[P. 172.] But Cobbett has got his discharge. William Cobbett had been imprisoned for two years (1810-12) for his strictures on the Government of the day.
To Mr. Murray. John Murray was 'Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude.' He had possessed, and parted with, a share in Blackwood's Magazine.
Strahan, Tonson, Lintot, the publishers and booksellers of the eighteenth century.
[P. 174.] Busby. Dr. Busby had been one of the unsuccessful writers of an Address for the opening of Drury Lane (see p. 54 and note). The lines and words in inverted commas were from the Address which Busby printed as having been sent in, not from the one that he did send in, which is preserved in the British Museum.
As if Sir Fretful. Sir Fretful Plagiary, of course, from Sheridan's The Critic.
[P. 176.] Margate. Two stanzas, complete in themselves, from Mr. Peters's story, 'The Bagman's Dog,' in the Ingoldsby Legends. Byron's Childe Harold, Canto IV.
[P. 177.] Not a sous had he got. Barham notes that during the controversy in 1824 as to the authorship of 'The Burial of Sir John Moore,' a—
claimant started up in the person of a soi-disant 'Dr. Marshall,' who turned out to be a Durham blacksmith and his pretensions a hoax. It was then that a certain 'Doctor Peppercorn' put forth his pretensions, to what he averred was the 'true and original' version—the somewhat vulgar parody reprinted from The Ingoldsby Legends.
Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores.—Virgil.