and Ker's bank, studied political economy, and on August 29, 1790, delivered a sensible address to the Club of 1789 against an unlimited paper currency. His notes of the proceedings of the Jacobin and other clubs, taken for a friend at the Embassy, were so good that Gower made him his secretary, and he left Paris with the rest of the Embassy on the fall of the monarchy. He told Croker in 1826 that he and Cutlar Fergusson[1] used to be waited upon at Beauvilliers' restaurant by a smart young man whom they liked to scold or tease, until, as the landlord told them, desperation made him enlist, the waiter being none other than Murat. The Bastide innkeeper's son, on deserting from the army to escape punishment, was undoubtedly reduced to a waitership at Beauvilliers', but he was not driven away by teasing, for he had friends in the Assembly who procured him admission to the King's Constitutional Guard, formed in the winter, of 1791.
Huskisson is said to have been recommended to Gower by his chaplain. Dr. John Warner, himself recommended by Lord Carlisle and George Selwyn. Warner had long been the friend and correspondent
- ↑ Fergusson, tried with Lord Thanet in 1799 for aiding in the attempted escape of Arthur O'Connor from Maidstone courthouse (O'Connor had been acquitted, but was about to be arrested on a second charge), was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. He went to India, had a good practice at the Calcutta bar, afterwards became M.P. for Kirkcudbright, and was Judge Advocate from 1834 till his death at Paris in 1838, aged sixty-nine.
