Line 4. _C----gh_. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and second Marquis of Londonderry (1769-1822), Foreign Secretary from 1812 until his death. He committed suicide in a state of unsound mind. Line 6. _The Doctor_. This was the nickname commonly given to Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth. Line 8. _Their chatty, childish Chancellor_. John Scott, afterwards Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), the Lord Chancellor. Line 9. _In Liverpool some virtues strike_. Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), Prime Minister at the time, and therefore principal scapegoat for the Divorce Bill. Line 10. _And little Van's beneath dislike_. Nicholas Vansittart, afterwards Baron Bexley (1766-1851), Chancellor of the Exchequer. Line 12. _H----t_. Thomas Taylour, first Marquis of Headfort (1757-1829), the principal figure in a crim. con. case in 1804 when he was sued by a clergyman named Massey and had to pay £10,000 damages. * * * * * Page 121. _On the Arrival in England of Lord Byron's Remains_. From a MS. book of William Ayrton's. In _The New Times_, October 24, 1825, the verses followed the "Ode to the Treadmill." The epigram, which was unsigned, then ran thus:-- THE POETICAL CASK With change of climate manners alter not: Transport a drunkard--he'll return a sot. So lordly Juan, d----d to endless fame, Went out a _pickle_--and comes back the same. Lord Byron's body had been brought home from Greece, for burial at Hucknall Torkard, in 1824, and the cause of the epigram was a paragraph in _The New Times_ of October 19, 1825, stating that the tub in which Byron's remains came home was exhibited by the captain of the _Rodney_ for 2s. 6d. a head; afterwards sold to a cooper in Whitechapel; resold to a museum; and finally sold again to a cooper in Middle New Street, who was at that time using it as an advertisement. The third line recalls Pope's line-- See Cromwell damn'd to everlasting fame. _Essay on Man_, IV., 284. Page 121. _Lines Suggested by a Sight of Waltham Cross._ First printed in the _Englishman's Magazine_, September, 1831. Lamb sent the epigram to Barton in a letter in November, 1827. The body of Caroline of Brunswick, the rejected wife of George IV., was conveyed through London only by force--involving a fatal affray between the people and the Life Guards at Hyde Park corner--on its way to burial at Brunswick. Page 122. _For the "Table Book."_ This epigram accompanies a note to William Hone. It was marked "For the _Table Book_," but does not seem to have been printed there. Page 122. _The Royal Wonders._ _The Times_, August 10, 1830. Signed Charles Lamb. The epigram refers to the Paris insurrection of July 26, 1830, which cost Charles X. his throne; and, at home, to William IV.'s extreme fraternal friendliness to his subjects. Page 122. _Brevis Esse Laboro._ "One Dip." * * * * * Page 123. _Suum Cuique._