bigot, and Russia the barbarian, had been transfixed with the spear of an avenger, more godless, prejudiced, and ferocious, than them all; the standards which they had crimsoned in the blood of Poland were gone to moulder in the dust of the Invalides; and now, when the punishment was complete, the time of the punisher was come.

In the early part of the year 1812, Napoleon,

furious at the repugnance of the Emperor of Russia to see his subjects perish by the Berlin and Milan decrees, proclaimed, in his old oracular style, that "the Russian dynasty was no more;" and followed the oracle by a force well calculated to insure its fulfilment. He crossed the Polish provinces with an army the most numerous since the days of Xerxes or Attila, but which would have passed through their wild myriads, as the cannon-ball through the air. With half a million of the finest troops that ever marched to play the game of ambition, he broke over the Russian frontier; and was himself undone.

The narrative of that stupendous contest-of French skill and gallantry, of the stubborn heroism of the Russian armies, of cities stormed and in conflagration, of provinces desolated, and of the rage of a Russian winter let loose, and covering a march of six hundred miles with the French dead; must not be humiliated by the sketch which alone could be given of it here.

Napoleon's defeat was measureless; of the multitudes that had followed him across the Niemen, scarcely a man returned. But he again found armies in the populousness of France; within a few months rushed to the field; fought the bloody battles of Bautzen and Lutzen; was again maddened with pride, until he roused the continent against him; and finally at Leipsic was

overwhelmed once more. The remnant of his army was hunted across the Rhine, was hunted through France, was hunted into the gates of the capital; and there, when victory had flung Napoleon on the ground, diplomatic blundering came to set him on his feet again. To extinguish his ambition, he was suffered to retain the imperial title; to destroy his connexion with the French military, he was suffered to retain his flag, his staff, and a portion of his guard; and to prevent the possibility of his renewing disturbances in France or Italy, he was fixed on an island almost within sight of both. The consequences were foreseen by all mankind - except the emperors, the diplomatists, and the Bourbons.

A year after, while the whole pomp of European diplomacy was busied in congress at Vienna, and every day saw some new experiment of power, a monarchy mutilated, a river given to one potentate, or the humbler donative of a million of souls and bodies made over to another; while allegiance and national feelings were measured off by strips of the map; and provinces, with all their old attachments, their native interests, and hereditary recollections, were distributed by the inch-rule and scissors;-proceedings which honest and Christian minds were the first to deprecate; Napoleon's system, without Napoleon's tyrant plea; predatory peace and amicable violence; a rash and misunderstood