[49] Compare Byron’s Childe Harold, Canto iv. lxix.—lxxii.
The roar of waters! From the headlong height
Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; etc.
[50] Curius Dentatus, the Conqueror of the Sabines.
[51] The Prince of Wales’s friend.
[52] Trasimene.
[53] Gil Blas’ uncle, ‘three and a half feet high, with his head sunk well between his shoulders.’
[54] The celebrated Italian tenor (1750–1830).
[55] Gustavus Maurice, Baron d’Armfeldt (1757–1814). After Gustavus IV. reached his majority he was appointed Ambassador at Vienna. He retired to Finland in 1810, and held office under the Russians.
[56] Gustavus III. (1748–1792). He was assassinated at the instigation of certain nobles, who considered that he was interfering with the rights of their order. Gustavus IV., his son, was only fourteen years old at the time, and until 1796 the government was carried on by his uncle, the Duke of Sudermania.