38 LORD LILFORD 



Mendizabel dropped in. The former recently 

 appointed Minister to this country from Russia, 

 the latter a Spanish merchant who entirely 

 supplied Don Pedro with arms, &c. during his 

 warfare with his brother, Don Miguel. Pozzo 

 gave us a very interesting account of his having 

 been in the battle of St. Vincent, under Lord 

 Nelson's protection. He was also (though a 

 diplomat, and not a military man) at the battle 

 of Jena.' 



Under date April 1, 1835, my mother makes 

 further mention of M. Mendizabel : 



'Lord Lilford went with Lord Stanley to 

 the House of Commons, and I waited for the 

 former till 3.30 in Old Burlington Street. I 

 found M. Mendizabel there, and the French 

 Ambassador, General Sebastiani, whom I knew 

 formerly in Paris. It seems that the last time the 

 General and M. Mendizabel met was in Spain ; 

 the latter was taken prisoner during the war, 

 by General Sebastiani, and by him ordered to 

 be shot. How he escaped, I confess I did not 



1 General Sebastiani was father of the unfortunate Duchess de 

 Praslin, murdered by her husband in 1847. Lady Lilford had 

 known the Duchess intimately in her girlhood. 



