[37] Born, 1756; died, 1815. There is a full and carefully-written account of her in the Biographie Universelle.—Ed.
[38] This, no doubt, is Captain Wright, whose mysterious death in the Temple has never been cleared up.—Ed.
[39] Delille was born in 1738. He must have been, therefore, nearly sixty-six at this time.—Ed.
[40] I have found the passage in his poem, L’Imagination, chant 5. Not to be compared with Goethe’s portraiture of Ariosto in his Torquato Tasso, it yet possesses a merit of its own, such as is ascribed to it here.—Ed.
[41] At this time only some wretchedly edited fragments of St. Simon’s great work had seen the light,—three volumes in 1788, and four somewhat later. It was not till 1829 that these memoirs were published with anything approaching to completeness.—Ed.
[42] Isabey, born in 1770, a pupil of David’s, stands, and I believe deservedly, in the first rank of miniature painters. He lived in familiar intercourse with Napoleon; and some of the best portraits of the Emperor existing are by his hand.—Ed.
[43] His barber it should be.—Ed.
[44] These must be, no doubt, Mrs. Grant of Laggan’s Letters from the Mountains.—Ed.
[45] The only book of this name which I know is The Microcosm, by Gregory Griffin, Windsor, 1788, a collection of slight essays, very pale imitations of The Spectator.—Ed.
[46] This letter was returned to the writer, with the seal unbroken. Mad. de la Gardie died before it reached her.—Ed.