And thou shalt, from thy blissful state, Awhile avert thy raptur'd gaze, To own, that 'midst this wild'ring maze, The flame of filial love defies the blast of fate! Note 44: Dumouriez. Note 45: An attachment took place between Mrs. Robinson and Colonel Tarleton shortly after the return of the latter from America, which subsisted during sixteen years. On the circumstances which occasioned its dissolution it is neither necessary nor would it be proper to dwell. The exertions of Mrs. Robinson in the service of Colonel Tarleton, when pressed by pecuniary embarrassment, led to that unfortunate journey, the consequences of which proved so fatal to her health. The colonel accompanied her to the Continent, and, by his affectionate attentions, sought to alleviate those sufferings of which he had been the involuntary occasion. Note 46: Son of the celebrated Edmund Burke. Note 47: The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, at that time conductor of the _Annual Register_. Note 48: Mr. Merry had been a member of the "Scuola della Crusca," at Florence. Note 49: Mrs. Robinson's "Poems," vol. ii. p. 27. Note 50: The date on which the Paris prisons were broken open and twelve hundred royalist prisoners slain.--Ed. Note 51: Boaden, in his Life of Kemble, says: "I remember the warmth with which Mrs. Robinson chanted the kindness of Mrs. Jordan in accepting the principal character: and I cannot forget the way, when the storm began, in which the actress, frightened out of her senses, 'died and made no sign.'"--Ed. Note 52: The Morning Post. Note 53: Miss Robinson and a friend. Note 54: Those who have read Gifford's "Baviad" and "Maeviad" will understand this allusion.--Ed. Note 55: Second Baron Rodney, son of the admiral, then a captain in the Guards. Note 56: Captain Darby commanded, at the time of his death, a ship of war in the Russian service, and was buried with military honours, universally lamented. End of Project Gutenberg's Beaux and Belles of England, by Mary Robinson