English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume I (of 2). Ashton John

14

His nephew was afterwards prefect in Corsica. He was a relation of Napoleon.

15

Daughter of Charles Bonaparte, the Emperor’s uncle, and wife of Paraviccini, a cousin, also, of Napoleon.

16

Memoirs, p. 7.

17

Buonapartiana, ou Choix d’Anecdotes curieuses, Paris, 1814.

18

The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax (William Combe). London, 1815.

19

Memoirs, vol. i. p. 10.

20

Memoirs, vol. i. p. 33.

21

For instance, see Notes and Queries, 3rd series, vol. vii. p. 364.

22

Romance of London, vol. iii. p. 172, ed. 1865.

23

Memoirs of Madame Junot, vol. i. p. 73.

24

Memoirs, vol. i. p. 80.

25

Amours et Aventures du Vicomte de Barras, Paris, 1817.

26

Notre Dame de Thermidor, p. 429.

27

Madame Tallien and Madame Viconti.

28

Madame Junot’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 249.

29

Gillray, evidently, was not particular as to dates, for Napoleon married Josephine in 1796.

30

History of the French Consulate under Napoleon Buonaparte, &c., by W. Barre, London, 1804.

31

R. H. Horne.

32

G. M. Bussey.

33

The Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Blackhall.

34

A bogey, a bugbear.

35

The Directory.

36

He was the father of our great caricaturist, George; but there is little doubt from the internal evidence of the pictures, that George either wholly produced, or materially helped in the execution of many caricatures signed with his father’s name.

37

Fox’s residence.

38

The True Briton, May 11, 1798.

39

Histoire de Bonaparte, Premier Consul, Depuis sa Naissance, jusqu’à la Paix de Lunéville, Paris, chez Barba, 1801.

40

The italics are mine. – J. A.

41

Memoirs, vol. i. p. 209

42

Eleven hundred guineas were collected at once on the first day, besides which, the Times, October 4, says, ‘The Royal Exchange and London Assurance Companies have subscribed 100 guineas each, and the East India Company have voted 1,000l. towards this benevolent and patriotic fund.’

43

From Bonduca, by Henry Purcell, A.D. 1710.