[71] See the “Declaration of the Powers,” from which we have already quoted.
[72] “Narrative of Captain Maitland,” p. 109.
[73] The Regent’s selfish nature and expensive habits may be judged by the following extract from the Greville Memoirs. Under date of 1830, Mr. Greville writes: “Sefton gave me an account of the dinner in St. George’s Hall on the King’s [William IV.] birthday, which was magnificent, excellent, and well served. Bridge came down with the plate, and was hid during the dinner behind the great wine-cooler, which weighs 7,000 ounces, and he told Sefton afterwards that the plate in the room was worth £200,000. There is another service of plate which was not used at all. The king has made it all over to the crown. All this plate was ordered by the late king, and never used; his delight was ordering what the public had to pay for.”—Greville Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 42.
[74] See Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Earl of Elgin’s Collection ... of Marbles (“Annual Reg.,” 1816, p. 447).
[75] See Chapter III. (1817).
[76] The idea of the letterpress description (a very long one), from which the above is an extract, is borrowed of course from Dr. Arbuthnot.
[77] See Chapter III. (1817).
[78] See Chapter III. (1817).
[79] She was fond of adopting children, and it was proved that she had adopted a daughter of the man Bergami.
[80] Byron’s “Age of Bronze.”