and an immense quantity of military stores of every description. In addition to this, he gained possession of the capital city of Spain, and thus obtained an immense advantage over the foe. In war there are moral as well as material advantages, and the first are quite as important as the second, as all the best military authorities are agreed in asserting.

Here we shall bring this account of the early years of the Peninsular war to a close. Enough has been said to show the surpassing military ability of Wellington, and the difficulties against which he had to contend.

We cannot better conclude this article than by quoting from Tennyson the following lines:

-"This is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, Nor ever lost an English gun; This is he that, far away, Against the myriads of Assaye,

Dash'd with his fiery few and won; And underneath a nearer sun, Warring in a later day,

Round affrighted Lisbon drew
The treble works, the vast designs
Of his labor'd rampart-lines,
Where he gently stood at bay,
Whence he issued forth anew,
And ever great and greater grew,
Beating from the wasted vines

Back to France her banded swarms,
Back to France with countless blows,
Till o'er the hills her eagles flew
Past the Pyrenean pines,
Follow'd up in valley and glen
With blaze of bugle, clamor of men,
Roll of cannon, and clash of men,
And England pouring on her foes.
Such a war had such a close.
He withdrew to brief repose.
Again the ravening eagle rose

In anger, wheel'd on Europe-shadowing wings,
And barking for the throne of kings,
Till one that sought but duty's iron crown
On that loud Sabbath shook the spoiler down;
A day of onsets of despair!
Dash'd on every rocky square

Their surging charges foam'd themselves away;
Last, the Prussian trumpet blew ;

Thro' the long-tormented air

Heaven flash'd a sudden jubilant ray,

And down we swept, and charged, and overthrew.

So great a soldier taught us there,

What long-enduring hearts could do
In the world's-earthquake, Waterloo."

ONAPARTE arrived at Toulon on the 9th of May, 1798, to take command of the troops destined

for this famous expedition, and his presence inspired a degree of animation and confidence among them which set their minds at ease as to the nature and success of the undertaking; the army was composed of the veterans from the army of Italy, and amounted to about

thirty-six thousand. The fleet, which consisted of fifteen sail of the line, two of them armed en flute, fourteen frigates, and several sloops of war, with about one hundred transports, sailed from Toulon on the 21st of May, 1798; the whole was commanded by Admiral Brueys, and completely provided with everything requisite for a long voyage; of these not above five thousand men and five ships of war ever returned to France. Such is the havoc that ambition makes among mankind!

The first news of the expedition was