England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (66 page)

^1.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, February 4, 1793, PRO FO 70/6/32.

^2.
Lady Palmerston, in
Portrait of a Whig Peer,
ed. Connell, p. 230.

^3.
Holland,
Journal,
I:242, 219.

^4.
Ackerman's Repository of the Arts
3 (1809): 171.

^5.
Lady's Magazine,
May 1796, p. 265.

^6.
Ibid., April 1795, p. 181.

^7.
Ibid., January 1796, March 1796.

^8.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, April 19, 1793, PRO FO 70/7, 80.

^9.
Ibid., September 1, 1795, PRO FO 70/8, 348.

CHAPTER 31

^1.
St. Vincent to Emma, May 22, 1798, BL Add. MS 31, 166.

^2.
Emma to Nelson, n.d., BL Add. MS 34989, f. 3.

^3.
Nelson to Emma, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 1.

^4.
The Lady's Monthly Museum,
July 1799.

^5.
Emma to Nelson, September 8, 1798, BL Add. MS 34989, ff. 4–7.

CHAPTER 32

^1.
Malta was desirable thanks to its strategic importance in the Mediterranean, south of Sicily and east of North Africa, for Napoleon wanted it in order to pursue his aim to invade Egypt.

^2.
Nelson to Sir William, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 14.

^3.
Sir William to Nelson, BL Add. MS 34907.

^4.
Cornelia Knight,
Autobiography,
ed. Sir J. W Kaye (London, 1861), II:55.

^5.
Fanny to Alexander Davison, April 11, 1799, NMM DAV/2/7.

^6.
Fanny to Josiah Nisbet, 1798, BL Add MS 34988, f 302.

^7.
See Fanny to Nelson, BL Add MS 34908, ff 601-2.

^8.
Emma to Nelson, October 26, 1798, BL Add. MS 34989.

^9.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, January 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 9.

^10.
Maria Carolina to Emma, December 20, 1798, BL Egerton MS 1615.

^11.
Ibid., December 21, 1798, BL Egerton MS 1615.

CHAPTER 33

^1.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, March 6, 1799, PRO FO/70, 12, 130.

^2.
Sir William to Charles Greville, July 19, 1799, PRO FO/70, 12, 224.

^3.
Pryse Lockhart Gordon,
Personal Memoirs
(London, 1830), I:201, II:385, 210-11.

^4.
Lord Bristol to Emma, March 28, 1799, Suffolk Record Office, 941/51/6.

^5.
Lockhart Gordon,
Personal Memoirs,
11:211.

^6.
Lord Keith to Mary Elphinstone, April 10, 1799, NMM KEI.

CHAPTER 34

^1.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, December 30, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 370.

^2.
Ibid., July 14, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 194.

^3.
Maria Carolina to Emma, June 25, 1799, BL Egerton MS 1616.

^4.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, July 14, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 203.

^5.
Ibid., August 16, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 230.

^6.
See BL Egerton MS 1621.

^7.
Nelson to Mrs. Cadogan, July 17, 1799, Monmouth Museum, E448.

^8.
"List of Jacobins," 1799, NMM Girdlestone Papers/3a.

^9.
Maria Carolina to Emma, July 2, 1799, BL Egerton MS 1616. When Helen Maria Williams's pro-Republican
Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French
Republic
was published in 1801, he and Emma bought a copy and annotated it with vigorous defenses of their actions. (See BL Add. MS 34991).

^10.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, July 14, 1799, PRO FO/12, 200.

^11.
Sir William to Charles Greville, August 4, 1799, PRO FO/12, 230.

^12.
Ibid., August 4, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 224.

^13.
Nelson to Mrs. William Suckling, August 22, 1799. See Christie's catalogue,
The Age
of Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon
(London, 2005), p. 36.

^14.
Sir William to Lord Grenville, March 6, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 74.

^15.
Sir William to Charles Greville, August 4, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 223.

^16.
Ibid., September 22, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 224-26.

^17.
Ibid., August 4, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 223.

^18.
Ibid., September 22, 1799, PRO FO 70/12, 224-26.

^19.
Henry Aston Barker, "Journal," National Library of Scotland, MS 9647.

CHAPTER 35

^1.
The Times,
November 14, 1799.

^2.
Ibid., November 28, 1799.

^3.
Mary Elgin,
The Letters of Mary, Countess Elgin,
ed. Nisbet Hamilton Grant (London, 1926), pp. 17, 22, 24.

^4.
Mary Eyre-Matcham,
The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe
(London, 1911), p. 34.

^5.
The supplies sent by Emma finally arrived in April 1799.

^6.
Lord Dalkeith to Arthur Paget, 1799, Sir Augustus Paget, ed.,
The Paget Papers
(London, 1896), 1:169.

CHAPTER 36

^1.
Gratzer Zeitung,
August 18, 1800.

^2.
Eipeldauer Briefe,
1800.

^3.
Countess of Minto, ed.,
Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot
(London, 1874), 111:147.

^4.
Morning Post,
September 15, 1800.

^5.
Magyar Hirmondo,
September 10, 1800.

^6.
Charles Greville to Joseph Banks, September 1, 1800, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 97.

^7.
Melesina Trench, “Journal for 1800,” Hampshire Record Office, 23 M93/2/1. In Cornelia Knight—whose acid comments on Nelson and Emma would later be much quoted—she immediately saw another poor woman hanging on to the shirt-tails of the rich, and hated her on sight for fawning over Emma and Nelson and everyone else (except her).

CHAPTER 37

^1.
Morning Herald,
November 20, 1800.

^2.
Morning Post,
November 21, 1800.

^3.
Morning Herald,
November 20, 1800.

^4.
Lady's Magazine,
June 1801, pp. 226-27, and May 1800, p. 305.

^5.
Hamilton,
Letters and Diaries,
pp. 325-7.

^6.
Morning Herald,
November 19, 1800.

^7.
Morning Post,
November 21, 1800.

^8.
The Times,
November 18, 1800.

CHAPTER 38

^1.
Morning Herald,
November 25, 1800.

^2.
Ibid.

^3.
William Beckford to Emma, November 24, 1800, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 4, f 55.

^4.
Gentleman's Magazine,
April 1801, p. 258.

^5.
William Beckford to Emma, November 24, 1800, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 5, f 58.

^6.
Louis Dutens to Emma, December 20, 1800, Wellcome Library, MS 7362/6.

CHAPTER 39

^1.
Morning Post,
December 1, 1800.

^2.
See, for example, the
Morning Chronicle,
January 20, 1801.

^3.
Nelson to Fanny, cited by Fanny in a letter to Alexander Davison, February 24, 1801, NMM DAV/2/30.

^4.
Nelson to Emma, n.d. (February 1801), BL Egerton MS 1614, f 22.

^5.
Ibid., July 29, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E95.

^6.
Ibid., January 28, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E91.

^7.
Ibid., March 2, 1801, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 22.

^8.
She later put out a disclaimer declaring that she did not attend. See
Morning Herald,
February 7, 1801.