[326] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, and Francis Douglas’s General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, 1782, p. 9.
[327] Burton’s Life of Hume, ii. 458.
[328] Ib. ii. 462.
[329] Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, p. 227.
[330] Early Life of Samuel Rogers, p. 92.
[331] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 157.
[332] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 265.
[333] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 320.
[334] Mostyn Armstrong’s Survey of the Post Roads, etc., in 1777 (ed. 1783), p. 6; and Twiss’ Life of Lord Eldon, i. 39.
[335] It was three hours longer on the return journey from Edinburgh to London.—Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 539.
[336] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1746, p. 209.
[337] Redgauntlet (ed. 1860), ii. 77.
[338] W. Creech’s Letters to Sir John Sinclair, p. 11.
[339] Paterson’s British Itinerary, ii. 602.
[340] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 157.
[341] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 57, n. 3. See also ib. pp. 58, 80. Johnson’s Works, ix. 157, and Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, i. 5.
[342] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1766, p. 167.
[343] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 363, n. 3.
[344] In the speech which he made in 1824 on the opening of the New Edinburgh Academy.—Lockhart’s Life of Scott, vii. 271.
[345] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 437.
[346] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 437, ii. 272, and Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 275.
[347] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 257.
[348] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 169.
[349] Johnson’s Works, viii. 464.
[350] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., ii. 63.
[351] Forbes’ Life of Beattie, p. 243.
[352] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 55.
[353] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 6.
[354] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., i. 211, ii. 544; and Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, ii. 240.
[355] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., i. 167-170, ii. 543.
[356] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 159. Lord Jeffrey was accused “of having lost the broad Scotch at Oxford, and of having gained only the narrow English.”—Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 46.
[357] Works, ix. 159.
[358] Piozzi Letters, i. 109.
[359] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 159.
[360] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 155.
[361] Ib. pp. xxx. 15.
[362] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 98.
[363] The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer.
[364] Walpole’s Reign of George II., iii. 280.
[365] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, pp. 399, 419.
[366] Andrew Henderson’s Consideration on the Scots Militia (ed. 1761), p. 26.
[367] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 1.
[368] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 431. See also Annual Register for 1776, i. 140.
[369] Dodsley’s London and its Environs, iii. 124, and Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 330.
[370] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 598.
[371] Ib. p. 662.
[372] For a penny a cadie was obliged to carry a letter to the remotest part of the town.
[373] Dr. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 275.
[374] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1766, p. 168.
[375] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 66.
[376] Knox’s Tour, p. 9.
[377] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 203.
[378] This house for many years—not much less than seventy, I was told—has been occupied as a tailor’s shop. By the kindness of the heads of the firm, Messrs. Lauder and Hardie, I was shown over the building. Though it has been a good deal altered for the purposes of business it is still substantially the same solid stone house which Hume in his prosperity built for the closing years of his life. The rooms are lofty, being about fourteen feet high. The kitchen and the cellars were evidently contrived for a man who intended to boast with justice of his dinners and his wine. From the windows of every floor there must have been an uninterrupted view of the shores of Fife, across the Firth of Forth, and of the house in Kirkaldy, where Adam Smith was living.
[379] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 441.
[380] Ib. iii. 381.
[381] Eight days is, I suppose, one of Hume’s Gallicisms.
[382] Letters of Hume to Strahan, p. 116.
[383] Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, ii. 110.
[384] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 151.
[385] Dr. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 276.
[386] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. xl.
[387] If we can trust the description of one of Hume’s autograph letters (No. 1105) in Messrs. Puttick and Simpson’s catalogue for July 30, 1886, Johnson was once Hume’s guest. The compilers of auction catalogues, however, are not infallible as editors, and often make strange mistakes.
[388] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 453.
[389] The charge for a chaise and pair was ninepence a mile; in some districts more. There was a duty on each horse of one penny per mile. The driver expected a shilling or eighteen pence for each stage of ten or twelve miles, and always found good reasons for asking for more. The tolls paid at the turnpikes amounted to a considerable sum in a long journey. The duty was subsequently increased. See Mostyn Armstrong’s Actual Survey, etc., p. 4, and Paterson’s British Itinerary, vol. i. preface, p. vii.
[390] See the Table of Weather in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1774, p. 290.
[391] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 137. The tree still remains the solitary memorial of the fight.
[392] It was not till 1799 that by 39 Geo. III. c. 56, they were declared free. Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 78, and Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 202, n. 1.
[393] Dodsley’s London and its Environs, vi. 316. In March, 1747, one Mr. Williams, master of the White Horse Inn, Piccadilly, was kicked out of a feast of the Independent Electors of Westminster, because he was discovered to be taking notes of some Jacobite toasts. Gentleman’s Magazine for 1747, p. 151.
[394] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 190.
[395] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 544.
[396] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 543.
[397] J. and H.’s Storer’s Descriptions of Edinburgh. Dr. Chambers, in his Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 187, says that “the date is deficient in the decimal figure 16—3.”
[398] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo. ed. p. 270.
[399] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 191. Perhaps this was Jeremy Bentham’s father, who two years earlier had married for the second time: what was his wife’s Christian name I have not been able to ascertain. The son did not visit Edinburgh in 1768. Dr. Chambers gives on p. 318 a list of the great people living in the Canongate about the year 1769. According to it there were two dukes, sixteen earls, two countesses, seven barons, seven lords of session, thirteen baronets, and four commanders-in-chief. The Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4 contains, however, the names of only about a dozen peers and peeresses.
[400] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, ix. 244.
[401] He died on January 28, 1836.
[402] Humphry Clinker, ii. 224. Lodging-house keepers are entered in the Edinburgh Directory as Room-Setters and Boarders. Some were both, others only Room-Setters.
[403] Johnson repeated these lines with great emotion at the excellent inn at Chapel-House in Oxfordshire. Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 452.
[404] Since writing the above I have learnt with great pleasure that this interesting but ruinous old building will not only be preserved, but preserved to good uses. It has been purchased by Dr. A. H. F. Barbour and his sister Mrs. Whyte, and by them presented to the Edinburgh Social Union. It will be put into a state of thorough repair, and let out to poor tenants on the plan followed by Miss Octavia Hill in London. I am informed that the two sides of the Close had been repaired by the Social Union before my visit, and that the pleasant outside staircases and open galleries which caught my eye were its work.
[405] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 68.
[406] Pringle seems to have kept on a house in Edinburgh though he was for the most part living at this time in London. See Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 117.
[407] The Scotch called each set of rooms on every floor a house, and each block a land. Thus Hume had once lived in Jack’s Land, in the Canongate. A land of thirteen stories, such as was shown to Johnson at the foot of the Post-house Stairs would contain twenty-six houses—two on every floor.
[408] Marmion. Introduction to Canto iv.
[409] Mr. Alexander Grieve. I find a bookbinder of the same name living in Bell’s Wynd in 1773. Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4, Appendix, p. 5.
[410] For my authorities for some of the statements in this note see my Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 116-9.
[412] Heart of Mid-Lothian, ed. 1860, i. 247.
[413] Redgauntlet, ed. 1860, i. 253.
[414] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 106, and Heart of Mid-Lothian, ii. 117.
[415] Lockhart’s Scott, vii. 124.
[416] Reminiscences, by Thomas Carlyle, ii. 5.
[417] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 69.
[418] Court and City Register for 1769, p. 142.
[419] From 1808 the judges began to sit in two separate chambers. Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 100, 244.
[420] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. xxvi.
[421] Mr. Gladstone restored it in 1885.
[422] Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey, i. 182.
[423] Tour in Scotland, i. 233.
[424] Humphry Clinker, iii. 5.
[425] The Tale of a Tub, section xi.
[426] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 43, and Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 249.
[427] Chambers, quoted in Croker’s Boswell, p. 276.
[428] Lockhart’s Scott, iii. 269. The quotation no doubt was, “Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage;” the line with which Scott concluded the brief Appendix to Castle Dangerous.
[429] Scots Magazine, 1768, p. 113; 1789, pp. 521-5.
[430] J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 69.
[431] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 307.
[432] See p. 52 of this pamphlet. Panado is defined by Johnson as a food made by boiling bread in water.
[433] Regulations for the Workhouse of Edinburgh, 1750, p. 30.
[434] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 181.
[435] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 362.
[436] An Address to Edinburgh.
[437] Johnson’s Works, ix. 152.
[438] Reminiscences, i. 113.
[439] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 115.
[440] Humphry Clinker, ii. 249.
[441] Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1745-6, p. 284.
[442] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 331.
[443] Lord Kames’s Sketches, iii. 483.
[444] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 353, and Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 24, n. 2.
[445] Reminiscences, i. 102-4.
[446] Saint-Fond’s Voyage, &c., ii. 253.
[447] Burnet’s History of His Own Time, ed. 1818, ii. 82. Balfour of Burley, the leader, is known to the readers of Old Mortality.
[448] Lockhart’s Scott, i. 72.
[449] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 83.
[450] Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle, ed. 1886, i. 187.
[451] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 87.
[452] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.
[453] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 268. The popular rector was Archibald Campbell, the victim of the Rev. Dr. Innes’s literary fraud described in Boswell’s Johnson, i. 360, and the father of “Lexiphanes.” Ib. ii. 44.
[454] St. Andrew’s As it was and as it is, p. 161.
[455] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, i. 175.
[456] Humphry Clinker, ii. 246.
[457] Tour in Scotland, ii. 189. The population he estimated at about two thousand. Ib. p. 196.
[458] Poems of G. M. Berkeley, Preface, p. lxi.
[459] Ib. p. lxii.
[460] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., ii. 238.
[461] My informant is Dr. John Paterson, of Clifton Bank, St. Andrews, to whose extensive knowledge as a local antiquary and most friendly assistance I am indebted.
[462] Froude’s History of England, ed. 1870, vi. 233.
[463] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 397.
[464] Translated by Boswell:
[465] Her descent from Knox is not fully established, though, says Carlyle, “there is really good likelihood of the genealogy.” Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, ii. 103.
[466] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, ix. 126.
[467] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., ii. 232.
[468] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 93.
[469] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 197.
[470] Stockdale’s Memoirs, i. 238.
[471] Boswell’s Johnson, vi. xxx.
[472] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxcvi.
[473] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 208.
[474] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxlix.