CAGLIARI, SARDINIA. Drawn by W. Westall, A.R.A. My next stage is Cagliari, in Sardinia, where I shall be presented to his majesty. I have a most superb uniform as a court dress, indispensable in travelling."-Life of Byron, vol. i. p. 284. Letter dated Gibraltar, Aug. 1809. Ar that time the Court existed only at Cagliari, the capital of the island of Sardinia-the sole territory to which the dominion .of the King of Sardinia was then reduced. Napoleon had driven him from his possessions on the continent, and converted Savoy and Piedmont into numerous departments; among these were Leman, Mont Blanc, Marengo, the Stura, the Sesia, the Doire, and the Po; and Turin had shrunk into the insignificance of being only the chief place of the latter. These departments were incorporated with France! and the subjects of his Majesty of Sardinia had been reduced from nearly five millions, to five hundred thousand! "Our passage to Sardinia," says Galt, in his "Life of Lord Byron," "was tardy, owing to calms; but, in K |