[201]. Mrs. Oakes, née Betsy Plampin.
[202]. A Collection of Theological Tracts, by the Bishop of Llandaff, 6 vols.
[203]. This seems to have been an anticipation of table-turning.
[204]. Samuel Horsley, born 1733, died 1806, Bishop of St. Asaph’s, St. David’s, and Rochester; celebrated for his controversy with Dr. Priestley.
[205]. The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner, was started by Canning, J. H. Frere, and others; the editor was W. Gifford. It ran from November 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798.
[206]. I print this as written, but can find no allusion in works of reference to the circumstance mentioned.
[207]. C. de l’Héritier, born 1746, died 1800; botanist, and member of the Académie des Sciences.
[208]. Cornelia Knight, author of Dinarbas, a continuation of Rasselas, 1790, and other works.
[209]. Celebrated French geologist. Accompanied Napoleon to Egypt; on his return was taken prisoner and confined at Messina by the King of Sicily; on peace being made with Naples was liberated.
[210]. Robert Smith, son of a banker at Nottingham; M.P. for that town from 1770 to 1796; supporter and friend of Pitt; raised to the Irish peerage in 1796, to the English peerage in 1797.