(138) Afterwards Sir William PWeller Pepys.  See note (103), ante, p. 148.-Ed.

(139) “The moment he was gone, ‘Now,’ says Dr. Johnson, ’is Pepys gone home hating me, who love him better than I did before.  He spoke in defence of his dead friend; but though I hope I spoke better, who spoke against him, yet all my eloquence will gain me nothing but an honest man for my enemy!’” (Mrs. Piozzi’s “Anecdotes of Johnson.")-Ed.

(140) The celebrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, equally famous for her personal attractions and her political enthusiasm in the Whig interest.  Her canvassing, and, it is said, her kisses, largely contributed to the return of Charles james Fox for Westminster in the election of 1784.  She was the daughter of John, first Earl Spencer ; was born 1757; married, 1774, to William, fifth Duke of Devonshire; and died, 18o6.  Her portrait was painted by both Reynolds and Gainsborough.

Mary Isabella, Duchess of Rutland, was the youngest daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, and was married, in 1775, to Charles Mariners, fourth Duke of Rutland.  She died, 1831.-Ed.

(141) Susan and Sophy were younger daughters of Mrs. Thrale-ed.

(142) The manager of Mr. Thrale’s brewery.-Ed.

(143) i.e.  To Streatham:  Fanny had been home in the interval.-Ed.

(144) Of Bath Easton:  husband of the lady of the “Vase.”  See note (123), ante, P. 174.-Ed.

(145) Captain Molesworth Phillips, who had recently married Susan Burney.-Ed.

(146) Gasparo Pacchierotti, a celebrated Italian singer, and a very intimate friend of the Burney family.-Ed.

(147) “Variety,” a comedy, was produced at Drury Lane, Feb. 25, 1782, and ran nine nights.  Genest calls it a dull play, with little or no plot.  The author is unknown.-Ed.

(148) Dr. Jonathan Shipley.-Ed.

(149) The husband of Fanny Burney’s sister, Susan.-Ed.

(150) Poor Lady Di was throughout unfortunate in her marriages.  Her first husband, Lord Bolingbroke, to whom she was married in 1757, brutally used her, and drove her to seek elsewhere the affection which he failed to bestow.  She was divorced from him in 1768, and married, immediately afterwards, to Topham Beauclerk, who, in his turn, ill-treated her.  Mr. Beauclerk died in March, 1780.  He was greatly esteemed by Johnson, but his good qualities appear to have been rather of the head than of the heart.-Ed.

(151) Her cousin Edward Burney, the painter.  A reproduction of his portrait of Fanny forms the frontispiece to the present volume.-Ed.

(152) Pasquale Paoli, the famous Corsican general and patriot.  He maintained the independence of his country against the Genoese for nearly ten years. in 1769, upon the submission of Corsica to France, to which the Genoese had ceded it, Paoli settled in England, where he enjoyed a pension of 1200 pounds a year from the English Government.  More details respecting this delightful interview between Fanny and the General are given in the “Memoirs of Dr. Burney” (vol. ii. p. 255), from which we select the following extracts:—­