in 1814 he did not renew acquaintance with his hostess. Perhaps he could not countenance her liaison with the printer Stone, who, however, must have been the gentleman who in 1802 brought him his invitation.
Lord Aberdeen, not yet "the travelled thane, Athenian Aberdeen," but a very agreeable young man of eighteen according to George (afterwards Sir George) Jackson of the Embassy, was introduced to Bonaparte. He was the Prime Minister of 1853–5. Lord Camelford, a second cousin of Pitt's, and the best shot in England, was over in strict incognito.[1] Refused a passport, he went to Boulogne as an American, and thence to Paris as a valet, but afraid of the police discovering him, he went on to Vienna. "It is feared," wrote Jackson, "he should attempt some personal mischief," which implies symptoms of the mental derangement which in 1804 led to his fatal duel with his friend Captain Best.[2] St. George Caulfeild, an Irishman,
- ↑ It was he who made Home Tooke M.P. for Old Sarum. In 1798 he was arrested on the point of starting for France, but manifestly having no treasonable designs—his object was secretly to examine the French Mediterranean ports—was discharged, but deprived of his naval command. According to Fauche Borel, the royalist spy, he went over to Calais in a fishing boat, was arrested, was confined in the Temple at Paris, and was liberated by bribing a turnkey with 2000 louis to inform Lord Grenville of his whereabouts. But a more probable version is that he went to Switzerland, and made a point of witnessing the engagements between the Russians and the French.
- ↑ His sister, Lady Grenville, lived till 1864, to the age of ninety-one, and attended a flower-show only two days before her death.
