[23] Miss Jenny Lind first appeared at Covent Garden Theatre when it was under the management of Mr. Lumley—Alfred Bunn (the “Poet Bunn”) being then lessee of Drury Lane Theatre.
[24] (A celebrated cook of whom Tom Moore makes frequent mention in his lighter poems.)
[25] Thumbscrews.
[26] “The drummer” an Americanism for Commercial Traveller.
[27] This is incorrect. Mr. Gladstone went to the Criterion Theatre the night before the tidings arrived of the fall of Khartoum.
[28] The St. Michael oranges come from one of the Azore Islands.
[29] Yum-yum, believed to be Japanese Muse of Hypothetical Poetry, corresponding to “You, you.”
[30] Lauder.
[31] Macpherson.
[32] Chatterton.