But chief when leafy Summer's raging heat
Drove the light songsters to thy cool retreat-
Here still my lingering step would fondly stray
And dreamy musings melt the hours away.
O when my weary pilgrimage is o'er,
And care and study harass me no more;
May thy green rustling boughs serenely wave
Over the verdant honours of my grave.
For I would lie in this neglected spot,
My name, my sorrows, all alike forgot,

Nor have a verse the wanderer's notice claim,
Where Nature's warblers sing my requiem.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?" '--ISA.xiv.16.

A CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.

1769. Aug. 15. Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the Town Clerk, Charles, born at Ajaccio, Corsica. He was sent at an early age to the Military School at Brienne, in France.Returned to Ajaccio in 1790. Easter Monday, 1792, he excited the people against the priests, and was driven from his native country, and went to Marseilles, -An Officer of Artillery at the siege of Toulon, and appointed General of Brigade.

1793.

1794. Oct. 4.-Commands the Conventional troops

and defeats the Parisians.

1796.

-Appointed to the command of the army of Italy.

May 10.-Battle of Lodi.

Aug. 3.-Battle of Castiglione.

Nov. 16.-Battle of Arcola.

1797. Feb.

2.-Surrender of Mantua.

Mar. 23.-Trieste surrenders.

April 18.-Preliminaries with Austria signed at Leoben.

May 16.-French take possession of Venice. 17.-Treaty of Campo Formo with Aus

tria.

1798. May 20.-Bonaparte sails for Egypt. July 21.-Battle of Embabe, or of the lyramids.

Oct. 24.-Insurrection at Cairo.

1799. May 21.-Siege of Acre raised.

Aug. 23.-Sailed from Egypt for France.
Oct.
7.-Lands at Frejus.

Nov. 9. Dissolves the Directoral Govern

10.

ment.

Declared First Consul.

1800. Feb. 15.-Peace with the Chouans.

May 15.-Bonaparte crosses Mount St. Ber

nard.

June 16.-Battle of Marengo.

-Preliminaries with Austria signed at Paris.

Dec. 3.-Battle of Hohenlinden.

1800. Dec. 24.-Explosion of the Infernal Machine.
1801. Feb. 9.-Treaty of Luneville with Austria.
Oct. 8.-Preliminaries with England.
1802. Jan. 26.-The Cisalpine Republic placed
under Bonaparte.

Mar.27.-Definite Treaty with England,
May 15.-Legion of Honor instituted.
Aug. 2.-Declared Consul for Life.

1803. Mar.

-Proposals made by Bonaparte to
Louis XVIII. then at Warsaw, to
abdicate the throne of France.-
Offer rejected by the French
King.

May 18.-English Declaration of War.
--Declaration of all the Princes of

July

1804. Feb.

the Bourbon family, approving of Louis XVIII.'s refusal to abdicate. -Moreau arrested.

Mar.20.-Duc D'Enghien shot.

April 8.-Pichegru murdered in prison.
May 18.-Bonaparte made Emperor.
Nov. 19.-Crowned by the Pope.

1805. Feb. --Writes a Pacific Letter to the King

of England.

Apr. 11.-Treaty of Petersburgh between

England, Russia, Austria, and

Sweden.

May 26.-Bonaparte

declared King of

Italy.

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1805. Sept. 24.-Bonaparte heads his army against

Austria.

Oct. 20.-Mack's army surrenders at Ulm.
Nov. 13.-French enter Vienna.
Dec. 2.-Battle of Austerlitz.

15.-Treaty of Vienna with Prussia.
26.-Treaty of Petersburgh with Aus-
tria.

-Murder of Captain Wright in prison.

1806. Mar. 30-Joseph Bonaparte declared King of Naples.

June 5.-Louis Bonaparte declared King of

Holland.

July 26.-Convocation of the Jews.
27.-Confederation of the Rhine pub-
lished.

Sept. 24.-Bonaparte marches against Prussia.
Oct. 14.-Battle of Jena.

27.-Bonaparte enters Berlin.

Nov. 19.-Berlin Decree.

1807. Feb. 8.-Battle of Eylau.

May 2.-Massacre of the French at Madrid, by order of Murat.

-Royal family of Spain kidnapped at Bayonne by Bonaparte.

1807. June 14.-Battle of Friedland.

July 7-Treaty of Tilsit.

Sept.

-Entry of the French troops into
Spain as friends and allies.