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256 and luxurious city wanted some little variety; and the minister (your great men have each their weak point) supported a favourite actress in the range of first-rate characters in the Opera—supported her against the united musical opinion of Naples. One night she sang worse than ever; and the next morning half the city rose up, demanding liberty and a new prima donna. A body of the lazzaroni also insisted on a lower price for lemonade, for the revolutionary movement was not serious enough for macaroni. At this moment Don Henriquez arrived. It was too tempting an opportunity to be missed. He placed himself at the head of a company of people, who were prepared to do some great thing, though as yet they had not determined what. He drove back a body of soldiers, who, being disturbed in their morning's sleep, were scarce awake—saw at once the commanding position of St. Valerie—prepared to take possession of the hill—and sent Giulio to Pachetti's for five hundred ducats. He met with some slight opposition from a few straggling troops; but made good his post. Unluckily, the porch of the door-way caught fire: this led to an incursion into the garden, and the result