This last line is the first of Gray's Elegy, taken by It hardly answers to our Atlantic ideas of the ocean, him without acknowledgement.

Ali Pacha, in a room containing a marble basin and brother of that dangerous charge "borrowing:" & fountain, etc., etc., etc.

Note 7. Stanza lxxxvii.

The gate so splendid was in all its features. Features of a gate-a ministerial metaphor; "the feature upon which this question hinges."-See the "Fudge Family," or hear Castlereagh.

Note 8. Stanza cvi.

Though on more thorough-bred or fairer fingers. There is perhaps nothing more distinctive of birth

poet 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 deed a reproach) with having written too little.

than the hand: it is almost the only sign of blood Rogers) who can be reproached (and in him it is in

which aristocracy can generate.

Note 9. Stanza cxlvii.

Save Solyman, the glory of their line.

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. These are 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. I refer Mr. Campbell to his own data in his lives of Smollett and Anstey.

Secondly, Mr. Campbell says, in the life of Cowper (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." The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the church of Ferney, with its inscription, "Deo erexit Voltaire."

Thirdly, in the life of Burns, Mr. C. quotes Shakspeare thus,

"To gild refined gold, to paint the rose,
Or add fresh perfume to the violet."

CANTO VI.

Stanza Ixxv.

A "wood obscure," like that where Dante found.
"Nel mezzo del cammin' di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura," etc., etc., etc.

CANTO VII.

Stanza li.

Was teaching his recruits to use the bayonet.
Fact: Souvaroff did this in person.

CANTO VIII.

Note 1. Stanza viii.

All sounds it pierceth, "Allah! Allah! Hu!" "Allah! Hu!" is properly the war-cry of the Mus sulmans, and they dwell long on the last syllable, which 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 man array'd for mutual slaughter;
Yea, Carnage is the daughter!"

WORDSWORTH'S Thanksgiving Ode.

To wit, the deity's. This is perhaps as pretty & pedigree for murder as ever was found out by Garter King-at-arms.-What would have been said, had any free-spoken people discovered such a lineage?

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

This version by no means improves the original, Grove." I was at college with the deceased, who which is as follows:

was a very amiable and clever man, and his society in
"chansons à
great request for his wit, gayety, and
boire."

Note 4. Stanza xxiii.

As any other notion, and not national. A great pret, quoting another, should be correct; he nould also accurate when he accuses a Parnassian See Major Vallancy and Sir Lawrence Parsons.

This was written long before the suicide of that English Duchess of St presented me as a name

Note 8. Stanza lxii.

Eleven thousand maidenheads of bone,
The greatest nuinber flesh hath ever known.
St. Ursula and her eleven thousand virgins were still
extant in 1816, and may be so yet as much as ever.

Note 9. Stanza lxxxi.

Who butcher'd half the earth, and bullied t' other. India. America.

ing the "drapery" of an "untochered" but "pretty vir ginities" (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 obsolete.

CANTO X1.

Note 1. Stanza xix.

Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing)
So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing?

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 spelken 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 traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and inaster, 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."

"Heils," 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 his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, "In

Silver Hell."

Note 3. Stanza xliii.

- and therefore even I won't anent This subject quote.

"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."

Note 4. Stanza xlix.

The milliners who furnish "drapery misses."

It

Note 5. Stanza lx.

'"T is strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.

"Divinæ particulam auræ."

CANTO XII.

Note 1. Stanza xix.

Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek the lie. See MITFORD'S Greece. "Græcia Veror." 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.

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. 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 the husband. The riddle was first read to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my prais- Johnson, etc.

CANTO ΧΙΙΙ.

Note 1. Stanza vii.

Right honestly, "he liked an honest hater." "Sir, I like a good hater."-See the Life of Dr

The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet
Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

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 wort.. to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite best on a

hedge, "to look before he leaped:"-a pause in his "vaulting ambition," which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be immediately behind the equestrian sceptic. "Sir, if you don't choose to take the leap, let me"-was a phrase which generally sent the aspirant on again; and to good purpose: for though "the horse and rider" might fall, they made a gap, through which, and over him and his steed, the field might follow.

As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, rainy day. The whale, the shark, and the tunny fishery I say, that I mean, by "Diviner still," CHRIST. If ever have somewhat of noble and perilous in them; even net- God was Man-or Man God-he was both. I never arfishing, trawling, etc., are more humane and useful-but raigned his creed, but the use or abuse-made of it. angling!-No angler can be a good man.

Mr. Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction "One of the best men I ever knew-as humane, del- Negro Slavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say in

icate-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 1. 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

reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might 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
In his harmonious settlement.

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 write on America.