Chapter IX (2)

Another important lesson may be gleaned from her life. We have a favourable opportunity of observing, in her example, how far the human understanding may, by its own natural powers unassisted by books, work its way to celebrity. Her intellects were so acute that she had little difficulty in comprehending all the moral and political questions discussed in her presence, and she consequently gathered information from very superior sources, as she enjoyed the intimacy of first-rate men. Still she had but narrow views of general policy, of the rights of mankind, in fine, of politics and ethics in the abstract; inasmuch as the discussions, which were carried on before her, were the debates of parties and sects, having immediate reference merely to certain men and certain questions, rather than presenting enlightened and comprehensive considerations grounded on philosophical principles. But it was here that her profound knowledge of mankind came into play; and this it was which impressed on her sayings and counsels the stamp of pre-eminent sagacity. Intercourse with the world, however, or even with cabinet ministers, although it may render us accomplished diplomatists, cannot make us statesmen, in the true acceptation of the word--least of all can it make us teachers and philosophers. We cannot solve a problem in mathematics, unless we have previously traced the steps which lead to it one by one; nor can we ever arrive at precision on any subject until we have mastered its elements and made ourselves acquainted with the results of antecedent investigations. In this, therefore, lay the grand defect of Lady Hester’s education. She was not only wanting, as almost all women are, in the philosophical power of generalization, but her reading was literally so circumscribed, that her deficiency in what may be called book-learning often amounted to absolute ignorance. She said she despised books; but it was simply because she was never made aware how much valuable information they contain. She trusted everything to intuitive perception. Her constant denial of the utility of study, founded on the conviction that education does not alter men’s characters or change their innate disposition, is wholly independent of that other proposition, which recognizes knowledge as an edifice seated on a height, to which we must climb step by step, taking care that each fundamental truth, in the ascent, shall be laid down with certainty, in order to secure the solidity of the superincumbent materials. She disowned alike the benefits of learning and the necessity of the progressive acquisition of knowledge. Her ladyship jumped to conclusions in perfect ignorance of the researches and discoveries of previous inquirers.

Lady Hester possessed none of the more graceful accomplishments of her sex:--not from inability to acquire them, for her remarks on music, painting, and other fine arts, were always striking and apposite; but because she preferred occupying her mind on matters more congenial to her peculiar tastes. It cannot be doubted that she had all the opportunities usually afforded to the children of the nobility for the culture of the mind in liberal pursuits and attainments; but she took no delight in such things, and only spoke of them slightly and incidentally.

Popular opinion has ascribed the eccentricities of Lady Hester Stanhope to a crazed brain:[45] it is not for me to venture upon a question of so delicate a nature. Lucius Junius Brutus was supposed to be insane, and played the part of an idiot until the proper time arrived for casting away the mask. Hamlet enacts madness for a purpose: and some writers go so far as to assert that Mahomet was insane, and that no enthusiast of a high order can achieve his ends and gain over proselytes to his views without a tincture of insanity. The dream of Lady Hester’s life was sway and dominion--how to obtain the one or the other was the difficulty; for she was born a subject, and excluded by her sex from vice-royalties and governments: with the genius of a hero, she could neither take the command of fleets or armies, nor preside in the councils of state. How far then she may have contemplated the possibility of acquiring power by endeavouring to establish a superstitious belief amongst those around her, and, through them, over a wider range, that she possessed supernatural gifts; how far she may have tried to help out this design by professing implicit faith in strange and absurd legends and traditions, visions, and tales; and how far the delusion, originally taken up for a purpose, may have ultimately re-acted upon her own mind--these are speculations which I leave to others; but, whilst I decline, from motives of delicacy, and in deference to the public, from whose award the decree must finally come, to pronounce any opinion on Lady Hester Stanhope’s perfect sanity, I do not feel myself precluded from calling the reader’s attention to one striking point of evidence in favour of it, which extends, like a vein of pure ore, through the whole course of her varied career.

I have depicted, somewhat minutely, and without ostentation or disguise, her ladyship’s habitual deportment and language towards her visitors, her household, and myself. I have introduced all those, who have patiently followed me in these pages, into her sanctuary; have let them join in her conversations; have, as I hope, induced them to listen to her improbable stories of witchcraft and astrology; and have shared their incredulity in her supernatural mission: but I would now invite them to weigh against these seeming hallucinations the remarkable fact, that, in all her epistolary correspondence, down to the close of her life, not one aberration of intellect occurs. It is as if she had said to herself--“Those who come to glean ridicule from my words, and presume to fathom my purposes, will I make fools of and confound: they shall go away loaded with a cargo of their own choosing, and shall retail countless absurdities in their books to amuse the world for awhile: but, when the time shall be accomplished, these absurdities shall rebound on themselves; for I will challenge the most diligent research to gather any from my writings, and then, who will believe that I uttered them, except to make the unworthy hearers ridiculous?” The fact is, she may have spoken a great many strange things, but she has written none. I am in possession of a letter of hers, drawn up with attention on a very serious subject in the very plenitude of her mental powers; but I declare that it presents no superiority, either in style or composition, over the productions of her later years: neither do her familiar letters, from first to last, leave an opening for the most critical caviller to say that, down to the day of her death, she manifested any decline of reason, or disclosed one jot less of that sound sense or those discriminating powers which had made her the admiration of some of the leading characters of her times. Her letter to the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria breathes as much delicacy of sentiment as if it had issued from her boudoir in Downing Street: her condolence with the Beyrout merchant is more profound in reasoning, though less epigrammatic, than that of Servius Sulpicius to Cicero on the death of his daughter Tullia; and her appeal to the good feeling of her countrymen against the uncalled-for interference of the Foreign Office in her private affairs is inferior to no production of our ablest combatants against the abuses of authority.

One point more remains to be touched upon. Lady Hester Stanhope, the advocate of the divine right of sovereigns, the stickler for the exclusive privileges of the aristocracy, she, who treated with ineffable ridicule and disdain the presumption of people, who, belonging to the class of commoners, set up claims of equality with the noble born, was herself weak enough to betray irritation, and even resentment, towards that still higher power in the state to which our allegiance is ever due. Of our beloved Queen, to whose sacred majesty she did homage in the abstract, she could not forbear speaking irreverently on many occasions. The letter which she wrote to her Majesty, in reference to the sequestration of her pension, was as unpardonable in diction as it was unjustifiable in substance. But great allowances are to be made for her; and they alone, who know the trying circumstances in which she was placed, can feel the full force of the plea that might be alleged in mitigation of her offence.

My task is done:--it has been one of no ordinary difficulty. I have had to undeceive the world respecting the real life of a distinguished woman, who, in her day, occupied a large share of its attention, and whose ill-defined celebrity was based chiefly on the accounts of travellers, written no doubt in good faith, but in grievous ignorance of the truth. I have had to remove the veil which shrouded her existence, to disperse the imaginary attributes with which the fancy of most readers had invested her, to dissipate the splendour thrown over her retirement, and to substitute unpleasant facts for Eastern fables. Let it not be suspected that, in doing this, I have overstepped the bounds of professional confidence or violated the sacred intimacies of domestic life.

My object has been to vindicate the fame of a persecuted lady, whose memory I honour, and most of whose actions have been misrepresented; and, in pursuing this object with frankness and integrity, I have only fulfilled a plain duty, imposed upon me by her constant denunciations of the injustice which the English had done to the purity of her motives--a duty distinctly enjoined by her frequent appeals to me that I should make public some circumstances of her life, which might set them right, and correct their judgment concerning her conduct. Using as much as possible her own words (indeed I may say _entirely_), I have unavoidably introduced the names of many individuals yet alive, and of others but lately removed from the scene of ambition, envy, and political strife. The utmost delicacy consistent with the utmost candour has been observed in a task which presented such a dilemma of difficulties; and, if any persons should feel hurt at any of the disclosures in this work, I can assure them that, due regard being had to the state of mental irritation to which wounded feelings had brought Lady Hester Stanhope, they will do no wrong in considering all the acrimonious passages they may detect in these pages merely as a scene out of “Timon of Athens”--a burst of spleen against mankind, produced by a long series of mortifications, wrongs, and disappointments.

FOOTNOTES:

[34] See “Robinson’s Three Years in the East,” note xviii.,
page 125, vol. Palestine.

[35] This letter, and the letter to Lord Brougham, were
intended by Lady Hester Stanhope for publication in the
newspapers conjointly with the correspondence about her
debts: but the space, which so much matter would have
occupied, rendered it necessary to leave them out.

[36] The adoption of the words “Sir Baron, Sir Count,” at
the beginning of letters, may appear to the reader
quaint and ridiculous; but these expressions are only
verbal translations of “Monsieur le Baron,” “Monsieur
le Comte,” and less abrupt than plain “Baron,” “Count.”
Abroad, the prefix “Dear” is not so lightly attached to
a name as it is in England. I recollect, some years
ago, an Italian gentleman, Signor Guiseppe Celi,
proprietor of a marine villa on the Island of Palmaria,
in the Gulf of Spezzia, to have shown me a letter he
had received from an English gentleman, who had
tenanted his house for some months, and between whom
and himself, as it appeared, there existed a tolerable
degree of intimacy, and his asking me what I thought of
Mr. B.’s addressing him _Caro_ Signore. The wary
Italian seemed to imagine it was a term of friendship,
to which he was not entitled, and fancied he was about
to be wheedled out of something; he could not imagine
it proceeded from the writer’s good nature.

Chi vi carezza più che non suole,
O vi ha ingannato, o ingannarvi vuole.

[37] Lady Hester Stanhope was deceived in her prediction.
Shibly el Arriàn went over to the Pasha, and, by a
letter received from Lady Hester, dated March, 1839,
she informed me he was employed in raising troops among
his dependants and friends against his former allies.

[38] A Gallicism, meaning by the next steamer.

[39] The _yazjees_, or government secretaries, are men
of the same presumed respectability in Syrian towns as
bankers, solicitors, or professional men are with us;
yet, in cases of malversation of the public money,
often, indeed, on mere suspicion of peculation, they
are punished with the lash, or by bastinado. Woe to an
exchequer defaulter under Ibrahim Pasha!

[40] Memoirs of Sir W. K. by Lady Knighton. Who shall say
what Lady Hester meant by “Love is not amongst them?”

[41] Diary of the Times of George IV.

[42] Soph. Antig., l. 888.

[43] The lines with inverted commas I have copied from
the newspapers, not having been able to obtain more
authentic information; but I much doubt if Lady Hester
ever expressed any desire to be interred in
Loustaunau’s grave.

[44] Quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam,
Præmia si tollas?

[45] “A group of Bedouins were disputing respecting the
sanity of Lady Hester Stanhope; one party strenuously
maintaining that it was impossible a lady so
charitable, so munificent, could be otherwise than in
full possession of her faculties; their opponents
alleging that her assimilating herself to the Virgin
Mary, her anticipated entry with our Saviour into
Jerusalem, and other vagaries attributed to her, were
proofs to the contrary. An old man with a white beard
called for silence (a call from the aged amidst the
Arabs seldom made in vain.) ‘She is mad,’ said he; and,
lowering his voice to a whisper, as if fearing lest
such an outrage against established custom should
spread beyond his circle, he added, ‘for she puts sugar
in her coffee.’”--_Travels in Arabia, by Lieutenant
Welsted, F.A.S._ v. ii. p. 69.

THE END.

F. Shoberl, Jun., Printer to H.R.H. Prince Albert, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket

_Preparing for Publication_,

BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

In three volumes, with numerous illustrations,

NARRATIVE OF THE TRAVELS

OF

LADY HESTER STANHOPE,

IN COMPANY WITH HER PHYSICIAN.

INDEX

TO THE

MEMOIRS OF LADY HESTER L. STANHOPE.

Abbott, Mr., i., 34, 53, 55, 225
Abella, Signor, ii., 121; iii., 282
Abercorn, Marquis of, ii., 219
Abortion, procuring of, i., 298
Abrah, convent, i., 84, 90, 262
Abyssinian Women, iii., 97
Abu Ghosh, i., 263
Acre, siege of, iii., 179
Adam, book penned by, ii., 360
Adams, Mr. Dacres, i., 18, 32; ii., 65
Addington, Mr., ii., 219
Advice, iii., 271
Agents, English, iii., 283
Agreement made, ii., 38, sexies
Ahmed Bey, i., 164
Albanians, ii., 366
Alchemy
Alexander, the Emperor, iii., 183
Ali, the messenger, iii., 288
Amber cane, ii., 108
Amelia, the Princess, ii., 18
Anastatius at Shemäuny, iii., 258
Anecdotes, sundry, i., 208
Anson, Mr., ii., 369
Antonio, servant, ii., 172
Arborescence of milk, ii., 48, ter
Argyll, Duke of, i., 174
Arrian, Castle of, iii., 317
Artois, Comte d’, ii., 95
Asaph, Lord St., i., 225, 285
Ash, Captain, i., 280
Astrology, i., 275
Aubin, M., French Surgeon, i., 114
Austin, the boy, i., 308
Awly, the river, iii., 22, 28

Bailey, Dr., iii., 165, 235
Bakhshysh, ii., 368; iii., 248
Baklaawy, ii., 333
Bankes, Peggy, ii., 16
Barrington, Jonah, ii., 337, 377
Bartlett, Mr., iii., 32, 82
Bavaria, Duke Maximilian of, iii., 38, 219, 244
Baz, Widow, i., 110
Beating a Mahometan, ii., 147; iii., 217
Beck, Dr., ii., 271
Belmore, Lord, ii., 375
Belvidere, the ship, i., 235
Bentinck, Lord Frederick, i., 53
Berri, Duc de, ii., 97; iii., 183
Berthou, Comte de, iii., 282
Besborough, iii., 158
Beshyr, the Emir, i., 55, 59, 104, 219; iii., 67, 100, 146, 274
Beyrout, iii., 205
Black Doses, iii., 243
Blair, Captain, i., 224
Blues, the, ii., 78
Blushing, ii., 18
Boghoz Bey, iii., 65, 76
Bourbons, the, ii., 74; iii., 168
Bowring, Dr., iii., 95
Bradford, Captain, ii., 76
Bridport, Lord, iii., 138
Brothers, fortune teller, i., 204
Brougham, Lord, iii., 237
Brummel, Beau, i., 284
Bruce, Michael, i., 20; iii., 133
Buckingham, Duke of, i., 31, 318, 361; iii., 58
Buckinghamshire, Lady, i., 179
Builth, ii., 7; iii, 193
Bull’s pizzle, ii., 38
Buonaparte, iii., 186
Buonaventura, Padre, i., 49
Burdett, Sir Francis, i., 2, 248, 374; ii., 314; iii., 170, 290, 254,
307
Burkhardt, iii., 205, 271
Burrell, ii., 59
Burton Pynsent, iii., 178
Bury, Lady Charlotte, i., 30, 80; iii., 79, 185
Busech, Baron de, iii., 220, 316
Bute, Lady, i., 215
Bute, Lord, i., 213
Byron, Lord, iii., 219

Cabûr, servant, i., 252
Caher, Lady, iii., 80
Camden, Lord, ii., 2, 219, 381; iii., 293
Camelford, Lord, i., 273, 321, 394; ii., 137
Campbell, Char., Lady, iii., 162, 170, 185
Campbell, Col., ii., 245, 265
Canning, Mr., i., 313, 319, 393
Canning, Mrs., i., 317
Canova, Dr., ii., 70
Caroline, Queen, i., 305
Carrington, Lord, ii., 61, 70; iii., 163, 290
Câsem, shepherd, ii., 332
Cass, Commodore, i., 225; ii., 224, 311, 339; iii., 282
Castel Rosso, schooner, iii., 303
Castlereagh, Lord, i., 315
Catafago, Signor, iii., 313, 352
Cats, iii., 146
Catsiflitz, iii., 44
Chaboceau, Dr., iii., 153
Charms, i., 275
Chasseaud, Mr., i., 80, 94, 170, 186, 222, 249
Chastity, i., 296
Chatham, Lord, First, ii., 255, 286; iii., 79, 178, 184, 187
Chatham, Lord, Second, ii., 76; iii., 293
Cheshire Gentleman, iii., 166
Chevening, i., 384; ii., 208, 384
Christians, Syrian, i., 60; iii., 312
Clark, Dr., i., 92, 246
Clean and Unclean, i., 148
Cline, Mr. Henry, ii., 5, 254
Clysters, i., 328
Cobham, Lady, iii., 178
Cockchafers and Maybugs, iii., 253
Cœle-Syria iii., 57, 244 note
Colburn or Cockburn, ii., 371
Compton, Mr., i., 224; ii., 373
Congleton, Lord, i., 75
Conscription, the, ii., 113
Conti, Mr., iii., 27, 304
Conversations, ii., 107
Cooper, Mr., Brewer, iii., 157
Corn Cellars
Courtezans, born so, ii., 262
Coutts, Mr., i., 173; iii., 62, 290, 308
Cronin, Mrs., i., 75
Crutches for the lame, iii., 34
Cumberland, Duke of, i., 308; ii., 18, 52
Cumberland, Mr., i., 378
Cure of sore throat, ii., 338
Cyprus, i., 232

D----, Lord, ii., 103
Damûr, river, iii., 209
Dar Jûn, i., 85
Darnley, Lord, ii., 14
Davenport, Miss, ii., 104
Davidson, Col., iii., 215
Debts, Lady H. S.’s, i., 339
Derby, Lord, i., 175
Dervises, iii., 174
Devonshire, Duchess of, iii., 158, 216
Deyr el Benàt, iii., 112
Deyr el Mkallas, ii., 329
Deyr Seyda, iii., 112
Dillon, Harry, i., 182
Dobree, the hatter, iii., 295
Doctors, ii., 36, 110
Dorgan, Colonel, ii., 288
Dorset, Duke of, i., 175
Down, Lord, iii., 185
Dragomans, i., 10, 346
Drummond, Sir W.
Druzes, iii., 25, 67, 70, 73, 265, 269, 310, 316
Duchesses, ii., 52, 96
Dundas, Capt., i., 235, 288
Dundas, Mr., Scotch gentleman, i., 93; iii., 52
Dundas, secretary, ii., 71
Du Thé, Madlle, ii., 262
Dyk, the cook, ii., 334; iii., 155
Dyke, Sir John, iii., 179

Ear Suckers
Ebrington, Lord, i., 194; iii., 54
Education, iii., 137
Elliott, Mr., ii., 376
Emir Beshyr, i., 55, 59, 104, 219; iii., 67, 100, 146, 274
Eugenia Meryon, i., 380; ii., 247
European taste for beauty, i., 192
Ewelly, the river, iii., 22
Eyes, ii., 69

Fable, the, Lion and Mouse, iii., 308
Fair Ellen, the, i., 184
Family, Dr. M.’s, ii., 37
Farkûah Hanah, i., 233
Farquhar, Sir Walter, iii., 165, 235
Farren, Mr., i., 224
Fatoom, negress, i., 168; ii., 335
Faults like bad money, iii., 119
Faur, Julie de Saint
Fazacherly, Mr., i., 205
Fiott, Mr.
Fish, drawings of
Fitzirnham, iii., 163, 165
Flies on horses’ tails, ii., 35
Flogging, i., 294, 298; ii., 135; iii., 51, 242, 248
Footmen, ladies borrow of, iii., 164
Footmen’s Nosegays, iii., 128
Forster, Lady Elizabeth
Forster, Sir Augustus, ii., 359
Fox, Mrs. Charles, iii., 172, 188
François, cook, ii., 255
Freeky, the dog, iii., 259
Fright at Mt. Lebanon paths, i., 210
Fry, Mrs., i., 224
Feriat, Madame de, i., 362

Gallantry, definition of, i., 192
Gally, Knight, i., 204
Gambling Debt how paid, ii., 106
Gantés, Dr., iii., 231
Gardner, John, iii., 123
Gendal, castle of, iii., 317
Georgio, iii., 188
George the Third, ii., 230
Gifford’s Life of Pitt, iii., 166
Gifts, Lady H.’s, ii., 244
Giovanni, servant, iii., 51
Girius Gemal, i., 226
Girolamo, Signor, i., 49
Giuseppe, servant, ii., 271
Glastonbury, Lord, ii., 149
Gloves, iii., 143
Goats, why killed, i., 273
Going, A., ii., 367
Gondolfi, Abbate, i., 112
Gontaut, La Duchesse de, ii., 97, 370
Gordon, Duchess of, ii., 52
Gore, Mrs. C., iii., 80
Go to bed, ii., 148
Granby, Marquis of, iii., 178
Granville, Lord, ii., 259
Greek Pirates, i., 39
Greeks and Greek Catholics, iii., 72
Green, Mr. Joseph, ii., 257; iii., 33
Grenville, General, ii., 89
Grenville, Lord, ii., 259
Grenville, Thomas, ii., 28
Grey, Lord, ii., 19
Griselda, Lady, ii., 8
Grote, Mr., i., 178
Gubbins, Misses, i., 174
Gully Tom and Boa Constrictor, iii., 292
Guys, Mons., i., 148; ii., 30, 205, 327; iii., 169, 204, 311

Hadjy Salah, iii., 218, bis
Haeberly, Mr., i., 12, 30, 224
Hairy Women, i., 192
Halford, Sir Henry, i., 313
Hamadi, the executioner, iii., 130
Hamàms
Hamilton, Duke of, ii., 59
Hamilton, Sir Wm., i., 187
Hanàdy, tribe, iii., 317
Hardwicke, Earl, i., 362
Harewood, Lady, ii., 167
Harrington, Lord and Lady, ii., 97
Hasbeyah, iii., 274
Hassan, El Logmagy, i., 227, 268; ii., 222, 245; iii., 145
Hawkesbury, Lord, i., 217, 315
Hazetà, Colonel, iii., 277, 287
Heads, shape of, iii., 295
Heat in Syria, iii., 253
Heathcote, Lady, ii., 52
Heathcote, Sir Gilbert, ii., 164
Heber, Mr., i., 31
Hertford, Marquis of, i., 310
Hesitation in Speech, ii., 108
Hesse Darmstadt, Princess of
Heyne, iii., 102
High Descent, iii., 181, 216
Hill, Mr., i., 281
Hollow Back Mare, i., 17, 203; iii., 9
Holwood, i., 190
Horse Dealers in Syria, iii., 115
Horse Marines, iii., 216
Horses’ Tails, i., 203
House at Sayda, i., 251, 256
Howard, Mr., i., 284; ii., 252
Hume, Sir Abraham, ii., 26
Huskisson, Mr., ii., 64, 95

Ibrahim Pasha, iii., 67, 310, 317
Incontinence, when pardonable, i., 298
Inn at Cyprus, i., 233
Insults, definition of, ii., 212
Insurrection of the Druzes, iii., 268, 274, 310, 316
Ismäel Pasha, i., 188
Italian Tumblers, iii., 245

Jars on women’s heads
Jersey, Earl and Countess, i., 312
Jew, stories of a, i., 184
Jigger, ii., 133
Jordan, Mrs., i., 208
Jorelle, Madame, iii., 303
Jorelle, Mons., iii., 289
Josephine, the Empress, iii., 186
Joyce, Mr., ii., 21
Jûn Dar, description of, i., 85

Kaldy, ruins of, iii., 211
Karỳby, sweetmeat, ii., 333
Kaye, Dr., i., 213
Kent, Duke of, ii., 229, 232, bis
Khabỳl Mansûr, i., 172
Kilbee, iii., 201, 234
Kilmorey, Lord, iii., 254, 289
Kinglake, Eothen, i., 240
Knight, Gally, i., 205
Knox, Mr., ii., 349; iii., 21, 26

Laila, the mare, i., 201
Lamartine, M., i., 300, 394; ii., 351
Lambert, M., i., 325
Lancaster, Mr., iii., 211
Lapi, Signor and Signora, iii., 241, 271, 318
Lascaris, M., i., 301, 369
Las Cases, Artist, iii., 216
Lauderdale
Laurence, Sir Tho., i., 228
Lebanon, paths in Mt., i., 210
Lemàn, the, iii., 207
Letters, instructions to write, ii., 313
Letters, Lady H. S. to Dr. M., i., 6, 13, 21, 28, 30, 38, 54, 64, 67,
380;
to Mr. Webb, i., 50, 59, 69;
to Mr. Coutts, i., 62; iii., 62;
to Eugenia Meryon, i., 380;
to Sir E. Sugden, ii., 281;
to the Duke of Wellington, ii., 294;
to Lord Brougham, iii., 238;
to the Duke of Bavaria, iii., 245, 298;
to Baron de Busech, iii., 316;
to Sir F. Burdett, iii., 307;
to Mr. Speaker Abercrombie, ii., 223, 239, 272;
to Lord Palmerston, iii., 278;
to the Queen, ii., 267
Liverpool, Lord, i., 217, 315
Liverpool, Lady, ii., 76, 95, 96
Locusts, iii., 259
Lœve, Dr., iii., 262, 267
Logmagi, i., 263, ter; iii., 51, 144, 303, 322, bis
Longchamp, Madlle, i., 263, ter; ii., 92; iii., 52, 84, 98, 325
Loofloofy Mâlem, ii., 269
Louis XVIII., iii., 168
Loustaunau Capt., iii., 306
Loustaunau, Gen., ii., 184, 198, 244; iii., 341
Lowe, Sir Hudson, iii., 187
Lowther, Lord, i., 96, 187
Lunardi, i., 228

Macintosh, Sir James, i., 141
McLean, Col., i., 47
Madden, Dr., i., 59
Maddox, Mr., i., 249; ii., 373
Magic, i., 275, 279
Mahadi, el, the coming of, i., 200
Mahannah Emir
Mahbûby, Prince Puckler Muskau’s slave, iii., 109
Mahmûd, Sultàn, iii., 69
Mahhmûd, servant, iii., 92
Mahomet Ali Pasha, i., 188; iii., 65, 76, 146
Mahometan, beaten, ii., 145
Mahon, Lord, ii., 87; iii., 163
Makhtarra, iii., 318
Malagamba, Signor, iii., 312
Malmesbury, Lord, i., FN[43], FN[65], FN[66], FN[67], FN[68], 162,
270; ii., 26, FN[3], FN[32]; iii., FN[20]
Mammûl, sweetmeat, ii., 333
Marchesson, Mr., iii., 273, 276
Mare, hollow backed, iii., 93
Mar Elias, i., 259; ii., 279, 315
Marks, good and bad, i., 27
Maronites, iii., 70
Mattei, Signor Baldassare, i., 234; iii., 324
Maubourg, M. de la Tour, ii., 290
Melbourne, Lord, ii., 232
Melek El Seyf, ii., 366
Meryon, Dr., leaves England, i., 3, 37;
promises made to him, i., 5; ii., 4;
his salary, ii., 2;
returns to England, i., 64, 74;
refuses to go to Damascus, i., 167;
his uncomfortable situation, i., 220; ii., 328; iii., 270;
makes love, ii., 16, 166;
his integrity, ii., 208;
reluctance to leave Lady Stanhope, iii., 154;
character of, iii., 133;
long sittings, iii., 162;
writes letters, iii., 313
Meryon, Mrs., i., 84, 162; iii., 123, 286;
her hostility to Lady H. S., i., 252, 338;
not fit company for Lady H. S, ii., 246;
her fright on the terrace, i., 258;
her visit to Lady H. S., i., 162;
mischief attributed, i., 172, 221;
is invited to Lady H. S.’s, ii., 236, 245;
is to be loved by Lady H. S., i., 33, 68;
what she is doing by clairvoyance, iii., 286;
her lamentations against Logmagi
Messaad Hannah, ii., 322
Messiah, Mrs., a Jewess, i., 58
Metta, a village doctor, i., 206; ii., 105
Mill, Doctor, iii., 277, 287
Montague Square, ii., 5, 7; iii., 193
Moore, General, ii., 36
Moore, Mr. B., Consul, ii., 311
Moore, Mrs., ii., 273; iii., 216
Motteux, Mr., ii., 94
Murray, Lady Augusta, i., 208; ii., 262
Mustaby, its meaning, iii., 246
Mustafa Pasha’s cruelty, ii., 136
Mustafa, the barber, ii., 121
Musters, Mrs., ii., 262
Myrice

Napier, Lady Sarah, ii., 362
Napier, Sir Wm., his letter, ii., 298
Napoleon I., iii., 186
Narbonne, Comte de, i., 300
Nash, Mrs., iii., 192
Natural children, i., 94
Needham, Col., iii., 289, 307
Neglected by the world, iii., 194
Negresses, iii., 364
Newbery, Doctor, i., 137; iii. 347
Newspaper, (April 12, 1838) iii., 234
North, the Hon. Fred., i., 205
Nuckly Ibrahim, iii., 38
Nugent, Mrs., i., 208

Ogles, the, iii., 139
Omar Sheykh, i., 349; ii., 120
Osman, Chäûsh, iii., 79
Ouseley, Sir Gore, ii., 93

Paget, Sir Arthur, ii., 182, bis
Paine, Tom, ii., 22
Palmerston, Lord, ii., 266
Paper Patterns, ii., 166
Paraschivà, Giuseppe, iii., 202
Parnell, Henry, (Baron Congleton) i., 75
Parry, Mrs., ii., 247
Passage to Cyprus, iii., 305
Passports, iii., 43
Payne, Capt., iii., 138
People of inferior station, iii., 128, 180
People’s Stars, ii., 251
Pepys, Sir Lucas, ii., 218
Perceval, Lady, ii., 97
Perceval, Mr., i., 306
Pether, artist, iii., 154
Pewits, birds, iii., 176
Phipps, General, ii., 218
Physicians, ii., 34, 331, bis
Pichetti, or Piccetti, i., 366, ter
Pierre, Old, ii., 343; iii., 55, 142
Pigot, Captain, i., 323; ii., 137, bis
Pirates, i., 39
Pitt, Wm.,
in love, i., 180;
dreams of Comus, i., 182;
drinks a health in a lady’s shoe, i., 181;
dislikes Mr. Canning, i., 317;
his attention to ladies’ dress, i., 181;
property bequeathed to him, iii., 289;
regrets making a peer, ii., 247; iii., 162;
his eyes, ii., 69;
his bust, ii., 79;
picture of Diogenes, ii., 80;
rabble under him, ii., 71;
his appearance, iii., 187;
not equal to his father, iii., 171;
his angelic worth, iii., 167, 235;
subscription to pay his debts, iii., 291;
his death, iii., 165, 235
Plummer, Mr., i., 209
Plague, the, iii., 203
Polani, Dr., i., 352
Poujolat et Boutés, MM., ii., 150; iii., 132
Pretyman, Dr., iii., 166
Prickly Heat, ii., 285
Prince of Wales, (George IV.) ii., 99, 382
Princess Elizabeth, ii., 102, ter.
Princes, the, iii., 268
Prudoe, Lord, iii., 38, 203, 215
Puckler Muskau, Prince, i., 139; iii., 4, 37, 89, 127, 142, 170, 255,
313

Queen Victoria, ii., 228, 232, 259, 277; iii., 239

Rashéyah, iii., 274, 316
Reading aloud, iii., 128
Reasons for statesmen’s actions, ii., 29
Reichstadt, Duke of, i., 206
Religion, iii., 312
Revolutions, i., 280; ii., 168; iii., 299
Revolution in Mount Lebanon, i., 347
Rewisky, Count, iii., 183
Reynaud, Mr., ii., 356
Rice, ii., 52
Richmond, Duke of, ii., 28, 64, 94, 95
Rich, Mr.
Rings, nose, ii., 200
Risk Allah
Roberts, Mr., iii., 82
Robinson, three years’ residence, iii., 204
Romney, Lord, ii., 24, 381
Rugged Paths, i., 210
Rûm, village
Russell, Lady Wm., i., 27
Russian spy, iii., 266
Rutland, Duchess of, ii., 52, 108

Saady, maid servant, ii., 327, 344; iii., 160
Salàmy Effendi
Salisbury, Lady, ii., 105
Saunders, Admiral, iii., 178
Scenes at Mar Elias, ii., 315
Scott, Capt., i., 235
Scott, Dr. John, dedication &c., i., 59
Scott, Walter, ii., 173; iii., 172
Selim Koblàn, character of, iii., 59
Serpent, iii., 292
Serpent at Tarsûs, ii., 360
Servants, English, ii., 70; iii., 161
Servants, men, i., 24; ii., 30
Servants, Syrian, i., 290; ii., 148, 309
Servants’ Wages, ii., 122
Servants, women, i., 26; ii., 136; iii., 161, 364
Sentimentality, i., 294
Sevenoaks Common, i., 384; ii., 23
Sevigné, Madame, iii., 116
Shadwell, Col., ii., 23
Shakspeare, i., 300
Shemmaûny, iii., 219
Sheridan, ii., 58
Sherỳf Pasha, iii., 67, 75
Sheykh Beshỳr, ii., 357
Sheykh Ibrahim, iii., 242
Sheykh Mohammed Nasýb, iii., 173
Shibly el Arriàn, iii., 318
Shifts, what made of, ii., 269
Ship plundered by Greeks, i., 40
Sidmouth, Viscount, i., 216
Silver spoon stolen, ii., 272
Singers in Syria, iii., 206
Slaves, i., 226, 288, 364
Sligo, Lord
Smith, Newman, i., 63
Smith, Sir Sydney, ii., 292
Spetchingly, Mem. of a Peeress, iii., 171
Spies, iii., 78, 297
Spit in the face, iii., 52
Stammering, ii., 108
Stanhope, Charles, ii., 85; iii., 165
Stanhope, Countess, ii., 14
Stanhope, Earl, i., 296; ii., 15; iii., 165
Stanhope, James Hamilton, i., 10; ii., 85; iii., 165
Stanhope, Lady H., takes to her bed, ii., 43, 48;
her complexion, ii., 16, 166;
her opinion of women, i., 376; iii., 262;
gives away money, ii., 240, 244;
has boys in her service, iii., 195;
her estimate of herself, iii., 121;
foretells revolutions, ii., 168; iii., 265;
her personal cleanliness, i., 148;
her hatred of women, i., 166;
takes no man’s arm, i., 81;
never shakes hands, iii., 143;
is able to command an army, ii., 32;
her pension, iii., 48, 99;
furious with her maids, ii., 276;
flogging, i., 294; ii., 136; iii., 46, 51, 242;
her veracity, ii., 324;
her freedom of speech, i., 135; ii., 37; iii., 262;
the sublimity of her language, i., 135;
her fearlessness, i., 106; ii., 366; iii., 270;
refuses Mrs. M’s. company, ii., 246;
men of her time, ii., 105; iii., 128;
is neglected, ii., 211; iii., 194;
Dr. M.’s trembling legs, iii., 144;
like a Delphic priestess, ii., 175;
like Gray’s Agrippina, iii., 217;
drinks brandy, ii., 270, 276;
her severity, i., 299;
seated in an alcove, iii., 4;
has a tooth drawn, ii., 44;
her jealousy of the queen, ii., 221;
her house in Montague Square, iii., 192;
what she gave to her brother James, ii., 88;
shape of her skull, iii., 294;
will live by rules of grandeur, ii., 275;
appearance of her tongue, ii., 237;
her dislike to Swiss governesses, i., 321;
frequent in eating, ii., 48;
ever just to others, iii., 121;
her advice excellent, ii., 167, 208; iii., 120;
open to flattery, iii., 217;
“qui faisoit la pluie et le beautemps,” ii., 371;
praised by an Imàm, iii., 30;
her property, ii., 88;
is taken for a man, ii., 145;
the divine right of kings, ii., 365;
her conversational powers, i., 135;
the Emir Beshỳr annoys her, i., 55,;
her feet free from smell
her deliberate affronts, ii., 217;
her establishment, i., 272;
resolved never to return to England;
her end in blood, ii., 340; iii., 321;
her munificence, ii., 238, 244;
wishes to be buried like a dog, ii., 339;
would destroy books, iii., 52;
wields the mace, iii., 56;
persons she wrote to, iii., 62;
her school for girls, iii., 64;
signs papers for Mr. Pitt, iii., 171;
smokes, iii., 188;
rejects eulogistic verses on herself, iii., 216;
physicks everybody, iii., 242;
refuses Duke Maximilian’s portrait, iii., 254;
insists on Dr. Meryon’s leaving her, iii., 255, 298;
advises him where to settle, iii., 256;
Duc de Bordeaux to kiss her stirrups, iii., 287;
walls up her gateway, iii., 298, 319;
disliked Mr. Canning, i., 315;
her influence over people, i., 92;
her debts, i., 339
Stanhope, Lady Lucy, ii., preface
Stars, peoples, ii., 251, 262, 364
Stewart, Lord, i., 187
Stowe, ii., 57
Strangers sent away, ii., 160
Strangways, Mr., ii., 369
Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, ii., 290
Stuart, the Misses
Sugden, Sir Edw., ii., 281
Suicide, uncommon, ii., 129
Sulyman, son of Skender, iii., 35
Sunflower Family, i., 384, Mr. M. L.
Sussex, Duke of, i., 187; ii., 104; iii., 268
Syria, climate of, i., 187; iii., 253
Sturt, Bridget

Taat-el-Dyn, i., 163
Tamarisk Pavilion, ii., 43
Tattenbach, Count, iii., 102, 110
Taylor, Colonel Thomas, iii., 277
Taylor, Thomas, i., 18, 31
Temple, Earl, i., 277
Thanet, Lord, ii., 22
Thé, Madlle. du, ii., 262
Thief lurking, iii., 292
Things clean and unclean, i., 148
Thurlow, Lord
Tickell, Mr., ii., 10, 75
Tobacco, smoking, iii., 188
Tongue, unclean, i., 28
Tooke, Horne, i., 374; ii., 31
Townsend, Mr., ii. FN[8]
Traveller, unknown, iii., 82
Travellers, why sent away, ii., 160
Tread on a toe, ii., 212
Tristram, the hermit, iii., 130
Tumblers, iii., 245
Turk, a real, i., 60
Turk, striking a, iii., 217
Turner, Mr. Wm., ii., 37
Tutors marry ladies of quality, iii., 81
Tutungi, Michael, ii., 320, 325; iii., 79
Twiss, Lady Stanhope’s maid, iii., 160
Tyr el Hakem, iii., 111

Urquhart, David, i., 245

Valentia, Viscount
Vansittart, Mr.
Verity, Dr., ii., 32
Verses on Mrs. Moore, iii., 216
Vincent, Lord St., iii., 138
Vices of the aristocracy, iii., 181
Volney, Mons., ii., 153
Voyage from Leghorn, i., 39

Wales, Prince of, (George IV.), i., 313; ii., 99, 101, 104
Wales, Princess of, i., 308
Wallace, Mr.
Walling up the gateway, iii., 319
Walmer Castle, ii., 66, 75, 214
Ward, Mr., iii., 189
Warren, Dr., ii., 34
Way, Mr., i., 137, 147
Wellesly, Lord, ii., 297
Wellington, Duke of, ii., 82, 293, 364
Wellington, the negro, iii., 254, 257, 277
Wiberforce, Mr., ii., 22
Wilbraham, clerk of the kitchen, ii., 247
Williams, Lady H. S.’s maid, i., 20, 70, 154, 158, 212; ii., 255
Wilsenheim, Count, letter to, iii., 309, 314
Wilson, Mr., Lord Chatham’s tutor, ii., 247
Witchcraft, i., 141
Woman spy, iii., 78
Women, Lady H. S.’s opinion of, i., 166, 376
World, the, heartless, iii., 194
Wraxhall, Sir Nathaniel, iii., 290, 293
Wynnes, the

Yanta, village, iii., 293, 297
York, Duke of, i., 23; ii., 105
Yorke, Captain, 4th Earl Hardwicke, i., 362; ii., 135, 373; iii., 181
Young men of Lady H. S.’s time, iii., 128

Zahly, village, iii., 286
Zeyneb, her shape, i., 288; iii., 51
Zezefûn, iii., 242
Zoave, Capt., Robert, i., 247

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In the index, there are numerous entries without corresponding volume or page numbers. There are additional entries with volume and page numbers that do not match the book.

The following were changed:

Hamâdy to Hamâady, Contents, Chapter V
Damacus to Damascus
entaining to entertaining
unconcious to unconscious
Feeky to Freeky, in index, and page number from 288 to 259
added dropped comma: at 6d., a loaf
replaced hyphen with space: hind legs, corn market

Added missing volume and page numbers to index entries:

Abu Ghosh, i., 263
Advice, iii., 271
Cheshire Gentleman, iii., 166
Cœle-Syria iii., 57, FN[32]
Flies on horses’ tails, ii., 35
Footmen’s Nosegays, iii., 128
Letters to Mr. Speaker Abercrombie, ii., 223, 239, 272;
Liverpool, Lady, ii., 76, 95, 96
Loustaunau Capt., iii., 306
Malmesbury, Lord, i., FN[43], FN[65], FN[66], FN[67], FN[68], 162,
270; ii., 26, FN[3], FN[32]; iii., FN[20]
Meryon, his salary, ii., 2;
Prickly Heat, ii., 285
Richmond, Duke of, ii., 28, 64, 94, 95
Servants’ Wages, ii., 122
Sevigné, Madame, iii., 116
Sheykh Ibrahim, iii., 242
Temple, Earl, i., 277
Townsend, Mr., ii. FN[8]

The only mention of Signor Catafago is in the Index so references are not found on the page numbers listed. Also, page number 324 for Signor Baldassare Matteir does not exist in any of the three volumes.