[277] Lord Boringdon.
[278] He said that ‘her creation betokened a “glorious mood” in her creator’ (Sichel’s Emma, Lady Hamilton).
[279] Compare Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, ii. 364, 365. ‘With men her language and conversation are exaggerations of anything I ever heard anywhere, and I was wonderfully struck with these inveterate remains of her origin, though the impression was very much weakened by seeing the other ladies of Naples.’
‘We had the attitudes a night or two ago by candle-light; they come up to my expectations fully, which is saying everything. They set Lady Hamilton in a very different light from any I had seen her in before; nothing about her, neither her conversation, her manners, nor figure announce the very refined taste which she discovers in this performance, besides the extraordinary talent that is necessary for the execution; and besides all this, says Sir Willum, “she makes my apple pies.”’
[280] The Hon. Charles Francis Greville (1749–1809), second son of Francis, first Earl of Warwick, of this creation, and Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Archibald Hamilton and sister of Sir William Hamilton.
[281] Frere succeeded Canning as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs early in 1799.
[282] The actor.
[283] Elizabeth, daughter of Charles, second Duke of Marlborough, who married Henry, tenth Earl of Pembroke, in 1756, and died in 1831. She was Charles Beauclerk’s aunt. Her son, George Augustus, who succeeded as eleventh Earl of Pembroke in 1794, married, in 1787, Beauclerk’s sister, Elizabeth. She died in 1793.
[284] Lord Lansdown.
[285] Edward Law (1750–1818), afterwards created Lord Ellenborough; appointed Attorney-General in 1793.