[Footnote Q: The movement for the abolition of slavery, led by Clarkson and Wilberforce. Compare the sonnet 'To Thomas Clarkson, on the final passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March' 1807, in vol. iv.--Ed.] [Footnote R: The red-cross flag, i. e. the British ensign. "On the union of the crowns of England and Scotland, James I. issued a proclamation that _all subjects of this isle and the kingdom of Great Britain should bear in the main-top the red cross commonly called St. George's Cross, and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's Cross, joined together according to the form made by our own heralds._ This was the first Union Jack." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' (ninth edition), article "Flag."--Ed.] [Footnote S: In the Isle of Wight. Wordsworth spent a month of the summer of 1793 there, with William Calvert. (See the Advertisement to 'Guilt and Sorrow', vol. i. p. 77.)--Ed.] [Footnote T: The goddess of Reason, enthroned in Paris, November 10th, 1793.--Ed.] [Footnote U: Jeanne-Marie Phlipon--Madame Roland--was guillotined on the 8th of November 1793. "Arrived at the foot of the scaffold, she asked for pen and paper _to write the strange thoughts that were rising in her_: a remarkable request; which was refused. Looking at the Statue of Liberty which stands there, she says bitterly: _O Liberty, what things are done in thy name!_ ... Like a white Grecian Statue, serenely complete," adds Carlyle, "she shines in that black wreck of things,--long memorable." 'French Revolution', vol. iii. book v. chap. 2. Madame Roland's apostrophe was 'Ô Liberté, que de crimes l'on commet en ton nom!' Ed.] [Footnote V: In the long vacation of 1790, with his friend Jones.--Ed.] [Footnote W: Compare the sonnet, vol. ii. p. 332, beginning: 'Jones! as from Calais southward you and I Went pacing side by side, this public Way Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day, When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty.' Ed.] [Footnote X: Robespierre was a native of Arras.--Ed.] [Footnote Y: Robespierre was guillotined with his confederates on the 28th July 1794. Wordsworth lived in Cumberland--at Keswick, Whitehaven, and Penrith--from the winter of 1793-4 till the spring of 1795. He must have made this journey across the Ulverston Sands, in the first week of August 1794. Compare Wordsworth's remarks on Robespierre, in his 'Letter to a Friend of Burns',--Ed.] [Footnote Z: The "honoured teacher" of his youth was the Rev. William Taylor, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was master at Hawkshead School from 1782 to 1786, who died while Wordsworth was at school, and who was buried in Cartmell Churchyard. See the note to the 'Address to the Scholars of the Village School of----' (vol. ii. p. 85).--Ed.] [Footnote a: The following is the inscription on the head-stone in Cartmell Churchyard: