[10]. Mrs. Anna Williams was the daughter of a Welsh physician. Miss Burney calls her “an exceeding pretty poetess.” She died in 1783.
[11]. John Hoole, the translator of Tasso, Ariosto, &c. He was born in 1727, and died in 1803.
[12]. This is an error. Mrs. Yates certainly spoke the Epilogue, but she took the part of Aspasia. Miss Hopkins appeared as Mandane.
[13]. Frederick of Denmark, when crown prince, married Louisa, youngest daughter of George the Second.
[14]. The Princess Caroline Matilda, posthumous child of Frederick, Prince of Wales, was married to Prince Christian, afterwards King of Denmark. She died at Zell, in Hanover, in 1775.
[15]. The “New Bath Guide,” by Christopher Anstey, of whom Miss Burney sarcastically remarks: “If he could but forget he had written the “Bath Guide,” with how much more pleasure would everybody else remember it.”
[16]. In this year Miss Knight’s journals commence. The title-page of the first volume bears the motto:
“Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum,
Tendimus in Latium.” Virgil.
[17]. John Chetwode Eustace, a Roman Catholic clergyman, and author of “A Classical Tour in Italy.” He died at Naples in 1815.