After having been for nearly two years the favourite of public opinion, and the _lion_ of Europe, he found himself obliged to quit the Quirinal palace at a moment's notice.

At Gaeta and Portici he tasted those lingering hours which sour the spirit of the exile.

A grand and time-honoured principle, of which the legitimacy is not doubtful to him, was violated in his person.

His advisers unanimously said to him: "It is your own fault.

You have endangered the monarchy by your ideas of progress.