valor proudly sleeps.

Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone
In deathless songs shall tell,
When many a vanished age hath flown,
The story how ye fell;
Nor wreck nor change nor winter's flight
Nor Time's remorseless doom
Can dim one ray of holy light
That gilds your glorious tomb.

Little Glimpses of the 19th Century.

The Great Events in the History of the Last One Hundred Years, Assembled
so as to Present a Nutshell Record.

[_Continued from page 163._]

THIRD DECADE.

1821

A congress of the European powers, held at Laibach, in Austria, determined
to suppress the liberal movement in Italy and to restore absolute rule in
Naples. King Ferdinand of Naples agreed, though he had recently sworn to
uphold the constitution. Austrian armies invaded Piedmont and Naples,
speedily crushed the revolutionary movement, and the leaders of the
popular party were shot or imprisoned.

Both in the Old World and in the New the year was one of political unrest.
Brazil rebelled against Portuguese rule, and Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador
against Spanish domination. Greece and the Christian tribesmen of the
Balkans rose against Turkey. In retaliation, Greeks in Constantinople were
strangled; Greek settlements on the Bosporus were wiped out; and the
Patriarch of Constantinople, head of the Greek Church, was hanged by the
Turks. Russia, on the point of declaring war against Turkey, was
restrained by England and Metternich. Both Greeks and Turks carried on a
war of indiscriminate slaughter.

Napoleon died at St. Helena, May 5, after nearly six years of captivity. A
curious feature of his will was his bequest of ten thousand francs to
Cantillon, who had attempted to assassinate Wellington. Queen Caroline of
England, wife of George IV, died; serious riots at her funeral. John
Keats, English poet, died.

In the United States, James Monroe began his second term as President.
Missouri was admitted to the Union. Arrangements were made to open the
territory of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, as a colony for
freedmen. Amherst College and the Massachusetts General Hospital were
founded.

=POPULATION--Washington, D.C., 13,247; New York (including the boroughs
now forming Greater New York), 152,056; New York (Manhattan), 123,706;
London (Metropolitan District), 1,225,694; London (old city), 125,434;
United States (1820), 9,633,822; Great Britain and Ireland (1821),
20,893,584.=

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