[716] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 369-373.
[717] Tour in Scotland, ed. 1774, i. 218.
[718] Walpole’s Letters, ix. 358.
[719] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 353, n. 1.
[720] Horace Walpole’s Letters, ii. 281, 285.
[721] Ib. p. 293.
[722] “I went to renew my lease, but my Lord’s Chamberlain was not at home.—Steward. The person who receives the rents and revenues of some corporations is still called chamberlain; as the chamberlain of London.”—Beattie’s Scotticisms, p. 24.
[723] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 290.
[724] He gives the following curious account of an accommodation which we should scarcely have expected to find in the dining-room of Inverary: “Si, pendant les libations, le champagne mousseux fait ressentir son influence appéritive, le cas est prévu, et sans quitter la compagnie, on trouve dans de jolies encoignures, placés dans les angles de la salle, tout ce qui est nécessaire pour satisfaire à ce petit besoin.” Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 294.
[725] Life of Lord Macaulay, ed. 1877, i. 7.