VILLENEUVE, NAPOLEON'S ADMIRAL.
    DECRES, MINISTER OF MARINE.
    FLAG-CAPTAIN MAGENDIE.
    LIEUTENANT DAUDIGNON.
    LIEUTENANT FOURNIER.
    Captain Lucas.
    OTHER FRENCH NAVAL OFFICERS AND PETTY OFFICERS.
    Seamen of the French and Spanish Navies.
    Regiments of the French Army.
    COURIERS.
    HERALDS.
    Aides, Officials, Pages, etc.
    ATTENDANTS.
    French Citizens.

    CARDINAL CAPRARA.
    Priests, Acolytes, and Choristers.
    Italian Doctors and Presidents of Institutions.
    Milanese Citizens.

    THE EMPEROR FRANCIS.
    THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND.
    Prince John of Lichtenstien.
    PRINCE SCHWARZENBERG.
    MACK, AUSTRIAN GENERAL.
    JELLACHICH.
    RIESC.
    WEIROTHER.
    ANOTHER AUSTRIAN GENERAL.
    TWO AUSTRIAN OFFICERS.

    The Emperor Alexander.
    PRINCE KUTUZOF, RUSSIAN FIELD-MARSHAL.
    COUNT LANGERON.
    COUNT BUXHOVDEN.
    COUNT MILORADOVICH.
    DOKHTOROF.

    Giulay, Gottesheim, Klenau, and Prschebiszewsky.
    Regiments of the Austrian Army.
    Regiments of the Russian Army.

  WOMEN

    Queen Charlotte.
    English Princesses.
    Ladies of the English Court.
    LADY HESTER STANHOPE.
    A LADY.
    Lady Caroline Lamb, Mrs. Damer, and other English Ladies.

    THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE.
    Princesses and Ladies of Josephine's Court.
    Seven Milanese Young Ladies.

    City- and Towns-women.
    Country-women.
    A MILITIAMAN'S WIFE.
    A STREET-WOMAN.
    Ship-women.
    Servants.

  THE OVERWORLD

    [Enter the Ancient Spirit and Chorus of the Years, the Spirit
    and Chorus of the Pities, the Shade of the Earth, the Spirits
    Sinister and Ironic with their Choruses, Rumours, Spirit-
    Messengers, and Recording Angels.]

  SHADE OF THE EARTH

       What of the Immanent Will and Its designs?

  SPIRIT OF THE YEARS

       It works unconsciously, as heretofore,
       Eternal artistries in Circumstance,
       Whose patterns, wrought by rapt aesthetic rote,
       Seem in themselves Its single listless aim,
       And not their consequence.

  CHORUS OF THE PITIES [aerial music]

            Still thus?  Still thus?
            Ever unconscious!
            An automatic sense
            Unweeting why or whence?
       Be, then, the inevitable, as of old,
       Although