[123] Charles Orby Hunter, probably his father, had died at Paris in 1791.
[124] Reichardt, however, comparing France with Germany, speaks of the increase of drinking, and of young men deliberately assembling for a carouse; he also speaks of gormandising.
[125] Information kindly supplied by Canon Jessopp.
[126] Reichardt, who met Bishop Grégoire and Kosciuski at her house, describes her as wearing a cap with long flaps covering her cheeks, and with a large bouquet falling down from her hair to her nose, so that with her constant nods and gesticulations there were only occasional glimpses of her eyes and mouth. He was bored, too, by the poetical recitations of Vigée, Madame Vigée-Lebrun’s brother. Poole, however, was pleased at meeting so many literati, and Meyer, canon of Hamburg, thought the hostess resembled Angelica Kaufmann.
[127] Jerningham Letters, 1896.
[128] F. 7, 6251, dossier 4980.
[129] T. 777 and 1640.
[130] Revue Internationale, 1887.
[131] A. F. iv. 1473.
[132] I can find no confirmation of this story. If there was a duel, it must have been with Thomas Pitt, Lord Camelford, but Christopher was probably confused with Thomas Potter, a member of Wilkes’s Hell-fire club, who, elected as an anti-Pittite, joined Pitt, and in 1756 was appointed Paymaster of the Forces. The two Potters may or may not have been kinsmen.