ist on the records immortal of Fame!

Posterity, tracing the annals of France,
The merits will own of her potent defender;
Her greatness pre-eminent skill'd to advance,
Creating, sustaining, her zenith of splendour;
Who patroniz'd arts, and averted alarms,
Till crush'd by the union of nations in arms!

I yield to my fate! nor should memory bring
One moment of fruitless and painful reflection
Of what I was lately--an Emperor and King,
Unless for the bitter, yet fond recollection
Of those, who my heart's best endearments have won,
Remote from my death-bed--my Consort and SON!

Denied in their arms even to breathe my last sigh,
No relatives' solace my exit attending;
With strangers sojourning, 'midst strangers I die,
No tear of regret with the last duties blending.
To him, the lorn Exile, no obsequies paid,
Whose fiat a Universe lately obey'd!

Make there then my tomb, where the willow trees wave,
And, far in the Island, the streamlet meanders;
If ever, by stealth, to my green grassy grave
Some kind musing spirit of sympathy wanders--
"Here rests," he will say, "from Adversity's pains,
Napoleon Buonaparte's mortal remains!"

We have no disposition to enter into the character of the
deceased Ex-Emperor; history will not fail to do justice
alike to the merits and the crimes of one, who is inevitably
destined to fill so portentous a page on its records. At the
present time, to speak of the good of which he may have been
either the intentional or the involuntary instrument,
without some bias of party feeling would be impossible.

"Hard is his fate, on whom the public gaze
Is fix'd for ever, to condemn or praise;
Repose denies her requiem to his name,
And folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

At all events, he is now no more; and "An English spirit
wars not with the dead."

"The Count," said Dashall to his Cousin, as they pursued their walk,
"remains in England until he obtain ~6~~ permission from the King of
France to return to his native country: that such leave will be given,
there is little doubt; the meritorious fidelity which the Count has
uniformly exemplified to his late unfortunate and ex