The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 209
peror of Russia gave him adiamond box worth two thousand five hundred pounds.The King of Naples made him a present to the amount,together with the Dukedom of Bronte and an estate, ofthree thousand per annum. Thus all Europe conspiredto testify the estimation in which they held this distin-guished… … DUKE OF ORLEANS. It is ever with some regret that we see enrolledamong the number of illustrious personages those who,devoid of talents and of virtue, have been able only toacquire celebrity by guilt; especially when inheritingexalted rank, they rendered themselves particularlydistinguished by the…
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