[70] Colburn's United Service Magazine, 1847, part ii. p. 52.
[71] Afterwards Mrs. Trench, the mother of Archbishop Trench.
[72] Beckford's Memoirs, London, 1859, vol. ii. p. 326.
[73] Compare an equally strong assertion, Nicolas's Despatches, vol. vi. p. 99.
[74] St. Vincent at this time had not met her, at least as Lady Hamilton, but they exchanged occasional letters.
[75] Pettigrew, vol. i. p. 220.
[76] Lord Minto was at this time ambassador to Vienna. Rushout and Rooke were men well known on the Continent. Both are mentioned with some particularity in the Memoirs of Pryse Lockhart Gordon, another continental rambler.
[77] The Paget Papers, London, 1896, p. 185.
[78] The Paget Papers, London, 1896, p. 219.
[79] Clarke and M'Arthur, vol. ii. p. 355.