Ali Pacha, in a room containing a marble basin and brother of that dangerous charge « borrowing:» a poet fountain, etc., etc., etc. These are It may not be unworthy of remark, that Bacon, in his essay on « Empire,» hints that Solyman was the last of his line; on what authority, I know not. his words: «The destruction of Mustapha was so fatal to Solyman's line, as the succession of the Turks from Solyman, until this day, is suspected to be untrue, and of strange blood; for that Solymus the Second was thought to be supposititious.» But Bacon, in his historical authorities, is often inaccurate. I could give half a dozen instances from his apophthegms only. Being in the humour of criticism, I shall proceed, after having ventured upon the slips of Bacon, to touch on one or two as trifling in the edition of the British Poets, by the justly-celebrated Campbell.—But I do this in good will, and trust it will be so taken.-If any thing could add to my opinion of the talents and true feeling of that gentleman, it would be his classical, honest, and triumphant defence of Pope, against the vulgar cant of the day, and its existing Grub-street. The inadvertencies to which I allude are, Firstly, in speaking of Anstey, whom he accuses of having taken his leading characters from Smollett,» Anstey's Bath Guide was published in 1766. Smollett's Humphry Clinker (the only work of Smollett's from which Tabitha, etc., etc. could have been taken) was written during Smollett's last residence at Leghorn, in 1770.—« Argal,» if there has been any borrowing, Anstey must be the creditor, and not the debtor. refer Mr Campbell to his own data in his lives of Smollett and Anstey. I Secondly, Mr Campbell says, in the life of Cowperi (note to page 358, vol. 7), that he knows not to whom Cowper alludes in these lines: Nor he who, for the bane of thousands born, Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn. had better borrow any thing (excepting money) than the thoughts of another-they are always sure to be reclaimed; but it is very hard, having been the lender, to be denounced as the debtor, as is the case of Anstey versus Smollett. As there is «honour amongst thieves,» let there be some amongst poets, and give each his due,-none can ¦ afford to give it more than Mr Campbell himself, who, with a high reputation for originality, and a fame which cannot be shaken, is the only poet of the times (except Rogers) who can be reproached (and in him it is indeed a reproach) with having written too little. CANTO VI. Stanza Ixxv." A wood ob cure, like that where Dante found, CANTO VII. Stanza li. Was teaching his recruits to use the bayonet. CANTO VIII. Note 1. Stanza viii. All sounds it pierceth, Allah! Allab! Bu! « Allah! Hu!» is properly the war-cry of the Mussulmans, and they sell long on the last syllable, whien gives it a very wild and peculiar effect. Note 2. Stanza ix. . Carnage (so Wordsworth tells you) is God's daughter.» But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is mon array'd for mutual slaughter; Yea, Carnage is thy daughter! WORDSWORTH'S Thanksgiving Ode. To wit, the Deity's. This is perhaps as pretty a pedigree for murder as ever was found out by Garter hingat-arms.-What would have been said had any free The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the church of Fer- spoken people discovered such a lineage? ney, with its inscription, « Deo erexit Voltaire.» Thirdly, in the life of Burus, Mr C. quotes Shakspeare thus, To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, This version by no means improves the original, which is as follows: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, A great poet quoting another should be correct; he should also be accurate when he accuses a Parnassian Note 3. Stanza xviii. Was printed Grove, although his name was Grose. A fact; see the Waterloo Gazettes. I recollect remarking at the time to a friend:-« There is fame! a man is killed, his name is Grose, and they print it Grove. I was at college with the deceased, who was a very amiable and clever man, and his society in great request for ins wit, gaiety, and chansons à boire.» Note 4. Stanza xxiii. As any other notion, and not national. 707 Krepost Vzala, y la tam. A kind of couplet; for he was a poet. CANTO IX. Note 1. Stanza i. Humanity would rise, and thunder. Nay! Query, Ney?-PRINTER'S DEVIL. Note 2. Stanza vi. And send the sentinel before your gate A slice or two from your luxurious meals. <<I at this time got a post, being for fatigue, with four others. We were sent to break biscuit, and make a mess for Lord Wellington's hounds. I was very hungry, and thought it a good job at the time, as we got our own fill while we broke the biscuit,-a thing I had not got for some days. When thus engaged, the Prodigal Son was never once out of my mind; and I sighed, as I fed the dogs, over my humble situation and my ruined hopes.»-Journal of a Soldier of the 71st Regt. during the war in Spain. Note 3. Stanza xxxiii. Because he could no more digest his dinner. He was killed in a conspiracy, after his temper had been exasperated, by his extreme costivity, to a degree of insanity. Note 4. Stanza xlvii. And had just buried the fair-faced Lanskoi. He was the «grande passion» of the grande Catherine. See her Lives, under the head of « Lanskoi.»> Would scarcely join again the reformadoes.. « Reformers,» or rather « Reformed.» The Baron Bradwardine, in Waverley, is authority for the word. Note 2. Stanza xv. The endless soot bestows a tint far deeper Query, Suit?-PRINTER'S DEVIL. Note 3. Stanza xviii. Balgounie's Brig's black wall. The brig of Don, near the « auld toun» of Aberdeen, with its one arch and its black deep salmon stream below, is in my memory as yesterday. I still remember, though perhaps I may misquote, the awful proverb which made me pause to cross it, and yet lean over it with a childish delight, being an only son, at least by the mother's side. The saying, as recollected by me, was this-but I have Lever heard or seen it since I was nine years of age; Brig of Balgounie, black's your wa'; Note 4. Stanza xxxiv. Oh, for a forty-parson power to chaunt a steam-engine. That mad wag, the Reverend S. S., sit- Note 5. Stanza xxxvi. To strip the Saxons of their hydes, like tanners. Was given to her favourite, and now bore his. Note 7. Stanza lviii. Which gave her dakes the graceless name of Biron.» In the empress Anne's time, Biron her favourite assumed the name and arms of the « Byrons» of France, which families are yet extant with that of England. There are still the daughters of Courland of that name; one of them I remember seeing in England in the blessed year of the Allies-the Duchess of S.-to whom the This was written long before the suicide of that English Duchess of S---t presented me as a name Note 5. Stanza xlix. Bid Ireland's Londonderry's Marquess show His parts of speech. person. sake. Note 8. Stanza Ixii. Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone, The greatest number flesh bath ever known. St Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still extant in 1816, and may be so yet as much as ever. Note Stanza lxxxi. 9. Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t' other. India. America, CANTO XI. praising the «< drapery» of an «untochered» but «pretty virginities» (like Mrs Anne Page) of the then day, which has now been some years yesterday:-she assured me that the thing was common in London; and as her own thousands, and blooming looks, and rich simplicity of array, put any suspicion in her own case out of the question, I confess I gave some credit to the allegation. If necessary, authorities might be cited, in which case I could quote both « drapery» and the wearers. hope, however, that it is now obsolete. Note 5. Stanza Ix. 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article. «Divine particulam auræ.» CANTO XII. Let us Note 1. Stanza xix. Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing), The advance of science and of language has rendered it unnecessary to translate the above good and true English, spoken in its original purity by the select mobility and their patrons. The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least in my early days: On the high toby-spice flash the muzzle, In spite of each gallows old srout; If you at the spelken can't hustle, You'll be hobbled in making a Clout. Then your blowing will wax gallows haughty, That her Jack may be regular weight. If there be any gem man so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of pugilism; who, I trust, still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour, and athletic as well as mental accomplishments. Note 2. Stanza xxix. St James's Palace and St James's Hells." «Hells,» gaming-houses. What their number may now be in this life, I know not. Before I was of age I knew them pretty accurately, both « gold» and <<< silver. >> I was once nearly called out by an acquaintance, because when he asked me where I thought that Note 1. Stanza xix. Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek the lie. See MITFORD's Greece. « Græcia Verax.» His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abusing Plutarch, spelling oddly, and writing quaintly; and, what is strange after all, his is the best modern history of Greece in any language, and he is perhaps the best of all modern historians whatsoever. Hlaving named his sins, it is but fair to state his virtues-learning, labour, research, wrath, and partiality. I call the latter virtues in a writer, because they make him write in earnest. Note 2. Stanza xxxvii. A hazy widower turn'd of forty's sure. This line may puzzle the commentators more than the present generation. Note 3. Stanza lxxiii. Like Russians rushing from hot baths to snows. The Russiaus, as is well known, run out from their hot baths to plunge into the Neva: a pleasant practical antithesis, which it seems does them no harm. Note 4. Stanza lxxxii. The world to gaze upon those northern lights. For a description and print of this inhabitant of the his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, «In polar region and native country of the aurora borealis, Silver Hell.» Note 3. Stanza xliii. And therefore even I wont anent <«< Anent» was a Scotel phrase, meaning «concerning,» with regard to.»> It has been made English by the Scotch Novels; and, as the Frenchman said-<< If it be not, ought to be English.»> Note 4. Stanza xlix. It The milliners who furnish « drapery misses.» «Drapery misses»-This term is probably any thing now but a mystery. It was however almost so to me when I first returned from the East in 1811–1812. ineans a pretty, a high-born, a fashionable young fe male, well instructed by her friends, and furnished by her milliner with a wardrobe upon credit, to be repaid, when married, by the husband. The riddle was first tead to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my See PARRY'S Voyage in search of a North-West Pas sage. Note 5. Stanza lxxxvi. As Philip's son proposed to do with Athos. A sculptor projected to hew Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander, with a city in one hand, and, I believe, a river in his pocket, with various other similar devices. But Alexander's gone, and Athos remains, I trust, ere long, to look over a nation of freemen. CANTO XIII. Note 1. Stanza vii. Right honestly, he liked an honest hater.. « Sir, I like a good hater.»-See the Life of Dr Jokn son, etc. Note 8. Stanza evi. The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a book, and a small trout to pull it. 709 hedge, « to look before he leaped: Note 2. Stanza xlviii. Go to the coffee-house, and take another. In SWIFT's or HORACE WALPOLE'S Letters I think it is mentioned that somebody regretting the loss of a friend, one, I go to the Saint James's Coffee-house, and take was answered by a universal Pylades: « When I lose another.»> I recollect having heard an anecdote of the same kind. Sir W. D. was a great gamester. Coming in one day to the club of which he was a member, he was observed to look melancholy. << What is the matter, Sir William ?» cried Hare, of facetious memory. "Ah!» replied Sir W. «I have just lost poor Lady D.»> « Lost! What atthe querist. Quinze or Hazard?» was the consolatory rejoinder of Note 3. Stanza lix. And I refer you to wise Oxenstiern. The famous Chancellor Oxenstiern said to his son, on the latter expressing his surprise upon the great effects arising from petty causes in the presumed mystery of politics: « You see by this, my son, with how little wisdom the kingdoms of the world are governed.» CANTO XV. Note 1. Stanza xviii. It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports and old songs, teaches how to sew up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruellest, the coldest, and the stupidest of pretended sports. They may talk about the beauties of nature, but the angler merely thinks of his dish of fish; he has no leisure to take his eyes from off the streams, and a single bite is worth to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite best on a As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, rainy day. The whale, the shark, and the tunny fishery God was Man-or Man God-he was both. I never arI say, that I mean, by a diviner still,» CHRIST. If ever have somewhat of noble and perilous in them; even net-raigned his creed, but the use-or abuse-made of it. fishing, trawiing, etc., are more humaue and useful-but angling!-No angler can be a good man. «One of the best men I ever knew—as humane, delicate-minded, generous, and excellent a creature as any in the world-was an angler: true, he angled with painted flies, and would have been incapable of the extravagances of I. Walton.»> The above addition was made by a friend in reading over the MS.-« Audi alteram partem»>-I leave it to counterbalance my own observation. CANTO XIV. Note. Stanza xxxiii. And never craned, and made but few faux pas. Craning. To crane» is, or was, an expression used to denote a gentleman's stretching out his neck over a And thou, diviner still, Whose lot it is by man to be mistaken. Mr Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might Negro Slavery, and Mr Wilberforce had little to say in be scourged? If so, he had better been born a Mulatto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation. Note 2. Stanza xxxv. When Rapp the Harmonist embargoed marriage This extraordinary and flourishing German colony in America does not entirely exclude matrimony, as the «Shakers» do; but lays such restrictions upon it as prevent more than a certain quantum of births within a certain number of years; which births (as Mr Hulme observes) generally arrive « in a little flock like those of a farmer's lambs, all within the same month perhaps.>> These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pious, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America. Note 3. Stanza xxxviii. Nor canvass what so eminent a band meant. Jacob Tonson, according to Mr Pope, was accustomed to call his writers «able pens»-« persons of honour,» and especially « eminent hands.»> Vide Correspondence, etc., etc. Note 4. Stanza Ixvi. While great Lucullus' role triomphale muffles-- A dish « à la Lucullus.» This hero, who conquered the East, has left his more extended celebrity to the transplantation of cherries (which he first brought into Europe) and the nomenclature of some very good dishes; —and I am not sure that (barring indigestion) he has not doue more service to mankind by his cookery than by his conquests. A cherry-tree may weigh against a bloody laurel; besides, he has contrived to earn celebrity from both. Note 5. Stanza Ixviii. But even sans confitures, it no less true is, There's pretty picking in those petits puits.» «Petits puits d'amour garnis de confitures,» a classical and well-known dish for part of the flank of a second course. Note 6. Stanza Ixxxvi. For that with me's a sine qua.» Subauditur « Non,» omitted for the sake of cuphony. Note 7. Stanza xevi, In short upon that subject I've some qualms very Hobbes; who, doubting of his own soul, paid that compliment to the souls of other people as to decline their visits, of which he had some apprehension. CANTO XVI. Note 1. Stanza x. If from a shell-tish or from co hineal. The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a shell-fish, or from cochineal, or from kermes, in still an article of dispute; and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing. Note 2. Stanza xliii. For a spoil'd carpet-but the « Attic Bee I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes trod, with-Thus I trample on the pride of Plato !»-«With greater pride,» as the other replied. But as carpets are meant to be trodden upon, my memory probably misgives me, and it might be a robe, or tapestry, or a table-cloth, or some other expensive and uncynical piece of furniture. Note 3. Stanza xlv. With Tu mi chamases from Portingale, I re:nember that the mayoress of a provincial town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break through the applauses of an intelligent audience-intelligent, I mean, as to music,-for the words, besides being in recondite languages (it was some years before the peace, ere all the world had travelled, and while I was a collegian — were sorely disguised by the performers;—this mayoress, I say, broke out with, «Rot your Italianos! for my part, I loves a simple ballat !» Rossini will go a good day. Who would imagine that he was to be the sucway to bring most people to the same opinion, some cessor of Mozart? However, I state this with diffidence, and of much of Rossini's: but we may say, as the conas a liege and loyal admirer of Italian music in general, noisseur did of painting, in the Vicar of Wakefield, << that the picture would be better painted if the painter had taken more pains.» Note 4. Stanza lix. For Gothic daring shown in English money. <«< Ausu Romano, ære Veneto» is the inscription (and | well inscribed in this instance) on the sea walls between the Adriatic and Venice. The walls were a republican work of the Venetians; the inscription, I believe, imperial, and inscribed by Napoleon. Note 5. Stanza Ix. Cutying squires to fight against the churches. Though ye untie the winds and bid them fight Against the churches.—Macbeth. Note 6. Stanza xevii. They err-t is merely what is call'd mobility. In French « mobilité.» I am not sure that mobility is English; but it is expressive of a quality which rather belongs to other climates, though it is sometimes seen | to a great extent in our own. It may be defined as an excessive susceptibility of immediate impressions—at the same time without losing the past; and is, though sometimes apparently useful to the possessor, a most painful and unhappy attribute. Note 7. Stanza cii. Draperied her form with curious felicity. « Curiosa felicitas.»-PETRONIUS ARBITER. Note 8. Stanza exiv. A noise like to wet Engers drawn on glass. See the account of the ghost of the uncle of Prince Charles of Saxony raised by Schroepfer—« Karl—Karı was-walt wolt mich ?» Note 9. Stanza cxx. How odd, a single hobgoblin's non-entity Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity! Have strack more terror to the soul of Ri hard |