Pray, dear Uncle, have you read Sir R. Peel's two speeches? I wish you would, and give me your opinion of them.
Footnote 5: Some interesting observations on these events may be read in Borrow's Bible in Spain.
Footnote 6: Don Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal (1790-1853), Spanish politician and financier.
Footnote 7: Miguel Ricardo di Alava (1771-1843), Spanish General; he acted as the representative of Spain at Paris, at the Court of the Bourbons; he was a great friend of the Duke of Wellington, and was with him at his headquarters during the Peninsular War.
Footnote 8: The Queen Regent, Christina.
Footnote 9: Then six years old; she died in 1904.
Footnote 10: This was in reference to the trial at Strasburg of the confederates of Prince Louis Bonaparte (afterwards Napoleon III.) in his abortive attempt to establish a military despotism on 30th October. The Prince was permitted to go to the United States, being conveyed in a French frigate; the other conspirators were acquitted.
Footnote 11: Leopold, born in 1835, afterwards Duke of Brabant, the present King of the Belgians.
The Princess Victoria to the King of the Belgians.
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