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Rh Romilly, who had seen Paris in August 1789, and regarded the Jacobins as monsters, and Holcroft, whose daughter married Danton's nephew Merget, were also among the politicians who visited France. So, too, was William Taylor, of Norwich, who, though he had warmly sympathised with the Revolution, became very anti-Bonapartist. He was in Paris from March till the summer of 1802, Southey's brother Henry being his companion. Taylor had an introduction to Lafayette, his cousin John Dyson having taught Lafayette farming, and he there met Madame d'Arblay. He also dined with Holcroft and Paine, and made the acquaintance of Thomas Manning the Orientalist, at whose suggestion Lamb wrote his "Roast Pig." Tierney, too, spent the summer of 1802 at Boulogne, but, doubtful of the continuance of peace, prudently declined to hire his house for another season. John Kemble, who has been already mentioned, is said to have been considered wonderfully like Bonaparte, though his portrait suggests no resemblance. He went on to Madrid to study the Spanish stage.

James Watt revisited Paris for the first time since 1786, when he had been invited to report on the Marly aqueduct. His son, after his experiences of 1792, did not again see France. Then there was Sir Elijah Impey, who had awarded damages to Grand for his wife's intrigue with Sir Philip Francis. He was trying to recover property in the French