FOOTNOTES:

[41] There is a history of the origin of the Admy family in the London and Paris Observer of June 30, 1839. Persons who doubt about the existence of hereditary nobility in Turkey will do well to read it. The Sultan creates Pashas, as the sovereign here makes Lord As and Lord Bs, but it is some time before they obtain the level of old families, except in their official capacities.

[42] Captain Meadows Taylor does not appear to have been quite so scrupulous in his “Confessions of a Thug,” where the following passage occurs:—“She falls at his feet; she is captivated; she conquers, and the nika is performed.” How harmless is the sound of words when not understood!

[43] “Report, but I do not give it as at all authentic, says that Pitt is to marry Eleanor Eden.”—Diaries and Correspondence of the Earl of Malmesbury, v. iii. p. 370.—Letter to Sir G. Elliott, Dec. 18, 1790.

[44] In 1837, when I visited Lady Hester Stanhope again, I was reading Wraxall’s Memoirs, where he says, “There was something about Mr. E***, that one could not feel confidence in him;” and Lady Hester Stanhope interrupted me by saying, “That was the reason that Mr. Pitt would not marry his daughter. She was unlike all the other sisters. The mother, like a hen with her chickens, would sit sometimes at a party, and almost devour a peer, to see if she could get him for one of them. There they were, all open-mouthed, ready to eat him up.”

[45] With respect to Mrs. Jordan, I believe Lady Hester Stanhope to have been mistaken.