[111] The treaty was concluded at Paris, on the 15th May. For a copy of it, see Annual Register, vol. xxxviii., p. 262.

[112] Victor Amadeus died of apoplexy, in the following October, and was succeeded by his son, Charles Emanuel.

[113] See Correspondence Inédite, tom. i., p. 85.

[114] See the speech in the Moniteur, No. 233, 12th May.

[115] Montholon, tom. iii., p. 162.

[116]

"—procul obscuros colles humilemque videmus
Italiam. Italiam! primus conclamat Achates;
Italiam! læto socii clamore salutant."

Virg. Æneid, Book III.—S.

"Now every star before Aurora flies,
Whose glowing blushes streak the purple skies;
When the dim hills of Italy we view'd,
That peep'd by turns, and dived beneath the flood,
Lo! Italy appears, Achates cries,
And, Italy! with shouts the crowd replies."

Dryden.