176 REMOVAL OF MR. HILL. 
shal. I was at Napoleon's coronation. I 
have been invited to the Lord Mayor's and to 
the dinner of an Alderman of London." 
Happily, the Hill dynasty was not destined 
to last long. He had given out, says Mr. 
Brodie, " that he was a very near relative 
of the Duke of Bedford, and that the Duchess 
seldom rode out in her carriage without 
him."* But whilst the people listened to 
his magnificent accounts of himself, and his 
noble friends, who should arrive on their 
shores, in H.M.S. Actaon, in 1837, but Cap- 
tain Lord Edward Russell, a son of the Duke 
of Bedford ! 
A spectre could not have been a more 
appalling visitant to the so-called relative, 
who would have been forthwith taken from 
the place by Lord Edward Eussell ; but this 
could not have been done without orders. 
Soon afterwards, Captain H. W. Bruce, (now 
Admiral Bruce, Commander-in-chief on the 
coast of Africa,) arrived in H.M.S. Imogene, 
and carried off Mr. Hill, landing him in 1838 
safe at Valparaiso. 
Mr. Nobbs, during his absence from Pit- 
* Brodie, p. 77. 
