[458] 3 May 1815.—B.
[459] 19 May 1815.—B.
[460] Ferdinand I. King of the Two Sicilies and IV. of Naples (1751-1825) reigned in Naples from 1759 to 1806 and from 1815 to 1825, and in Sicily from 1759 to 1825.—T.
[461] Collonna-Ceccaldi was Mayor of Vescovato and father-in-law to General Franceschetti.—T.
[462] General Dominique César Franceschetti (1776-1835) was severely wounded, when fighting by Murat's side in the Pizzo Expedition, and taken prisoner. He was afterwards amnestied by King Ferdinand I.—T.
[463] Colonel Francis Maceroni, or de Macirone (1787-1846), was born near Manchester, of a family of Roman origin, and was sent to Naples to complete his education. Here he was kept a prisoner of war, as a British subject, from 1806 till the advent of Murat in 1808. The new King took him into favour, made him his aide-de-camp and employed him in his negociations with England. After Murat's departure from Corsica, Maceroni returned to France, where he was arrested and not released before the British Ambassador had made repeated representations on his behalf. He fought as a soldier of fortune in the South American Wars of Independence (1817) and in Spain (1823). His later years were spent in invention, notably of the famous Maceroni steam-carriage.—T.
[464] Napoleon set foot on St. Helena on the 15th of October 1815.—B.
[465] The portraits consisted of an engraved cornelian seal with his wife's likeness and a miniature of the features of his four children.—T.
[466] Pius VII. made his solemn entry into Rome on the 25th of May 1814.—B.
[467] This description occurs in that portion of the Memoirs, devoted to the life of Napoleon, which has been omitted.—T.