(198) The famous actress, Kitty Clive.  She had quitted the stage in 1760.  Genest says of her, “If ever there was a true Comic Genius, Mrs. Clive was one.”—­Ed.

(199) John Henderson was by many people considered second only to Gairick, especially in Shakspearean parts.  He too was lately dead, having made his last appearance on the stage on the 8th of November, 1785, within less than a month of his death.-Ed.

(200) “Ad`ele et Th`eodore, ou Lettres sur l’`education” by Madame de Genlis, ffirst published in 1782.-Ed.

(201) We shall hear again of ’Mr, and Mrs. Hastings, and of the scandal which was caused by the lady’s reception at Court.  She was bought by Hastings of her former husband for 10,000 pounds.  The story is briefly as follows:—­

Among the fellow-passengers of Hastings on the ship which conveyed him to India in 1769, were a German portrait-painter, named Imhoff, and his wife, who were going out to -Madras in the hope of bettering their circumstances.  During the voyage a strong attachment sprang up between Hastings and the lady, who nursed him through an illness.  The husband, it seems, had as little affection for his wife as she had for him, and was easily prevailed upon to enter into an amicable arrangement, by virtue of which Madame Imhoff instituted proceedings for divorce against him in the German courts.  Pending the result, the Imhoffs continued to live together ostensibly as man and wife to avoid scandal.  The proceedings- were long protracted, but a decree of divorce was finally procured in 1772, when Hastings married the lady and paid to the complaisant husband a sum, it Is said, exceeding, 10,000 pounds.

The favourable reception accorded by the queen to Mrs. Hastings, when, in 1784, she returned to England as wife of the Governor-general of Bengal, passed not without public comment.  Her husband, however, was in high esteem at Court from his great services, and she had an additional recommendation to the queen’s favour in the friendship of Mrs. Schwellenberg, the keeper of the robes, whom she had known before her voyage to -India.-Ed.

(202) Fanny’s sister Charlotte, who had mairied Clement Francis, Feb. 11, 1786.  They were now settled at Aylesham, in Norfolk, where Mr. Francis was practising as a surgeon.-Ed.

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miss Burney enters upon her court duties.

[The original editor of Madame D’Arblay’s Diary intimates that fictitious names have been given to one or two of the persons spoken of in the following portion of the work.  These names we retain in the present text, but the following persons have been identified :-

“Col.  Fairly,” with Col. the Hon. Stephen Digby;
“Col.  Wellbred,” with Col.  Greville;
“Mr. Turbulent,” with the Rev. Charles de Guiffardi`ere; and
“Miss Fuzilier” with Miss Gunning-ed.]