[421] See Bickerstaff’s Comic Opera, The Padlock.

[422] This gentleman published his own Memoirs (2 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1832).  They read like chapters from the Arabian Nights.  He gives a somewhat different account of his occupation of Zante, which he says was effected at Nelson’s suggestion, and by Lord Keith’s authority.  Sir James died in 1832 at a very great age.

[423] Henry V.  Act v.  Sc. 1.

[424] For By and attour, i.e. over and above.

[425] Burns’s lines to J. Smith.

[426] Delta’s lines on Leslie’s portrait of Scott may be recorded here:—­

  Brother of Homer and of him
  On Avon’s shore, mid twilight dim,
  Who dreamed immortal dreams, and took
  From Nature’s hand her picture book;
  Time hath not seen, Time may not see,
  Till ends his reign, a third like thee.

[427] Now at Bowhill.

[428] James Wolfe Murray succeeded Lord Meadowbank on the Bench as Lord Cringletie, in November 1816, and died in 1836.

[429] A Party Newspaper started by the Tories in Edinburgh at the beginning of 1821.  It was suppressed in the month of August, but during the interval contrived to give great offence to the Whig leaders by its personality.  Lockhart says of it that “a more pitiable mass of blunders and imbecility was never heaped together than the whole of this affair exhibited;” and Scott, who was one of its founders, along with the Lord Advocate and other official persons, wrote to Erskine, “I am terribly malcontent about the Beacon.  I was dragged into the bond against all reasons I could make, and now they have allowed me no vote regarding standing or flying. Entre nous, our friends went into the thing like fools, and came out very like cowards.”  The wretched libels it contained cost Sir A. Boswell his life, and for a moment endangered that of Scott.—­See Life, vol. vi. pp. 426-429, and Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 312.

[430] 2 Henry IV.  Act III.  Sc. 2.

[431] Douglas Cheape, whose Introductory Lecture was published in 1827.  Mr. Cheape died in 1861.

[432] James Moncreiff, son of the Rev. Sir Henry Wellwood.  The new Dean succeeded Lord Alloway on the Scotch Bench in 1829, and died in 1851.  Cockburn writes of him thus:—­“During the twenty-one years he was on the civil and criminal benches, he performed all his duties admirably.  Law-learning and law-reasoning, industry, honesty, and high-minded purity could do no more for any judge.  After forty years of unbroken friendship, it is a pleasure to record my love of the man, and my admiration of his character.”—­Journals, vol. ii, p. 264.

[433] Troilus and Cressida, Act v.  Sc. 2.

[434] Dr. Stokoe, who had settled at Durham, died suddenly at York in 1852.  He had been surgeon in the fleet at Trafalgar, and was afterwards appointed to St. Helena.