aughter of Alexis I., wrote the
_Alexiad_, a history of her father's reign.]

[263] [Zonaras (_Annales_, B 240), lib. viii. cap. 26, A 4. Venice,
1729.]

[264] [See _English Bards, etc._, line 877: _Poems_, 1898, i. 366, _note
1._]

[265] {203} [For Vely Pacha, the son of Ali Pacha, Vizier of the Morea,
see _Letters_, 1898, i. 248, note 1.]

[266] [The Caimacam was the deputy or lieutenant of the grand Vizier.]

[267] [Scott published "_Sir Tristrem, a Metrical Romance of the
Thirteenth Century_, by Thomas of Ercildoun," in 1804.]

[268] [Captain Lismahago, a paradoxical and pedantic Scotchman, the
favoured suitor of Miss Tabitha Bramble, in Smollett's _Expedition of
Humphry Clinker_.]

[269] {204} [Sir William Drummond (1780?-1828) published, _inter alia_,
_A Review of the Government of Athens and Sparta_, in 1795; and
_Herculanensia, an Archaeological and Philological Dissertation
containing a Manuscript found at Herculaneum_, in conjunction with the
Rev. Robert Walpole (see letter to Harness, December 8, 1811. See
_Letters_, 1898, ii. 79, note 3).

For Aberdeen and Hamilton, see _English Bards, etc._, line 509:
_Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 336, note 2, and _Childe Harold_, Canto II.
supplementary stanzas, _ibid._, ii. 108.

Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. (1769-1822), published _Travels in Various
Countries_, 1810-1823 (_vide ante_, p. 172, note 7).

For Leake, _vide ante_, p. 174, note 1.

For Gell, see _English Bards, etc._, line 1034, note 1: _Poetical
Works_, 1898, i. 379.

The Rev. Robert Walpole (1781-1856), in addition to his share in
_Herculanensia_, completed the sixth volume of Clarke's _Travels_, which
appeared in 1823.]

[270] {205} [Compare English Bards, etc., line 655, note 2: _Poetical
Works_, 1898, i. 349.]

[271] [The judge of a town or village--the Spanish _alcalde_.--_N. Eng.
Dict._, art. "Cadi."]

[272] {206} [Mouradja D'Ohsson (1740-1804), an Armenian by birth, spent
many years at Constantinople as Swedish envoy. He published at Paris
(1787-90, two vols. fol.) his _Tableau general de l'empire Othoman_, a
work still regarded as the chief authority on the subject.]

[273] ["Effendi," derived from the Greek [Greek: au)the/ntes], through
the Romaic [Greek: a)phe/ntes], an "absolute master," is a title borne
by distinguished civilians.

The Spanish order of St. James of Compostella was founded circ. A.D.
1170.]

[274] {207} [The "Nizam Gedidd," or new ordinance, which aimed at
rem