[Footnote 184: Seleucus I. Nicator(354 B.C.--281 B.C.), one of Alexander's best officers, proclaimed King of Syria, and finally of Macedon, Thrace and Asia Minor. He was killed by Ptolemy II. Ceraunus in 281 B.C.--T.] [Footnote 185: Antiochus I. King of Syria (_circa_ 323 B.C.--261 B.C.), surnamed Soter, son of Seleucus Nicator, whom he succeeded.--T.] [Footnote 186: Ptolemy I. King of Egypt (_d._ 283 B.C.), also surnamed Soter, another of Alexander's officers, received Egypt as his share of the Macedonian Empire and assumed the title of King in 308 B.C.--T.] [Footnote 187: Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the Italian sculptor, long protected by Napoleon.--T.] [Footnote 188: Frederick Duke of York, titular Bishop of Osnaburg (1763-1827), second son, and one of the most scandalous, of George III.--T.] [Footnote 189: On quitting office, the Duc de Richelieu had intended to make a journey to Vienna and Odessa in the spring of 1822. Before leaving, he went to spend some time at the Château de Courteille, with his wife and mother-in-law. There he was taken ill; and hastened back to Paris, where he had scarcely arrived when he was attacked by a congestion of the brain. He died on the 17th of May 1822, at the age of fifty-five years and eight months.--B.] [Footnote 190: Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, third Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1806-1807), Home Secretary (1827-1828), Lord President of the Council (1830-1834 and 1846-1852), a member of the Cabinet (1852-1858), and a knight of the Garter.--T.] [Footnote 191: Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), _née_ Kemble, the famous actress, was 67, not 73, years of age in 1822. She made her first appearance in 1782, her last in 1812. Lady Macbeth was her greatest part.--T.] [Footnote 192: Antoine Louis Marie de Gramont, Duc de Guiche (1755-1836), had served in the Bodyguard, as Captain Gramont, before the Revolution. On the Restoration, he was created a peer of France. The Duc de Guiche consented to take the oath to the Government of July and remained in the Upper Chamber till his death.--B.] [Footnote 193: Madame la Duchesse de Guiche was a daughter of the Duchesse de Polignac.--B.] [Footnote 194: Charlotte Marie Antoinette Léontine Vicomtesse de Noailles (1791-1851), _née_ de Noailles-Mouchy, married, in 1809, to her cousin Alfred Louis Dominique Vincent de Paule Vicomte de Noailles, who was killed at the Battle of the Beresina in 1812.--B.] [Footnote 195: James de Rothschild (1792-1868), youngest son of Mayer Anselm Rothschild of Frankfort, and created a baron of the Austrian Empire in 1822.--T.] [Footnote 196: John Russell, sixth Duke of Bedford (1766-1839), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1806-1807), and a knight of the Garter (1830).--T.] [Footnote 197: Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), created a knight of the Garter (1820) and a duke (1822) by George IV.--T.]