THE BROKEN TOWER, HEIDELBERG.

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THIS picturesque mass of ruins is situated at the South-Eastern angle of the castle. It forms a melancholy memorialof the conquest of Louis XIV, who, on the ground of themarriage of the Duke of Orleans with the Elector LouisCharles’s daughter, laid claim to the whole Palatinate. Thepretentions of the French monarch being disputed, a formidablearmy was sent to enforce them, and the completion of itstriumph was marked by the barbarous demolition of the Castleof Heidelberg, one of the most sumptuous palaces in Europe.