Beautiful The city lies along the ample vale, Cathedral, tower and palace, piazza and street, The river trailing like a silver cord Through all, and curling loosely, both before And after, over the whole stretch of land Sown whitely up and down its opposite slopes With farms and villas.' Miss Blagden's villa was the Villa Bricchieri, which is alluded to elsewhere in the letters.
[55] A line or two has been cut off the bottom of the sheet at this place.
[56] The _Elements of Drawing_.
[57] Orsini's attempt on the life of the Emperor Napoleon on January 14, 1858.
[58] Referring to the Conspiracy Bill introduced by Lord Palmerston after the Orsini conspiracy against Napoleon in January 1858, and to the outcry against it, as an act of subservience to France, which led to Palmerston's fall.

Count Walewski was the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, and his despatch, alluded to below, called the attention of the English Government to the shelter afforded by England to conspirators of the type of Orsini.
[59] A bust of the child, by Monroe.
[60] Miss Hosmer.
[61] The fourth edition, in which several alterations were made..