[23] See [next chapter].
[24] It was no uncommon occurrence for the richer folk to hand on their newspaper to their neighbours. Thus we find the Austens, while at Steventon, apparently getting theirs from Mr. Holder at Ashe ([p. 148]); and, later, getting Mr. Pinckard's paper at Lyme ([p. 148]). Much in the same way Sir John Middleton in Sense and Sensibility would not be denied the satisfaction of sending the Dashwoods his newspaper every day.
[25] The Letters of Warren Hastings to his Wife. Introduced and annotated by Sydney C. Grier, p. 456 et seq. For articles by the same author on the Hancock family, see 'A Friend of Warren Hastings' in Blackwood's Magazine, April 1904, and 'A God-daughter of Warren Hastings' in Temple Bar, May 1905.
[26] Genuine Memoirs of Asiaticus, by Philip Dormer Stanhope, London, 1784.
[27] This did not prove to be the case.
[28] This, and not 'de Feuillade,' is the correct spelling.
[29] Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, where Warren Hastings was then living.
[30] Henry Austen, and his elder brother, James.
[31] In the Memoir this action is by mistake attributed to the Count.
[32] National Archives, Paris (de Feuillide), W. 328, dossier 541, and T. 738; (Marbœuf), W. 320, dossier 481.