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Carlos's insane acts fresh proof of reversional heredity. This 

 same observation was made at the time by the Venetian 

 ambassadors. ' He has been suffering almost uninterruptedly 

 during the past three years from quartan fever, attended at 

 times by mental alienation a thing the more worthy of note, 

 inasmuch as he seems to have inherited this disorder from 

 his grandfather and great grandmother.' 



CONDE. Of the family of Conde we will speak hereafter. 



COLBERT, Jean-Baptiste. The family of this celebrated minister 



reckoned several distinguished members ; 

 His brother, Charles, statesman and diplomatist ; 

 His son, Jean-Baptiste, commanded the expedition against 



Genoa, in 1684 ; 

 Another son, Jacques, archbishop, member of the French 



Academy ; 

 A nephew, Charles's son, diplomatist. 



CORNELIA (the Gens Cornelia). This family, which we shall 

 meet again under the head of the Scipios, reckoned from 

 P. Cornelius Scipio, Magister Equitum in 396, to Scipio 

 Nasica, who died in 56, without issue, nineteen consuls, one 

 dictator, two tribunes (the Gracchi), two quaestors, one sedile, 

 one censor, two magistri equitum. To this family belongs 

 the famous Sylla. 



CROMWELL. His direct descendants are mediocre ; but we may 

 mention with him two collaterals the patriot Hampden, 

 uncle's son to Oliver; and Edmond Waller, the poet, 

 Hampden's nephew. 



DISRAELI, Benjamin, novelist, Prime Minister of England in 



1868; 

 Hisfat/ier, Isaac, author of Cttriosities of Literature, etc. 



FLAVIA (the Gens Flavia) had for its principal representatives 

 Vespasian, Titus. Domitian. Vespasian's avarice was here- 

 ditary. ' The founder of this family was a Cisalpine, Petro 

 by name, a centurion under Pompey, who afterwards called 

 himself Titus Flavins Petronius, and became a banker's clerk. 

 His son, Flavins Sabinus, a tax collector in Asia, afterwards 

 followed the trade of a usurer in Helvetia. One of his sons 

 was Vespasianus, Proconsul of Africa. He bought, and sold 



