[59] Virgil, Georg., I, 35.

- ED.

[60] Colonel Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle was the celebrated exposer of the scandal in 1808-9, when the mistress of the Duke of York was found to be trafficking in Commissions. He had retired from active service in 1802, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Financial reasons obliged him, after 1815, to live on the Continent; he died in Florence, 1833. - ED.

[61] Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1779-1849), author of The History of the British Expedition to Egypt, 1802; a French translation of that work elicited a protest from Napoleon. - ED.

[62] Vanderberg had made a fortune as a contractor to the French army; he is mentioned in Ida Saint Elme's Memoires d'une contemporaine and elsewhere. - ED.

[63] Abbe Sicard (Rooh Ambroise) was director of the Institution of Sourds-Muets from 1790 to 1797 and from 1800 to 1822. - ED.

[64] Paul Didier (1758-1816) took part in a Bonapartist conspiracy at Lyons in 1816, raised an insurrection in the Isere and fled to Piedmont, whence he was surrendered to the French authorities, condemned to death and executed at Grenoble. - ED.

[65] The King's brother, afterwards Charles X. - ED.

[66] The N.E. pavilion of the Tuileries. - ED.

CHAPTER VII

Journey from Paris to Lausanne - Besancon - French refugees in Lausanne - Francois Lamarque - General Espinassy - Bordas - Gautier - Michau - M. de Laharpe - Mlle Michaud - Levade, a Protestant minister - Chambery - Aix - Details about M. de Boigne's career in India - English Toryism and intolerance - Valley of Maurienne - Passage across Mont Cenis and arrival at Suza - Turin.

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