GUY FAUX
See vol. IV. (The Spirit of the Age), p. 365 and note, and the essay ‘On Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen’ (republished in vol. XII. of the present edition), from which it appears that the subject was suggested to Hazlitt by Lamb. Lamb himself wrote an essay (not republished by him) on the same subject in The London Magazine for November 1823. This essay, in which a chaffing reference is made to Hazlitt’s three papers, was partly founded on an earlier essay ‘On the Probable Effects of the Gunpowder Treason,’ published in The Reflector, 1811. See The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas, I. 236 and notes.
[317]. Mr. Hogg’s Jacobite Relics. Published in 2 vols. in 1819. In the Introduction Hogg says, ‘And now, when the horrors of the Catholic religion have ceased to oppress the minds of men, there is but one way of thinking on the rights of the Stuarts throughout the realm.’ A Popish Priest. Guy Fawkes (1570–1606) was not a priest. [318]. Which Mr. Hogg treats, etc. Hazlitt seems to be referring to the general sense of the Introduction to The Jacobite Relics. ‘The best of cut-throats.’ Macbeth, Act III. Sc. 4. [319]. Regulus. The stories of the self-sacrifice of Regulus and of Codrus, the last King of Athens, are familiar. [320]. ‘The compunctious visitings of nature.’ Macbeth, Act I. Sc. 5. ‘The spirit is willing,’ etc. S. Matthew xxvi. 41.