The physicians at Montpelier predicted that it would be hereditary in our family." Tumultuous and fierce as his life had been, he died with some sentiments of religion. He had sent for two Italian priests some time before, and he calmly desired that the usual ceremonies of the Romish church should be complied with. In his last hours he made this summary confession of his faith. "I am neither physicien nor philosophe.* I believe in God, and am of the religion of my father. I was born a Catholic, and will fulfil all the duties of that church, and receive the assistance which she administers." His hours were now numbered. plaint was cancer of the stomach. His com From the 3d of May, he seemed to be in a continued heavy sleep. The fifth was a day of unexampled tempest in the island; trees were every where torn up by the roots, the sea lashed and rent the shores, the clouds poured down torrents, the wind burst through the hills with the loudness of thunder. In this roar of the elements, Napoleon perhaps heard the old echoes of battle; the last words on his lips were of war; "téte d'armée" was uttered in his dream; and he died. The fiery spirit passed away, like Cromwell's, in storm! The coup d'ail of his rise and fall exhibits the most various, vivid, and dazzling career ever Infidels. known; the mightiest events and most singular vicissitudes ever crowded into the history of one man. CHRONOLOGY OF the life of naPOLEON. 1769-August 15, born at Ajaccio, in Corsica. 1793-An officer of artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed general of brigade. 1794-Commands the conventional troops, and defeats the Parisians. 1796-Appointed to the command of the army of ItalyBattle of Lodi-Battle of Castiglione-Battle of Arcola. 1797-Surrender of Mantua and Trieste. April 18. Preliminaries with Austria signed at Leoben-French take possession of Venice-Treaty of Campo Formio, with Austria. 1798-Sails for Egypt - Battle of Embade, or the Pyra mids. 1799-May. Siege of Acre-Sails to France. Oct. 7. Lands at Frejus. Nov. 9. Dissolves the conventional government. Nov. 10. Declared first consul. 1800- Peace made with the Chouans-Crosses Mont St. Bernard. June 16. Battle of Marengo- Preliminaries with Austria signed at Paris. Dec. 24. Explosion of the infernal machine. 1801-Treaty of Luneville with Austria signed with England. Preliminaries 1802-The Cisalpine Republic placed under his jurisdiction. March 27. Definitive treaty with England-Legion of Honour instituted. August 2. Declared consul for life-Swiss form of government changed by him. 1803-May 18. English declaration of war. June 5. Hanover conquered. 1804-Feb. Moreau arrested. March 20. Death of the Duc d'Enghien-Pichegru dies in prison. May 18. He is declared Emperor. Nov. 19. Crowned by the Pope. 1805 Writes a pacific letter to the King of England. April 11. Treaty of Petersburgh, between England, Russia, Austria, and Sweden-He is declared King of Italy-Mack's army surrenders at Ulm-French enter Vienna-Battle of Austerlitz-Treaty of Vienna with Prussia-and of Presburg with Austria. 1806-March 30. Joseph Bonaparte declared King of Naples. June 5. Louis Bonaparte declared King of Holland Confederation of the Rhine-Marches against Prussia-Battle of Auerstadt or Jena Enters Berlin. Nov. 19. Hamburgh taken. 1807-Battle of Eylau-of Friedland-Treaty of Tilsit. 1808-July 7. Joseph Bonaparte declared King of Spain -20. Surrender of Dupont's army at Baylen-29. Joseph evacuates Madrid. Aug. 21. Battle of Vimiera. Nov. 5. Bonaparte arrives at Vittoria. Dec. 4. Surrender of Madrid. 1809. January. Battle of Corunna Returns to Paris. April. War declared by Austria Heads his army against Austria. May 10. French enter Vienna - Battle of Asperne. July 5. Battle of Wagram-Flushing taken by the EnglishTreaty of Vienna with Austria. Dec. Lucien Bonaparte arrives in England Marriage with Josephine dissolvedWalcheren evacuated by the English. 1810-March. Marries Maria Louisa, daughter of Francis II. July. Holland and the Hanse Towns annexed to the French empire. August. Bernadotte elected Crown Prince of Sweden. 1811 January 1. Hamburgh annexed to the empire. April 20. The empress delivered of a son, who is styled King of Rome. 1812 — January. Swedish Pomerania seized by France. May. Heads the army against Russia. June 11. Arrives at Konigsberg. 28. Enters Wilna. Aug. 18. Smolensko taken. Sept. 7. Battle of the Moskwa, or Borodino. 14. French enter Moscow. Oct. 22. Evacuate it. Nov. 9. Arrives at Smolensko. Dec. 5. Quits the army. 18. Arrives at Paris. 1813-April. Takes the command of the army on the Elbe. May. 1. Battle of Lutzen. 20. Of Bautzen. June 4. Armistice agreed on. 21. Battle of Vittoria. Aug. 17. Hostilities recommence. 28. Battle of Dresden. Sept. 7. English enter France. 28. French evacuate Dresden. Oct. 18. Battle of Leipsic. Nov. 15. Revolution in Holland. army crosses the Nieve. Dec. 8. English March 30. Battle 1814-Jan. 4. Allies cross the Rhine. of Mont-martre. 31. Allies enter Paris. April 11. Napoleon abdicates the throne. May 8. Arrives at Elba. 1815-March 1. Re-lands in France at Cannes. 20. Resumes the throne. June 1. Holds the Champ de Mai. 11. Leaves Paris for Belgium. 15. Attacks the Prussians on the Sambre. 16. Attacks Blucher at Ligny-and Wellington at Quatre Bras. 18. Defeated at Waterloo. 22. Resigns the throne, finishing the hundred days. 29. Leaves Malmaison. July 15. Received on board the Bellerophon. 24. At Torbay. Aug. 8. Sails in the Northumberland for St. Helena. Oct. 15. Lands at St. Helena. 1821-March 17. Confined by illness. May 5. Dies. CHAPTER XIX. THE REIGN. In his earlier years the king had never passed the limits of England. Etiquette and financial reasons were the cause. But he suffered little by the restriction. He spoke with sufficient ease all the foreign languages required at court; and if he lost some indulgence of rational curiosity, and some knowledge of the actual aspect of the continent; he gained much more than an equivalent, in escaping those foreign follies which are so irreconcilably repulsive to the tastes of England. The hussarpassion was not strong upon him; and, though commanding a cavalry regiment, and fond of the allowable decoration of the soldier, it was to more travelled propensities that we owed the frippery which, for so many years, turned some of the finest portions of the British service into a paltry imitation of the worst of the foreign; disguised brave men in the trappings of mountebanks, and made a British parade the rival of a rehearsal at Astley's a triumph of tailors. He never appeared before his people disfigured with the German barbarism of the pipe in the mouth, nor with the human face divine metamorphosed into the bear's |