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See the pamphlet by a French prince of the blood, menacing Invasion. It will be remembered to his Royal Highness, and forgiven, in the next “Emigration.” Twickenham is still open.

The most modern order of knighthood.

A pretty island, once much infested by pirates.

The Eastern word for bowing and salutation.

Napoleon's monument of the “conquest” of England, which he never visited but as its prisoner. It remains the most solid burlesque in existence. Any nation but the French would have pulled it down long ago, from the mere sense of ridicule.

“Castles in the air.”

The scene of Napoleon's first and most brilliant campaigns.

This opinion is given, merely on the point of European convenience. On the point of policy, there can be no doubt whatever that the “Great Duke” was right in his pithy remark. But, with respect to Napoleon's original seizure of the Italian galleries, all men have long since given up the sentimentality formerly expressed on the subject. As conqueror, they were his. If they were worth defending by the Italians, they ought to have been fought for by the Italians. They were the prize of victory, and the most magnificent of all prizes. Their effect on the vanity of the French populace was incalculable; and it was upon this vanity that Napoleon's whole system of both war and peace was founded. Tyrant as he was, he thoroughly knew French mankind.

The memorable Countess Dubarry. Beginning her career in circumstances at once the most humble and the most notorious, she at length became the Sovereign of the Sovereign; finally perishing by the guillotine. Strangely unlucky! even her vices could not save her in the Revolution.

The Channel.

The authentic origin of the mutton-chop. —See Pliny.

Lopè de la Vega, the most voluminous author of Spain, the wittiest, next to Cervantes; and the most rapid in the world. He wrote a play a week, and a poem a day: with now and then a three volume novel, to fill up the time! Lopè presents a contradiction to the theory, that poets should begin young. He commenced authorship close on fifty; but he had the true education for a national poet. He had seen life in all its most showy varieties; had been familiar with the Spanish Court, at the time when, under Philip the Second, it led Europe; was traveller, soldier, seaman; but, at length, as if to see life in a totally different aspect, he turned Franciscan! then turned fool, and starved himself into saintship, and out of the world!

The common name for Gibraltar.

Almost the only royal forest in France, which has not been spoiled by royal taste. A large portion of it has been stript of its trees, but enough remains, to make it one of the noblest of European hunting-grounds. In France, forest-trees are seldom allowed to grow to their natural size; but here are some noble specimens. The cruelty of hunting is beginning to be felt even in France; and since the foolish days of the last Bourbon, public hunting has been scarcely resumed. The idea of making sport of the agonies of the inferior creation is fortunately beginning to be regarded by the educated classes of all countries, as not merely a frivolous and vulgar waste of time—a coarse and brutish pursuit of a clownish enjoyment—but an actual crime.

“La Croix du Grand Veneur,” is an obelisk marking the spot where the Demon of the Forest—the Black Huntsman—was said to have met Henry IV., and predicted his assassination. The king's change of religion; after the sacrifices undergone by the French Protestants to place him at the head of Protestantism in France, was a lasting source of discord; and it was remarked by them, that his fall by the hand of a monk, was in some degree a just punishment for his desertion to the religion of Rome. His apostacy was never forgiven.

The famous leader of the Protestants. He perished in the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

The “Cabinet de Travail” of Napoleon exhibits the table at which he signed his abdication, in 1814. The Galerie des Cerfs was the scene of the murder of Monaldeschi, by order of Christina, Queen of Sweden, in 1657. He was her high-chamberlain; and the alleged cause was the betrayal of some domestic secrets.

Fontainebleau was remarkable for the residence of historic personages. Philippe de Bel, the first who raised Loans, lived here; the Emperor Charles V. was entertained here by Francis I.; Anne of Austria, when Regent, made it her temporary residence, &c. &c.

The famous author of the “Del Principe,” or the Maxims of Cæsar Borgia, the most barefaced villain since Nero; and the maxims are worthy of the man. The attempts made to represent this atrocious work as a satire are trifling. It is obviously the genuine code of an Italian public man of his day; and it has not been without exemplars in every day since. Yet Machiavelli had once been sent to the rack; a recollection, which might have fairly cured him of his taste for tyranny; but the demon was within. Poet, politician, and historian, he was evidently a man of versatile and vigorous faculties. But the writer of the “Del Principe” ought to have died on the scaffold.

Molière, beyond all comparison the greatest comic writer of France; rendered himself the burlesque of France by his matrimonial absurdities. Always in love with somebody or other, his successive wives ran away from him; and he at last dropped dead, while performing in one of his own comedies, his heart broken by the misconduct of a coquettish spouse.

The arm of the chair in which Napoleon signed his abdication, was deeply cut with his penknife, in the nervousness of that terrible hour.

Auvergne, the “Campi Phlegræi” of France, sterile from the poverty of its people, and the sufferings of the province, in the Revocation of the Edict; but a noble subject for the man of science, and a still nobler one for the historian. There are instances in the war of the Cevennes, which might be remembered, beside Marathon and Thermopylæ.

The circumstance in the verse actually occurred in a club near St. James's. To heighten the burlesque, Canning was at that time in the full glow of public life, and perhaps the best known of any man in London.

The capital of the south, and chief manufacturing city of France is finely situated on the confluence of the Saone and Rhone, but shut in by hills. The heights were chiefly fortified after the commotion in the city, some years ago.

The Emperors Claudius and Caligula were born in Lyons. On the site of the church of Ainay, is believed to have stood the Athenæum, an imperial school of eloquence and poetry, founded by Caligula; and in which the defeated candidates were punished, sometimes in ignominious ways.

The chief river of the American continent.

The American tiger.

The quarter in which the Jews, by an old superstitious severity, are shut up, in Rome.

I am not certain that this venerable name is to be found in the Navy List; but, as a “Nautical Historian,” I pledge myself for the fact.

The Alpine wind.

On a height near Monasque, are the ruins of the chateau in which the celebrated Mirabeau spent his early years. The first orator of France in his day, he was the most popular man with the people, and for a while the most confidential man with the king. But his life had hastened the revolution, and his death was the fatal blow of the monarchy.

The period of Athenian supremacy was but seventy years!

The generality of monks and nuns in Romish countries are merely peasants, loose and lazy; who would rather do anything than work for their bread.

An exploit of Sir Thomas Dashwood at the Oratorio di Padre Caravita, the general whipping chapel, in Rome.

The general.

A fanatic, who published political visions, some years ago. He adopted the style of Bunyan, but without the talent of that most marvellous of cobblers.

Medoc, the spot so famous for its clarets, is simply a long bank of pebbles and sand, on the side of the Garonne, and is a continuation of the sandy waste lying between Bordeaux and Bayonne, known as “The Landes.”

Sir S. Scott, proprietor of the Lafitte vineyard.

The Deputies from this department, the Gironde, were regarded as the most eloquent members of the National Convention; but they were all destroyed at an early period of the Democracy. In revolutions, the tongue is always beaten by the dagger.

The Hyde Park of Vienna.

The summer palace of Vienna.

Here were executed the gallant leaders of the Camisards, in 1705.

The name of this luckless being is introduced here, not in memory of his fashionable trifling, but of his genius. He originated a style; he impressed new thoughts by a new language. No matter how frivolous the purpose, the man who can do this, does more, and is more, than the million.

A Moorish cloak.

The universal potage of the Arabs, yet differing as widely in its composition as soup maigre from turtle. All depends on the locale, in cuscussu, as in so many other things.