NAPOLEON’S BRITISH VISITORS NAPOLEON’S BRITISH VISITORS AND CAPTIVES 1801–1815 BY JOHN GOLDWORTH ALGER AUTHOR OF THE ‘NEW PARIS SKETCH BOOK’ ‘ENGLISHMEN IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’ ‘GLIMPSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’ AND ‘PARIS IN 1789–94’ New York JAMES POTT AND COMPANY 1904 Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE INTRODUCTORY, 1 CHAPTER II THE VISITORS No Thoroughfare--Occasional Visitors--Negotiations--Fox --M.P.’s--Ex- and Prospective M.P.’s--Peers and their Families--Baronets--Soldiers--Sailors--Functionaries-- Lawyers--Doctors--Clergymen--Savants--Artists--Actors-- Inventors--Claimants and Men of Business--Writers on France--Other Authors--Residents--Ancestors--Fugitives-- Emigrés, 12 CHAPTER III AMUSEMENTS AND IMPRESSIONS Parisian Attractions--Napoleon--Foreign Notabilities--Mutual Impressions--Marriages and Deaths--Return Visits, 126 CHAPTER IV CAPTIVITY The Rupture--Detentions--Flights and Narrow Escapes--Life at Verdun--Extortion--Napoleon’s Rigour--M.P.’s--The _Argus_--Escapes and Recaptures--Diplomatists --Liberations--Indulgences--Women and Children--Captures in War--Rumbold--Foreign Visitors--British Travellers--Deaths--The Last Stage--French Leave--Unpaid Debts, 174 CHAPTER V TWO RESTORATIONS The Restoration--Aristocrats and Commoners--Unwelcome Guests--Wellington in Danger--Misgivings--Napoleonic Emblems--Spectacles--Visits to Elba--Egerton’s Siege--St. Helena Eyewitnesses and Survivors, 271 APPENDIX _A._ MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, 316 _B._ PEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES, 317 _C._ LORD J. RUSSELL AT ELBA (_narrative now first published_), 319 INDEX OF NAMES, AND LIST OF OTHER VISITORS, 325 I INTRODUCTORY