The next day we entered the Havre. The whole population had come out to see us. Our top-masts were broken, our boats carried away, our quarter-deck cut down, and we shipped water at every pitch of the vessel. I landed on the jetty. On the 2nd of January 1792, I once more trod my native soil, which was soon again to slip from under ray feet I brought with me no Esquimaux from the Polar regions, but two savages of an unknown species: Chactas and Atala. [427] This book was written in London between April and September 1822, and revised December 1846.--T. [428] The 5th of April was the date of Chateaubriand's arrival in London. He landed at Dover from the French packet Antigone, on the evening of the 4th (_Moniteur_, 11 April 1822).--B. [429] This should read the Ship Inn, also known as Wright's Hotel.--T. [430] Baron A. Billing, _attaché_ to the French Embassy in London (1822), and afterwards _chargé d'affaires_ at Naples (1834).--B. [431] The Comte Georges de Caraman, son of the Duc de Caraman, Ambassador to Vienna.--B. [432] Marie Louis Jean André Charles Demartin du Tyrac, Comte de Marcellus (1795-1865). While secretary of embassy in 1820, he discovered the Venus of Milo, now at the Louvre. He was _chargé d'affaires_ in London during Chateaubriand's absence at the Congress of Verona, and was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Polignac Ministry. Marcellus was the author of, among other works, a valuable volume on the subject of these Memoirs, entitled, _Chateaubriand et son temps._--B. [433] François Adolphe Comte de Bourqueney (1799-1869). Here signed upon Chateaubriand's dismissal in 1824. In 1840 he was again secretary of embassy in London, _chargé d'affaires_ in 1841, Ambassador to Constantinople in 1844, and Ambassador to Vienna under the Second Empire. Louis-Philippe created him a baron (1842), and Napoleon III. a count (1859).--B. [434] "Ah, my Lord, how your Lordship's life, In which such honours now are rife, Differs from those happy days!" --T. [435] The Duc Decazes was French Ambassador in London from 17 February 1820 to 9 February 1822.--B. [436] George IV. (1762-1850) came to the throne in 1820, after being Prince Regent since 1811.--T. [437] Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827.--T. [438] Chateaubriand refers to the statue of James II., not Charles II., which stood until recent years in Whitehall Gardens, behind Whitehall, and was entirely hidden from view by the United Service Institute. This very beautiful statue has now been placed in a more conspicuous position in a garden standing back from the Whitehall pavement, beside Gwydyr House.--T. [439] Marie Antoinette was guillotined 16 October 1793; 21 January was the date of the execution of Louis XVI.--T.