The Liberal. The quarterly review which lasted for four numbers (1822–3). See vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, the Essay on Lord Byron, and notes to pp. 258 and 359.
The John Bull. Theodore Hook’s Tory paper.
Mr. Jerdan. William Jerdan (1782–1869), editor of the Tory Sun (1813–17), and then identified for thirty-three years with the Literary Gazette.
The Examiner-Officer. ? a misprint for Examiner Office.
[379]. Mr. Shelley’s father. Hobhouse’s father, Sir Benjamin, was made a baronet in 1812. The Shelley baronets of Castle Goring, Sussex, were created in 1806.
Illustrations of Childe Harold. Historical Illustrations of the fourth canto of Childe Harold; containing Dissertations on the Ruins of Rome, and an Essay on Italian Literature (1818).
The member for Westminster. Hobhouse was elected in 1820 by a large majority.
The Essay on the Spirit of Monarchy. Hazlitt’s essay was published in the second number of The Liberal.
This gentleman wrote off to Lord Byron. See Byron’s Letters and Journals (ed. Prothero), VI. 167. Cf. vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, p. 359 and note.
His Vision of Judgment. Byron’s poem was published in No. 1 of The Liberal.