s as opportunity should suit or circumstances require." This
threat, instead of extorting money, consigned Mary Anne to the custody
of the marshal of the King's Bench Prison for the space of nine calendar
months, at the end of which period she was ordered to find securities to
keep the peace for a space of three years. It might have gone harder
with the brazen woman if the proceedings had taken any other form than
that of an indictment for libel, and if she had not admitted her fault,
and in some measure thrown herself upon the mercy of the court. The
pages of history do not appear to be sullied with the intrusion of Mary
Anne Clarke's name after this period.

The year 1811 is marked by an event which claims special record in a
work treating of English caricatures and caricaturists of the century.
In that year, James Gillray executed the last of his famous etchings;
and although mere existence was prolonged for nearly four years
afterwards, till the 1st of June, 1815, he sank in 1811 into that
hopeless and dreary state of mingled imbecility and delirium from which
the intellect of this truly great and original genius was destined never
to recover.

FOOTNOTES:

[9] "If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor
of the East; but wherever there is water enough to float a ship, we
are sure to find you in our way."--_Napoleon to Captain Maitland._
See Maitland's "Narrative of the Surrender of Bonaparte," p. 99.

[10] _London Chronicle_, December 6th, 1806.

[11] See also Gillray's previous satire of the 23rd of January, 1806
(which probably suggested this), _Tiddy Doll, the Great French
Gingerbread Baker, drawing out a new batch of kings_.

[12] See also Gillray's cartoon of 1st October, 1807, _British Tars
towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour_.

[13] See vol. ii., p. 92, _et seq._

[14] In a loose age, Madame Tallien, notwithstanding such virtues as
she possessed, was a loose character. Between 1798 and 1802 she had
three children, who were registered in her family name of
_Cabarrus_. On the 8th of April, 1802, at her own request a divorce
was pronounced from Tallien, and with two husbands still alive she
married (14th July, 1805,) Count Joseph de Caraman, soon after heir
of the Prince de Chimay. She died in the odour of sanctity, on the
15th of January, 1835.

[15] O'Meara, vol. i, p. 250.

[16] "English Bards and Scotch Revi