[557] Count Stroganoff was the special representative of the Czar at the Coronation.
[558] His son who died, aged four years, in 1783.
[559] Lady Sarah Lennox, who was a daughter of the second Duke of Richmond, married first, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, secondly the Hon. George Napier. George III. was undoubtedly much attracted by this lady. By her second marriage she became the “Mother of the Napiers,” a designation almost as famous in the British history of the Napoleonic Wars as the “Mother of the Gracchi” in Republican Rome.
[560] Daughters of John Gunning, of Castle Coote. See ante, p. 215.
[561] Lord Alfred Paget. See ante, p. 226.
[562] See ante, p. 310.
[563] Mehemet Ali, the Pasha, having announced his intention to pay no more tribute to the Porte (an action equivalent to a declaration of independence), great efforts were made by the representatives of the Powers to induce him to reconsider his decision.
[564] The French Ambassador in London.
[565] Baron Heinrich von Bülow, many years Prussian representative in London, afterwards Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
[566] The adjustment of the debt between Holland and Belgium.