[Footnote 1: Mrs. Davis is mentioned more than once by Mr. Boswell.]
[Footnote 2: Edward Burney, Esq., of Clipstone Street.]
[Footnote 3: Since Marquis.]
[Footnote 4: His late Majesty, George the Fourth.]
[Footnote 5: Afterwards Earl Mansfield.]
[Footnote 6: Afterwards Marchioness of Thomond.]
[Footnote 7: Afterwards Lady Edward Fitzgerald.]
[Footnote 8: Since Countess of Liverpool.]
[Footnote 9: When, many years after, the reparations of Windsor Castle
were completed, so as to fit it for the residence of the King, George
the Third, and the Royal Family, this Lodge, and the Lower, were pulled
down.]
[Footnote 10: Miss Port: now Mrs. Waddington, of Llanover House.]
[Footnote 11: In this equitable judgment of Dr. Burney, other of the
managers were included, and Mr. Windham was identified.]
[Footnote 12: Afterwards Earl of Orford.]
[Footnote 13: Afterwards edited by Miss Berry.]
[Footnote 14: Miss Port; now Mrs. Waddington, of Llanover.]
[Footnote 15: Mrs. Cheveley.]
[Footnote 16: Barrington—afterwards Bishop of Durham]
[Footnote 17: Afterwards Sir William.]
[Footnote 18: To this highly-favoured latest friend she bequeathed two
medallions of the King and Queen; one of the mosaic flowers from her
botanical work; her own elegant copy of Waller’s lovely Saccharissa,
from Vandyke, the original of which is still in the Waller Family, at
Beaconsfield; and, finally, she closed her benign offerings by a verbal
commission to her nephew, Mr. Barnard Dewes, to make over to the same
person her noble edition of Theobald’s Shakespeare, in eight volumes
quarto; kindly desiring him to say, that it was a tribute to the
pleasure with which she had listened to that immortal Bard through the
reading of the legatee.
Mr. Barnard Dewes sent the Saccharissa, preceded by the following
invaluable words.
_Copy from the Will of Mrs. Delany._
“I take this liberty that my much-esteemed friend may sometimes
recollect a person, who was so sensible to her friendship, and who
delighted so much in her conversation and works.”]
[Footnote 19: The Memorialist has since been informed that the King
himself had deigned to say, “It is but her due. She has given up five
years of her pen.”]
[Footnote 20: This has reference to the situation, and to that only, in
Chelsea College.]
[Footnote 21: The eels, now, _are so used to being skinned_, that these
matters, both for the inflictors and the endurers, are become more easy.]
[Footnote 22: See Mr. Moore’s Life of Sheridan.]
[Footnote 23: George III.]
[Footnote 24: The Editor cannot here refuse herself the satisfaction of
inserting a remarkable speech, that was made to her by a professionally
experienced physiognomist, the Rev. Thomas Willis, upon observing Mr.
Burke, after he had spoken to her one day in Westminster Hall: “Give
me leave to ask—who was that you were conversing with just now?” “Mr.
Burke!” “Is that possible!—Can a man who seeks by EVERY means, not
only the obvious and the fair, but the most obscure and irrelevant, to
prosecute to infamy and persecute to death—have a countenance of such
marked honesty? Every line of his face denotes honour and probity!”]
[Footnote 25: Now Baron Crewe.]
[Footnote 26: Now the Hon. Mrs. Cunliffe Offley.]
[Footnote 27: Afterwards the Hon. Mrs. Beauclerk.]
[Footnote 28: Mrs. Locke of Norbury Park.]
[Footnote 29: Mr. Burke, in one of his unpublished Letters, says,
“Coalition is the condition of Mankind!”]
[Footnote 30: Afterwards Lord Chancellor.]
[Footnote 31: Miss French, a niece of Mr. Burke’s.]
[Footnote 32: See Correspondence.]
[Footnote 33: Since Duchess.]
[Footnote 34: Mrs. Phillips.]
[Footnote 35: Afterwards Lord Chancellor.]
[Footnote 36: Afterwards Queen.]
[Footnote 37: Twice only this lady and the Memorialist had yet met,
since the Italian marriage; once at a large assembly at Mrs. Locke’s;
and afterwards at Windsor, on the way to St. George’s chapel; but
neither of these meetings, from circumstantial obstacles, led to any
further intercourse; though each of them offered indications to both
parties of always subsisting kindness.]
[Footnote 38: Beaconsfield.]
[Footnote 39: Mr. Richard Burke, sen., and Mr. Burke, jun.]
[Footnote 40: Beaconsfield.]
[Footnote 41: A £20 Bank Note.]
[Footnote 42: The translations of Mr. Hoole were not yet in
circulation.]
[Footnote 43: He made the same speech of melancholy, but partial
regret, to Dr. Charles Burney, who visited him also at Bath.]
[Footnote 44: Mrs. General Hales, of Chelsea College.]
[Footnote 45: The Doctor’s Sons.]
[Footnote 46: The Burkes.]
[Footnote 47: At this date, 1797, the King, George III. was perfectly
restored.]
[Footnote 48: Now the Hon. Mrs. Cunliffe Offley.]
[Footnote 49: Mr. Burney, the barrister, son of the late Rear-Admiral
Burney.]
[Footnote 50: The present celebrated mathematician and author.]
[Footnote 51: George III.]
[Footnote 52: To the Editor he once avowed, that to pass twenty-four
hours without one piercing pang of pain would be new to him.]
[Footnote 53: Generally, from the name of the author, attributed, but
erroneously, to Anna Seward, of Litchfield.]
[Footnote 54: Now Mrs. Garnier.]
[Footnote 55: Now Viscountess Canning.]
[Footnote 56: Now Lady Elizabeth Whitbread.]
[Footnote 57: Now Viscount Palmerston.]
[Footnote 58: Mr. Twining.]
[Footnote 59: The Doctor’s grand-daughter, now Mrs. Raper.]
[Footnote 60: Afterwards Earl of Liverpool.]
[Footnote 61: First husband of Buonaparte’s sister, Paulina, afterwards
La Princesse Borghese.]
[Footnote 62: The Culpability, or the Rights of the insurgents, could
make no part of the business of the soldier; whose services, when once
he is enlisted, as unequivocally demand personal subordination as
personal bravery.]
[Footnote 63: Louis the Sixteenth.]
[Footnote 64: Of this singular and hazardous letter, M. d’Arblay, who
wrote it on a sudden impulse, neither gave nor shewed one copy in
England, except to M. Otto.]
[Footnote 65: General de La Fayette; who then, with his virtuous wife
and family, resided at his old Chateau of La Grange; exclusively
occupied by useful agricultural experiments, and exemplary domestic
duties.]
[Footnote 66: Afterwards Earl of Chichester.]
[Footnote 67: His Sleep.]
[Footnote 68: As the wife of a French officer of distinction, living
with him in his own country, she would have held any species of
clandestine manoeuvre to its disadvantage as treachery, and, indeed,
ingratitude; for, during ten unbroken years of sojourn in France,
she met with a never abating warmth of friendship, and confidence in
her honour, from the singularly amiable personages to whom she had
the happiness of being presented by her husband; the charm of whose
social intercourse is indelibly engraven on her remembrance. And she
cannot here resist the indulgence of gratefully selecting from a list
too numerous for this brief record, the names of the amiable Prince
and Princesse de Beauvau, and their delightful family; and of the
noble-minded General and Madame Victor de la Tour Maubourg, with the
whole of that upright and estimable race; including most peculiarly
MADAME DE MAISONENNE, the faithful, chosen, and tender friend
of this Editor.]
[Footnote 69: Now Lady (George) Martin.]
[Footnote 70: This Editor had a letter from him, after a lapse of
correspondence of thirty years, that was written within a few weeks of
his decease, by an amanuensis, but signed by himself; and dictated with
all the still unimpaired imagination of his fertile mind and poetical
country; and with the fervent fancy, and expressive feelings of his
grateful recollections of the nation in which he declares himself to
have passed the happiest days of his life.]
[Footnote 71: Now Lord Stowell.]
[Footnote 72: George IV.]
[Footnote 73: Now wife of le Chevalier de Pougens.]
[Footnote 74: The present Hon. Mrs. Singleton and the Hon. Miss Upton.]
[Footnote 75: The Hon. Col. Greville Howard.]
[Footnote 76: Now Governor General of Bengal.]
[Footnote 77: The Duke of York.]
[Footnote 78: A mark of genuine liberality this in Mr. Fox, who,
like Mr. Burke, in the affair of Chelsea College, clearly held that
men of science and letters should, in all great states, be publicly
encouraged, without wounding their feelings by shackling their
opinions.]
[Footnote 79: Barrington.]
[Footnote 80: North.]
[Footnote 81: Howley, now Archbishop of Canterbury.]
[Footnote 82: Relative to the pension.]
[Footnote 83: At Bath, also, many years afterwards, an intercourse,
both personal and epistolary, between Mrs. Piozzi and this Memorialist
was renewed; and was gliding on to returning feelings of the early
cordiality, that, gaily and delightfully, had been endearing to
both—when calamitous circumstances caused a new separation, that soon
afterwards became final by the death of Mrs. Piozzi.]
[Footnote 84: General La Fayette, who was then still living in his
agricultural retirement, surrounded by a branching family, almost
constituting a tribe; and, at that time, utterly a stranger to all
politics or public life.]
[Footnote 85: Afterwards the first Marquis of Lansdowne.]
[Footnote 86: Mrs. Solvyns.]
[Footnote 87: The Count Louis de Narbonne.]
[Footnote 88: The Baron de Larrey.]
[Footnote 89: Chiefly the loyal and admirable family De la Tour
Maubourg.]
[Footnote 90: Lady Lucy Foley.]
[Footnote 91: Admiral Sir Richard Foley.]
[Footnote 92: While she was very young, the Doctor had accustomed
himself to say: “Poor Fanny’s face tells what she thinks, whether she
will or no.”]
[Footnote 93: Every one of which the Doctor kindly remembered in his
will.]
[Footnote 94: A Tancred Scholarship at Cambridge.]
[Footnote 95: The Editor resided at Paris during the astonishing period
of all these events.]
[Footnote 96: Omitting, of course, all extraneous circumstances.]
[Footnote 97: The dream of human existence, from which death would
awaken him to immortal life!]
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