Footnote 11: Tacitus. Footnote 12: Burke’s _Works_. Footnote 13: “God is patient because eternal.” Footnote 14: De Tocqueville, _Democratie en Amerique_, ii. 268. Footnote 15: These lines were composed on the north coast of Scotland, in view of a wild sea-cave, the extent of which has never been ascertained. The Atlantic rolls into it with such fury during a tempest, that the spray rises like smoke from an orifice in the rock resembling a chimney, at some distance from the mouth of the cave. This singular and startling effect has no doubt given rise to the popular name of this remarkable cavern—_Hell’s Lum_. Scott would have been pleased with it, and its romantic legends of mermaids, &c. Footnote 16: _Histoire de la Conquête de Naples par Charles d’Anjou, frère de St Louis._ Par le Comte ALEXIS DE ST PRIEST, Pair de France. 4 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1848. Vols. i. to iii. Footnote 17: “Plasmi el cavalier Frances E la donna Catalana,” &c., &c. A well-known song which Voltaire rightly attributes to Frederick II., and which Guinguené, who is here wrong in his criticism of Voltaire, gives to Frederick Barbarossa. Footnote 18: “Der wart auch Chunrad genant Doch ner alle Welhesche Lannd Da nannten die Lewt in Nicht anders denn Chunradin.” Ottakher’s _Austriæ Chronicon Germanicum_. Footnote 19: In the middle ages remarried queens lost their title. Conradin, in his edicts, never called his mother otherwise than _comitissa_. Footnote 20: _The Life of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke; with Selections from his Correspondence, Diaries, Speeches, and Judgments._ By GEORGE HARRIS, Esq., Barrister at Law. In 3 vols. London: Moxon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES Page Changed from Changed to 439 when Conrad died, at the of when Conrad died, at the age of twenty-six twenty-six 441 allowed our lord to enter our allow our lord to enter our walls walls 442 with the Infante Don Pedro, with the Infante Don Pedro, son daughter 497 intrépide! A la recousse!” was intrépide! A la rescousse!” was 504 Liberté—Fraternité—Egalité Liberté—Fraternité—Égalité 506 Ah traitre! monstre! polisson Ah traître! monstre! polisson 1. Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. 2. Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.