[Footnote 351: "By the voice of the old thou didst praise beauty's charms."--T.]
[Footnote 352: Peace was concluded at Amiens between Great Britain and çoisRenéIreland on the one side, and France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic on the 27th of March 1802, and lasted till the 18th of May 1803, when Great Britain resumed hostilities.--T.]
[Footnote 353: Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), _née_ Spencer, wife of the fifth Duke of Devonshire, and famous for her wit, beauty and social and political influence.--T.]
[Footnote 354: Elizabeth Viscountess Melbourne (1753-1818), _née_ Milbanke, married in 1769 to Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne. The rise of her family was due to her brilliant qualities.--T.]
[Footnote 355: Emily Mary Marchioness of Salisbury (1751-1835), daughter of Wills Hill, first Marquess of Downshire, and married to James Cecil, seventh Earl, later first Marquess of Salisbury, in 1773. Lady Salisbury perished in the fire that burnt down the west wing of Hatfield House in November 1835.--T.]
[Footnote 356: Antoine Philippe Duc de Montpensier (1775-1807) died in England of a malady of the chest.--T.]
[Footnote 357: Louis Comte de Beaujolais (1779-1808) died in Malta.--T.]
[Footnote 358: George IV. was appointed Regent of the United Kingdom in 1811, and came to the throne on the 29th of January 1820; Louis-Philippe usurped the throne of France on the 9th of August 1830.--T.]
[Footnote 359: Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas, later (1819) tenth Duke of Hamilton and seventh of Brandon (_d._ 1852), had been Ambassador to St. Petersburg and was, at this time (1802), M.P. for Lanarkshire.--T.]
[Footnote 360: Charles X. came to Holyrood in 1830. The Dukes of Hamilton are Hereditary Keepers of Holyrood Palace.--T.]
[Footnote 361: Charlotte Duchess of Somerset, _née_ Douglas-Hamilton, married, in 1800, to the eleventh Duke of Somerset.--T.]
[Footnote 362: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1813), the famous Italian engraver, lived in London from 1764 to 1802, when he removed to Lisbon to take charge of the National Academy in that capital.--T.]
[Footnote 363: William I. was proclaimed first King of the Netherlands on the 16th of March 1815. He abdicated on the 7th of October 1840, one year after the above lines were written and three years before his death.--T.]