“My mind to me a kingdom is."[276] I am rightful monarch; and, God to aid, I will not be dethroned by any rebellious passion that may rear its standard against me.  Such are morning thoughts, strong as carle-hemp—­says Burns—­

    “Come, firm Resolve, take thou the van,
    Thou stalk of carle-hemp in man.”

Charles went by the steam-boat this morning at six.  We parted last night mournfully on both sides.  Poor boy, this is his first serious sorrow.  Wrote this morning a Memorial on the Claims which Constable’s people prefer as to the copyrights of Woodstock and Napoleon.[277]

FOOTNOTES: 

[263] See Miscellaneous Prose Works, vol. xx. pp. 152-244, or Quarterly Review No. 67, Kelly’s Reminiscences.

[264] 2 Henry IV., Act III.  Sc.  I, slightly altered.

[265] [Mrs. Brown’s Lodgings, No. 6 North St. David Street.]

[266] This is the opening couplet of a German trooper’s song, alluded to in Life, vol. ii. p. 13.  The literal translation is:—­

  “The day of departure is come;
  Heavy lies it on the hearts—­heavy.”—­J.G.L.

[267] Scott had written:—­“and yet to part with the companion of twenty years just six,” and had then deleted the three words, “years just six,” and written “nine” above them.  It looks as if he had meant at first to refer to the change in his fortunes, “just six” MONTHS before, and had afterwards thought it better to refrain.  This would account for a certain obscurity of meaning.

[268] As You Like It, Act II.  Sc. 4.

[269] Cicero, de Orat. ii. p. 346.—­J.G.L.

[270] Walter Scott Lockhart, died at Versailles in 1853, and was buried in the Cemetery of Notre-Dame there.

[271] The Rev. Edward Bannerman Ramsay, A.M., St. John’s College, Cambridge, incumbent St. John’s, Edinburgh, afterwards Dean of the Diocese in the Scots Episcopal Church, and still more widely known as the much-loved “Dean Ramsay,” author of Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character.  This venerable Scottish gentleman was for many years the delight of all who had the privilege of knowing him.  He died at the age of eighty-three in his house, 23 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, Dec. 27th, 1872.

[272] See Life, vol. iv. p. 2.

[273] Mr. Skene has preserved the following note written on this day:—­“I take the advantage of Mr. Ramsay’s return to Edinburgh to answer your kind letter.  It would have done no good to have brought you here when I could not have enjoyed your company, and there were enough friends here to ensure everything being properly adjusted.  Anne, contrary to a natural weakness of temper, is quite quiet and resigned to her distress, but has been visited by many fainting fits, the effect, I am told, of weakness, over-exertion, and distress of mind.  Her brothers