[247] Hon. Edward Stopford, second son of third Earl of Courtown.
[248] Afterwards Napoleon III.
[249] The Queen had been led to believe that a counter-revolution would be popular, but the movement was a failure.
[250] The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker (1780–1857), M.P. for Downpatrick and Secretary to the Admiralty. Immortalised in Coningsby as “Mr. Rigby,” he has remained the type of malignant and meddling politician that Disraeli desired to expose. His title to respect is that he was one of the earliest contributors to The Quarterly Review, which was founded by John Murray in 1809.
[251] William Wemyss, afterwards Lieut.-General and Equerry to Queen Victoria.
[252] Second son of fifth Viscount Torrington, sometime a Commissioner in the Colonial Audit Office.
[253] A gipsy encampment.
[254] One of the gipsies.
[255] Sir John Malcolm’s Life of Clive, a biography now unreadable, but made famous by Macaulay, who took it as a peg upon which to hang his Essay.
[256] Richard James Lane (1800–72) had in 1829 made a well-known portrait of the Princess at ten years old. He was afterwards distinguished for his skill in lithography, reproducing many works of well-known artists. The portrait he was painting at this time now hangs in the Corridor at Windsor.