Footnotes

[1]

Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear;

Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

[2] Adrien Marx, purveyor of Court news to The Figaro.

[3] At the time the London, Chatham, and Dover stopped paying any dividends.

[4] A term of endearment sometimes applied to Earl Granville by his political opponents.