[12] The Peter Peebles of “Redgauntlet.”
“Newhaven, Leith, and Canonmills
Supply them wi’ their Sunday gills:
There writers aften spend their pence,
And stock their heads wi’ drink and sense.”
Robert Fergusson.
[14] The juvenile mob of Edinburgh was in the habit of dressing up an effigy of this hero of liberty, which they treated in the most ignominious manner, every 4th of June—a relic of the odium excited by the publication of the North Briton, No. 45.
[15] H—— died in the month of May, 1808, and was buried on the Edinburgh fast-day of that year. He was interred in the Calton Hill burying-ground; but his grave cannot now be pointed out, as the spot was removed in 1816, along with about half of the ground, when the great London road was brought through it.
[16] He died January 2, 1820.