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266 of ten or twelve who had no written certificates of their age. John Pinkerton, the geographer, Horace Walpole's friend, had leave to stay in Paris, and in 1805 obtained a passport. During his detention his French publisher sued Maltebrun for plagiarism, but unsuccessfully, for Pinkerton had himself adopted Maltebrun's fifth division of the globe, Oceania. His "Recollections of Paris" are of scant interest, the fear of domiciliary visits having deterred him from keeping a diary. He went back to Paris after the Restoration, and died there in 1826. Robert Hendry, a Glasgow chemist, owed his release to Napoleon's visit in 1806 to the calico factory at Jouy where he was assisting Oberkampf. The latter introduced Hendry to the Emperor, who could not do less than grant him a passport.

Lord Duncannon, afterwards Earl of Bessborough, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1846–47, seems to have been released before November 1805, for he then married. General Sir Charles Shipley, Sir Thomas Hare, and a son of Lady Foster—probably the future diplomatist, Sir Augustus Foster—were likewise liberated. Greathead, the lifeboat inventor, and his wife, to whom Mrs. Siddons had been companion, were also released, and in December 1804 were at Berlin on their way home. Their son, Bertie Greathead, who had married a Frenchwoman, is said to have remained, and to have made such excellent copies of famous pictures that Bonaparte would not