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158 MISS COENELIA KNIGHT.
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Tlieir dress and that of their suite was old-fashioned but unostentatious . The jewels they brought with them had been sold , one by
one , to afford assistance to the poor emigres who applied to "the princesses in their distress . "
In 1792 Miss Knight—who had previously published a book called " Dinarbas" intended as a continuation of _" Rasselas , _"—
brought out a work , , in two volumes , entitled " Marcus Flaminius ; orA View of the Life of the Romans / ' of which Miss Burney
observes , " I think it a work of great merit , though wanting In varietyand , not very attractive from much interesting the feelings , "
with more , criticism of the same sort , which does not tempt the modern reader to rush to Mudie ' s and inquire if " Marcus
Flaminius " be on the list . It may be mentioned here that some years later , in 1805 , Miss Knight also published a quarto volume ,
entitled "A Description of Latium ; or , La Campagna di Roma , " a work displaying a sound knowledge of classical literature , together
with a familiar acquaintance with the places she describes . The next few years were spent at Rome , where the ladies
remained unmolested until the occupation of that city by the French troops under General Berthier , in February , 1798 , when with some
difficulty they effected their escape to Naples . The next chapter is full of Nelson and Sir William and Lady Hamilton ; and Cornelia
used to write to the " excellent Angelica Kauffraan , " who was obliged to remain at Rome , letters containing the news of the day , conveyed
in curiously guarded terms . She thus describes the correspondence : < e The foreigners who were obliged to remain at Rome were
naturally anxious to obtain correct accounts of what was passing elsewhere . Of this number was the excellent Angelica Kauffman , who
was civilly treated , however , by the French , as they rather paid court to artiststhough one of their generals and his aide-de-camp
made her paint their , portraits gratoiitously , and all the pictures they found in her house belonging to Austrians , Russians , or English ,
were carried off by them . I used to send her the news in terms of artcalling the French * landscape painters' and the English
, * historical painters . ' Nelson was Don RafFaelle ; but I recollect being puzzled how to inform her that our fleet was gone to Malta ,
until I thought of referring her" for the subject of ' the picture' to a chapter of the Acts of the Apostles , well knowing that the
Book in which that island was mentioned was not likely to be opened by the inspectors of the post . "
In 2 799 Lady Knight died , and Miss Knight's travels drew near bheir end ; for after visiting Sicily we find her sailing from
Palermo on the 23 rd of April , 1800 , with Sir William and Lady Hamilton , and joining Nelson ' s squadron off Malta , " severing
herself from Italy , where she had spent so many years of happiness . _" Her jhome was a prolonged one—vid Trieste , Vienna ,
Prague ourney , and Hamburg , at which latter port she embarked on
} oard the King George mail packet , and , after a stormy passage of
158 Miss Coenelia Knight.
158 MISS COENELIA KNIGHT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/14/
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