[47] There is a well-authenticated instance (see _Times_, November 4, 1799) of a Miss Talbot, who followed her lover as a seaman, and, afterwards quarrelling with him, she enlisted in the army; but her love of the sea was unconquerable, and she joined the Navy, being present on board Earl St. Vincent’s ship on February 14, and again was under fire at Camperdown. [48] I have heard this verse sung thus: Now the losing of the Prentice boys It grieved the Captain sore, But the losing of the great big whale, It grieved him very much more. [49] Her Majesty’s accession to the throne took place on June 20, 1837. [50] The Queen was married on February 10, 1840. [51] Jupiter appeared to Danaë as a shower of gold. [52] This event took place November 9, 1841. [53] 1849. [54] Scotland, September, 1844; Ireland, August, 1849. [55] August 18, 1855. [56] Prince Albert was at one time very unpopular in England. His advising the Queen, and consequent intimate and personal knowledge of all that was going on during the Russian war, coupled with the fact that he was a foreigner, led the unthinking to believe that he was secretly helping Russia--a report of which he seems to have been well aware (_vide_ Sir T. Martin’s “Life of the Prince Consort,” vol. iii. p. 219, March, 1855). I recollect very well the rumour that he had been imprisoned in the Tower, and a comic paper had an engraving of two cabmen meeting, and one saying to the other, “Have yer ’eard the noose? Vhy, Prince Halbert along with two other Commander-in-Chiefs have been sent to the Tower; which Lewis Napoleon diwulged ’em a sending of five pound notes to the Emperor of Rooshia, and so he blowed the gaff” (told of them). [57] 1815. [58] He died from the effects of a fall from his horse. [59] Died September 14, 1852; lay in state at Chelsea Hospital from November 10 to 17; buried at St. Paul’s, November 18. [60] When this ballad was written, the Lords might vote by proxy, and a minister, or his opponent, might, and did, produce enough (either to gain or lose a measure) of votes from Peers who were too lazy to attend. [61] The counties of York and Lancaster were very early in the field in espousing the cause of the Anti-Corn-Law League. [62] The “National Anti-Corn-Law League Free Trade Bazaar,” held at Covent Garden Theatre, May 8, 9, 10, 12, 1845. [63] Repeat as chorus last two lines of each verse. [64] A song relating to the celebration (in London) of the Peace of 1815. [65] This song was sung by W. H. Williams, in his entertainment of “Wine and Walnuts,” and by C. Taylor at Vauxhall. [66] Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851. [67] A hog is cant for a shilling. [68] A quartern “tin” loaf. [69] Executed June 14, 1856. [70] A high-class gambling house in St. James’s Street.