[270] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 141.
[271] Works, ix. 18.
[272] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, i. 108.
[273] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 78. Sheridan, in his Life of Swift, records an earlier abolition of vails in Ireland (Swift’s Works, ii. 108).
[274] Thicknesse’s Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French, 1766, p. 106.
[275] Lord Hervey’s Memoirs, ii. 50.
[276] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 376.
[277] Edinburgh Chronicle for 1760, p. 495.
[278] Ib. pp. 503, 518, 583, 623. The Scots Hunters were, I suppose, the same as the Royal Hunters—a body of gentlemen volunteers who were raised at the time of the Rebellion of 1745, and served under General Oglethorpe.
[279] Walpole’s Memoirs of the Reign of George III., ii. 3, and Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury, i. 108-9.