[25] Mr. Thomas Pelham, in a letter to Lady Webster, dated June 15, 1792 (_Holland House MSS._), recounts a conversation he had with Mr. Fox about the Association:--‘He told me (what I knew to be the truth, notwithstanding what is _now_ said) that he had never been consulted about it, and that, on the contrary, the Associators seemed determined _not to have any advice_, and particularly not to _have his_. This I know to be true, for Lauderdale told me that they were determined not to consult Fox until they saw the probability of success, in order that he might not be involved if they failed.’ [26] Henry, second Viscount Palmerston (1739–1802), who succeeded his grandfather in 1757. He was twice married, his second wife, whom he married in 1783, being Mary, daughter of Benjamin Mee, Esq. She died 1805. The celebrated statesman was her son. [27] Under La Touche Tréville. Their unwelcome presence was due to the recent dismissal of the French Minister, Mackau. The Court were ignominiously compelled to allow him to return. [28] Russian Secretary of Legation at Naples, and afterwards Minister there. He was Minister at Constantinople for some years. [29] Roger Joseph Boscovitch (1711–1787), mathematician and astronomer. [30] Sarah, daughter of Andrew, Lord Archer. She married Other Hickman, fifth Earl of Plymouth, in 1778, and after his death in 1799, William Pitt, first Earl Amherst. She died in 1838. [31] Marie Caroline (1753–1814), daughter of Empress Marie Thérèse of Austria, and sister of Queen Marie Antoinette. She married Ferdinand IV., King of Naples, in 1768. One of her sixteen children was married to her nephew, Francis, who had succeeded his father, Leopold, as Emperor during the preceding year. He proclaimed himself Emperor of Austria in 1804 under the title of Francis I., and resigned the Empire of Germany altogether, two years later. [32] One of the patron saints of Naples, more especially of the Lazzaroni. The yearly liquefaction of the Saint’s blood was said to propitiate Vesuvius. Mr. Sichel, in his _Emma, Lady Hamilton_, states that the Saint was accused of Jacobinism at the outbreak of the French Revolution, and that his statue was condemned in court. [33] The King’s hunting box, near Caserta. [34] Alexandre Sauveur, who in a letter to Wilhelmine, Comtesse de Lichtenau (1796), says that he retired from the world owing to his unspoken love for Princess F----. (He was engaged in Berlin to instruct the latter in the Italian language.) [35] Probably Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807), a Prussian landscape painter, who with his brother entered the service of the King of Naples in 1782.