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PAGE [2]. ‘There is wisdom,’ etc. Proverbs xv. 22. The late administration. Pitt’s second ministry. Pitt died on Jan. 23, 1806, and Fox became Foreign Secretary in the Ministry of ‘All the Talents.’ [3]. Mr. Addington. Henry Addington (1757–1844), created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805, was Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the peace negotiations. Came home to the bosoms, etc. Bacon, Dedication to the Essays (1625). [5]. ‘The unconquerable will,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 106–9. ‘The still small voice,’ etc. 1 Kings xix. 12. [6]. It certainly had this good effect. ‘The peace of Amiens,’ said Coleridge, ‘deserved the name of peace, for it gave us unanimity at home, and reconciled Englishmen with each other’ (The Friend, section I. Essay 6). [7]. The incautious surrender of Malta. By the treaty of Amiens (1802) Malta was restored to the Knights of St. John. By the first Peace of Paris (1814) it was given to England. One to whose authority, etc. Few people at the time recognised the importance of Malta to Great Britain. Lord Nelson himself spoke slightingly of it, and so did Pitt. See Parl. Hist. XXXVI., passim, for the discussions in Parliament. Coleridge, in The Friend (see especially Essays 3, 4, 5, and 6 of ‘The Third Landing-Place’), while defending the retention of Malta, admitted that Nelson was right in denying that Malta was the key of Egypt (Bohn’s ed., p. 382). [8]. ‘Against infection,’ etc. Richard II., Act II. Scene 1. [10]. ‘Another Iliad of woes.’ Burke’s Regicide Peace (Select Works, ed. Payne, p. 116). Cf. ‘From hence those tears, that Ilium of our woe.’ Dryden’s The Medal, l. 67. [12]. The partition of Poland. In 1795. Suwarroff, the Russian general, stormed Ismael on Dec. 11, 1790, and Warsaw on Nov. 4, 1794. ‘Thirty thousand persons, of whom one half were inhabitants of the town, perished in the assault of Ismael’ (Alison, History of Europe, X. 455). At Warsaw ‘about twelve thousand citizens, of every age and sex, were put to the sword’ (ib., III. 526). [14]. Had not Austria, etc. Precipitated, he means, by the subsidising policy of Pitt. The battle of Austerlitz (Dec. 2, 1805) completely crushed Austria. The character of Mr. Pitt, etc. Hazlitt repeated this ‘character’ down to ‘And in its liquid texture,’ etc. (p. 18), in his Political Essays (see ante, pp. 346–350) and in The Round Table (see Vol. I. pp. 125–128). [15]. The fog and haze. A phrase of Burke’s (Reflections on the Revolution in France, Select Works, ed. Payne, II. 55). Note. When Mr. Fox last summer. On June 21, 1805. See Hansard’s Parl. Debates, V. 542. [16]. Described by Hobbes. Behemoth (Works, ed. Molesworth, VI. 240). [18]. ‘Not matchless,’ etc. Paradise Lost, VI. 341–2. ‘And in its liquid texture,’ etc. Paradise Lost, VI. 348–9. Note. Hazlitt printed this essay of Coleridge’s in Political Essays (see ante, pp. 350–356) under the title of ‘Pitt and Buonaparte.’ [20]. ‘Some happier island,’ etc. Pope, Essay on Man, I. 106–8. [21]. ‘Virtue is not their habit,’ etc. Burke’s Regicide Peace (ed. Payne, p. 105). [22]. ‘Lay the fault upon themselves,’ etc. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. ‘Dull as her lakes,’ etc. Goldsmith’s The Traveller, l. 312. [23]. ‘When, stript,’ etc. Goldsmith’s The Traveller, ll. 355–60. ‘They think there is nothing real,’ etc. ‘They think there is nothing worth pursuit, but that which they can handle; which they can measure with a two-foot rule; which they can tell upon two fingers.’ Burke’s Regicide Peace (ed. Payne, p. 105).