tme guei'7-e immense, the war against Napoléon

1. 42. les troubles récents de la Russie; allusion to the conspiracy vhich broke eut in 1826, shortiy after the death of Alexander I., and which was the resuit of the efforts made since 1817 by secret political societies, framed on the model of those of Germany.

P. xi.l. 13. On d/i çu' Alexandre... Ai.EWNDEKl. Paulowitz[i777 — 1825] succeeded in 1801 to his father Paul I., as emperor of Russia.

1. 1 8. du débordement de la N'etua. Th is terrible i nundation took place on the igth of November, 1824, when property to the amount of 100,000,000 roubles (^4,000,000) was destroyed in St Petersburg. The people regarded this calamity as a judgment of heaven for not having assisted their Christian brethren in Greece during their récent and frightful persécution from the Turks.

1. 2 1 . Avant son départ pour la Crimée. Alexander left for the Crimea on the ist of September (old style, i3th), the dayaftera solemn service had been celebrated in the cathedral of Kazan, on the translation of the bones of the great prince Alexander Newski from the place of his sépulture at Vladimir to that holy fane on the banks of the Neva.

1. 28. MissOLONGiii issituatedin yEtolia, atthe mouth of thegulf of Fatras.

1. 45. Montesquieu {Charles de Secondât, baron de) [1689 — 1755], a distinguished writer. Principal works : Les Lettres Persanes (1721), Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur et de la décadence des Romains (1734), Vesprit des Lois (1748).

P. xii. 1. 25. Pie VII. {Bamabas Chiaramonti) [1740 — 1823], elected Pope in 1800. Persecuted and imprisoned by Napoléon.

1. 27. deuil, mourning (O. F. doel, duel, deul), from the L. dolere.

1. 34. La Grèce meurt longtemps, it takes a long time for Greece to die.