Chapter XIII: Part 13

[387] Hon. Frederick James Lamb (1782–1853), who was created Lord Beauvale in 1839, and succeeded his brother as third and last Viscount Melbourne in 1848.

[388] Afterwards Admiral Sir George Cockburn (1772–1853). He took Napoleon to St. Helena in 1815, and remained there for a year as Governor until relieved by Sir Hudson Lowe.

The Commission was to attempt to mediate between Spain and her American Colonies. The Cortes, however, proved intractable, and the expedition returned to England in August 1812.

[389] See _ante_, i. 130.

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1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have
been corrected silently.

2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as
in the original.

3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same
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