CANTO VIII. STANZA XXIII.-See Major Vallancy and Sir Lawrence Parsons.

CANTO VIII. STANZA XXV.-The Portuguese proverb says that "Hell is paved with good intentions."

CANTO VIII. STANZA XXXIII.-Gunpowder is said to have been discovered by this friar.

CANTO VIII. STANZA XLVII.-They were but two feet high above the level.

CANTO VIII. STANZA XCVII.-The Russian military order.

CANTO VIII, STANZA CXXXIII.—In the original Russian-
"Slava bogu! slava vam!
"Krepost Vzalo, y ia tam.”

A kind couplet; for he was a poet.

CANTO IX. STANZA I.-Query, Ney? Printer's Devil.

CANTO IX. STANZA VI.-"I at this time got a post, being sick with 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 Regiment, during the War in Spain.

CANTO IX. STANZA XXXIII.-He was killed in a conspiracy, after his temper had been exasperated, by his extreme costivity, to a degree of insanity.

CANTO IX. STANZA XLVII.-He was the "grande passion" of the grande Catherine.-See her Life, under the head of Lanskoi."

CANTO IX. STANZA XLIX.-This was written long before the suicide of that person.

CANTO IX. STANZA LXIII.-"His fortune swells him, it is rank, he's married."-Sir Giles Overreach. Massinger. See "A New Way to Pay Old Debts."

CANTO X. STANZA XIII.-"Reformers," or rather "Reformed." The Baron Bradwardine in Waverley is authority for the word.

CANTO X. STANZA XV.-Query, suit ?-Printer's Devil.

CANTO X. STANZA XVIII.—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. 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 never heard or seen it since I was nine years of age:

"Brig of Balgonnie, black's your wa',

"Wi' a wife's ae son, and a mear's ae foal,
"Doun ye shall fa'!"

CANTO X. STANZA XXXIV.-A metaphor taken from the "forty-horse power" of a steam-engine. That mad wag, the Rev. S. S., sitting by a brother clergyman at dinner, observed afterwards that his dull neighbour had a" twelveparson power" of conversation.

CANTO X. STANZA XXXVI.-"Hyde."-I believe a hyde of land to be a legitimate word, and, as such, subject to the tax of a quibble.

CANTO X. STANZA XLIX.-The Empress went to the Crimea, accompanied by the Emperor Joseph, in the year-I forget which. (It was in 1787.)

CANTO X. STANZA LVIII.-In the Empress Ann's time, Biren, her favourite, assumed the name and arms of the "Birons" 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 8-, to whom the English Duchess of S-t presented me as a namesake.

CANTO X. STANZA LXII.-St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still extant in 1816, and may be so yet as much as ever.

CANTO X. STANZA LXXXI.-India. America.

CANTO XI. STANZA XIX.-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 scout:

"If you at the spellken can't hustle,
"You'll be hobbled in making a clout.

"Then your Blowing will wax gallows haughty,
"When she hears of your scaly mistake,

"She'll surely turn snitch for the forty,

"That her Jack may be regular weight."

If there be any gem'man so ignorant as to require a translation, 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.

CANTO XI. STANZA XXIX.-"Hells," gaming-houses. What their number may be now 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 acquaint

ance, because, when he asked me where I thought that his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, "In Silver Hell."

CANTO XI. STANZA XLIII.—" Anent" was a Scotch 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."

CANTO XI. STANZA XLIX.-" 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. It means a pretty, a high-born, a fashionable young female, well instructed by her friends, and furnished by her milliner with a wardrobe upon credit, to be repaid, when married, by her husband. The riddle was first read to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my 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. Let us hope, however, that it is now obso

lete.

CANTO XI. STANZA LX.-"Divinæ particulam auræ."

CANTO XII. STANZA XIX.-See Mitford's Greece. "Grecia 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. Having 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.

CANTO XII. STANZA XXXVII.-This line may puzzle the commentators more than the present generation.

CANTO XII. STANZA LXXIII.-The Russians, 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.

CANTO XII. STANZA LXXXII.-For a description and print of this inhabitant of the Polar Region and native country of the Aurora Borealis, see Parry's Voyage in search of the North-West Passage.

CANTO XII. STANZA LXXXVI.—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 is gone, and Athos remains, I trust ere long to look over a nation of freemen.

CANTO XIII. STANZA VII.-" Sir, I like a good hater." -See the Life of Dr. Johnson, &c.

CANTO XIII. STANZA XXVI.—

"With every thing that pretty bin,
"My lady sweet, arise."-Shakespeare.

CANTO XIII. STANZA XLV.-"Arcades Ambo."

CANTO XIII. STANZA LXXI.-Salvator Rosa.

CANTO XIII. STANZA LXXII.-If I err not, "Your Dane" is one of Iago's catalogue of nations "exquisite in their drinking."

CANTO XIII. STANZA LXXVIII.-In Assyria.

CANTO XIII. STANZA XCVI.-" Mrs. Adams answered Mr. Adams, that it was blasphemous to talk of scripture out of church." This dogma was broached to her husband, the best Christian in any book.-See Joseph Andrews, in the latter chapters.

CANTO XIII. STANZA CVI.-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