FOOTNOTES:

[1] June, 1871.

[2] German Ambassador at Paris.

[3] Foreign Minister in succession to M. Jules Favre.

[4] Subsequently Lord Ampthill.

[5] French Ambassador at Berlin.

[6] Formerly Mr. Odo Russell.

[7] French Military Attaché at Berlin before the war of 1870.

[8] French Ambassador at St. Petersburg.

[9] Finance Minister.

[10] Lord Lyons to Lord Granville, Jan. 16, 1874.

[11] Blowitz.

[12] British Minister at Brussels.

[13] German Ambassador at London.

[14] British Consul-General at Cairo.

[15] Now Lord Rothschild.

[16] Lord Lyons to Lord Derby, July 11, 1874.

[17] Jan. 7, 1876.

[18] Jan. 24, 1877.

[19] Nobiling's attempt to assassinate the German Emperor.

[20] Now Viscount Knollys.

[21] French Secretary of Embassy at London.

[22] French Ambassador at Constantinople.

[23] Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, G.C.M.G.

[24] H.B.M. Agent and Consul General at Cairo.

[25] Now Earl of Cromer.

[26] At that period British Consul-General at Düsseldorf.

[27] Austrian Ambassador at Paris.

[28] French Ambassador at London.

[29] Subsequently Viscount Goschen.

[30] Sir Francis Adams, Minister at Berne.

[31] See Appendix by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward, "Lord Lyons in Private Life."

[32] Afterwards Lord Alcester.

[33] 1911.

[34] French Consul-General at Tunis.

[35] 'Egypt and the Egyptian Question,' Sir D. Mackenzie Wallace.

[36] Lyons to Granville.

[37] Times correspondent in Paris.

[38] Col. the Hon. George Villiers, Military Attaché at Paris.

[39] Lyons, Feb. 1883.

[40] Sir Joseph Crowe, K.C.M.G., Commercial Attaché at the Paris Embassy.

[41] French Minister at Tangier.

[42] Mr. G. Errington, M.P., had been despatched by Mr. Gladstone on a secret mission to the Vatican in connection with the Home Rule agitation.

[43] Now Lord Kitchener.

[44] Lord Salisbury had taken over the Foreign Office upon the death of Lord Iddesleigh on January 12, 1887.

[45] Dongorita. A town on the Somali coast.

[46] Secretary of French Embassy at London.

[47] French Ambassador at Constantinople.

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