[588] The Comte de Montbel (cf. p. 81, n. 5, supra), who was Minister of the Interior and, later, Minister of Finance in the Polignac Cabinet, published, in 1833, a Notice sur la vie du duc de Reichstadt.—B.
[589] Cf. Vol. IV. p. 138, n. 4.—T.
[590] The "Royalist Butcher." Cf. Vol. I. p. 109, n. 2.—T.
[591] João de Castro (1500-1548) was Portuguese Governor of India, in 1545, and won several signal victories over the natives. He was as upright as he was brave; he died poor and was buried at the expense of the public. He is said to have offered to pledge his mustachios in exchange for a loan from the merchants of Goa; but the merchants were satisfied with his word.—T.
[592] "This is the famed Battle of Prag; fought May 6th, 1757; which sounded through all the world, and used to deafen us in drawing-rooms within man's memory." (Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Book XVIII., Chap, II.)-T.
[593] The Comte de Chambord was destined to spend over fifty years more in Austria: he died at Frohsdorf, about thirty miles from Vienna, on the 24th of August 1883.—T.
[594] Jan Sigismund Boncza Skrzynecki (1786-1860) served in the Polish contingent in aid of Napoleon; joined in the Polish Insurrection in 1830; served with distinction at Grochow, on the 25th of February 1831, and was appointed commander-in-chief on the next day. He defeated the Russians at Warwe and Dembe in March and at Iganie on the 8th of April; but his nominal victory at Ostrolenka (26 May 1831) was tantamount to a defeat, owing to his subsequent inaction, and he was superseded in August. He fled to Bohemia and lived in Prague until Leopold I. placed him in command of the Belgian Army. In 1839, the representations of Russia, Austria and Prussia compelled him to lay down this command. General Skrzynecki continued to live in Brussels until 1859, when he obtained leave to settle in Cracovia. He died in the month of January of the following year.—T.
[595] Johann Rudolf Count von Chotkowa and Wognin (1748-1824) was Grand Burgrave of Bohemia from 1802 to 1805.—T.
[596] Anglicè, in the original.—T.
[597] Mémoires du maréchal de Bassompierre, Vol. I. p. 326 et seq.—B.