[162] ’The remains of the fort have been removed to assist in constructing a very useful lighthouse upon the island.  WALTER SCOTT.

[163]

     ’Unhappy queen! 
      Unwilling I forsook your friendly state.’

Dryden. [Aeneid, vi. 460.] BOSWELL.

[164] Dr. A. Carlyle (Auto. p. 331) says of his journey to London in 1758:—­’It is to be noted that we could get no four-wheeled chaise till we came to Durham, those conveyances being then only in their infancy.  Turnpike roads were only in their commencement in the north.’  ‘It affords a southern stranger,’ wrote Johnson (Works ix. 2), ’a new kind of pleasure to travel so commodiously without the interruption of toll-gates.’

[165] See ante, iii. 265, for Lord Shelburne’s statement on this subject.

[166] See ante, ii. 339, and iii. 205, note 4.

[167] See ante, iii. 46.

[168] The passage quoted by Dr. Johnson is in the Character of the Assembly-man; Butler’s Remains, p. 232, edit. 1754:—­’He preaches, indeed, both in season and out of season; for he rails at Popery, when the land is almost lost in Presbytery; and would cry Fire!  Fire! in Noah’s flood.’

There is reason to believe that this piece was not written by Butler, but by Sir John Birkenhead; for Wood, in his Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii. p. 640, enumerates it among that gentleman’s works, and gives the following account of it: 

’The Assembly-man (or the character of an assembly-man) written 1647, Lond. 1662-3, in three sheets in qu.  The copy of it was taken from the author by those who said they could not rob, because all was theirs; so excised what they liked not; and so mangled and reformed it, that it was no character of an Assembly, but of themselves.  At length, after it had slept several years, the author published it to avoid false copies.  It is also reprinted in a book entit. Wit and Loyalty revived, in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times. Lond. 1682, qu. said to be written by Abr.  Cowley, Sir John Birkenhead, and Hudibras, alias Sam.  Butler.’—­For this information I am indebted to Mr. Reed, of Staple Inn.  BOSWELL.  This tract is in the Harleian Misc., ed. 1810, vi. 57.  Mr. Reed’s quotation differs somewhat from it.

[169] ’When a Scotchman was talking against Warburton, Johnson said he had more literature than had been imported from Scotland since the days of Buchanan.  Upon the other’s mentioning other eminent writers of the Scotch; “These will not do,” said Johnson, “Let us have some more of your northern lights; these are mere farthing candles."’ Johnson’s Works (1787), xi. 208.  Dr. T. Campbell records (Diary, p. 61) that at the dinner at Mr. Dilly’s, described ante, ii. 338, ’Dr. Johnson compared England and Scotland to two lions, the one saturated with his belly full,