Footnote 56:This transposition ofhospesandnostrissufficiently confirms his pupil's statement that Mr. Mitchell "superintended his classical themes, but not classically." The "obnoxious master" alluded to was Burns's friend Nicoll, the hero of the song—"Willie brewed a peck O' maut,And Rob and Allan cam' to see," etc.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 56:This transposition ofhospesandnostrissufficiently confirms his pupil's statement that Mr. Mitchell "superintended his classical themes, but not classically." The "obnoxious master" alluded to was Burns's friend Nicoll, the hero of the song—
"Willie brewed a peck O' maut,And Rob and Allan cam' to see," etc.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 57:George, ninth Earl of Dalhousie, highly distinguished in the military annals of his time, died on the 21st March, 1838, in his 68th year.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 58:See Strang'sGermany in 1831, vol. i. p. 265.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 59:[Miss Fleming, in her contribution to Dr. John Brown's memorial of her sister Marjorie, says that these verses were written by her aunt, Mrs. Keir, after meeting the boy poet at Ravelston. Another aunt was the wife of Scott's kinsman, Mr. William Keith of Corstorphine Hill, and it was at her house, 1, North Charlotte Street, that Sir Walter came to know familiarly her delightful little niece, during her long visits to Edinburgh. These ladies and Mrs. Fleming were the daughters of Dr. James Rae.—SeeMarjorie Fleming.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 60:Lord Nelson's connection with this lady will preserve her celebrity. In Kay'sEdinburgh Portraitsthe reader will find more about Dr. Graham.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 61:[SeeJournal, vol. i. pp. 137-139.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 62:See Preface toWaverley, 1829.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 63:Life of Scott, by Mr. Allan, p. 53.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 64:["Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeare—or thee."—Journal, December 11, 1826.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 65:Introduction toRob Roy.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 66:Mr. Edmonstone died 19th April, 1840.—(1848.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 67:"Dinna steer him," says Hobbie Elliot; "ye may think Elshie's but a lamiter, but I warrant ye, grippie for grippie, he'll gar the blue blood spin frae your nails—his hand's like a smith's vice."—Black Dwarf, chap. xvii.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 68:Author of the famous Essay on dividing the Line in Sea-fights.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 69:CompareThe Antiquary, chap. iv.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 70:The most remarkable of theseantique headswas so highly appreciated by another distinguished connoisseur, the late Earl of Buchan, that he carried it off from Mr. Clerk's museum, and presented it to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries—in whose collection, no doubt, it may still be admired.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 71:Rob Roy, chap. xii.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 72:After the cautious father had had further opportunity of observing his son's proceedings, his wife happened one night to express some anxiety on the protracted absence of Walter and his brother Thomas. "My dear Annie," said the old man, "Tom is with Walter this time; and have you not yet perceived that wherever Walter goes, he is pretty sure to find his bread buttered on both sides?"—From Mrs. Thomas Scott.—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 73:"The members ofThe Clubused to meet on Friday evenings in a room in Carrubber's Close, from which some of them usually adjourned to sup at an oyster tavern in the same neighborhood. In after-life, those of them who chanced to be in Edinburgh dined together twice every year, at the close of the winter and summer sessions of the Law Courts; and during thirty years, Sir Walter was very rarely absent on these occasions. It was also a rule, that when any member received an appointment or promotion, he should give a dinner to his old associates; and they had accordingly two such dinners from him—one when he became Sheriff of Selkirkshire, and another when he was named Clerk of Session. The original members were, in number, nineteen—viz.,Sir Walter Scott, Mr. William Clerk, Sir A. Ferguson, Mr. James Edmonstone, Mr. George Abercromby (Lord Abercromby), Mr. D. Boyle (now Lord Justice-Clerk), Mr. James Glassford (Advocate), Mr. James Ferguson (Clerk of Session), Mr. David Monypenny (Lord Pitmilly), Mr. Robert Davidson (Professor of Law at Glasgow), Sir William Rae, Bart., Sir Patrick Murray, Bart.,David Douglas(Lord Reston), Mr. Murray of Simprim, Mr. Monteith of Closeburn,Mr. Archibald Miller(son of Professor Miller),Baron Reden, a Hanoverian; the HonorableThomas Douglas, afterwards Earl of Selkirk,—and John Irving. Except the five whose names areunderlined, these original members are all still alive."—Letter from Mr. Irving, dated 29th September, 1836.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 74:The present Laird of Raeburn.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 75:All Scott's letters to the friend here alluded to are said to have perished in an accidental fire.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 76:The late Countess-Duchess of Sutherland.—(1848.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 77:In one of his latest articles for theQuarterly Review, Scott observes, "There have been instances of love tales being favorably received in England, when told under an umbrella, and in the middle of a shower."—Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. xviii.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 78:[The object of the strongest, or perhaps it should be said the single, passion of Scott's life was Williamina, the only child of Sir John Wishart Belsches Stuart of Fettercairn, and his wife, the Lady Jane Leslie, daughter of David, Earl of Leven and Melville. Beside beauty of person, sweetness of disposition, a quick intelligence, and cultivated tastes, Miss Stuart seems to have possessed in large measure that indefinable but potent gift, which is called charm. Through some misapprehension, Lockhart appears to have antedated the beginning of her influence over Scott, as in 1790 she was hardly more than a child, and she was not sixteen when he was called to the Bar, though the meeting in the Greyfriars' Churchyard had probably already taken place. The "three years of dreaming" were ended, as the biographer narrates, in the autumn of 1796. On January 19, 1797, Miss Stuart was married to William Forbes, son and heir of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, an eminent banker, and the author of a Life of his friend Beattie. Scott's affectionate allusions to his early rival will be found in the Introduction to the Fourth Canto ofMarmion:—"And one whose name I may not say,—For not mimosa's tender treeShrinks sooner from the touch than he,"—an Introduction inscribed to James Skene of Rubislaw, whose marriage to a daughter of Sir William had been speedily followed by the father's death. Mr. Forbes succeeded to the baronetcy in 1806, and his wife, on the death of Sir John Stuart, inherited Fettercairn. She died December 5, 1810, after thirteen years of unclouded happiness. Dean Boyle has recorded that Lockhart once read to him the letter "full of beauty," which Scott wrote to the bereaved husband at this time. Lady Stuart-Forbes left six children, four sons and two daughters. The three sons who survived to maturity all were men of unusual ability.The story of Williamina Stuart's brief life was told for the first time with any fulness by Miss F. M. F. Skene in theCentury Magazinefor July, 1899. As the daughter of one of Scott's earliest and dearest friends and the niece of Sir William Forbes, she could write with knowledge. She says that from the day of his wife's death, "so far as society and the outer world were concerned, Sir William Forbes may be said to have died with her. He retired into the most complete seclusion, maintaining the heart-stricken silence of a grief too deep for words, and scarcely seeing even his own nearest relatives. Only at the call of duty did he ever emerge from his [retirement," as when he proved so stanch a friend to Scott in the darkest days of 1826 and 1827.A charming portrait, after a miniature by Cosway, accompanies Miss Skene's sketch of Lady Stuart-Forbes,—a pleasing contrast to the picture, without merit, either as a work of art or as a likeness, which was engraved for the Memoir of her youngest son, James David Forbes.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 78:[The object of the strongest, or perhaps it should be said the single, passion of Scott's life was Williamina, the only child of Sir John Wishart Belsches Stuart of Fettercairn, and his wife, the Lady Jane Leslie, daughter of David, Earl of Leven and Melville. Beside beauty of person, sweetness of disposition, a quick intelligence, and cultivated tastes, Miss Stuart seems to have possessed in large measure that indefinable but potent gift, which is called charm. Through some misapprehension, Lockhart appears to have antedated the beginning of her influence over Scott, as in 1790 she was hardly more than a child, and she was not sixteen when he was called to the Bar, though the meeting in the Greyfriars' Churchyard had probably already taken place. The "three years of dreaming" were ended, as the biographer narrates, in the autumn of 1796. On January 19, 1797, Miss Stuart was married to William Forbes, son and heir of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, an eminent banker, and the author of a Life of his friend Beattie. Scott's affectionate allusions to his early rival will be found in the Introduction to the Fourth Canto ofMarmion:—
"And one whose name I may not say,—For not mimosa's tender treeShrinks sooner from the touch than he,"—
an Introduction inscribed to James Skene of Rubislaw, whose marriage to a daughter of Sir William had been speedily followed by the father's death. Mr. Forbes succeeded to the baronetcy in 1806, and his wife, on the death of Sir John Stuart, inherited Fettercairn. She died December 5, 1810, after thirteen years of unclouded happiness. Dean Boyle has recorded that Lockhart once read to him the letter "full of beauty," which Scott wrote to the bereaved husband at this time. Lady Stuart-Forbes left six children, four sons and two daughters. The three sons who survived to maturity all were men of unusual ability.
The story of Williamina Stuart's brief life was told for the first time with any fulness by Miss F. M. F. Skene in theCentury Magazinefor July, 1899. As the daughter of one of Scott's earliest and dearest friends and the niece of Sir William Forbes, she could write with knowledge. She says that from the day of his wife's death, "so far as society and the outer world were concerned, Sir William Forbes may be said to have died with her. He retired into the most complete seclusion, maintaining the heart-stricken silence of a grief too deep for words, and scarcely seeing even his own nearest relatives. Only at the call of duty did he ever emerge from his [retirement," as when he proved so stanch a friend to Scott in the darkest days of 1826 and 1827.
A charming portrait, after a miniature by Cosway, accompanies Miss Skene's sketch of Lady Stuart-Forbes,—a pleasing contrast to the picture, without merit, either as a work of art or as a likeness, which was engraved for the Memoir of her youngest son, James David Forbes.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 79:Mr. Andrew Shortreed (one of a family often mentioned in these Memoirs) says, in a letter of November, 1838: "The joke of theone pairof boots tothree pairof legs was so unpalatable to the honest burghers of Jedburgh, that they have suffered the ancient privilege of 'riding the Fair,' as it was called (during which ceremony the inhabitants of Kelso were compelled to shut up their shops as on a holiday), to fall into disuse. Huoy, the runaway forger, a native of Kelso, availed himself of the calumny in a clever squib on the subject:—'The outside man had each a boot,The three had but a pair.'"[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 79:Mr. Andrew Shortreed (one of a family often mentioned in these Memoirs) says, in a letter of November, 1838: "The joke of theone pairof boots tothree pairof legs was so unpalatable to the honest burghers of Jedburgh, that they have suffered the ancient privilege of 'riding the Fair,' as it was called (during which ceremony the inhabitants of Kelso were compelled to shut up their shops as on a holiday), to fall into disuse. Huoy, the runaway forger, a native of Kelso, availed himself of the calumny in a clever squib on the subject:—
'The outside man had each a boot,The three had but a pair.'"[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 80:Books on Civil Law.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 81:A tame fox of Mr. Clerk's, which he soon dismissed.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 82:Mr. James Clerk, R. N.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 83:Mr. Ainslie died at Edinburgh, 11th April, 1838, in his 73d year.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 84:The reader will find a story not unlike this in the Introduction toThe Antiquary, 1830. When I first read that note, I asked him why he had altered so many circumstances from the usual oral edition of his anecdote. "Nay," said he, "both stories may be true, and why should I be always lugging in myself, when what happened to another of our class would serve equally well for the purpose I had in view?" I regretted theleg of mutton.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 85:Redgauntlet, chap. i.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 86:Redgauntlet, letter ix.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 87:Pies.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 88:Sir A. Ferguson.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 89:Redgauntlet, chap. i.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 90:It has been suggested thatPestis a misprint forPeat. There was an elderly practitioner of the latter name, with whom Mr. Fairford must have been well acquainted.—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 91:The situation of Dean of Faculty was filled in 1792 by the Honorable Henry Erskine, of witty and benevolent memory.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 92:Redgauntlet, letter ix.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 93:An eminent annotator observes on this passage:—"The praise of Lord Braxfield's capacity and acquirement is perhaps rather too slight. He was a very good lawyer, and a man of extraordinary sagacity, and in quickness and sureness of apprehension resembled Lord Kenyon, as well as in his ready use of his profound knowledge of law."—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 94:The Judges then attended in Edinburgh in rotation during the intervals of term, to take care of various sorts of business which could not brook delay, bills of injunction, etc.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 95:The beautiful seat of the Baillies of Jerviswood, in Berwickshire, a few miles below Dryburgh.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 96:Mr. Russell, surgeon, afterwards Professor of Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 97:Sir William Miller (Lord Glenlee).[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 98:Mr. Gibb was the Librarian of the Faculty of Advocates.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 99:Clerk, Abercromby, Scott, Ferguson, and others, had occasional boating excursions from Leith to Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. On one of these their boat was neared by a Newhaven one—Ferguson, at the moment, was standing up talking; one of the Newhaven fishermen, taking him for a brother of his own craft, bawled out, "Linton, you lang bitch, is that you?" From that day Adam Ferguson's cognomen among his friends ofThe Clubwas Linton.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 100:Walter Scott of Synton (elder brother ofBolt-Foot, the first Baron of Harden) was thus designated. He greatly distinguished himself in the battle of Melrose,A. D.1526.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 101:This alludes to being lost in a fishing excursion.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 102:The companions ofThe Club.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 103:William Hamilton of Wishaw,—who afterwards established his claim to the peerage of Belhaven.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 104:John James Edmonstone.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 105:I am obliged to Mr. John Elliot Shortreed, a son of Scott's early friend, for somememorandaof his father's conversations on this subject. These notes were written in 1824; and I shall make several quotations from them. I had, however, many opportunities of hearing Mr. Shortreed's stories from his own lips, having often been under his hospitable roof in company with Sir Walter, who to the last always was his old friend's guest when business took him to Jedburgh.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 106:Waverley, chap, xxxviii. note.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 107:Introduction toThe Lady of the Lake, 1830.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 108:Waverley, chap. viii.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 109:Wordsworth's Sonnet on Neidpath Castle.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 110:Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, p. 398.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 111:A hare.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 112:Dr. Robertson was tutor to the Laird of Simprim, and afterwards minister of Meigle—a man of great worth, and an excellent scholar. In his younger days he was fond of the theatre, and encouraged and directedSimprim, Grogg, Linton & Co.in their histrionic diversions.—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 113:According to a friendly critic, one of the Liberals exclaimed, as therowwas thickening, "No Blows!"—and Donald, suiting the action to the word, responded, "Plows by ——!"—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 114:"The third day comes a frost, a killing frost."King Henry VIII.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 114:
"The third day comes a frost, a killing frost."King Henry VIII.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 115:Dr. Rutherford.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 116:Captain John Scott had been for some time with his regiment at Gibraltar.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 117:Colonel Russell of Ashestiel, married to a sister of Scott's mother.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 118:Crabwas the nickname of a friend who had accompanied Ferguson this summer on an Irish tour. Dr. Black, celebrated for his discoveries in chemistry, was Adam Ferguson's uncle; and had, it seems, given the young travellers a strong admonition touching the dangers of Irish hospitality.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 119:These lines are part of a song onLittle-tony—i. e., the Parliamentary orator Littleton. They are quoted in Boswell'sLife of Johnson, originally published in 1791.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 120:Sir A. Wood was himself the son of a distinguished surgeon in Edinburgh. He married one of the daughters of Sir William Forbes—rose in the diplomatic service—and died in 1846.—(1848.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 121:This story was told by the Countess of Purgstall on her deathbed to Captain Basil Hall. See hisSchloss Hainfeld, p. 333.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 122:Seeante, p. 97.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 123:A servant-boy and pony.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 124:
"'Dost fear? dost fear?—The moon shines clear;—Dost fear to ride with, me?Hurrah! hurrah! the dead can ride!'—Oh, William, let them be!'"'See there! see there! What yonder swingsAnd creaks 'mid whistling rain?'—Gibbet and steel, the accursed wheel,A murderer in his chain."'Hollo! thou felon, follow here,To bridal bed we ride;And thou shalt prance a fetter danceBefore me and my bride.'"And hurry, hurry! clash, clash, clash!The wasted form descends;And fleet as wind, through hazel bush,The wild career attends."Tramp, tramp! along the land they rode;Splash, splash! along the sea;The scourge is red, the spur drops blood.The flashing pebbles flee."[Back to Main Text]
"'Dost fear? dost fear?—The moon shines clear;—Dost fear to ride with, me?Hurrah! hurrah! the dead can ride!'—Oh, William, let them be!'
"'See there! see there! What yonder swingsAnd creaks 'mid whistling rain?'—Gibbet and steel, the accursed wheel,A murderer in his chain.
"'Hollo! thou felon, follow here,To bridal bed we ride;And thou shalt prance a fetter danceBefore me and my bride.'
"And hurry, hurry! clash, clash, clash!The wasted form descends;And fleet as wind, through hazel bush,The wild career attends.
"Tramp, tramp! along the land they rode;Splash, splash! along the sea;The scourge is red, the spur drops blood.The flashing pebbles flee."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 125:George Cranstoun, Lord Corehouse.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 126:Decisions by Lord Fountainhall.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 127:A very intimate friend both of Scott and of the lady tells me that these verses were great favorites of hers—she gave himself a copy of them, and no doubt her recitation had made them known to Scott—but that he believes them to have been composed by Mrs. Hunter of Norwich.—(1839.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 128:Mr. Scott of Harden's right to the peerage of Polwarth, as representing, through his mother, the line of Marchmont, was allowed by the House of Lords in 1835.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 129:The Kelso Mail.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 130:Some extracts from this venerable person's unpublished Memoirs of his own Life have been kindly sent to me by his son, the well-known physician of Chelsea College, from which it appears that the reverend doctor, and, more particularly still, his wife, a lady of remarkable talent and humor, had formed a high notion of Scott's future eminence at a very early period of his life. Dr. S. survived to a great old age, preserving his faculties quite entire, and I have spent many pleasant hours under his hospitable roof in company with Sir Walter Scott. We heard him preach an excellent circuit sermon when he was upwards of eighty-two, and at the Judges' dinner afterwards he was among the gayest of the company.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 131:Remarks on Popular Poetry.1830.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 132:[James Skene, son of George Skene of Rubislaw, was born in 1775.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 133:[Beside the memoranda placed by Mr. Skene in Lockhart's hands and used by him in various portions of theLife, the friend's unpublishedReminiscences, from which Mr. Douglas has fortunately been enabled to draw largely in annotating theJournal, contains recollections of peculiar interest.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 134:See particulars of Stanfield's case in Lord Fountainhall'sChronological Notes of Scottish Affairs, 1680-1701, edited by Sir Walter Scott. 4to, Edinburgh, 1822. Pp. 233-236.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 135:Some of Scott's most intimate friends at the Bar, partly, no doubt, from entertaining political opinions of another caste, were by no means disposed to sympathize with the demonstrations of his military enthusiasm at this period. For example, one of these gentlemen thus writes to another in April, 1797: "By the way, Scott is become the merest trooper that ever was begotten by a drunken dragoon on his trull in a hayloft. Not an idea crosses his mind, or a word his lips, that has not an allusion to some d——d instrument or evolution of the Cavalry—'Draw your swords—by single files to the right of front—to the left wheel—charge!' After all, he knows little more about wheels and charges than I do about the wheels of Ezekiel, or the King of Pelew about charges of horning on six days' date. I saw them charge on Leith Walk a few days ago, and I can assure you it was by no means orderly proceeded. Clerk and I are continually obliged to open a six-pounder upon him in self-defence, but in spite of a temporary confusion, he soon rallies and returns to the attack."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 136:See the Introduction to this novel in the edition of 1830.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 137:I owe this circumstance to the recollection of Mr. Claud Russell, accountant in Edinburgh, who was one of the party. Previously I had always supposed these verses to have been inspired by Miss Carpenter.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 138:["You may perhaps have remarked Miss Carpenter at a Carlisle ball, but more likely not, as her figure is not veryfrappant. A smart-looking little girl with dark brown hair would probably be her portrait if drawn by an indifferent hand. But I, you may believe, should make a piece of work of my sketch, as little like the original as Hercules to me."—Scott to P. Murray, December, 1797.—Familiar Letters, vol. i. p. 10.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 139:In several deeds which I have seen, M. Charpentier is designed "Écuyer du Roi;" one of those purchasable ranks peculiar to the latter stages of the old French Monarchy. What the post he held was, I never heard.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 140:From the German of Goethe.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 141:A miniature of Scott.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 142:["I had a visit from Mr. Haliburton to-day, and asked him all about your brother, who was two years in his house. My father is Mr. Haliburton's relation and chief, as he represents a very old family of that name. When you go to the south of Scotland with me, you will see their burying-place, now all that remains with my father of a very handsome property. It is one of the most beautiful and romantic scenes you ever saw, among the ruins of an old abbey. When I die, Charlotte, you must cause my bones to be laid there; but we shall have many happy days before that, I hope."—Scott to Miss Carpenter, November 22, 1797.—Familiar Letters, vol. i. p. 8.][Back to Main Text]
Footnote 143:The account in the text of Miss Carpenter's origin has been, I am aware, both spoken and written of as an uncandid one: it had been expected that even in 1837 I would not pass in silence a rumor of early prevalence, which represented her and her brother as children of Lord Downshire by Madame Charpentier. I did not think it necessary to allude to this story while any of Sir Walter's own children were living; and I presume it will be sufficient for me to say now, that neither I, nor, I firmly believe, any one of them, ever heard either from Sir Walter, or from his wife, or from Miss Nicolson (who survived them both) the slightest hint as to the rumor in question. There is not an expression in the preserved correspondence between Scott, the young lady, and the Marquis, that gives it a shadow of countenance. Lastly, Lady Scott always kept hanging by her bedside, and repeatedly kissed in her dying moments, a miniature of her father which is now in my hands; and it is the well-painted likeness of a handsome gentleman—but I am assured the features have no resemblance to Lord Downshire or any of the Hill family.—(1848.)[Back to Main Text]