Come let our bumpers flow
To George our King.”
[78]. Mr. Pettigrew prints the first part of this stanza:
“While thus we chant his praise,
See what new glories blaze,
New trophies spring.”
[79]. The Queen of Naples was in despair about the supersession of Sir William Hamilton, and used to write, at this time, about the “fatal Paget,” the “inevitable Paget,” in terms of pitiable distress.
[80]. For an interesting sketch of the chequered career of this lady, and for an able vindication of her character, see the Appendix to Pettigrew’s Life of Nelson, and Blackwood’s Magazine for April, 1859, No. dxxxiv.
[81]. Lord Nelson also kept in his cabin a coffin made out of the mainmast of L’Orient, presented to him by Captain Hallowell, of the Swiftsure. See Southey’s Life of Nelson.
[82]. The passion, in those days, for Delias and Celias was unconquerable, else “Emma” would have been quite as metrical and much less pedantic. Mr. Pettigrew has printed these lines with the substitution, or perhaps restoration, of Emma for Delia, as “A Song addressed to Lady Hamilton on her Birthday, April the 26th, 1800, on board the Foudroyant, in a gale of wind.”