[28] “Parliamentary Debates,” vol. x.
[29] Napoleon met the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia at Tilsit. His historical meeting with the former took place on the 25th of June, 1807, on a barge, or raft, sumptuously appointed, moored in the middle of the river Niemen.
[30] The King of Portugal, and his family, fled to the Brazils, protected by a British squadron, November 29, 1807.
[31] “A General History of England from the Landing of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution of 1688,” by William Guthrie, London, 1744 1751, vol. ii. p. 213.
[32] The Bachelors had provided about twenty bushels of plum pudding.
[33] This version is taken from “The Life of the Right Hon. George Canning,” by Robert Bell, London, 1846. The first line, however, is generally rendered, “The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn.”
[34] The number of dollars issued by the Bank of England to February 8, 1810, inclusive, was:
| Dollars | stamped in | 1797 | and issued | 2,325,099 |
| ” | ” | 1804 | ” | 1,419,484 |
| ” | ” | 1809 and 1810 | ” | 1,073,051 |
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| Total | 4,817,634 | |||
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[35] The account of Sir F. Burdett’s arrest, &c., is mainly taken from the Annual Register, vol. lii.
[36] A number of persons on horseback, who met at Moorfields.