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Rh, for he compiled three volumes of a maritime geography. Destined to die two years after his release, while exploring the river Congo, he was not a hostage, but a prisoner legitimately captured in 1805. So also was William Hamilton, a navy lieutenant, who was vice-consul or consul at Boulogne from 1822 to 1873, was knighted on his retirement, and died at Boulogne in 1877, at the age of eighty-eight, probably the last survivor of Napoleon's captives. The tradition in his adopted town is that his jailer's daughter at Verdun assisted him in an unsuccessful attempt to escape, and that he afterwards married her. Henry Grey MacNab, physician to the Duke of Kent, and professor of rhetoric at Glasgow University, likewise made France his home. He obtained leave to reside at Montpellier, pursued his studies in medicine and political economy, was enchanted with Robert Owen's educational theories, and remained in France till his death in 1823. Fraser Frisell, who has been already mentioned, and whose son-in-law is now a municipal councillor for Paris, must have known Lady Webb, wife of Sir Thomas Webb and sister of Lord Dillon, for she, too, was in the Chateaubriand and Récamier "set." Interned with her husband at Lyons, Lady Webb befriended a little English girl named Marianne, who about 1813 was found performing in the streets with a troop of mountebanks. It was supposed that the child had been lost or left