[132] Hon. John Byron (1723-1786), second son of William fourth Lord Byron and grand-father of the poet, entered the Navy as a boy. In 1764, he was promoted to commodore and commanded two vessels in a voyage of exploration round the world; he returned in 1766, having accomplished little beyond some curious observations on the Indians of Patagonia and the discovery of some small islands in the Pacific Ocean. He was Governor of Newfoundland from 1769 to 1772; became a vice-admiral in 1778; and on the 6th of July 1779 fought an engagement with the French fleet off Grenada, in the West Indies, the result of which was doubtful.--T. [133] _Cf._ BYRON, _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto IV.--T. [134] CHATEAUBRIAND, _Les Martyrs_, Book IX.: _The Story of Eudorus._--T. [135] MOLIÈRE, _Tartufe_, Act III. Sc. ii.: "What affectation and blind real is this!"--T. [136] SHAKESPEARE: _Othello, the Moor of Venice_, Act I. Sc. iii.--T. [137] Thomas Otway (1652-1685), the principal tragic poet of the English classical school. The most famous of his tragedies, _Venice Preserved_, from which the following quotation is taken, appeared in 1682.--T. [138] OTWAY: _Venice Preserved, or The Plot Discovered_, Act I. Sc. i.--T. [139] Clément Marot (1497-1544), the poet, when compelled to fly from France on account of his scandalous life, took refuge in Béarn (1535), then at the Court of Ferrara, where he was secretary to Renée of France, and, finally, in Venice (1536).--T. [140] MONTESQUIEU: _Lettres persanes._ Letter XXXI.: _Rhédi à Usbek, à Paris._--T. [141] The incident of Anals will be found in the _Lettres persanes._ Letter CXLI.: _Rica à Usbek à ^***_--T. [142] The cannon was fired when a nun took the veil.--T. [143] _Corinne_: Book XV., Chaps, VII. and IX.--T. [144] _Corinne_: Book XVI., Chap. III.--T. BOOK VII[145] Arrival of Madame de Bauffremont in Venice--Catajo--The Duke of Modena--Petrarch's Tomb at Arqua--The land of poets--Tasso--Arrival of Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Mademoiselle Lebeschu--Count Lucchesi-Palli--Discussion--Dinner--Bugeaud the gaoler--Madame de Saint-Priest, M. de Saint-Priest--Madame de Podenas--Our band--I refuse to go to Prague--I yield at a word--Padua--Tombs--Zanze's manuscript--Unexpected news--The Governor of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom--Letters from Madame to Charles X. and Henry V.--M. de Montbel--My note to the Governor--I set out for Prague. _Between_ VENICE and FERRARA, 16 _to_ 17 _September_ 1833. There was an immense interval between those dreamings and the truths to which I returned when calling at the Princesse de Bauffremont's hotel; I had to jump from 1806, with the memories of which year I had been occupied, to 1833, the year in which I found myself in reality: Marco Polo[146] fell from China into Venice, after an absence of exactly twenty-seven years.