_no Secretary of War in this house._ “Ld Barrington [William Wildman
Barrington (1717-1793), second Viscount] was out of Parliament, and no
successor was then appointed” (note by Horace Walpole in his copy of
_Anticipation_). Barrington, Secretary at War since 1765, had given
notice of his retirement in the previous May; in December Charles
Jenkinson was named his successor.
_Mons. Neckar._ Jacques Necker (1732-1804), Director-General of
Finances in the French government, 1777-81; famous for his fiscal and
administrative reforms.
_Monsieur Bouillé._ The island of Dominica, ceded by France to Great
Britain by the Treaty of Paris, 1763, was retaken, 7 September 1778,
by the French under the command of the Marquis de Bouillé (1739-1800),
Governor of Martinique.
_the Pacte de Famille._ The defensive alliance formed in 1761 among the
Bourbon states of France, Spain, and the Two Sicilies.
_Count Almodovar._ Pedro Jiménez de Góngora, Marquès (later Duque) de
Almodóvar (d. 1794), Spanish Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s,
1778-79.
_Don Francisco Buccarelli._ Spanish Governor of Buenos Aires who ordered
the expedition against the Falkland Islands that led to the surrender
of the English garrison at Port Egmont, June 1770, and aroused great
indignation in England; see above, note to p. 36, on Falkland’s Islands.
Probably a member of the family of Bucareli y Ursúa, of Seville, several
of whom held high military and colonial posts at that period.
_Count Cobentzel._ This may refer either to Johann Philipp, Graf von
Cobenzl (1741-1810), Austrian statesman who drafted the Peace of
Teschen, 1779; or to his cousin, Johann Ludwig Joseph, Graf von Cobenzl
(1753-1809), Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Catherine II, 1779-97.
_Baron Reidesdel._ Joseph Herman, Baron Riedesel (1740-1785), Prussian
diplomat, traveler, and archeologist.
_Duke de Chartres._ Louis-Philippe-Joseph de Bourbon (1747-1793), Duc de
Chartres, son of the Duc d’Orléans, whom he succeeded, 1785; later known
as Philippe Égalité.
_Monsieur de Sartine._ Antoine-Raimond-Jean-Gualbert-Gabriel de Sartine
(1729-1801), Comte d’Alby, French statesman; Lieutenant-General of
Police, 1759-74; Minister of Marine, 1774-80. He was satirized in
Tickell’s _Green Box of Monsieur de Sartine_, 1779; see Bibliography, pp.
88-90.