TO A PINE.

[Original.]

OLD Tree! whose waving arms were kindly spread
O'er me when childhood's early pranks were played,
Beneath whose shade my youthful fancy's dreams
Were muttered mingling with the voice of streams;
Whose whispering foliage, greeting every breeze,
Still promised coming days of blissful ease;
To thy accustomed shelter oft I stray,
To muse o'er scenes of many a by-gone day.

What though no fertile vale thy root has fed,
No flowers, nor clustering vines around thee spread,
Tho' moss-crowned rocks and knolls of bristling fern
Make thy wild mountain site more proudly stern-
Still, still I love thee, for my early thought
Here learnt to dwell on nature-gladly caught
A larger view of all her loveliness,

A nearer, of her wild and witching grace.

When rosy fingered Morn her glories shed,

Or meek-eyed Eve her shadowy curtain spread, When Spring returned with flowers and swelling floods,

Or Autumn tinged with varied hues the woods;

But chief when leafy Summer's raging heat Drove the light songsters to thy cool retreatHere 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 Formio with Austria.

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

Oct. 24.-Insurrection at Cairo.

1799. May 21.-Seige of Acre raised.

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

Nov. 9.-Dissolves the Directoral Govern

ment.

10. Declared First Consul.

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

May 15.-Bonaparte crosses

Bernard.

June 16.-Battle of Marengo.

Mount St

-Preliminaries with Austria sign

ed at Paris.

Dec. 3.-Battle of Hohenlinden.

1800. Dec. 24.-Explosion of the Infernal Ma

chine.

1801. Feb. 9.-Treaty of Luneville with Austria. Oct. 8.-Preliminaries with England. 1802. Jan. 26.-The Cisalpine Republic placed under Bonaparte.

Mar. 27.-Definitive Treaty with England. May 15.-Legion of Honor instituted. Aug. 2.-Declared Consul for Life. 1803. MarchProposals made by Bonaparte to Louis XVIII. then at War

saw, to abdicate the throne of France.-Offer rejected by the French King.

May 18.-English Declaration of War.

July

-Declaration of all the Princes of the Bourbon family, approv

ing of Louis XVIII.'s refusal to abdicate.

1804. February-Moreau arrested.

March 20.-Duc D'Enghien shot.

April

May

Nov.

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

1805. February -Writes a Pacific Letter to the

King of England.

April 11.-Treaty of Petersburgh between

England, Russia, Austria and
Sweden,