[65]. Macbeth, Act IV. Sc. 1.
[66]. In fact, Mr. T.’s landscapes are nothing but stained water-colour drawings, loaded with oil-colour. [W. H.]
[67]. Matvei Ivanovitch Count Platoff, the Cossack (1757–1818), who harried the French in the retreat from Moscow and later. He visited London with Blücher and was given a sword of honour.
[68]. Viscount Castlereagh was senior British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815.
[69]. Canto II.
[70]. Thomas Tomkins (1743–1816), author of the Beauties of Writing (1777). He wrote elaborate ornamental titles for books and taught handwriting.
[71]. Mary Robinson (1758–1800), actress, and mistress of George, Prince of Wales, later George IV.
[72]. Elizabeth Billington (1768–1818), one of the greatest of English singers, of Saxon birth, English by marriage and training.
[73]. Mengs speaks feelingly of ‘the little varieties of form in the details of the portraits of Vandyke.’ [W. H.]
[74]. Hamlet, Act I. Sc. 2.