[206] Ossian.—­J.G.L.

[207] Pastoret:  Le Duc de Guise a Naples, etc., en 1647 et 1648. 8vo, 1825; also Memoires relating his passage to Naples and heading the Second Revolt of that people.  Englished, sm. 8vo, 1669.

“The Reviewal then meditated was afterwards published in Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. iv. p 355, but not included in the Misc.  Prose Works."—­Abbotsford Library Catalogue, p. 36.

[208] W. Shenstone’s Essays (1765), p. 115, or Works (1764-69), vol. iii. p. 49.

I am indebted to Dr. J.A.H.  Murray for this reference, which he kindly supplied from the materials for his great English Dictionary on Historical Principles.

[209] King Henry VIII., Act v.  Sc. 2, slightly altered.—­J.G.L.

[210] “Watch the sign to hate.”—­Johnson’s Vanity of Human Wishes.

[211] See Arniston Memoirs, 8vo, Edin. 1888, for text of Lord Melville’s letter and Sir Walter’s reply, pp. 315-326.

[212] “Seldom has any political measure called forth so strong and so universal an expression of public opinion.  In every city and in every county public meetings were held to deprecate the destruction of the one pound and guinea notes.”—­Annual Register (1826), p. 24.

[213] Alex.  Young of Harburn, a steady Whig of the old school, and a steady and esteemed friend of Sir Walter’s.—­J.G.L.

[214] See Life, vol. iv. pp. 146-148.

[215] Henry Weber died in 1818.

[216] See Life of Bonaparte. Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. xi. pp. 346-351.—­J.G.L.

[217] Plays on the Passions, 2 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1802, vol. ii. pp. 211-215.

[218] He had, however, snatched a moment to write the following playful note to Mr. Sharpe, little dreaming that the sportive allusion to his return in May would be so sadly realised:—­

“MY DEAR CHARLES,—­You promised when I displenished this house that you would accept of the prints of Roman antiquities, which I now send.  I believe they were once in some esteem, though now so detestably smoked that they will only suit your suburban villa in the Cowgate when you remove to that classical residence.  I also send a print which is an old favourite of mine, from the humorous correspondence between Mr. Mountebank’s face and the monkey’s.  I leave town to-day or to-morrow at furthest.  When I return in May I shall be

  Bachelor Bluff, bachelor Bluff,
  Hey for a heart that’s rugged and tough.

I shall have a beefsteak and a bottle of wine of a Sunday, which I hope you will often take share of,—­Being with warm regard always yours, WALTER SCOTT.”—­Sharpe’s Correspondence, vol. ii. pp. 359-60.

[219] Apropos of the old Scotch lady who had surreptitiously pocketed a silver spoon, one of a set of a dozen which were being passed round for examination in an auction room.  Suspicion resting on her, she was asked to allow her person to be searched, but she indignantly produced the article, with “Touch my honour,” etc.