A party in which were not only the queen of a reigning sovereign, but an English minister and his wife, was sure of receiving attention wherever it passed or stopped; but in the present case it was the naval officer who carried off the lion's share of homage, so widely had his fame spread throughout the Continent.

At Trieste, says Miss Knight, "he is followed by thousands when he goes out, and for the illumination which is to take place this evening, there are many _Viva Nelsons_ prepared." The same enthusiasm was shown at Vienna, where they arrived on the 21st or 22d of August.

"You can have no notion of the anxiety and curiosity to see him," wrote Lady Minto.[9] "The door of his house is always crowded with people, and even the street when his carriage is at the door; and when he went to the play he was applauded, a thing which rarely happens here." "Whenever he appeared in public," records Miss Knight, "a crowd was collected, and his portrait was hung up as a sign over many shops--even the milliners giving his name to particular dresses, but it did not appear to me that the English nation was at all popular." At a dinner at Prince Esterhazy's, where he spent some days, his health was drunk with a flourish of trumpets and firing of cannon.

"I don't think him altered in the least," continued Lady Minto, who remembered him from the old days in Corsica.

"He has the same shock head and the same honest simple manners; but he is devoted to _Emma_, he thinks her quite an _angel_, and talks of her as such to her face and behind her back, and she leads him about like a keeper with a bear.