Page 255, line 6. John Fenwick.  See the essay “The Two Races of Men,” and note.  Writing to Manning on September 24, 1802, Lamb describes Fenwick as a ruined man hiding from his creditors.  In January, 1806, he tells Stoddart that Fenwick is “coming to town on Monday (if no kind angel intervene) to surrender himself to prison.”  And we meet him again as late as 1817, in a letter to Barron Field, on August 31, where his editorship of The Statesman is mentioned.  In Mary Lamb’s letters to Sarah Stoddart there are indications that Mrs. Fenwick and family were mindful of the Lambs’ charitable impulses.

After “Fenwick,” in the Englishman’s Magazine, Lamb wrote:  “Of him, under favour of the public, something may be told hereafter.”  It is sad that the sudden discontinuance of the magazine with this number for ever deprived us of further news of this man.

Page 255, line 11. Lovell.  Daniel Lovell, subsequently owner and editor of The Statesman, which was founded by John Hunt, Leigh Hunt’s brother, in 1806.  He had a stormy career, much chequered by imprisonment and other punishment for freedom of speech.  He died in 1818.

Page 255, line 20. Daily demands of the Stamp Office. The newspaper stamp in those days was threepence-halfpenny, raised in 1815 to fourpence.  In 1836 it was reduced to a penny, and in 1855 abolished.

Page 255, line 28. Accounted very good men now. A hit, I imagine, particularly at Southey (see note to “The Tombs in the Abbey").  Also at Wordsworth and Mackintosh himself.

Page 256, line 3. Sir J——­s M——­h.  Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), the philosopher, whose apostasy consisted in his public recantation of the opinions in favour of the French Revolution expressed in his Vindiciae Gallicae, published in 1791.  In 1803 he accepted the offer of the Recordership of Bombay.  Lamb’s epigram, which, as has been stated above, cannot have had reference to this particular appointment, runs thus in the version quoted in the letter to Manning of August, 1801:—­

  Though thou’rt like Judas, an apostate black,
  In the resemblance one thing thou dost lack: 
  When he had gotten his ill-purchased pelf,
  He went away, and wisely hang’d himself: 
  This thou may’st do at last; yet much I doubt,
  If thou hash any bowels to gush out.

Page 256, line 6. Lord ...  Stanhope.  This was Charles, third earl (1753-1816), whose sympathies were with the French Revolution.  His motion in the House of Lords against interfering with France’s internal affairs was supported by himself alone, which led to a medal being struck in his honour with the motto, “The Minority of One, 1795;” and he was thenceforward named “Minority,” or “Citizen,” Stanhope.  George Dyer, who had acted as tutor to his children, was one of Stanhope’s residuary legatees.

Page 256, line 10. It was about this time ... With this sentence Lamb brought back his essay to its original title, and paved the way for the second part—­now printed under that heading.