NOTES TO BEPPO.

NOTES TO DON JUAN.

[p. 209. St. 59. This is no very uncommon effect of the violence of conflicting and different passions. The Doge Francis Foscari, on his deposition, in 1457,

PuLor, Morgante Maggiore, 18, 151. hearing the bell of St. Mark announce the elec

tion of his successor, "mourut subitement d'une A marble fountain echoes. (p. 220. St. 55. hémorrhagic causée par une veine qui éclata A common furniture.—I recollect being receiv dans sa poitrine," (see Sismondi and Daru,)ed by Ali Pacha, in a room containing a marble at the age of eighty years, when "Who would basin and fountain. have thought the old man had so much blood in him?" Before I was sixteen years of age, I was witness to a melancholy instance of the same effect of mixed passions upon a young person; who, however, did not die in consequence, at that time, but fell a victim some years afterwards to a seizure of the same kind, arising from causes intimately connected with agitation of mind.

From all the pope makes yearly 'twould perplex
To find three perfect pipes of the third sex.
[p. 212. St. 86.
It is strange that it should be the Pope and
the Sultan who are the chief encouragers of this
branch of trade -women being prohibited as
singers at St. Peter's, and not deemed trust
worthy as guardians of the haram.

While weeds and ordure rankle round the base.
[p. 214. St. 103.
The pillar which records the battle of Ravenna
is about two miles from the city, on the opposite
side of the river to the road towards Forli.
Gaston de Foix, who gained the battle, was kill-
ed in it; there fell on both sides twenty thousand
men. The present state of the pillar and its site
is described in the text.

The Giant's Grave.

[p. 215. St. 5. "The Giant's Grave" is a height on the Adriatic shore of the Bosphorus, much frequented by holiday parties: like Harrow and Highgate.

And running out as fast as I was able. [p. 218. St. 33. The assassination alluded to took place on the eighth of December, 1820, in the streets of R—, not a hundred paces from the residence of the writer. The circumstances were as described. Kill'd by five bullets from an old gun-barrel. [p. 218. St. 34. There was found close by him an old gunbarrel, sawn half off: it had just been discharged, and was still warm.

Prepared for supper with a glass of rum. [p. 220. St. 53. In Turkey nothing is more common than for the Mussulmans to take several glasses of strong spirits by way of appetizer. I have seen them take as many as six of raki before dinner, and swear that they dined the better for it; I tried the experiment, but was like the Scotchman, who having heard that the birds called kittiewiaks were admirable whets, ate six of them, and complained that "he was no hungrier than when he began."

The gate so splendid was in all its features. [p. 223. St. 8. Features of a gate-a ministerial metaphor; the feature upon which this question hinges.” – See the "Fudge Family," or hear Castlereagh.

Though on more thorough-bred or fairer fingers. [p. 225. St. 106. There is perhaps nothing more distinctive of birth than the hand: it is almost the only sign of blood which aristocracy can generate.

Save Solyman, the glory of their line.

"

[p. 229. St. 147. in his essay "on Empire, It may not be unworthy of remark, that Bacon, hints that Solyman was the last of his line; on what authority, know not. These are his words: "The destruction of Mustapha was so fatal to Solyman's line, as the succession of the Turks from Solyman, until this day, is suspected to be untrue, and of strange blood; for that Solymus the Second was thought to be supposititious." But Bacon, in his historical authorities, is often inaccurate. I could give half a dozen instances from his apophthegms only.

Being in the humour of criticism, I shall pro ceed, after having ventured upon the slips of Bacon, to touch on one or two as trifling in the edition of the British poets, by the justly-cele brated Campbell.-But I do this in good will, and trust it will be so taken.-If any thing could add to my opinion of the talents and true feel ing of that gentleman, it would be his classical, honest, and triumphant defence of Pope, against the vulgar cant of the day, and its existing Grub-street.

The inadvertencies to which I allude are: Firstly, in speaking of Anstey, whom be ac cuses of having taken "his leading characters from Smollett." Anstey's Bath Guide was published in 1766. Smollett's Humphry Clinker (the only work of Smollett's from which Tabitha could have been taken) was written during Smollett's last residence at Leghorn, in 1770.— "Argal," if there has been any borrowing, Anstey must be the creditor, and not the debtor. I refer Mr. Campbell to his own data în his lives of Smollett and Anstey.

Secondly, Mr. Campbell says in the life of Cowper that "he knows not to whom Cowper alludes in these lines:

Nor he who, for the bane of thousands born,
Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.

The Calvinist meant Voltaire, and the church of Ferney, with its inscription, "Deo erexit Voltaire.

Thirdly, in the life of Burns, Mr. C. quotes
Shakespeare thus,-

To gild refined gold, to paint the rose,
Or add fresh perfume to the violet.
This version by no means improves the origi-
nal, which is as follows:

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
KING JOHN.

A great poet quoting another should be cor rect; he should also be accurate when he accuses a Parnassian brother of that dangerous charge "borrowing" a poet had better borrow any thing (excepting money) than the thoughts of anotherthey are always sure to be reclaimed: but it is very hard, having been the lender, to be de

NOTES TO CANTO XI.

Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing),
So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing?
[p. 282. St. 19.
The advance of science and of language has
rendered it unnecessary to translate the above
good and true English, spoken in its original
purity by the select nobility and their patrons.
The following is a stanza of a song which was
very popular, at least in my early days:—
"On the high toby-spice flash the muzzle,
In spite of each gallows old scout;
If you at the spellken can't hustle,
You'll be hobbled in making a Clout.
Then your Blowing will wax gallows haughty,
When she hears of your scaly mistake,
She'll surely turn snitch for the forty,

That her Jack may be regular weight."

If there be any gem'man so ignorant as to require a traduction, I refer him to my old friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism; who I trust still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his good humour, and athletic as well as mental accomplishments. St. James's Palace and St. James's "Hells." [p. 283. St. 29. "Hells," gaming-houses. What their number may now be in this life, I know not. Before I was of age I knew them pretty accurately, both "gold" and "silver." I was once nearly called out by an acquaintance, because when he asked me, where I thought that his soul would be found hereafter, I answered, "In Silver Hell."

And therefore even I won't anent This subject quote. [p. 284. St. 43. "Anent" was a Scotch phrase, meaning "concerning"-"with regard to." It has been made English by the Scotch Novels; and, as the Frenchman said "If it be not, ought to be English."

[p. 296. St. 8.

For a description and print of this inhabitant of the polar region and native country of the Aurora borealis, see PARRY's Voyage in search of a North-West Passage.

As Philip's son proposed to do with Athos.

(p. 296. St. 86. A sculptor projected to hew Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander, with a city in one hand, and, I believe, a river in his pocket, with various other similar devices. But Alexander'i

one, and Athos remains, I trust ere long to

look over a nation of freemen.

NOTES TO CANTO XIII.
Also there bin another pious_reason.
[p. 299. St. 26.

With every thing that pretty bin,
My Lady sweet arise.-SHAKSPEARE.

His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite
Danish.
[p. 303. St. 12.
If I err not, "Your Dane" is one of lago's
Catalogue of Nations "exquisite in their drinking.”

Even Nimrod's self might leave the plains of
Dura.
[p. 304. St. 18.
In Assyria.

The milliners who furnish “drapery misses.” [p. 284. St. 49. "Drapery misses”—This term is probably any thing now but a mystery. It was however almost so to me when I first returned from the East in 1811-1812. It means a pretty, a highborn, a fashionable young female, well instructed by her friends, and furnished by her milliner with a wardrobe upon credit, to be repaid, when married, by the husband. The riddle was first read to me by a young and pretty heiress, on my praising the "drapery of an "untochered" but "pretty That Scriptures out of church are blasphemies. virginities" (like Mrs. Anne Page) of the then [p. 306. St. 96. day, which has now been some years yesterday: "Mrs. Adams answered Mr. Adams, that it -she assured me that the thing was common in was blasphemous to talk of Scripture out of London; and as her own thousands, and bloom-church. This dogma was broached to her husing looks, and rich simplicity of array, put band-the best Christian in any book. See Joany suspicion in her own case out of the ques-seph Andrews, in the latter chapters.

tion, I confess I gave some credit to the allegation. If necessary, authorities might be cited, in which case I could quote both "drapery" and the wearers. Let us hope, however, that it is now obsolete.

'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle,
Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
[p. 285. St. 60.
"Divinæ particulam auræ.`

NOTES TO CANTO XII.

Gives, with Greek truth, the good old Greek the lie. [p. 290. St. 19. See MITFORD's Greece. "Græcia Veraz." His great pleasure consists in praising tyrants, abus

The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it. [p. 307. St. 106.

It would have taught him humanity at least. This sentimental savage, whom it is a mode to quote (amongst the novelists) to show their sympathy for innocent sports and old songs, teaches how to sew up frogs, and break their legs by way of experiment, in addition to the art of angling, the cruellest, the coldest, and the stu pidest of pretended sports. They may talk about the beauties of nature, but the angler merely thinks of his dish of fish; he has no leisure to take his eyes from off the streams, and a single bite is worth to him more than all the scenery around. Besides, some fish bite best on a rainy day. The whale, the shark, and the tanny (fishery have somewhat of noble and perilous in

them; even net-fishing, trawling, are more humane and useful-but angling!-No angler can be a good man.

"One of the best men I ever knew—as humane, delicate-minded, generous, and excellent a creature as any in the world-was an angler: true, he angled with painted flies, and would have been incapable of the extravagances of I. Walton.

The above addition was made by a friend in reading over the MS.-"Audi alteram partem"I leave it to counterbalance my own observation.

NOTES TO CANTO XIV.

tain quantum of births within a certain number of years; which births (as Mr. Hulme observes) generally arrive "in a little flock like those of a farmer's lambs, all within the same month perhaps." These Harmonists (so called from the name of their settlement) are represented as a remarkably flourishing, pions, and quiet people. See the various recent writers on America.

Nor canvass what "so eminent a hand” meant. [p. 320. St. 38. Jacob Tonson, according to Pope, was accustomed to call his writers "able pens"—"persons of honour," and especially "eminent hands." While great Lucullus' (robe triomphale) muffles— And never craned, and made but few (There's Fame)-young_Partridge-fillets, deck'd "faux pas." [p. 310. St. 33. with truffles. [p. 323. St. 66. Craning "To crane" is, or was, an expres- A dish "à la Lucullus." This hero, who consion used to denote a gentleman's stretching out quered the East, has left his more extended cehis neck over a hedge, "to look before he leap-lebrity to the transplantation of cherries (which ed:"-a pause in his "vaulting ambition, which in the field doth occasion some delay and execration in those who may be immediately behind the equestrian sceptic. "Sir, if you don't choose to take the leap, let me "-was a phrase which generally sent the aspirant on again; and to good purpose: for though "the horse and rider might fall, they made a gap, through which, and over him and his steed, the field might follow.

Go to the coffee-house, and take another. [p. 312. St. 48. In SWIFT's or HORACE WALPOLE's Letters think it is mentioned, that somebody regretting the loss of a friend, was answered by an universal Pylades: "When I lose one, I go to the Saint James's Coffee-house, and take another."

he first brought into Europe) and the nomenclature of some very good dishes;-and I am not sure that (barring indigestion) he has not done more service to mankind by his cookery than by his conquests. A cherry-tree may weigh against a bloody laurel: besides, he has contrived to earn celebrity from both.

But even sans "confitures," it no less true is, There's pretty picking in those “petits puits." [p. 323. St. 68. "Petits puits d'amour garnis de confitures," a classical and well-known dish for part of the flank of a second course.

For that with me's a "sine qua." [p. 324. St. 86. Subauditur "Non;" omitted for the sake of euphony.

I recollect having heard an anecdote of the same kind. Sir W. D. was a great gamester. In short, upon that subject I've some qualms very Coming in one day to the club of which he was Like those of the Philosopher of Malmsbury. a member, he was observed to look melancholy. [p. 325. St. 96. "What is the matter, Sir William ?" cried Hare, Hobbes who, doubting of his own soul, paid of facetious memory. "Ah! replied Sir W. "I that compliment to the souls of other people as have just lost poor Lady D." "Lost! What at- to decline their visits, of which he had some Quinze or Hazard?" was the consolatory rejoin-apprehension.

der of the querist.

And I refer you to wise Oxenstiern.

[p. 313. St. 59.

The famous Chancellor Oxenstiern said to his son, on the latter expressing his surprise upon the great effects arising from petty causes in the presumed mystery of politics: "You see by this, my son, with how little wisdom the kingdoms of the world are governed."

NOTES TO CANTO XV.

NOTES TO CANTO XVI.

If from a shell-fish or from cochineal. [p. 326. St. 10. The composition of the old Tyrian purple, whether from a shell-fish, or from cochineal, or from kermes, is still an article of dispute; and even its colour-some say purple, others scarlet: I say nothing.

For a spoil'd carpet-but the "Attic Bee." And thou Diviner still, Was much consoled by his own repartee. Whose lot it is by man to be mistaken. [p. 330. St. 43. [p. 318. St. 18. I think that it was a carpet on which Diogenes As it is necessary in these times to avoid am- trod, with-"Thus I trample on the pride of biguity, I say, that I mean, by "Diviner still," Plato!"-"With greater pride," as the other CHRIST. If ever God was Man-or Man God-replied. But as carpets are meant to be trodden he was both. I never arraigned his creed, but the use or abuse-made of it. Mr. Canning one day quoted Christianity to sanction NegroSlavery, and Mr. Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified, that black men might be scourged? If so, he had better been born a Mulatto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or at least salvation.

upon, my memory probably misgives me, and it
might be a robe, or tapestry, or a table-cloth,
or some other expensive and uncynical piece of
furniture.

With "Tu mi chamas's" from Portingale,
To soothe our ears, lest Italy should fail.
[p. 330. St. 45.

I remember that the mayoress of a provincial When Rapp the Harmonist embargoed marriage town, somewhat surfeited with a similar display In his harmonious settlement. [p. 320. St. 35. from foreign parts, did rather indecorously break This extraordinary and flourishing German through the applauses of an intelligent audience colony in America does not entirely exclude ma-intelligent, I mean, as to music,-for the words, trimony, as the "Shakers" do; but lays such besides being in recondite languages (it was restrictions upon it as present more than a cer- some years before the peace, ere all the world