Fresh speculations follow each success; And philanthropic Israel deigns to drain Her mild per-centage from exhausted Spain.

Not without Abraham's seed can Russia march;

'Tis gold, not steel, that rears the conqueror's arch.

Two Jews, a chosen people can command

In every realm their Scripture-promised land:

[There were five brothers Rothschild: Anselm, of Frankfort, 1773-1855; Salomon, of Vienna, 1774-1855; Nathan Mayer, of London, 1777-1836; Charles, of Naples, 1788-1855; and James, of Paris, 1792-1868. In 1821 Austria raised 372 million guldens through the firm, and, as an acknowledgment of their services, the Emperor raised the brothers to the rank of baron, and appointed Baron Nathan Mayer ConsulGeneral in London, and Baron James to the same post in Paris.]

The averted eye of the reluctant Muse. The Imperial daughter, the Imperial bride,*

The imperial Victim-sacrifice to pride; The mother of the Hero's hope, the boy, The young Astyanax of Modern Troy;

Monsieur Chateaubriand, who has not forgotten the author in the minister, received a handsome compliment at Verona from a literary sovereign: "Ah! Monsieur C., are you related to that Chateaubriand who who who has written something?" (écrit quelque chose!) I is said that the author of Atala repented him for a moment of his legitimacy. [François Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) published Les Martyrs on le Triomphe de la religion chretienne in 1809.]

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[Jean Mathieu Félicité, Duc de- Montmorenci (1766-1826), was, in his youth, a Jacobin. His dismissal (Dec. 29, 1822) from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs was pub lished in the Moniteur.]

3 [From Pope's line on Lord Peterborough, Imitations of Horace, Sat. i. 132.]

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[Marie Louise, daughter of Francis I. of Austria, was born December 12, 1701, and died December 18, 1840. She was married to Na poleon, April 2, 1810, and gave birth to a March 29, 1811. In accordance with the Treaty of Paris, she renounced the title of Empress, and was created Duchess of Parma. After Napoleon's death (May 5, 1821), she did not ong remain a widow, but speedily and secretly married her chamberlain and gentleman of honour, Count Adam de Neipperg, to whom she had long been attached.]

[Napoleon François Charles Joseph, Duke of Reichstadt, died at the palace of Schonbrunn, July 22, 1832, having just attained his twentyfirst year.]

[The Island was written January 10February 14, 1823. It was published (by John Hunt) June 26, 1823.]

[A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty, and the subsequent voyage of the ship's Boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timon, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies, written by Lieutenant William Bligh, 1790.]

[An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, compiled and arranged from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, by John Martin, M.D., 1817.]

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[William Bligh, the son of Cornish parents was born September 9, 1754. He served under Cook in his second voyage in the Resolution. 1772-75, as sailing-master; and, in 1782, fout under Lord Howe at Gibraltar. He mamed a daughter of William Betham, first collector 1 customs in the Isle of Man, and hence his co- " nection with Fletcher Christian, who belonged ta a Manx family, and the midshipman Peter Hay ward, who was the son of a Deemster. He was appointed to the Bounty in December, 1787, in 1791 to the Providence, which was despatched to the Society Islands to obtain a fresh cargo d bread-fruit trees in place of those which were thrown overboard by the mutineers. He com manded the Glatton at Copenhagen, May 21 1801, and on that and other occasions served with distinction. He was made Governor of New South Wales in 1805, but was forcibly deposed in an insurrection headed by Major Johnston, January, 1808. He was kept in prison till 1810, but on his return to England his administration of his office was approved, and Johnston was cashiered. He was advanced t the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Blue in 1814. and died, December 7, 1817.]