England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (64 page)

^2.
Archenholz,
A Picture of England,
I:179.

^3.
Ibid.,
The Whore's Rhetorick
(London, 1693; rep. 1960), p. 96.

^4.
Ibid.,
A Picture of England,
I:192.

CHAPTER 12

^1.
The way in which both Charles Greville and Sir Harry refer to her stay at Uppark makes it clear that she was a member of the party in the house.

^2.
Morning Post,
October 4, 1780.

^3.
West Sussex Record Office, Uppark Papers, 228.

^4.
John George Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, ed.,
Intimate Society Letters of
the Eighteenth Century
(London, 1910), II:415.

^5.
In 1784–85, Sir Harry entertained the prince to a raucous extended visit.

^6.
Uppark Papers, 227.

CHAPTER 13

^1.
Uppark Papers, 227.

^2.
See Uppark Account Books, 227, unpaginated, 1780-1781.

^3.
Morning Post,
April 8, 1780.

^4.
Emma to Charles Greville, January 1782, NMM LBK/6.

^5.
Greville to Emma, January 10, 1782, NMM LBK/6.

CHAPTER 14

^1.
Westminster, Marylebone, and Hawarden parish registers.

^2.
It has been argued that the Cadogans owned Broad Lane Hall but there is no possibility that the owners of Broad Lane Hall before Sir John were the Cadogans.

^3.
Greville to Emma, January 10, 1782, NMM LBK/6.

^4.
Emma to Greville, July 3, 1784, NMM LBK/6.

^5.
Ibid., June 12, 1784, NMM LBK/6.

^6.
European Magazine,
July 1782, p. 16.

^7.
Ibid., May 1784, p. 400.

^8.
Ibid.

^9.
In letters from Naples, Emma asked Greville to send on her blue dresses and hats.

CHAPTER 15

^1.
Sir William later purchased
Sensibility
from Greville.

^2.
William Hayley to Emma, May 17, 1804, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS File 16927.

^3.
Ibid., June 7, 1806, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS File 16927.

^4.
Romney's Victorian descendants claimed he had visited her in Edgware Row, even though it would have been impossible for him to transport all his materials and props to Paddington.

^5.
See Francis Cotes's painting,
Portrait of Lady Hoare,
c. 1760.

^6.
European Magazine,
July 1785, p. 24.

^7.
Von la Roche,
Diary,
p. 82.

CHAPTER 16

^1.
His salary as envoy plenipotentiary (confirmed 1766) was handsome, at three thousand pounds a year, but not enough to keep up with the court.

^2.
Charles Greville, “Memorandum,” BL Add. MS 42071, f 40.

^3.
John Hervey
Memoirs of the Reign of George III
(London, 1884), II:475.

^4.
European Magazine,
April 1784.

^5.
Mary Hamilton,
Letters and Diaries of Mary Hamilton,
ed. Elizabeth and Florence Anson (London, 1925), pp. 174-75.

^6.
Charles Burney
A General History of Music
(London, 1779), IV45.

^7.
Chester Chronicle,
1782.

^8.
Emma to Greville, June 22, 1784, NMM LBK/6.

^9.
Ibid., June 27, 1784, NMM LBK/6. 10.
Morning Post,
July 5, 1777.

CHAPTER 17

^1.
Elizabeth, Lady Craven,
The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven,
ed. A. M. Broadley and L. Melville (London, 1914), II:150.

^2.
Sir William to Greville, February 1785, BL Add. MS 42071, f 2. Sir William confessed his feelings to Greville some time after the proposal.

^3.
European Magazine,
July 1785, p. 251.

^4.
Sir William to Greville, June 1, 1785, BL Add. MS 42071, f 4.

CHAPTER 18

^1.
Anne Miller,
Letters from Italy
(London, 1776), pp. 209-10.

^2.
Hester Thrale,
Observations and Reflections made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy and Germany
(London, 1789), p. 223; Miller,
Letters from Italy,
p. 274.

^3.
Since Emma had given her letters to the servant to seal and put in the postbag, Sir William would have opened them and read them.

^4.
Hamilton,
Letters and Diaries,
p. 305.

CHAPTER 19

^1.
Thomas Martyn,
A Gentleman's Guide to His Tour Through Italy
(London, 1787), p. 264.

^2.
Thrale,
Observations,
p. 231.

^3.
Martyn,
Gentleman's Guide,
p. 286.

^4.
William Beckford,
Italy, with Sketches of Spain and Portugal
(London, 1834), p. 200.

^5.
Sir William to Marquis of Camarthen, November 20, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 306.

^6.
Thomas Watkins,
Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily
(London, 1792), I:425.

^7.
Miller,
Letters from Italy,
pp. 248-49.

^8.
James Boswell,
Boswell on the Grand Tour,
ed. F. A. Pottle (London, 1953), I:111.

^9.
Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle),
Rome, Naples, and Florence,
ed. Henri Martineau (Paris, 1927), p. 350.

^10.
Sir William to Camarthen, April 11, 1786, PRO, FO 70/3, 267.

^11.
Watkins,
Travels,
p. 50.

^12.
Miller,
Letters from Italy,
p. 60.

^13.
Thrale,
Observations,
p. 260.

^14.
Boswell,
Boswell on the Grand Tour,
pp. 62, 111. Even those who relished visiting the churches, buildings, and museums felt, like Goethe, uncomfortable admiring Catholic art.

^15.
Charles Mercier Dupaty
Travels through Italy
(London, 1789), p. 303.

CHAPTER 20

^1.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Italian Journey,
ed. W H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer (Harmondsworth, 1970), p. 216.

^2.
James Edward Smith,
A Sketch of a Tour on the Continent in the Years 1786 and 1787
(London, 1793), II:91-92.

^3.
Sir William to Camarthen, November 20, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 305.

^4.
Ibid., January 2, 1787, PRO FO 70/3, 322.

^5.
Miller,
Letters from Italy,
p. 383.

^6.
Dupaty,
Travels,
p. 337.

^7.
Sir William to Camarthen, July 25, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 290.

^8.
Sir William to Joseph Banks, autumn 1786, BL Add. MS 34049, f 33.

^9.
Emma to Sir William, December 26, 1787, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 195.5, 55.

^10.
Ibid., January 8, 1787, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 56.

^11.
Sir William to Camarthen, November 20, 1786, PRO FO 3/70, 305.

CHAPTER 21

^1.
Goethe,
Italian Journey,
p. 205; Thrale,
Observations,
pp. 263-64; Watkins,
Travels,
p. 422; Smith,
Sketch of a Tour,
pp. 127-28.

^2.
Sir William to Camarthen, June 20, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 281.

^3.
Ibid., November 17, 1786, PRO FO 70/3, 203.

^4.
Sir William to Greville, BL Add. MS 34048, ff 2-3.

^5.
Dr. Alexander Drummond to Catherine Hamilton, April 19, 1791, BL Add. MS 40714, f 193.