[166] "Had Prince Charles slept during the whole of the expedition," says the Chevalier Johnstone, "and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him according to his own judgment, there is every reason for supposing he would have found the crown of Great Britain on his head when he awoke."--_Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745_, etc. 4to, p. 140. London, 1810.--J.G.L. [167] The lines are given in _Woodstock_, with the following apology: "We observe this couplet in Fielding's farce of _Tumbledown Dick_, founded on the same classical story. As it was current in the time of the Commonwealth, it must have reached the author of _Tom Jones_ by tradition, for no one will suspect the present author of making the anachronism." [168] Colonel Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry. He died in January 1828.--J.G.L. [169] "We have had Maréchal Macdonald here. We had a capital account of Glengarry visiting the interior of a convent in the ancient Highland garb, and the effect of such an apparition on the nuns, who fled in all directions."--Scott to Skene, Edinburgh, 24th June 1825. [170] No. 39 Castle Street, which had been occupied by him from 1802, when he removed from No. 10 in the same street. The situation suited him, as the houses of nearly all his friends were within a circle of a few hundred yards. For description see _Life_, vol. v. pp. 321, 333-4, etc. [171] See below, _March_ 12. [172] Burns's _Dedication_ to Gavin Hamilton-- "May ne'er misfortune's gowling bark Howl through the dwelling o' the _Clerk_." [173] "O born to arms! O worth in youth approved, O soft humanity in age beloved!" --See Pope, _Epitaphs_, 9. [174] David Monypenny had been on the Bench from 1813; he retired in 1830, and died at the age of eighty-one in 1850. [175] Parody on Moore's _Minstrel Boy_.--J.G.L. [176] "Le Pas de la Fontaine des Pleurs."--_Chroniques Nationales_. [177] This hint was taken up in _Count Robert of Paris_.--J.G.L. [178] James Ballantyne gives an interesting account of an interview a dozen years before this time, when "Tom Telltruth" had a somewhat delicate task to perform:--