I leave therefore the words I have written to such work as they may; hoping, indeed, nothing from any words; thankful, if a few people here and there understand and sympathize in the feelings with which they were written; and thankful, if none so sympathize, that I am able at least to claim some share in the sadness, though not in the triumph, of the words of Farinata-- "Fu' io sol colà, dove sofferto Fu per ciascun di torre via Fiorenza, Colui che la difese a viso aperto."[10] I am, etc., J. RUSKIN. FOOTNOTES: [9] After a careful and repeated search in the columns of the _Witness_, I am still unable to certainly explain these allusions. It seems, however, that the two preceding letters had been sent to the _Witness_, which printed the first and refused to print the second. The _Scotsman_ printed both under the titles of "Mr. Ruskin on the Italian Question," and "Mr. Ruskin on Foreign Politics," whilst it distinguished this third letter by the additional heading of "Letter to the Editor." It may be conjectured, therefore, that the first two letters were reprinted by the _Scotsman_ from another paper, and that, in receiving the number of the _Scotsman_ containing the second, Mr. Ruskin did not know that it had reprinted the first also. As to the "series begun in another journal," it is, I think, clear that it had not been long continued, as the letter dated "June 15," sent to and refused by it, is spoken of as "the second letter," so that that dated "June 6" must have been the first, as this was unquestionably the last of the series. [10] "But singly there I stood, when, by consent Of all, Florence had to the ground been razed, The one who openly forbade the deed." CARY'S DANTE--"L'Inferno," x. II. 90-93. Farinata degli Uberti was a noble Florentine, and the leader of the Ghibelline faction, when they obtained a signal victory over the Guelfi at Montaperto, near the river Arbia. Machiavelli calls him "a man of exalted soul, and great military talents" (Hist. of Florence, Bk. ii). Subsequently, when it was proposed that, in order to maintain the ascendency of the Ghibelline faction in Tuscany, Florence should be destroyed, Farinata alone of all the Council opposed the measure, declaring that he had endured every hardship with no other view than that of being able to pass his days in his own country. (See Cary's notes to Canto x.) [From "The Liverpool Albion," November 2, 1863.] _THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND._[11] ZURICH, _Oct. 25th_, 1863.