Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

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NAPOLEON’S BRITISH VISITORS
NAPOLEON’S
BRITISH VISITORS AND
CAPTIVES
1801–1815
BY JOHN GOLDWORTH ALGER
AUTHOR OF THE ‘NEW PARIS SKETCH BOOK’
‘ENGLISHMEN IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’
‘GLIMPSES OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION’
AND ‘PARIS IN 1789–94’
New York
JAMES POTT AND COMPANY
1904

Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

PAGE

INTRODUCTORY,

1

CHAPTER II

THE VISITORS

No Thoroughfare—Occasional Visitors—Negotiations—Fox—M.P.’s

—Ex- and Prospective M.P.’s—Peers and their Families—Baronets

—Soldiers—Sailors—Functionaries— Lawyers—Doctors—

Clergymen—Savants—Artists—Actors—Inventors—Claimants and

Men of Business—Writers on France—Other Authors—Residents—

Ancestors—Fugitives—Emigrés,

12

CHAPTER III

AMUSEMENTS AND IMPRESSIONS

Parisian Attractions—Napoleon—Foreign Notabilities—Mutual

Impressions—Marriages and Deaths—Return Visits,

126

CHAPTER IV

CAPTIVITY

The Rupture—Detentions—Flights and Narrow Escapes—Life at

Verdun—Extortion—Napoleon’s Rigour—M.P.’s—The Argus—

Escapes and Recaptures—Diplomatists —Liberations—Indulgences

—Women and Children—Captures in War—Rumbold—Foreign

Visitors—British Travellers—Deaths—The Last Stage—French

Leave—Unpaid Debts,

174

CHAPTER V

TWO RESTORATIONS

The Restoration—Aristocrats and Commoners—Unwelcome Guests—
Wellington in Danger—Misgivings—Napoleonic Emblems—
Spectacles—Visits to Elba—Egerton’s Siege—St. Helena
Eyewitnesses and Survivors,
271
APPENDIX
A. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT,
316
B. PEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES,
317
C. LORD J. RUSSELL AT ELBA (narrative now first published),
319
INDEX OF NAMES, AND LIST OF OTHER VISITORS,
325

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