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Rh Belgium about the end of 1792, for Fersen, the Swedish count associated with the King's escape to Varennes, met him there. Lady Kerry died in 1799, and her husband in 1818, both being buried in Westminster Abbey, and the title and estates passing to his cousin, Lord Lansdowne. One of Fersen's confederates also quitted France in time—Quintin Craufurd, the nabob from Manilla, whose maxim was, "Make your fortune where you like, but enjoy it at Paris." A confidant of Marie Antoinette, he provided, or at least housed, the famous carriage which the royal family overtook and entered at Bondy, it having already started when Fersen drove them to Craufurd's. Craufurd himself had gone to London and Brussels, perhaps to avoid suspicion, leaving his valet, Tom Sayer, to make all the arrangements. When the fugitives were brought back, one of his coachmen in the crowd incautiously exclaimed that he knew the carriage, but a fellow-servant curtly told him he was mistaken; the mob would otherwise have stormed Craufurd's house. Not discouraged by the failure, he busied himself in trying to get foreign Powers to interfere. On leaving in November 1792, he, too, was classed as an émigré and his furniture, pictures, and statues were sold. Stormy times these for an inveterate cardplayer, who in 1787 was fetched home at nine in the morning from the British Embassy by his Italian mistress