_A Collection of Theological Tracts_, by the Bishop of Llandaff, 6 vols. Footnote 203: This seems to have been an anticipation of table-turning. Footnote 204: Samuel Horsley, born 1733, died 1806, Bishop of St. Asaph’s, St. David’s, and Rochester; celebrated for his controversy with Dr. Priestley. Footnote 205: The _Anti-Jacobin_, or _Weekly Examiner_, was started by Canning, J. H. Frere, and others; the editor was W. Gifford. It ran from November 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. Footnote 206: I print this as written, but can find no allusion in works of reference to the circumstance mentioned. Footnote 207: C. de l’Héritier, born 1746, died 1800; botanist, and member of the Académie des Sciences. Footnote 208: Cornelia Knight, author of _Dinarbas_, a continuation of _Rasselas_, 1790, and other works. Footnote 209: Celebrated French geologist. Accompanied Napoleon to Egypt; on his return was taken prisoner and confined at Messina by the King of Sicily; on peace being made with Naples was liberated. Footnote 210: Robert Smith, son of a banker at Nottingham; M.P. for that town from 1770 to 1796; supporter and friend of Pitt; raised to the Irish peerage in 1796, to the English peerage in 1797. Footnote 211: Mrs. Orbell Oakes, the beautiful Betty Plampin of former flirtations, is ‘the friend’ henceforth constantly alluded to. Footnote 212: Isaac Milner, 1751-1820, son of a poor weaver (brother of the no less remarkable Joseph Milner), Dean of Carlisle, and Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. Footnote 213: John Russell, sixth Duke, ‘the great Duke of Bedford,’ who did so much for agriculture, and in 1830 rebuilt Covent Garden Market at a cost of 40,000_l._ Died 1839. Footnote 214: J. Overton, officer in the Excise; made telescopes, and had a private press, where he printed books, mostly theological. Died 1838. See _Annual Register_ for that year. Footnote 215: L. W. Otto, Count of Morlay, was a German diplomatist in the French service, and lived 1752-1817. See Didot, _Biographie Universelle_. Footnote 216: This was not, perhaps, impossible. See the following note from the _Daily News_ Paris correspondent three or four years ago: ‘An account of Napoleon I.’s visit to Breda in 1810 is now appearing, for the first time, in the _Débats_, and is deeply interesting. It will be seen that Napoleon I. at the zenith of his power was on the point of becoming a Protestant.