[420] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. xxvi.
[421] Mr. Gladstone restored it in 1885.
[422] Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey, i. 182.
[423] Tour in Scotland, i. 233.
[424] Humphry Clinker, iii. 5.
[425] The Tale of a Tub, section xi.
[426] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 43, and Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 249.
[427] Chambers, quoted in Croker’s Boswell, p. 276.
[428] Lockhart’s Scott, iii. 269. The quotation no doubt was, “Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage;” the line with which Scott concluded the brief Appendix to Castle Dangerous.
[429] Scots Magazine, 1768, p. 113; 1789, pp. 521-5.