[Footnote 222: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), leader of the agitation in favour of Catholic emancipation (passed 1829), was elected to Parliament as member for Clare in 1828. He became leader of the Repeal Movement in 1840. It is interesting here to note that M. Biré speaks of Daniel O'Connell as an "admirable orator, an ardent patriot, a fervent Catholic: the Irish Liberator will be remembered as one of the greatest figures of this century."--T.] [Footnote 223: William III., Stadtholder of the Netherlands and King of England (1650-1702).--T.] [Footnote 224: Plato (429 or 430 B.C.--347 or 348 B.C.) often discoursed to his disciples on Cape Sunium, now Cape Colonna, which forms the south-eastern extremity of the Attic Peninsula. Minerva had a temple there, of which nineteen columns are still standing.--T.] [Footnote 225: Epimenides (596 B.C.--538 B.C.), a pious Cretan, fabulously said to have slept for fifty years in a cave, to have lived three hundred years, etc.--T.] [Footnote 226: _Congrès de Vérone, Guerre d'Espagne, Négociations, Colonies espagnoles._ Paris: Delloye, 1838. Two volumes, 8vo.--B.] [Footnote 227: Alphonse Valentin Vaysse, Comte de Rainneville (1798-1864), was in 1824 chief of a department at the Ministry of Finance and one of M. de Villèle's ablest assistants. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1846 to 1848, and retired from political life at the Revolution of February.--B.] [Footnote 228: The phrase here reported by Chateaubriand was used, not by M. de Corbière, but by the Baron de Damas, Minister for War. _Cf._ the _Mémoires du Comte de Villèle._--B.] [Footnote 229: Major-General Louis Justin Marie Marquis de Talaru (1769-1850), Ambassador to Madrid, in 1824, and a peer of France.--B.] [Footnote 230: François Joseph Maximilien Gérard Comte de Rayneval (1778-1836), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, in 1824, and, subsequently, Ambassador to Vienna and, under Louis-Philippe, to Madrid.--T.] [Footnote 231: Chevalier de Bourgoing, First Secretary, and M. Adolphe Billecocq, Second Secretary of Legation in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 232: Ambassador to Vienna in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 233: Ambassador to Lisbon in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 234: French Secretary of Legation at the Hague in 1824.--T.] [Footnote 235: One year later, on the 3rd of July 1825, Hyde de Neuville, in his turn, informed his friend Chateaubriand that his embassy had been taken from him: "My noble friend, "You announced to me your departure from the ministry. I, in my turn, inform you that I am no longer ambassador. "They strike me because I have followed you. So much the better, that will rivet our bonds of friendship; praise God and bless the King! "_The King can do wrong._ "Entirely yours, "HYDE DE NEUVILLE." He received the following reply: