(158) Miss Burney had seen this gentleman a few days previously and thus speaks of him in her “Diary.” -Mr. Kaye of the Dragoons,—­a baronet’s son, and a very tall, handsome, and agreeable-looking young man; and, is the folks say, it is he for whom all the belles here are sighing.  I was glad to see he seemed quite free from the nonchalance, impertinence of the times."-Ed.

(159) Afterwards Countess of Cork and Orrery.

(160) The Thrales and Fanny were now again in London, whither they returned from Brighton, November 20.  Mrs, Thrale had taken a house in Argyle-street,-ed.

(161) Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley, daughter of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford; married, in 1734, to the second Duke of Portland, She inherited from her father a taste for literature.  She was the constant associate of Mrs. Delaney, and an old friend of Mr. Crisp.  Of Mrs. Delany we shall give some account hereafter-ed. I

(162) Mrs. Greville’s maiden name was Frances Macartney.-Ed.

(163) The miserly guardian of Cecilia, in Fanny’s novel.  Among the “Fragments of the journal of Charlotte Anne Burney,” appended to the “Early Diary,” occurs the following passage, written at the end of 1782.  “Fanny’s Cecilia came out last summer, and is as much liked and read I believe as any book ever was.  She had 250 pounds for it from Payne and Cadell.  Most people say she ought to have had a thousand.  It is now going into the third edition, though Payne owns that they printed 2,000 at the first edition, and Lowndes told me five hundred was the common number for a novel.” ("Early Diary,” vol. ii.  P. 307.)-Ed.

(164) Richard Burke, the only son of the great Edmund.  He died in 1794, before his father.-Ed.

(165) Sir Joshua Reynolds was then in his sixtieth year; he was born in 1723.-Ed.

(166) She copied pictures cleverly and painted portraits.-Ed.

(167) Probably the Hon. Thomas Erskine, afterwirds Lord Chancellor.-Ed.

(168) Richard Owen Cambridge, a gentleman admired for his wit in conversation, and esteemed as an author.  “He wrote a burlesque poem called ‘The Scribleriad,’ and was a principal contributor to the periodical paper called ‘The World.’” He died in 1802, at his villa on the banks of the Thames, near Twickenham, aged eighty-five years.-Ed.

(169) Mrs. Ord was a famous blue-stocking and giver of literary parties, and a constant friend of Fanny’s-ed.

(170) The Rev. George Owen Cambridge, second son of Richard Owen Cambridge, whose works he edited, and whose memoir he wrote.  He died at Twickenham in 1841.-Ed.

(171 John Hoole, the translator of Tasso.-Ed.

(172) Frances Reynolds, the miniature painter,-Sir Joshua’s sister-ed.