[48] John Bull, Oct. 13, 1822.
[49] John Bull, March 30, 1823.
[50] The reader will scarcely require to be informed that Leigh Hunt is the person alluded to—Ed.
[51] Keats.
[52] It will be remembered how this patriot, who bullied himself into Horsemonger Gaol, snivelled to get himself out again—but to no purpose. Yet he has perpetually Hampden and Sydney in his mouth.—Don Juan.
[53] This paper was written to ridicule the innumerable books of idle gossip, published immediately after Lord Byron's death, by Captain Medwin and others, in which the noble Poet's slightest remarks and most trivial habits were chronicled with the zeal, but probably without the accuracy, of a Boswell.—Ed.
[54] This notice was written in ridicule of an absurd book, now become very scarce, by Dr. Dillon, entitled: "The Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxford, written at the desire of the Party by the Chaplain of the Mayoralty, 1826."—Ed.
[55] Published as a note at the end of the novel of "Gilbert Gurney."
[56] Contributed to a tiny Annual for Children, entitled "The Christmas Box." Edited by T. Crofton Croker, 1828.
[57] John Bull, May 4, 1828.