the table and society of captain Pechel. On the 30th of the month her royal highness arrived at Syracuse, and thence proceeded to Catania, and afterwards to Augusta in Sicily. During her stay at Catania she obtained for Bergami the title of knight of Malta, and on her arrival at Augusta, that of baron della Francina. At the latter place her royal highness honoured her chamberlain with her portrait, taken in a Turkish dress.

From Augusta the princess of Wales set sail, with her suite, for Tunis in Africa, in a polacre, hired for the purpose. In this vessel her royal highness sailed from Tunis to Utica. On April 16th, 1816, she arrived at La

tona.

From Africa the princess of Wales sailed to Athens, where she arrived on 22nd April, 1816, having remained one day at Malta. After visiting some of the Grecian Islands, she proceeded from Athens to Constantinople, and thence to Ephesus.

At Jerusalem, where her royal highness had a picture painted of herself and suite (in which she was represented as riding upon an ass, in imitation, it may be presumed, of the Great Author of Christianity), she instituted a new order of knighthood, entitled the order of St. Caroline, of which she constituted Bergami the grand master.

At Jaffa, the princess of Wales embarked on board the polacre. On this voyage, the weather being . remarkably sultry, her royal

highness had a tent fitted up for herself and her chamberlain on deck, under which they reposed at night, without the presence of any other person, for several weeks. This circumstance formed an important feature of the subsequent trial of her royal highness, on her return to this country, to claim her rights and privileges as a queen.

In September, 1816, her royal highness once more took up her residence at Villa d'Este, on the lake of Como. Some time after her return she purchased a splendid seat, which she presented to her chamberlain. It was subsequently designated the Villa Bergami.

In February, 1817, her royal highness made a tour in Germany. Passing through Inspruck, she arrived at Carlsruhe, where she remained a short time. After this tour, she pursued her way back to Italy: she returned through Milan to the Villa d'Este, whence, after a short stay, she passed on to Rome.

On the 9th August, 1817, the princess of Wales arrived at Pesaro, where she made a temporary sojourn. On her return to the Villa d'Este, she made several excursions to various parts of Italy. Of that estate her royal highness subsequently disposed, and her permanent establishment was at Pesaro.

The subsequent events of her life, so far as they are of any interest, will be found in the History and Chronicle of this and of the preceding year.

As this year has seen the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, we think it will be useful, without pretend ing at present, to enter into a detailed account of his life, simply to record his birth and parentage, and give a list of the dates of his principal actions. Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio on the 15th of Aug., 1769. He was the second son of Carlo Bonaparte, who, having studied law at Rome, resigned the gown for the sword, fought under the banners of his friend Paoli, and much distinguished himself by his talents and bravery. When Corsica submitted to France, he was on the point of expatriating himself, but was dissuaded by his uncle Lucien, archdeacon of the cathedral of Ajaccio. In 1767, he married a young and beautiful lady, Letitia Ramolini, by whom he had five sons and three daughters. On submitting himself to the new government, in 1768, he was much noticed by the count de Marboeuf, the governor, and named a member of the deputation of the Corsican nobility to Louis XV. He was soon after nominated judge lateral of the tribunal of Ajaccio, and died at Montpellier, of a cancer in the stomach, having proceeded thither for the benefit of his health in 1785, at the age of 59. Napoleon was early sent to France, and

Originally Buonaparte: it is common with Italians in France to frenchify their names for the sake of the more easy pronunciation; Napoleon

did this.

patronized by a brother of M. de Marbœuf, a prelate, who sent him to a college in the village where he resided, and afterwards got him admitted into the military academy of Brienne. He joined the military school of Paris in 1784, and in 1785 was appointed to the artillery in the regiment de la Fere. Barras became his patron during the revolution, and he first distinguished himself at Toulon by his superior skill in directing the batteries. He was soon after named general of brigade; and on the 13th Vendemaire (Oct. 5,) 1794, he commanded the conventional troops and defeated the Parisians. In March 1796, he married Josephine de Beauharnois, the widow of the count de Beauharnois, who was beheaded four days before Robespierre. Barras obtained the liberty of madame de Beauharnois from prison soon after that event. Three days after his marriage, Bonaparte left his bride for Nice, to take the command of an army of 60,000 men, the great object of his ambition; and after several skirmishes, he out-manœuvred the Austrians and Sardinians; and with troops deficient in every thing, won the battles of Montenotte, Millesimo, Dego, and Mondovi, in April. On the 10th of May he gained the battle of Lodi, and soon found himself master of Piedmont and the Milanese. August the 3rd, 1796, he conquered at Lonado, and on the 5th, at Castiglione. In the same year he fought

The situation of Prussia, after the battle of Jena, in 1806, was most deplorable. The loss of independence, the loss of territory,

the plunder of the public property, and the ruin of the Prussian name in Europe, were felt like mortal wounds. But the personal

insolence of the French, who have always lost by their insolence what they had gained by their rapine, struck deeper into the national mind. The innumerable private injuries to honour and feeling, the gross language, and the malignant tyranny of the French military, inflamed the people's blood into a fever of impatience and revenge.

In this fermentation of the public mind, the north of Germany was suddenly denuded of troops to form a part of the grand imperial army, marching against Austria. Slight garrisons were placed in the principal towns, and the general possession of the open country was chiefly left to the gendarmerie. Schill, then about 36 years of age, major of one of the most distinguished regiments in the service, the Brandenburg hussars, one morning on the dismissal of the parade, suddenly turned his horse's head towards the gate of Berlin, gave a shout, for king and country," and at the head of this regiment burst from the Glacis. Though the whole garrison of Berlin, French and Prussian, were on the parade, there was no attempt to intercept this bold manœuvre. They were thunderstruck, and by the time that orders were determined on, Schill was leagues off, galloping free over the sands of Prussia. The officers of his corps were among the best families of Brandenburgh, and some fine young men of rank joined him imme. diately. It is uncertain, to this hour, whether he was not secretly urged by his court to make the experiment on the probabilities of insurrection. But Napoleon was too near to allow of open encouragement, and at the demand of De Marsan, the French am

bassador, who was, as Trinculo says, "viceroy over the king," Schill was proclaimed an enemy to the state.

His first attempt was the surprise of Magdeburg, the principal fortress of the new kingdom of Westphalia, and famous to English ears for the imprisonment of Trenck. He advanced to the gates, and after sustaining a vigorous skirmish with the garrison, in which the French were on the point of being cut off from the town, was forced to abandon an enterprize which was probably undertaken merely as a more open mode of declaring, that "war in procinct" was levied against the oppressors of the population. He then plunged into Westphalia, and with no more than from four to six hundred hussars, and a few infantry, deserters from the line, he remained for nearly three months master of the communications of that country, continually intercepting officers, functionaries, and couriers, and either eluding or beating every detachment sent to break up his flying camp. In one of his expeditions he took marshal Victor with his suite and despatches, on his way to join the army before Vienna. But it affords an extraordinary evidence of the apathy, or the terror of Germany, that, during this period of excitement, his recruits never amounted to two hundred men. It, however, grew obviously perilous to leave this daring partizan free to raise the spirit of the country, and a considerable force was dispatched against him. A corps from Cassel moved in direct pursuit, while another, composed of Dutch and Danes, turned towards his rear. It was now time to fly. The ex