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_Admiral Barrington._ Samuel Barrington (1729-1800), fifth son of the

first Viscount Barrington; Rear-Admiral; Commander-in-Chief in the West

Indies until superseded by Byron in January 1779.

_Count Broglio._ Victor-François, Duc de Broglie (1718-1804), Marshal of

France; appointed Commander-in-Chief on the Coasts on the Ocean, May 1778.

_Mr Sawbridge._ John Sawbridge (1732?-1795), Radical M.P. for the City of

London; an intimate of John Wilkes’, and active in founding the Society

of the Supporters of the Bill of Rights.

_Sister Macauly._ Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (1731-1791), afterwards

Mrs. Graham, sister of the foregoing; republican bluestocking; wrote _The

History of England from the Accession of James I to That of the Brunswick

Line_, 1763-83, much praised and damned in its day for its republicanism;

visited America and stopped with Washington for ten days, 1785. Dr.

Johnson took satisfaction in having exposed her principles by once

desiring her to invite her footman to sit at table with her; _Boswell’s

Johnson_, ed. Hill and Powell, I, 447.

_Warley-Common._ In Essex, where one of the militia camps was situated.

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