[190] en su obediencia. Su refers to el gobierno.
[191] Así el gobierno papal. The pontificate of Gregory XVI (1831-1846) was notoriously ill-advised.
[192] el sultán. Mustafa IV in 1806, by imperial firman, ratified the election of Mehemet Ali by the sheiks to the pashalik of Egypt. Mehemet Ali (1769-1849), pasha and afterwards viceroy of Egypt, though an illiterate of humble birth, was an extraordinarily clever and astute man. It was only through the intervention of the powers that in 1849, after the rout of the Ottoman forces at the battle of Nezib, he was forced to be satisfied with only the hereditary Viceroyalty of Egypt.
[193] destronase. The subject is Mehemet Ali.
[194] revolución, i.e., the social revolution after the war of independence.
[195] López e Ibarra, Artigas y Güemes, Facundo y Rosas. V. Introduction.
[196] la ciudad, i.e., Buenos Aires.
[197] el camino que él había traído, the path he had followed.
[198] otros tantos, so many. The naming of such worthless men as those mentioned to the post of prefect was the equivalent of eliminating that number of prefects.
[199] la revolución de las ciudades, i.e., against the Spaniards.