[1] The most improbable part of this narrative, observes the historian, is, that Hannibal, in the very centre of the mountains, should have been able to obtain sufficiently large quantities of vinegar for the operations.
[2] The Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, brother to Lord Minto, at that date English Minister at Dresden; he was afterwards made Governor of Madras.
[3] Marcus Flaminius; or, Life of the Romans, 1795.
[4] A similar story has been told of Goldsmith, which, indeed, may have suggested the pill-box remedy in the instance in the text.
[5] Paris correspondent, Morning Post.
[6] Both the 'new and old Bayleys' are treated to a roasting in the Comic Magazine; and we get an earlier glimpse of these worthies, for whom the young writer evidently entertained but scanty respect, in Fraser for 1831, where, in the November number, Oliver Yorke is supposed to hold a levee, at which the prominent celebrities are presented to Regina's editor on various pretences—'Old Bayley, on being sent to France,' and 'Young Bayley, after Four Years in the West Indies,' on his arrival to present a copy of the 'Songs of Almack's.' This young gentleman came over to the 'London World' in a 'National Omnibus:' his appearance excited some curiosity.
[7] He had certainly seen Sydney Smith. A quaint half-caricature outline sketch of the latter was contributed by 'Titmarsh' to Fraser's Magazine, at an early period of his connection with that journal.
[8] Edinburgh Evening Courant, Jan. 5, 1864.
[9] Miscellanies, vol. iv. p. 324.
[10] Letter of Edmund Yates in the Belfast Whig.