1 counsellor, 1 secretary, 5 gentlemen of the household 7 4 captains, 5 chamberlains, 4 assistant chamberlains 13 1 dwarf or hunchback, 1 watchmaker, 1 barber 3 1 master of the wardrobe, 2 porters, 4 pages and their 2 servants 9 1 physician, 1 apothecary, 2 chaplains, 3 readers 7 18 household servants, 10 stable servants 28 __ Total 67 [Footnote 106: As a specimen of the style of this most disappointing MS., and in proof of its small historical importance, I extract all the notices for August 1621, the month in which, according to Passeri, this transaction took place. "6. News arrived of the death of the Archduke Albert, which happened at Brussels on the 13th ult. 15. Vespers began to be performed in the church of S. Rocca of Castel Durante. 21. A stag was killed, weighing fully 530 lbs. 26. Four large English dogs coursed in the park, which belong to the Prince; they killed two fallow deer."] [Footnote 107: It appears that on the 25th of July the Prince arrived from Urbino, and stayed two days, during which probably this scene took place.] Yet the theoretical tendencies of his mind had not prevented him from establishing, in the early portion of his reign, many practical regulations conducive to the acceleration of business, and to the due order of public affairs. His sway had been upon the whole a mild one; and on a retrospect of two centuries, the government of his predecessors must be pronounced to have promoted, in a degree rarely paralleled, general happiness and public decorum, and at the same time the true glory of their state. But all this was now to be changed, and the brilliant dynasty of Urbino was doomed to expire, exhaling a vile and loathsome odour. That court which the refined tastes of the Feltrian Dukes and the polished pen of Castiglione had rendered a model to the world, which the literature and conduct of its later sovereigns had maintained in like honourable distinction, was about to present a melancholy spectacle of unexampled degradation. To enumerate the debasing excesses successively introduced by Federigo is a sad and sickening task, which it were well briefly to go through. His fancy for music was indulged, to the exclusion of more serious avocations. His casual acquaintance with the company of Venetian comedians was ripened into an intimacy, which gradually monopolised his time and thoughts, and was followed out with frenzied enthusiasm. These persons, belonging then to the vilest classes, and treated accordingly, became the Prince's associates in public and in private. Conforming his morals to theirs, he admitted the actresses into his palace in daring defiance of decency, and openly established one, named Argentina, as his mistress, fêting her