I hope you liked the article on the immorality of luncheon-rooms in your high-minded 'Saturday Review.'
FOOTNOTES:
[62] Prime Minister of Piedmont from 1849-52, and one of the most honourable and patriotic of Italian statesmen.
[63] Subsequently English ambassador at Berlin, and one of the plenipotentiaries at the Berlin Congress of 1878. Created Lord Ampthill in 1881, and died in 1884.
[64] Now in the possession of Mr. R. Barrett Browning.
[65] The conferences for the arrangement of the final treaty of peace were held at Zurich.
[66] Of Tuscany with Piedmont, which was voted by Tuscany in August. Modena, Parma, and Romagna did the same, and so made the critical step towards the creation of a united Italy.
[67] It was supposed that Napoleon contemplated constituting Central Italy, or at least Tuscany, into a kingdom for his brother Jerome, and that it was for this reason that the latter had been sent to Florence with a French corps at the beginning of the war.
[68] Napoleon being opposed to the idea of a united Italy, Victor Emmanuel did not consider it wise to accept the proffered crown of Central Italy while a French army was still in the country and the terms of peace were not finally settled.
[69] The new Duke of Tuscany. He had succeeded to this now very shadowy throne on July 21 of this year.