In 1810 she had prepared everything for flight, when fresh rigours of the police obliged her to relinquish her design. In 1811 she had a dangerous illness, and was operated upon by the famous surgeon, Baron de Larrey, for a supposed cancer. In the summer of 1812, when Napoleon had set out on his Russian campaign, she obtained a passport for America, took ship with her son at Dunkirk, and landed at Deal. During the interval between her first and second attempts at crossing, all correspondence with England was prohibited on pain of death. One letter alone reached her, announcing in brief terms the death of the Princess Amelia, the renewed and hopeless derangement of the King, and the death of Mr. Locke. ----- Footnote 112: Among other names, we find, besides those already mentioned, the Marquise de la Châtre, M. de Jaucourt, M. Sicard, the Princesse d’Hénin, De Lally Tollendal, Dumont. Footnote 113: A French inventor whom Fanny had met at Streatham. Footnote 114: How strong this prejudice continued to be was shown not long afterwards in a notable instance. Jane Austen’s father offered her ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to Cadell on November 1, 1797; the proposal was rejected by return of post, without an inspection of the manuscript, though Mr. Austen was willing to bear the risk of the publication. Footnote 115: Author of the ‘Canterbury Tales.’ Footnote 116: Dr. Manners Sutton, then also Dean of Windsor, and afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Footnote 117: Lord Orford to Miss Berry, Aug. 16, 1796. Footnote 118: In ‘Northanger Abbey,’ which, though written in 1798, was not prepared for the press till 1803. Footnote 119: Diary, iv. 3. Footnote 120: Forby’s ‘Vocabulary of East Anglia,’ p. 330. Footnote 121: According to her biographer, the manager had promised her £400 for the right of representation. Footnote 122: Her death took place on January 6, 1800; she was buried in Neston churchyard, where Dr. Burney placed an epitaph to her memory. ----- CHAPTER XIII. Madame d’Arblay’s Plans for her Son—Landing in England—Arrival at Chelsea—Saddening Change in Dr. Burney—Alexander d’Arblay at Cambridge—Publication of the ‘Wanderer’—Death of Dr. Burney—Madame d’Arblay presented to Louis XVIII.—M. d’Arblay appointed to the Corps de Gardes du Roi—Arrives in England and Carries Madame back to France— Madame d’Arblay presented to the Duchess d’Angoulême—The Hundred Days— Panic at Brussels—M. d’Arblay invalided—Settles in England—His Death— Remaining Days of Madame d’Arblay—Visit from Sir Walter Scott—The Memoirs of Dr. Burney—Tributes to their Value—Death of Alexander d’Arblay—Death of Madame d’Arblay—Conclusion.