[Footnote 513: William I. King of the Netherlands had united Belgium and Holland under his sceptre since 1815. But, after the Insurrection of Brussels on the 25th August 1830, the Belgian Congress had voted the deposal of the House of Orange-Nassau. On the 21st of July 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was elected and proclaimed King of the Belgians. William I. continued to hold the Citadel of Antwerp, refused to recognise the new kingdom and persisted in his resistance even after the Siege of Antwerp and the capitulation of the citadel (23 December 1832). On the date when the Duchesse de Berry wrote her Note (7 May 1833), he had not yet yielded. It was only on the 21st of May that he signed a convention for the suspension of hostilities and the resumption of navigation on the Scheldt and the Meuse. He did not definitely agree to the separation of Holland and Belgium until five years later, in 1838. He abdicated in 1840, was succeeded by his son, William II., the Prince of Orange mentioned above, and died suddenly, in Berlin, on the 12th of December 1843, in his seventy-first year.--T.] [Footnote 514: Queen Marie-Thérèse (the Dauphine-Duchesse d'Angoulême).--T.] [Footnote 515: The prefix of "My Lord" and "His Lordship," _Monseigneur et sa seigneurie_, were borne by those nobles only who were peers of France. Chateaubriand resigned his peerage, in 1830, by refusing to take the oath of allegiance to Louis-Philippe.--T.] [Footnote 516: The verse in the _Æneid_ (IX. 641) is as follows: Macte nova virtute, puer! sic itur ad astra. It was Statius who, slightly modifying Virgil's verse, said (_Th._ VII. 280): Macte animo, generose puer! sic itur ad astra. _Cf._ Vol. I, p. 56.--T.] [Footnote 517: Serious troubles had lately broken out in the Canton of Basle between the peasants of the country and the burgesses of the town. The former claimed the right of a separate constitution and administration, as the conditions of joint government offered them by the town did not seem fair to them. Before long, the dispute came to an armed quarrel, attended with some bloodshed.--B.] [Footnote 518: Pierre Vidal (_d._ 1229), the Provençal troubadour, who accompanied Richard Cœur-de-Lion to Cyprus in 1190.--T.] [Footnote 519: "Richer I with ribbon owed To the favour of Raimbaude Than King Richard with Poitiers And with Tours and with Angiers."--T.] [Footnote 520: Alphonsus II. of Este, Duke of Ferrara and Modena (1533-1597), the patron and persecutor of Tasso and brother of Leonora of Este (_vide infra_).--T.] [Footnote 521: Leonora of Este (_d._ 1581), sister of Alphonsus II. Tasso went mad for love of her in 1577.--T.] [Footnote 522: They were lost to France by the second Napoleon in 1870.--T.] [Footnote 523: Florio's MONTAIGNE, Booke II. Chap. 33: _The Historie of Spurina._--T.]