[31] Gas was just then coming into notoriety as an illuminating power. Westminster Bridge was lit by gas December 31, 1813, but its use did not become general in London until 1816. [32] Deceiving. [33] ‘Funking’ is smoking, or causing a great smell. [34] _Buonapartiana, ou Choix d’Anecdotes curieuses._ Paris, 1814. [35] One of the pyramids. [36] _Histoire de l’Empereur, racontée dans une Grange par un vieux Soldat._ [37] Borodino. [38] In the French original it is ‘_Tirez donc, François, vous nous faites attendre!_’ [39] They alluded to the Duke of Bassano, Caulaincourt, Bertrand, and some others. [40] He accompanied the Emperor to Elba. Constant, as we have seen, left him. [41] Anagram upon Bonaparte’s name, on his attempting to steal the Crown, &c. ‘_Bona rapta pone, Leno!_ Lay down the goods you have stolen, Rascal!’ [42] The first twenty-seven verses of the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah. [43] As a matter of fact, both his mother, Madame Letitia, and his sister, Pauline went to Elba, soon after his arrival. [44] _A Voice from St. Helena._ O’Meara. [45] Plentifully. [46] Slept. [47] Rolls of the drum. [48] Horse, or, as we should say, ‘gee-gee.’ [49] Stronger. [50] We must recollect that George the Magnificent was then Regent, and his taste in architecture was decidedly Eastern. [51] Or Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, where he resided whilst in England. [52] There is a very amusing skit about these ‘R--l Whiskers,’ which were assumed to be as false as the historical wigs, published early in 1816. It is too long to reproduce, although it is really laughable; but, at all events, space can be found for the first few lines. L’ADIEU. _From a puissant Prince to his Cast-off Whiskers, on his leaving London to make an Excursion._ Adieu, my dear Whiskers! dear Whiskers, adieu! I ne’er shall love Whiskers as I have lov’d you, So becoming your form, and so brilliant your hue, I ne’er admir’d Whiskers as I’ve admired you. Your curve was so lovely, so like a horse-shoe, Not a Whisker at Court was so lovely as you. The Baron Geramb’s were immense, it is true, But they didn’t sweep round half so tasty as you. [53] _Times_, June 1, 1815. [54] George Alexander Stevens gave the famous ‘Lecture on Heads’, _circa_ 1763 or 1764, by which it is said that here and in America he cleared nearly 10,000_l._ [55] June 30, 1815. [56] July 25, 1815. [57] General Gourgaud. [58] _A visit to Bonaparte in Plymouth Sound_, by a Lady. Plymouth, 1815. [59] Mackerel. [60] _Interesting Particulars of Napoleon’s Deportation for Life to St. Helena, &c._ London, 1816. Printed for W. Hone. [61] By George Colman the younger. [62] _i.e._ the midshipmen who took female parts. [63] The Bourbon colour. Transcriber’s Notes