[32] Combinations of Workmen.  Substance of a speech by Francis Jeffrey. 8vo.  Edin. 1825.

[33 33] Mr. Robert Cockburn, Lord Cockburn’s brother, was then living at No. 7 Atholl Crescent.

[34] This alludes to a strange old woman, keeper of a public-house among the Wicklow mountains, who, among a world of oddities, cut short every word ending in tion, by the omission of the termination. Consola for consolation—­bothera for botheration, etc. etc.  Lord Plunkett had taken care to parade Judy and all her peculiarities.—­J.C.L.

[35] See the Duchess’s Letter, p. 414.

[36] The Rev. John Logan, minister of South Leith, 1748-1788.  The “Sermons” were not published until 1790-91.

[37] For an account of her visit to Abbotsford, see Life, vol. viii. pp. 72-76.  The marriage took place on June 16, 1827, the lady having previously asked the consent of George IV.!!  A droll account of the reception of her Mercure galant at Windsor is given in the North British Review, vol. xxxix. p. 349.

[38] Sir John Barrow, the well-known Secretary to the Admiralty, who died in 1848 in his eighty-fifth year.

[39] Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield.

[40] In after years Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), one of the Judges of the Court of Queen’s Bench.

[41] Storrs, Windermere.

[42] John Cay, member of the Scotch Bar, Sheriff of Linlithgow.  He was one of Mr. Lockhart’s oldest friends; he died in 1865.

[43] Moore records that Scott told him “Lockhart was about to undertake the Quarterly, has agreed for five years; salary L1200 a year; and if he writes a certain number of articles it will be L1500 a year to him,” Moore’s Diary, under Oct. 29, vol. iv. p. 334.  Jeffrey had L700 a year as Editor of the Edinburgh, and L2800 for contributors:  June 1823, see Moore’s Diary, vol. iv. p. 89.

[44] Sheridan’s Critic, Act I. Sc. 2.

[45] George Abercromby, eldest son of Sir Ralph, the hero of the battle of Alexandria.

[46] The following extract from a letter to Professor Wilson, urgently claiming his aid, shows that the new editor had lost no time in looking after his “first Number":—­

“Mr. Coleridge has yesterday transferred to me the treasures of the Quarterly Review; and I must say, my dear Wilson, that his whole stock is not worth five shillings.  Thank God, other and better hands are at work for my first Number or I should be in a pretty hobble.  My belief is that he has been living on the stock bequeathed by Gifford, and the contributions of a set of H——­es and other d——­d idiots of Oriel.  But mind now, Wilson, I am sure to have a most hard struggle to get up a very good first Number, and if I do not, it will be the Devil.”  This letter was quoted in an abridged form in the Life of Professor Wilson by Mrs. Gordon.