[17]: There was an Epigram made on this allowance—

"Celui qui dévora de Nombreux bataillons
Qui nagea dans le sang, qui vécut dans la crime,
Na de rente que six millions,
Ce n'est pas un sou par victime."

[18]: "English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.," by John Ashton.

[19]: This insensate folly still obtains occasionally; but I never met with but one instance of women sinking to the same depth of degradation. It is in the Morning Chronicle of the 5th of May, 1814, on p. 2, under heading St. Sebastian Mail.—"Don Antonio entered Valencia in the Coach of the President of the Regency. His Majesty would not permit the Arragonese Ladies to draw his Coach."

[20]: The son of the Duchess of Oldenburgh, then about three years old.

[21]: Stewart.

[22]: "My Life and Reminiscences," 1866, vol iii. pp. 3 and 4.

[23]: See page [270].

[24]: At the moment of her entrance into what is now Buckingham Palace—then the Queen's House—the first gun was fired, announcing the signature of the Definitive Treaty of Peace.

[25]: Of Salisbury.