[317] The property of Gattonside had been purchased in 1824 by George Bainbridge of Liverpool, a keen angler, author of The Fly Fisher’s Guide, 8vo, Liverpool, 1816.

[318] Lady Anna Maria Elliot, see ante, p. 133.

[319] W. Scott of Maxpopple.

[320] In the fairy tale of Countess D’Aulnoy—­Fortunio.

[321] See Johnson’s Rambler, Nos. 204 and 205.

[322] Afterwards Sir Philip Crampton.  “The Surgeon-General struck Sir Walter as being more like Sir Humphry Davy than any man he had met, not in person only, but in the liveliness and range of his talk.”—­Life, vol. viii. p. 23.

[323] Gaelic for “old women.”

[324] William Douglas, fourth Duke of Queensberry, succeeded, on the death of his kinsman, Duke Charles, in 1778.  He died in 1810 at the age of eighty-six, when his titles and estates were divided between the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Douglas, the Marquis of Queensberry, and the Earl of Wemyss.

See Wordsworth’s indignant lines beginning: 

  “Degenerate Douglas, oh the unworthy Lord”;

also George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, 4 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1843-4.

[325] Alexander, tenth Earl of Home, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Henry, third Duke of Buccleuch.

[326] Charles, second son of Archibald Lord Douglas.

[327] James Thomas, Viscount Stopford, afterwards fourth Earl of Courtown, and his wife, Lady Charlotte, sister of the then Duke of Buccleuch, at that time still in his minority.  Lady Charlotte died within eighteen months of this date.

[328]

  “Thus Kitty, beautiful and young,
   And wild as colt untamed.”

Prior’s Female Phaeton.

Catherine Hyde, daughter of Henry Earl of Clarendon, and wife of Charles Duke of Queensberry.  She was the friend of Gay, and her beauty, wit, and oddities have been celebrated in prose and rhyme by the wits and poets of two generations.  Fifty-six years after Prior had sung her “mad Grace’s” praises, Walpole added those two lines to the Female Phaeton—­

  “To many a Kitty Love his car, will for a day engage,
   But Prior’s Kitty, ever fair, obtained it for an age.”

She died at a great age in 1777.  For her letter to George II. when forbid the Court, see Agar Ellis, Historical Inquiries, Lond. 1827, p. 40.

[329] Ballad on young Rob Roy’s abduction of Jean Key, Cromek’s Collections.—­J.G.L.

[330] See Letter to C.K.  Sharpe, from Drumlanrig, vol. ii. pp. 369-71.

[331] Sir Frederick Adam, son of the Chief Commissioner—­a distinguished soldier, afterwards High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, and subsequently Governor of Madras; he died in 1853.

[332] Mr. Richard Sharp published in 1834 a very elegant and interesting little volume of Letters and Essays, in Prose and Verse.—­See Quarterly Review, 102.—­J.G.L.  He had been Member of Parliament from 1806 to 1820, and died on the 30th of March 1835 at the age of seventy-six.