[72] Coleridge had long been a contributor to the Morning Post.—M.
[73] Paris Revisited in 1815 by way of Brussels is the title of this publication in 1816 of the Aberdonian John Scott. He had previously published A Visit to Paris in 1814. He wrote other things, and was editor of the London Magazine from January 1820 till his death, February 1821, the result of a duel.—M.
[74] The very accurate memoir prefixed to Messrs. Macmillan's four-volume edition of Coleridge's Poetical Works states that Stuart, who had been proprietor of the Morning Post, and had become proprietor of the Courier, gave Coleridge apartments in the Courier office to save expense in his contributorship to that newspaper.—M.
[75] The first number of this celebrated but unfortunate periodical, "printed on stamped paper by a printer of the name of Brown at Penrith," was issued, the already cited memoir of Coleridge informs us, on Thursday, 1st June 1809, and the last on 15th March 1810.—M.
[76] Alexander Blair, LL.D., Professor of English Literature in University College, London, from 1830 to 1836.—M.
[77] Bishop Richard Watson (1737-1816) is perhaps best remembered now for his Apology for the Bible; of which George III said, when he heard of it, "What, what! Apology for the Bible! Didn't know that it needed an apology." There were, however, two Apologies, published together in 1806,—one for Christianity against Gibbon, the other for the Bible against Thomas Paine.—M.
[78] Chemical Essays, in 5 vols., published 1781-7.—M.
[79] It was Lady Holland. I know not how I came to make such a mistake. And the friend was Wordsworth.
[80] This supposed falsehood respected the sect called Brownists, and occurs in the "Defensio pro Pop. Anglicano." The whole charge is a blunder, and rests upon the bishop's own imperfect Latinity.
[81] Basil Montagu (1770-1851) and his wife were celebrities in London society for many years. Among his publications, besides legal treatises, were an edition of Bacon's Works and a volume of selections from the older English Prose-writers.