Another, alluding to a rife topic of the day—the treatment of Napoleon the Great by the Governor of St. Helena, Sir Hudson Lowe, whom Byron has damned to everlasting fame in the lines—
“Or to some lonely isle of gaolers go,
With turncoat Hudson for my turnkey Lowe,”
runs thus; the plagiarism in idea is manifest.
“Josh. Hudson now is high in fame;
Should this against him go,
His glory passes like a dream,
He’ll then be—Hudson Low-e.”
[47]. Larkins afterwards beat John Fuller, Abbott, and Kelly, and was beaten by Keene and Tubbs. He came to London, and his name occurs in the Fives and Tennis Courts glove bouts.
[48]. See Appendix to Period V., pp. 191–198.