[26]: According to The Morning Chronicle of July 15th she gave him three guineas.
[27]: Afterwards Lady Keith, and wife of Count Flahault.
[28]: "The Life and Times of Henry, Lord Brougham," written by himself, 1871, vol. ii. p. 229.
[29]: The Ornamental Water in St. James's Park.
[30]: Our ordinary Gas (Carburetted Hydrogen) was always then, and long after, called "the Gas."
[31]: Pepys speaks of this on more than one occasion, notably, "1660, Sept. 16. To the Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pall Mall, and in making a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since it was begun." Evelyn also mentions it: "1662, Dec. 1. Having seen the strange and wonderful dexterity of the sliders on the New Canal in St. James's Park," &c.
[32]: The revolving Temple of Concord.
[33]: Then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[34]: In a jeu d'esprit on the Jubilee—the Serpentine was called "The River Styx."
[35]: "Recollections and Anecdotes," 1863, p. 111.