Chapter XVII: Appendix

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[THE following is the correspondence relative to the exclusion of the Princess of Wales from the Queen’s Drawing-room, to which reference is made at the end of the first and commencement of this volume:]

LETTER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE
PRINCE REGENT.

“SIR,—I am once more reluctantly compelled to address your Royal
Highness, and to enclose, for your inspection, copies of a note
which I have had the honour to receive from the Queen, and of the
answer which I have thought it my duty to return to her Majesty. It
would be in vain for me to inquire into the reasons of the alarming
declaration made by your Royal Highness, that you have taken the
fixed and unalterable determination never to meet me, upon any
occasion, either in public or private. Of these, your Royal Highness
is pleased to state yourself to be the only judge. You will perceive
by my answer to her Majesty, that I have only been restrained by
motives of personal consideration towards her Majesty, from
exercising my right of appearing before her Majesty at the public
drawing-rooms to be held in the ensuing month.

“But, Sir, lest it should be by possibility supposed that the words
of your Royal Highness can convey any insinuation from which I
shrink, I am bound to demand of your Royal Highness, what
circumstances can justify the proceedings you have thus thought fit
to adopt?

“I owe it to myself, to my daughter, and to the nation, to which I
am deeply indebted for the vindication of my honour, to remind your
Royal Highness of what you know: that after open persecution and
mysterious inquiries, upon undefined charges, the malice of my
enemies fell entirely upon themselves; and that I was restored by
the King, with the advice of his Ministers, to the full enjoyment of
my rank in his court, upon my complete acquittal. Since his
Majesty’s lamented illness, I have demanded, in the face of
Parliament and the country, to be proved guilty or to be treated as
innocent. I have been declared innocent; I will not submit to be
treated as guilty.

“Sir, your Royal Highness may possibly refuse to read this letter.
But the world must know that I have written it: and they will see my
real motives for foregoing, in this instance, the rights of my rank.
Occasions, however, may arise (one, I trust, is far distant) when I
must appear in public, and your Royal Highness must be present also.
Can your Royal Highness have contemplated the full extent of your
declaration? Has your Royal Highness forgotten the approaching
marriage of our daughter, and the possibility of our coronation?

“I waive my rights in a case where I am not absolutely bound to
assert them, in order to relieve the Queen, as far as I can, from
the painful situation in which she is placed by your Royal Highness;
not from any consciousness of blame, not from any doubt of the
existence of those rights, or of my own worthiness to enjoy them.

“Sir, the time you have selected for this proceeding is calculated
to make it peculiarly galling. Many illustrious strangers are
already arrived in England; among others, as I am informed, the
illustrious heir of the House of Orange, who has announced himself
to me as my future son-in-law. From their society I am unjustly
excluded. Others are expected of rank equal to your own, to rejoice
with your Royal Highness in the peace of Europe. My daughter will,
for the first time, appear in the splendour and publicity becoming
the approaching nuptials of the presumptive Heiress of this Empire.
This season your Royal Highness has chosen for treating me with
fresh and unprovoked indignity: and of all his Majesty’s subjects, I
alone am prevented by your Royal Highness from appearing in my place
to partake of the general joy, and am deprived of the indulgence in
those feelings of pride and affection permitted to every mother but
me.

“I am, Sir,

“Your Royal Highness’s

“Faithful wife,

“CAROLINE P.”

“CONNAUGHT HOUSE, MAY 26, 1814.”

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(_Enclosures._)

THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

“Windsor Castle, May 23, 1814.

“The Queen considers it to be her duty to lose no time in
acquainting the Princess of Wales, that she has received a
communication from her son, the Prince Regent, in which he states,
that her Majesty’s intention of holding two drawing-rooms in the
ensuing month having been notified to the public, he must declare
that he considers that his own presence at her court cannot be
dispensed with; and that he desires it may be distinctly understood,
for reasons of which he alone can be the judge, to be his fixed and
unalterable determination not to meet the Princess of Wales upon any
occasion, either in public or private.

“The Queen is thus placed under the painful necessity of intimating
to the Princess of Wales the impossibility of her Majesty’s
receiving her Royal Highness at her drawing-rooms.

“CHARLOTTE R.”

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ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUEEN.

“MADAM,—I have received the letter which your Majesty has done me
the honour to address to me, prohibiting my appearance at the public
drawing-rooms which will be held by your Majesty in the ensuing
month, with great surprise and regret.

“I will not presume to discuss with your Majesty topics which must
be as painful to your Majesty as to myself.

“Your Majesty is well acquainted with the affectionate regard with
which the King was so kind as to honour me up to the period of his
Majesty’s indisposition, which no one of his Majesty’s subjects has
so much cause to lament as myself: and that his Majesty was
graciously pleased to bestow upon me the most unequivocal and
gratifying proof of his attachment and approbation, by his public
reception of me at his court at a season of severe and unmerited
affliction, when his protection was most necessary to me. There I
have since uninterruptedly paid my respects to your Majesty. I am
now without appeal or protection. But I cannot so far forget my duty
to the King, and to myself, as to surrender my right to appear at
any public drawing-room to be held by your Majesty.

“That I may not, however, add to the difficulty and uneasiness of
your Majesty’s situation, I yield in the present instance to the
will of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, announced to me by
your Majesty, and shall not present myself at the drawing-rooms of
the next month.

“It would be presumptuous in me to attempt to inquire of your
Majesty the reasons of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent for this
harsh proceeding, of which his Royal Highness can alone be the
judge. I am unconscious of offence; and in that reflection I must
endeavour to find consolation for all the mortifications I
experience; even for this, the last, the most unexpected, and the
most severe; the prohibition given to me alone, to appear before
your Majesty, to offer my congratulations upon the happy termination
of those calamities with which Europe has been so long afflicted, in
the presence of the illustrious personages who will in all
probability be assembled at your Majesty’s court, with whom I am so
closely connected by birth and marriage.

“I beseech your Majesty to do me an act of justice, to which, in the
present circumstances, your Majesty is the only person competent, by
acquainting those illustrious strangers with the motives of personal
consideration towards your Majesty which alone induce me to abstain
from the exercise of my right to appear before your Majesty: and
that I do now, as I have done at all times, defy the malice of my
enemies to fix upon me the shadow of any one imputation which could
render me unworthy of their society or regard.

“Your Majesty will, I am sure, not be displeased that I should
relieve myself from a suspicion of disrespect towards your Majesty,
by making public the cause of my absence from court at a time when
the duties of my station would otherwise peculiarly demand my
attendance.

“I have the honour to be,

“Your Majesty’s most obedient

“Daughter-in-law and servant,

“P. CAROLINE.

“Connaught House, May 24, 1814.”

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THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

“Windsor Castle, May 25, 1814.

“The Queen has received, this afternoon, the Princess of Wales’s
letter of yesterday, in reply to the communication which she was
desired by the Prince Regent to make to her; and she is sensible of
the disposition expressed by her Royal Highness, not to discuss with
her topics which must be painful to both.

“The Queen considers it incumbent upon her to send a copy of the
Princess of Wales’s letter to the Prince Regent; and her Majesty
could have felt no hesitation in communicating to the illustrious
strangers who may possibly be present at her court, the
circumstances which will prevent the Princess of Wales from
appearing there, if her Royal Highness had not rendered a compliance
with her wish to this effect unnecessary, by intimating her
intention of making public the cause of her absence.

“CHARLOTTE R.”

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THE ANSWER OF THE PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUEEN.

“The Princess of Wales has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
a note from the Queen, dated yesterday; and begs permission to
return her best thanks to her Majesty, for her gracious
condescension in the willingness expressed by her Majesty to have
communicated to the illustrious strangers, who will in all
probability be present at her Majesty’s court, the reasons which
have induced her Royal Highness not to be present.

“Such communication, as it appears to her Royal Highness, cannot be
the less necessary on account of any publicity which it may be in
the power of her Royal Highness to give to her motives; and the
Princess of Wales, therefore, entreats the active good offices of
her Majesty, upon an occasion wherein the Princess of Wales feels it
so essential to her that she should not be misunderstood.

“CAROLINE, P.

“Connaught Place, May 26.”

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THE QUEEN TO THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

“The Queen cannot omit to acknowledge the receipt of the
Princess of Wales’s note, of yesterday, although it does not
appear to her Majesty to require any other reply than that
conveyed to her Royal Highness’s preceding letter.

“CHARLOTTE, R.”

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DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

[The following details of the Princess’s death are taken from a
letter, addressed by Mr. H. F. Cooke to Mr. Thomas Raikes (under
date November 6, 1817), and published in the interesting volume
entitled “Correspondence of Thomas Raikes with the Duke of
Wellington and other Distinguished Contemporaries.”]

“The Princess Charlotte’s death has caused a general gloom
throughout the country. The particulars of this truly melancholy
event will be made known to you through the papers, with all the
accuracy of official report.

“There are some few circumstances as attending the death of this
interesting woman that may not find their way abroad; for
example, the courage with which she suffered, and the
resignation which she displayed in death.

“The faculty of mind never abandoned her. She asked, about an
hour previous to death, whether there was any danger: the
difficulty of breathing from about that time prevented her
speaking much. When Baillie and Croft administered brandy, hot
wine, sal-volatile, &c., she said, ‘You make me drunk. Pray
leave me quiet. I find it affects my head.’ And shortly after
this, raising herself in the bed, she heaved a deep sigh, fell
back, and expired.

“The act of dying was not painful. There certainly must have
been spasm, but I have not heard that it was at the heart.
Neither do I believe the family conceived that she was in
danger, even an hour before she died. It is a blow which the
nation really appears to feel acutely, as much as it is possible
to suppose the fate of any one not materially connected with one
could be felt.

“The Regent is terribly shook by this blow; so unexpected that
he was completely overset when he was told of it.

“He had left Sudbourn upon hearing of the protracted labour, but
was in London informed that the child was dead and she
remarkably well.”

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FOOTNOTES.

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Footnote 1:

“Aware of this unnatural rebellion, the Royal parent, as might be
expected, became anxious to ascertain the description of persons by
whom his daughter was immediately surrounded, and by means of one of
the most pious and virtuous characters of the land, it was soon
discovered that many of her associates were persons possessing
pernicious sentiments alike hostile to the peace of the daughter, the
father, and the country. Under these circumstances there was but one
safe or advisable course to pursue; the determination was prompt, and
the whole of the obnoxious associates were dismissed by order of the
Regent from Warwick House.”—_Morning Post_, July 14, 1814.

Footnote 2:

“The Princess Charlotte came to town on Saturday, attended by her
ladies-in-waiting, in the Prince Regent’s open carriage and four,
with three of the Prince Regent’s footmen as outriders, to visit the
Princess of Wales at Connaught House, and after dinner, her Royal
Highness returned to Cranbourne Lodge. This visit was to take leave
previous to the Princess of Wales leaving town for Worthing, where
her Royal Highness has taken a house. It is said that the Princess
of Wales does not return to London from thence, but proceeds from
that place to leave England for a short time to visit her native
country. The Princess Charlotte’s visit to Connaught House was
occasioned by a message of the Princess of Wales to the Minister,
stating that she intended to go to Cranbourne Lodge to see her
daughter, and expected to be admitted. The answer was, that the
Princess Charlotte would be allowed to come to Connaught House on
Saturday. Miss Mercer was allowed to go to Cranbourne Lodge to visit
the Princess Charlotte on Sunday, and to remain with her Royal
Highness till to-morrow.”—_Morning Chronicle_, July 26, 1814.

“Sompting Abbey, Sussex. July 29, 1814.... I saw Princess Charlotte on
Saturday, two days before I set out; she seems much more calm and
resigned to her prison at Cranbourne Lodge than I expected. She is to
go afterwards to the sea-side. Warwick House is to be demolished, and
a new wing built to Carlton House; and the Regent is to remove to the
Duke of Cumberland’s apartments in St. James’s Palace.”—_Extract of
Letter from Princess of Wales, given in Lady Campbell’s Diary_, vol.
i.

Footnote 3:

“The Princess of Wales arrived at her house near Worthing on Tuesday
night, and next evening she walked to Worthing, accompanied by her
lady-in-waiting and attendants. Chairs were immediately placed on the
beach, where her Royal Highness sat two hours. The moonbeams danced on
the waves, and the pleasure-boats glided at her feet, forming a most
delightful scene. The company is now select and numerous, and the
packet which regularly sails to and from Dieppe is a great
convenience, as it enables parties to drink champagne at Worthing in
the evening, and old port on the French coast the next
morning.”—_Morning Chronicle_, August 3, 1814.

Footnote 4:

“We understand that Princess Charlotte is going this day to Cranbourne
Lodge, from whence, we trust, she will be permitted to repair to the
sea-coast, bathing having been recommended by three eminent
professional men as indispensably necessary for her general health, as
well as for a local affection in the knee. Health and peace be with
her!”—_Morning Chronicle_, August 18, 1814.

Footnote 5:

“The removal of the Princess Charlotte from Cranbourne Lodge to the
King’s house at Weymouth is expected to take place this day or
to-morrow. Her Royal Highness will be accompanied by the Countesses of
Ilchester and Rosslyn, the Misses Coutts (Coates), Mrs. Campbell,
General Garth, Major Price,” &c.—_Morning Chronicle_, August 24.

The names of General Garth and Major Price will be familiar to the
readers of Madame D’Arblay’s Diary, with whom the Major was an
especial favourite.

Footnote 6:

The fourth Viscount Ashbrook. Lady Ashbrook, his second wife, was
sister of the late Lord Metcalfe, and daughter of Sir Theophilus
Metcalfe, Bart.

Footnote 7:

The following are the letters to which Miss Knight refers:—

“MY DEAREST MADAM,—To suffer the 7th January to pass entirely
without notice is a self-denial of which I do not feel myself
capable, although I have not ventured to ask permission for paying
my personal respects.

“That every blessing may attend your Royal Highness, in this and
many succeeding years, is the constant, and will be among the
latest, prayers of

“My dearest madam,

“Your Royal Highness’s

“Most dutifully attached servant.”

“To H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte.”

“MY DEAR MADAM,—The liberty I take in enclosing a letter for
Princess Charlotte, merely to offer my dutiful respects, will, I
trust, be mitigated by the assurance that I leave it entirely to
the discretion of your Royal Highness whether it should be given
or not.

“Nothing can ever alter the sentiments of respectful attachment
with which I have the honour to be,

“My dear madam,

“Your Royal Highness’s

“Most obliged and obedient servant.

“To H.R.H. the Princess Mary.”

Footnote 8:

“Madame de Lieven is a Livonian by birth, and is remarkable for the
distinction of her appearance as well as for her general talents. She
is the only foreigner who was ever made a patroness of Almack’s, into
the tracasseries of which establishment she entered very cordially,
and as her manner at times is tinctured with a certain degree of
hauteur, she has not failed to make many enemies. Madame de Lieven is,
however, in every sense of the word, a _très grande dame_, and has
formed friendships and intimacies with the highest persons of all
parties in England.”—_Raikes’s Journal_, vol. i.

Footnote 9:

See extract in Appendix from the Duke of Buckingham’s “Memoirs of the
Regency.”

Footnote 10:

March 9th, but it was subsequently postponed to the 13th, on which
occasion Miss Knight was present, and her dress is thus described in
the _Morning Post_ of the following day:—“A petticoat of white satin
with draperies of peach-blossom silver gauze, most tastefully disposed
with silver trimming, which formed a lacing between each to display
the petticoat underneath, and ornamented with silver cords and
tassels. Robe to correspond, trimmed with point lace. Head-dress,
feathers, and diamonds.”

Footnote 11:

Mr. Robinson’s bill to prohibit the importation of corn, except for
bonding purposes, until the average price of wheat had reached 80_s._
a quarter.

Footnote 12:

Probably the Duke of Cumberland, whose marriage with the Dowager
Princess of Salms was several times announced in the _Morning
Chronicle_—and it did ultimately take place.

Footnote 13:

“The Princess of Wales has asked for a ship of war to convey her home
to Great Britain from Naples, and has been informed that no vessel
could be conveniently spared at this time from the Mediterranean
station to accommodate her Royal Highness.”—_Morning Chronicle_,
February 25.

Footnote 14:

Prince Castelcicala died at Paris of cholera in 1832, at which time he
was Neapolitan Ambassador at the Court of France. He was in the
eightieth year of his age, and “had long been known,” pleasantly
observes Mr. Raikes, “for his self-indulgent mode of life.”

Footnote 15:

On the occasion of the chairing of Mr. Barclay, who was compelled to
take refuge in the Horns Tavern, Kennington. The tumult arose from a
misapprehension with respect to Mr. Barclay’s vote on the Corn-law
Question.

Footnote 16:

Widow of Mr. Perceval, the Prime Minister, assassinated by Bellingham,
May 11, 1812.

Footnote 17:

It was said, because the rooms were being gilded and redecorated.

Footnote 18:

“The new favourite grand ballet composed by Monsieur A. Vestris,
entitled, ‘Le Prince Troubadour, ou la Double Epreuve.’ The music by
F. Venua.”—The plot was taken from the opera of “Joconde,” and the
principal performers were the two Vestrises, M. Baptiste, Mesdames
Leon and Del Caro, and Mademoiselle Mélanie. It was highly praised in
the morning papers.

Footnote 19:

Son and daughter of the Countess Charleville, by her first husband,
James Tisdall, Esq.

Footnote 20:

Lord Ellenborough’s, in Saint James’s-square; Lord Eldon’s, in
Bedford-square; Mr. Robinson’s, in Burlington-street; Lord Darnley’s,
in Berkeley-square; Mr. Yorke’s, in Bruton-street.

Footnote 21:

Mr. Robinson, as proposer of the Corn Regulations, was especially
obnoxious to the mob. The railings in front of his house were torn up,
the windows and parlour shutters demolished, and the street door split
open. Some soldiers who were in the house then fired into the street
at random, and a man fell shot through the head. From the buttons on
his coat it was conjectured that he was a naval officer; he proved to
be a midshipman, named Edward Vyse—several other persons being
wounded.

Footnote 22:

In addition to the household troops, the 10th Dragoons occupied the
King’s Mews, the 16th Dragoons the Queen’s Riding-house, the 5th
Dragoon Guards were at Romford, the 7th Hussars at Putney, the 18th in
Lambeth, the 5th Foot at Knightsbridge, and the South Lincoln Militia
in the Tower.

Footnote 23:

The attack on New Orleans on the 8th January, when the British were
repulsed, with the loss of 2454 men, killed, wounded, and made
prisoners.

Footnote 24:

“March 8.—They next proceeded to Mr. Ponsonby’s house, No. 19, in
Curzon-street, May-Fair, with their numbers increasing on their way.
On their arrival at Mr. Ponsonby’s, they presented a very formidable
force. They instantly commenced a furious attack upon the house,
demolished the windows, and broke the iron palisades in front. During
this, some firing began from the inside of the house, through the
door, while the mob were endeavouring to break it open. The door is
much injured by the bullets which were fired through it, but we have
not heard that any person was hurt. The house of Mr. Quentin Dick,
next door to Mr. Ponsonby’s, is also considerably injured from the
misdirection of the stone-throwers. In a few minutes the cavalry made
their appearance, and the populace immediately dispersed in various
directions.”—_Annual Register_, 1814, p. 23.

Footnote 25:

The French Ambassador, M. de la Châtre, in a letter to the editor of
the _Anti-Gallican_, denied that M. Rayneval was ever private
secretary to Caulincourt. He was merely chargé d’affaires at St.
Petersburg until the arrival of the latter. The editor, Mr. Goldsmith,
rejoined that, however that might be, M. Rayneval was with Caulincourt
at Châtillon, and remained with him until Napoleon’s abdication,
adding, “in fact, it was M. Rayneval who drew up the treaty of
Fontainebleau.”

Footnote 26:

This “man” was the celebrated pianist Frederick Kalkbrenner, son of
the equally well-known composer, Christian Kalkbrenner. Frederick
Kalkbrenner visited London for the first time in 1814, and excited the
greatest enthusiasm, eclipsing even the long-established reputation of
Cramer. He resided in England ten years, and made a very handsome
fortune.

Footnote 27:

The first notice of this event was received by Mr. Rothschild, who
immediately sold out stock to the amount of 600,000_l._ before the
news was generally known.

Footnote 28:

The Chancellor, Lord Eldon, lived at No. 6, which was attacked by the
mob on the 6th, the iron railings torn up, and every pane of glass and
much furniture broken and destroyed. The windows being broken, it was
facetiously remarked that his Lordship at last kept open house. The
mob was kept at bay by a party of soldiers sent from the British
Museum, until a troop of the Horse Guards arrived and cleared the
square.

Footnote 29:

“Napoleon Bonaparte is declared a traitor and a rebel for having
appeared with arms in his hands in the Department of the Var.”—_Art.
IV. of the Ordonnance du Roi._

Footnote 30:

Richard II., Mr. Kean; John of Gaunt, Mr. Pope; Bolingbroke, Mr.
Elliston; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. Rae; the Queen, Mrs. Bartley.

Footnote 31:

“‘Messieurs,’ said the King, ‘you see me suffering, but do not deceive
yourselves: it is not disquietude, but gout which causes it. Assure
your Sovereigns, with respect to what is passing in France, that the
repose of Europe will be no more disturbed than that of
France.’”—_Morning Chronicle_, March 13, 1815.

Footnote 32:

General Clarke, Duc de Feltre, formerly war minister under the
Emperor.

Footnote 33:

“Four persons literally carried his Lordship out of the House, he,
however, kicking and struggling somewhat violently.”—_Morning
Chronicle_, March 22, 1815.

Footnote 34:

Louis XVIII. left Paris at 8 P.M. of the 19th, and slept at Abbeville
on the 20th. Napoleon entered Paris at 9 P.M. on the 20th.

Footnote 35:

This was not the case. Lord Fitzroy Somerset left Paris with the King.

Footnote 36:

Madame Adelaide.

Footnote 37:

Colonel the Baron Labadayse, who reported that six thousand National
Guards and four thousand troops of the line had sworn to remain
faithful, but their defection took place a few days later.

Footnote 38:

“G. P. R.—The Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of
his Majesty, thinks it right to inform the House of Lords, that the
events which have recently occurred in France, in direct contravention
of the engagements concluded with the allied powers, at Paris, in the
month of April last, and which threaten consequences highly dangerous
to the tranquillity and independence of Europe, have induced his Royal
Highness to give directions for the augmentation of his Majesty’s land
and sea forces.

“The Prince Regent has likewise deemed it incumbent upon him to lose
no time in entering into communications with his Majesty’s allies, for
the purpose of forming such a concert as may most effectually provide
for the general and permanent security of Europe.

“And his Royal Highness confidently relies on the support of the House
of Lords in all measures which may be necessary for the accomplishment
of this important object.”

Footnote 39:

General Clausel entered Bordeaux on the 2nd April, the Duchess having
embarked at Pouillac on board an English frigate, the _Wanderer_, on
the previous day, and landed at Plymouth on the 19th.

Footnote 40:

There were two armed yachts in attendance on the Princess Charlotte at
Weymouth, the _Royal Charlotte_ and the _Royal Sovereign_.

Footnote 41:

“The lady has rather produced a dramatic poem than a regular drama.
The versification is sweet and harmonious, the sentiments just and
impressive, the images poetical, and, though not recommended by their
actual novelty, were rendered so by their dress and elegance. It was a
poem, then, which will be _read_ with delight, but which wanted
situation, incident, and passion to give it dramatic effect on the
stage.”—_Morning Chronicle_, April 24, 1815.

Mrs. Wilmot, the authoress of “Ina,” was sister of Lady Asgill, and,
therefore, first cousin of Mrs. Sheridan.

Footnote 42:

Lord Tullamore, born April 28, 1801, afterwards second Earl of
Charleville.

Footnote 43:

Born King of Rome, died Duke de Reichstadt, a colonel in the Austrian
service.

Footnote 44:

Coriolanus, Mr. Kemble; Sicinius, Mr. Barrymore; Brutus, Mr. Murray;
Volumnia, Mrs. Renaud.

Footnote 45:

“Covent Garden Theatre. The beautiful masque of ‘Comus’ was revived
last night (April 28) at this theatre with great splendour. All the
music of Handel and Arne was retained, with some additions by Bishop.
Miss Stephens sung the Echo song with the most fascinating effect.
Mrs. Liston was encored in the fine song, “By dimpled brook.” Mrs.
Faucit in The Lady, and Mr. Abbot in the Elder Brother, gave strong
effect to the beautiful poetry, and Mr. Conway was, at least, a very
grand figure in Comus. It was received throughout with rapturous
applause.”—_Morning Chronicle_, April 29.

Footnote 46:

The present Countess of Essex.

Footnote 47:

“We have great pleasure in announcing that the marriage is settled
between the Duke of Devonshire and Miss Mercer, daughter of Lord
Keith. It is to take place next week.”—_Morning Chronicle_, May 11,
1815.

Footnote 48:

“We are desired to contradict, from authority, the report of the
Honourable Miss Mercer Elphinstone’s marriage with the Duke of
Devonshire.”—_Ibid._, May 12.

Footnote 49:

“Mr. Naldi’s last concert for the season was given at the superb
mansion of Mrs. Maitland, in Grosvenor-place, on Monday last. The
numerous suite of rooms were crowded, and the splendours of the ladies
made it a grand coup d’œil. The concert was chiefly vocal, there being
only two instrumental pieces. Mr. Naldi had the assistance of Mrs.
Dickons, Mrs. Salmon, Miss Mortimer, Miss Griglietti, Mr. Braham, Mr.
Ledesma, and other artists. Miss Mortimer sang a duet, by Zingarelli,
with Mr. Ledesma, and an aria by Meyer. In these she displayed a
highly cultivated taste and extensive power of voice. Her musical
education has evidently been adapted to the theatre rather than to the
orchestra, as was manifested in the theatrical air by Meyer, which
demanded considerable execution, and in which, therefore, we were able
to distinguish the character and style of this native songster, who,
for ten years past, has performed in all the principal theatres of
Italy. She will be a great acquisition to the British stage.”—_Morning
Chronicle_, May 25, 1815.

Footnote 50:

Fifteen thousand stand of arms taken over by M. Larochejaquelin.

Footnote 51:

“The Duke de Gallo surrendered two sail of the line, and the whole
arsenal of Naples, by capitulation, to Captain Campbell, of the
_Tremendous_, on his threatening to bombard the city.”—_London
Gazette_, June 5.

Footnote 52:

“We hear the Duke of Cumberland has signified his intention of coming
to England, for a very short time, after his marriage, but that the
Duchess was not expected to accompany him on the present
occasion.”—_Morning Chronicle_, June 10.

His Royal Highness arrived in London on the 18th, and alone.

Footnote 53:

The Duke of Cumberland married a daughter of the reigning Duke of
Mecklenburg Strelitz, niece of Queen Charlotte, and widow of the
Prince Salms Brauenfels. The marriage was first solemnised at Berlin,
but owing to some informality the ceremony was repeated at Carlton
House on the 29th August, in a very private manner, the old Queen
refusing to be present.

Footnote 54:

The news of the occupation of Paris was announced by Mr. Elliston on
the 6th at the King’s Theatre, where a mixed performance was being
given for the benefit of the widows and orphans of those who fell at
Waterloo. In answer to a question, he said he had it in command from
Carlton House to announce the tidings, which were fully given in the
morning papers of the 7th.

Footnote 55:

He was found dead in his dressing-room, about 10 A.M., July 6.

Footnote 56:

Daughter of Count Dillon, guillotined at Paris in 1794 for his
adherence to the Bourbons. Her mother was the Countess Latouche, of
Martinique.

Footnote 57:

Her Royal Highness left London on the 26th July in a carriage and
four, attended by Lady Ilchester and Colonel Addenbroke, Dr. Short,
and Mrs. Campbell.

Footnote 58:

Owing to an affection of the eyes, Miss Knight discontinued her
journal until the commencement of the ensuing year.

Footnote 59:

“The morn (of January 7) was ushered in by the ringing of bells, and
preparations were making in the early part of the day for a general
illumination in the evening, in compliment to the Princess Charlotte,
whose natal day it was; but a desire was expressed that this mark of
respect and loyalty from the town might be dispensed with.”—_Morning
Post_, January 10, 1816.

There was a grand ball at the Pavilion, attended by “all the families
of rank and fashion” at Brighton.

Footnote 60:

Mr. Ward, afterwards Lord Dudley, was a great favourite with the
Princess of Wales. “How melancholy are all the recollections attached
to his name! A person endowed with such supremacy of talent and
situation, and yet so blasted by an invisible hand, that none of the
former availed to his happiness. No one, it is said (either for his
own sake, or, alas! more probably, for his brilliant position in
life), was ever more courted by the fair sex, in despite of a very
plain exterior and coarseness of manner. He was accounted one of the
most agreeable and seductive of men. The beautiful Mrs. B. was one of
those reported to have been not insensible to his attentions. Her
melancholy death was, it is said, the actual cause of finally
confirming his mental derangement.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol.
ii. p. 117.

Footnote 61:

Major-General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, Michael Bruce, Esq., and
Captain John Hely Hutchinson, were tried before the Court of Assize
for the Department of the Seine, found guilty of being accessory to
the concealment and escape of General Lavalette, and sentenced to
three months’ imprisonment. The trial took place on the 22nd of April.
In the first instance, they were accused of plotting against the
political system of Europe in general, and the French monarchy in
particular, but these charges were subsequently withdrawn.

Footnote 62:

A message was sent from the Prince Regent to each House of Parliament
on the 14th of March, announcing the forthcoming marriage of his
daughter, Princess Charlotte Augusta, with his Serene Highness Leopold
George Frederick Prince of Coburg of Saalfeld. The Commons granted the
illustrious pair the annual sum of 60,000_l._, of which 10,000_l._
were for the exclusive use of the Princess. They also voted the sums
of 40,000_l._ to purchase furniture, plate, equipages, &c., 10,000_l._
for the Princess’s dresses, and 10,000_l._ for jewels.

Footnote 63:

“Notwithstanding some disadvantages, the Princess (Charlotte) had
grown up to womanhood with many attractions, both mental and personal.
Her Royal Highness possessed, also, a nature susceptible of every
generous impression; unsuspicious and trusting, she readily became the
dupe of persons who sought for their own objects to influence her
through her sympathies, but when the influence was removed, the
natural good sense of the Princess suggested a line of conduct
becoming her sex and position. During the period when the society of
her mother was least restricted, there is nothing to prove that her
Royal Highness testified for it a very decided partiality; and it was
scarcely possible for her to have been a frequent visitor at
Blackheath and Kensington, without obtaining a knowledge that must
have circumscribed her affection. Her disposition was extremely
amiable, notwithstanding an impulsiveness that, under peculiar
provocation, may have led her on one or two occasions into error; a
pleasing proof of which was exhibited in her conduct to Lord Eldon,
after he had brought her home, subsequently to her elopement from
Warwick House. In her communications with, or observations on her
mother, after the latter had left England, there are quite sufficient
evidences of filial interest, tempered with a reserve naturally
arising out of a sense of her objectionable conduct.”—_Duke of
Buckingham’s Memoirs of the Court of the Regency_, vol. ii. p. 156.

Footnote 64:

The Princess Charlotte in 1811. “She is grown excessively, and has all
the fulness of a person of five-and-twenty. She is neither graceful
nor elegant; yet she has a peculiar air _et tous les prestiges de la
royauté et du pouvoir_. The Princess is above the middle height,
extremely spread for her age; her bosom full, but finely shaped; her
shoulders large, and her whole person voluptuous, but of a nature to
become soon spoiled; and without much care and exercise, she will
shortly lose all beauty in fat and clumsiness. Her skin is white, but
not a transparent white. There is little or no shade in her face, but
her features are very fine. Their expression, like that of her general
demeanour, is noble. Her feet are rather small, and her hands and arms
are finely moulded. She has a hesitation in her speech amounting
almost to a stammer—an additional proof, if any were wanting, of her
being her father’s own child; but in everything she is his very image.
Her voice is flexible, and its tones dulcet, except when she laughs,
then it becomes too loud, but is never unmusical. She seems to wish to
be admired more as a lovely woman than as a Queen. Yet she has
quickness both of penetration and fancy, and would fain reign
despotically, or I am much mistaken. I fear she is capricious,
self-willed, and obstinate. I think she is kind-hearted, clever, and
enthusiastic. Her faults have evidently never been checked, nor her
virtues fostered.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_, vol. i. p. 65.

Footnote 65:

“I received a visit from Miss Knight. Her presence recalled Kensington
and the poor Princess to my mind. She conversed with sense and
kindliness on these topics, but her exceeding prudence always
restrains the expression of her feelings, and she appeared averse to
dwelling on the subject. The only remark she made which struck me as
singular was that, in speaking of the King’s illness and probable
decease, she said she conceived it would be a fortunate event for the
country. Miss Knight has a very refined mind, and takes delight in
every subject connected with literature and the arts. She is
exceedingly well read, and has an excellent judgment in these
matters.... I alluded once to the poor Princess Charlotte’s death, but
Miss Knight only replied, ‘Ah, that was a melancholy event!’ and
passed on to other subjects. She did not impress me with the idea of
lamenting the Princess so much as I should have supposed she would
have done. But perhaps she may, in reality, mourn her melancholy fate,
and that she only forbears speaking of her lest she should say too
much. Certainly Miss Knight was very ill-used by the Queen and the
Regent, and I do not think Princess Charlotte liked, although she
esteemed her. Miss Knight was not sufficiently gay, or of a style of
character suited to her Royal Highness.”—_Lady C. Campbell’s Diary_,
vol. iii. p. 7.

Footnote 66:

Louis Philippe, son of Philippe l’Egalité, Duke of Orleans: afterwards
King of the French.

Footnote 67:

George Hammond, Esq., and David R. Morier, Esq., his Majesty’s
Consul-General in France, were gazetted December 20, 1815, as his
Majesty’s Commissioners of Arbitration.

Footnote 68:

Probably wife of M. de Fontanes, who translated into French Pope’s
“Essay on Man.” By the Emperor he was created Count of the Empire,
Commandant of the Legion of Honour, and Grand Master of the Imperial
University; and by Louis XVIII. he was subsequently created Peer of
France and Officer of the Legion of Honour.

Footnote 69:

Lady Morgan’s “chef d’un magasin de blanchissage” was willing to
“pardon the King much for giving ‘la nation une princesse blanche
comme la neige.’”—_Lady Morgan’s France in 1816_, vol. i. p. 105.

Footnote 70:

The Duke of Wellington occupied the Hôtel de la Regnière. “It was in
this hotel that his Grace gave a splendid ball, on the occasion of the
marriage of the Duc de Berri, which, from the circumstance of all the
guests coming fresh from the _grand couvert_ at the Tuileries in their
splendid court dresses, together with the illuminations of the hotel
and gardens in honour of the event, produced an effect of brilliancy
and magnificence to which description can do no possible justice....
It was curious to see in this congress of beauty and fashion, to which
so many countries lent some of their lovely representatives, the
belles of Berlin, Petersburg, Rome, London, Paris, Edinburgh, and
Dublin, all assembled under the same roof; Bonapartist generals
waltzing in close embrace with pretty _royalistes enragées_, and
revolutionary senators linked in a _chaîne-entière_ with _ultra_
partners, formed the best illustration of the ‘Holy Alliance’ that
could possibly be given.”—_Lady Morgan’s France in 1816_, vol. ii. p.
81.

Footnote 71:

“The arrangements of this comparatively small theatre combine all that
is chaste, elegant, light, and splendid in architecture and
decoration. Illuminated with its thousand lights reflected from their
crystal branches, it appears some fairy palace of Parian marble and
burnished gold, at once noble and simple, magnificent and tasteful. To
this splendid theatre no one was admitted who had not been presented
at Court, and received a special invitation through the ‘premier
gentilhomme de la chambre,’ or through their own ambassador. Every one
appeared in full court dress, and the boxes, or rather the gallery
which was round the theatre, is so constructed that every individual
is distinctly seen. The King and the Royal Family occupy a centre box
on one side; the ministers and ambassadors occupied a box on the
left-hand of the King, the French Duchesses on the right, for the
women do not mingle with the men under the present régime in the Court
of the most gallant country in the world. The ‘parterre’ was
exclusively occupied by the male part of the audience,” &c. &c.—_Lady
Morgan’s France in 1816_, vol. i. p. 221.

Footnote 72:

And not without reason, as the following extracts will show. It must
be remembered, too, that the Duke of Wellington and many of the
Waterloo heroes were in the house by special invitation:

“Je prévois que bientôt cette guerre fatale,
Ces troubles intestins de la maison royale,
Ces tristes factions cèderont au danger
D’abandonner la France au fils de l’étranger.
Je vois que de l’Anglais la race est peu chérie,
Que leur joug est pesant! qu’on n’aime leur patrie.

* * * * *

... n’acceptera pour maître,
L’allié des Anglais, quelque grand qu’il puisse être.

* * * * *

... Je ne veux pas que l’Anglais en ces lieux,
Protecteur insolent, commande sous mes yeux;
Les Anglais avec moi pourraient mal s’accorder,
Jusqu’au dernier moment je veux seul commander,” &c. &c.

Footnote 73:

Then residing at Camelford House.

Footnote 74:

The Dukes of York and Sussex were chief mourners, while the pall was
supported by the Dukes of Bedford and Argyle, the Earl of Lauderdale,
Lords Mulgrave and Holland, and the Bishop of London. “The coffin,”
says a writer in the _Universal Review_ for January, 1860, “was borne
to its resting-place in Westminster Abbey by a crowd of titled and
illustrious mourners, whose homage to departed genius offered rather a
suggestive contrast to their late neglect of its living owner:

‘How proud they can press to the funeral array
Of him whom they shunned in his sickness and sorrow.’

No circumstance of splendid woe was wanting to the burial of him whose
last illness had been embittered by the falling away of friends, and
the growing pressure of pecuniary troubles, and whose last hours were
passed under his own roof only through the kindness or calculating
fears of a sheriff’s officer.”

Footnote 75:

New Hall originally belonged to Waltham Abbey, but in the reign of
Edward III. passed by exchange into the possession of Sir John
Shardelowe. During the wars of the Roses it was bestowed upon
Bortello, Earl of Ormond, a zealous Lancastrian, who was taken
prisoner at Towton, and beheaded. The Manor House was fortified by his
brother, by permission of Henry VII. It was obtained, by exchange, by
Henry VIII., who erected it into an Honour, gave it the name of
Beaulieu, and frequently resided there. After various vicissitudes,
New Hall was sold to Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was
assassinated by Felton. At a later period it was purchased by Oliver
Cromwell for five shillings, though yielding a rental of 1300_l._ a
year. Soon afterwards, however, he gave New Hall, together with a
considerable sum of money, in exchange for Hampton Court. Some years
later it was the residence of Monk, Duke of Albemarle, after whose
time the glories of the place gradually faded away, until the house,
fast falling to decay, was converted into a convent for English nuns
of good family.

Footnote 76:

Buckden Palace, in Huntingdonshire, was granted to the Bishop of
Lincoln by the Abbot of Ely, in the reign of Henry I.

Footnote 77:

George Prettyman Tomline, D.D., consecrated Bishop of Lincoln in 1787,
and promoted to the Bishopric of Winchester in 1820. Mrs. Maltby was
wife of the Rev. Dr. Maltby, who held the living of Buckden.

Footnote 78:

Thorndon Hall, the seat of Lord Petrie, about two miles from
Brentwood.

Footnote 79:

“Mrs. Lutwyche,” says Madame Piozzi, “has written from Rome; says her
husband can walk now seven miles a day. They spend their time in
seeing sights, under the direction of the far-famed Cornelia Knight,
and rejoicing in the society of the first society of the first city in
Europe.—January, 1817.” See the second of Mr. Hayward’s very pleasant
volumes. The date should be 1818, not 1817.

Footnote 80:

See letter in Appendix—“Death of the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.]”

In 1821, Miss Knight again went abroad, and arrived in Paris on the
12th of May.

Footnote 81:

Now Count de Chambord. He was born on the 29th of September, 1820. His
father, the Duke de Berri, was assassinated on the 14th of February in
the same year, as he was leaving the Opera. The assassin was a
journeyman saddler, named Louvel, who had previously been a soldier in
the old Imperial Guard, and who for four years had meditated this
crime.

Footnote 82:

The conspiracy of the 19th August, 1820, having for its object the
overthrow of the Government and the expulsion of the Bourbons. The
trials of the conspirators terminated on the 17th July, 1821, when
three of them were condemned to death, and six others to various terms
of imprisonment, with or without fines.

Footnote 83:

Marie Amélie, daughter of Ferdinand IV., King of the Two Sicilies, by
Caroline of Austria, Queen of the French from 1830 to 1848. In the
revolution of February the Château de Neuilly was sacked and fired by
the mob. The Duke de Chartres here mentioned was afterwards Duke of
Orleans, killed by leaping from his carriage whilst his horses were
running away.

Footnote 84:

The Congress at Laybach.

Footnote 85:

Described in Lord Holland’s “Foreign Reminiscences” as “a man of
strict veracity and accurate memory.” He had a very confidential
interview with the Emperor Napoleon at the island of Elba.

Footnote 86:

The celebrated Baron Denon, Directeur-Général des Musées under the
first Empire, and author of a remarkable work upon the monuments of
Egypt.

Footnote 87:

The St. Swithin of the French calendar. His festival falls on the 8th
of June.

Footnote 88:

The Abbé de Montesquiou-Fénezac was born in 1757, and was the chief
author of the Charter of 1814. In the following month of July he was
appointed Minister of the Interior, and rendered himself unpopular to
the ultra-Royalists by his moderation and liberality. On one occasion,
after he had been violently abused for his impartiality, which was
called favouring the Revolutionists, he quietly remarked “que le Roi
ne connaissait point de révolutionnaires; qu’il ne venait pas pour
punir la révolution, mais pour la faire oublier.” During the Hundred
Days he took refuge in England, and after the second restoration he
was created a Peer of France, and allowed to retain the title of
Minister of State, but he took no further part in public affairs.

Footnote 89:

Stanislas, Marquis de Boufflers, was born at Lunéville in 1737, and
was named after the unfortunate King of Poland, his godfather. He was
educated for the Church, hence he was at first known as L’Abbé de
Boufflers. But he gave up the Church for the Army, and became a Knight
of Malta and captain of hussars. In 1791 he fled with Madame de Sabran
and her son to Berlin, where he soon afterwards married her. In 1800
he returned to France and published a book entitled “Libre Arbitre,”
and in 1804 was elected member of the French Academy, as successor to
Marshal Noailles. The Chevalier died in 1815. He has been described as
“abbé libertin; militaire philosophe; diplomate chansonnier; émigré
patriote; républicain courtisan.” His stepson, Count Elzéar Louis
Marie de Sabran, at a very early age gave proof of uncommon talents.
He was warmly attached to Madame de Staël, and consequently incurred
the anger of Napoleon. In 1820 he composed a dithyrambic poem on the
assassination of the Duke de Berri, which was much thought of at the
time. His death took place in 1846, in the seventieth year of his age.

Footnote 90:

The Emperor Napoleon died at St. Helena on the 5th of May, 1821. The
intelligence was conveyed from Calais to Paris by telegraph. “There
was a disposition,” says Lord Holland, “in the people of Paris to
disbelieve in the death of Napoleon, there was more in the middling
classes to attribute it to poison, and there was some in the Court to
affect the magnanimity of stifling all resentment towards the departed
hero. Mourning was worn by many, especially on the 15th August, the
festival of St. Napoleon. Publications on his character, life, and
death, were numerous, and generally more full of commendation than of
censure. Portraits, engravings, and prints in allusion to his exile
and death were bought up with an avidity which alarmed the police, and
led to the temporary suppression of the exhibition of such articles in
the shops.”—_Foreign Reminiscences_, p. 205.

Footnote 91:

The coronation of George IV. took place on the 19th July, and the
Queen died on the 7th of August following. A riot took place on the
15th, when her body was removed from Brandenburg House to be taken to
Harwich for embarkation, the populace being determined that the
funeral procession should pass through the City of London, against the
wishes of the Government. Queen Caroline was buried at Brunswick on
the 24th, between her father and her brother.

Footnote 92:

Larive, a celebrated French tragedian, born at La Rochelle in 1749. He
was a pupil of Mademoiselle Clairon, and was considered inferior only
to Lekain and Talma. He retired from the stage at a comparatively
early age, and settled down on his beautiful little property at
Monlignon, in the valley of Montmorency.

Footnote 93:

The change of Ministry took place on the 14th. M. Villèle continued in
power till January, 1828, when he was created a Peer of France, and
retired into private life.

Footnote 94:

Princess Elizabeth, third daughter Of George III., born May 22, 1770,
married the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg, April 7, 1818.

Footnote 95:

Princess Charlotte Augusta Matilda, eldest daughter of George III.,
born September 29, 1766, married May 18, 1797, to Frederick Charles
William, Hereditary Prince of Würtemberg, who, by the treaty of
Lunéville, was raised to the dignity of Elector in 1803. Through the
favour of Napoleon, and by virtue of the Convention of Presburg, he
was declared King of Würtemberg on January 1, 1806. He died in 1816.
His widow, by reason of her universal benevolence, was called “the
good Queen-Dowager.” She died October 6, 1828.

Footnote 96:

Lady Mary was the only daughter of Charles, third Earl of Aylesbury,
by his third wife, Caroline, daughter of John Campbell, Duke of
Argyle, who survived him and married, not General Conway, but General
Henry Seymour, brother of the first Marquis of Hertford. Lady Mary
Bruce married Charles, third Duke of Richmond, and died without issue.
Thomas Brudenell took the name and arms of Bruce in addition to his
own, and in 1776 was created Earl of Aylesbury, the title having
become extinct at the death of his uncle. The Count of Horn married
Charlotte, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Elgin and second of
Aylesbury, by his second wife, Charlotte Countess of Samm, of the
House of Argenteau in Brabant. It was Robert, second Earl of Elgin,
who, for his devoted loyalty to Charles I. and Charles II., was
created Earl of Aylesbury.

Footnote 97:

Afterwards Lord High Admiral of Prussia. He distinguished himself in
an attack on the Riff pirates. His brother, Prince Waldemar, travelled
in India, and was present at the battle of Ferozeshuhur, under the
incognito of Count Ravensburg.

Footnote 98:

The present Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty’s
Forces. Princess Augusta was then only two years old, and is described
in Miss Knight’s Diary as being “very pretty;” “they are both fine
children.”

Footnote 99:

Sophia Dorothea, daughter of the Duke of Zell. After the assassination
of her paramour, Count Philip de Kœnigsmark, she was confined in the
Castle of Dahlen. She died in 1727, only a few months before George I.

Footnote 100:

His first wife was the Princess Augusta Carolina Frederica Louisa of
Brunswick, married 1780, died 1787.

Footnote 101:

Lord Prudoe, Lord Caermarthen, Lord Pelham, Lord Hopetoun, Lord
Hervey, and Lord Strathmore. Sir W. W. Wynne, Colonel Clive, and
Captain Perry were also attached to the Duke of Northumberland.

Footnote 102:

These riots were speedily suppressed by the resolute daring of the
Emperor Nicholas, who ascended the throne December 26, 1825.

Footnote 103:

Married in 1831 to M. Emile de Girardin. Mademoiselle Delphine Gay was
born at Aix-la-Chapelle about the year 1800, and in 1822 competed for
the prize offered by the Academy for the best poem “Sur le Dévouement
des Médecins Français et des Sœurs de Sainte Camille pendant
l’Epidémie de Barcelone.” Had she conformed to the conditions, she
would have gained the prize; as it was, it was read aloud by M.
Alexandre Duval, and created a great sensation. The consecration of
Charles X., the deaths of General Foy and of Mathieu de Montmorency,
and other subjects, furnished themes for this accomplished poetess.
After her marriage she frequently contributed feuilletons to the
_Presse_ under the name of Vicomte Delaunay, and also published some
novels of considerable merit. Her last literary work was the popular
drama, “La Joie fait Peur.”

Footnote 104:

Count Alexis de Saint Priest, author of several tragedies, and also of
historical works of more than average merit.

Footnote 105:

It is amusing to contrast the well-bred kindliness of feeling with
which Miss Knight accepts the dresses presented to her by the
Queen-Dowager of Würtemberg, with the under-bred fussiness displayed
by Miss Burney, when Queen Charlotte presumed to send her a gown by
the hands of Madame Schwellenburg.

Footnote 106:

In conformity with diplomatic usage, Russia being the youngest member
of the great European family. The Duke of Wellington it will be
remembered, called the battle of Navarino an “untoward accident.” It
was fought on the 20th October, 1827.

Footnote 107:

M. de Vathnesuil, one of the six Advocates-General of the Court of
Cassation.

Footnote 108:

During the greater part of March, Miss Knight had been confined to her
room by severe illness.

Footnote 109:

Diebitch’s army had melted “like snow at the glance of the Lord” by
the time he reached Adrianople. The Treaty of Adrianople saved the
remnants of the Russian forces rather than Constantinople.

Footnote 110:

“It has been asserted” (says Lord Holland in his “Foreign
Reminiscences,” p. 87) “that his (Manuel Godoy’s) marriage with the
daughter of the Infant Don Luis originated in a malicious trait of
jealousy of the Queen. The story goes, that she brought the King
unexpectedly to the apartment of the favourite, and surprised him when
supping tête-à-tête with Mademoiselle Tudo (the daughter of an
artillery officer), a lady of extraordinary beauty, to whom he was
clandestinely married, though some say by a contract which the laws
would consider as invalid; that the King was partly shocked and partly
diverted at the discovery; that he shortly afterwards, at the
suggestion of the Queen, with a view of providing, without the peril
of a deadly sin, for the incontinence of his favourite, insisted on
matrimony, and condescended to offer his young and recently
acknowledged cousin for a bride; that the Prince of the Peace, not
daring to acknowledge his union with the Tudo, and still less to
decline the royal alliance without alleging some such insurmountable
bar, prevailed on the wife of his affections to suppress the truth,
and allowed Charles, in his zeal to rescue him from more venial and
ordinary vices, to involve him in the heinous and troublesome sin of
bigamy. I do not vouch for the truth of the tale. Well-informed
persons believed it, and related it to me. It is certain that the
ostensible marriage with the Princess, which took place in 1797, never
interrupted his connexion with the Tudo. During his prosperity, she
was generally lodged in a royal palace, or in an adjoining apartment.
After his exile and adversity, she followed him to Rome, and has
always been treated by him, his friends, and even the Royal Family, as
a personage in some sort legitimately entitled to the society,
tenderness, and protection of the Prince of Peace.”

Footnote 111:

Signor Horatio Pallavicini quitted his native country and settled in
the Netherlands, where he married a woman of low extraction. On her
death, he crossed over into England, and was appointed by Queen Mary
collector of the papal taxes gathered in the kingdom. At Mary’s
decease he happened to have thus a large sum of money in his
possession, and accordingly turned Protestant. His talents and
knowledge of continental languages rendered him very useful to Queen
Elizabeth, who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. In the
following year he fitted out and commanded a ship against the Spanish
Armada, and his portrait was placed among those of the patriots who
distinguished themselves on that occasion in the tapestry that hung in
the old House of Lords. He died in 1600, leaving his second wife,
daughter of Egidius Hooftman of Antwerp, in possession of immense
wealth. In the following year she married Sir Oliver Cromwell, uncle
and godfather of the Protector. Two sons and a daughter by her former
husband, Sir Horatio Pallavicini, married two daughters and a son of
her second husband by _his_ former wife. It does not appear that Lady
Cromwell ever visited Genoa at all. Her son Oliver may have done so,
as he was certainly a student at Padua. He was killed by the fall of
some buildings at Rome. There is no mention of any other member of the
family going to Italy. See the Rev. Mark Noble’s “Memoirs of the
Protectoral House of Cromwell.”

Footnote 112:

This story is told on the authority of the Countess d’Uglas.

Footnote 113:

“Massacre them!”

Footnote 114:

The Princess Dashkoff, who had been the chief instigator of the
conspiracy against Peter III. The ribbon worn by the Princess was
torn, it is said by her own hands, from the person of her sister, the
Countess Woronzow, the mistress of the unfortunate monarch; both of
them being the daughters of Chancellor Woronzow.

Footnote 115:

The murder of the Czar did not take place for some days after his
dethronement. If there be any truth in this story, which is
questionable, it must have been the tidings of the success of the
conspiracy that the Princess was so anxiously expecting.

Footnote 116:

At a later period, Paul was by no means remarkable for his conjugal
fidelity. Of his personal appearance the following mention is made in
Masson’s “Memoires Secrètes,” quoted by Mr. Kelly in his “History of
Russia,” vol. ii. p. 154: “It is said that the people of Paris,
crowding to see Paul, then a youth, cried, ‘My God, how ugly he is!’
and that he had the good sense to laugh at it. He is not improved
since he is grown old, bald, and wrinkled. The Empress appears by his
side like one of those beautiful women who are painted with a little
deformed blackamoor near them, as a contrast to their dignity and
grace. The singularity which he affects in his dress, and the severity
of his manners, add greatly to his deformity. Without excepting even
the Kalmuks and the Kirghaz, Paul is the ugliest man in his extensive
dominions; and he himself considers his countenance as so shocking,
that he dares not impress it upon his coin.” Miss Knight herself
describes the Grand-Duke, in one place, as “the ugliest man I ever
saw;” but this was before he had spoken to her.

Footnote 117:

Told on the authority of the Abbé Gabriel.

Footnote 118:

Père Jacquier died at Rome in 1787.

Footnote 119:

At the time of the flight to Varennes.

Footnote 120:

Through Miss Knight’s influence with Sir William Hamilton he was
shortly afterwards restored to liberty. His family showed her the most
grateful attentions when, in after years, she much frequented Paris.

Footnote 121:

This is explained elsewhere.

Footnote 122:

In inducing the King of Prussia to join the Allies against France.

Footnote 123:

The Viscount de Materosa and Don Diego de la Vega.

Footnote 124:

As the ship conveying the Queen of France and the Duchess d’Angoulême
and suite passed Admiral Russell’s fleet, “the gallant veteran saluted
the illustrious visitors with a royal salute.” Her Majesty landed at
Harwich on the 29th August.

Footnote 125:

In the Annual Register for 1809, this inscription is ascribed to her
Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth.

Footnote 126:

The anecdotes relating to Boswell were given to Miss Knight by Mrs.
Piozzi.

Footnote 127:

This is also stated in the Autobiography, vol. i. page 19.

Footnote 128:

This anecdote is related on the authority of Baron Wrangel, and is
also mentioned in Wraxall’s “Memoirs of his own Time.” It was said
that this “Russian lady of high rank” was a daughter of the Empress
Elizabeth by Alexis Ragumofsky, and that the English Consul, Mr. John
Dick, assisted Count Alexis Orloff in luring her on board the Russian
fleet. But Mr. Kelly states that she was “an adventurer who called
herself Countess Tarakanoff: he allured her on board his ship and sent
her to Petersburg.”—_History of Russia_, vol. ii. p. 57.

Footnote 129:

“You cardinals want to give us the go-by in everything.”

THE END.

C. WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

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