[444] Henry Brougham, first Lord Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), had lately made his name as counsel for Queen Caroline at her trial (1820). He became Lord Chancellor and a peer in 1834.—T.
[445] Priscilla Barbara Elizabeth Lady Gwydyr (1761-1828) née Bertie, widow of the first Lord Gwydyr, and Baroness Willoughby de Eresby in her own right.—T.
[446] Louisa Murray, Countess of Mansfield (d. 1843), was the Honourable Louisa Cathcart, daughter of the ninth Baron Cathcart, and became Countess of Mansfield in her own right. In 1776 she married her cousin David, seventh Viscount Stormont and second Earl of Mansfield. He died in 1793, and in 1797 she married the Honourable Fulke Greville, retaining her title as Countess of Mansfield.—T.
[447] Almack's, the ball-room in King Street, St. James's, retained its vogue from 1765 to 1840. Lady Mansfield was one of the lady patronesses of Almack's.—T.
[448] Julie Récamier (1777-1849), née Bernard, wife of Récamier the banker. A woman of great beauty and charm; she was painted by David and Gérard, and sat to Canova for his bust of Beatrix. Chateaubriand became and remained until his death the most intimate and assiduous of her friends.—T.
[449] Captain James Cook (1728-1779). His discoveries were still fresh in the public mind in 1792.—T.
[450] Chateaubriand met François Tulloch in 1826, after writing this portion of his Memoirs. He does not tell us much about him even in the Essai sur les Révolutions, where he speaks of Tulloch at some length. It would appear, according to Chateaubriand, that he was the son of an English father and a Scotch mother, and that he did not eventually take orders, but remained in the world and married.—T.
[451] VIR., Æ. I. 164. The correct quotation runs: Æquora tuta silent.—T.
[452] The Azores were known to the Carthaginians, but fell out of the map until rediscovered in 1431.—T.
[453] GEN. i. 10.—T.