[519] In Lord John Russell’s ministry (1846) Macaulay was Paymaster-General.
[520] Macaulay was defeated at Edinburgh in 1847 by C. Cowan. In 1852 he was returned unopposed for Edinburgh.
[521] Sir George Grey was Home Secretary in Lord John Russell’s Cabinet.
[522] Lord Auckland, First Lord of the Admiralty.
[523] Her brother, who was now Bishop of Sodor and Man.
[524] Mrs. Colvile’s nurse.
[525] Son and daughter of Lady Theresa Lewis by her first husband.
[526] Sir Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon married in 1840 Lucie, only daughter of John Austin.
[527] The Avenger was wrecked, December 20, 1847, on the Sorelle Rocks, north coast of Africa. Only five lives were saved out of two hundred and seventy.
[528] A letter of the Duke of Wellington’s on national defence, and urging an increase in the army, was published without his consent in the Morning Chronicle of January 4, 1848.