[220] White Friars, Canterbury--the residence of Mrs. Knight. [221] He took command of the _Elephant_ on July 18, 1811, and became again concerned in the Napoleonic Wars. _Sailor Brothers_ p. 226. [222] The original of this letter is in the British Museum. [223] _Sense and Sensibility._ We do not know whether the _Incomes_ were ever altered. [224] Mr. Hampson, like Mr. Walter, must have been related to Jane through her grandmother (Rebecca Hampson), who married first, Dr. Walter; secondly, William Austen. Mr. Hampson succeeded to a baronetcy, but was too much of a republican to use the title. [225] Jane and her niece Fanny seem to have invented a language of their own--the chief point of which was to use a 'p' wherever possible. Thus the piece of music alluded to was 'Strike the harp in praise of Bragela.' [226] We learn from a letter of Cassandra that he arrived in time to spend (with his family) a week at Chawton Cottage. He had been absent almost seven years. It was their first sight of his wife. [227] The Comte d'Antraigues and his wife were both of them notable people. _He_ had been elected deputy for the _noblesse_ to the States-General in 1789, and had taken at first the popular side; but as time went on he became estranged from Mirabeau, and was among the earliest to emigrate in 1790. For the rest of his life he was engaged in plotting to restore the Bourbons. His wife had been the celebrated Madame St. Hubert of the Paris opera-house, and was the only woman ever known to have inspired Bonaparte to break forth into verse. Both the Count and Countess were murdered by their valet at Barnes, July 22, 1812. (_Un agent secret sous la Revolution et l'Empire: Le Comte d'Antraigues_, par Leonce Pingaud. Paris, 1894.) [228] A novel by Mrs. Brunton, published in 1810. [229] We can give no explanation of the cousinship, if any existed, of Miss Beckford; Miss Payne may have descended from a sister of Jane's grandmother, Rebecca Austen, who married a man of that name. [230] Perhaps in the battle of Albuera, May 16, 1811, which is described by Professor Oman (_Cambridge Modern History_, ix. 467) as 'the most bloody incident of the whole Peninsular War.' [231] June 2. They ought to have waited for the King's birthday (June 4), which was considered the correct day to begin pease upon. CHAPTER XV _PRIDE AND PREJUDICE_ 1812-1814 The title-page of _Sense and Sensibility_ describes the book as being 'by a Lady.' This ascription satisfied the author's desire for concealment, but it puzzled the advertisers. The first advertisement--that in the _Morning Chronicle_ on October 31, 1811--merely describes it as 'a novel, called _Sense and Sensibility_, by Lady ----.' In the same paper, on November 7, it is styled an 'extraordinary novel by Lady ----'; while on November 28 it sinks to being an 'interesting novel,' but is ascribed to 'Lady A.'[232]