This incident naturally raised the question, what prospect there was of the lady being accepted at the Court of her own sovereign.

"She talked to me a great deal of her doubts whether the Queen would receive her, adding, 'I care little about it.

I had much rather she would settle half Sir William's pension on me,'"-- a remark which showed more philosophy than self-esteem.
A week's visit in Dresden ended by the party taking boats for Hamburg, which they reached on the 21st of October, the journey being prolonged by stopping every night.

They there remained ten days, of which no very noteworthy incidents have been recorded, although the general interest of all classes of people in the renowned warrior, of whom they had heard so much, continued to be manifested, sometimes in quaint and touching expression.

On the 31st of October they embarked on board the mail-packet for England, and after a stormy passage landed at Yarmouth on the 6th of November, 1800.