[28] See _Autobiography_, 1787, in _Life_, vol. i. pp. 39, 40. [29] Virg. _Æn._ i. 122. [30] M. Davidoff has, in his mature life, amply justified Sir Walter's prognostications. He has, I understand, published in the Russian language a tribute to the memory of Scott. But his travels in Greece and Asia Minor are well known, and considered as in a high degree honourable to his taste and learning.--[1839.]--J.G.L. [31] _King Richard III_., Act III. Sc. 1. Count Orloff Davidoff lived to falsify this "saying." He revisited England in 1872, and had the pleasure of meeting with Scott's great-granddaughter, and talking to her of these old happy Abbotsford days. [32] _Combinations of Workmen_. Substance of a speech by Francis Jeffrey. 8vo. Edin. 1825. [33 33] Mr. Robert Cockburn, Lord Cockburn's brother, was then living at No. 7 Atholl Crescent. [34] This alludes to a strange old woman, keeper of a public-house among the Wicklow mountains, who, among a world of oddities, cut short every word ending in _tion_, by the omission of the termination. _Consola_ for consolation--_bothera_ for botheration, etc. etc. Lord Plunkett had taken care to parade Judy and all her peculiarities.--J.C.L. [35] See the Duchess's Letter, p. 414. [36] The Rev. John Logan, minister of South Leith, 1748-1788. The "Sermons" were not published until 1790-91. [37] For an account of her visit to Abbotsford, see _Life_, vol. viii. pp. 72-76. The marriage took place on June 16, 1827, the lady having previously asked the consent of George IV.!! A droll account of the reception of her _Mercure galant_ at Windsor is given in the _North British Review_, vol. xxxix. p. 349. [38] Sir John Barrow, the well-known Secretary to the Admiralty, who died in 1848 in his eighty-fifth year. [39] Benjamin Disraeli, afterwards Lord Beaconsfield. [40] In after years Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876), one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench. [41] Storrs, Windermere. [42] John Cay, member of the Scotch Bar, Sheriff of Linlithgow. He was one of Mr. Lockhart's oldest friends; he died in 1865. [43] Moore records that Scott told him "Lockhart was about to undertake the _Quarterly_, has agreed for five years; salary £1200 a year; and if he writes a certain number of articles it will be £1500 a year to him," Moore's _Diary_, under Oct. 29, vol. iv. p. 334. Jeffrey had £700 a year as Editor of the _Edinburgh_, and £2800 for contributors: June 1823, see Moore's _Diary_, vol. iv. p. 89. [44] Sheridan's _Critic_, Act I. Sc. 2. [45] George Abercromby, eldest son of Sir Ralph, the hero of the battle of Alexandria. [46] The following extract from a letter to Professor Wilson, urgently claiming his aid, shows that the new editor had lost no time in looking after his "first Number":--