[409] The Abbé Buonavita and the Abbé Vignale. They arrived at St. Helena on the 20th of September 1819.—B.
[410] Thomas Johnson (1772-1839), alternately a smuggler and a pilot to the Royal Navy, twice broke jail and ended as the recipient of a pension of £100 a year.—T.
[411] Francesco Antomarchi (1780-1830), a native of Corsica, was a professor of anatomy at Florence, when Cardinal Fesch selected him to go to St. Helena to attend Napoleon, from whose side Dr. O'Meara had been removed. He arrived in the same ship as the Abbés Buonavita and Vignale and remained with the Emperor till his death.—B.
[412] At the Malmaison.—Author's Note.
[413] Ps. lxxxvii. 16, 17.—T.
[414] Machab. I. 10.—T.
[415] On the death of Ferdinand VII., in 1833, the crown was usurped on behalf of Isabella II., to the prejudice of Charles V., the de jure King, with the Dowager Queen Christina as Regent. The latter was forced, in 1840, to abdicate the Regency in favour of General Espartero, the revolutionary leader, who remained in power until 1843.—T.
[416] Eze. 37, 4-5.—T.
[417] Conservateur, 17 November 1818 (vol. I. p. 333).—B.
[418] Montholon: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France sous Napoléon, vol. IV. p. 243.—Author's Note.