Englishmen in the French Revolution

by John Goldworth Alger

ENGLISHMEN

in the

FRENCH REVOLUTION.

by

JOHN G. ALGER,

author of "the new paris sketch book."

LONDON:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON,
limited,
St. Dunstan's House,
fetter lane, fleet street, e.c.
1889.

Ballantyne Press
ballantyne, hanson and co.
edingburgh and london

CONTENTS.

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preface		v
I. DELIVERANCE TO CAPTIVES.
Lord Massareene—Capt. Whyte—Playfair—Blackwell—H. Priestley—Lord Liverpool—Dr. Rigby—Macdonagh— Rutledge	1
II. AT THE EMBASSY.
Duke of Dorset—Lord R. Fitzgerald—Earl Gower—Huskisson —Gem—Warner—Lindsay—Monro—Somers—Elliot.	23
III. AT THE BAR OF THE ASSEMBLY.
Pigott—Watt—Cooper—Paul Jones—Gay—Burns—Anderson —Mrs. Freeman Shepherd—Potter—Lydia Kirkham	37
IV. ENTHUSIASTS.
Stone—Helen Williams—Mary Wollstonecraft—Oswald— Christle	61
V. OUTLAWS AND CONSPIRATORS.
Paine—Vaughan—Mair—Perry—British Club	81
VI. IMMIGRANTS AND EMIGRANTS.
Palmerston—Insults and Ovations—Clarkson—Wordsworth— Fugitives—Cobbett—Edgeworth	103
VII. PRISONERS.
Anglophobia—Ex-royal mistresses—Luttrell—Pit's kinsmen— Pamphleteers—Kilmaine—Nunneries and Colleges	139
VIII. THE GUILLOTINED.
Dillon—Ward—O'Moran—Newton—Delany—Chambly— Macdonald—O'Brennan—The Cemetry	169
IX. TERRORISTS.
Grieve—Arthur—Rose—James—Duroure—Kavanagh	185
X. IN THE PROVINCES.
Smith—Badger—Warburton—O'Sullivan—Bulkeley—Jane— Grey—Elizabeth Plunkett—Mrs. Thicknesse—Baron de Bode—Colleges and Nunneries—Manufacturers	203
XI. AFTER THE TERROR.
Swinburne—Malmesbury—Prisoners of War—Anglomania— Sir Sidney Smith—Wright—Barclay—Mrs. Dayrell	225
XII. PARIS RE-OPENED.
Fox—Rogers—Erskine—Mackintosh—Bentham—Romilly— Kemble—Watt—Aberdeen—High Life—Treasure-seekers	239
XIII. NAPOLEON'S CAPTIVES.
Elgin—Yarmouth—Liberations—Refugees—Life at Verdun—Release	257
Conclusion	285

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APPENDIX.

A. Letter of Sir W. Codrington	291
B. Narrative of Paris Benedictine Nuns	300
C. Narrative of Cambray Benedictine Nuns	310
D. Capt. Whyte, the Bastille Prisoner	333
E. List of Prisoners in 1793	334
F. List of Prisoners in 1803	354
Index of Names	359

NOTE.

∵ I am much indebted to the Proprietors of the Edinburgh Review for permission to incorporate in this book two articles which appeared in that journal in October 1887 and July 1888, and which form a considerable portion of chapters 1 to 9. I am also under obligations to Sir W. Codrington, Bart., and to the Rev. W. Forbes Leith, S. J., for unpublished narratives given in the Appendix; Mr. W. W. Vaughan has favoured me with information respecting his ancestor; and I have courteously been allowed to make researches at the Record Office, at the Hotel des Archives, Paris, and at the Paris Prefecture of Police.