(196) On the king's recovery, in the spring of 1789.-ED.
(197) Many of the leading members of the Councils of "Ancients" and of "Five Hundred " had been transported to Guiana after the coup d'tat of September 4, 1797. See note (146) ante, p. 136.-ED.
(198) "Excuse me, madam ! do you know Sidney? Sidney " is Sir Sidney Smith, whose gallant and successful defence of Acre against the French,, in the spring of 1799, obliged Napoleon to relinquish the invasion of Syria.-ED.
(199) Christian name.
(200) "Every one in England."
(201) "Unfortunate husband."
(202) "His valet and his jockey, (groom)."
(203) "Especially as the jockey had terrible holes in his stockings."
(204) The influenza.
(205) Retiring pension.