[15] Daughter of Charles Bonaparte, the Emperor’s uncle, and wife of Paraviccini, a cousin, also, of Napoleon. [16] _Memoirs_, p. 7. [17] _Buonapartiana, ou Choix d’Anecdotes curieuses_, Paris, 1814. [18] _The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax_ (William Combe). London, 1815. [19] _Memoirs_, vol. i. p. 10. [20] _Memoirs_, vol. i. p. 33. [21] For instance, see _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, vol. vii. p. 364. [22] _Romance of London_, vol. iii. p. 172, ed. 1865. [23] _Memoirs of Madame Junot_, vol. i. p. 73. [24] _Memoirs_, vol. i. p. 80. [25] _Amours et Aventures du Vicomte de Barras_, Paris, 1817. [26] _Notre Dame de Thermidor_, p. 429. [27] Madame Tallien and Madame Viconti. [28] _Madame Junot’s Memoirs_, vol. i. p. 249. [29] Gillray, evidently, was not particular as to dates, for Napoleon married Josephine in 1796. [30] _History of the French Consulate under Napoleon Buonaparte, &c._, by W. Barre, London, 1804. [31] R. H. Horne. [32] G. M. Bussey. [33] The Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Blackhall. [34] A bogey, a bugbear. [35] The Directory. [36] He was the father of our great caricaturist, George; but there is little doubt from the internal evidence of the pictures, that George either wholly produced, or materially helped in the execution of many caricatures signed with his father’s name. [37] Fox’s residence. [38] _The True Briton_, May 11, 1798. [39] _Histoire de Bonaparte, Premier Consul, Depuis sa Naissance, jusqu’à la Paix de Lunéville_, Paris, chez Barba, 1801. [40] The italics are mine.--J. A. [41] _Memoirs_, vol. i. p. 209 [42] Eleven hundred guineas were collected at once on the first day, besides which, the _Times_, October 4, says, ‘The Royal Exchange and London Assurance Companies have subscribed 100 guineas each, and the East India Company have voted 1,000_l._ towards this benevolent and patriotic fund.’ [43] From _Bonduca_, by Henry Purcell, A.D. 1710. [44] There is a long account of this lady in _Amours secrètes de Napoléon, des Princes et Princesses de sa famille, &c._, by M. de B.... 2 vols., Paris, 1844, 12mo. [45] _Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St. Helena, &c._, by Barry E. O’Meara. 2 vols., London, 1822. Vol. ii. p. 127. [46] Ibid., vol. i. p. 329. [47] _History of Buonaparte_, price 6_d._ Printed by Cox, Son, & Baylis, 75 Great Queen Street. [48] Vol. i. p. 209. [49] Of Aboukir.