[26] Apparently Lauterburg.
[27] Batley was destined to escape. For the details of his adventures see Barklimore’s letter in Appendix A.
[28] It is impossible to say what O’Brien means by this. The hereditary prince of Baden, though in great favour with Napoleon, and married to Stephanie Beauharnais, his adopted daughter, was never made a king.
[29] Pope, in the “Essay on Man.”
[30] O’Brien alludes to the Wagram campaign, then only six months in the future.
[31] Napoleon’s last wild extension of the Continental System provided that a neutral ship should be considered fair prize if it had visited a British port, or even been searched by a British cruiser.
[32] This certificate I have still by me. It was given me by Lieut. Henry T. Lutwidge, our second lieutenant, a worthy officer, in Verdun, on 21st February 1807, and now a commander.
[33] In November 1808, the date of O’Brien’s stay in Trieste, all the eastern shores of the Adriatic were French territory save the small strips of land about Trieste and Fiume, which were Austrian. Dalmatia and Istria, like the other old dominions of Venice, had been annexed to Napoleon’s kingdom of Italy. In 1809 the Emperor appropriated Trieste and Fiume also, after his victory over Austria at Wagram. Thus O’Brien, a year later, would have found Trieste French.
[34] For this very serious wound, I have never received any pension, as it was not considered equivalent to the loss of a limb, when I was surveyed by order of the Lords of the Admiralty in May, 1817; and yet what is the difference between the loss of a limb, and the loss of the use of a limb?
[35] I.e. the Mediterranean squadron, then under Lord Collingwood, engaged in the blockade of Toulon.