t 30,000 men
at Leipzig.]

[293] [Joseph Buonaparte, who had been stationed on the heights of
Montmartre, March 30, 1814, to witness if not direct the defence of
Paris against the Allies under Bluecher, authorized Marmont to
capitulate. His action was, unjustly, regarded as a betrayal of his
brother's capital.]

[294] {554} I refer the reader to the first address of Prometheus in
AEschylus, when he is left alone by his attendants, and before the
arrival of the chorus of Sea-nymphs.--_Prometheus Vinctus_, line 88,
_sq._

[295] [Franklin published his _Opinions and Conjectures concerning the
Properties and Effects of the Electrical Matter and the Means of
preserving Buildings, Ships, etc., from Lightning_, in 1751, and in
June, 1752, "the immortal kite was flown." It was in 1781, when he was
minister plenipotentiary at the Court of France, that the Latin
hexameter, "Eripuit c[oe]lo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis," first applied
to him by Turgot, was affixed to his portrait by Fragonard. The line,
said to be an adaptation of a line in the _Astronomicon_ of Manilius
(lib. i. 104), descriptive of the Reason, "Eripuitque Jovi fulmen
viresque tonandi," was turned into French by Nogaret, d'Alembert, and
other wits and scholars. It appears on the reverse of a medal by F.
Dupre, dated 1786. (See _Works_ of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Jared
Sparks, 1840, viii. 537-539; _Life and Times, etc._, by James Parton,
1864, i. 285-291.)]

[296] {555}["To be the first man--_not_ the Dictator, not the Sylla, but
the Washington, or the Aristides, the leader in talent and truth--is
next to the Divinity."--Journal, November 24, 1813, _Letters_, 1898, ii.
340.]

[297] [Simon Bolivar (_El Libertador_), 1783-1830, was at the height of
his power and fame at the beginning of 1823. In 1821 he had united New
Grenada to Venezuela under the name of the Republic of Columbia, and on
the 1st of September he made a solemn entry into Lima. He was greeted
with acclaim, but in accepting the honours which his fellow-citizens
showered upon him, he warned them against the dangers of tyranny.
"Beware," he said, "of a Napoleon or an Iturbide." Byron, at one time,
had a mind to settle in "Bolivar's country" (letter to Ellice, June 12,
1821, _Letters_, 1901, vi. 89); and he christened his yacht _The
Bolivar_.]

[298] [A proclamation of Bolivar's, dated June 8, 1822, runs thus:
"Columbians, now all your delightful country is free.... From the banks
of the Orin