[6] The daughter of Lady Palmerston by her first marriage and a niece of Lord Melbourne. Lady Fanny was to marry Lord Jocelyn a few months later.
[7] Young Colonel Cardigan had several quarrels with officers in his regiment, and after a duel with Captain Harvey Tuckett, whom he wounded, he was summoned before the House of Lords in its judicial capacity in 1841; he was acquitted, and his trial was merely a necessary concession to the law of the land against duelling.
[8] M. de Bacourt, to whom this letter was addressed, was still acting as French Minister at Washington. This incident explains the coolness which arose between the Duchesse de Talleyrand and M. Thiers.
[9] This great work consisted in copying and classifying papers which were collected under the title, Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand.
[10] The Irish Registration Bill had been proposed by Lord Morpeth in the House of Commons, where it met with considerable opposition.
[11] On February 16, 1841, King William I. of the Low Countries contracted a morganatic marriage with the Comtesse d' Oultremont-Vegimont, after abdicating in 1840, in favour of his son, King William II.
[12] Extract from a letter.
[13] The Sub-Prefect of Chinon at that time was M. Viel.
[14] During the Canadian rebellion in 1837 and 1838, the steamship Caroline had been burnt on the Niagara River, and an Englishman, Mr. Amos Durfee, was killed. Mr. Alexander MacLeod, a United States citizen, was accused as his murderer, but Mr. Gridley, judge at Utica succeeded in proving his innocence.
[15] See p. 22 for the announcement of the marriage of Lord Beauvale with Mlle. Maltzan.