[7] Alison's Marlborough, vol. i. p. 16, 17, 18.
[8] "Napoleon hummed the well-known air, Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre, when he crossed the Niemen to commence the Russian campaign. The French nurses used to frighten their children with stories of Marlbrook!—as the Orientals, when their horses start, say they see the shadow of Richard Cœur-de-Lion crossing their path."—Pref., iv. v.
[9] Vol. i. p. 447, 448.
[10] Vol. ii. p. 298.
[11] It would seem that Charles II. would have surprised him, on one occasion, in the company of the Countess; but, to save her credit with the King, he leaped through the window at the risk of his life; in return for which she presented him with £5000. With reference to this latter part of the business may be noted a diversity between two of Marlborough's biographers. Archdeacon Coxe ludicrously attempts to explain this splendid present of £5000, on the ground of Churchill's being in some way distantly related to the Duchess! "If the reverend Archdeacon," says Mr Alison—with a quaint approach to sarcasm very rare with him—"had been as well acquainted with women as he was with his books, he would have known that beautiful ladies do not, in general, bestow £5000 on distant cousins, whatever they may do on favourite lovers!"
[12] Macaulay, 256, note.
[13] Alison, i. 22.
[14] Mahon, i. 21, 22.
[15] Lectures in Modern History, delivered in the University of Cambridge, (Lecture xxiii.)
[16] Alison, ii. p. 300.