Chapter 1

ILLUSTRATIONS

ALFIERI AND THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY

_From the original portrait in the possession of the Marchesa A. Alfieri de Sostegno_

CHARLES EDWARD STUART

_From a pastel, painter unknown, once in the possession of the heir of the Countess of Albany's heir Fabre. Now in the possession of Mrs. Horace Walpole, of Heckfield Place, Winchfield, Hants_

LOUISE, COUNTESS OF ALBANY

_From a pastel once in the possession of the heirs of Fabre, now in the possession of Mrs. Horace Walpole, of Heckfield Place, Winchfield, Hants._

THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY.