October 31.—­A sleepless night and a bilious morning, yet not so very uncomfortable as the phrase may imply.  The bolts clashed, and made me dream of poor Bran.  The wind being nearly completely contrary, we have by ten o’clock gained Plymouth and of course will stand westward for Cape Finisterre; terrible tossing and much sea-sickness, beating our passage against the turn.  I may as well say we had a parting visit from Lady Graham, who came off in a steamer, saluted us in the distance and gave us by signal her “bon voyage.”  On Sunday we had prayers and Service from Mr. Marshall, our Chaplain, a Trinity College youth, who made a very respectable figure.

FOOTNOTES: 

[465] See “Ellandonan Castle,” in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Scott’s Poetical Works, vol. iv. p. 361.

[466] Now the Bishop of St. Andrews.  As has been already said, Wordsworth arrived on the 19th and left on the 22d September, i.e. the visit lasted from Monday till Thursday.  There are no dates in the Journal between May 25 and October 8, but Wordsworth says, “At noon on Thursday we left Abbotsford, and on the morning of that day Sir Walter and I had a serious conversation tete-a-tete, when he spoke with gratitude of the happy life which upon the whole he had led.”—­Knight’s Wordsworth, vol. iii. p. 201.

[467] Wordsworth notes that on placing the volume in his daughter’s hand, Sir Walter said, “I should not have done anything of this kind but for your father’s sake; they are probably the last verses I shall ever write.”—­Knight’s Wordsworth, vol. iii. p. 201.

[468] Lord Brougham.

[469] The introductory address to Count Robert of Paris bears the date October 15th, 1831.

[470] Twelfth Night, Act II.  Sc. 3.

[471] See Moore’s edition of Byron’s Works, vol. vii. pp. 43-44, note.

[472] Scott’s views received strong confirmation a few days later at Bristol, where the authorities, through mistaken humanity, hesitated to order the military to act.

[473] At Malta, accordingly, we find Sir Walter making inquiry regarding this Arabian conjurer, and writing to Mr. Lockhart, on Nov. 1831, in the following terms:—­

“I have got a key to the conjuring story of Alexandria and Grand Cairo.  I have seen very distinct letters of Sir John Stoddart’s son, who attended three of the formal exhibitions which broke down, though they were repeated afterwards with success.  Young Stoddart is an excellent Arabian scholar—­an advantage which I understand is more imperfectly enjoyed by Lord Prudhoe and Colonel Felix.  Much remains to be explained, but the boldness of the attempt exceeds anything since the days of the Automaton chess-player, or the Bottle conjurer.  The first time Shakespeare was evoked he appeared in the complexion of an Arab.  This seems to have been owing to the first syllable of his