One of the most venerable and interesting figures in London, down to his death in 1891, was George Thomas, sixth Earl of Albemarle. He was born in 1799. He had played bat-trap-and-ball at St. Anne's Hill with Mr. Fox, and, excepting his old comrade General Whichcote, who outlived him by a few months, was the last survivor of Waterloo. A man whom I knew longer and more intimately than any of those whom I have described was the late Lord Charles James Fox Russell. He was born in 1807, and died in 1894. His father's groom had led the uproar of London servants which in the eighteenth century damned the play _High Life Below Stairs_. He remembered a Highlander who had followed the army of Prince Charles Edward in 1745, and had learned from another Highlander the Jacobite soldiers' song-- "I would I were at Manchester, A-sitting on the grass, And by my side a bottle of wine, And on my lap a lass." He had officiated as a page at the coronation of George IV.; had conversed with Sir Walter Scott about _The Bride of Lammermoor_ before its authorship was disclosed; had served in the Blues under Ernest Duke of Cumberland; and had lost his way in trying to find the newly developed quarter of London called Belgrave Square. Among living[2] links, I hope it is not ungallant to enumerate Lady Georgiana Grey, only surviving child of "That Earl, who forced his compeers to be just, And wrought in brave old age what youth had planned;" Lady Louisa Tighe, who as Lady Louisa Lennox buckled the Duke of Wellington's sword when he set out from her mother's ball at Brussels for the field of Waterloo; and Miss Eliza Smith of Brighton, the vivacious and evergreen daughter of Horace Smith, who wrote the _Rejected Addresses_. But these admirable and accomplished ladies hate garrulity, and the mere mention of their names is a signal to bring these disjointed reminiscences to a close. FOOTNOTES: [1] Lady Lyndhurst died in 1901. [2] "Living" alas! no longer. The last survivor of these ladies died this year, 1903. II. LORD RUSSELL These chapters are founded on Links with the Past. Let me now describe in rather fuller detail three or four remarkable people with whom I had more than a cursory acquaintance, and who allowed me for many years the privilege of drawing without restriction on the rich stores of their political and social recollections. First among these in point of date, if of nothing else, I must place John Earl Russell, the only person I have ever known who knew Napoleon the Great. Lord Russell--or, to give him the name by which he was most familiar to his countrymen, Lord John Russell--was born in 1792, and when I first knew him he was already old; but it might have been said of him with perfect truth that "Votiva patuit veluti descripta tabella Vita senis."