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Rh doubt not that we shall live to see, in the judgement of all right-minded persons, Garibaldi and Walker classed together as filibusters; distinguished, at first, not by their guilt, but by their success; and at last, I trust, distinguished neither by the one nor the other. I doubt not that we shall live to hear the noble defence of Gaeta, the almost romantic courage of its King and Queen, the unshaken loyalty of its defenders classed with the heroism of Platæa and Saragossa. And there, as everywhere, may either now defend, or in His own good time restore, the right!

Jan. 29, 1861

Circumstances, unnecessary to be stated, have kept back the following pages longer than I had intended.

I have to express my regret that I have not hreceived the plan of Aquileia referred to at p. 47; and have therefore omitted the Appendix. I am sorry that, from my far greater familiarity with Portuguese than with Italian, some names of Saints, in the accounts of churches, are spelt as they would be in the former language. I should mention, that part of Chapter VIII has already appeared in the pages of an Ecclesiastical Review.

It will be a sufficient gratification to me if I shall be thought by ecclesiologists (and especially by my valued friends and fellow-students the