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10. From Aesop: an ass who lived in the stables and was well fed but had to work in the yard decides to come into his master’s house because he wants to live in leisure and to receive caresses like the lapdog. But he wrecks the furniture when he enters the house, and he is sent back outside with the teaching: ‘be grateful for your lot and do not try to be what you are not’.

11. All Cochrane’s biographers concur in that they never met or communicated after his return from Brazil. However, when John Murray published an unfavourable comment about Lord Cochrane’s participation in Greece against Turkey in an editorial of the Representative on 24 June 1826, Maria Graham recorded that she made him apologise in a letter and reprint the paper with the damaging remark deleted. (This statement appears to be untrue, as the negative editorial exists.) See Maria Callcott, extracts of Lady Callcott’s journals made by W. H. Callcott.