[Footnote 2: [A correspondent in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for May, 1789,
p. 403., who was intimately acquainted with Lord and Lady Vane, states that
"though Dr. Smollet was as willing as he was able to embellish his works
with stories marvellous, yet he did not dress up Lady Vane's story of her
Lord. She wrote it as well as she could herself, and Dr. Shebbeare put it
in its present form at her ladyship's request."]
[Footnote 3: Lord Vane died April 5, 1789, at his house in Downing Street,
Westminster. He was great-grandson of that inflexible republican, Sir Henry
Vane, executed on Tower Hill, June 14, 1662.--ED.]]
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