NOTE 4, p. 29.--His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Lennox--fourth of that title, and descendant of Charles II. by the French mistress, La Kerouaille--was a personage more picturesque than the majority of the great in name who fill the pages of “Burke’s Peerage.” Throughout, his life (1764–1819) was romantically different from that of the average nobleman. As a youth he was a notable duelist, and in 1789 had an encounter with the Duke of York wherein half-royal blood came near to shedding royal. So impetuous a temperament obviously led the Duke to the profession of arms, in which he attained some prominence. The Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland was his during the period 1807–1813; and in these years he had for chief secretary the then plain Colonel Wellesley. He left Ireland for the wars; and thus it was that on the eve of Waterloo the Duke and Duchess of Richmond gave at Brussels the historic ball before the battle--an event which has permanently linked the name of Richmond with history. For chance, doubly gracious, commemorated the occasion in the famous verses of Byron, and the enduring prose of “Vanity Fair.” The next day the Duke was glad to serve on the battlefield under his former secretary. The end of this nobleman was no less striking than his life. Removed to Canada, he died a pitiful death of hydrophobia, induced by a fox-bite. NOTE 5, p. 65.--Here the speaker is at some pains to press first the charge of inconsistency against the Attorney-General: he then goes on to consider the cases of Walter Cox, a Protestant and publisher of the _Irish Magazine_, and of the author of a book called “The Statement of the Penal Laws,” both imprisoned for libel. NOTE 6, p. 100.--A short excursus on the manner of selecting juries. The ingenious rhetorical device which follows in this selection, after the break, should be noted. The parallelism between Ireland and Portugal is carried as far as it could well go: and argument by persuasion has seldom been more effectively attempted. NOTE 7, p. 106.--A Portuguese coin, of gold, and valued at eight dollars. So called from the medallion on it of King John. NOTE 8, p. 116.--The note of O’Connell’s son and editor, so characteristic, is worth preserving: “_And slaves, hypocrites, and bigots they proved themselves, by finding a verdict for the Crown_.” NOTE 9, p. 133.--In the short passage here omitted Lord Palmerston deprecates certain aspersions laid by a member of the Opposition upon the Queen’s Advocate, the legal adviser of the Foreign Office. NOTE 10, p. 144.--References respectively to the grievances of Mr. Finlay--not born in Scotland, as the speaker asserts, but of Scotch descent--and of Don Pacifico, a Jew from Gibraltar, whose cases are soon to be discussed at length.