[153] Remaele, Bonaparte et les Bourbons.
[154] Thibaudeau, Mémoires.
[155] Remacle, p. 93.
[156] Some French ladies, who were disagreeably crowded by public curiosity in Kensington Gardens, complained heavily of our want of politesse. They should remember, however, that they were not quite undressed in the fashion, and that the English ladies always walk out with something upon their heads, however they treat the rest of their persons.—Times, April 19, 1803.
[157] Holcroft was told by a French lady, who sent for him to make this confidence and received him in her bath, that Fiévée was commissioned to bribe London newspapers (Travels from Hamburg to Paris). Holcroft believed that the mission was unsuccessful.
[158] Napoleon, Correspondance.
[159] See my Englishmen in the French Revolution and Paris in 1789–94.
[160] Révue des Deux Mondes, Sept. 1, 1902, p. 115.
[161] A police note charges him with having transmitted letters to and from émigrés.
[162] A. F. iv. 1327.