For two or three years running we had theatrical performances, our _dramatis personæ_ including Mr Henry Greville,[110] Mr and Mrs Sartoris,[111] Lady Alice Egerton,[112] Mrs Leslie,[113] Lord Hamilton[114] and others. Footnote 110: Henry Greville, son of Mr Charles and Lady Charlotte Greville. Footnote 111: Adelaide Kemble and her husband. Footnote 112: Now Alice, Countess of Strafford, widow of the third Earl of Strafford. Footnote 113: Now Lady Constance Leslie, wife of Sir John Leslie, and sister of the fourth Earl of Portarlington. Footnote 114: Present Duke of Abercorn. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDEX Aachen, lake of, 191 Abercorn, Duke of, 90_n_, 282_n_ Adelaide, Queen, 29; appoints Caroline Boyle maid of honour, 101 Albano, 133 Alderney, island of, 171, 174 Alexander, Captain, Lieutenant-Governor of Alderney, 4_n_, 174; —— his anecdote, 175 —— Elizabeth Charlotte, 176, 265_n_ —— James, 265_n_ —— Rose, 4_n_, 174; her marriage, 175 Alford, Lady Marian, 184, 204, 266, 267, 280 —— Lord, 184 Althorp, 253; library, 253; staircase, 254; heronry, 254; Portrait Gallery, 254 Alvanley, Lord, 180 Amalfi, 136 Ampthill, Lady, 270_n_ Anderson, Miss Mary, 106 Anglesey, Earl of, 272_n_; skipper of his craft, 144 “Annie Winnie,” 44 Asberry, Mr, 53 Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 267 Ashby, Castle, 184 —— Farmer, 87 Ashridge, 279 Astley’s theatre, 35 Ausberg, review at, 190 Aumale, Duc and Duchesse d’, at Ossington, 278 Autolycus, lines from, 2 _Bachelor Philosopher, The_ 89 Baiæ, 138 Baker, Eric, 205 _Bal Costumé_, 165-167 Balbi, 104 _Ballets d’action_, 107 Balls, Park, 3, 55 Bath, Marquis of, 53_n_ Bavaria, King Louis of, 188; stories of, 189 Bedford, Duke of, 90 Beer, Mr 45 —— Mrs, Under-Housekeeper at Hampton Court, 45 Belgiojoto, Countess, 140 Bentinck, Lady Charlotte, 278 Beppa, the florist, 222 Berri, Duchesse de, 127 Bessborough, Earl of, 271_n_ Bidwell, Mr George, 271 “Billy,” 98 “Black Taffy,” 16 “Boch Dhu,” 96, 125, 137 Boddingtons, the, 117 Bognor, bathing fatality at, 59 Bomba, King, 140 Bonaparte, Caroline, 152; her appearance, 153 Boucicault, 35 Boulogne-sur-Mer, 236; outbreak of diphtheria, 237 Bourbon, Charles de, 119 Bowood, 250 Boxall, Sir William, his portrait of Sir William Napier, 171 Boyl, Cavaliere Pietro de, 105, 225; Governor of Sardinia, 105