[ Mr. Gibbon, “in stepping too lightly from, or to a boat of Mr. Cambridge's, had slipt into the Thames; whence, however, he was intrepidly and immediately rescued, with no other mischief than a wet jacket, by one of that fearless, water-proof race, denominated, by Mr. Gibbon, the amphibious family of the Cambridges.” (“Memoir of Dr. Burney,” vol. ii. P. 341.)—ED.]

178 (return)
[ The “Essex Head” club, just founded by Dr. Johnson. The meetings were held thrice a week at the Essex Head, a tavern in Essex-street, Strand, kept by Samuel Greaves, an old servant of Mr. Thrale's. Among the rule's of the club, which were drawn up by Dr. Johnson, we find the following: “Every member present at the club shall spend at least sixpence; and every member who stays away shall forfeit threepence.” He ought to have added, “to be spent by the company in punch.” (See Goldsmith's delightful essay on the London clubs.)—ED.]

179 (return)
[ The Lockes, of Norbury Park, Surrey, were friends of Fanny's sister, Mrs. Phillips, and, subsequently, among the most constant and attached friends of Fanny herself.—ED.]

180 (return)
[ It must be borne in mind that the “Diary” is addressed to Fanny's sister Susan (Mrs. Phillips),—ED.]

181 (return)
[ Mrs. Locke.—ED.]

182 (return)
[ Mrs. Phillips had lately gone to live at Boulogne for the benefit of her health.—ED.]

183 (return)
[ Mrs. Phillips returned in less than a twelvemonth from Boulogne, much recovered in health, and settled with her husband and family in a house at Micklcham, at the foot of Norbury Park.]

184 (return)
[ Fanny had called upon Dr. Johnson the same day, but he was too ill to see her.—ED.]

185 (return)
[ Sunday, December 12.—ED.]

186 (return)
[ Frank Barber, Dr. Johnson's negro servant.—-ED.]

187 (return)
[ Mary Bruce Strange, daughter of Sir Robert Strange, the celebrated engraver. She died, as Fanny tells us, on the same day with Dr. Johnson, December 13, 1784, aged thirty-five. The Stranges were old and very intimate friends of the Burneys—ED.]

188 (return)
[ Her brother—ED.]

189 (return)
[ “Memoirs of Dr. Burney,” vol. iii. p. 87. Fanny had, however, to assist in dressing the queen. See postea, P—345.]

190 (return)
[ The death of the Duchess dowager of Portland.]

191 (return)
[ Miss Planta was English teacher to the two eldest princesses.—ED.]

192 (return)
[ One of the governesses to the princesses.—ED.]

193 (return)
[ Georgina Mary Anne Port, grandniece of Mrs. Delany, by whom she was brought up from the age of seven until Mrs. Delany's death. She was born in 1771, and mairied, in 1789, Mr. Waddington, afterwards Lord Llanover. She was for many years on terms of friendship with Fanny, but after Madame D'Arblay's death, Lady Llanover seized the opportunity of publishing, in her edition of Mrs. Delany's Correspondence, an attack upon her former friend, of which the ill-breeding is only equalled by the inaccuracy. The view which she there takes of Fanny is justly characterised by Mr. Shuckburgh as “the lady-in-waiting's lady's-maid's view.” (See Macmillan's magazine for February, 1890.)—ED.]

194 (return)
[ Joseph Baretti, author of an Italian and English Dictionary, and other works; the friend Of JOhnson, well known to readers of Boswell. He had long been acquainted with the Burneys. Fanny writes in her “Early Diary” (March, 1773): “Mr. Baretti appears to be very facetious; he amused himself very much with Charlotte, whom he calls Churlotte, and kisses whether she will or no, always calmly saying, 'Kiss a me, Churlotte!'” Charlotte Burney was then about fourteen; she was known after this in the family as Mrs. Baretti.—ED.]

195 (return)
[ A character in “Cecilia.”—ED.]

196 (return)
[ Mrs. Phillips (Susan)—ED.]

197 (return)
[ Madame de Genlis had visited England during the spring of 1785, and made the acquaintance of Dr. Burney and his daughter Fanny. In July Fanny writes of her as “the sweetest as well as the most accomplished Frenchwoman I ever met with,” and in the same month Madame de Genlis writes to Fanny: “Je vous aime depuis l'instant ou j'ai lu Evelina et Cecilia, et le bonheur de vous entendre et de vous conneitre personellement a rendu ce sentiment aussi tendre qu'il est bien fonde.” The acquaintance, however, was not kept up.—ED.]

198 (return)
[ The famous actress, Kitty Clive. She had quitted the stage in 1760. Genest says of her, “If ever there was a true Comic Genius, Mrs. Clive was one.”—-ED.]

199 (return)
[ John Henderson was by many people considered second only to Garrick, especially in Shakspearean parts. He too was lately dead, having made his last appearance on the stage on the 8th of November, 1785, within less than a month of his death.—ED.]

200 (return)
[ “Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'education” by Madame de Genlis, first published in 1782.—ED.]

201 (return)
[ We shall hear again of 'Mr. and Mrs. Hastings, and of the scandal which was caused by the lady's reception at Court. She was bought by Hastings of her former husband for 10,000 pounds. The story is briefly as follows:—

Among the fellow-passengers of Hastings on the ship which conveyed him to India in 1769, were a German portrait-painter, named Imhoff, and his wife, who were going out to Madras in the hope of bettering their circumstances. During the voyage a strong attachment sprang up between Hastings and the lady, who nursed him through an illness. The husband, it seems, had as little affection for his wife as she had for him, and was easily prevailed upon to enter into an amicable arrangement, by virtue of which Madame Imhoff instituted proceedings for divorce against him in the German courts. Pending the result, the Imhoffs continued to live together ostensibly as man and wife to avoid scandal. The proceedings—were long protracted, but a decree of divorce was finally procured in 1772, when Hastings married the lady and paid to the complaisant husband a sum, it is said, exceeding, 10,000 pounds.

The favourable reception accorded by the queen to Mrs. Hastings, when, in 1784, she returned to England as wife of the Governor-general of Bengal, passed not without public comment. Her husband, however, was in high esteem at Court from his great services, and she had an additional recommendation to the queen's favour in the friendship of Mrs. Schwellenberg, the keeper of the robes, whom she had known before her voyage to India.—ED.]

202 (return)
[ Fanny's sister Charlotte, who had mairied Clement Francis, Feb. 11, 1786. They were now settled at Aylesham, in Norfolk, where Mr. Francis was practising as a surgeon.—ED.]

203 (return)
[ Dr. Burney's daughter by his second wife—ED.]

204 (return)
[ Sir Thomas Clarges, whose wife was a dear friend of Susan Burney. Sir Thomas died in December, 1782. In the “Early Diary” he is mentioned once or twice, as a visitor at Dr. Burney's. Fanny writes of him in May, 1775, as “a young baronet, who was formerly so desperately enamoured of Miss Linley, now Mrs. Sheridan, that his friends made a point of his going abroad to recover himself: he is now just returned from italy, and I hope cured. He still retains all the schoolboy English mauvaise honte; scarce speaks but to make an answer, and is as shy as if his last residence had been at Eton instead of Paris.”—ED.]

205 (return)
[ 'Tis amazing what nonsense sensible people can write, when their heads are turned by considerations of rank and flummery!—ED.]

206 (return)
[ The wife of Warren Hastings. Fanny had made the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Hastings from her friend Mr. Cambridge, some months previously. (See note [201], ante, p. 327).—ED.]

207 (return)
[ The name of the poor woman was Margaret Nicholson. She was, of course, insane, and had, a few days previously, presented a petition, which had probably been left unread at the time, but which turned out on investigation to be full of incoherent nonsense. On her examination before the Privy Council she declared that “the crown was hers, and that if she had not her rights England would be deluged with blood.” She was ultimately consigned to Bedlam.—ED.]

208 (return)
[ Fanny's bitter experience of Mrs. Schwellenberg is now commencing.—ED.]

209 (return)
[ The wife and daughter of Dr. William Heberden, an eminent physician, and author of “Medical Commentaries on the History and Cure of Disease.” Fanny had met these ladies recently at Mrs. Delany's—ED.]

210 (return)
[ “Colonel Fairly” is the name given in the “Diary” to the Hon. Stephen Digby. His first wife, Lady Lucy Strangwayes Fox, youngest daughter of Lord Ilchester, died in 1787. He married, in 1790, Miss Gunning, “Miss Fuzilier,” of the “Diary.”—-ED.]

211 (return)
[ i.e. the University theatre.—ED.]

212 (return)
[ Colonel Digby, who from this time is always called Mr. Fairly instead of Colonel Fairly, in the “Diary,”—ED.]

213 (return)
[ Dr. Joseph Warton, author of the “Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope.” He was headmaster of Winchester school—ED.]

214 (return)
[ Jacob Bryant, the distinguished classical scholar and author; born 1715; died 1804. His principal work was “A New System or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology,” published in 1774. During the last part of his life he resided at Cypenham, in Farnham Royal, near Windsor. One of Bryant's friends said of him that “he was a very good scholar, and knew all things up to Noah, but not a single thing in the world beyond the Deluge!”—ED.]

215 (return)
[ Aime Argand, inventor of the argand lamp.—ED.]

216 (return)
[ Madame de Genlis was governess to the children of the Duke D'Orleans (Philippe egalite), and, there is no doubt, his mistress. The beautiful Pamela, who married Lord Edward Fitzgerald, was generally supposed to be her daughter by the duke, but this appears to be questionable.—ED.]

217 (return)
[ William Herschel, the famous astronomer. He was the son of a German musician, and in early life followed his father's profession, which he afterwards abandoned for the study of astronomy. He received much encouragement from George III., was knighted in 1816, and died at Slough, near Windsor, in 1822. His monster telescope, mentioned in the text, was completed in 1787, and was forty feet in length.—ED.]

218 (return)
[ Maria Sophie de la Roche was a German authoress of sentimental novels, of some distinction in her day, but now chiefly remembered as the friend of Wieland and Goethe. The history of the attachment between her and Wieland is very pretty, very idyllic, and very German. Sophie was born in 1731, and the idyll commenced when she was nineteen, and Wieland only seventeen years old. It lasted some time, too, for a passion so very tender and tearful; but the fate, and, more particularly, the parents, were unpropitious, and after about three years it came to an end, the heart-broken Sophie consoling herself by marrying M. de la Roche shortly afterwards. Her friendship with Wieland, however was maintained to the end of her days, he editing the first and last productions of her pen—the “History of Fraulein von Sternheim,” published 1771, and “Melusinens Sommerabende,” 1806. Madame de la Roche died in 1807—ED.]

219 (return)
[ Madame de la Fite had, however, translated her friend's “History of Fraulein von Sternheim” into French, and the translation had been published in 1773.—ED.]

220 (return)
[ “Clelia” and “Cassandra” were celebrated heroic romances of the seventeenth century, the former (in ten volumes) written by Mdlle Scuderi, the latter by the Sieur de la Calprende. One of the most constant and tiresome characteristics of the heroes and heroines of the romances of this school, is the readiness with which they seize every opportunity of recounting, or causing their confidential attendants to recount, their adventures, usually with the utmost minuteness of detail—ED.]

221 (return)
[ See P. 434.—ED.]

222 (return)
[ Mrs. Schwellenberg found her health better in London, and was prolonging her stay there in consequence.—ED.]

223 (return)
[ The reader will scarcely need to be told that allusion is made here to the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV.—ED.]

224 (return)
[ It is hardly worth remembering, except for Fanny's sake; however, it has the merit of brevity, and here it is.

For this precious production Fanny received quite as much as it was worth,—the thanks of the queen, who added, “Indeed it is very pretty—only! I don't deserve it.”—-ED.]

225 (return)
[ Captain James Burney had married, on the 6th of September, 1785, Miss Sally Payne, daughter of Mr. Thomas Payne, bookseller.—ED.]

226 (return)
[ “Mr. Turbulent” is the name given in the “Diary” to the Rev. Charles de Guiffardiere, a French Protestant minister, who filled the office of French reader to the queen and princesses.—ED.]

227 (return)
[ Mrs. Delany had been for a short time indisposed.—ED.]

228 (return)
[ The queen had spoken of Mrs. Hayes as a “very pretty kind of woman,” and desired Fanny to invite her to tea.—ED.]

229 (return)
[ Herschel had discovered this planet in 1781, and named it in honour of the king.—ED.