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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
pension from the English Government which he had previously declined. By a singular coincidence, while Edgeworth attended Louis XVI. to the scaffold, his kinsman, Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher—both were descendants of Archbishop Ussher—escorted Napoleon to exile. Napoleon at Elba, in December 1814, inquired of Lord Ebrington for "my good friend Ussher."
