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250 in 1814 he did not renew acquaintance with his hostess. Perhaps he could not countenance her liaison with the printer Stone, who, however, must have been the gentleman who in 1802 brought him his invitation.

Lord Aberdeen, not yet "the travelled thane, Athenian Aberdeen," but a very agreeable young man of eighteen according to George (afterwards Sir George) Jackson of the Embassy, was introduced to Bonaparte. He was the Prime Minister of 1853–5. Lord Camelford, a second cousin of Pitt's, and the best shot in England, was over in strict incognito. Refused a passport, he went to Boulogne as an American, and thence to Paris as a valet, but afraid of the police discovering him, he went on to Vienna. "It is feared," wrote Jackson, "he should attempt some personal mischief," which implies symptoms of the mental derangement which in 1804 led to his fatal duel with his friend Captain Best. St. George Caulfeild, an Irishman,