count of Savoy, succeeded his father Lewis, in his dominion and honours. The prince who exerts his talents to promote the happiness of his subjects, is worthy of more fame than the prince who increases the number of his subjects by unjust and unnecessary wars. In this view Amadeus IX. deserves a place in the annals of his nation. His bodily constitution was weak, and he was afflicted with the falling-sickness, yet, in consequence of his piety, virtue, benevolence, and justice, he was surnamed the Happy. The clemency of his temper was such that he readily pardoned those who offended him, and in few instances was he induced to punish. In his character, however, the virtue of benevolence shone with peculiar splendour among the other virtues of the Christian. A foreign minister one day used the freedom to inquire at Amadeus, if he kept any hounds. The duke replied, "a great number, and you shall see them to-morrow at noon." The minister attended at that hour in expectation of seeing a numerous pack of hounds; but the duke led him to a window which looked into an extensive square, and directing his view to a multitude of poor people eating and drinking, he exclaimed, "These are my hounds, with whom I go in chase of heaven." In all these pious and benevolent labours he was seconded by his wife Isolande of France. When one of his parsimonious courtiers reminded him that he would spend all his revenues, he generously replied, "Here is the collar of my order, let them sell it and relieve my people." In the seventh year of his reign, and the thirty-seventh of his life, he died universally lamented by all his loyal subjects, in the year 1472. In high esteem for his virtuous qualities, his subjects conferred on him the appellation of The Blessed. (Mod. Univ. Hist.).