Fontanes, you wrote to me, "Let our muses remain ever friends:" you have not written to me in vain. [146] This book was written in London between April and September 1822, and revised in December 1846.--T. [147] The anniversary dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern, 21 May 1822.--T. [148] The amount of M. de Chateaubriand's donation was £20.--T. [149] Field-Marshal Frederick Duke of York and Albany, Bishop of Osnaburg, K.G. (1763-1827), second son of George III., and Commander-in-Chief of the army. A military commander of no capacity; four defeats stand to his debit: Hondschoote (8th September 1793), Turcoing (1794), Alxmaar (1799), Castricum (1799), not to mention the scandals in connection with Mrs. Clarke and the sale of commissions in the army.--T. [150] Edward Adolphus Seymour, eleventh Duke of Somerset, K.G. (1775-1855).--T. [151] Vice-Admiral George Byng, sixth Viscount Torrington (1768-1831).--T. [152] William Powlett Orde-Powlett, second Lord Bolton (1782-1850).--T. [153] George Canning (1770-1827), appointed Viceroy of India, but did not take up the appointment. He became Premier in 1827.--T. [154] _Times_, 22nd May 1822. Chateaubriand had asked Canning to return thanks on his behalf for the toast of "the illustrious foreign personages who honoured the society with their company." These were Chateaubriand and the Tripolitan Ambassador, who also "returned thanks through the medium of another gentleman."--T. [155] Canning entered Parliament as a member of Pitt's party in 1793, and joined his ministry as Under-Secretary of State in 1796. Pitt used to speak of Canning and Arthur Wellesley as "the boys."--T. [156] Marie Joseph Annibal de Bedée, Comte de La Boüétardais (1758-1809). He emigrated in 1790, after the death of his wife, never returned to France, and died in London, 6 January 1809.--B. [157] Dr. Edmund Goodwyn (1756-1829), author of _Dissertatio Medica de morte Submersorum_ (1786), and of a translation of the same work in English (1788). He is supposed to have been the original of Thackeray's Dr. Goodenough.--T. [158] "For the rest, my health, disturbed by much travel and many cares, vigils and studies, is so deplorable that I fear I shall be unable to fulfil forthwith my promise concerning the other volumes of the _Essai historique._"--B. [159] _Essai historique sur les révolutions_, Book I. part i., Introduction.--B. [160] One of Peltier's first pamphlets, published October 1789, and denouncing the Duc d'Orléans and Mirabeau as the principal authors of the day's work of the 5th and 6th of October.--B. [161] Henri Christophe (1767-1820), King of Haiti under the title of Henry I. He led the negro insurrection in 1790, caused himself to be proclaimed President in 1806, assumed the title of Emperor in 1811, and reigned until 1820, when he committed suicide to escape being put to death by his subjects.--T.