On board th’ Undaunted he embark’d-- ‘A noble vessel,’ he remark’d, And now the banish’d malefactor (So late a wild and busy actor), His entry into Elba made Upon the fourth of May. ’Tis said To see the wondrous little man Th’ inhabitants all eager ran. A great blue coat our hero sported, And was most pompously escorted; Three fiddles and two fifes preceded, For he some consolation needed; _Pity my fall_ became the strain Which they struck up to sooth his pain; ‘Oh change that doleful air,’ he said, And therefore the musicians played, In hopes to comfort the poor elf, _Go to the De’il, and shake yourself_. ‘Give me a horse,’ he cried; of course Nap was provided with a horse, And round the island quick he rode, Which his wild disposition shewed; The little children, at his view, Cried out, ‘Oh, there’s a _bug-a-boo_!’ Without a wife--without a mother,[43] Without a sister, or a brother, And even of a friend bereft, Poor Nap is to his conscience left. On June 4, 1814, was published (artist unknown) ‘An Imperial vomit’ in which Bonaparte is disgorging the kingdoms he has swallowed up. The Prince Regent, behind him, says, ‘I think now my little fellow, you are pretty well clear’d out, and I hope you will never give us the trouble to Prescribe or Proscribe any more.’ ‘Drumming out of the French Army!!!’ is the title of a picture published in June 1814. Blücher has Bonaparte in a drum, which he carries before him, beating him alternately with a birch-rod and a drum-stick, Russia, Prussia, and Austria looking on. Lewis Marks produced, in June 1814, ‘Boney and his new subjects at Elba.’ The poverty-stricken condition to which the Emperor is reduced is too graphically portrayed, and his ragged army of four is very vividly illustrated. He thus addresses them: ‘Gentlemen, my friends despise and d--n England, Russia, Prussia, Germany, and Sweden, and obey me--and I will make kings of you all.’ Napoleon might well say that his ‘territory was somewhat small;’ but, small as it was, his restless activity set to work to improve it. He made roads where none had existed, canals and aqueducts, a lazaretto, and stations for tunny-fishing. Vineyards were improved, and the little island was quite prosperous. Numerous visitors came to pay their respects to the Emperor, causing money to be spent; vessels brought provisions, and took away what the inhabitants had to export. Porto Ferrajo was gay and lively, its name being changed to Cosmopoli. A new flag was manufactured, having a red bend dexter, charged with three bees on a white field, and Moorish pirates were very chary of touching vessels bearing this flag. In May Cambrone brought out some volunteers of the old guard, and Napoleon exercised and inspected his little army. [Illustration: BONEY AND HIS NEW SUBJECTS AT ELBA (_see previous page_).]