This news probably reached Edinburgh by coach a week later, and may have been known at Dunglass on the following day, the 18th March.
It seems doubtful, therefore, whether Lady De Lancey did not make a mistake of a month in dating her marriage exactly three months before the 4th of July. She may possibly have been married in March.
The "Hundred Days" cover the period between Napoleon's first proclamation at Lyons on the 13th March and his abdication on the 22nd June.
It will therefore be seen that the married life of the De Lanceys, if it extended from the 4th March to the 26th June 1815, covered this period, with just thirteen days to spare.
APPENDIX A
Letters to Captain Basil Hall, R.N., from Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens.[34]
[34] From the autograph collection in the possession of Lady Parsons.
"My dear Captain Hall,