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THE 
 
 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 EDITED BT HIS SON, THE 
 
 REV. CHARLES CUTHpRT SOUTHEY, M.A. 
 
 CURATE OF PLUMBLAND, CUMBERLAND. 
 
 IN SIX VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. III. 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
 
 PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
 
 1850. 
 
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TREASURi ROOM 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 OF THE THIRD VOLUME. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Advantages of Keswick as a Residence. — Opinions, political, social r 
 and religious. — The Language of Madoc defended. — Foreign 
 Politics. — Curious Case of Mental Derangement ameliorated. — 
 Hobbes's Theory of a State of Nature combated. — Mr. Coleridge, 
 
 — Mr. Wordsworth. — Mr. Duppa's Life of Michael Angelo. — 
 Details of Himself and his Literary Pursuits and Opinions. — 
 Political Changes. — Literary Labours. — Congratulations to Mr.. 
 Wynn on the Birth of a Child. — Remarks on the Effects of 
 Time. Bristol Recollections. — Beausobre's History of Mani- 
 cheism. — Goes to Norwich. — The Annual Review. — Jesuitism 
 in England. — Brief Visit to London and Return. — Quaint 
 Theory of the Origin of Languages. — Thalaba. — Urges Mr. 
 Bedford to visit him at Keswick. — Directions about Specimens of 
 English Poets. — Kehama. — Death of his Uncle John Southey. 
 
 — Lines upon that Event. — Mountain Excursions. — Reviews of 
 Madoc. — Epic Subjects suggested. — Translation of Palmerin of 
 England. — Papers concerning South America. — Memoirs of 
 Colonel Hutchinson. — 1806 - Page 1 
 
 CHAPTER XIH. 
 
 He undertakes to edit "Kirke White's Remains." — Details of his 
 settling at Greta Hall. — Grant of a small Pension. — Opinions on 
 the Catholic Question. — Progress of " Kirke White's Remains." 
 
 9 13"^ 
 
Vl CONTENTS. 
 
 — Heavy Deductions from his Pension Modern Poetry 
 
 Politics. — Predicts severe Criticisms on the " Specimens of En- 
 glish Poetry." — Recollections of College Friends. — Remarks on 
 Classical Reading. — The Catholic Question. — Spanish Papers 
 wanted. — Mr. Duppa's " Life of Michael Angelo." — Motives for 
 editing " Kirke White's Remains." — Best Season for visiting the 
 Lakes. — Effect upon them of Cloud and Sunshine. — Theory of 
 educating Children for specific Literary Purposes. — Probable Es- 
 tablishment of a New Edinburgh Review. — Playful Letter to the 
 late Hartley Coleridge. — New Edition of Don Quixote projected. 
 
 — Plan of a Critical Catalogue. — Palmerin of England. — ■ Lay 
 of the Last Minstrel. — Chronicle of the Cid. — Morte D' Arthur. 
 
 — Pecuniary Difficulties. — Sale of Espriella's Letters. — Speci- 
 mens of English Poetry. — Overtures made to him to take part in 
 the Edinburgh Review. — Reasons for declining to do so. — 1807. 
 
 Page 58 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Brazilian Affairs. — Dislike of leaving Home. — Condemns the Idea 
 of making Peace with Bonaparte. — The Inquisition. — The Sale 
 of his Works. — Grateful Feelings towards Mr. Cottle. — Thoughts 
 on the Removal of his Books to Keswick. — Meeting with the 
 Author of Gebir. — Remarks on Marmion. — Political Opinions. 
 — Kehama. — His Position as an Author. — On Metres. — Popu- 
 lation of Spain. — Conduct of the French at Lisbon. — Remarks 
 on Diseases. — Physical Peculiarities. — Spanish Affairs. — Pre- 
 sent of Books from Mr. Neville White. — Account of Floating 
 Island in Derwentwater. — He Predicts the Defeat of the French 
 in the Peninsula. — Portuguese Literature. — Infancy of his little 
 
 Boy. — Poetical Dreams. — Chronicle of the Cid Doubts about 
 
 going to Spain. — Anecdote of an Irish Duel. — Literary Employ- 
 ments. — Advice to a Young Author. — The Convention of Cin- 
 tra. — Spanish Ballads. — : Politics of the Edinburgh Review. — The 
 Quarterly Review set on Foot. — The Chronicle of the Cid. — 
 Kehama. — Articles in the Quarterly Review. — Spanish Affairs. 
 — 1808 ...... 129 
 
CONTENTS. Vll 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Cowper's Translation of Milton's Latin and Italian Poems. — Kehama. 
 — History of Brazil. — Politics. — Literary Advice. — Sketch of 
 Mr. Rickman's Character. — Pleasure at seeing his Writings in 
 Print. — Spanish Affairs. — The Quarterly Review. — Excursion to 
 Durham. — Freedom of his Opinions. — The Cid. — Sensitive Feel- 
 ings — Gebir. — Bad Effect of Scientific Studies. — Anxiety about 
 his little Boy. — Mr. Canning wishes to serve him. — Application 
 for Stewardship of Greenwich Hospital Estates. — Mr. Wordsworth's 
 Pamphlet on the Convention of Cintra. — Eclogue of the Alder- 
 man's Funeral. — The Quarterly Review. — Sir John Moore's Re- 
 treat. — Death of his Landlord. — Mr. Canning's Duel. — Morte 
 D'Arthur. — Eclectic and Quarterly Reviews. — Dr. Collyer's Lec- 
 tures — Mr. Coleridge's " Friend." — The Soldier's Love. — Kehama 
 finished. — Pelayo. — War in the Peninsula 1809 - Page 201 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 Engagement with Ballantyne for the Edinburgh Annual Register. — 
 Roderick begun. — Professor Wilson. — De Quincey. — The Friend. 
 
 — Politics. — Madoc defended Monthly Review. — Lord Byron. 
 
 — William Roberts. — Review of the Missionaries. — History of 
 Brazil. — Declining Love of Poetical Composition. — The Lady of 
 the Lake. — Romanism in England. — Poem of Mr. E. Elliott's 
 criticised. — Portuguese Literature. — Edinburgh Annual Register. 
 
 — Spanish Affairs. — Doubts about the Metre of Kehama. — 
 
 — Oliver Newman projected. — Kehama. — Comparative Merits 
 of Spenser and Chaucer. — Evil of large landed Proprietors. — 
 Remarks on Writing for the Stage. — Landor's Count Julian. — 
 Political Views. — Gifford wishes to serve him. — Progress of the 
 Register. — L. Goldsmid's Book about France. — Pasley's Essay. 
 
 — New Review projected. — Death of his Uncle Thomas Southey. 
 
 — Lucien Bonaparte 1810—1811 .... Page 270 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 Scott's Vision of Don Roderick. — Advice to a Young Friend on 
 going to Cambridge. — Bell and Lancaster Controversy. — Plan 
 of the Book of the Church. — Wishes to assist Mr. W. Taylor 
 in his Difficulties. — Prospect of being summoned to the Bar of 
 House of Commons — Shelley at Keswick. — Ugly Fellows. — 
 Oxford. — Herbert Marsh. — Testamentary Letter. — Application 
 for the Office of Historiographer. — Catholic Concessions Mur- 
 der of Mr. Perceval. — State of England. — Edinburgh Annual 
 Register. — Excursion into Durham and Yorkshire. — Visit to 
 Rokeby. — The Quarterly Review. — The Register. — Moralised 
 Sketch of Thalaba. — 1811— 1812 - Page 314 
 

 Mtat. 32. OF ROBERT SOUTHET. 17 
 
 sufficient powers, bodily and mental, for his own sup- 
 port. I think the most reasonable opinion is, that 
 the first men had a knowledge of language and of 
 religion ; in short, that the accounts of a golden or 
 patriarchal age are, in their foundation, true. How 
 soon the civilised being degenerates under unfavour- 
 able circumstances, has been enough proved by his- 
 tory. Freewill, God, and final retribution solve all 
 difficulties. That Deity cannot be understood, is a 
 stupid objection ; without one we can understand 
 nothing. I cannot put down my thoughts methodi- 
 cally without much revision and re-arrangement; 
 but you may see what I would be at ; it is no diffi- 
 cult matter to harpoon the Leviathan, and wound 
 him mortally. 
 
 You may account by other means for the spread of 
 the Mexican religion than by the love of blood. Man 
 is by nature a religious animal ; and if the elements 
 of religion were not innate in him, as I am convinced 
 they are, sickness would make him so. You will 
 find that all savages connect superstition with disease, 
 — some cause, which they can neither comprehend 
 nor control, affects them painfully, and the remedy 
 always is to appease an offended Spirit, or drive 
 away a malignant one. Even in enlightened socie- 
 ties, you will find that men more readily believe 
 what they fear than what they hope : . . , . 
 religions, therefore, which impose privations and self- 
 torture have always been more popular than any 
 other. How many of our boys' amusements consist 
 in bearing pain ? — grown children like to do the 
 VOL. III. c 
 
18 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtxt. 32. 
 
 same from a different motive. You will more easily 
 persuade a man to wear hair-cloth drawers, to flog 
 himself, or swing upon a hook, than to conform to 
 the plain rules of morality and common sense. I 
 shall have occasion to look into this subject when 
 writing of the spirit of Catholicism, which furnishes 
 as good an illustration as the practices of the Hin- 
 doos. Here, in England, Calvinism is the popular 
 faith. . . . Beyond all doubt, the religion of the 
 Mexicans is the most diabolical that has ever existed. 
 It is not, however, by any means, so mischievous as 
 the Brahminical system of caste, which, wherever it 
 exists, has put a total stop to the amelioration of 
 society. The Mexicans were rapidly advancing. 
 Were you more at leisure, I should urge you to 
 bestow a week's study upon the Spanish language, 
 for the sake of the mass of information contained in 
 their travellers and historians. .... 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To Walter Scott, Esq., Advocate. 
 
 " Greta Hal], Keswick, Feb. 4. 1806. 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " We are under considerable uneasiness respecting 
 Coleridge, who left Malta early in September to re- 
 turn overland from Naples, was heard of from Trieste, 
 and has not been heard of since. Our hope is, that, 
 finding it impracticable to proceed, he may have 
 returned, and be wintering at Naples or in Sicily. 
 
1806. _ ROBERT SOUTHEY. 357 
 
 call on her, and see her sketches of Greta Hall, Gilpin's 
 Stone, &c. She is that sort of woman that you will 
 not feel yourself in the least awkward for want of an 
 introducer. The Colonel has sent me half a collar of 
 Drawn and a little barrel of pickled sturgeon. This 
 cost me a letter of thanks, which again produced such 
 an answer! I wish you had seen it: he writes just as 
 he talks, — world without end, Amen ! However he is 
 a good natured homo, if ever there was one. 
 
 The parcel came very well packed. I shall begin 
 upon the " Cid " this day three weeks, — the very day the 
 reviewing is off my hands, — and expect to make quick 
 work with it. You sent me, in } r our last, some useful 
 facts for Don Manuel : do not let anything of this kind 
 escape you. I have some little hope, from what George 
 says in a letter to his sister, that we may meet in 
 London, which would be as useful to my book as it 
 would be agreeable to me. No man knows what he has 
 in his memory till it is asked for ; and the MSS. would 
 needs put you in mind of many things which you would 
 never else think of. I shall start either the last week 
 in March or the first in April, and, had I a companion, 
 would go half footing and half coaching, by way of the 
 Caves and the Peak. 
 
 Still no tidings of Coleridge: it is some consolation 
 to know that no letters have been received for many 
 weeks from that part of the Austrian dominions which 
 is occupied by the French. It is not unlikely that he 
 has returned, either to Naples or Malta, and may be 
 waiting there for a ship. There is also this comfort, 
 that ill news always travels fast ; and letters to say he 
 were dead would arrive as soon as those he should 
 write himself. You may, however, well think that I 
 am far from being easy about him. As for foreign 
 politics, they do not seem to me to bear a bad aspect. 
 Anything which tends still further to dislocate the 
 
 A A 3 
 
358 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 German Empire and prepare Germany for revolution 
 is to be regarded as favourable to the ultimate improve- 
 ment of Europe. Anything which weakens Austria 
 is also desirable, and anything which strengthens the 
 new kingdom of Italy. Bonaparte will hold all toge- 
 ther while he lives ; and thinks, by family connections, 
 to keep afterwards in alliance what he cannot consoli- 
 date with France. His successors will be upon a par 
 with common princes ; his generals will die off; Ger- 
 many and Spain, in their turn, will be regenerated by 
 revolutions, and France be again what it was under the 
 latter Bourbons. The great French generals are 
 children of the Revolution, which will have no grand- 
 children ; under an empire there will be the same 
 system of family connections, interest, and corruption 
 which has reduced this country and all the old govern- 
 ments of Europe to their present state. At home 
 here, Danvers, what I ardently wished fourteen years ago 
 from feeling, I now think inevitable, though at greater 
 distance, and desirable, without wishing it. For myself, 
 it is best that things should last out my time, so I 
 suppose they may : being a tenant of an old house, I 
 would rather suffer its inconveniences and its vermin, 
 than be at the trouble and expense of repairs. But, for 
 the country, I have only to say that the fable of the 
 Phoenix looks like a political emblem, and that old 
 governments must be cut up and put into Medea's 
 cauldron. At present, however, there is a chance that the 
 war may be carried on vigorously by sea, the people 
 be armed, the enemy's colonies taken, and a good peace 
 
 made at last 
 
 Of " Madoc," I can tell you nothing more than that 
 "Windham has become a great admirer of it, from seeing 
 the passages quoted for censure in the hostile reviews ; 
 and this, perhaps, I told you before. I have made up 
 my mind to alter the catastrophe, and formed what I 
 
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 JEtat. 32. OF ROBERT SOUTHS Y. 21 
 
 very affectionate friend; 'tis a voluntary kind of 
 relationship, in which it would gratify me to stand 
 to a child of yours, and which I should consider as a 
 religious pledge on my part for any useful, kind, and 
 fatherly offices which it might ever happen to be in 
 my power to perform. 
 
 " I have for some time looked on with pleasure to 
 the hope of seeing you next autumn, when, in all 
 probability, if the situation of affairs abroad does not 
 prevent me, I shall once more visit Portugal, not for 
 health's sake, but to collect the last materials for my 
 history, and to visit those parts of the kingdom which 
 I have not yet seen. In this case my way will lie 
 through Devonshire, and I will stop a day or two 
 at Crediton, and talk over old times. 
 
 " You inquire of the wreck of the Seward family, 
 — a name as dear to my inmost heart as it can be to 
 yours. No change has taken place among them for 
 some years, as I understand from Duppa, who was 
 my guest here the autumn before last, and with whom 
 I have an occasional correspondence. 
 
 "I passed through Oxford two years ago, and 
 walked through the town at four o'clock in the 
 morning ; the place never before appeared to me half 
 so beautiful. I looked up at my own windows, and, 
 as you may well suppose, felt as most people do 
 when they think of what changes time brings about. 
 
 " If you have seen or should see the Annual 
 Keview, you may like to know that I have borne a 
 great part in it thus far, and I may refer you for the 
 state of my opinions to the Reviewals of the Pe- 
 riodical Accounts of the Baptist Mission, vol. i., of 
 c 3 
 
;. 
 
 22 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE JEtat. 32. 
 
 althus*s Essay on Population, Miles's History of the 
 Methodists, and the Transactions of the Missionary 
 Society, vol. ii. and iii., and of the Report of the So~ 
 ciety for the Suppression of Vice, vol. iii. In other 
 articles you may trace me from recollections of your 
 own, by family likeness, by a knowledge of Spanish 
 literature, and by a love of liberty and literature 
 freely and warmly expressed. I was ministerial 
 under Addington, regarded his successor with the 
 utmost indignation, and am exceedingly well pleased 
 at the present changes. Time, you say, moderates 
 opinions as it mellows wine. My views and hopes 
 are certainly altered, though the heart and soul of 
 my wishes continues the same. It is the world that 
 has changed, not I. I took the same way in the 
 afternoon that I did in the morning, but sunset and 
 sunrise make a different scene. If I regret any 
 thing in my own life, it is that I could not take 
 orders, for of all ways of life that would have best 
 accorded with my nature ; but I could not get in at 
 the door. 
 
 " In other respects time has not much altered me. 
 I am as thin as ever, and to the full as noisy : making 
 a noise in any way whatever is an animal pleasure 
 with me, and the louder it is the better. Do you 
 remember the round hole at the top of the staircase, 
 opposite your door ? * 
 
 " Coleridge is daily expected to return from Malta, 
 where he has been now two years for his health. I 
 inhabit the same house with his wife and children, — 
 perhaps the very finest single spot in England. We 
 overlook Keswick Lake, have the Lake of Bassen- 
 * See p. 87. 
 
-2ETAT. 32. OF ROBERT SOUTHEX. 27 . 
 
 the lives of the Spanish and Portuguese authors in the 
 remaining volumes of Dr. Aikin's great General 
 Biography? This will not interfere with my own 
 plans ; where it does, it is little more than printing the 
 skeleton of what is hereafter to be enlarged. I can 
 tell you nothing of the sale of Madoc, except that 
 Longman has told me nothing, which is proof enough 
 of slow sale ; but if the edition goes off in two years, 
 or indeed in three, it will be well for so costly a 
 book. There is a reaction in these things ; my poems 
 make me known first, and then I make the poems 
 known : as I rise in the world the books will sell. I 
 have occasional thoughts of going on with Kehama 
 now when my leisure time approaches, to keep my 
 hand in, and to leave it for publication next winter. 
 Not a line has been added to it since you left me. 
 
 " No news yet of Coleridge : we are seriously un- 
 easy about him : it is above two months since he ought 
 to have been home : our hope is, that finding the 
 continent overrun by the French, he may have re- 
 turned to Malta. Edith's love. 
 
 " God bless you, Tom ! 
 
 E. S." 
 
 To Richard Duppa, Esq. 
 
 "Feb. 23. 1806. 
 
 ¥ Dear Duppa, 
 
 " Nicholson, I see, sets up a new review. Carlisle 
 ought to get you well taken care of there. Need 
 you be told the history of all reviews ? If a book 
 
28 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ,Etat. 32. 
 
 falls into the hands of one who is neither friend nor 
 enemy, — which for a man known in the world is not 
 very likely — the reviewer will find fault to show his 
 own superiority, though he be as ignorant of the 
 subject upon which he writes as an ass is of meta- 
 physics, or John Pinkerton of Welsh antiquities and 
 Spanish literature. As your book, therefore, has 
 little chance of fair play, get it into the hands of 
 your friends. Have you any access to the Monthly? 
 
 " For politics. As far as the public is concerned, 
 God be praised! How far I may be concerned, 
 remains to be seen. My habits are now so rooted, 
 that everything not connected with my own imme- 
 diate pursuit seems of secondary consequence, and as 
 far as relates to myself, hardly worth a hope or fear. 
 So far as anything can be given me which will fa- 
 cilitate that pursuit, I greatly desire it, and have 
 good reason to expect the best. But nothing that 
 can happen will in any way affect my plan of 
 operations for the present year. I go to London in 
 a month's time, I go to Lisbon in the autumn, and in 
 the interim must work like a negro. By the by, 
 cannot you give me a letter to Bartolozzi ? he will 
 like to see an Englishman who can talk to him of the 
 persons with whom he was acquainted in England. 
 
 " I am reading an Italian History of Heresies in 
 four folios, by a certain Domenico Bernino. If there 
 be one thing in the world which delights me more 
 than another, it is ecclesiastical history. This book 
 of Bernino's is a very useful one for a man who 
 knows something of the subject, and is aware how 
 much is to be believed, and how much is not. 
 

 1806. -, .ROBERT SOUTHEY. . 365 
 
 sunburnt and grow a little older, before he begins to 
 practise upon the tripes of his majesty's subjects. We 
 have heard at last of Coleridge, who had been obliged 
 to turn back to Naples, and was there in December. 
 Where he is now heaven knows : probably either in 
 Sicily or on his way home. It is not unlikely that you 
 and I shall have our next meeting at Lisbon, — either 
 that you will touch there during the war, or that, in 
 case of peace, you may cross over as soon as you are 
 paid off next time. You will have as much dancing 
 as your head desires, and I shall enjoy seeing how much 
 you will enjoy a jackass ride. 
 
 My daughter admires the necklace which came with 
 the book very much. Bring her home some shells ; but 
 do not send them at the risk of being lost or broken by 
 so long a land carriage. We are here at the uttermost 
 end of the north. I have a world of fatigue to go 
 through in London, of which the business is the least 
 part ; though there is not only my own book to finish, 
 but I have promised as well to give poor Burnett a 
 helping hand in one which he has undertaken, and in 
 which he will want my help. The main fatigue will be 
 in walking about that endless city and seeing my 
 thousand and one acquaintances, dining late, and talk- 
 ing till midnight. To be sure there is the pleasure of 
 seeing a good many old friends to set against this, and 
 the pleasure also of hunting the booksellers' shops. 
 Do you go on with your book of observations ? Have 
 the planters any gardens ? Is there anything like 
 ornamented ground about their houses ? Do they 
 collect water in great stone cisterns, like the Portu- 
 guese, for watering their plantations ? God bless you, 
 Tom. 
 
 Edith's love. I can't send my daughter's kiss, as I 
 have nobody to draw upon for payment of it as you 
 have. Once more, God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
366 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 To C. W. Williams Wynn, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Keswick, March 14. 1806. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 I have a fine story for you, of which all the 
 people in Keswick are at this moment brimful. 
 
 There is a man here, of some little credit among 
 the people, as doing well in the world, and being 
 very religious ; and he keeps a little hole of a shop 
 where he sells sugar and tea and stationery ; has 
 about fifty circulating books, besides a few Metho- 
 distical ones, which last he lends gratis to anybody 
 who will read them. This man's son has just written 
 him what I am about to tell you from Newcastle, as a 
 circumstance which has just happened in that neigh- 
 bourhood ; the old Methodist believes it, and half 
 the servants in the town will not be able to sleep to- 
 night in consequence of their terror. 
 
 A man of reprobate character was playing at cards 
 so late on Saturday night, that somebody warned him 
 to leave off, because, as the Irishman says, it was Sun- 
 day morning. The fellow replied he would sit there 
 till the day of judgment, and immediately as he 
 uttered the words he past away. This is the phrase 
 here for dying, and the very words in which one of 
 our maids has just related the story. Well, there 
 the corpse remains, sitting at the table, and the candle 
 burning before him unconsumed ; they could not move 
 him from the chair to bury him, nor could they ex- 
 tinguish the candle. The house has been deserted, 
 as you may well suppose, and there till the day of 
 judgment he is to remain, a sitting miracle. It is 
 a very fine story, and I should like to know the rise 
 and progress of the latter part of it. That a man may 
 have died suddenly when playing at cards is very 
 likely. 
 

 1806. -. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 3/7 
 
 extent, and my profits be easily gained. The "Cid" 
 concludes the list of my ways and means for the year, 
 for I shall add that I have sold the first edition of 
 D. Manuel for 100£. To-morrow the effect of the jour- 
 ney will be pretty well worn off, and I shall begin my 
 operations with a good will. My last year's reviewing 
 was little short of 90/., so much better do I get paid 
 for criticising other people's books than for making 
 my own. 
 
 Sir Domine has passed his examination, and will be 
 be-doctored about Midsummer ; we shall then see him 
 here. I wish we had your visit now to expect instead 
 of to remember: however, we shall meet when I am 
 on my way to Lisbon ; an expedition which I begin 
 to suspect will be delayed till the spring instead of 
 the autumn for two or three reasons. Perhaps Buona- 
 parte may furnish one worth them all. I find the 
 two Ediths well, the little one perceptibly grown 
 during my absence. 
 
 No letters from Coleridge of a later date thanl 
 August. We hear of him by several quarters ; he \ 
 was at Rome in the beginning of February, much 
 noticed there, and going to spend a few weeks in 
 the country on a visit. This is the news from Eng- 
 lishmen who saw him there. It is not to be supposed 
 that letters should regularly arrive from other persons, 
 and all his be lost. Wordsworth thinks he has delayed 
 writing till he finds it painful to think of it. Mean- 
 time we daily expect to hear of his return. I am 
 more angry at his silence than I choose to express, 
 because I have no doubt whatever that the reason 
 why we receive no letters is, that he writes none ; 
 when he comes he will probably tell a different story, 
 and it will be proper to admit his excuse without believ- 
 ing it. God bless you. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 It, SOUTHEY. 
 
378 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 To John Rickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, May 21. 1806. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 You will have perceived that I had perceived 
 the unfitness of transmitting proof-sheets back through 
 you, — the second which came was enclosed to the 
 Emperor Wynn before your note arrived. You will 
 perceive, too, that your queries concerning any passage 
 are not thrown away, when I tell you that your doubt 
 as to the propriety of drowning the boatman, in a 
 ballad written before I knew how to write ballads, 
 made me discover that my meaning was not explained 
 in the story ; and so I took care to explain it, and let 
 the reader know that the boatman was not flesh and 
 blood, but one of the Devil's boatmen; — Duppa and 
 Michel Angelo know that the Devil has a barge of his 
 own. 
 
 My packages arrived on Monday, so much sooner 
 than any former importation, that I think the " Flying 
 Waggon " deserves its name. I am looking over Heber's 
 romances, which come in the series before " Palmerin of 
 England: " of the first, there is the Spanish original and 
 the French translation; — the difference is character- 
 istic. Nothing can be coarser than the morals of the 
 Spanish author, who was a woman. They are like 
 those of Amadis, only still coarser, — but still in the 
 same plain nakedness of savage life. The Frenchman, 
 of course, takes advantage of this. When he finds a 
 short sentence to state that a knight and fair lady go to 
 bed together, he fills a page about it. The one is the 
 nakedness of an Indian, who has never worn clothes ; 
 the other that of a courtesan, in a Frenchman's cabinet 
 lined with looking-glass. 
 
P? 
 
 1806. ,,, ROBERT SOUTHEY. 38 1 
 
 I c6md not see your defence at the Admiralty with- 
 out certain formal permissions which it would have 
 been unpleasant to have requested. Harry Bedford, 
 however, who is employed there, got it pretty well by 
 heart, and repeated to me the whole substance. He said 
 the whole transaction was to your credit, and that even 
 what you had written about William's perjury would 
 be rather serviceable than otherwise. I shall send the 
 letter through him, hoping that you will receive it 
 more speedily, and that its chance of reaching you will 
 be greater ; but God send that it may pass you on'your 
 passage to England with the convoy. 
 
 Now for my own affairs. Still in the same uncer- 
 tainty about the fate of Portugal ; but, if it be not shut 
 against us, almost certain of the secretaryship there. 
 "Madoc" has been reviewed in the Critical and Monthly 
 very unjustly ; the former, which I have not seen, was *1 
 written by Le Grice,_who is supposed to have so done I ' 
 because heTiates~Coleridge, having always envied him ; , --n 
 who did tHe latter I know not, but if you can conceive . 
 a blue-bottle fly wriggling his tail and trying to sting 
 with it, you will have a good emblem of the writer's 
 clumsy malice. Of Jeffrey's article in the " Edinburgh " 
 I have before spoken, and I believe told you how Wind- 
 ham was induced to read the book by the merit of the 
 extract there given to be censured. " I perceive," he 
 said, " very clearly that he who wrote the review knows 
 nothing of poetry, and that he who wrote the poem 
 does." This, which Wynn had told me, was repeated 
 by Lord Holland. Lady H. added, that it was the 
 rule at St. Ann's Hill (Fox's) to read aloud after supper, 
 and shut the book at eleven, and to retire to bed ; 
 but, while " Madoc " was reading, they went on till 
 after midnight. Fox's letter, concerning which you 
 inquire, was a civil one, written before he had read the 
 
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382 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 book. Heber said to me, " This one poem was all that 
 my warmest friends could wish it to be." 
 
 I am now running a race with the printer, as you 
 know I like to do ; and, if I do not keep pace with him, 
 the constable will not keep pace with me. 
 
 This, then, is my first and main business in hand. 
 Secondly, I am preparing the " Chronicle of the Cid" 
 for publication, in which I shall dispose of much mat- 
 ter originally collected for preliminary chapters to my 
 History : there there will be no room for it, and here 
 it may be advantageously set forth. This is a very 
 favourite work with me, and is, I think, likely to please 
 a certain class of readers much. Thirdly, I am going 
 to reprint " Palmerin of England," correcting the old 
 translation when it requires it, restoring the original 
 orthography of the names, and writing a preface. 
 These are all stipulated engagements, concluded on 
 with Longman. In my own mind, I think of making, 
 from time to time, more stories like " Queen Orraca," 
 and " Garci Fernandez," so as to fill a volume, and of 
 proceeding with " Kehama " in the winter, if I should 
 be in England, instead of reviewing. 
 
 Henry's History is safe. I had given it up as lost, 
 but found that it was in Longman's possession. 
 
 Wynn's direction is now Whitehall, he being one of 
 the Under Secretaries of State. He is married to a 
 very good-natured, unaffected woman. If you ship 
 him a turtle, his house is No. 6. Great George Street, 
 Westminster, The former one died performing qua- 
 rantine at Cork. 
 
 You will expect some politics ; but in truth, I like 
 all that is going on so little, that I had rather talk 
 about anything else. It is such a damned scramble for 
 places, — so completely everything which it ought not 
 to be, — that I am out of heart, and have lost all hope 
 of any beneficial change to any extent. Yet Wind- 
 
1806. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 391 
 
 ing repugnance at the "prosecution of Gilbert "Wake- 
 field.* His conversation was in a tone of exceeding 
 liberality, even more than appears to me quite con- 
 gruous with his silk apron; for certainly the articles 
 of his faith are not all to be found among the nine- 
 and-thirty, nor all the nine-and-thirty to be found 
 among his. He paid me some handsome compliments 
 upon "Madoc," and, among others, that of showing 
 me that he had read it very carefully, by mentioning 
 a few verbal defects, as they had appeared to him. 
 My daughter was so delighted with the"' new gown 
 which Mrs. May sent her, that I thought it expedient 
 to inform her that new gowns were among the pomps 
 and vanities of this wicked world ; a warning which, as 
 you may perhaps suppose, has not made her a whit the 
 less proud of it. 
 
 In about three months I hope she will have a 
 brother or sister. Edith desires to be remembered to 
 yourself and Mrs. May, to whom I also beg my re- 
 membrances. God bless you. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 No news of Coleridge ! Robert Southey. 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 Sept. 20. 1806. 
 
 My dear Grosvenor, 
 
 That the way of life is full of disappointments 
 we have all of us found to our cost ; hope, however, I 
 will, in spite of this knowledge, and in spite of your 
 lumbago, — or whatever it be which has you on your 
 
 * Southey visited him when in gaol. " At Dorchester, I spent 
 half an hour with Gilbert Wakefield."— MS. Letter to G. C. Bed- 
 ford, Oct. 11. 1799. 
 
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392 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 back, — that you and I shall yet Butlerise *, and drink 
 grog out of my Indian-rubber borracha, upon the top 
 of Skiddaw, before the old gentleman has put on his 
 white perriwig for the winter. I made an ascension 
 about two days ago, when Tom paid his first and the 
 doctor his last visit, leaving his name on one of the 
 stones, with P. P. C. I, however, promised to mount 
 again, having already been up six times, and meaning 
 to have you for my companion on the seventh. 
 
 I daily expect the needful account of Churchill. 
 My preface hangs upon hand, but in hand it is. 
 
 The measles have "run their raging race," and 
 are fairly out of the house; — so the Edithling has 
 got safely by one of those perilous passes which are 
 to be found in the course of life, just as they are in 
 the Royal Game of Goose. If the next great family 
 event were as well over, I should settle more comfort- 
 ably to work by day, and to sleep by night. I wish 
 the winter and spring had passed away, and that I 
 were quietly settled at Lisbon ; for, to tell you the 
 truth, I have some reason to think that if business 
 and choice did not lead me there, necessity would 
 drive me. My lungs are become very susceptible of 
 cold, which they never were till lately ; I have an habi- 
 tual expectoration to a troublesome degree, and though 
 assuredly at present I am not ill, yet the train for ill- 
 ness seems to be laid. My intention is to remove in 
 the spring ; if I feel myself diseased in the winter, which 
 is not the trying season, I must run for it without delay. 
 A few years in a better climate, where I shall sit less at 
 my desk, and live more in the open air, are of more 
 consequence to me than anyone can easily believe who 
 has never felt the effect of a genial atmosphere. 
 
 Ask Elmsley to send me the life of D. Luisa Carvajal, 
 when Wynn is in the way to frank it. I want to 
 
 * See Life and Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 335. 
 
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 Mtat. 32. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 51 
 
 home; — but his house stands delightfully, and puts 
 a large part of the finest scenery within our reach. 
 You will find him very friendly, and will like his 
 wife much — she is a great favourite with me. The 
 Bishop of Llandaff lives near them, to whom I have 
 lately been introduced. God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 A- 
 
 To Joseph Cottle, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Aug. 11. 1806. 
 " My dear Cottle, rj^^a^ /* ;>*.,*- U^. 
 
 " Madoc has not made my fortune. By the state of 
 my account in May last, — that is, twelve months after 
 its publication, — there was a balance due to median 
 4 ho plan of dividing the pi'ofito) of 3/. 43s. 1^. About \J 
 180 then remained to be sold, each of which will give 
 me\; $it the sale will be ^rathc? slower than dis- SfyyuJiu*^ 
 tillation through a filtering stone. We mean to print '" 
 
 a small edition in two vols, without delay, and with- 
 out alterations, that the quarto may not lose its 
 value. <m T 
 
 " Of the many revimnn^o of this poem I have only \t*SLcu>&,£$ 
 seen the Edinburgh, Monthly, and Annual. I sent 
 a copy to Mr. Fox, and Lady Holland told me it was 
 the rule at St. Ann's Hill to read aloud till eleven, 
 and then retire; but that when they were reading 
 Madoc they often read till the clock struck twelve. 
 In short, I have had as much praise as heart could 
 desire, but not quite so much of the more solid kind 
 of remuneration. 2T ...... 
 
 I am preparing for the press the Chronicle of the 
 
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52 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE MtXT. 32. 
 
 Cid, — a very curious monument of old Spanish man- 
 ners and history, which will make two little volumes, 
 to the great delight of about as many readers as will 
 suffice to take off<an edition of 750^| 
 
 " You suggest to me three Epic subjects, all of them 
 striking, but each liable to the same objection, — that 
 no entire and worthy interest can be attached to the 
 conquering party in either. 1st. William of Nor- 
 mandy is less a hero than Harold. The true light in 
 which that part of our history should be regarded 
 was shown me by William Taylor. The country 
 * was not thoroughly converted. Harold favoured the 
 
 Pagans, and the Normans were helped by the priests. 
 2dly. Alaric is the chief personage of a French poem 
 by Scudery, which is notoriously worthless. The 
 capture of Rome is in itself an event so striking that 
 it almost palsies one's feelings ; yet nothing resulted 
 which could give a worthy purport to the poem. In 
 this point Theodoric is a better hero : ^the indispens- 
 able requisitej-feeweve-Pj in a subject for me is, that the 
 end — the ultimate end — must be worthy of the means. 
 3dly. The expulsion of the Moriscoes. This is a 
 dreadful history, which I will never torture myself 
 Ui*<MW by w adi n g- a second time. Besides I am convinced, 
 in opposition to the common opinion, that the Spa- 
 ciirux/ £ niards did wisely in the act of cupelling them ; tho' 
 most wickedly in the way of expelling them. One 
 word more about literature, and then to other matters. 
 /* How goes on the Fall-of Cambria, and what are you 
 
 about ?[{( us fiifJ^MniJ M 6uf*6**t Tsy* rt(e***~)j 
 
 " My little girl is now two years and a quarter old 
 — a delightful playfellow, of whom I am somewhat 
 
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 more fond than is fitting. J . . . . . Editli is in 
 excellent healthy I myself the same Jarebones as A>v™ | 
 ever, first cousin to an anatomy, but with my usual 
 good health and steady good spirits ; neither in habits 
 nor 'Jf(\ anything else differ©^ from what I was, except 
 that if my upper story is not better furnished, a great 
 deal of good furniture is thrown away. -jr> 
 
 In spite of the slow sale of Madoc, I cannot but think 
 that it may answer as well for the year's ways and 
 means to finish the t Curse of Kehama,' and sell the 
 first edition, as to .e pond - the time in criticising other £+*~h^ /J], 
 people's books. J^ . ** . ^<J 
 
 '"■ God bless you ! 
 
 E. SOU THEY." 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 " Oct. 13. 1806. 
 " My dear Hickman, 
 
 " You will be glad to hear that my child proves 
 to be of the more worthy gender. 
 
 " I would do a great deal to please poor Tobin (in- 
 deed, it is doing a good deal to let him inflict an argu- 
 ment upon me), but to write an epilogue is doing too 
 much for anybody. Indeed, were I ever so well 
 disposed to misemploy time, paper, and rhymes, it 
 would be as much out of my reach as the moon is ; 
 and I bless my stars for the incapacity, believing 
 that a man who can do such things well cannot do 
 anything better. 
 
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54 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 33. 
 
 "I am also thoroughly busy. Summer is my holyday 
 season, in which I lay in a store of exercise to serve 
 me for the winter, and leave myself as it were lying 
 fallow to the influences of heaven. I am now very 
 hard atPalmerin, — so troublesome a business, that a 
 look before the leap would have prevented the leap 
 altogether. I" expected it would only be needful to 
 alter the Propria qnce maribus to their original or- 
 thography, and restore the costume where the old 
 translators had omitted it, as being to them foreign or 
 obsolete ; but they have so mangled, mutilated, and 
 massacred the manners, — vulgarised, impoverished, 
 and embeggared the language, — so lopped, cropped, 
 and docked the ornaments, that I was fain to set my 
 shoulder stiffly to the wheel, and retranslate about 
 the one-half. As this will not produce me one penny 
 more than if I had reprinted it with all its imper- 
 fections on its head, the good conscience with which 
 it is done reconciles me to the loss of time ; and I 
 have, moreover, such a true love of romance that 
 the labour is not irksome, tho' it is hard. To cor- 
 rect a sheet — sixteen pages of the square-sized 
 black letter — is a day's work; that is, from break- 
 fast till dinner, allowing an hour's walk, and from 
 tea till supper ; and the whole is about sixty sheets. 
 
 " Secondly, Espriella is regulated by the printer, 
 who seems as little disposed to hurry me as I am to 
 hurry him. 
 
 " Thirdly, the reviewing is come round, of which, 
 in the shape of Missionaries, Catholic Miracles, Bible 
 and Religious Societies, Clarkson, and little Moore 
 (not forgetting Captain Burney), I have more to do 
 
2ETAT. 33. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 67 
 
 your hands, you should think I have not been suffi- 
 ciently so, I beg you will, without hesitation, expunge 
 whatever may appear exceptionable. 
 
 When I obeyed the impulse which led me to under- 
 take this task, it was from a knowledge that Henry 
 White had left behind him an example, which ought 
 not to be lost, of well-directed talents, and that, in 
 performing an act of respect to his memory, I should 
 at the same time hold up the example to others who 
 have the up-hill paths of life to tread. No person 
 can be more thoroughly convinced that goodness is a 
 better thing than genius, and that genius is no excuse 
 for those follies and offences which are called its 
 eccentricities. 
 
 " The mention made in my last of any difference 
 in religious opinions from your brother was merely 
 incidental ; nor is it by any means my intention to 
 say any more upon the subject than simply to state 
 that those opinions are not mine, lest it should be 
 supposed they were, from the manner in which I 
 speak of him. 
 
 " I shall now proceed as speedily as I can with the 
 work. 
 
 Yours truly, and with much esteem, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
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68 LIFE OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 2ETAT. 33. 
 
 To Richard Duppa, Esq. 
 
 " March 27. 1807. 
 " Dear Duppa, 
 
 " The Ministry — by this time, perhaps, no longer 
 a Ministry— -have made a very pretty kettle of fish 
 of it ; which phrase, by the by, would look well in 
 literal translation into any other language. Perhaps 
 you will be surprised to hear that on the Catholic 
 Question I am as stiffly against them as his Majesty 
 himself. Of all my friends Coleridge is perhaps the 
 only one who thinks with me upon this subject ; but 
 I am clear in my own mind. I am, however, sorry 
 for the business, — more to think what a rabble must 
 come in, than for any respect for those who are going 
 out — though the Limited Service and the Abolish- 
 ment of the Slave Trade are great things. As for 
 any effect upon my own possible fortunes, you need 
 not be told how little any such possibilities ever enter 
 into my feelings : they have entered into my calcula- 
 tions just enough to keep me unsettled, and nothing 
 more. And here I am now planting garden-enclosures, 
 rose-bushes, currants, gooseberries, and resolute to 
 become a mountaineer — perhaps for ever — unless I 
 should remove for final settlement at Lisbon. My 
 study is to be finished — my books gathered to- 
 gether ; and if you do not come down again, the 
 very first summer you are not otherwise engaged, 
 why — you may stay and be smoke-dried in Lon- 
 don for your good-for-nothingness. I have a man 
 called Willy, who is my Juniper in this business. 
 
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 2Etat. 33. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 69 
 
 We are going to have laburnums and lilacs, seringas, 
 barberry bushes, and a pear-tree to grow up by 
 your window against the wall, and white curtains 
 in my library, and to dye the old ones in the parlour 
 blue, and to put fringe to them, Mr. Duppa, and to 
 paper the room, Mr. Duppa, and I am to have a 
 carpet in my study, Mr. Duppa, and the chairs are to 
 be new bottomed, and we are to buy some fenders at 
 the sale of the General's things, and we have bought 
 a new hearth-rug. And then the outside of the 
 house is to be rough-cast, as soon as the season will 
 permit, and there is a border made under the windows, 
 and there is to be a gravel walk there, and turf under 
 the trees beyond that, and beyond that such peas and 
 beans ! Oh ! Mr. Duppa, how you will like them 
 when you come down, and how fine we shall be, if all 
 this does not ruin me ! 
 
 " The reason of all. this is, that some arrangements 
 of Coleridge's made it necessary that I should either 
 resolve upon removing speedily, or remaining in 
 the house. The one I could not do, and was, not 
 unwillingly, forced to the other. Indeed, the sense 
 of being unsettled was the only uneasiness I had ; 
 and these little arrangements for future comfort 
 give me, I am sure, more solid satisfaction and true 
 enjoyment than his great Howickship can possibly 
 have felt upon getting into that Downing Street, 
 from whence he will so reluctantly get out, — like a 
 dog on a wet day out of the kitchen, growling as he 
 goes, with his tail between his legs, and showing the 
 teeth with which he dares not bite. Jackson — God 
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70 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtat. 33. 
 
 bless him — is as well pleased about it as I am ; and 
 that excellent good woman, Mrs. Wilson, is rejoiced 
 at heart to think that we are likely to remain here 
 for the remainder of her days. 
 
 " Sir, it would surprise you to see how I dig in the 
 garden. I am going to buy the * Complete Gar- 
 dener;' and we do hope to attain one day to the 
 luxuries of currant wine, and such like things, 
 which I hope will meet your approbation, after 
 you and I have been up Causey Pike again, and 
 over the Fells to Blea Tarn, — expeditions to the 
 repetition of which I know you look on with great 
 pleasure. 
 
 u . I shall miss Harry this summer, — an excellent 
 boatman, and a companion whose good spirits and 
 good humour never failed. If T. Grenville would 
 make Tom a Captain, and send him down to grass 
 for the summer, he would do a better thing than he 
 has done yet since he went to the Admiralty. Wynn 
 did mention my brother to him; but we had no 
 borough interest to back us, and fourteen years' hard 
 service go for nothing, with wounds, blowing up, 
 honourable mention, and excellent good conduct. 
 Still I have a sort of faith (God willing) that he will 
 be an Admiral yet. 
 
 " I am hurrying my printer with Espriella, for 
 fear another translation should appear before mine, 
 which, you know, would be very unlucky. Ten 
 sheets of the second volume are done. I much wish 
 it were Out, having better hopes of its sale than the 
 fate of better books will perhaps warrant. But this 
 
1806. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 399 
 
 voking to receive a sheet scrawled over with a mouth- 
 ful of meaning, as to call for sprilce beer, when one is 
 thirsty, and get a glassful of froth. 
 
 All Friday morning, before you came from Brathay, 
 I devoted to the papers of poor Henry White, being 
 too uncomfortable for any other employment. I re- 
 sumed them after you were gone, — the additional ones 
 came that evening, and that evening I fairly overhauled 
 the whole. I have marked for transcription such as 
 should be published, and have desired that they may 
 be transcribed, each on a separate paper, for the 
 convenience of arrangement. They are numerous, and 
 many of them very beautiful. If his family will supply 
 me with as full materials as I have requested, for an 
 account of him, I shall do what remains to be done 
 with great pleasure. Poor fellow ! his industry was 
 at least equal to Chatterton's ; his genius, in my judg- 
 ment, nothing inferior ; and his life seems to have been 
 without spot or stain. The papers go back to-morrow, 
 to his brother, that he may see to the transcription, 
 and Edith is copying, for you, his remarks on " Thalaba." 
 
 Last night I thought of you, at the Bridgewater 
 Arms, and that when you were in that huge warehouse- 
 looking room you would be thinking of me. You will 
 now have left Birmingham, and must be in the coach 
 for a second night's journey. 'Tis a dismal distance, 
 and heartily glad shall I be to hear you are safe at the 
 end of it. We miss you : your place in the room 
 seems to want its occupier. I must put your box of 
 water-colours out of sight, and send away the plate 
 and teacup — still lying under the sideboard — which 
 you used when colouring ; not that out of sight is, can, 
 or ought to be, out of mind, but that there is something 
 in having these things always in sight, which is like 
 being haunted. I have heard of men who, when their 
 wives have died, have suffered everything belonging to 
 
 
400 _ . +-~^ LETTERS OF , / 1806. 
 
 the dead to remain precisely as they left it for years and 
 years — the music-book open, the shawl thrown across 
 the chair, the fan or the parasol' on the table, — and 
 this till they died themselves. This is insanity, but 
 one can understand its nature and growth. If ever I 
 should become insane, it will not be in this way. There 
 is the same excuse for drunkenness and debauchery 
 as for over- sensibility. Twelve years ago I carried 
 Epictetus in my pocket, till my very heart was ingrained 
 with it, as a pig's bones become red by feeding him 
 upon madder. And the longer I live, and the more I 
 learn, the more am I convinced that Stoicism, properly 
 understood, is the best and noblest system of morals. If 
 you have never read the book, buy Mrs. Carter's trans- 
 lation of it whenever it comes in your way. Books of 
 morals are seldom good for anything ; the stoical books 
 are an exception. In morals, as in everything else, one 
 should aim high. 
 
 What a difference has one week made in this house ! 
 Nurse gone — "Old love God and be cheerful," as Cole- 
 ridge calls her, — Coleridge and Job gone, and now you 
 also. I tell Mrs. Coleridge, and make her half-angry 
 by the name I have given her — 
 
 " The only society I have left now, 
 Is Bumble-cum-tumble and Doggy-bow-wow," 
 
 meaning her and the heir to the books. However, we 
 have a black cat come to us, and everybody says that 
 it is the luckiest thing in the world. You are gone at the 
 wrong time. To-day has been fine weather ; it is the 
 shortest day, and it is always a joyful thing to turn the 
 corner, and begin lengthening time again. The frost 
 ought to be setting in, and probably will : we shall have 
 the lake frozen, and I shall want a companion in my 
 walks. 
 
 Betty is coming for "the letters." I must have 
 done, which is well, having nothing to write about. 
 
1506. ROBERT SOUTH EY. 401 
 
 So now to finish Captain Burney. Edith's love. Your 
 niece is in bed. I tell her you are going to be in a 
 great ship, upon the great waters, and she says when I 
 have done, " sing it again." Sarah says, " her papa is 
 not pretty, but that her uncle Southey is pretty, oh 
 very pretty ! " And my daughter, you know, looks in 
 my face and says, "you is a beauty," — have I not 
 reason to be vain ? God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To John May, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 29. 1806. 
 My dear Friend, 
 
 You will, perhaps, wonder that I should not 
 
 sooner have thanked you for the information in your 
 
 last letter, and, through you, made my acknowledgment 
 
 to Mr. Burn for his friendly offices. The cause of 
 
 delay has been this. 
 
 My uncle, in two letters, one written the day after 
 the other, has urged me to lose no time in setting 
 about and getting ready that part of my Magnum 
 Opus which relates to Brazil ; — and, in consequence 
 of the inquiries relative to that country which were 
 made at Lisbon by the mysterious embassy, instructed 
 me to offer to Government such information as his 
 papers, in my possession, contained ; which he believes 
 to be more than any other person in Europe possesses, 
 except the Abbe du Boys, much of whose information 
 is derived from them. 
 
 Accordingly, I wrote to Wynn, who in return informs 
 me of Lord Grenville's reply: "That my materials 
 relate to the wrong side of South America, for their 
 present views, but that he very much recommends me 
 
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402 LETTERS OF 1806. 
 
 to postpone the rest of my history, and set immediately 
 to work upon this, in consequence of the present bia3 
 of the public mind. Government," he adds, " has no 
 wish to keep this sort of information private, and would 
 rather encourage me in publishing it." The papers in 
 question came to me in sealed packets, which I had 
 never opened, not knowing their contents; they were 
 in London ; and, if I had been called on to prepare an 
 abstract from them, it would, perhaps, have been ad- 
 visable that I should travel up to them. Till this was 
 determined, I delayed writing to you. I have now 
 written for them, and for all my books relating to this 
 part of the history. A good many are here already, 
 and, if neither my health nor eyes fail me, I expect in no 
 very long time to report good progress in this very 
 interesting and important work. The whole copy of 
 Espriella will be finished, and sent off to the printer, 
 by the end of January, and the whole of what reviewing 
 I have. Then I shall instantly begin. My mornings 
 in February will complete the rest of Palmerin, and 
 then I shall do nothing else till this be completed. 
 The arrangement is mapped out in my own mind, which 
 is a great point done. I am in possession of almost 
 every printed book relating to the subject, except such 
 as may be in Dutch, and have made arrangements for 
 procuring these. 
 
 Harry is with William Taylor, and will, I suppose, 
 set off for London, as soon as he hears from you. I 
 shall direct him where, and at what hour, he may hope 
 to see you in town : his appearance and manners, I trust, 
 will please you well. Perhaps you will take him, some 
 day, to Mr. Burn's : I never knew a young man who was 
 so generally admired. 
 
 Tom was here, working hard at Portuguese, when 
 his appointment arrived; he set off instantly, but there 
 has been no time for me to hear that he has joined. 
 
1807. - ROBERT SOU THE T. 407 
 
 and inevitably to our ultimate defeature. What 
 should be done is to throw the Spanish colonies open, 
 and leave them alone, by which means we should have 
 the full benefit of commercial intercourse, — which is all 
 the good the nation ever can derive from them, — 
 without expense or hazard ; cut off their trade with the 
 mother country, and make a free-trade with them the 
 main article of peace. We should thus materially 
 forward the improvement of that wonderful country. 
 
 But ministers want places to dispose of, — and in this, 
 all ministers are alike. It seems, as if there were some 
 law of nature, by which governments were always to be 
 behind-hand with the people in wisdom, and never to 
 adopt sound principles of conduct, till long after all 
 thinking men had considered them as axiomatic. 
 
 I am hurrying my printer with Don Manuel, in 
 whose letters, with much matter of a lighter cast, you 
 will see a good deal of my mind poured out on subjects 
 of importance. But my limits have been too con- 
 strained, and the book would have been better, if it 
 had suited me to have extended it to a fourth volume. 
 The most complete part will be the view of the differ- 
 ent religious sects in the country, in which, I think, no 
 former historian of heresies has equalled me, — St. 
 Epiphanius himself not excepted. 
 
 Herbert grows finely, and if it were not for the 
 Tatar-shaped eyes which all my children have — I 
 cannot divine by what right of inheritance — he would 
 be a beauty. I tell my daughter that she is like my 
 old books, — ugly, but good; though, sometimes, sad to 
 say ! the latter part of the simile is not so accurate as 
 the former. All her perceptions and feelings are so 
 fearfully quick, that I am never without a dread that 
 some tendency to organic disease occasions this exqui- 
 site acuteness. Thank God ! she is well as yet, and as 
 
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408 LETTERS OF lo07. 
 
 strong as if she were own child to Hercules or Samson 
 before he had his hair cut. 
 
 In my last, I recommended to you the " Memoirs of 
 Colonel Hutchinson : " let me now recommend Dr. 
 Jarrold's " Dissertations on Man," in reply to the abo- 
 minable book of Malthus. Coleridge is with Words- 
 worth, in Leicestershire. Mrs. C. and the children 
 are to join him somewhere on the way to Ottery, early 
 in the spring. Edith joins me in remembrance to Mrs. 
 May. You have, perhaps, seen his doctorship by 
 this time, as he knows where and when you are visible. 
 Crod bless you. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 R. Southey. 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Keswick, Feb. 1. 1807. 
 
 " I am writing all the letters to my Barker," says 
 Edith this morning, — my Barker, she always calls you, 
 and always adds, " Will she come again 1 " It is time, 
 for conscience sake, that I should follow my daughter's 
 example. 
 
 A great deal has happened to change my plans for 
 the ensuing campaign. My uncle wrote me two 
 pressing letters, two days running, to send for his papers 
 upon Brazil, to offer the information which they con- 
 tain to Government ; and to lose no time in bringing 
 forward that part of my History. I wrote accordingly 
 to Wynn, proffering, through him, to Lord Grenville, 
 more information concerning the interior of South 
 America, than probably any other individual in Europe 
 possesses, except one Frenchman who has seen these 
 very papers. Lord G.'s answer was (I am writing 
 
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 1807. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 409 
 
 secretly, Senhora, not to go beyond yourself,) that 
 "My information seemed to relate to the wrong side 
 of South America," which was not a very wise answer ; 
 for it related to the state of the interior, which would 
 show him how far schemes of conquest are feasible 
 (he may as well think of conquering the moon, and 
 making his majesty the man of it), and it would also 
 show him the whole detail of the Brazilian mines, 
 and teach him the necessity of putting those endless 
 resources in security from France. But no matter ; the 
 answer suits me better than a more politic one would 
 have done, for, God knows ! I have no wish to draw 
 up memorials for statesmen. The way to instruct 
 them is through the people : truth gets at them in that 
 way in about fifty years. He added advice to me, to 
 lay aside every other literary pursuit, and give this 
 information to the public as soon as I could, because 
 it would be so advantageous to myself; and said that 
 Government had no wish to keep any such things 
 secret, but rather wished them to be generally known. 
 Of which the English is, that they like to be guided 
 by public opinion ; and that, Senhora, is good English, 
 and as it should be. 
 
 Well, here are the MSS. arrived from London, — a 
 most invaluable collection, which would show you that 
 my uncle is as indefatigable as I am, and that the 
 good blood in my veins comes from that side. Here 
 are my books about Brazil from London, and from 
 Bristol : this very day, February 1st, I have begun, 
 and here shall I stay till the first volume be fit to be 
 taken to London, and put to press, and nothing else 
 shall I do, as soon as my hands are clear of other 
 business, which they soon will be. 
 
 I meant to have finished my little reviewing of 
 Don Manuel yesterday. Three days' influenza threw 
 me back. Don Manuel was calculated at 330 pages: 
 
410 LETTERS OF f807. 
 
 that number I have finished, but there must be about 
 30 more, — some ten evenings' work ; then there is half 
 Palmerin : all will soon be done, and the book shall be 
 in the press by the end of autumn. 
 
 Mrs. Coleridge and her children are to join Cole- 
 ridge early in April, and go into Devonshire, where 
 the longer they stay the better. Perhaps if Words- 
 worth settles in the south they will not return at all, 
 which is what I wish, as it would tempt me hugely 
 to fix here. I believe Rickman and his wife will come 
 here in the summer. 
 
 Your last letter was of a better complexion than 
 usual — things could not have taken a better turn. 
 
 I am alone, and have been so for six weeks. Poor 
 Tom is first lieutenant of the Pallas, a frigate so miserably 
 manned that he is almost worn out with duty, and his 
 feet covered with chilblains. I have been admirably 
 industrious ever since he went : yet, by a far greater 
 exertion, have seldom omitted every day to walk to 
 Scrygin's Crag, taking that opportunity, if the weather 
 permits, of studying my Dutch grammar. Espriella 
 will be a singular book, but there should have been a 
 fourth volume to hold all. I have poured out much of 
 my mind, and a good deal of collected facts for the his- 
 tory of the age, yet hardly feel the emptier. That part 
 which relates to the various divisions of the Methodists 
 must be compressed into one chapter (indeed is done), 
 because I could not get the books, and could not do 
 without them. Whitefield's Journal is the one, the 
 whole of it : a late edition of the two first parts 
 Danvers got for me, in a state incurably beastly, but 
 these do not come down far enough, and the first 
 edition is the desirable one, because he was ashamed 
 of some things in it. The other is the life of a certain 
 Alexander Kelham, founder of the New Methodists, 
 
1807^ * ROIJERT SOUTHEY. „ 413 
 
 priella printer corrects every proof before I sed them, 
 and sends me a clean sheet, without a single typogra- 
 phical error, so that there are none but my own to 
 correct : such work as this is intolerable. 
 
 Oh dear, dear, Grosvenor ! Zounds ! The devil ! — 
 there it goes. It is all so scrawled that I know not 
 where to find room for a correction. 
 
 I thought when in London that looked misera- 
 bly ill, as if something was out of order in him ; and I 
 thought too, that his mind had taken such a turn, that 
 unless he took a sectarian bias, and became Methodist 
 or Quaker, he was in danger of derangement. People 
 are sometimes driven mad this way, but they are also 
 sometimes saved from madness by it. Their feelings 
 find vent in a regular channel, and they themselves 
 find persons who sympathise with them. Thus it is 
 that where there are convents, madmen are almost 
 unknown. I wish he were acquainted with Wilber- 
 force, or some such man. Were he kin of mine, 
 Grosvenor, this is what I would do : I would learn 
 who was the most eloquent of the Evangelical preachers, 
 and propose to him, as a matter of curiosity, to go and 
 hear him. If what he heard there should harp in 
 with his own feelings, it would be like David's harp, 
 and charm the evil spirit out of him. The malady 
 of his mind being thus indulged would abate ; it would 
 become zeal, a source of pleasure to himself, and others 
 would not regard it as a malady. I could show you cases 
 in point. Perhaps no man living is so well acquainted 
 with the history of enthusiasm as I am, and that 
 history throws as much light upon the morbid anatomy 
 of the human mind, as all Dr. Willis's practice can do. 
 
 You ask about my removal from hence. I am fixed 
 here for some time longer — in fact, till I can get 
 300/. to move with, which is not so soon got. Luckily 
 I am well contented to stay, spite of inconvenience, 
 
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414 LETTERS OP 1807. 
 
 and should the Coleridges quit the house (as there is 
 some hope they may) there would then be room for me 
 conveniently, and I should feel much disposed to take 
 root here ; for leave it when I will, it would be a sore 
 pang to me. I don't talk much about these things ; but 
 these lakes and mountains give me a deep joy, for 
 which I suspect nothing elsewhere can compensate, 
 and this is a feeling which time strengthens instead 
 of weakening. I began yesterday my History of Brazil, 
 and you will see me, I expect, in London early in the 
 winter, to fill up gaps in the first volume, and to 
 commit it to the press. God bless you ! 'Tis time for 
 the post, or I should have filled the sheet. 
 
 R. SOUTHEY. 
 
 n To Charles Danvers, Esq. 
 
 V&\^ *° Keswick, March 2. 1807. 
 
 My dear Danvers, 
 
 I have desired Our Fathers, which are in the 
 Row, to send you a book, which you will not like much, 
 but which, were it even less interesting to you, it is 
 fitting that you should have, as being mine. It is abo- 
 minably incorrect : and Grosvenor Bedford has played 
 the very devil, with his absurd omissions, and more 
 / 3 absurd insertions. He has taken more liberties with 
 what I had actually done, than I should have thought 
 it decent to have taken with him. There is no help 
 for this, — only that I have ordered some cancels, for 
 the sake of public decency, and that it is very likely 
 there must be a supplementary volume. You need not, 
 however, tell people that it is a bad book, — they will 
 find it out quite soon enough themselves. The printing 
 is beyond anything execrable. 
 
*~~\ 
 
 , iff 
 
 1807. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 415 
 
 I have something to tell you, with which you will 
 not be pleased. In consequence of some arrangements 
 of Coleridge's, it became necessary that I should either 
 resolve upon quitting this place at a given time, or of 
 remaining in it. The latter suited me best — it was, in 
 fact, the only choice to be made ; and here, then, we 
 have resolved to remain indefinitely, to fit up the house 
 more decently, and to gather together the books. As 
 soon as the weather permits, the plastering is to be 
 done; and, as soon as that is done, I shall give you 
 your last trouble with the books, which will be to ship 
 them off for Whitehaven and Workington, — taking out 
 one tea-chest-full of the most valuable, for fear of acci- 
 dents. We are just beginning to inclose the garden, 
 when we shall plant shrubs, &c. ; and heartily do I wish 
 that you were here to be chief gardener out of doors, 
 and head man in the improvements within. 
 
 Mrs. Coleridge is on her way to Bristol, with the two 
 younger children ; she will bring the pattern of a 
 certain marble paper, of which I will thank you to get 
 me four quires, at Barry's : if he have not so much he 
 can get it. You will wonder at so large an order; but 
 the truth is, we conceive that it will make a very good 
 bordering for a room, and be much cheaper, as well as 
 much prettier, than any to be obtained here. 
 
 It is my full intent to see you in the latter end of the 
 year, God willing ; and you must make up your mind, 
 the first summer you can, to revisit Keswick, and see 
 all those things which you left unseen : Sir Domine is 
 gone for Lisbon ; I shall miss him, when we launch the 
 boat, and very often envy him. 
 
 Heaven knows when the intolerable delays of the 
 printer will let Espriella appear ! I have not three 
 days' work to do to it, and am hurrying him through 
 every possible channel ; for fear, you know, lest another 
 translator should appear first. I am hastening towards 
 
 
¥ 
 
 41G LETTERS OF 1807. 
 
 the end of Palmerin, and shall feel a great weight off 
 my shoulders when it is done. Another book that 
 for you, which you will not like, — but, I pray you, re- 
 member that I do not expect you to read it. 
 
 Rex * is right. I am he that is greater than Miller, 
 in the " Athenasum," which he of course knew by the 
 Rats. I dare say my quaintness annoys no one so much 
 as Dr. Aikin. That family have a dread of any thing 
 out of their own way ; they are as much afraid of it as a 
 cat is of wetting her feet. I will lay my life, that I do 
 not feel half so much satisfaction in putting one of my 
 odd things into a reviewal, as King Arthur does in draw- 
 ing his expurgatorial pen through it. I look at my own 
 articles, when the volume comes down, and feel, upon 
 the perusal, just as I should do if, when calling for a 
 glass of soda water, I found the footman had drawn all 
 the corks half an hour before dinner, for fear the 
 bottles should burst. Oh ! he is a cruel King Arthur, 
 and he served William Taylor just as he serves me. 
 
 Your information, concerning Miss Smith, is the first 
 which I have heard since her return to England. What 
 / is her complaint supposed to be ? — it could not, surely, 
 be consumption, or she could not have lasted so long. 
 
 Count Burnetski flourishes as an author. His Polish 
 letters are to be extended to a little volume, which 
 Longman prints, and his specimens are very likely to 
 form a very respectable book. I thank God for the 
 abolition ! — but Lord Percy's motion ought to have 
 been supported. I have addressed a sonnet to him 
 upon it, which you will soon see in the " Courier." 
 About the Catholic question, I completely agree with 
 the King. Upon this subject, I suppose, Coleridge 
 and I differ from all the other friends of freedom ; but I 
 have been deeply concerned that that accursed religion 
 
 * His friend King, of Bristol. 
 
*"VJ 
 
 SELECTIONS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 LETTERS OE ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
London : 
 Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. 
 New-etreet-Square.; 
 
SELECTIONS 
 
 LETTEES OF EOBEET SOUTHEY, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW 
 
 JOHN WOOD WAKTEE, B,D. 
 
 CHRIST CHURCn, OXFORD; 
 
 T1CAB OF WEST TABBING, SUSSEX. 
 
 Southey's Letters show hi3 true Character." 
 
 Walter Savage Lax dor, 
 
 MS. Letter to Mrs. Southey, April 29. 1843. 
 
 IN FOUR VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. IL 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 
 
 1856. 
 
LETTERS 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Keswick, April 10. 1807. 
 
 The worst part of your letter is that which relates 
 to your own health ; look well to that, and time will 
 do the rest. It is better to have a sister, that is certain; 
 but it is better to lose her, than, for instance, to have 
 her years in dying of a cancer, or, what is worse, of a 
 broken heart, from the ill usage of a husband, like Mrs. 
 
 's sister. I am very glad you thought of Carlisle ; 
 
 he is truly a kind-hearted man, and even his profession 
 
 has not hardened him. B- is, perhaps, the very ' 
 
 ablest practitioner at present living to whom you 
 could have gone ; and you may rely upon him, with 
 the most perfect confidence, that he will do whatever 
 can be done by human skill. He is no favourite of 
 mine ; but of his talents, I have the highest possible 
 opinion. It is useless to afflict yourself. Against 
 this calamity, and against still greater ones, you can 
 bear up, and must bear up. Did you ever read Mrs. 
 Carter's " Epictetus " ? Next to the Bible, it is the 
 best practitional book and the truest philosophy in 
 existence. 
 
 TOL. II. B 
 
2 LETTERS OF 180*. 
 
 As for your damned , or whatever they be, I 
 
 could wring their necks off; and if 's were in my 
 
 hands, his would be in some danger 
 
 This cause of trouble, however, time will wear down ; 
 the first thing the human mind does, under any affliction, 
 is to set about bearing it, — as instinctively and as 
 surely as life sets about healing a cut as soon as it is 
 inflicted, — and, happily, few mental wounds are 
 mortal. What other evils you alluded to, of course I 
 cannot guess ; and, perhaps, if I knew them, should 
 not allow that they were such as ought to make you 
 unhappy, Look to your health, and, as soon as you 
 can, come once more to Keswick, Lakes and moun- 
 tains are good friends, and will do you more good than 
 a host of comforters, or buckets full of physic. 
 
 I have now much to tell you concerning myself; and 
 had, indeed, begun to tell it you in a more playful 
 mood. Know, then, that I am settled at Keswick, for 
 an indefinite time, with no prospect of removing from 
 it. Some plans of Coleridge made it necessary for me 
 either to determine upon quitting this house at a given 
 time, or upon remaining with it. The first I could not 
 do, for want of means, — which is, in plain English, for 
 want of money ; so I determined upon the second ; and 
 it so happens that this topsy-turvy in ministry, has 
 made me well satisfied with my choice. Of course, my 
 prospects are gone out with them, — hopes I will not 
 call them, for I never thought enough of them to 
 become hopes, — and, to confess the truth, like best to 
 be left alone, and not put out of my way. Well, Wynn 
 procured for me "out of the fire," as he says, the 
 offer of a place in the West Indies, worth 600/. a year, 
 which he refused for me, as there was no time for my 
 answer. Instead, he has got me a pension of 200/. 
 (By the Lord, Senhora ! you shall smile at my having a 
 pension from the Treasury !) You may congratulate 
 me, but not upon an accession of fortune; for the 
 
1807. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 3 
 
 truth is, that hitherto I have received 160/. a year from 
 Wynn (which is all I have, except what I earn), and 
 that now, of course, I shall receive this no longer, for 
 Wynn is not a rich man. But as his Majesty is 
 pleased to give me 2001., so is he graciously pleased to 
 stop 561. out of it for fees and taxes, and eke, also, to 
 pay it so irregularly, that, I am told, he who is only a 
 quarter in arrears is in good luck. I am therefore a 
 loser by the bounty of 16/. a year during the war. 
 When the income tax is taken off, I shall be 4<l. a 
 gainer, but always have the inconvenience of uncertain 
 remittances. I gain by it, inasmuch as I cease to re- 
 ceive any further obligations ; though it would be ab- 
 surd to say there was much pain in this, for in such 
 cases I just take as I would give. Had Wynn his 
 brother's fortune, or were he still a single man with 
 his own, I should even have preferred receiving from 
 him, rather than from the public; but, as it is, it is 
 best as it is. 
 
 Accordingly, settled I am in this house ; we are en- 
 closing the garden, and planting currant trees and 
 shrubs. The parlour is to be papered with cartridge 
 paper, and the abominable curtains dyed of a choco- 
 late brown, which will make them decent ; they are 
 making fringe for them. My room to have white 
 curtains, a carpet, and all the books coming. All 
 the books ! Think of that, Senhora ! We wait only 
 for fine weather to have the plasterers, and then the 
 painters, and then our work begins. See, now, how use- 
 ful you would be in the way of beautifying ; and think 
 how many a ragged regiment of books will stand in 
 need of you. See, now, if it be possible for you to come, 
 whether you can in your conscience refuse coming. 
 
 Mrs. Coleridge has gone to her husband's relations 
 in Devonshire, and he meets her somewhere on the 
 road. Your god-daughter talks of you every day ; she 
 
 B 2 
 
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4 LETTEHS OF 1807. 
 
 is very unmanageable, and very amusing, and I like 
 her well. My son is rather ailing just now, as we sup- 
 pose, with his first teeth. He has had an eruption 
 over his head for about three months, which is now 
 wearing off. His eyes are as Tartarish as his sister's ; 
 I call him the little Mayortes and the Caozinho, for rea- 
 sons which I and " Palmerin " will explain to you here- 
 after. He is a great tyrant ; farther I cannot say of him, 
 except that he gives good proof of taste by pricking 
 up his ears and brightening up his countenance when I 
 begin to warble to him. 
 
 Jackson assists me in Reptonizing the garden with 
 hearty satisfaction. We have a right-hand man, named 
 Willy. When you come you shall hear the story of 
 his three days' and nights' battle between him and his 
 wife. He is a very odd fish, and talks to me about 
 truth, and allegory, and fable, and the craziness of his 
 wife at the full of the moon. 
 
 Write without delay, to say how you are. Edith's 
 love* God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, May 4. 1807. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 In reading "Amadis of Greece" (lent me by 
 Heber), I have found Spencer's "Mask of Cupid," Sir 
 P. Sidney's "Zelmane," and Shakspeare's " Florisel." * 
 Was ever other book honoured by three such bor- 
 rowers ! The father of "Tasso," also, has borrowed an 
 adventure from it. "Palmerin" will show you the 
 change of manners since the days of Vasco Lobeira, — 
 his princesses are prudes. The book is worth reading, 
 though every way inferior to "Amadis ; " it has much 
 
 * See Preface to " Palmerin," § xi. p. xliv- , 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 189 
 
 Robert Southey to William Taylor. (No. 55.) 
 " My dear Friend, " Keswick, April 13, 1807. 
 
 "Just as your letter arrived I was about to 
 begin a Keswick Extraordinary Gazette for you. 
 Great news from my little world ! 
 
 "When the late ministry saw that out they m\.a 
 must go, # f * thought of saving something for 
 me out of the fire ; he could only get an offer of 
 a place in the Island of St. Lucie, worth about 
 £600 a-year. There was no time to receive my 
 answer, but he divined it rightly and refused. 
 Instead, one of Lord G.'s last acts was to give me 
 a pension of £200, to which the king ' graciously 
 assented.' You cannot be more amused at find- 
 ing me a pensioner, than I am at finding myself 
 so. I am not, however, a richer man than be- 
 fore. Hitherto # IL* has given me an annuity of 
 £160, which 1 felt no pain in accepting from the 
 oldest friend I have in the world, with whom my 
 intimacy was formed before we were either of us 
 old enough to think of differences of rank and for- 
 tune. But * * # is not a rich man for his rank ; 
 so little so, that he could not marry till he got a 
 place ; and of course I shall receive this no longer 
 from him, now that it is no longer necessary. 
 Of £200 the taxes have the modesty to deduct 
 £56, and the Exchequer pays irregularly ; he is 
 in luck who has only one quarter in arrears, so 
 
190 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 B # * tells me, who has an office there. I there- 
 fore lose £16 per year during war, and gain £4 
 whenever the income-tax is repealed, having the 
 discomfort always of uncertain remittances. It 
 is but wearing a few more grey- goose quills to 
 the stump in the course of the year, and in the 
 course of one year I have better hopes than I 
 ever yet had of getting ahead, as you will pre- 
 sently see. The last copy of MS. for ' Espriella's 
 Letters ' sets out this night on its way to Richard 
 Taylor. 
 
 " I have just a fortnight's close work to com- 
 plete the revisal of ' Palmerin,' about which I 
 was in fact taken in. Coleridge and Wordsworth 
 spoke to me with admiration of the language of 
 Palmerin of England, as the most rhythmical 
 prose they had ever seen. I knew the original ro- 
 mance ; and when Longman, during my last stay 
 in London, said that Ellis had recommended 
 him to reprint it, consented to preface and re- 
 vise it, correcting the costume, so as to give it 
 in that respect its original value. Well, the book 
 was procured, and when I came to set about it, 
 I found that the translator neither understood 
 French, English, nor the story, which he was 
 murdering. In consequence I have had full 
 three-fourths to translate ; for having put my 
 hand to the plough, I would not turn back. By 
 this additional labour I gain nothing, my original 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 191 
 
 agreement having been, as for ' Madoc,' to share 
 the eventual profits. The cause of mistake seems 
 to have been that Coleridge and Wordsworth had 
 seen the third part, with which I had nothing to 
 do : this heavy drudgery is nearly off my hands. 
 Lastly, I have been arranging for the press the 
 remains of Henry White, a truly admirable young 
 man, of first-rate powers as a poet, who killed 
 himself by incessant application, haying brought 
 on such a state of nerves by this and by Evan- 
 gelicalism, that, if he had not died, he would have 
 been probably deranged. He was at one time 
 articled to Enfield of Nottingham, whom I sup- 
 pose you know. You will be affected by his 
 letters, and will greatly admire some of his latter 
 poems. I tell his story plainly, and then arrange 
 extracts from his letters in such order as to make 
 him his own biographer. Upon his religion I can 
 do no more than simply enter a protest against 
 the supposition that I assent to it because I do 
 not controvert it ; for the book may probably get 
 into an evangelical circulation, and, should that 
 be the case, the profits will be useful to his family, 
 for whom he has taught me to take a very great 
 interest. This is nearly done, a few days will 
 complete it ; and when this and the ' Palmerin ' 
 are off my hands, as they will both be in three 
 weeks (God willing) , I shall be at full leisure for 
 things of more importance. What I then devote 
 
192 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 myself to is that branch of the Portuguese hi- 
 story which will come under the title of Brazil 
 and Paraguay, and which, though it would other- 
 wise have appeared last in the series, I publish 
 first, as having a temporary interest, and con- 
 veying more intelligence respecting that side of 
 South America than can be communicated by 
 any other person in Europe, except perhaps one 
 Frenchman, who has duplicates of most of my 
 materials, in many instances taken from them. 
 My uncle has for about five-and-twenty years 
 collected materials concerning Brazil, and at his 
 desire T offered the late administration such in- 
 formation as they contained. Will you believe 
 that Lord G.'s answer was, that it related to the 
 wrong side of South America ? Talleyrand would 
 have sent for me and mypapers to Paris, and would 
 have learnt all their contents without a minute's 
 delay. I offered specific information respecting 
 Brazil, its mines, &c, from indisputable docu- 
 ments, and it was not wanted, because our buc- 
 caneering schemes are probably directed against 
 the other side of that continent. England has 
 never, in our days, had a minister who looked 
 beyond his nose. About a fourth part of the 
 first volume is done, and I shall perhaps print it 
 volume by volume. Two quartos are the pro- 
 bable extent. I might doubtless obtain five hun- 
 dred guineas for the copyright ; but I will not 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 193 
 
 sell the chance of greater eventual profit. This 
 work will supply a chasm in history. This is not 
 all : I cannot do one thing at a time ; so sure as 
 I attempt it my health suffers. The business of 
 the day haunts me in the night, and, though a 
 sound sleeper otherwise, my dreams partake so 
 much of it as to harass and disturb me. I must 
 always, therefore, have one train of thoughts for 
 the morning, another for the evening, and a book, 
 not relating to either, for half an hour after sup- 
 per ; and thus neutralizing one set of associations 
 by another, and having (God be thanked) a heart 
 at ease, I contrive to keep in order a set of nerves, 
 as much disposed to be out of order as any man's 
 can be. The ' Cid ' is therefore my other w T ork in 
 hand ; I want only an importation of books from 
 Lisbon to send this to the press, and shall have 
 full time to complete the introduction and notes 
 while the body of the work is printing. It will 
 supply the place of preliminaries to the ' History 
 of Portugal,' and exhibit a complete view of the 
 heroic age of Spain. If I am not greatly de- 
 ceived, this will be one of the most interesting 
 chivalrous pieces of history that has ever appear- 
 ed. I had almost forgotten to say, that the rea- 
 son why you have not received a copy of my 
 Specimens is, that it is delayed for some can- 
 cels. Sad work has been made in it by Bedford ; 
 he has (between ourselves) played the very devil, 
 
 VOL. II. o 
 
194 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 changed my selections, mutilated my sketches, 
 interpolated them, superseded them with his own, 
 and, to crown the whole, omitted so many au- 
 thors, that I am obliged to make a supplement- 
 ary volume. When it comes to you to be re- 
 viewed, you can find enough matter in the pre- 
 ' face to serve you for a text : it is an outline of 
 our poetical history. Lastly, I have to tell you, 
 that before the change of ministry took away all 
 my expectations, I was weary of them, and as 
 some arrangements of Coleridge's made it neces- 
 sary that I should either decide upon removing 
 hence at a fixed time, or remaining with the 
 house, I have chosen the latter alternative. Here 
 then I am settled — am planting currant-trees, pur- 
 chasing a little furniture, making the place decent, 
 as far as scanty means will go, and sending for 
 my books by sea, perfectly well contented with 
 my lot and thankful that it has fallen in so goodly 
 a land. I will not ask you to visit me till Harry 
 passes his next summer here, which will perhaps 
 be next year. But come once I trust you will. His 
 direction is with the Rev. Herbert Hill, Lisbon. 
 Of the Severambians I know nothing, having 
 only often seen the title of the book in catalogues. 
 The change of ministry is abominable, though I 
 am an enemy to Catholic emancipation. The 
 last men had done something, and could have 
 done more ; they were redeeming the character 
 

 ^tat. 33. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 81 
 
 nundred, for which may eight-and-twenty hundred 
 Devils ......... 
 
 I am a little surprised to hear you speak so con- 
 temptuously of modern poetry, because it shows how 
 very little you must have read, or how little you 
 can have considered the subject. The improvement 
 during the present reign has been to the full as 
 great in poetry as it has been in the experimental 
 sciences, or in the art of raising money by taxation. 
 What can you have been thinking of? Had you 
 forgotten Burns a second time ? had you forgotten 
 Cowper, Bowles, Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, Wal- 
 ter Scott? to omit a host of names which, though 
 ^inferior to them, are above those of any former pe- 
 riod except the age of Shakspeare, and not to men- 
 tion Wordsworth and another poet, who has written 
 two very pretty poems in my opinion, called Thalaba 
 
 and Madoc I am as busy in my 
 
 household arrangements as you can be. My tent is 
 pitched at last, and I am thankful that my lot has 
 fallen in so goodly a land. 
 
 " Politics are very amusing, and go to the tune of 
 Tantara-rara. The king has been fighting for a r J^n 
 veto upon the initiation of laws, and he has won it. 
 I had got into good humour with the late ministry 
 because of the Limited Service Bill, the Abolishment Ap £_*•-/! 
 
 " Ten in the hundred lies here ingraved ; 
 'Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved. 
 If any man ask, ' Who lies in this tomb ? ' 
 ' Oh ! oh !' quoth the Devil, ' 'tis my John-a-Combe.' " 
 
 It must be added that Mr. Knight strenuously opposes the tradition 
 that Shakspeare wrote these lines. — Knight s Shakspeare, a Biography, 
 p. 488. 
 
 VOL. III. G 
 
 
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 of the Slave Trade, and their wise conduct with re- 
 gard to the Continent. As for their successors, they 
 have given a pretty sample of their contempt for all 
 decency by their reinstatement of Lord Melville, the 
 attempt at giving Percival the place for life, and the 
 threat held out by Canning of a dissolution. The 
 Grenvilles now find the error of their neglecting 
 Scotland at the last election, an error which I heard 
 noticed with regret at the time. What is it has 
 made them so unpopular in the city ? It is to me 
 incomprehensible why the memory of Pitt should be 
 held in such idolatrous reverence, — a man who was 
 as obstinate in every thing wrong as he was ready to 
 give up any thing good, and who, except in the 
 Union and in the Scarcity, was never by any accident 
 right during his long administration. 
 
 " I finish poor Henry White's papers to-morrow. 
 One volume of Palmerin still remains to do, and then 
 there will be nothing to impede my progress in S. 
 America. Our Fathers wrote to me about the same 
 time that you did ; they were then in pursuit of the 
 culprits Hinchcliflfe and Gildon. I'll tell you what I 
 would have done had I been in town and could not 
 have found them. I would have made them a pre- 
 sent of verses of my own, just enough in number to 
 fill the gap, and dull enough to suit them. Nobody 
 would have suspected it, and it would have been a 
 very pious fraud to save trouble. 
 
 " It consoles me a little when I think of the re- 
 viewing * that is to take place : how much more you 
 
 * Of the Specimens of English Poets. 
 
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 Mtat. 33. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 99 
 
 life published by Dr. Coke for the conference, I will 
 either review it for you, or make a life myself for the 
 Athenaeum, having Thompson's here, and also a com- 
 plete set of Wesley's journals, which I' have care- 
 fully read and marked for the purpose. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. SOUTHEY. 
 
 "I hope you will accommodate matters with Jeffrey ; 
 for if there should be two Edinburgh Reviews, or if 
 he should set up another under a new title, you 
 would probably be the sufferer, even though yours 
 should manifestly be the best, — such is the force of 
 prejudice." 
 
 The following playful effusion was addressed to 
 Hartley Coleridge, who is often referred to in the 
 earlier letters by the name of Moses, it being my 
 father's humour to bestow on his little playfellows 
 many and various such names. When those allusions 
 and this letter were selected for publication, my 
 cousin was yet amongst us, and I had pleasantly 
 anticipated his half-serious, half-playful remonstrances 
 for thus bringing his childhood before the public. 
 Now he is among the departed ; and those only who 
 knew him intimately can tell how well-stored and 
 large a mind has gone with him, much less how 
 kind a heart, and how affectionate a disposition. He 
 has found his last peaceful resting-place (where 
 Dr. Arnold so beautifully expresses a wish that he 
 might lie), " beneath the yews of Grasmere church- 
 yard, with the Rotha, with its deep and silent pools, 
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 passing by ; " but his name will long be a " living 
 one" among the hill-sides and glens of our rugged 
 country, — 
 
 " Stern and wild, 
 Meet nurse for a poetic child." 
 
 To Hartley Coleridge. C^\ f fr-fTt ^* 
 
 "Keswick, June 13. 1807. 
 " Nephew Job, 
 
 " First, I have to thank you for your letter and 
 your poem ; and, secondly, to explain why I have not 
 done this sooner. We were a long time without 
 knowing where you were, and, when news came 
 from Miss Barker that you were in London, by the 
 time a letter could have reached you you were gone ; 
 and, lastly, Mr. Jackson wrote to you to Bristol. I 
 will now compose an epistle which will follow you 
 farther west. 
 
 " Bona Marietta hath had kittens ; they were re- 
 markably ugly, all taking- after their father Thomas, 
 who there is reason to believe was either uncle or 
 grandsire to Bona herself, the prohibited degrees of 
 consanguinity which you will find at the end of the 
 Bible not being regarded by cats. As I have never 
 been able tc persuade this family that catlings, fed 
 for the purpose and smothered with onions, would be 
 rabbits to all eatable purposes, Bona Marietta's ugly 
 progeny no sooner came into the world than they 
 were sent out of it ; the river nymph Greta conveyed 
 them to the river god Derwent, and if neither the 
 
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 -SEtat. 33. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 101 
 
 eels nor the ladies of the lake have taken a fancy to 
 them on their way, Derwent hath consigned them to 
 the Nereids. You may imagine them converted 
 into sea-cats by favour of Neptune, and write an 
 episode to he inserted in Ovid's Metamorphoses. 
 Bona bore the loss patiently, and is in good health 
 and spirits. I fear that if you meet with any of the 
 race of Mrs. Howe's cat at. Ottery, you will forget 
 poor Marietta. Don't bite your arm, Job. 
 
 " We have been out one evening in the boat, — 
 Mr. Jackson, Mrs. Wilson, and the children, — and 
 kindled our fire upon the same place where you drank 
 tea with us last autumn. The boat has been painted, 
 and there is to be a boat-house built for it. Altera- 
 tions are going on here upon a great scale. The 
 parlour has been transmogrified. That, Hartley, was 
 one of my mother's words ; your mother will explain 
 it to you. The masons are at work in my study; 
 the garden is enclosed with a hedge; some trees 
 planted behind it, a few shrubs, and abundance of 
 currant trees. We must, however, wait till the 
 autumn before all can be done that is intended in 
 the garden. Mr. White, the Belligerent, is settled 
 in the General's house. Find out why I give him 
 that appellation. 
 
 ". There has been a misfortune in the family. We 
 had a hen with five chickens, and a gleed has carried 
 off four. I have declared war against the gleed, and 
 borrowed a gun ; but since the gun has been in the 
 house, he has never made his appearance. Who can 
 have told him of it ? Another hen is sitting, and I 
 
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 hope the next brood will be luckier. Mr. Jackson 
 has bought a cow, but he has had no calf since you 
 left him. Edith has taken your place in his house, 
 and talks to Mrs. Wilson by the hour about her 
 Hartley. She grows like a young giantess, and has 
 a disposition to bite her arm, which, you know, is a 
 very foolish trick, Herbert is a fine fellow; I call 
 him the Boy of Basan, because he roars like a young 
 bull when he is pleased; indeed, he promises to 
 inherit his father's vocal powers. 
 
 " The weather has been very bad ; nothing but 
 easterly winds, which have kept every thing back. 
 We had one day hotter than had been remembered 
 for fourteen years : the glass was at 85° in the shade, 
 in the sun in Mr. Calvert's garden at 118°. The 
 horses of the mail died at Carlisle. I never remember 
 to have felt such heat in England, except one day 
 fourteen years ago, when I chanced to be in the 
 mail-coach, and it was necessary to bleed the horses, 
 or they would have died then. In the course of 
 three days the glass fell forty degrees, and the wind 
 was so cold and so violent that persons who attempted 
 to cross the Fells beyond Penrith were forced to 
 turn back. 
 
 " Your friend Dapper, who is, I believe, your 
 god-dog, is in good health, though he grows every 
 summer graver than the last. This is the natural 
 effect of time, which, as you know, has made me the 
 serious man I am. I hope it will have the same 
 
 effect upon you and your mother, and that, whfm jhf; 
 
 returns, she will have left off that evil habit of 
 

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 quizzing me and calling me names : it is not decorous 
 in a woman of her years. 
 
 " Remember me to Mr. Poole, and tell him I 
 shall be glad when he turns laker. He will find 
 tolerable lodgings at the Hill ; a boat for fine weather, 
 good stores of books for a rainy day, and as hearty a 
 shake by the hand on his arrival as he is likely to 
 meet with between Stowey and Keswick. Some 
 books of mine will soon be ready for your father. 
 Will he have them sent anywhere ? or will he pick 
 them up himself when he passes through London on 
 his way northward ? Tell him that I am advancing 
 well in South America, and shall have finished a 
 volume by the end of the year. The Chronicle of the 
 Cid is to go to press as soon as I receive some books 
 from Lisbon, which must first be examined. This 
 intelligence is for him also. 
 
 " I am desired to send you as much love as can be 
 enclosed in a letter : I hope it will not be charged 
 double on that account at the post-office: but there 
 is Mrs. Wilson's love, Mr. Jackson's, your Aunt 
 Southey's, your Aunt Lovell's, and Edith's ; with a 
 purr from Bona Marietta, an open-mouthed kiss 
 from Herbert, and three wags of the tail from 
 Dapper. I trust they will all arrive safe, and remain, 
 Dear Nephew Job, 
 
 Your dutiful Uncle, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
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 To the Messrs. Longman and Co. 
 
 "June 29. 1807. 
 
 " Dear Sirs, 
 
 "I have been told by persons most capable of 
 judging, that the old translation of Don Quixote is 
 very beautiful. The book has never fallen in my 
 way. If it be well translated, the language of 
 Elizabeth's reign must needs accord better with the 
 style of Cervantes than more modern English would 
 do ; and I should think it very probable that it would 
 be better to correct this, than to translate the work 
 anew. As for my undertaking any translation, or 
 indeed any revision, which might lead to the labour, 
 or half the labour, which Palmerin cost me, it is out 
 of the question ; but if Mr. Heber can lend you this 
 translation, I will give you my opinion upon it : and 
 I will do for you, if you want it, what you would 
 find much difficulty in getting done by any other 
 person, — add to a Life of Cervantes an account of 
 all his other writings, and likewise of the books in 
 Don Quixote's library, as far as my own stores will 
 reach, and those which we may find access to ; and 
 make such notes upon the whole book as my know- 
 ledge of the history and literature of Spain can supply. 
 I believe a new translation has been announced by 
 
 Mr. , whose translation of Yriarte proved 
 
 that either he did not understand the original, or that 
 of all translators he is the most impudent. Such 
 preliminaries as these which I propose might fill 
 half a volume, or extend to a whole one, just as might 
 
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 .ffiTAT. 34. OP EOBERT SOUTHEY. 125 
 
 directly to wound a man in his feelings, and in- 
 jure him in his fame and fortune (Montgomery is 
 a case in point), appears to me utterly inexcusable. 
 Now, though there would be no necessity that I 
 should follow this example, yet every separate article 
 in the Review derives authority from the merit of 
 all the others ; and, in this way, whatever of any 
 merit I might insert there would aid and abet opinions 
 hostile to my own, and thus identify me with a 
 system which I thoroughly disapprove. This is not 
 said hastily. The emolument to be derived from 
 writing at ten guineas a sheet, Scotch measure, in- 
 stead of seven pounds, Annual, would be considerable ; 
 the pecuniary advantage resulting from the different 
 manner in which my future works would be handled, 
 probably still more so. But my moral feelings must 
 not be compromised. To Jeffrey as an individual I 
 shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual 
 courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh 
 Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad 
 politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters 
 of taste, equally incompetent and unjust. 
 
 " Your letter was delayed a week upon the road 
 by the snow. I wish it had been written sooner, 
 and had travelled faster, or that I had communicated 
 to you my own long-projected edition of Morte 
 d' Arthur. I am sorry to have forestalled you, and 
 you are the only person whom I should be sorry to 
 forestal in this case, because you are the only person 
 who could do it certainly as well, and perhaps better, 
 with less labour than myself. My plan is to give 
 the whole bibliology of the Round Table in the pre- 
 
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 liminaries, and indicate the source of every chapter 
 in the notes. 
 
 " The reviewal of Wordsworth I am not likely to 
 see, the Edinburgh very rarely lying in my way. 
 My own notions respecting the book agree in the 
 main with yours, though I may probably go a step 
 farther than you in admiration. There are certainly 
 some pieces there which are good for nothing (none, 
 however, which a bad poet could have written), and 
 very many which it was highly injudicious to publish. 
 That song to Lord Clifford, which you particularise, 
 is truly a noble poem. The Ode upon Pre-existence 
 is a dark subject darkly handled. Coleridge is the 
 only man who could make such a subject luminous. 
 The Leech-gatherer is one of my favourites ; there 
 he has caught Spenser's manner, and, in many of the 
 better poemets, has equally caught the best manner 
 of old Wither, who, with all his long fits of dulness 
 and prosing, had the heart and soul of a poet in him. 
 The sonnets are in a grand style. I only wish 
 Dundee had not been mentioned. James Grahame 
 and I always call that man Claverhouse, the name 
 by which the devils know him below. 
 
 " Marmion is expected as impatiently by me as he 
 is by ten thousand others. Believe me, Scott, no 
 man of real genius was ever yet a puritanical stickler 
 for correctness, or fastidious about any faults except 
 his own. The best artists, both in poetry and 
 painting, have produced the most. Give me more 
 lays, and correct them at leisure for after editions — 
 not laboriously, but when the amendment comes 
 
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 ^Etat. 34. OP ROBERT SOU THEY. 133 
 
 because he is notoriously a murderer, with whom it 
 is infamous to treat. Send this language into 
 France, and let nothing else go into it that our ships 
 can keep out, and the French themselves would, in 
 no very long time, rid the world of a tyrant. The 
 light of Prince Arthur's shield would bring Orgoglio 
 to the ground. God bless you ! 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 E. SOUTHEY." 
 
 To S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 
 
 "Feb. 12. 1808. 
 
 " My dear Coleridge, 
 
 (t De Origine et Progressu Officii S. Inquisitionis, 
 ejusque dignitate et utilitate, Antone Ludovico a 
 Panamo, Boroxense, Archidiaconio et Canonico Le- 
 gionense. . . 1598, folio. The book is in the 
 Red Cross Street Library. I read it six years ago, 
 and sent up an account of it within the last six 
 weeks for Dr. Aikin's Biography, where it will be 
 in villanously bad company. You will find there 
 that God was the first Inquisitor, and that the 
 first Auto da Fe was held upon Adam and Eve. 
 You will read enough to show you that Catholic 
 writers defend the punishment of heretics, and quite 
 sufficient to make your blood run cold. I have the 
 History of the Portuguese Inquisition to write, and 
 look on to the task with absolute horror. I am 
 decidedly hostile to what is called Catholic Eman- 
 cipation, as I am to what is called peace. 
 
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134 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE -Etat. 34. 
 
 " I have had a correspondence with Clarkson con- 
 cerning the best mode of publishing my Brazilian 
 history ; and what he points out as the best plan is 
 little better than the half-and-half way, and involves 
 a great deal of trouble, and what is worse, a great 
 deal of solicitation. I am a bad trading author, and 
 doomed always to be so, but it is not the bookseller's 
 fault ; the public do not buy poetry unless it be 
 made fashionable; mine gets reviewed by enemies 
 who are always more active than friends ; one re- 
 viewer envies me, another hates me, and a third 
 tries his hand upon me as fair game. Thousands 
 meantime read the books ; but they borrow them, 
 even those persons who are what they call my 
 friends, and who know that I live by these books, 
 never buy them themselves, and then wonder that 
 they do not sell. Espriella has sold rapidly, for 
 which I have to thank Stuart ; the edition is pro- 
 bably by this time exhausted, and, I verily believe, 
 half the sale must be attributed to the puffs in the 
 Courier. The sale of a second edition would right 
 me in Longman's books. Puff me, Coleridge ! if 
 you love me, puff me ! Puff a couple of hundreds 
 into my pocket ! 
 
 (f As for the booksellers, I am disposed to dis- 
 tinguish between Longman and Tradesman nature 
 (setting human nature out of the question) : now 
 Tradesman nature is very bad, but Longman nature 
 is a great deal better, and I am inclined to believe 
 that it will get the better of the evil principle, and 
 that liberal dealing may even prove catching. It is 
 gome proof of this that his opinion of me and conduct 
 
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 ^tat. 34. OP EOBEET SOUTHEY. 135 
 
 towards me alter not, notwithstanding the spiders 
 spin their webs so securely over whole piles of 
 Madoc and Thalaba. .... 
 
 " I am strongly moved by the spirit to make an 
 attack upon Jeffrey along his whole line, beginning 
 with his politics. Stuart would not be displeased to 
 have half a dozen letters. "Nothing but the weary 
 work it would be to go through his reviews for the 
 sake of collecting the blunders in them, prevents 
 me. He, and other men who are equally besotted 
 and blinded by party, will inevitably frighten the 
 nation into peace, the only thing which can be more 
 mischievous and more dishonourable than our Danish 
 expedition. I wish to God you would lift up your 
 voice against it. Alas ! Coleridge, is it to be won- 
 dered at, that we pass for a degenerated race, when 
 those who have the spirit of our old worthies in them, 
 let that spirit fret itself away in silence ! 
 Ia~" Lamb's book I have heard of, and know not 
 tlr j.what it is. If co-operative labour were as practi- 
 cable as it is desirable, what a history of English 
 literature might he and you and I set forth ! . . 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 K. S." 
 
 To Joseph Cottle, Esq. 
 
 " Greta Hall, April 20. 1808. 
 " My dear Cottle, 
 
 " On opening a box to-day, the contents of which 
 
 I had not seen since the winter of 1799, your picture 
 
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136 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE .Etat. 34. 
 
 made its appearance. Of all Robert Hancock's per- 
 formances it is infinitely the best. I cannot conceive 
 a happier likeness. I have been thinking of you 
 and of old times ever since it came to light. I have 
 been reading your Fall of Cambria, and in the little 
 interval that remains before supper must talk to 
 you in reply to your letter. 
 
 " What you say of my copyrights affected me very 
 much. Dear Cottle, set your heart at rest on that 
 subject. It ought to be at rest. These were yours, 
 fairly bought, and fairly sold. You bought them on 
 the chanjcet of .their success, which no London book- 
 seller would Kav« done ; and had they not been 
 bought, they could not have been published at all. 
 Nay, if you had not purchased Joan of Arc, the 
 poem never would have existed, nor should I, in all 
 probability, ever have obtained that reputation which 
 is the capital on which I subsist, nor that power 
 which enables me to support it. 
 
 " But this is not all. Do you suppose, Cottle, that 
 I have forgotten those true and most essential acts 
 of friendship which you showed me when I stood 
 most in need of them ? Your house was my house 
 when I had no other. The very money with which 
 I bought my wedding-ring and paid my marriage 
 fees, was supplied by you. It was with your sisters 
 I left Edith during my six months' absence, and for 
 the six months' after my return it was from you 
 that I received, week by week, the little on which 
 we lived, till I was enabled to live by other means. 
 It is not the settling of a cash account that can 
 cancel obligations like these. You are in the habit 
 
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 2Etat. 34. OF EOBERT SOUTHET. 137 
 
 of preserving your letters, and if you were not, I 
 would entreat you to preserve this, that it might 
 be seen hereafter. Sure I am, there never was a 
 more generous or a kinder heart than yours ; and you 
 will believe me when I add, that there does not live 
 that man upon earth whom I remember with more 
 gratitude and more affection. My head throbs and 
 my eyes burn with these recollections. Good night ! 
 my dear old friend and benefactor. 
 
 K. S." 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 " Keswick, April 26. 1808. 
 
 " Dear Grosvenor. 
 
 "From one scene of confusion to another. You 
 saw me in London everlastingly at work in packing 
 my books ; and here they are now lying in all parts 
 about me, up to my knees in one place, up to my 
 eyes in another, and above head and ears in a third. 
 I can scarcely find stepping places through the la- 
 byrinth, from one end of the room to the other. 
 Like Pharaoh's frogs, they have found their way 
 
 everywhere, even into the bedchambers 
 
 And now, Grosvenor, having been married above 
 twelve years, I have for the first time collected all 
 my books together. What a satisfaction this is 
 you cannot imagine, for you cannot conceive the 
 hundredth part of the inconvenience and vexation I 
 have endured for want of them. But the joy which 
 they give me brings with it a mingled feeling, — the 
 
138 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtxt. 34. 
 
 recollection that there are as many materials heaped 
 up as I shall ever find life to make use of; and the 
 humiliating reflection how little knowledge can be ac- 
 quired in the most laborious life of man, that know- 
 ledge becoming every age less and less, in proportion 
 to the accumulation of events. For some things I 
 have been born too late. Under the last reign, for 
 instance, as in the first half of this, my pension would 
 have been an income adequate to my wants, and 
 my profits as a writer would have been at least 
 quadrupled. On the other hand, bad as these times 
 are, they are better than those which are coming. 
 
 " At Bristol I met with the man of all others whom 
 I was most desirous of meeting, — the only man 
 living of whose praise I was ambitious, or whose 
 censure would have humbled me. You will be 
 curious to know who this could be. Savage Landor, 
 the author of Gebir, a poem which, unless you have 
 heard me speak of it, you have probably never heard 
 of at all. I never saw any one more unlike myself 
 in every prominent part of human character, nor any 
 one who so cordially and instinctively agreed with 
 me on so many of the most important subjects. I 
 have often said before we met, that I would walk 
 forty miles to see him, and having seen him, I would 
 gladly walk fourscore to see him again. He talked 
 of Thalaba, and I told him of the series of mytho- 
 logical poems which I had planned, — mentioned some 
 of the leading incidents on which they were to have 
 been formed, and also told him for what reason they 
 were laid aside ; — in plain English, that I could not 
 afford to write them. Landor's reply was, ' Go on 
 
^tat. 34. OF EOBEET SOUTHEY. 141 
 
 ' am putting together the materials of my introduction, 
 which, with the supplementary notes, will take about 
 three months in printing ; at least, it will be as long 
 before the book can be published. The price of 
 paper stops all my other press-work for the present. 
 
 " So much of my life passes in this blessed retire- 
 ment, that when I go to London the effect is a little 
 like what Nourjahad used to find after one of his 
 long naps. I find a woful difference of political 
 opinion between myself and most of those persons 
 who have hitherto held the same feelings with me ; 
 and yet it should seem that they have been sleeping 
 over the great events of these latter years, not I. 
 There is a base and cowardly feeling abroad, which 
 would humble this country at the feet of France. 
 This feeling I have everywhere been combating 
 with vehemence ; but at the same time I have ex- 
 ecrated with equal vehemence the business of Copen- 
 hagen: Ishmael-like, my hand has been against 
 everybody, and everybody's hand against me. Words- 
 worth is the only man who agrees with me on both 
 points. I require, however, no other sanction to 
 convince me that I am right. Coleridge justifies the 
 attack on Denmark, but he justifies it upon indi- 
 vidual testimony of hostile intentions on the part of 
 that court, and that testimony by no means amounts 
 to proof in my judgment. But what is done is 
 done; and the endless debates upon the subject, 
 which have no other meaning and can have no other 
 end than that of harassing the ministry, disgust me, 
 as they do every one who has the honour of England 
 at heart. Such a system makes the publicity of 
 
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 debate a nuisance, and will terminate in putting a 
 stop to it. 
 
 " Is there any hope of seeing you this year at the 
 Lakes ? I should much like to show you Kehama. 
 During my circuit I fell in with Savage Landor, the 
 author of Gebir, to whom I spoke of my projected 
 series of mythological poems, and said also for what 
 reason the project had been laid aside. He besought 
 me to go on with them, and said he would print 
 them at his expense. Without the least thought of 
 accepting this princely offer, it has stung me to the 
 very core ; and as the bite of the tarantula has no 
 cure but dancing, so will there be none but singing 
 for this. Great poets have no envy ; little ones are 
 full of it. I doubt whether any man ever criticised 
 a good poem maliciously, unless he had written a 
 bad one himself. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. SOUTHET." 
 
 To Walter Savage Landor, Esq. 
 
 " May 2. 1808. 
 " I have sent you all that is written of the Curse 
 of Kehama : you offered to print it for me ; if ever I 
 finish the poem it will be because of that offer, though 
 without the slightest intention of accepting it. 
 Enough is written to open the story of the poem, 
 and serve as a specimen of its manner, though much 
 of what is to follow would be in a wilder strain. 
 Tell me if your ear is offended with the rhymes when 
 
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 .Etat. 34. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 147 
 
 so often and so badly. It is not incapable of dignity, 
 but there is a sort of language that usually goes with 
 it, and has the effect of making it so Kehama is 
 pitched in too high a key for it ; I shall weed out all 
 uncouth lines, and leave the public nothing to abuse 
 except the strangeness of the fable, which you may 
 be sure will be plentifully abused. The mythology 
 explains itself as it is introduced ; yet because the 
 names are not familiar, people will fancy there is a 
 difficulty in understanding it. Sir William Jones 
 has done nothing in introducing it so coldly and 
 formally as he has done. They who read his poems 
 do not remember them, and none but those who have 
 read them can be expected to have even heard of my 
 Divinities. But for popularity I care only as regards 
 profit, and for profit only as regards subsistence. 
 The praise of ten would have contented you ; often 
 have I said that you did not underrate the number 
 of men whose praise was truly desirable. Ten 
 thousand persons will read my book ; if five hundred 
 will promise to buy it, I shall be secure of all I want. 
 You shall have it in large portions as fast it is written. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 EOBERT SOUTHEY." 
 
 To S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 
 
 " June 13. 1808. 
 " Dear Coleridge, 
 
 " I have the last census of Spain here, and perhaps 
 you may like to give the Courier a statement of the 
 
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 population of the Northern Provinces, as taken in 
 1797, and published in 1801. 
 
 Asturias - - - - 
 
 Galicia - - - - 
 
 These Provinces f Alava - - - - 
 
 are what we< Guipuzcoa - - - 
 
 call Biscay. |_ Vizcaya - - - - 
 
 Population. 
 
 Males from 
 
 the Age of 16 
 
 to 50. 
 
 364,238 
 
 1,142,630 
 
 67,523 
 
 104,491 
 
 111,436 
 
 80,554 
 225,454 
 15,367 
 23,343 
 25,801 
 
 400,519 
 
 These are the provinces which have asked assist- 
 ance ; but there is probably a French force at Ferrol, 
 which may, for awhile, keep part of Galicia in awe. 
 The people are a hardy race, and most of them good 
 shots, because there are no game laws, plenty of 
 game, and wolves in the country. Probably every 
 man has his gun. One hardly dares indulge a hope ; 
 but if Europe is to be redeemed in our days, you 
 know it has always been my opinion that the work 
 of deliverance would begin in Spain. And now that 
 its unhappy government has committed suicide, the 
 Spaniards have got rid of their worst enemy. 
 
 " This account of Lisbon, which has just reached 
 me, may also fitly appear in the Courier, for the 
 edification of Roscoe and such politicians : — * Every 
 private family has a certain number of French officers 
 and soldiers quartered upon them, who behave with 
 their accustomed insolence and brutality. The ladies 
 of one family very naturally, upon the intrusion of 
 these unwelcome guests, retired to their own apart- 
 ments, where they proposed remaining; but these 
 civilised Frenchmen required their presence, and 
 
iETAT. 34. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 149 
 
 would admit of no excuse. H faut que les dames 
 viennent was the only reply which they made ; and of 
 course the women were compelled to be subject to 
 their ribaldry and impertinence. Whole families of 
 the middling class are seen begging at the corners of 
 the streets ; and women, Avho had till now borne an 
 unblemished reputation, prostitute themselves pub- 
 licly to gain wherewithal to buy bread. The soldiers 
 and the flower of the peasantry are sent to recruit 
 the French armies in distant parts.' Nothing can 
 exceed the misery and the despondency of the people. 
 
 " Were I minister, I would send half the regular 
 army without delay to Spain ; the distance is nothing, 
 — a week would be but an average passage; and 
 these seas are not like the German Ocean, where so 
 many brave men have been sacrificed in useless expe- 
 ditions during stormy seasons. 
 
 " Of public affairs enough ! We have had a bilious 
 fever in the house, which was epidemic among the 
 children of the place. Herbert has suffered severely 
 from it ; I thought we should lose him. The disease 
 has reduced him very much, and left him in a state 
 of great debility. Keswick is scarcely ever without 
 some kind of infectious fever, generally among the 
 children. When these things get into a dirty house, 
 they hardly ever get out of it ; and I attribute this 
 more to the want of cleanliness than to the climate. 
 But ague is beginning to re-appear, which had 
 scarcely been heard of during the last generation ; — 
 this is the case over the whole kingdom, I believe. 
 What put a stop to it then, or what brought it back 
 now, is beyond the reach of our present knowledge. 
 
 L 3 
 
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 150 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 2Etat. 34. 
 
 You love the science of physic; and Nature, who 
 seems to have meant you for half a dozen different 
 things when she made you, meant you for a physi- 
 cian among the rest. I will tell you, therefore, two 
 odd peculiarities of my constitution ; the slightest 
 dose of laudanum acts upon me as an aperient ; — ii 
 I am at any time exposed to the sun bareheaded for 
 two minutes, I infallibly take cold. This probably 
 shows how soon I should be subject to a stroke of the 
 sun, and indicates the same over-susceptibility which 
 the nitrous oxide did, a smaller dose affecting me than 
 any other person who ever breathed it. 
 
 " I have read that play of Calderon's since my 
 return : its story is precisely as you stated it, and in 
 the story the wonder lies. Are we not apt to do 
 with these things as naturalists do with insects ? — 
 put them in a microscope, and exclaim how beautiful ! 
 — how wonderful ! — how grand ! — when all the 
 beauty and all the grandeur are owing to the magni- 
 fying medium ? A shaping mind receives the story 
 of the play and makes it terrific ; — in Calderon it is 
 extravagant. The machinery is certainly most extra- 
 ordinary ; and most extraordinary must the state of 
 public opinion be, where such machinery could be 
 received with the complacency of perfect faith, — as 
 undoubtedly this was, and would be still in Spain. 
 
 (f At last I have got all my books about me, and 
 right rich I am in them — above 4000 volumes. 
 With your Germans, &c, there is probably no other 
 house in the country which contains such a collection 
 of foreign literature. My Cid will be published in 
 about six weeks. Brazil is not yet gone to press, — 
 
f7* 
 
 JEtat. 34. OF ROBERT SOD THEY. 151 
 
 the price of paper has deterred me ; and yet there is 
 little likelihood of any reduction, indeed no possibility, 
 till the North is again open to us. 
 
 " This is the moment for uniting Spain and Por- 
 tugal ; and the greater facility of doing this in a com- 
 monwealth than in a monarchy would be reason enough 
 for preferring that form of government were there no 
 other. Portugal loses something in importance and 
 in feeling by being incorporated in the Spanish 
 monarchy; it would preserve its old dignity by 
 uniting in a federal republic, — a form which the 
 circumstances of Spain more especially require, and 
 its provincial difference of laws and dialects. Each 
 province should have its own cortes, and the general 
 congress meet at Madrid, — otherwise, that city would 
 soon waste away. No nation has ever had a fairer 
 opportunity for reforming its government and model- 
 ling it anew. But I dare say this wretched cabinet 
 will be meddling too much in this, and too little in 
 the desperate struggle which must be made ; — that 
 we shall send tardy and inefficient aid — enough to 
 draw on a heavier French force, and not enough to 
 resist the additional force which it will occasion. 
 
 " The crown, like the Ahrimanes of the earth, will 
 sacrifice any thing rather than see the downfal of 
 royalty. 
 
 " That best of all good women, Mrs. Wilson, has 
 borne the winter better than any former one since 
 we have known her. 
 
 " I am thinking about a poem upon Pelajo, the 
 restorer of Spain. Do you wish to serve me ? Puff' 
 
 L 4 
 
152 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 34. 
 
 Espriella, in the Courier, as the best guide to the 
 lakes. All well. God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To Mr. Neville White. 
 
 " Keswick, June 20. 1808. 
 
 " My dear Neville, 
 
 " The box arrived about an hour ago. Sir Wil- 
 liam Jones's works are placed opposite my usual 
 seat, and on the most conspicuous shelf in the room. 
 . . . . I have retired to my library to thank 
 you for the most splendid set of books it contains. I 
 thank you for them, Neville, truly and heartily ; but 
 do not let it hurt you if I say, that so costly a present 
 gives me some pain as well as pleasure. Were you 
 a rich man, you could not give me more books than 
 I would joyfully accept, for I delight in accumulating 
 such treasures as much as a miser does in keeping 
 together gold ; but, as things are at present, no proof 
 was needed of your generous spirit, and, from the 
 little you have to spare, I cannot but feel you are 
 giving me too much. You will not be offended at 
 my expressing this feeling, nor will you impute it 
 to any unjust pride, which, blessed be God, I am 
 too poor a man, and too wise a one, to be guilty 
 of in any, even the smallest degree. Be assured 
 that I shall ever value the books far more than 
 if they had come from a wealthier donor, and that 
 I write the donor's name in them with true respect 
 and esteem. You will be pleased to hear they are 
 
$T7 
 
 1808. ROBERT SOU THEY. 15 
 
 beauties still want weeding out, but in point of matter 
 laboriously corrected and faithfully brought forward, it 
 stands before any historical work in the language. 
 Have you also seen Wordsworth's new poems ? Some 
 are very childish, some very obscure, though not so to 
 me, who understand his opinions; others of first rate 
 excellence — nothing comparable to them is to be found 
 anywhere except in Shakspeare and Milton. Of this 
 character are most of the sonnets which relate to the 
 times. I never saw poetry at once so truly philo- 
 sophical and heroic. 
 
 As a literary anecdote to conclude with, I have found 
 in Heber's " Amadis of Greece," besides Spenser's 
 " Mask of Cupid," Sir Philip Sidney's « Zelmane," 
 and Shakspeare's " Florisel." God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 «' 
 
 To Lieutenant Soutkey, H. M. S. Dreadnought. ' h 
 
 Keswick, Sept. 9. 1808. 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 The " Cid " has been detained some weeks 7 
 longer than I expected by Frere. The proofs take a 
 long circuit to reach him through official franks. He is 
 slow in returning them, and he sees revises, as they are 
 called, i.e., second proofs. However, I look daily to see 
 it advertised, and Longman has directions what to pack 
 up with your copy, as soon as the publication takes 
 place. 
 
 I spent a week tooth and nail at my old letters, 
 cutting and slashing at a great rate, and inserting more 
 than was omitted, by rummaging my original journals, 
 and hunting out just so much antiquarian and historical 
 
16 LETTEHS OF 1808. 
 
 matter as was pertinent, among my books. The Life 
 of D. Luiza also is inserted at the end of the first 
 volume. It will now be a respectable book, having 
 thus been weeded. The two volumes are in the 
 printer's hands, and will soon be completed. Dispatch 
 was one reason for dividing it, and another was the 
 wish to have all my operas in the same size. Just 
 at this time it is very likely to have a sale, and by 
 and by my later letters will help it off by occasionally 
 referring to it. 
 
 By this evening's " Courier," I perceive that we had 
 a severe earthquake here just a fortnight ago. All I 
 can say about it is, that we never heard of it before. 
 Not that an earthquake would surprise me. What- 
 ever makes our bottom winds*, and sends up these 
 islands, is unquestionably equal to produce an earth- 
 quake, if it only takes place upon a larger scale. 
 Good part of the Island has now sunk, and a little one 
 has risen nearer the shore, with a canal almost through 
 it. Humphry Senhouse came over last week to see it, 
 and a thorough wetting I had in rowing him back. He 
 brought with him a Miss French, a very nice girl, 
 whose brother has lately published a volume of poems. 
 They staid two nights with us. Miss Wood comes to- 
 morrow by the coach ; something has been said about 
 our returning with her, but whether we shall do this or 
 not, I do not know. 
 
 Coleridge is arrived at last, about half as big as the 
 house. H*e came over with Wordsworth on Monday, 
 
 * " The surface of the Derwentwater is sometimes violently 
 agitated, by what has been termed a bottom wind, because It is 
 supposed to be air pent up at the bottom of the lake. This 
 phenomenon varies as to its duration ; sometimes the swell of the 
 waves continuing only for an hour or two, and sometimes nearly 
 a whole day, although no wind whatever is perceptible above the 
 surface of the water." — Leigh's View of the Lakes, 2nd edit. p. 69. 
 
1808. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 17 
 
 
 and returned with him on Wednesday. His present 
 scheme is to put the boys to school at Ambleside, and 
 reside at Grasmere himself. Some good is likely to 
 result from his coming, for Wordsworth declares that if 
 he does not write an essay upon the pleasure produced 
 by bad poetry, he will do it himself. You have heard 
 him talk upon the subject; — whoever does this, the 
 effect will be to flay — ^- alive, and take full and ample 
 vengeance upon all such offenders. 
 
 King Arthur is deposed for misconduct in unnecessa- 
 rily delaying the review ; and it is well for him he is, 
 as otherwise I should have made a desperate home 
 thrust at him, for having had the impudence to omit 
 the reviewal of Wordsworth's poem, which he received 
 from me, and inserting an Aikinish one in its stead. 
 But as he has been already cashiered, I shall resent this 
 in no other way than by dropping all acquaintance with 
 the said King Arthur and his whole generation. 
 
 I am writing in great haste to secure the post. The 
 Wolseleys and Brownes are coming to tea. Two days 
 ago I dined at Calvert's, with the Mr. George Taylor 
 whom we met last year at Spedding's. Spedding has 
 just got a new boat, which is named the Spanish Patriot. 
 Now had you been here we should have explored Bas- 
 senthwaite thoroughly. 
 
 The papers say that some of our large ships are to be 
 paid off forthwith, as being no longer wanted. In that 
 case I should think by your account of the Dreadnought 
 that she stands a fair chance of being laid up. The 
 worst thing would be that you would probably be 
 turned over to some dirty small craft, such as it seems 
 we want to meet the Danes with : this is what is 
 proposed. On the other hand, it hardly seems likely 
 that you would be treated with so little respect. 
 
 Kehama gets often interrupted by late hours, or dis- 
 turbed nights, or much exercise in the preceding day. 
 
 VOL. II. C 
 
18 LETTERS OP 1807. 
 
 Arvalan is now driving the dragons ; the car is fastened 
 on their yokes thus : 
 
 c/\d 
 
 the circles being the yokes, and the seat fastened on the 
 •upper arch. So he drives, and long before this reaches 
 you he will be at the North Pole. 
 
 Emma has acquired the name of Old Scratch, by 
 reason of her sharp nails. My son rides Pocko when- 
 ever he can catch me, and will not be persuaded that 
 Pocko can be tired. Both he and Edaw, as he calls her, 
 are equipped this evening in dark brown stuff gowns, 
 trimmed with red, which Mrs. Wolseley has made them. 
 
 Huzza for Spain. How completely have our hopes 
 been justified ! It is my firm opinion that Bonaparte 
 has received his death blow. Very probably another 
 year may bring about peace after the extirpation of his 
 royal race. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To G. C. Bedford. Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 4. 1807. 
 
 My dear Grosvenor, 
 
 Ever since the arrival of Harry's letter I have 
 been in great uneasiness concerning you, for, by the 
 same post Wynn told me he supposed you were by 
 that time here. This evening your letter from Acton 
 has brought the first intelligence of you, which has 
 been delayed some days by a blunder of the post in 
 carrying it to Birmingham. Now that you are in 
 
J § 
 
 Mtat. 35. OF EOBEKT SOUTHEY. 171 
 
 r ) ir ^pf^i^^4U, *~* /J. 'tot- 
 in the Keswick play-bill? A tale in verse, by E. 
 SoutAy, Esq., to be recited by Mr. Deans. There's 
 fame for you ! What the tale was I have not heard : 
 most likely the Maid of the Inn, which is right 
 worthy of such recitation. 
 
 " It occurred to me last night, I know not how, 
 that I have never, to the best of my recollection, seen 
 one of the large house-snails in this country, and 
 very few indeed of the smaller kind, which are so 
 numerous, and of such beautiful varieties in our part 
 of the kingdom. You know what a collector of snail 
 shells I was in my time, hoarding up all the empty 
 ones I could find. The rocks used to be my hunting 
 place. That amusement has made me familiar with 
 every variety in that neighbourhood, and certain I 
 am that the greater number are not to be found here. 
 Slugs we have in plenty. By the by, I have lately 
 seen it mentioned in an old French book, that frogs 
 eat snails, shells and all. 
 
 " 1 wish you had the Cid to have shown the 
 Spaniards; they would have been pleased to see 
 that the Campeador was beginning to have his fame 
 here in England, 700 years after his death, Unques- 
 tionably that Chronicle is one of the finest things in 
 the world ; and so I think it will be admitted to be. 
 Coleridge is perfectly delighted with it. Frere, pas- 
 sionately as he admired the poem, had never seen the 
 Chronicle, which is remarkable enough. You will 
 see, by comparing the Dumb-ee scene in both, that 
 the Chronicle is sometimes the most poetical of the 
 two.* I am so fond of this kind of contemporary his- 
 
 * Cid, Book ix. c. xiii. 
 
172 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 35. 
 
 tory, and so persuaded of the good which, it is likely 
 to do, by giving us a true knowledge of other times, 
 and reviving those high and generous feelings which 
 all modern habits of life tend to counteract, that I 
 think seriously of translating the works of Fernan 
 Lopez as soon as my history is completed. There is 
 the Chronicle of Pedro the Just, which is a very 
 small volume, my great MS., and the Chronicle of 
 Joam I. The whole would fill three such quartos as 
 the Cid. I should like to do it for the pleasure of 
 the thing, — as the man said when he was to shoot 
 Shepherd's goat. ....... 
 
 " I am getting on with my Letters from Portugal. 
 The evenings close in by tea-time, and fire and 
 candle bring with them close work at the desk, and 
 nothing to take me from it. The Long-man of the 
 Row recommends the small size in preference to 
 quarto, as producing greater profits, in consequence 
 of its readier sale. To this I willingly assent. They 
 will probably extend to three such volumes as Espri- 
 ella. When they are done, the fresh letters of 
 Espriella will come in their turn ; and so I go on. 
 Huzza ! two and twenty volumes already ; the Cid, 
 when reprinted, will make two more; and, please 
 God, five a year in addition as long as I live. 
 
 " Edith has just been in with her kiss — as regular 
 as the evening gun. She wants to know when Uncle 
 will come home. Sooner perhaps than he himself 
 thinks, for the glorious revolution in Spain will 
 bring Bonaparte down. It is morally impossible 
 that such a nation can be subdued. If King Joseph 
 should fall into their hands, I pray that may 
 
iETAT. 35. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 175 
 
 To Humphrey Senhouse, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Oct. 15. 1808. 
 
 K" My dear Sir, I ,- 
 
 J " I have had a visit this morning from S jH'^ ' and 
 C-yr — upon the subject of this convention in Portugal. 
 They, and some of their friends, are very desirous of 
 bringing before the country, in some regular form, 
 the main iniquity of the business, — which has been 
 lost sight of in all the addresses, — and of rectifying 
 public opinion by showing it in its true light.* A 
 military inquiry may or may not convict Sir Hugh 
 Dalrymple of military misconduct. This is the least 
 part of his offence, and no legal proceedings can 
 attach to the heinous crime he has committed; the 
 high treason against all moral feeling, in recognising 
 Junot by his usurped title, and deadening that noble 
 spirit from which, and which only, the redemption 
 of Europe can possible proceed, — by presuming to 
 grant stipulations for the Portuguese which no go- 
 vernment ever pretended to have power to make for 
 an independent ally, — covenanting for the impunity 
 of the traitors, and guaranteeing the safety of an 
 
 * The feeling of the country seems to have been more generally 
 roused on this occasion than almost on any other: — "The London 
 newspapers joined in one cry of wonder and abhorrence. On no 
 former occasion had they been so unanimous, and scarcely ever was 
 their language so energetic, so manly, so worthy of the English press. 
 The provincial papers proved that from one end of the island to the 
 other the resentment of this grievous wrong was the same. Some 
 refused to disgrace their pages by inserting so infamous a treaty ; 
 others surrounded it with broad black lines, putting their journal into 
 mourning for the dismal information it contained." — Edinburgh Annual 
 Register, 1808, p. 368. 
 
176 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE .Etat. 35. 
 
 army of ruffians, all of whom, without his interven- 
 tion, must soon have received their righteous reward 
 from the hands of those whom they had oppressed. 
 He has stepped in to save these wretches from the 
 vengeance of an injured people : he has been dealing 
 with them as fair and honourable enemies, exchanging 
 compliments and visits, dining with them in the 
 palaces from which they had driven the rightful lords, 
 and upon the plate which they had stolen. He, 
 therefore, has abandoned our vantage ground, be- 
 trayed the cause of Spain and Portugal, and dis- 
 claimed, as far as his authority extends, the feelings 
 which the Spaniards are inculcating, and in w T hich 
 lie their strength and their salvation, by degrading 
 into a common and petty Avar between soldier and 
 soldier, that which is the struggle of a nation against 
 a foreign usurper, a business of natural life and 
 death, a war of virtue against vice, light against 
 darkness, the good principle against the evil one. 
 
 " It is important to make the country feel this ; 
 and these sentiments would appear with most effect 
 if they were embodied in a county address, of which 
 the ostensible purport might be to thank his Majesty 
 for having instituted an inquiry, and to request that 
 he would be pleased to appoint a day of national 
 humiliation for this grievous national disgrace. This 
 will not be liable to the reproof with which he 
 thought proper to receive the city address, because 
 it prejudges nothing, — military proceedings are out 
 of the question : what is complained of is, a breach 
 of the law of nations, and an abandonment of the 
 moral principle which the words of the convention 
 
^TAT. 35. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 177 
 
 prove, and which cannot be explained away by any 
 inquiry whatsoever. ^ . / ,/y 
 
 S-Ttt^^and C qK know many persons who will 
 come forward at such a meeting. Coleridge or 
 Wordsworth will be ready to speak, and will draw 
 up resolutions to be previously approved, and brought 
 forward by some proper person. We will prepare 
 the way by writing in the county papers. Here 
 ends my part of the business, and not a little sur- 
 prised am I to find myself even thus much concerned 
 in any county affairs, when the sole freehold I am 
 ever likely to possess is a tenement, six feet by 
 three, in Crosthwaitc churchyard. 
 
 Believe me, 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Robert Southet." 
 
 To Walter Scott, Esq. 
 
 " Keswick, Nov. 6. 1808. 
 
 f« My dear Scott, 
 
 " I have sometimes thought of publishing trans- 
 tions from the Spanish and Portuguese, with the 
 originals annexed, but there was no prospect of 
 profit to tempt me ; and as certainly, if I live, it is 
 my intention to enter fully into the literary history 
 of both countries. That made me lay aside the 
 
 VOL. III. S 
 
178 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtat. 35. 
 
 thought of any thing on a lesser scale. Another 
 reason, perhaps, may have been this, that it is not 
 more difficult to compose poetry than to translate it, 
 and that, in my own opinion, I can make as good as 
 I can find. Very, very few of the Spanish ballads 
 are good ; they are made in general upon one receipt, 
 and that a most inartificial one ; they begin by de- 
 scribing the situation of somebody who makes a 
 speech which is the end. Nothing like the wildness 
 or the character of our ballads is to be found among 
 them. It is curious, and at present inexplicable to 
 me, how their prose should be so exquisitely poetical 
 as it is in the Cid, and their poetry so completely 
 prosaical as it is in their narrative poems. Never- 
 theless, I might be tempted. Some translations I 
 have by me, and many of my books are marked for 
 others. There are some high-toned odes in the 
 Spanish, and a good many beautiful sonnets. Many 
 of their epics would afford good extracts ; and I am 
 competent to give critical sketches of biography, 
 formed not at second-hand, but from full perusal of 
 the authors themselves. My name, however, is 
 worth nothing in the market, and the booksellers 
 would not offer me any thing to make it worth my 
 while to interrupt occupations of greater importance. 
 I thank you heartily for your offer of aid, and should 
 the thing be carried into effect, would gladly avail 
 myself of it. 
 
 " I am planning something of great importance, a 
 poem upon Pelayo, the first restorer of Spain : it has 
 long been one of my chosen subjects ; and those late 
 

 1807. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 23 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 26. 1807. 
 It will not be very long before I shall be able to tell 
 you something about my winter operations. My uncle 
 and Harry were to take flight from Lisbon on the 
 12th of this month; they will probably come in a 
 Liverpool ship, as they talk of seeing me soon, — but 
 this is only a guess. If my uncle could get a passage 
 in a King's ship, as one of his Majesty's servants, he 
 meant to prefer it ; in that case, he would come to 
 Plymouth or Portsmouth, and it would be more likely 
 that I should meet him in London, than that he should 
 come here during the winter. Rickman wishes me to 
 come before Christmas ; I can do my reviewing in time, 
 and shall do it, to be ready for any call. My move- 
 ments will be in a very zig-zag line. Wynn wants me 
 to stop at Wynnstay ; how can I cross from Shrews- 
 bury over to your part of the world ? This evening 
 has brought me a letter from Litchfield, and I am 
 
 bound to make a visit there She (Miss Seward) is 
 
 really a very staunch friend. Fellowes, having become 
 joint editor of the " Critical Review," besought her to 
 give him an article ; to serve him, she reviewed the 
 poem of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, and, Heaven 
 knows how, lugged in " Madoc " by neck and shoulders. 
 Poor Fellowes petitions that this may be left out, 
 in com passion to the " Review," which had abused 
 " Madoc " by bell, book, and candle, and must not, he 
 says, throw off all consistency at once; but he pro- 
 mises great civility to all my future works, and this 
 it is likely they will meet with, through this interest. 
 Pretty work, this reviewing, Senhora ! I am abused 
 because one reviewer hates Coleridge, and now am to 
 be praised because another is a friend of Miss Seward's. 
 
 c 4 
 
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24 LETTERS OF 1807. 
 
 She, however, is a good friend of mine, and I am very 
 much obliged to her. 
 
 The books shall be sent you forthwith. " Palmerin" 
 was advertised yesterday for the first time as published. 
 In the " Athenasum " for September, is a letter 
 pointing out a real blunder of the translator of D. 
 Manuel, in one of his notes, written by somebody who 
 admires the book, and believes in its authenticity. 
 The Count, who took his departure on Sunday morn- 
 ing, told John Fisher, on his way out of town, that I 
 had a book in which his lodgings were mentioned ; and 
 Aggy Fisher, his sister, has been here to-day, begging 
 to see it, which, as his worship kept " Espriella " for 
 the last two months at his lodgings, and left it there 
 after all, to be brought home when the man of the 
 house pleases to bring it, we could not lend her. She 
 imputes it to — guess whom — to a Turk, who, she says, 
 lodged there once ; and, I assure you, she is expecting 
 it with as much anxiety as a lady of fashion looks for 
 the description of her first court- dress in the news- 
 paper. Were you gone before Koster wrote a criticism 
 upon this book to me, not suspecting me to be the 
 author, but hinting to me to take the hint, invite an 
 Italian to travel with me, and supply the deficiencies 
 in D. Manuel ? 
 
 The Peacheys were gone a day before your letter 
 arrived. She desired she might stand to the unborn, 
 a thing which I should have asked her, had it not 
 been for that fear which, year after year, I feel at seeing 
 her depart, — that she never possibly can live to return, 
 and for which there is more cause every year than 
 the last. There is a sweetness in that woman's nature 
 which is worth all other endowments whatsoever. 
 That sweet island of hers always makes me melancholy, 
 when I look at it after she is gone ; seven years ago, I 
 should have said so in half a score poems, but I am 
 
w * 
 
 1807. ROBERT SOTTTHEY. 35 
 
 To C. W. Williams Wynn, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 19. 1807. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 Frank for me the enclosed to the Rev. Joseph 
 Wilkinson, Thetford, Norfolk. My brother Henry is 
 looking about him where to settle. Thetford is one of 
 the places which have been mentioned to him ; and as 
 I happen to be acquainted with the rector of that place, 
 this letter is to make inquiry concerning the chance 
 there may be of his succeeding there. Another year 
 in Lisbon would have been convenient for him. 
 
 My uncle loses 3001 a year by this expulsion of the 
 English. My friend, John May, c 20,000l. He is one 
 of the best men I have ever known ; it was not possible 
 to make a better use of affluence than he did, or to 
 part with it with more composure. 
 
 I replied to the overtures about the " Edinburgh 
 Review " by a decided refusal, upon the ground of my 
 utter disapprobation of the general system of criticism 
 pursued by Jeffrey, and my utter dissent from all his 
 principles of taste, morals, and politics. As Walter 
 Scott happens to agree with me in the first, and in 
 his opinions about peace and Catholic Emancipation, 
 he was well pleased with the grounds and manner of 
 this refusal. 
 
 Coleridge is to lecture at the Royal Institution. 
 Have you heard that Davy is dangerously ill ? I 
 know no man whose death would be so greatly to 
 be lamented, as he has just struck out some of the 
 most important and original discoveries that have ever 
 been made in chemistry, and which, if he lives to 
 pursue them, will set his name far above all other 
 natural philosophers. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 D 2 
 
36 LETTERS OF 1807 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 21. 1807. 
 
 My dear Senhora, 
 
 I am flattered and gratified by Sir Edward's 
 offer of becoming godfather to the unborn, and you 
 will express to him my thankful acceptance of his 
 offer, in the best terms you can find. You have con- 
 trived to mingle something unpleasant with this, by 
 requesting me to change the name intended. I have 
 told Danvers that, should the child be a boy, Danvers 
 is to be his name, and assuredly Danvers his name 
 must be. I have as great a respect for Sir Edward as 
 it is possible to have for any person with whom I 
 am well acquainted only by report, and have seen 
 so seldom. But were I to name a child of mine after 
 him, the immediate question would be, Is he a particu- 
 lar friend of yours ? And to this, what reply could be 
 made? It would be paying him a very mean com- 
 pliment, thus to set aside one of my oldest and dearest 
 friends, — a man whom I most entirely love, honour, and 
 esteem, and whose name, I verily believe, if there be 
 anything good in the boy who bears it, will operate 
 as an incitement in him to every virtue. If I judge 
 rightly of Sir Edward Littleton, he would think 
 within himself, what am I to Southey, that he should 
 show me this preference? and judge me to be one of a 
 suppler spirit than it has pleased God to make me. 
 When you have reflected a little upon this, you will 
 feel that I am right ; and as for the never forgiving 
 of which you talk, it is I, Senhora, who have to 
 forgive you the imprudence with which you have sub- 
 jected me to this risk of displeasing Sir Edward, and 
 appearing insensible of the honour he has done me. 
 Out of this you must bring me as you best can. I 
 
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 TWjrr 
 
 1808. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 47 
 
 
 To Mr. J. N. White. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 9. 1 808. 
 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 You will be pleased to hear that I have received 
 two letters, both from persons whom I have never seen, 
 one yesternight, and the other this evening, requesting 
 me to favour them with some fragment of Henry's 
 writing, however trifling, that they might preserve it as 
 a relic. One of these applications comes from Mr. 
 Arthur Owen, whom I think you will feel disposed to 
 oblige, in requital for his sonnet, which bore tribute to 
 Henry's merit at a time when such tributes were useful 
 as well as pleasing. His direction is Edmund Hall, 
 Oxford. The other is from Mr. William Fox, junr. 
 Clapton, near Hackney, who published, some years 
 ago, a descriptive poem called " La Bagatelle." It is 
 a book which leaves a favourable impression both of the 
 talents and disposition of the author ; and, as the papers 
 are so numerous, you will perhaps have no objection to 
 oblige him also. If you gave the MS. of one of the 
 shortest printed poems to each, they would be gratified, 
 and your store not impoverished. There is something 
 in the feeling from which such requests originate that 
 pleads their excuse, and makes one wish to gratify it. 
 
 My friend Turner, the historian of the Anglo-Saxons, 
 one of the best, as well as of the most learned men with 
 whom it is my good fortune to be intimate, tells me he 
 cannot express how much he has been interested by the 
 " Remains," and that he regrets Henry far more than 
 Chatterton. I cannot say whether all here who peruse 
 the volume feel most wonder or regret. 
 
 If no accident prevent, I shall see you in the course 
 of next month, and, perhaps, early in the month. It 
 
48 LETTERS OF 1808. 
 
 will give me very sincere" pleasure to shake you by the 
 hand. 
 
 Yours very truly. 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To C. W. Williams Wynn, Esq., M. P. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 14. 1808. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 You may rest assured that not one syllable of 
 the abuse in the " Courier," has come from Coleridge. 
 The origin of the report is obvious. He is very inti- 
 mate with Stuart, who is one of the proprietors (not 
 the editor) and to whom the house belongs, and his 
 home in town is in consequence at the " Courier " 
 office. I am a little surprised that you should have 
 thought it possible anything so contemptible could 
 have come from him. 
 
 I am obliged to you for the newspapers. Scott 
 "Waring's reasoning, if it can be so called, is thoroughly 
 despicable. Something I had said upon the subject in 
 reviewing Buchanan's Travels; and I am not without 
 hopes that in consequence of what I said to him yester- 
 day, the Bishop of Llandaff may take up the subject. 
 
 The removal of the court to Brazil cannot be other- 
 wise than most highly beneficial to that country and to 
 this, as we shall now trade as freely with the colony, as 
 we did heretofore with Portugal. Anything like en- 
 lightened policy is not to be looked for, nor anything 
 beyond what cannot possibly be avoided. The prince 
 is almost an idiot, but just as he was obliged to run 
 away from Bonaparte (who proved himself the greater 
 idiot of the two in this business), just so will he be 
 obliged to open a free trade with England : circumstances 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 215 
 
 confinement of my father's takes away my after- 
 teas ; it is necessary to play backgammon with 
 him, or to complete a rubber. Happily idleness 
 and gaming are seldom unwelcome to me. My 
 mother is as well as usual. Hudson Gurney is 
 
 recovering. 
 
 " Yours, 
 
 " William Taylor, Jun." 
 Robert Southey to William Taylor. (No. 59.) 
 
 "Keswick, July 11, 1S08. 
 
 " Dear William Taylor, 
 " Whether you or I be most to blame for a 
 long chasm in a never very close correspond- 
 ence, is more than my memory can at present 
 reach to decide, but I suspect myself to be in 
 fault. I have received Dr. Sayers's Disquisi- 
 tions, and placed the copy which he addressed 
 to Coleridge among his books, where, with Dr. 
 S.'s Poems, it lies awaiting his return, which 
 is rather more difficult to calculate than that of 
 a comet : he is at present with Mrs. Clarkson 
 at Bury. Make my acknowledgements for the 
 book : I was pleased to see it had grown bulkier 
 in its new edition. Had Middleton been now at 
 Norwich, it is possible that you might have seen 
 Coleridge there, for M. called upon him in Lon- 
 don. It has been his humour for time past to 
 think, or rather to call, the Trinity a philosphi- 
 
216 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 cal and most important truth, and he is very 
 much delighted with Middleton's work upon the 
 subject. Dr. Sayers would not find him now 
 the warm HartleV^n that he has been ; Hartley 
 was ousted by Berkeley, Berkeley by Spinoza, 
 and Spinoza by Plato : when last I saw him, 
 Jacob Behmen had some chance of coming in. 
 The truth is that he plays with systems, and any 
 nonsense will serve him for a text from which 
 
 *Z~*)\ he can deduce something new and surprising. 
 
 J p*o Mrs. Martin has told me some ill news from 
 Norwich, and I suppose you have ere this lost a 
 good man who will long be regretted. Of late 
 I have had some interruptions in my ordinary 
 goings-on ; first, from sickness among the chil- 
 dren, and latterly by one of my obstinate ca- 
 tarrhs, which effected a lodgement three weeks 
 ago in my nose and eyes,, and has not yet quitted 
 its quarters, though it seems upon the move. 
 You will receive the ' Cid' in the course of a 
 month. How nobly have his countrymen justi- 
 fied the opinion of them which I have so often 
 expressed, and so generally to the astonishment 
 of those who heard me ! Spain will now be 
 free. Bonaparte has but one favour more to 
 confer upon them, — if he makes away with the 
 royal family, his crimes and their deliverance 
 will then be complete. It may perhaps be pos- 
 sible to prune down the rotten tree of their 
 
CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 219 
 
 thing, is painting a picture from one of my 
 
 poems, which is designed for me : it will come 
 
 through Miss Betham, the painter and poetess, 
 
 who is the largest damsel I have ever seen that 
 
 is not of the race of the giants, but a clever and 
 
 interesting woman, and likely to be the best 
 
 poetess of her age. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 " Robert Southey." 
 
 -■■ ..... X... 
 
 William Taylor to Robert Southey. (No. 56.) 
 
 " My dear Friend, « Norwich, July 26, 1808. 
 
 '• Thanks for your letter of the 11th July ; it 
 was welcome as a shower after a drought. I 
 began to grow anxious for news from Keswick, 
 and should have written to ask concerning your 
 welfare, had not Henry stilled the mere how-do- 
 you-do solicitudes. 
 
 " Since the receipt of your letter I have been 
 hoping for Coleridge's appearance in Norwich. 
 I do not write to offer him a bed, because my 
 father's infirmities, which occupy our servants 
 very much, have altered our hours and oblige us 
 to retire early, and Coleridge's habits tend to an 
 intemperate lateness ; but he would agreeably 
 diversify our dinner-parties and would not find 
 Norwich inhospitable. 
 
 " Fox's historic work I have been reading with 
 great delight : it is meritorious for research, and 
 has all the attachingness of romance, to which 
 
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 220 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 the bursts of oratory contribute not a little. The 
 pathetic narrative of Argyle's fate is injured by 
 the dramatic introduction of an imaginary peni- 
 tent, who sees the hero sleeping calmly before 
 his execution. The dissection of character, 
 though protracted, is exquisitely anatomical. 
 The care taken so to narrate everything that 
 men may profit in future by this particular re- 
 cord of experience, is a prominent merit of the 
 history ; it is full of deep thought and fine 
 maxims, yet the morality is rather lax. Like 
 Michael Angelo's Torso, though a fragment, 
 it will be the favourite study and the frequent 
 model of the artist*. The new Unitarian canon 
 is just arrived, and I am reading it. New trans- 
 
 * In a letter written at this period to his cousin, Mr. Dyson, 
 he thus expressed himself on the same subject : — " Have 
 you yet read Fox's historic 'work ? I am delighted with it. 
 The research of the antiquary is blended with the interest of 
 < the novelist. There are too many bursts of eloquence, yet 
 
 one cannot wish away such fine pleading. The death of Argyle 
 is a most pathetic piece of narration. The analysis of per- 
 sonal character — see especially that of Charles II. and that of 
 Monmouth — is carried to greater nicety than by any prece- 
 ding historian. The care taken to detect the moral of every 
 incident, and to convert the records of experience into lessons, 
 is admirable. The debates on the Exclusion Bill ought to 
 have been related ; and I should gladly have seen a specimen 
 of the manner in which Fox would condense a debate. It is 
 strange that he should be defective in parliamentary matter. 
 * J Michael Angelo made the Torso, though a fragment, the chief 
 
 model of his sculpture ; so the future historiographer will 
 select this fragment as the best extant specimen how history 
 ought to be written." 
 
CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 229 
 
 is a long piece cut off from the end of the ninth 
 book, and some metrical and other minor im- 
 provements made ; the notes printed at the end 
 of each book, a great difference in appearance, 
 and no very material one in reality. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 " Robert Southey." 
 
 Robert Southey to William Taylor. (No* 61.)^ 
 
 ' ' My dear Friend, " Keswick, December 6, 1 808. 
 
 " Coleridge, I understand, has ordered some of 
 his prospectuses to be sent to you, relying upon 
 me to write to you on the subject. He manages 
 things badly : a letter from me on the blank side 
 ,„ 7,, of one prospectus would have done without pack- 
 ing off to you a bundle of papers : and a few ad- 
 ^*>n vertisements in newspapers and magazines would 
 . have done better than torospectus at all. The 
 thing however is done, and that with so little 
 deliberation, though not till after much delay, 
 that some of it requires undoing ; for should he 
 have many subscribers in the country, there will 
 be no mode of regular delivery otherwise than by 
 post. In that case the numbers must be stamp- 
 ed, and stamps cover only a single sheet. Smaller 
 type and larger paper will bring it to the same 
 quantity of contents and the same market value. 
 Will he go on with the undertaking, will be your 
 first question. He can do it with little more 
 
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 230 
 
 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 trouble than that of arranging and putting to- 
 gether fragments already in existence ; and yet I 
 will own to you, that I have great doubts and 
 misgivings. I do not like the prospectus ; it is 
 too much like what it pretends to be, too fit for 
 a letter to be proper for the public. There is an 
 injudicious adulation, as it may almost be called, 
 of his friends, and an overdone abasement of him- 
 self; on the whole, a want of manliness, which I 
 cannot away with. But assuredly, if he carries 
 it into effect, great things will be done ; sounder 
 criticism and sounder philosophy established, as 
 well as advanced, than modern ages have seen ; 
 great truths upholden, and the axe laid at the 
 root of those great errors, which have been for 
 the last century held to be the very nine-and- 
 hirty articles of philosophical faith. 
 
 " When you collect your Synonimes you would 
 do well to mark what is the existing use of words, 
 as well as to hunt out their primary meaning. I 
 am much pleased that you persevere so steadily 
 in this collection, which will form a very valuable 
 bock in itself, and be of signal utility to the com- 
 piler of a national dictionary, whenever that work 
 shall be undertaken. I believe I shall withdraw 
 from the Athenseum altogether. Dr. Aikin, 
 among other rejections, has thought proper to 
 suppress an article in the Omniana, for no other 
 imaginable reason than that it called Pitt a bab- 
 
1808. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 113 
 
 Will you inform Mr. Park that those few poems of 
 poor Lovell's, for which I searched in vain, have turned 
 up among some old papers, and that I should have sent 
 them to him, had not his letter led me to believe they 
 would be too late ; — if there be time, they shall still be 
 forwarded. 
 
 The " Letters," as you may well remember, were 
 printed off in the second edition before I saw Mr. 
 Dashwood ; part of his communication was inserted in 
 the " Life "; the rest as soon as it could be in the third. 
 I am glad he is well pleased with the book. 
 
 The "Life of Colonel Hutchinson" is one of the best 
 books in the English language, or in any other ; you 
 must have read it with peculiar interest as being a Not- 
 tingham man. It accorded with all my best feelings 
 and dearest principles ; and I had the satisfaction of 
 reviewing it in the Annual, in such a manner as to pro- 
 duce a letter of thanks from the editor. 
 
 For these reverses in Spain I was prepared, and by 
 them I am not cast down, nor indeed led to abate a jot 
 of my full confidence in the final success of the Spa- 
 niards. We have, as usual, done everything in the very 
 worst manner possible, and have been far more mis- 
 chievous to the Spaniards as friends than we ever could 
 have been as enemies, by that rascally business in Por- 
 tugal, which appears worse and worse the more it is 
 investigated. But the end will be well ; this I said be- 
 fore any person had begun to hope, and this I shall say 
 after every person has ceased to hope, for Joseph will 
 soon be crowned at Madrid, — is probably by this time. 
 Zaragoza will in all likelihood be laid in ashes, and 
 Bonaparte will march to Lisbon ; still the country will 
 redeem itself, and work out its own redemption. Sir 
 John Moore has a strong country behind him, and if he 
 cannot make head in the field, may secure himself in 
 the fortified towns along the frontier. 
 
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114 LETTERS OF 1808. 
 
 God bless you. Remember me to James — has he re- 
 ceived benefit at Brighton ? 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Dr. H. H. Southey. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 7. 1808. 
 You will have stared, Sir Domine, at receiving a 
 parcel of Coleridge's Prospectuses. I am desired to ask 
 you to consult with Mr. George Taylor about sending 
 some to Sunderland. Make what use of them you can 
 in the way of distribution. They are upon too horny a 
 paper for any other use, and if you find any persons who 
 wish to subscribe, send me the names. 
 
 Domine Doctor, it is not such a Prospectus as I would 
 have written ; and had I seen it before it was printed, I 
 should have objected to its form, and to some of its 
 parts. It is now too late. Will he carry the thing 
 on ? — Dios es que sabe. I hope so ; for if it be carried 
 on, we shall have a tremendous battery to direct which 
 way we please ; and if he does but fairly set it forward, 
 it shall not drop for any accidental delay of illness on 
 his part. 
 
 I presume you are tooth and nail at your Annuals, 
 finishing off to be in time. Mine went off on Thursday 
 last ; and the floor is now covered with the contents of 
 a parcel on account of the unborn Review, all relating 
 to the Missions, of which I am preparing a general 
 view and vindication, in direct hostility to that despi- 
 cable article of Sidney Smith in the "Edinburgh." We 
 shall hoist the bloody flag, down alongside that Scotch 
 ship, and engage her yard-arm and yard-arm. Jeffrey, 
 after all his shifting, is now so sold, body and soul, to the 
 
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 1808. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 115 
 
 sneaking Whig party, that we shall have with us all the 
 rest of the country. What a complete separation is 
 there upon this question of war or peace between the 
 Whigs and the Republicans ! 
 
 What articles are yours in the last "Medical?" "Ma- 
 son Good," I guess, for one. One phrase in the reviewal of 
 Blair's book would make me think it was yours, but the 
 whole paper leads me to a different conclusion. Can you 
 tell me which are Gooch's articles ? The journal is 
 very well done, but there is a twang of Edinburgh in- 
 solence about it, which will make enemies, which can do 
 no good, and of which the writers, when they are a little 
 older, will be sorry and ashamed. Severity may often be 
 right ; insolence is always wrong. Generous minds and 
 tempers, Domine, are mellowed, like wine, as they grow 
 older. You may repent a sarcasm, — you never can re- 
 pent having forborne one. I like Gooch so much, and 
 was so thoroughly pleased with all I saw of him, that 
 this character which he has given to his review surprises 
 me. It is not his nature ; and why in God's name will 
 he graft crabs upon a nonpareil stock ? 
 
 I do not remember if I told you that Parry sent me 
 a letter during the summer to introduce some ladies, 
 who never came. It was a vile palavering letter, — pro- 
 vokingly so, and set both Tom and me growling. Ne- 
 vertheless, I should have been civil to his friends, had 
 they made their appearance. Saving Joanna Baillie, 
 we had no very interesting people this season : 
 
 And how go on physic and fees ? Have you enriched 
 the apothecary ? Has the undertaker set up his coach — 
 the grave-digger retired from business, since you came 
 to enrich them ? Have you had any cases of the Pole 
 Davy ? and exhibited the Zebethum Occidentale to ad- 
 vantage in these Northern latitudes ? Ha, ha ! Do- 
 mine ! I long to have a laugh with thee once more. 
 Here my puns are wasted on the desert air, and quaint 
 
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116 LETTERS OF 1808. 
 
 things enough to have set up a king's fool in times when 
 fools kept to their profession, are thrown away, and of 
 no account. Yet I go on heroically, and so I should do 
 if I were shut up for sedition in one of the solitary cells 
 of the English bastilles. 
 
 Early in the year I think of seeing you, going by way 
 of Carlisle, and returning by Bowes. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Lieutenant Southey, H. M. S. Dreadnought. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 30. 1808. 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 You inquire about my uncle just as if you sup- 
 posed that a man in England was likely to get anything 
 because he had good claim to it. I have not heard that 
 the Dean of Hereford is dead, and I am sure that my 
 uncle has no expectation of obtaining anything. He 
 has made up his mind to pass the remainder of his days 
 at Staunton. 
 
 It is some satisfaction to me that I shall be able to 
 leave upon record my opinion upon this- infamous Con- 
 vention, in the " History of Portugal." There is a talk of 
 an address from this country, but Lord Lonsdale will 
 do all he can to prevent a meeting, or oppose anything 
 that may be done at once. He and the ministry (all 
 ministers alike) never wish the people to come before 
 the King with anything except professions that they 
 are ready to kiss his Majesty *s . . . This his Majesty 
 is not yet tired of hearing, and would go on creating 
 knights and giving gracious replies to the end of the 
 chapter. I rejoice to see the spirited manner in which 
 
1809. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 117 
 
 the Common Council have resented his most improper 
 answer to their petition. If anything is done in Cum- 
 berland, here it will originate with Wordsworth : he 
 and I and Coleridge will set the business in its true 
 light, in the country newspapers, and frame the resolu- 
 tions, to be brought forward by some weighty persons ; 
 and Wordsworth will speak at the meeting, he being a 
 freeholder. We are all to meet Curwen (by his 
 special desire) at Calvert's on Friday next, and then I 
 
 suppose the plan of operations will be settled. It was 9 
 
 wished not to make this a party matter, and therefore 
 Lord Lonsdale was applied to through H. Senhouse, 
 but it seems he " views the Convention in a very different 
 light." God help poor England! Well might W. fore- 
 feelingly call our rulers 
 
 " A venal band 
 Who are to judge of danger which they fear, 
 And honour which they do not understand." 
 
 Do you know anything of Captain Philip Beaver ? He 
 has, I believe, the Acasta at this time in the W. Indies. 
 If you were in the way of falling in with him, I would 
 have a copy of the " Cid " sent you, that you might 
 give it him as a mark of respect. 1 have been reading — 
 indeed, have bought, — his " African Memoranda," the 
 Journal of the colony which he attempted to found on 
 the Island of Bulama, and from which only himself and 
 one adventurer returned ; but never did I read a book 
 which gave me so high an idea of the infinite resources, 
 activity, and genius of any one man, as that plain, 
 manly, right English book has given me of its author. 
 
 Herbert grows stout, and continues short. " Why 
 does Papa call you Herby ? " (which is what he calls 
 himself). " Mine dog ! " and then laughs. " And what 
 does mamma call you? " " Bright eyes ! " You would 
 laugh to see the faces he makes, when he says of his sister's 
 
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118 LETTERS OF 1809, 
 
 name, not Edaw, but Edis. Edaw he used to call her. 
 He says everything : rides pocko, rides towel, rides foot, 
 makes me give him three tosses, and has no mercy 
 upon either pocko, towel, foot, or father. Your niece 
 wants sadly to know when you are coming home, and 
 is surprised that you have not killed all the French yet. 
 I verily believe Lord Chatham would have finished the 
 war by this time. Twenty thousand men, landed at St. 
 Andero four months ago, would have exterminated all 
 the French in Spain, and 100,000 Spaniards would 
 have been beyond the Pyrenees, spreading fire, sword 
 and manifestoes, more formidable than either, before 
 them. I am glad to see they are investing the town 
 upon the coast from Catalonia. With Lord Cochrane's 
 help, they will find employment for a great many 
 troops in defending their own stores. But at home 
 here, all is delay, blunder, jobs, and rascality ; and so it 
 will continue to be till things are thoroughly altered. 
 No strength of mind, no rectitude of heart, no feeling 
 of honour, no sense of shame, among our trading poli- 
 ticians. If it were not for the indignation which the 
 people have discovered upon this cursed occasion, one 
 might be ashamed of one's country, and tempted to 
 wish oneself a Spaniard. 
 
 I shall make use of your stories of the hand, and of 
 " Junot," and good use. Do not let any stories of this 
 kind, or anything which I can make use of, escape you. 
 You know how these things, even after the lapse of many 
 years, always turn to account at last. God bless you. 
 Edith's love. 
 
 R. S. 
 

 
 1809. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 119 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 18. 1809. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 Parliament being so soon to assemble, — to the 
 great benefit of franking, and spoiling of newspapers, 
 I suppose that the Emperor of the Franks may by this be 
 arrived at Westminster, and that letters may once 
 more travel free as thought, — though not quite so fast. 
 George I., I believe, is somewhere in the way of College 
 Libraries; if you know where, direct to him the accom- 
 panying note, the purport of which is to request that he 
 (a most fit man) will hunt out a passage in an old 
 Lyons or Leyden edition of Ptolemy, impugning the 
 authenticity or veracity of Amerigo Vespucci's letters, 
 as they appear in the " Novus Orbis " of Grynaeus. For 
 I shall either prefix or append to each volume of my 
 " Opus " a critical account of the documents from which 
 it is compiled. I am in the press, and have corrected 
 seven sheets. 
 
 Landor (Gebir) has a bill coming before Parliament, 
 which will take him to town in four or five weeks. 
 Shall I introduce him to you, on the ground that you 
 may possibly give him information which may save him 
 some trouble ? You will thus see one of the most ex- 
 traordinary men that it has ever been my fortune to 
 fall in with, and one who would be one of the greatest, 
 if it were possible to tame him. He does more than 
 any of the gods of all my mythologies, for his very 
 words are thunder and lightning, — such is the power 
 and the splendour with which they burst out : but all . 
 is perfectly natural; there is no trick about him, — no 
 preaching, no parade, no playing off. 
 
 I will wrap up this in Coleridge's Prospectus. For 
 " The Friend " itself you may whistle these three months, «/ / 
 and God knows how much longer. Hitherto, however ,v/ 
 
120 LETTERS OF 
 
 1809. 
 
 there is no other blame attachable to him than that he 
 carried a prospectus wet from the pen to the printer, 
 without consulting anybody, or giving himself time for 
 consideration, and so a day was fixed for the appear- 
 ance of the first number which was impossibly soon. 
 Meantime, a hundred difficulties open upon him in the 
 way of publication, and doubtless some material change 
 must be made in the plan. I advise half-a-crown or 
 five shilling numbers irregularly, whenever they are 
 ready ; but no promised time, no promised quantity, no 
 promised anything. The Prospectus looks too much like 
 what it intends to be, talks confidently to the public 
 about what the public cares not a curse for, and has 
 about it a sort of unmanly humblejication, which is not 
 sincere, which the very object of the paper gives the lie 
 to, which may provoke some people, and can conciliate 
 nobody. Yet, such as it is, I shall augur best of those 
 persons who expected most from it, such a habit of 
 thinking, and such a train of thinking is manifested 
 there. 
 
 Have you seen Wordsworth's essays in the " Courier " 
 upon the Cintra Convention ? The second appeared in 
 to-night's, — that is, Friday, the 13th. They will be 
 separately published. God help us, Rickman ! If any- 
 thing can ruin Spain, and England too, it will be such 
 generals and such ministers as we are destined to be 
 cursed with. Even now the game is in our own hands, 
 if we knew how to play it. But these wretches have 
 no principles of action, no moral courage ; their bold- 
 ness is only face deep, — bronze over plaister-of-Paris 
 heads— and their talents just equal to the dirty job- 
 work which has long been the main business of what is 
 called government in England. 
 
 When you see or communicate with Arrowsmith, 
 will you tell him that what I have finally determined 
 about the map is, to have it as large as it conveniently 
 
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 1809. 
 
 ROBERT SOU THEY. 127 
 
 I should not have written just now, had it not been 
 to mention Rickman, thinking that you may find it 
 useful to know him ; for I wished, when writing, to 
 tell you of "Kehama;" and a good many interrup- 
 tions have occurred to delay my progress ; indispo- 
 sitions of my own, or of the children's, — this latter the 
 only thing concerning which I am anxious overmuch. 
 At present my wife is seriously ill ; and when I shall 
 be sufficiently at ease to do anything, God knows. 
 Another heat will finish the poem. 
 
 I hope you will not return to Spain. What is to be 
 done in that country must be behind stone walls, not in 
 the open field. Moore should have dispersed his army 
 among the frontier towns from the Minho to the Gua- 
 diana, and then have worn out the patience of the 
 French, while we fitted out a greater army to relieve 
 him. I do not abate a jot of heart or hope, as to the 
 ultimate issue of the struggle. Nay, I am, and ever 
 have been, fully persuaded, that if we landed 100,000 
 men near Bilbao, secured the passes, shut the French 
 in Spain, and landed 50,000 men to fight them there, 
 we should then have a campaign to which the world has 
 never seen a parallel since the battle of Plataea. But 
 
 house, and marvelled at his immense stores of information, and at 
 his facility as well as pleasure in imparting them to a willing 
 hearer like myself. I may mention, likewise, how, under a some- 
 what hard exterior, there was the deepest sense of Christian cha- 
 rity. I had a never-to-be-forgotten opportunity of noticing this 
 in a large party at his house, on which occasion, (admitting his 
 errors) he defended the name and memory of Porson, whom he 
 knew, from needless censure. What has become of his Etymo- 
 logical Collections, and his Papers on Roger and Lord Bacon ? 
 If his own motto was " Pondere, numero, et mensura" mine, deeply 
 impressed with the sense of his worth, acknowledged and ex- 
 pressed by all parties in the House, after his death, would be in 
 the words of Ennius, — 
 
 " VlR BONUS ATQUE PBOBUS ! " 
 
128 / ^ LETTERS OP 1809. 
 
 * we are palsied at home. There is not one statesman 
 among us who has either wisdom or virtue. 
 
 _^ Coleridge's essay is expected to start in March. 
 
 My uncle, Mr. Hill, is settled at his parsonage at 
 Staunton-upon-Wye, — in that savage part of the world 
 to which your cedar plantation will give new beauty, 
 and your name new interest, when those cedars shall 
 have given place to their offspring. It is probable that 
 you have no other neighbour so well informed within 
 the same distance. Next year, God willing, I shall 
 travel to the south, and halt with him. It is likely that 
 I may then find you out, either at Llantony, or some- 
 where in the course of a wide circuit. Meantime I 
 will still hope that some fair breeze of inclination may 
 send you here to talk about Spain, to plan a great 
 poem, and to cruise with me about the Derwentwater. 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. Southey. 
 
 To John May, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, February 18, 1809. 
 
 My dear Friend, 
 
 I should have written to you before this, had 
 it not been for a more unpleasant reason than the per- 
 manent one of constant employment. Edith has had a 
 serious indisposition, which at length confined her to 
 her bed for eight days ; and it was but yesterday that 
 she was sufficiently recovered to walk from her own 
 room into mine. 
 
 I am anxious to hear how your brother bears the 
 climate of Brazil. Healthy as that part of the country 
 is, yet, I believe, few Englishmen can escape without 
 some seasoning ; and there was an account, some little 
 

 261 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 1809 to 1810. 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. MONTHLY 
 MAGAZINE. CRITICAL REVIEW. LETTER TO 
 MR. BELSHAM. ' TALES OF YORE.' MONTHLY 
 REVIEW. 
 
 Robert Southey commenced his correspond- 
 ence with William Taylor in the year 1809 by 
 sending him the before-announced prospectus of 
 Coleridge's projected periodical paper, ' The 
 Friend,' which was accompanied by the follow- 
 ing letter. 
 
 Robert Southey to William ^aylor. 4N0. 62.) 
 
 " My dear William Taylor, ***** 
 
 " At length I have laid hand on a prospectus, 
 which I send you rather as a thing worth having 
 than for any other use ; for Coleridge sent it 
 abroad hastily, without consideration on his own 
 *> 70* part or consultation with anybody else, and both 
 the how and the when of publication remain 
 yet to be settled. My advice to him is, not to 
 venture upon any periodical task, because I am 
 
 or 
 
 
262 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 quite certain he never will be ready in time; 
 but to publish a half-crown or five-shilling num- 
 ber whenever he can be ready with one. That 
 something should be done I am very anxious, 
 because if what there is in Coleridge be not 
 drawn out of him in this way, it will never be 
 drawn out of him at all. 
 
 " I thank you for De Lery, which has proved 
 of greater value than I expected, inasmuch as 
 De Bry, like a right Roman Catholic, has omit- 
 ted the whole chapter relating to Villegagnon, 
 the main part of the preface, and most of the 
 parts which expose Thevet's ignorance and 
 knavery. Even from the book thus mutilated 
 I had, by the help of Thuanus, formed an opi- 
 nion, which the additional facts thus got at 
 completely verify and establish. My Bayle is, 
 I fear, the first edition, for I can find nothing 
 there upon the subject. Moreri has something 
 about it in his usual meagre and wretched way. 
 I do not by any means dispute or doubt that the 
 Caraibes of the French are our Carribs ; but in 
 De Lery the word is different. He means there 
 the Tupi priests, who were Tupis themselves ; 
 but it is used improperly both by him and some 
 of the Portuguese writers, for Marcgrave (what 
 is the Dutch orthography of that name ?) makes 
 the distinction, and explains Paye to be the con- 
 juror, Caraiba his power of conjuration. 
 
Op 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 269 
 
 more as a body than any or all our universities. 
 It should have been Bonaparte's policy to have 
 restored the Jesuits ; he should have done it for 
 his immediate interest and for his future cha- 
 racter. Thorough villain as he is, he is not 
 much worse than Constantine ; and the praise of 
 a grateful sect can yet do wonders in whitewash- 
 ing a negro-reputation. 
 
 "Two things amused me in the last Monthly 
 Review — the sagacity with which the William- 
 Taylorisms of the Demerary book are accounted 
 for by Mr. Bolingbroke's official situation, and 
 Mr. Evans's Verses upon Madoc (not my ' Ma- 
 doc,' but the prince himself), which are certainly 
 made upon the most approved receipt for verse- 
 making. I have seldom seen a worse reviewal 
 than that of Bolingbroke. The writer must have 
 been wretchedly ignorant to extract the account 
 of the Feast of Dead, which is to be found in 
 very many books (you are wrong in supposing 
 it to be Mexican), and he must have been per- 
 versely stupid to pass over without any notice 
 the great and striking novelties which the book 
 really contains. I do not mean in matter of 
 fact, of which there is little enough, but in its 
 deductions and views. 
 
 "This affair of the Duke of York and Mrs. 
 Clarke is certainly one of the most important 
 signs of the times. The people here are very 
 
270 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 indignant, and revolution is prophesied by those 
 who certainly have no wish to see their predic- 
 tions verified. William Smith has done himself 
 no credit in this investigation, and the House 
 of Commons never appeared to less advantage 
 than by the gross leaning towards the Duke 
 which they have manifested throughout. 
 
 " I hope to have ' Kehama ' finished early in 
 the spring, and much to my satisfaction. The 
 metre of my next poem is yet undecided, and 
 this is the only point about it which requires 
 further consideration. I am full of great plans, 
 and, God be thanked, never was better disposed 
 nor better able to go through with them. The 
 ' Cid ' fell to W. Scott's care in the Quar- 
 terly, to Turner's in the Annual. God bless 
 
 you ! 
 
 "Yours, 
 
 " Robert Southey." 
 
 William Taylor to Robert Southey. (No. 59.) 
 
 " My dear Friend, « Norwich, March 10, 1809. 
 " I have to thank you for two letters ; the one 
 enclosing Coleridge's prospectus received in. Ja- 
 nuary, and the other applying for Raymond Bre- 
 ton, of which book Mr. Bolingbroke and I know 
 no more than Lord Monboddo has been pleased 
 to say concerning it in a note to the ' Origin of 
 Languages,' c. vii. vol. i. p. 503. From hearing 
 
CORRESPONDENCE WITH R SOUTHEY. 271 
 
 no more of The Friend, the enterprize I pre- 
 sume is abandoned, or at least put into the more 
 expedient form of appearing as a whole volume. 
 There is a perpetual demand for parlour-window 
 books, and The Friend seems adapted by its ge- 
 neral structure for the reading of the female and 
 the moral world. The tendency to metaphysical 
 speculation, which maybe inferred from the pro- 
 spectus, is not likely to popularize the book. — Do 
 you not yet despair of the Spanish cause, as far 
 as European Spain is concerned ? I never much 
 thought that so superstitious and ignorant a peo- 
 ple would combine for a national purpose with 
 efficacious skill. The best chance was to have 
 let republicanism loose and to have set up a re- 
 presentation of the people, presided by the arch- 
 bishop of Toledo ; if by any means, by an alli- 
 ance of church and people at the expense of 
 royalty and aristocracy, the zeal and the resources 
 were to have been found. The proclamation of 
 Ferdinand VII. was in every view impolitic ; it 
 must intercept our recognition of the indepen- 
 dence of Spanish America. — What I said of Jef- 
 fray respected his talents, not his consistency : 
 he always exaggerates, as every stimulant writer 
 must do : and all hyperbolists appear far more 
 inconsistent and self-contradictory, when they or 
 their spectators have moved to the opposite side 
 of the ring, than persons who use tame expres- 
 sions. Hence Burke appears to many so full of 
 
 *? 
 
272 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 tergiversations. If you are now an advocate for 
 war, in order to help the Spaniards, you must 
 keep in your bosom those common-places of phi- 
 lanthropy which you used to employ in favour of 
 peace, while you abhorred the war against the 
 liberties of France. Is there in this any tergi- 
 versation ? Surely not. Why may not JefFray 
 be motived by adequate causes to think as he 
 thinks ? However, it is not with his politics that 
 I am in love ; but with his comprehensive know- 
 ledge, with his brilliant and definite expression, 
 and with his subtle argumentative power. I have 
 not yet seen the Quarterly Review ; it is said to 
 rival that of JefFray ; but I shall be surprised if 
 there is literary strength enough in any other 
 combination to teach so many good opinions so 
 well as the Edinburgh Reviewers. Who is the 
 manager of it ? I suppose what you were writing 
 about the missions is the article that has appeared 
 in the Quarterly. 
 
 " I thought I had written you the secret hi- 
 story of Mr. Bolingbroke's book ; I must have 
 written it to Henry, and supposed it was su- 
 perfluous to say the same things both at Dur- 
 ham and Keswick The papers were put into 
 my hands and into those of his brother-in- 
 law, Robert Gooch, whom you know. We both 
 clipped out much and put in something. Mr. 
 Bolingbroke was very anxious to execute with 
 effect his chapter about the slave-trade. There 
 
C i-# 
 
 iETAT. 35. OF ROBERT SOUTHET. 223 
 
 I do not possess ; and a punctuality not to be ex- 
 ceeded by that of Mr. Murray's opposite neighbours 
 at St. Dunstan's. 
 
 I am, Sir, 
 
 Yours very respectfully, 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY." 
 
 To Lieut. Southey, H. M. S. Dreadnought. 
 
 "Keswick, March 14. 1809. 
 
 " My dear Tom, 
 
 " Yesterday I returned from a visit to Henry and 
 
 his bride He lives in a street called 
 
 by the unaccountable name of Old Elvet. A lucky 
 opening on the opposite side of the way leaves him 
 a good view of the cathedral on the hill, and the 
 river is within a stone's throw of his back-door. 
 Durham stands upon a peninsula, — that is to say, the 
 main part of it, — a high bank, on which is the ca- 
 thedral, and the castle, and the best houses; and 
 there are delightful walks below, such as no other 
 city can boast, through fine old trees on the river's 
 bank, from whence you look to the noble building 
 on the opposite side, and see one bridge through the 
 other. Harry is well off there, getting rapidly into 
 practice, and living among all sorts of people, — pre- 
 bends and Roman Catholics, fox- hunters and old 
 women, with all of whom he seems to accord equally 
 well. . . . It is a place where any person might 
 live contentedly. Among all these thousand and one 
 
224 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 35. 
 
 acquaintances there are some whom one might soon 
 learn to love, and a great many with whom to be 
 amused, and none that are insufferable. One day 
 I dined with Dr. Zouch, who wrote the Life of Sir 
 P. Sidney. I never saw a gentler-minded man ; the 
 few sentences of bigotry which he has written must 
 have cost him strange efforts to bring forth, for I do 
 not think a harsh expression ever could pass his *lips, 
 nor a harsh feeling ever enter his heart. In spite of 
 his deafness, I contrived to have a good deal of talk 
 with him. Dr. Bell was there, the original trans- 
 planter of that Hindoo system of teaching which 
 Lancaster has adopted. He is a great friend of 
 Coleridge's ; a man pleasant enough, certes a great 
 benefactor to his country, but a little given to flat- 
 tery, and knowing less about India than a man ought 
 to know who has lived there. Another day I dined 
 with Dr. Fenwick, the ex-physician of the place. 
 There we drank the Arch-duke Charles's health in 
 Tokay, a wine which I had never before tasted. 
 This is the first victory by which I ever got any- 
 thing. The Tokay proved prolific. Harry's next 
 door neighbour was one of the party, and fancied 
 some unknown wine which had been presented to 
 him might be the same as this ; and he proposed, as 
 we walked home, to bring in a bottle and sup with 
 us. I, however, recognised it for Old Sack, — itself 
 no bad thing. 
 
 " On Monday last, after a week's visit, I took 
 coach where I had appointed, to pass a day with 
 James Losh, whom you know I have always 
 
/■ 
 
 
 J. 
 
 1809. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 139 
 
 I expect daily to hear of Harry's marriage with Mary 
 Sealy. God bless you. I suppose Sir E. is in town, 
 and therefore do not inclose the letter. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Lieutenant Southey, H. M. S. Dreadnought. 
 
 Keswick, May, 1809. 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 I was wondering what could be become of you, 
 till the " Courier" told me Admiral Sotheby was cruis- 
 ing in the Channel. Good luck to your cruise, and a 
 reasonable supply of prize-money ! 
 
 Since last I wrote, Herbert has had the croup, and 
 we, as you may suppose, were in great anxiety. • He is 
 now, thank God, recovering his looks, for the bleeding 
 left him dismally pale ; the blister is healed, and very 
 thankful we are that the means of treating a disease, 
 which, till lately, was almost always fatal, are now so 
 well understood. 
 
 Ballantyne, the bookseller (the printer's brother), 
 sent me a note yesterday, saying he was arrived at 
 the Royal Oak, and would be happy to wait on me at 
 whatever hour I might appoint, so I asked him to 
 dinner, — a lucky piece of civility on my part, inas- 
 much as it appeared afterwards that he was come from 
 Penrith on purpose to see me, and returned there the 
 same night. Of this I had not the smallest suspicion. 
 The matter was this : I had, in a letter to Scott, said 
 that a review of old books, that is, of any books, ex- 
 cept such as were in the province of contemporary cri- 
 ticism, would answer if it were well conducted. Scott 
 talked this over in London, and Ballantyne, returning 
 from thence, came commissioned to treat with me about 
 
140 LETTERS OF 1809. 
 
 such a work. Things will not be finally settled till I 
 have seen Scott, who offers to take a great share in the 
 work, if I will conduct it. I am offered 1001. a year as 
 editor, and ten guineas a sheet; the thing to be in 
 quarterly five shilling numbers ; and the name which 
 I propose is " Rhadamanthus," he being the Judge 
 of the Dead. I can rely upon William Taylor for ma- 
 terial co-operation, and hope for some from Rickman 
 and Turner, — possibly from Lamb, not impossibly 
 from Coleridge. There are some things which Lloyd 
 could do well, if I were not afraid of his flux of 
 writing ; but I shall talk to him. If this plan be car- 
 ried into effect, I shall need no other lucre-qf-gain 
 work, for the quantity of my own contributions will 
 depend upon myself, and I can with ease write 150/. 
 worth in the year. The trouble as editor is merely 
 that of writing letters, receiving articles, suiting them 
 to the numbers, and correcting proof sheets ; and as I 
 would not begin till I had the quantity for two num- 
 bers ready, all anxiety arising from improvidence, or 
 want of punctuality in others would be prevented. 
 
 Ballantyne, speaking of the " Quarterly/' said he 
 hoped they would leave alone the business of the Duke 
 of York, thereby implying ' a fear that they would de- 
 fend him, which would destroy the Review. My im- 
 mediate answer was, " that if they did, or if they took 
 up the anti-Jacobite politics, I should immediately 
 withdraw ;" and in all likelihood this will be the case, 
 unless the foreknowledge which they must have of this 
 determination of mine should prevent them ; for to 
 Gifford I explained my principles, and to Bedford ex- 
 pressly stated that as soon as the book ran counter to 
 them I should break off the connexion. 
 
 I expect Scott daily, with his wife, on their way to 
 Edinburgh ; they stop one night, and if they arrive in 
 the course of a week I go on with them. It is likely 
 

 1809. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 159 
 
 return on Saturday. Yesterday I took Miss Betliam, 
 Edith, and Mrs. Coleridge up Skiddaw, being their 
 first appearance upon that stage. They walked it, and 
 did it well by help of meat and drink on the way. 
 Coming home Mrs. C. got into a bog some way above 
 her knees, and I saved her life ! I wish you had been 
 there to have assisted in it. Afterwards I washed her 
 petticoat in one of the gills, and carried it home upon 
 my stick. Oh, Dominie, Doctor ! if you had but been 
 there ! Our love to Mary. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, August 17 — 20. 1809. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 I can wish you nothing better than that your 
 life may be as long, your age as hale, and your death as 
 easy as your father's.* The death of a parent is a more 
 awful sorrow than that of a child, but a less painful one : 
 it is in the inevitable order and right course of nature 
 that ripe fruit should fall ; it seems like one of its 
 
 * " I have received your letter of the 29th July ; but see the 
 instability of human affairs ! I, who talked of going to Keswick, 
 am now at Christ Church, summoned to attend the funeral of my 
 good father, who is to be gathered to his ancestors at Milford (be- 
 tween this and Lymington) to-morrow. His illness was but a 
 paralytic stroke, which rendered him insensible immediately, so 
 that be has died, as desired, at a good old age, and without the 
 sting of mortal dissolution. Peace be with him ! A man of milder 
 temper, and of more general benignity never lived. In the peace- 
 ful qualities of the mind, a better man than his son ; in activity, 
 perhaps in utility, inferior. You knew him, and I think held his 
 countenance and his heart to be in happy unison ! " — MS. Letter 
 from J. Rickman to R. Southey. 
 
160 LETTERS OF 1809. 
 
 mishaps when the green bud is cut off. In the outward 
 and visible system of things nothing is wasted: it 
 would therefore be belying the whole system to be- 
 lieve that intellect and love, — which are of all things 
 the best, — could perish. I have a strong and lively 
 faith in a state of continued consciousness from this 
 stage of existence, and that we shall recover the con- 
 sciousness of some lower stages through which we may 
 previously have past, seems to me not improbable. The 
 supposition serves for dreams and systems, — the belief 
 is a possession more precious than any other. I love 
 life, and can thoroughly enjoy it ; but if to exist were 
 but a lifehold property, I am doubtful whether I should 
 think the lease worth holding. It would be better 
 never to have been than ever to cease to be. 
 
 Still I shall hope for your coming. You would at 
 any rate have been inconveniently late for the High- 
 lands, for which as near Midsummer as possible is the 
 best season. September is the best for this country. 
 
 I have been made to do what has proved to be a 
 foolish thing. Walter Scott wrote to me to say that 
 Canning had a great wish to serve me, and that he, 
 Scott, had been commissioned by him to find out in 
 what manner it might be done conformably to my 
 inclinations. Sharpe was here at the time. I told 
 him of this, and he advised me to ask for the steward- 
 ship of the Derwentwater Estates, which will soon be 
 vacated by death. Upon this I wrote to Scott, and 
 also to "Wynn ; both agreed that it would be the best 
 thing possible for me, and both advised me, as a sine 
 qua non, to make interest for Lord Lonsdale's counte- 
 nance. Behold me thus place-hunting in regular form. 
 I got Sir George Beaumont to write to Lord Lonsdale. 
 My friend Humphrey Senhouse (who has election 
 weight with him) did the same, and that position was 
 effectually secured. He promised everything, and in- 
 

 iETAT. 36. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 251 
 
 wards you ; but the fault is not in me. Longman 
 has been to blame in adjourning the printing the 
 work sine die. I will in my next letter state to him 
 that he is making me use you ill, and that if there be 
 any further delay, I shall feel myself bound to throw 
 up the business. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
 To Lieut. Southey, H. M. S. Dreadnought. 
 
 " Sept. 19. 1809. 
 
 " My dear Tom, 
 
 " Poor Jackson is gone at last, after a cruel illness. 
 I followed him to the grave to-day. A good man, 
 to whom the town of Keswick and many of its in- 
 habitants are greatly beholden. He has left Hartley 
 507. to be paid when he comes of age. Had he 
 thought of bequeathing him his books it would have 
 been a more suitable remembrance. Never had man 
 a more faithful, anxious, and indefatigable nurse than 
 he has had in Mrs. Wilson, — always ready, always 
 watchful, always willing, never uttering a complaint, 
 never sparing herself; with the most disinterested 
 affection ; acting so entirely from the feelings of a 
 good heart, that I do not believe even the thought of 
 duty ever entered it. The night after his death we 
 made her take a little spirit and water ; it was not a 
 tea-cupfull, but upon her it acted as medicine ; and 
 she told me the next day that, for the first time 
 during two years, she had slept through the night. 
 
252 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 36. 
 
 He never turned in his bed during that whole time 
 that she did not hear, nor did he make the slightest 
 unusual sound or motion that she was not up to 
 know what could be done for him. As you will 
 readily suppose, I have long since told her never to 
 think of quitting the place, but to remain here as 
 long as she lives with people to whom she is attached 
 (she doats upon Edith and Herbert), and who can 
 understand her worth. 
 
 <( Busy as it is usually my fortune to be, I was 
 never so busy as now. Three mornings more will 
 finish my transcribing task for the first volume of my 
 History of Brazil, including a long chapter, which, I 
 fear, can hardly be got into the volume, though I 
 much wish to insert it. Then come the notes, — 
 supplementary, — which might, with great pleasure 
 to myself and profit to my reader, be extended to 
 another volume as large ; but I shall not allow them 
 much more than fifty pages. The book, as a whole, 
 is more amusing than was to be expected. About a 
 fortnight's morning work will complete my work for 
 it : 448 pages are printed ; the whole will not be 
 less than 660. 
 
 " Last night we had a prodigious flood, higher in 
 some places than can be remembered ; I say in some 
 places, because the lake was previously low, and the 
 force of the waters was spent before they found their 
 way to it. Do you know the little bridge over what 
 is usually a dry ditch at the beginning of the Church 
 Lane ? The water was over it, and three feet deep 
 in the lane. Half Slacks Bridge is gone, a chaise- 
 driver and horses lost between this place and Wigton, 
 
2Etat. 36. OF ROBERT SOTJTHEY. 257 
 
 and, doubtless, the most popular in delivery, are 
 usually extraneous to the main subject in hand. All 
 his congregations would fairly say e What a fine dis- 
 course !' to every sermon; but, when the whole are 
 read collectively, they do not exhibit that clear and 
 connected view of prophecy which is what he should 
 have aimed at. There is, perhaps, hardly any sub- 
 ject which requires so much erudition, and so constant 
 an exertion of sound judgment. The Doctor's 
 learning is not extensive ; he quotes from books of 
 little authority, and never refers to those which are 
 of most importance. Indeed, he does not appear to 
 know what the Germans have done in Biblical 
 
 criticism. 
 a 
 
 It has occurred to me that it would add to the in- 
 terest of the Remains, if the name under the portrait 
 were made a fac-simile of Henry's handwriting. 
 Since I wrote to you, I fell in with Dr. Milner, the 
 Dean of Carlisle, who talked to me about Henry; 
 how little he had known of him, and how much he 
 regretted that he should not have known him more. 
 I told him what you were doing with James, ex- 
 pressing a hope that he might find friends at Cam- 
 bridge, for his brother's sake as well as his own, 
 which he thought would certainly be the case. 
 
 " We thank you for Miss Smith's book, a very, 
 very interesting one. There are better translations 
 of some of Klopstock's odes in the Monthly Magazine, 
 where, also, is to be found a full account of the 
 Messiah, with extracts translated by my very able 
 
 VOL. III. s 
 
258 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE JEtat. 36 > 
 
 and excellent friend, William Taylor, of Norwicn. ^ 
 
 Coleridge and Wordsworth visited Klopstock in the 
 
 year 1797: he wore a great wig. Klopstock in a 
 
 wig, they (said, was something like Mr. Milton. His 
 
 Life will always retain its interest ; his fame as a 
 
 poet will not be lasting In Germany, 
 
 his day of reputation is already passing away. There 
 is no other country where the principle of criticism 
 is so well understood. But one loves Klopstock as 
 well as if he had been really the poet that his 
 admirers believe him to be ; and his wife was as 
 much an angel as she could be while on earth. . . 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 K. S." 
 
 Mr. Coleridge, who was at this time residing at 
 Grasmere, had lately commenced the publication of 
 The Friend, which came out in weekly numbers ; 
 and, becoming apprehensive that it was not altogether 
 well calculated to find favour with the class of readers 
 likely to take in a periodical work, he now wrote to 
 my father, requesting him to address such a letter to 
 him in his Friendly character as might afford him a 
 good plea for justifying the form and style of the 
 paper in question. 
 
 Both the request and the reply to it will be in- 
 teresting to the reader, especially as the Friend, 
 however unattractive to the popular mind as a 
 periodical, has, like the Spectator and the Rambler, 
 taken a permanent place among the works of its 
 author and the literature of the nation. 
 
■V 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEV. 283 
 
 ^*^^i^^^t 7 i fry 
 
 of them may accord with his object; and also / 
 how far it will be compatible with my better 
 pursuits to undertake so large a portion of trade 
 work. He has applied to me upon very short 
 notice, and I am by no means prepared for the 
 task. It was indeed in other hands, but the 
 sample sent was so thoroughly tame and worth- 
 less (I had it sent to me), that he has done wisely 
 to pay for it and cancel it at once. I am waiting 
 for documents which Longman is slow in send- 
 ing, and meantime get on with a preliminary 
 view of parties at home, so written as to be sure 
 of pleasing no party, because it will speak bitter 
 truths of all. The death of the Athenaeum ra- 
 ther surprised me, because I thought the book- 
 sellers could force anything in that shape down : 
 let any motto be written upon its ach'ment ex- 
 cept Resurgam: The death of the Annual I 
 expected : if the coroner's inquest should sit 
 upon its body, they may find that it was starved 
 to death. Peace be with it ! I served a seven 
 years' apprenticeship to it at low wages, and 
 must have struck had it continued longer. You 
 will receive the first volume of ' Brazil ' late in 
 autumn ; fifty-four sheets are printed, and I am 
 transcribing the last chapter : supplementary 
 notes and a bibliographical appendix will extend 
 the volume to something above 600 pages. It 
 has cost me very great labour, and I do not 
 
284 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 think more could have been done with it. The 
 second volume will be the more interesting of 
 the two. 
 
 "Harry, being now fairly settled in practice, 
 and a married man, has, I believe, fallen seri- 
 ously to work upon what has long been a fa- 
 vourite project of his, and one in which I have 
 always encouraged him, — a ' History of the 
 Crusades.' He is well situated for this, there 
 being two libraries belonging to the church at 
 Durham, both at his command and both abound- 
 ing with old books, among which are the most 
 important of his materials ; some I can help him 
 to, and the rest I know where to borrow. I 
 have instructed him in my method of historical 
 book-keeping, — the result of nine years' experi- 
 ence,^ — which will save him much labour, — that 
 is, in preventing him from losing any. 
 
 " Coleridge has sent out a fourth number 
 to-day. I have always expected every num- 
 ber to be the last : he may, however, pos- 
 sibly go on in this intermitting way till sub- 
 scribers enough withdraw their names (partly in 
 anger at its irregularity, more because they find 
 it heathen. Greek) to give him an ostensible 
 reason for stopping short. Both he and Words- 
 worth, powerfully as they can write and pro- 
 foundly as they usually think, have been betrayed 
 iuto the same fault, — that of making things, easy 
 
 m^Tv^ 
 
* 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 285 
 
 of comprehension in themselves, difficult to be 
 
 comprehended by their way of stating them : 
 
 instead of going to the natural spring for water, 
 
 they seem to like the labour of digging wells. 
 
 The tower-of-Babel character of your English 
 
 offends them grievously ; the hardness of theirs 
 
 appears to me a less excusable fault. Your plan 
 
 of a quarterly magazine could not fail to answer, 
 
 if it were well-started and supported. I wish 
 
 you could start one ; and, if you should, will do 
 
 for it all I can. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 " Robert Southey." 
 William Taylor to Robert Southey. (No. 62.) 
 
 " My dear Friend, " Norwich, March 28, 1810. 
 
 " A letter arrived here last Saturday directed 
 to you : am I to forward it elsewhither, or may 
 I hope to see you ? Daily since it came I have 
 been to meet both the mail-coaches at the inn, with 
 the eager expectation of your being a passenger ; 
 fatigued of disappointment I desist from my 
 search, to exhale the sigh of aspiration or regret. 
 
 "It is long, shamefully long, since I have 
 written to you : the cause is not wholly of agree- 
 able narration. In November last I was defer- 
 ring to write with the wish of accompanying my 
 letter by a copy of the ' Tales of Yore ' ; but I 
 discovered that I had acted with levity (to use 
 
286 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 no coarser name), by endeavouring to eke out 
 the want of provided material with an old trans- 
 lation of Voltaire's ' White Bull'. I determined 
 to cancel the vicious sheets. This took time : 
 there was new matter to seek, to translate, and 
 to overlook. I received but last week the puri- 
 fied copies, which I would willingly have believed 
 the only extant ones : unhappily Mr. Mawman, 
 in his eagerness to accommodate his Critical 
 Review with early intelligence, sent to the editor 
 of that journal a copy with all its pristine im- 
 perfections on its head. I am assured, however, 
 that not six copies have got abroad in the ori- 
 ginal state ; but as some impertinent bibliogra- 
 pher may choose to record the fact, I must bear 
 as I can the consequence. I have to send you 
 and to send to Henry a copy of the book, but 
 know not through what channel to order the 
 forwarding : it is a bookseller's job, which I do 
 not wish to avow. I have read with more than 
 the interest of intellect, if that be possible, your 
 prospectus of the Edinburgh Annual Register. 
 Walter Scott would have done better not to in- 
 commode you with a subsidiary volume of lite- 
 rary intelligence : an Edinburgh Annual Register 
 should be a separate care. You will find it diffi- 
 cult to compress the details which are perma- 
 nently valuable into one volume ; and you will 
 find the tail of the comet less radiant than the 
 
CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 287 
 
 nucleus, — sweepings of the heavens where Jeffrey 
 and Co. are the constellations. Hermogenes 
 lived seventy-seven years and wrote seventy- 
 seven books ; you too promise fair to count years 
 by works. The death of Rhadamanthus I do not 
 regret. One trial which I had reported for the 
 records of his court, and which I have addressed 
 to Sir Richard Phillips for the Monthly Magazine, 
 is Heywood's ' Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels,' 
 1635. It is wonderful to me that Milton should 
 so totally have disdained even the angelic no- 
 menclature of his predecessors. Hey wood was 
 indeed a loyalist and a bad poet ; but bad poets 
 usually tinge their better contemporaries. 
 
 " Lately I have been busying myself in a man- 
 ner you will disapprove, by throwing together 
 all my past and present theological speculations 
 about the origin of Christianity and the life of 
 Christ in the form of letters to the editors of 
 the - Improved Version.' Burnett, who has been 
 writing to me with his Milton, and for money, 
 and for patronage in his pursuit of the librarian- 
 ship at the Institute, has mediated with his 
 printers for the publication. I sent a prelimi- 
 nary letter a month ago ; but, not having heard a 
 word since, I suspect the manuscript has mis- 
 carried ; and if so, I believe the work will mis- 
 carry. The fever of mental stimulation has 
 subsided, and with it all present inclination to 
 
288 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 proceed : my zeals, however, though never last- 
 ing, are always revivable. At one time the 
 mezerions of poetry stretch their purple fingers ; 
 at another, the hedge-row hawthorns of politics, 
 limiting rights and wounding trespassers : at an- 
 other, the high-darting, regularly knotted, elastic, 
 plastic bamboos of metaphysics ; at another, the 
 dark -wreathed simbul which strangles the cedar 
 of superstition. Oh that, instead of this morbid 
 versatility, I could persevere in some quiet in- 
 cessant historic task ! You are now among the 
 politicians. Are we to hope for a change of 
 ministers, or to fear it? There is much to desi- 
 derate, little to desire ; the merit is absent which 
 one could alone be anxious to elevate. I am no 
 convert to Sir F. Burdett's argument about Gale 
 Jones's case : a right of police, sufficient to pro- 
 tect the house from being overawed by a rabble, 
 ought to vest in the Commons themselves ; the 
 king and his courts of justice would only defend 
 the representatives of the people against disloyal 
 clamourers. The impeachment of Strafford was 
 compelled by the operation of such wall-bills as 
 Gale Jones furnished : trifling as may be his 
 offence, just as may be his feeling, the precedent 
 is momentous. 
 
 " For Coleridge's • Friend ' I desired my book- 
 seller to write, but it has never reached me : 
 some one compared it in my hearing to a muddy 
 
/ 
 
 JEtat. 36. OF BOBERT SOUTHEY. 259 
 
 S. T. Coleridge to R. Southey. 
 
 " October 20. 1809. 
 " My dear Southey, 
 a 
 
 What really makes me despond is the daily con- 
 firmation I receive of my original apprehension, that 
 the plan and execution of The Friend is so utterly 
 unsuitable to the public taste as to preclude all 
 rational hopes of its success. Much, certainly, might 
 have been done to have made the former numbers 
 less so, by the interposition of others written more 
 expressly for general interest; and, if I could at- 
 tribute it wholly to any removable error of my own, 
 I should be less dejected. I will do my best, will 
 frequently interpose tales and whole numbers of 
 amusement, will make the periods lighter and shorter ; 
 and the work itself, proceeding according to its plan, 
 will become more interesting when the foundations 
 have been laid. Massiveness is the merit of a found- 
 ation; the gilding, ornaments, stucco-work, con- 
 veniences, sunshine, and sunny prospects will come 
 with the superstructure. Yet still I feel the deepest 
 conviction that no efforts of mine, compatible with 
 the hope of effecting any good purpose, or with the 
 duty I owe to my permanent reputation, will remove 
 the complaint. No real information can be con- 
 veyed, no important errors radically extracted, with- 
 out demanding an effort of thought on the part of 
 the reader ; but the obstinate, and now contemptuous, 
 aversion to all energy of thinking is the mother evil, 
 the cause of all the evils in politics, morals, and lite- 
 s 2 
 
260 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 36. 
 
 rature, which it is my object to wage war against ; 
 so that I am like a physician who, for a patient 
 paralytic in both arms, prescribes, as the only pos- 
 sible cure, the use of the dumb-bells. Whatever I 
 publish, and in whatever form, this obstacle will be 
 felt. The Rambler, which, altogether, has sold a 
 hundred copies for one of the Connoisseur, yet, during 
 its periodical appearance, did not sell one for fifty, 
 and was dropped by reader after reader for its 
 dreary gravity and massiveness of manner. Now, 
 what I wish you to do for me — if, amid your many 
 labours, you can find or make a leisure hour — is, 
 to look over the eight numbers, and to write a letter 
 to The Friend in a lively style, chiefly urging, in a 
 humorous manner, my Don Quixotism in expecting 
 that the public will ever pretend to understand my 
 lucubrations, or feel any interest in subjects of such 
 sad and unkempt antiquity, and contrasting my style 
 with the cementless periods of the modern Anglo- 
 Gallican style, which not only are understood before- 
 hand, but, being free from all connections of logic, 
 all the hooks and eyes of intellectual memory, never 
 oppress the mind by any after recollections, but, like 
 civil visitors, stay a few moments, and leave the room 
 quite free and open for the next comers. Something 
 of this kind, I mean, that I may be able to answer 
 it so as, in the answer, to state my own convictions 
 at full on the nature of obscurity, &c. . . . 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 S. T. Coleridge." 
 

 jEtat. 36. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 261 
 
 To S. T. Coleridge, Esq. 
 
 <&r 
 
 " TO THE FRIEND. 
 
 [Without date.J 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I know not whether your subscribers have ex- 
 pected too much from you, but it appears to me that 
 you expect too much from your subscribers ; and 
 that, however accurately you may understand the 
 diseases of the age, you have certainly mistaken its 
 temper. In the first place, Sir, your essays are too 
 long. c Brevity,' says a contemporary journalist, ' is 
 the humour of the times ; a tragedy must not exceed 
 fifteen hundred lines, a fashionable preacher must 
 not trespass above fifteen minutes upon his congre- 
 gation. We have short waistcoats and short cam- 
 paigns ; everything must be short — except lawsuits, 
 speeches in Parliament, and tax-tables.' It is ex- 
 pressly stated, in the prospectus of a collection of 
 extracts, called the Beauties of Sentiment, that the 
 extracts shall always be complete sense, and not very 
 long. Secondly, Sir, though your essays appear in 
 so tempting a shape to a lounger, the very fiends 
 themselves were not more deceived by the lignum 
 vitcB apples, when 
 
 ' They, fondly thinking to allay 
 Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit 
 Chew'd bitter ashes,' 
 
 than the reader is who takes up one of your papers 
 from breakfast table, parlour-window, sofa, or otto- 
 man, thinking to amuse himself with a few minutes' 
 s 3 
 
262 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Itat. 36. 
 
 light reading. We are informed, upon the autho- 
 rity of no less a man than Sir Richard Phillips, how 
 'it has long been a subject of just complaint among 
 the lovers of English literature, that our language has 
 been deficient in lounging or parlour- window books ;' 
 and to remove the opprobrium from the language, Sir 
 Richard advertises a list, mostly ending in ana, 
 under the general title of e Lounging Books or Light 
 Reading.' I am afraid, Mr. Friend, that your prede- 
 cessors would never have obtained their popularity 
 unless their essays had been of the description OV ' 0V 
 oju-o/w cplxov, — and this is a light age. 
 
 " You have yourself observed that few converts 
 were made by Burke ; but the cause which you have 
 assigned does not sufficiently explain why a man of 
 such powerful talents and so authoritative a reputation 
 should have produced so little an effect upon the 
 minds of the people. Was it not because he neither 
 was nor could be generally understood? Because, 
 instead of endeavouring to make difficult things easy 
 of comprehension, he made things which were easy 
 in themselves, difficult to be comprehended by the 
 manner in which he presented them, evolving their 
 causes and involving their consequences, till the 
 reader whose mind was not habituated to metaphysi- 
 cal discussions, neither knew in what his arguments 
 began nor in what they ended ? You have told me 
 that the straightest line must be the shortest ; but do 
 not you yourself sometimes nose out your way, 
 hound-like, in pursuit of truth, turning and wind- 
 ing, and doubling and running when the same 
 object might be reached in a tenth part of the time 
 
JEtat. 36. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 263 
 
 by darting straightforward like a greyhound to the 
 mark ? Burke failed of effect upon the people for 
 this reason, — there was the difficulty of mathema- 
 tics without the precision in his writings. You 
 looked through the process without arriving at the 
 proof. It was the fashion to read him because of his 
 rank as a political partizan ; otherwise he would not 
 have been read. Even in the House of Commons he 
 was admired more than he was listened to ; not a 
 sentence came from him which was not pregnant 
 with seeds of thought, if it had fallen upon good 
 ground; yet his speeches convinced nobody, while 
 the mellifluous orations of Mr. Pitt persuaded his 
 majorities of whatever he wished to persuade them ; 
 because they were easily understood, what mattered 
 it to him that they were as easily forgotten ? 
 
 " The reader, Sir, must think before he can un- 
 derstand you ; is it not a little unreasonable to re- 
 quire from him an effort which you have yourself 
 described as so very painful a one ? and is not this 
 effort not merely difficult but in many cases impos- 
 sible ? All brains, Sir, were not made for thinking : 
 modern philosophy has taught us that they are gal- 
 vanic machines, and thinking is only an accident be- 
 longing to them. Intellect is not essential to the 
 functions of life ; in the ordinary course of society it 
 is very commonly dispensed with ; and we have lived, 
 Mr. Friend, to witness experiments for carrying on 
 government without it. This is surely a proof that 
 it is a rare commodity ; and yet you expect it in all 
 your subscribers ! 
 
 s 4 
 
264 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 36. 
 
 " Give us your moral medicines in a more ' ele- 
 gant preparation.' The Reverend J. Gentle admin- 
 isters his physic in the form of tea ; Dr. Solomon 
 prefers the medium of a cordial ; Mr. Ching exhibits 
 his in gingerbread nuts ; Dr. Barton in wine ; but 
 you, Mr. Friend, come with a tonic bolus, bitter in 
 the mouth, difficult to swallow, and hard of digestion. 
 
 " My dear Coleridge, 
 
 " All this, were it not for the Sir and the Mr. 
 Friend, is like a real letter from me to you : I fell 
 into the strain without intending it, and would 
 not send it were it not to show you that I have 
 attempted to do something. From jest I got into 
 earnest, and, trying to pass from earnest to jest 
 failed. It was against the grain, and would not 
 do. I had re-read the eight last numbers, and the 
 truth is, they left me no heart for jesting or for irony. 
 In time they will do their work ; it is the form of 
 publication only that is unlucky, and that cannot 
 now be remedied. But this evil is merely temporary. 
 Give two or three amusing numbers, and you will 
 hear of admiration from every side. Insert a few 
 more poems, — any that you have, except Christabel, 
 for that is of too much value. There is scarcely any- 
 thing you could do which would excite so much 
 notice as if you were now to write the character of 
 Bonaparte, announced in former times for ' to- 
 morrow,' and to-morrow and to-morrow ; and I 
 think it would do good by counteracting that base 
 spirit of condescension towards him, which I am 
 
y 
 
 -3STAT. 36. OF EOBERT SOUTHEY. 265 
 
 afraid is gaining ground ; and by showing the people 
 what grounds they have for hope. 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 E. S." 
 
 To Mr. Ebenezer Elliott. 
 
 " Keswick, Not. 22. 1809. 
 " My dear Sir., 
 
 " I have had your poem little more than a week : 
 yesterday I carefully perused it (not having had lei- 
 sure before), and should this evening have written to 
 you, even if your letter had not arrived. 
 
 " There are in this poem (which appears to me an 
 alteration of that whereof you formerly sent me an 
 extract) unquestionable marks both of genius and the 
 power of expressing it. I have no doubt that you 
 will succeed in attaining the fame after which you 
 aspire ; but you have yet to learn how to plan a 
 poem ; when you acquire this, I am sure you will be 
 able to execute it. 
 
 " This is my advice to you. Lay this poem aside 
 as one whose defects are incurable. Plan another, 
 and be especially careful in planning it. See that 
 your circumstances naturally produce each other, 
 and that there be nothing in the story which could be 
 taken away without dislocating the whole fabric. 
 Ask yourself the question, is this incident of any use? 
 does it result from what goes before ? does it in- 
 fluence what is to follow ? is it a fruit or an excres- 
 cence ? Satisfy yourself completely with the plan 
 
266 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Etat. 36. 
 
 before you begin to execute it. I do not mean to say 
 that the detail must be filled up, only make the skele- 
 ton perfect. There is no danger of your getting into 
 the fault of common-place authors, otherwise I would 
 recommend you to read some of the bad epic writers, 
 for the sake of learning what to avoid in the compo- 
 sition of a story. 
 
 " In your execution you are too exuberant in orna- 
 ment, and resemble the French engravers, who take 
 off the attention from the subject of their prints by 
 the flowers and trappings of the foreground. This 
 makes you indistinct ; but distinctness is the great 
 charm of narrative poetry : see how beautifully it is 
 exemplified in Spencer, our great English master of 
 narrative, whom you cannot study too much, nor love 
 too dearly. Your first book reminded me of an old 
 pastoral poet — William Brown: he has the same fault 
 of burying his story in flowers ; it is one of those 
 faults which are to be wished for in the writings of 
 all young poets. I am satisfied that your turn of 
 thought and feeling is for the higher branch of the 
 art, and not for lighter subjects. Your language 
 would well suit the drama : have your thoughts ever 
 been turned to it ? 
 
 " If, when you have planned another poem, you 
 think proper to send me the plan, I will comment 
 upon it, while it may be of use to point out its de- 
 fects. It would give me great pleasure to be of any 
 service to a man of genius, and such I believe you to 
 be. If business ever brings you this way, let me see 
 you. Should I ever travel through Rotherham, I 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH R. SOUTHEY. 301 
 
 of the Annal, and its thorough consistency with 
 the good old course. I am hard at work upon 
 1809. Indeed I am deeply concerned in the 
 Register. They pay me 400Z. a year for it, and 
 I have vested 209/. of the first year's payment in 
 a twelfth share of the property, which will pay 
 me 40 per cent. Thus I am at last well paid for 
 my labours. My books in Longman's hands 
 may now be left to clear off arrears with him, 
 and I have a fair prospect (life and health per- 
 mitting) of beginning in a very few years to get 
 above the world, in the worldly meaning of the 
 phrase. 
 
 " I have a rod in pickle for Jeffrey, in the 
 shape of a review of Montgomery's poems, and u/. ,K 
 another for Sidney Smith and the Unitarian r( L ' 
 Barrister, concerning the Methodists. Of all the 
 ignorant and dishonest controversialists which I 
 have ever met with, this Barrister is the very 
 worst. Such arguments against Methodism as 
 he and Sidney Smith make use of, would persuade ^Ssi^ 
 me into it — if that were possible, 
 
 " Coleridge is in town, and will probably visit 
 Bury before he sets his face northward. If you 
 talk to him about your theological theories, you 
 will find a man thoroughly versed in the subject, 
 bringing to it all that can be brought from eru- 
 dition and meditation. Griffiths will remember 
 that for ten years his Review has been my bitter 
 
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302 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 and even malicious enemy, and how this is to be 
 got over, I scarcely know. I know nothing of 
 the authorship in the second part of the Register, 
 ^he criticism is indeed preciously absurd. Rick- 
 man was with me last week. You are now 
 almost the only friend whom I have never seen 
 here. In the spring I go southward, and take 
 Edith with me. It is not impossible that we 
 may visit Clarkson, and if so I shall find my way 
 once more to Norwich. Pray remember me to 
 your mother; the recollections of twelve years 
 make me feel like an old guest of the family. 
 God bless you. 
 
 " Yours very affectionately, 
 
 " Robert Southey." 
 
 William Taylor's secession from the Annual 
 Review and Athenaeum, which ensued from the 
 circumstances stated in his fifty-ninth letter to 
 Robert Southey, did not materially detract from 
 his literary occupations during the years 1809 
 and 1810. They were only turned into other 
 channels. The rupture which at the same time 
 he apprehended with Sir R. Philips, did not 
 take place, but he continued to write as usual 
 for the Monthly Magazine.* 
 
 * The following are the articles contributed by him : — 
 Vol. 27. A Critical Survey of Lessing's Works ; A Short 
 Account of Meadley's Memoir of Paley, in the Retrospect of 
 Domestic Literature; Remarks on the Poems of Oldham. 
 
1809. ROBERT SOUTHBY. 181 
 
 will not be done. However, if Sir G. Beaumont can 
 do it for me, he will. My best hope for him is that 
 Lord Melville may go back to the Admiralty, when I 
 am sure Scott would get him promoted. Surely, it is 
 not possible that the present set of men can keep their 
 ground ; yet I would rather support even them than 
 see the Foxites in power. 
 
 My uncle takes the living of Streatham, resigning 
 for it his Christ Church preferment in Herefordshire. 
 This will be likely to bring me more frequently to 
 London. I shall probably visit him there towards the 
 fall of the leaf, if one may look on so far. I hope to 
 get the press of business off my hands in time to be at 
 Durham for the Long Main, a thing which it is highly 
 proper that D. Manuel should see. Heaven knows 
 whether I shall ever see the other side of Snowdon. 
 The older I grow the more I have to do at home, the 
 less inclination to leave it, and yet the more calls 
 abroad. 
 
 They have made a melo- drama of " Mary the Maid 
 of the Inn," at one of the Strand theatres. Did I ever 
 tell you that the story is in Plott's " Staffordshire ? " The 
 scene of it was the Black Meer of Morridge, near Leek; 
 the chief personage a man, and the murder not dis- 
 covered, but prevented. If you have the book, you 
 will find it at page 291. I verily believe that at least 
 half my reputation is owing to that paltry ballad, which 
 is bad enough to spoil a very fine story. The strolling 
 players recite it here about the country. 
 
 Tom has found on ship-board a copy of the Ame- 
 rican " Madoc," which is on its way to me. It was 
 published in numbers. Longman has unluckily bound 
 it, without directions, and so deprived me of the criti- 
 cisms upon the covers. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 N 3 
 
182 LETTERS OF 1809. 
 
 To Mr. J. N. White. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 31. 1809. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 I should be more sorry at having unintentionally 
 
 occasioned a quarrel between you and , if there 
 
 were anything in his correspondence which either you 
 or any person could possibly regret. That poor un- 
 lucky man is strangely wrong-headed ; — with the best 
 disposition in the world he is always getting into hot 
 water. He has sent Coleridge a communication for 
 the (( Friend," and quarrelled with him because he 
 could not read it; if it could have been read there 
 would have been another ground of quarrel, I will 
 venture to say, in consequence of its non-insertion. As 
 for the passage which has given him offence (God 
 knows how innocently on my part !), do you alter the 
 words " would probably " into " might possibly," in 
 the next edition, and then I think neither he nor any 
 one else can object to them. 
 
 Our difference of opinion respecting that part of 
 Dr. Collyer's " Lectures " has nothing to do whatever 
 with any difference of faith, our faith being the same 
 respecting the Crucifixion ; and the simple question is, 
 whether it be not a very forced, unlikely, and unnatural 
 interpretation to allegorise a high-wrought fiction of 
 temporal prosperity into a prophecy of that event. If 
 the same latitude be allowed, any conclusion may be 
 drawn from any premises. It has nothing to do with 
 Calvinism nor Arminianism, nor any of the other isms ; 
 being wholly a matter of opinion — of critical judgment 
 — not a joint of faith. That he might have more 
 talents for poetry than for prose, was a mere supposition 
 founded on no other ground than this — that he seemed 
 at all times to trust more to the exertions of fancy than 
 
1809. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 183 
 
 of any other faculty ; and this ground I readily admit 
 to have been insufficient. 
 
 It is the printer's fault that my first volume has not 
 already made its appearance. He goes on so slowly 
 that I dare not say when it will be completed. My 
 poem is gone to the press. The first proof has not 
 reached me yet ; and the interval between the first and 
 last is so completely at the printer's mercy, that there is 
 no guessing at its length. Young authors are apt to 
 be very impatient upon these occasions. For my part, 
 I wait with as much tranquillity as the public them- 
 selves, and no work of mine can possibly occasion less 
 sensation in its appearance than it does on me. I have 
 the satisfaction of composing it, of correcting it, sheet 
 by sheet, from the press, and finally of seeing the 
 finished volume : then my solicitude ends — the brood 
 is fledged, and has left the nest. 
 
 You have probably seen " The Friend," and, after 
 Miss Smith's book, would be interested by the account 
 of Klopstock, and the heads of his conversation with 
 Wordsworth. If Coleridge should fulfil his intent of 
 criticising the " Messiah/' you will be convinced that 
 Klopstock's merits as a poet have been ridiculously 
 exaggerated.* I, who am no German, have heard 
 enough read, and seen enough translated by his ad- 
 mirers, to be convinced that he is full of buckram and 
 bombast. Not that this, in the slightest degree, lessens 
 the interest one feels in his admirable wife. His re- 
 putation has long been on the wane in Germany. 
 
 * Southey himself once participated in this exaggeration, for 
 he writes to C. W. W. Wynn in the following terms : — "I was 
 with William Taylor at Norwich, the translator of the " Iphigenia 
 in Tauris." He read me many of Klopstock's Odes : they are 
 very fine. The old man seems to have studied the Prophets till 
 he almost caught their inspired sublimity." — > \4$i June, 1798. 
 
 N 4 
 
184: LETTERS OP 1809. 
 
 Henry's " Christiad " would have been worth fifty 
 " Messiahs." Sacred epics seem likely to be the 
 fashion. Some gentleman gives his plan for " The 
 Deluge " in the last " Monthly Magazine." In 1801 
 I formed a plan upon the same subject while on my 
 voyage home from Lisbon. It will never be executed ; 
 but it was not ill conceived, and had many grand situ- 
 ations. This in the " Magazine " is thoroughly 
 common-place, and nothing good can come of it. In 
 fact, there exists, against all stories connected with the 
 great facts of Scripture history, the objections which I 
 have stated before the " Christiad." You cannot blend 
 fiction with truths which are so universally and de- 
 finitely known. Every person instantly feels when the 
 truth ends and the fiction begins. " The Deluge " and 
 " The Last Day " are also subjects too vast ; no canvas 
 can hold — no imagination conceive them. 
 
 I have not seen the two last " Quarterlies." The 
 publisher has been out of town, and they have not 
 been sent me. There ought to be an article of mine 
 upon Holmes' "American Annals" in this fourth, 
 but I do not see it advertised. The great " Life of 
 Nelson " is come down to me for this review. It is a 
 book which never can be read, from its bulk. His life 
 and his letters are so intermixed, that the work is 
 neither the one nor the other ; and what is worse, the 
 time is not yet come when either the one or the other 
 could, with propriety, be fully laid before the public. 
 Both, therefore, are not only mingled injudiciously 
 together, but both are unavoidably incomplete. 
 
 I hope you saw Coleridge's letters in the " Courier," 
 especially that in which he justifies himself for speak- 
 ing of Buonaparte in terms of abhorrence. This man 
 is continually giving the surest proof of intellectual 
 weakness in altering his plans. He builds up kingdoms 
 and pulls them down, just as children serve their card 
 
1810. 
 
 ROBERT SOU THEY. 
 
 185 
 
 houses : aiming at nothing permanent, and incapable 
 of producing anything that can be so. Many happy 
 new years to you and yours. God bless you. 
 
 R. SOUTHEY. 
 
 To Lieutenant Southey, H. M. S. Lyra. 
 
 Keswick, January 9. 1810. 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 I look daily to hear that you are superseded, 
 and, to say the truth, shall be glad to hear it. These 
 tremendous gales have often made me wish you back in 
 the three-decker. As for such wretched small craft as 
 the Lyra, Government had better cut them up for fire- 
 wood than keep them in commission at the expense of 
 life which they occasion. 
 
 My uncle has accepted Streatham, and must resign 
 Staunton in consequence. Now, whether I told you 
 this before or not I cannot recollect, but rather think I 
 did. 
 
 Here is the great " Life of Nelson " sent me to review, 
 and I am to have twenty guineas a sheet for doing it. 
 By way of deserving this price I have just invented a 
 new mode of criticism, which is to send the book to 
 Miss Crosthwaite's to be weighed, and then calculate its 
 faults by the pound. It is the largest book I ever saw, 
 being actually five inches thick, and at least one half 
 consisting of matter which had been better away ; yet 
 not so bad a book neither as might have been expected 
 from Stanier Clarke. I hope to condense its whole 
 pith into about forty pages of the " Quarterly." 
 
 To day I shift off the first six sections of " Kehama " 
 to Ballantyne. It is to be printed in quarto for the 
 
186 LETTEES OP 1810. 
 
 sake of my dignity. I have been correcting this portion 
 over and over again, and so doggedly sometimes as to 
 grow half out of humour with it ; but the first proof 
 will brighten me up again. I wished a frontispiece, 
 but was easily dissuaded by Longman, on account of 
 the great probability of getting a bad design. The 
 other day I told Herbert there was a book coming with 
 pictures, and it was about Lord Nelson. " What ! 
 Wilsy's cat ? " said he : and pretty astonished was he 
 to find there had ever been another Yord Neyson, as he 
 calls him, in the world. When a warrior's name finds 
 its way to fishing-smacks, ale-house signs, dogs, cats, 
 and tulips, then, indeed, he may truly be said to be 
 famous. 
 
 Longman writes me word that he has bound the 
 American " Madoc," and that it is on the road with the 
 " Cyclopaedia " and periodicals. I am rather sorry he 
 has bound it, but he thought he was doing wisely; so 
 you must tell me what was said on the covers. My 
 periodicals are lessened in number by the completion 
 of the " Censura Literaria," and the demise of the 
 *i Athenaeum " and " Annual." They now consist only 
 of— 1., " Pinkerton's Voyages ; " 2., " Cobbet's State 
 Trials ; " 3., " Beauties of England and Wales ; " 4., 
 " Medical Review ; " 5., " M. Mirror ; " 6., " M. Maga- 
 zine ; " 7., " Missionary Transactions ; " ditto " Perio- 
 dical Account;" 8., "Cyclopaedia;" 9., "Hewlett's 
 Bible ; " and 10., f( Quarterly Review; " to which, as soon 
 as the new year begins, I am about to add the " Evan- 
 gelical Magazine," and the " Edinburgh Annual Re- 
 gister " will make up thirteen. I wish I could afford a 
 few more. There are about half a dozen magazines 
 which I covet and desire. I am indeed getting a few 
 other books, which come out volume by volume, such 
 as " Phillip's Voyages," the " Somers Tracts," which 
 Scott gives me, and which will be fourteen quartos at 
 
1810. ROBERT SOTJTHEY. 187 
 
 three guineas each, the u History of Printing," in five 
 three guinea quartos, which I subscribe to, and the pub- 
 lications of old Thomas Hearne, which I subscribe to 
 also, and which are to be forty-two octavo volumes at 
 15s. each. Then I have two daily papers (which cost 
 me nothing), and the " Friend " comes once a week ; 
 so that you see, Captain Southey, I have always some- 
 thing to look for with joyous expectation, and it falls to 
 my lot to dally with delight, in the shape of a knot 
 upon a parcel, as often as to that of any private gentle- 
 man in His Majesty's dominions. By the by, the 
 " Naval Chronicle," of which I have the volumes for 
 1808 (the "Register" year) is a better work than I ex- 
 pected it to be : there are some good letters there upon 
 the state of the navy, and a great deal of interesting- 
 matter. I should think it a book likely to do consider- 
 able good. 
 
 It would be very agreeabell to me if they were to 
 turn you ashore in time for you to come to your old 
 moorings before I finish " Lord Nelson." You would 
 be of great use at my elbow. 
 
 I do not think my " Register " work is more than half 
 done, but that is much. They have only sent me four 
 proofs, and I am very glad they do not hurry me. In 
 the last there was a broadside of bitterness against 
 Whitbread for his base apologies for Buonaparte. What 
 other effect this year's history may produce upon my 
 character Heaven knows ; but it is pretty plain that it 
 will establish it for honesty and plain speaking. 
 
 I believe you are acquainted with my fleet of kissing 
 ships ; we have lately launched a new ship, the Abal- 
 leboozo-banganoribo's ship, a ten-decker, with which 
 my son is exceedingly well pleased. His feet are quite 
 as they should be, and he is as round as a dumplin — 
 the nicest kissing, and sweetest playfellow ! We have 
 now nine kisses for the Nine Muses, three for the 
 
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188 
 
 LETTERS OP 
 
 1810. 
 
 Graces, ten for the Predicaments, another half-score for 
 the Commandments, nine-and-thirty for the Church 
 Articles, and seven for the Deadly Sins. 
 
 God bless you. I live in hopes that you will soon 
 be turned out to grass among the mountains. You 
 will find your room carpeted, and with a new bed fur- 
 niture. Love and the usual kisses. 
 
 It. S. 
 
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 ft 
 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 29. 1810. 
 
 Dear Senhora, 
 
 My daughter and I have each to thank you for 
 a letter, — both very good ones in their kind. I have, 
 as you may suppose, had many things said to me con- 
 cerning the " Friend," but nothing so much to the pur- 
 pose as what you have remarked. It is not a little 
 extraordinary that Coleridge, who is fond of logic, and 
 who has an actual love and passion for close, hard 
 thinking, should write in so rambling and inconclusive 
 a manner; while I, who am utterly incapable of that 
 toil of thought in which he delights, never fail to ex- 
 press myself perspicuously, and to the point. I owe, 
 perhaps, something of this to the circumstance of having 
 lived with him during that year in my life which was 
 most likely to give my mind its lasting character. Dis- 
 liking his inordinate love of talking, I was naturally led 
 to avoid the same fault ; when we were alone, and he 
 talked his best (which was always at those times), I was 
 pleased to listen ; and when we were in company, and I 
 heard the same things repeated, — repeated to every 
 fresh company, seven times in the week if we were in 
 
1810. ROBERT SOUTHET. 189 
 
 
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 seven parties, — still I was silent, in great measure from 
 depression of spirits at perceiving those vices in his 
 nature which soon appeared to be incurable. When 
 he provoked me into an argument, I made the most of 
 my time ; and, as it was not easy to get in more than a 
 few words, took care to make up in weight for what 
 they wanted in measure. His habits have continued, 
 and so have mine. Coleridge requested me to write 
 him such a letter upon the faults of the " Friend " as he 
 might insert and reply to. I did so ; but it was not in- 
 serted, and therefore I am sorry I did not copy it. It 
 described the fault you have remarked as existing in 
 Burke, and having prevented him from ever persuading 
 anybody to his opinions, — for Burke made no prose- 
 lytes except such as wanted an excuse for professing to 
 change their party. You read his book, you saw 
 what his opinions were ; but they were given in such 
 a way, evolving the causes of everything, and involving 
 the consequences, that you never knew from whence^ 
 he set out, nor where he was going. So it is with C. ; 
 he goes to work like a hound, nosing his way, turning, 
 and twisting, and winding, and doubling, till you get 
 weary with following the mazy movements. My way 
 is, when I see my object, to dart at it like a grey- 
 hound. -^ 
 Never was anything so grievously mismanaged as the 
 " Friend." Because he would have all the profit (hav- 
 ing taken it in his head that I was cheated by my 
 publisher), he would publish for himself; thus has he 
 the whole trouble of collecting his money, the whole 
 responsibility, instead of having a publisher to look to ; 
 and the expense of postage will far, very far, exceed 
 any publisher's percentage. Then he writes to the 
 public about all his difficulties and his projects, as if 
 they wanted to know anything about them, — not per- 
 ceiving that this lowers him in the eyes of the foolish, 
 
190 
 
 LETTEES OF 
 
 1810. 
 
 and certainly does not raise him in the judgment of the 
 wise. And certainly of all modes of publication that 
 could be devised, nothing could be so ill adapted for 
 such materials as a weekly form. Had he brought out 
 these same papers in a body, either as a system, or as 
 so many essays, they would have commanded more 
 attention, he would have been saved the whole anxiety 
 of periodical exertion, and people would have had no 
 reason to complain because they found something alto- 
 gether different from what they expected. However, 
 we must be glad to get some part of what is in him out 
 of him in any way. Satyrane is himself, though, if you 
 are versed in Spenser, you will think the name mar- 
 vellously inappropriate. 
 
 Mrs. C. takes on herself poor Jackson's house, in 
 expectation that C. will one day come back ; and still 
 more because he will have a place to which he may 
 come whenever he likes, as if it were his own house, — 
 a thing which cannot be with my establishment, ought 
 not, and shall not. Mrs. Wilson lives there, and will 
 do so as long as she lives, and we go on as usual in 
 everything at present, except in the division of rent. 
 But the truth is that in my own mind I look on to 
 your coming here almost as if it were a settled thing, 
 from the great fitness that it should be so settled. My 
 worldly concerns are in an improving way. If this en- 
 gagement for the " Register " continues three or four 
 years it will set me above the world ; that is to say, it 
 will clear off all accounts with Longman, and my in- 
 come will exceed my expenditure. For, while it lasts, 
 that and my pension will supply all current demands ; 
 and everything else of past or present labour forms a 
 sinking fund, which would ere long clear my way, and 
 enable me to lay something by. I am already on the 
 point of insuring my life for 1000/. This is securing 
 something ; and, in case of my death, I have prepared 
 
1810, ROBERT SOUTHET. 191 
 
 directions for a subscription edition of my collected 
 works, which, if only a thousand copies were subscribed 
 for, would produce not less than 32001., leaving still 
 the contingent profits and the copyrights untouched, as 
 long as the law allows them. This property (if I do 
 not much overrate myself and my good name") is of 
 a good kind, and it is yearly accumulating. I believe 
 more than 1000 names may be procured with little 
 exertion when I am dead, — not improbably twice the 
 number; and I have no fears whatever about the 
 worldly fortunes of those whom I may leave behind. 
 
 The printers use me ill, but they do not vex me, 
 because I am not vexable by such things. Send me a 
 story about mad-dogs and goose dung, of which I* re- 
 member the substance, but forget the particulars. Do 
 you see the " Quarterly Review " ? I am likely to do 
 more in it than I have yet done. There are materials 
 before me for another set-to at the Evangelicals. My 
 intention is not to be angry with them, but only to 
 dissect them alive. " Kehama" is at the printer's, and 
 I am every evening disappointed of the first proof sheet. 
 " Pelayo " is begun, though not advanced above the 
 first ninety lines. It promises well. I hoped to have 
 sent you my first volume of " Brazil " long ago ; it is 
 the printer who delays it. My uncle has the living of 
 Streatham, and removes to it in the summer. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 P.S. First proof of " Kehama " arrived this evening. 
 Huzza ! ! 
 
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192 
 
 LETTERS OF 
 
 1810. 
 
 To John King, Esq. 
 
 ', Keswick, February 6. 1810. 
 
 My dear King, 
 
 I expected to hear that Mrs. Edgworth was to 
 be the biographer of Beddoes, and that if she declined 
 the task, you would undertake it. Davy would have 
 done himself more honour by volunteering upon this 
 service than by waiving it*; for not to show respect in 
 this instance is to manifest a want of it. Peace to the 
 
 memory of the dead, if is to write his history ! It 
 
 will be without feeling, and without philosophy! and 
 the properest frontispiece would be a portrait of the 
 historian, putting an extinguisher upon a sepulchral 
 lamp, which else might burn for ever. 
 
 I can and will write an inscription for paper ; but 
 one for marble I have no skill to execute. There is a 
 felicity required for the lapidary style which I have not 
 attained, though I have more than once unwillingly 
 attempted it. If Coleridge will do anything, he will 
 do this, for he had the most thorough esteem for Bed- 
 does, and has been very greatly affected by his death, 
 even to a superstitious depression of spirits. I expect 
 
 to see him in a day or two You will, it is to be 
 
 hoped, write youFEssays on Physical Education. From 
 Beddoes I hoped for more good to the human race than 
 any other individual ; and if you have not received his 
 mantle, he has taken it with him. This, too, increases 
 my regret that you are not to be his biographer ; for no 
 
 * In a letter to Charles Wynn, he speaks of " Davy, the pupil 
 of Beddoes." Dec. 16. 1799. The late Dr. Erasmus Darwin, of 
 Shrewsbury, whose kindness to me as a schoolboy it is pleasant to 
 remember, had a very high opinion of Beddoes. Following in his 
 steps, he sent all consumptive children with their nurses into cow- 
 houses, and made them walk up and down the Butchers' Row 
 whilst the meat was fresh. 
 
1810. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 193 
 
 man living is so competent as yourself to explain his 
 views, and so to develope his principles that they shall 
 be understood and fairly appreciated, and thus continue 
 
 in some degree their action. -'s book will answer 
 
 his purpose very well — that of advertising himself as 
 the successor, — but it will not answer any other. 
 
 Landor is at Bath, but I fear he will go again to 
 Spain. I have done with the " Athenaeum," because 
 Dr. Aikin rejected my articles without either rhyme or 
 reason, to make room for other people's ; and supposing 
 they were dull, I had a better right to be dull than any- 
 body else. But this thing was too pointed for him ; 
 that was too flat ; my learning was too old ; my specu- 
 lations too new : so I have retired in dudgeon, and have 
 a drawer full of Omniana ready to despatch for the first 
 
 Magazine that asks for them. I am in good health 
 
 The children thrive, and promise well. . . In my " His- 
 tory of Brazil," where you will see all sorts of things, 
 I leave nothing to be gleaned after me. The eleventh 
 proof is now lying on the table ; it is printed just in 
 the manner of the " Cid." I dare say this book will 
 disappoint most readers, for people will fancy that a 
 fine country must have a fine history belonging to it ; 
 and this history has the anomalous character of having 
 scarcely any other thread running through it than that 
 of chronology. However, there will be a great mass of 
 information brought together ; a great deal which will 
 be interesting as a book of travels ; a greater body of 
 facts respecting savage life than can be found in any 
 other single work ; and, what has never yet been given, 
 a perfectly fair account of the Jesuits in Paraguay. 
 Coleridge has been here ; he groaned at the mention of 
 / ; talked of writing the life .himself, and said he 
 Avould, that very night, write ywK offer his services. 
 This, of course, he has not done ; nor, if he undertook 
 it, is it likely that he would accomplish that, or any- 
 
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194 LETTERS OE 1810. 
 
 thing else. I meant to have asked him about the in- 
 scription, but he talked the thought of it out of my 
 head : however, I will write to him on the next car- 
 rier's day. There will be an article of mine in this 
 new " Quarterly Review," of which the secret history 
 is, that Walter Scott is the proprietor, and Gifford the 
 editor. For this year's "Annual" I have done little, 
 and shall do little or nothing for the next. The day is 
 scarcely long enough for its work, and it is time for me 
 to consider what things of importance I earnestly wish 
 to complete, and how many of them there will be time 
 for, according to the common chances of life. This 
 consideration comes upon me, and begins to make me a 
 miser of my hours, for it will take more years than can 
 be reckoned on to get out of my head all that I have 
 ^/ put into it : and alas ! every day's study serves to show 
 
 -3- me how much I have yet to learn upon those subjects 
 
 of which it is my duty to know everything. Remember 
 me to Mrs. King. I shall write speedily to Danvers. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 ^ 
 
 « 
 
 C B,S. 
 
 Syji To Lieutenant Souihey, Bristol. 
 
 /t Keswick, Feb. 11. 1810. 
 
 \ I i My dear Tom, 
 
 Your Balliol story differs from most lies in this 
 respect' — that it has not the slightest foundation in 
 truth. It not only is not true, but could not, by pos- 
 sibility, be so, the American plan not having been 
 formed till after I left Oxford, so that it was communi- 
 cated to Robert Allen — poor fellow ! — by letter from 
 Bristol. They must be much at a loss for recollections 
 of me, to invent so clumsy a tale. As for beating 
 people, it has never been my habit on any occasion. 
 
1810. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 195 
 
 /. 
 
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 The only approximation to a quarrel which I ever had 
 at Oxford, is, I dare say, remembered at Balliol by one 
 of the present fellows, Cooke Rogers, the only person 
 who witnessed it. There was one Freke, who, from 
 not understanding a metaphysical conversation which 
 he heard me carry on with somebody else, reported it 
 about that I talked blasphemy, and avowed myself an 
 Atheist. Rogers, who had a great regard for me, came 
 to tell me this, his Welch blood boiling with indig- 
 nation, and, luckily, we met Freke almost directly. 
 After a lecture, which my gentleman most probably 
 will remember as long as he lives, upon the fitness 
 of understanding another person's opinions before he 
 ventured to represent them, I concluded by first re- 
 quiring him to go and contradict what he had said, 
 and then, " Sir," said I, " I have to desire that, in 
 future, you will not blaspheme me by mentioning my 
 name at all." You never saw a black-looking fellow's 
 face bleached more effectually. 
 
 Coleridge will doubtless offend the Unitarians; for it 
 is upon that point that his opinions, or, more accurately- 
 speaking, his professions, are altered. As for his po= 
 litical notions, the main difference is not in the end and 
 aim of them, but in the way of coming to those con- 
 clusions. In the conclusions themselves he will be 
 found to differ very little from Wordsworth and myself, 
 both of us, as you know, tolerable plain-spoken men 
 upon such matters. 
 
 That C. writes worse than he did ten years ago is 
 certain. He rambles now as much in his writings as in 
 his conversation — beginning at Dan, and wandering on 
 to Beersheba. Still there are in those numbers of the 
 " Friend " some passages of first-rate excellence, and 
 the principles of morality are placed in them upon their 
 only firm foundation. There his philosophy is firm as 
 a rock ; all other systems of ethics are built upon sand. 
 
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196 LETTEES OF 1810. 
 
 You write from Taunton, and yet make no mention 
 of Aunt Mary. I wrote to her about two months 
 ago, having learnt where she was by a chance letter 
 from Standast. 
 
 We shall not paint the boat till you come — a reason 
 why you should come soon. I look already with great 
 satisfaction at the parchmentarians that have lain so 
 long in humble expectation of your glorifying hand. 
 
 James and Edward Lloyd, with one of the Bodding- 
 tons, have had a most providential deliverance. The 
 ice broke under them, and had not a chance passer 
 seen them sink, and given the alarm by her shrieks, 
 they must have been drowned. We talk of going to 
 Brathay for a few days next week. 
 
 My uncle, I suppose, will be making ready for his 
 removal. You will probably see three of the printed 
 sheets of (t Kehama" at Staunton. There are a good 
 many material alterations in the six first sections. 1 
 have yet some insertions to make in the concluding 
 section, and in the twelfth. The first section of " Pe- 
 layo " is nearly finished : slow and sure, — lighter morn- 
 ings will give me more time. Your better route from 
 Hereford will be by Shrewsbury and Chester, for the 
 sake of a new road. From Chester there is a canal 
 navigation to the Mersey, and then a passage of about 
 ten miles to Liverpool. We, that is to say, myself and 
 the two Ediths, go to Durham in April, your visit had 
 best be at the same time. Sir Domine can board us 
 together, and bed you in my former quarters there, 
 opposite his own, and one chaise will carry us. Come 
 speedily, for I have not had a walk these two months, 
 and only one since the beginning of winter. 
 
 Remember me to all friends at Bristol. I hope my 
 books are on the road. Tell Danvers that if Larramendi's 
 " Basque Dictionary," in Gutch's catalogue, had been 
 two guineas instead of four, I would have had it. 
 
JEtat. 36. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 273 
 
 To John Richnan, Esq. 
 
 "Jan. 21. 1810. 
 
 " My dear Rickman. 
 
 " I am one of those lucky people who find their 
 business their amusement, and contrive to do more 
 by having half a dozen things in hand at once than if 
 employed upon any single one of them. . . . . 
 You will like what I have said concerning the Catho- 
 lic question*, and not dislike the way in which I 
 have discharged a little of my gall upon the Foxites, 
 the place-mongers, and Mr. Whitbread. This is a 
 very profitable engagement. They give me 4007. for 
 it ; and if it continues two or three years (which I 
 believe rests wholly with myself), it will make me 
 altogether at ease in my circumstances, for by that time 
 my property in Longman's hands will have cleared 
 itself, the constable will come up with me, and we 
 shall travel on, I trust, to the end of our journey 
 cheek by jowl, even if I should not be able to send 
 him forward like a running footman. 
 
 The Quarterly pays me well — ten guineas per 
 sheet : at the same measure, the Annual was only four. 
 I have the bulky Life of Nelson in hand, and am to 
 be paid double. This must be for the sake of saying 
 they give twenty guineas per sheet, as I should have 
 been well satisfied with ten, and have taken exactly 
 the same pains. . . . ... 
 
 " The next news of my grey goose quill is, that I 
 have one quarto just coming out of the press for you. 
 
 * In the Edinburgh Annual Register. 
 VOL. III. T 
 
274 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE .Etat. 36. 
 
 I have another just going in for Mrs. Hickman, 
 though I suspect it will be less to her taste than any 
 of my former poems. Kehama has been finished 
 these two months, is more than half transcribed, and 
 the first part ought to have reached Ballantyne's 
 a month ago, but those rascally carriers have delayed 
 or lost it. The days are now sufficiently lengthened 
 to give me some half hour before breakfast, and I 
 have begun Pelayo, conquered the difficulty of the 
 opening, and am fairly afloat. Add to all this, that 
 from the overflowings of my notes and notanda I am 
 putting together some volumes of Omniana (which 
 will, I have no doubt, pay better than any of the 
 works of which they are in the main, as it were, the 
 crumbs and leavings), and then you will have the 
 catalogue of my works in hand. .... 
 " Maihetes is not De Quincey, but a Mr. Wilson, — 
 De Quincey is a singular man, but better informed 
 than any person almost that I ever met at his age. 
 The vice of the Friend is its roundaboutness. Some- 
 times it is of the highest merit both in matter and 
 manner : more frequently its turnings, and windings, 
 and twistings, and doublings provoke my greyhound 
 propensity of pointing straightforward to the mark. 
 The Coalition* which you seem to look on, is 
 
 * " If Lord Grenville consent to leave the experiment (of establish- 
 ing Romanism in Ireland) untried, I do not see what should hinder 
 him from joining 'with Lord "Welleslej, Perceval, and Canning in 
 forming a stronger government than the present ; and I should the less 
 wonder at it, as one may suppose that all the Tantarararas .... 
 are boddy frightened at the remarkable progress of Cobbetism, built 
 on the late disasters of our armies, though I cannot consent to wish 
 the battle of Talavera unfought, that having established that there is 
 some truth in the old opinion of the bravery of the British, who that 
 day, even by confession of the enemy, were not half their numbers." 
 — J. B. to B. S., Jan. 14. 1810. 
 

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 ^tat. 37. OF ROBERT 80UTHEY. 291 
 
 To Walter Scott, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Sept. 17. 1810. 
 " My dear Scott, 
 
 " In the Courier of the 1 5th (which has this even- 
 ing reached us) is an article pretending to exhibit 
 imitations from your poems, and signed S. T. C. 
 At the first sight of this I was certain that S. T. 
 Coleridge had nothing to do with it ; and upon put- 
 ting the paper into his hands, his astonishment was 
 equal to mine. What may be the motive of this 
 dirty trick Heaven knows. I can only conjecture 
 that the fellow who has practised it, designs in some 
 other paper or magazine to build up a charge of 
 jealousy and envy in Coleridge, founded upon his 
 own forgery. Coleridge declares he will write to the 
 Courier disavowing the signature. I know he means 
 to do it ; but his actions so little correspond to his 
 intentions, that I fear he will delay doing it, very 
 probably, till it is too late. Therefore I lose no time 
 in assuring you that he knows nothing of this petty 
 and paltry attack, which I have no doubt, from 
 whatever quarter it may have come, originates more 
 in malice towards him than towards you. 
 
 " I was not without hopes of seeing you in this 
 land of lakes, on your way from the Yorkshire Greta; 
 but happening to see Jeffrey about a fortnight ago, 
 he told me that you were settled at Ashiestiel for the 
 autumn. I say happening to see him, because his 
 visit was to Coleridge, not to me ; and he told C. 
 that he had not called immediately on me, as he did 
 not know what my feelings might be towards him, &c. 
 
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292 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE JEtat. 37. 
 
 " You have probably seen my labours in the Re- 
 gister. Upon almost all points of present politics I 
 believe there is little difference of opinion between 
 us ; and every where, I think, you will give me 
 credit for fair dealing as well as plain speaking. At 
 present I am working very hard upon the second 
 volume ; it is an employment which interests me very 
 much, and I complain of nothing but the want some- 
 times of sufficient documents respecting the Spanish 
 war. Particularly I regret the want of detailed 
 accounts of the second siege of Zaragoza and the 
 siege of Gerona, that I might be enabled to present 
 a full record of those glorious events. I suppose you 
 know the whole secret history of the Register, other- 
 wise I would tell you how liberally the Ballantynes 
 have behaved to me. They will probably find their 
 account in having engaged a man who writes with 
 such perfect freedom ; for though parts of the work 
 may, and indeed will, offend all parties in turn, still 
 there is a decided character of impartiality about it, 
 which will prove the surest recommendation. 
 
 " Kehama has travelled so slowly through the 
 press, that, instead of appearing at the end of one sea- 
 son, it will be ready about the beginning of the next. 
 I expect every body to admire my new fashion of 
 printing (though unfortunately the printers did not 
 fall into it for the first three or four sheets) ; if any 
 thing else is admired — ponamus lucro. My un- 
 known critic in the Register will think that I am 
 going against wind and tide with a vengeance, in- 
 stead of sailing, according to his advice, with the 
 stream. But if he or any body else should imagine 
 
1811. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 211 
 
 this liberality should have coexisted with his false taste, 
 his Catholic superstitions, and his own individual mad- 
 ness, is indeed most curious. He was not indeed quite 
 as mad as Joanna Southcote, but he was just in the 
 state of one of her four-and-twenty elders. I want the 
 Provas to " Seabra's Ded. Chron." He hates Vieyra as 
 a Jesuit, and has raked up the old calumnies against 
 him. 
 
 I have been stealing a march to Brazil for these few 
 days past. It is long since I have heard how you are 
 going on at Streatham. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To the Rev. Herbert Hill. 
 
 Keswick, Feb. 5. 1811. 
 An examination of the " Arte de Furtar" *, 
 which I had not read since I was last at Lisbon, con- 
 vinces me that it is not Vieyra's. He speaks as an 
 eyewitness of things in Algarve and in Castillo : now 
 it does not appear, either from his life or letters, that 
 he had been in either country. It has nothing of his 
 character or manner. I think, too, that I perceive a 
 mode of expression which never occurs in any of his 
 undisputed works. The defence of the Inquisition 
 would not have come from Vieyra. On the whole, I 
 have not a doubt upon the subject. 
 
 Ballantyne watches, with all the anxiety of a printer 
 and publisher, over the " Register," and serves me as 
 
 * " The Arte de 'Furtar is manifestly written by an Alontego 
 man, probably by an inhabitant of Villa Vicoza. There is such plain 
 proof of this that I cannot conceive how it should ever have been 
 given to Vieyra." — MS. Letter to the Rev. H. Hill, Feb. 11. 1811. 
 
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212 LETTERS OF 1811. 
 
 a safety-valve. Not that there can be any political 
 danger ; the opinions of the book are a sufficient secu- 
 rity against that ; but he keeps a keen eye upon any- 
 thing which might by possibility injure the sale. My 
 second volume makes vigorous war upon the Burdettites. 
 I do not apprehend any possible inconvenience to my- 
 self from the freedom with which it is written ; that 
 which so strenuously supports the Government, both 
 Church and State, may be allowed to censure the Ad- 
 ministration; and as for any personal offence which 
 might be taken, if any man were fool enough to chal- 
 lenge me, I should turn over the correspondence to a 
 lawyer; — first taking the opportunity of delivering, in 
 a summary manner, my opinions respecting duelling. 
 
 I urged Coleridge to double the intended number of 
 " Omniana" volumes, merely for the sake of making 
 him do something for his family ; this requiring, lite- 
 rally, no other trouble than either cutting out of his 
 common-place books what has for years been accumu- 
 lating there, or marking the passage off for a transcriber. 
 He promised to add two volumes, and has contributed 
 about one sheet, which, I dare say, unless he soon 
 returns to Cumberland, will be all. 
 
 Robinson is the man who introduced me to Abella 
 and Gen. Caroll, who writes to say that he will obtain 
 for me an account of Roman a's operations from R. 
 himself. This portion of the year's annals, I hope, will 
 be far less imperfect than in the former volume. I have 
 also satisfied myself in the Walcheren affair. Rickman 
 is my right hand in supplying all Parliamentary Docu- 
 ments, and much private information beside. Some, 
 also, I obtain from Wynn, and T have access to the 
 Admiralty through Bedford's brother, though what I 
 wanted was not to be found. 
 
 "With regard to " Kehama," I was perfectly aware 
 that I was planting acorns while my contemporaries 
 
JStat. 37. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 301 
 
 more obvious. Then you must print the tragedy. It 
 will not have many more admirers than Gebir ; but 
 they will be of the same class and cast; and 
 with Gebir it will be known hereafter, when all the 
 rubbish of our generation shall have been swept 
 away. 
 
 "What will you do next? Narrative is better 
 than dramatic poetry, because it admits of the highest 
 beauties of the drama ; there are two characters in 
 Roman history which are admirably fit for either ; 
 but in both cases their history suits the drama better 
 than the epic — Sertorius and Spartacus. When I 
 was a boy, the abortive attempt at restoring the re- 
 public by Caligula's death was one of my dramatic 
 attempts. Another was that impressive story in 
 Tacitus of 300 slaves (I think that was the number) 
 put to death for not preventing the murder of their 
 master, whom one of them had killed. The Em- 
 peror Majorian is a fine character. I wish I could 
 throw out a subject that would tempt you, but rather 
 to a poem than a play ; for though your powers for 
 both are equal, and the play the more difficult work 
 of the two, yet in my judgment the poem is the pre- 
 ferable species of composition. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
302 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 37. 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Feb. 16. 1811. 
 " My dear Grosvenor, 
 
 " If I had not heard of you from Gifford at the 
 beginning of the month, I should have been very 
 uneasy about yon. Thank you for your letter, and 
 for your serviceable interpolation of the review *, 
 which is just what it should be, — that is to say, just 
 what I would wish it, only I wish you would not 
 call me the most sublime poet of the age, because, in 
 this point, both Wordsworth and Landor are at least 
 my equals. You will not suspect me of any mock- 
 modesty in this. On the whole, I shall have done 
 greater things than either, but not because I possess 
 greater powers. 
 
 " My abode under Skiddaw will have been more 
 unfavourable to my first year's Annals than to any 
 other, because I had fewer channels of information 
 opened, and because of home politics I was very 
 ignorant, never liking them well enough to feel any 
 interest beyond that of an election feeling. Now that 
 it becomes my business to be better informed, I have 
 spared no pains to become so ; and the probability is, 
 that I learn as much political news to my purpose 
 by letters, as I should do by that intercourse which 
 would be compatible with my way of life. Of three 
 points I have now convinced myself, that the great 
 
 * This refers to a reviewal of Kehama, which Mi - . Bedford had 
 written for the Quarterly, not knowing that Sir Walter Scott had one 
 in preparation. The latter was the one inserted. 
 
: 
 
 1811. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 241 
 
 say, then the contest would be over; the mother country 
 must fall, and there would no longer be any obstacle to 
 a free trade between this country and Venezuela. Thus 
 would these men barter away the birthright of a wholt 
 nation, and the independence of the country of their 
 fathers, for a mess of pottage. I have no patience for 
 such sordid selfishness. It is better (supposing the two 
 things incompatible) that Spain should be free, than that 
 the Caraccans should have a free trade ; for this is the 
 alternation upon which these men, who call themselves 
 patriots, and talk of liberty and of rights, have thus 
 decided. 
 
 It is evident to me that the Anglo-Americans sepa- 
 rated from the parent state at least a century too soon. 
 They became independent before they had a race of 
 scholars or of gentlemen among them. Their indepen- 
 dence is not yet thirty years old, and see what a 
 national character they have obtained and deserved. 
 But the Spanish Americans are even less fitted to form 
 a new state, for they are far more ignorant ; and the 
 morals of the worst part of the United States (Virginia 
 and the other southern states) are less depraved than 
 those of the best parts of Spanish America ; but the 
 one main cause of inevitable depravity exists in both — 
 the practice of slavery. The idleness of the Spaniards 
 leads them still more to sensuality, and the Roman 
 Catholic religion demoralises every people among whom 
 it takes root. 
 
 This is a subject which would lead me on to a great 
 length were I to pursue it ; you will, however see it 
 treated (if I live) in the third year's " Register." Have 
 you read my second year's volume ? 
 
 I was sorry to learn how ill that unpleasant affair, in 
 which you took so manly and honourable a part, has 
 terminated. Yet, if the man be thus utterly unprin- 
 
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LETTERS OF # - 1811. 
 
 it is better for the poor girl to be thus rid of 
 rim than yoked for life to a villain. 
 
 When the new edition of " Kehama " is ready, Long- 
 man will send you a copy for James. I wrote him a 
 letter of good advice, some time ago, and look daily to 
 hear from him. Remember me at Nottingham when 
 you write. Remember me also to Josiah Condor ; 
 thank him for his letter, and tell him that in conse- 
 quence of it I am reviewing Montgomery's volume. 
 Do you attend Coleridge's lectures ? God bless you. 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Dr. H. H. Southey. 
 
 Keswick, Nov. 18. 1811. 
 
 Von Troil does not enumerate consumption 
 among the diseases of Iceland ; which is remarkable, 
 because Horrebow (who wrote before him) does. He 
 says : " It is usual with the men about the age of fifty 
 to fall into a decay, by reason of the various disorders 
 that come upon them, and at last put an end to their 
 lives. Consumptions and asthmas, the reigning disorders 
 among them, are occasioned chiefly by the many hard- 
 ships they endure at sea in fishing, and their carelessness 
 of preserving their health. They do not mind jumping 
 into the sea to save their boat from running aground, 
 or receiving damage against the rocks ; and frequently 
 keep on their wet clothes, even in frost and snow, 
 without changing anything. Coughs and consumptions 
 so affect them, that none hardly ever wear as well, or have 
 such florid complexions, as the people of Denmark." 
 Olafsen and Povelsen give the same account. About 
 
1811. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 245 
 
 To John May, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Nov. 24. 1811. 
 
 My dear Friend, 
 
 You know that I would write anything for you 
 as readily and with as much pleasure, and with as great 
 a desire to do it, as for any person living. You will 
 therefore give due weight to ray reasons for not at- 
 tempting what you now desire of me. First, the 
 inscription ought to be in Latin, decidedly ; — so it 
 appears to me. Now I have not written a Latin sen- 
 tence these seventeen years, and, moreover, have read 
 so much of the middle-age Latin, that classical Latinity 
 is one of those things which I have forgotten. This 
 I am by no means ashamed of confessing : on the 
 contrary, it is to my credit that I can afford to forget 
 it. 
 
 But you will say it may be in English verse — which 
 alone 1 could do, — having never attempted the lapidary 
 style of composition. This I could do had there been 
 time for it. It is true, little time is required for com- 
 posing ten or fifteen lines, when the matter is once 
 ready ; but it might be weeks or months before I could 
 conceive in what form it ought to be cast. There is no 
 sitting down to these things doggedly. Fifteen years 
 ago I could have answered any of these calls on de- 
 mand, because I was more easily satisfied with myself. 
 Two instances of later occurrence will show you the 
 state of my ability now. I was requested to write two 
 epitaphs by different persons, and very desirous in both 
 cases of doing it : in the one because I knew and 
 loved the dead almost as if she had been my sister ; 
 in the other, because the letter containing the request 
 was written in a manner that very much impressed and 
 affected me. Both were fine subjects for monumental 
 
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246 LETTERS OP 1811. 
 
 inscriptions, and this I immediately felt, and neither 
 of them employed me an hour s but I was six weeks 
 before I could perceive in what manner to shape the one 
 inscription, and three months on the other ; and I can 
 safely affirm that no day passed without the subject 
 recurring to my mind, and in some degree harassing 
 me. Heaven knows how long it might be before I 
 could do anything, and when it "were done it might 
 very probably be worth very little ! You see, there- 
 fore, that I have no chance of having verse of mine 
 engraved on silver. If I could do it to my own satis- 
 faction I would most cheerfully, though there are two 
 poets in the*family, by either of whom an inscription 
 might be supplied. I certainly think, considering the 
 relation in which the donors stand to G. Coleridge, that 
 the inscription should be in Latin. The thing should 
 be classical. 
 
 I have not the " Privilegios Ingleses," and shall be 
 much obliged to you to send me the book. Longman 
 will convey it to me. 
 
 The " Treaties " I have in the " Correio Braziliense." 
 Do you see that work ? The editor's parallel between 
 the English and Portuguese constitutions is exceedingly 
 able, and I would wish nothing better for Portugal or 
 Brazil than to see its ministers acting upon such prin- 
 ciples as this writer holds out. But they go on ill in 
 Brazil. If things can be kept quiet there, the ten- 
 dency of society now is to mend itself. The English 
 will act upon the people there as they did at Lisbon 
 and Porto, — soften down their intolerance, and teach 
 them commercial industry. What is to be feared is, 
 that the abuses of the Government will increase the 
 disaffection of the subjects, and that the principles of 
 their neighbours on the Plata will spread among them. 
 The provocations which the Spanish Americans have 
 received are very great, I fully admit, but not such as to 
 

 1811." _ ROBERT SOUTHEY. 247 
 
 justify them. I have a good many B. Ayres "Gazettes" 
 of late date, and the feeling with which the affairs of 
 the mother country are mentioned is precisely like 
 that which the Caraccas deputies make no attempt to 
 conceal, — sorrow at any event which seems likely to 
 retard the total subjugation of the Peninsula, because 
 that subjugation would seem to justify them, and 
 would remove all obstacles to a free commerce with 
 Great Britain. The more I think of Spanish America, 
 the worse the prospect appears. For the mother 
 country I do not . regard the separation as eventually 
 an evil, except that, as in our case with North America, 
 the cause of the separation will always remain a blot 
 upon her history. 
 
 The best edition of Shakspeare is Isaac Reid's, in 
 twenty-one volumes. 
 
 I am very anxious that Coleridge should complete 
 this course of lectures, because whatever comes from 
 him now will not be lost as it was at the Royal In- 
 stitution. I have taken care that they shall be taken 
 down in shorthand. Remember us to Mrs. May. 
 God bless you. 
 
 Yours very affectionately, 
 
 R. SOUTHEY. 
 
 To Mr. J. Neville White. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 27. 1811. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 It is needless to say that I will, with great 
 pleasure, peruse the tales you mention, and give you 
 my real opinion as to their fitness for the press. That 
 they would obtain an immediate sale is certain ; every- 
 
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248 LETTERS OF 1811. 
 
 thing beyond this must depend upon their merit ; and 
 I confess I am a little apprehensive upon this score, 
 merely because of Henry's youth. It is one thing to 
 write poems, and another to write a tale. The former 
 requires feeling, fancy, imagination — things to be 
 found within — and a command of language which 
 memory is very soon able to supply ; the latter a know- 
 ledge of human character and of the human mind, for 
 which experience is necessary. Of course, this fear of 
 mine only applies to Henry — to him only on account 
 of his age at which he wrote it. 
 
 We in the country here are thinking and talking of 
 nothing but these dreadful murders, which seem to 
 bring a stigma, not merely on the police, but on the 
 land we live in, and even our human nature. No cir- 
 cumstances which did not concern myself ever disturbed 
 me so much. I have been more affected, more agitated, 
 but never had so mingled a feeling of horror, and in- 
 dignation, and astonishment, with a sense of insecurity 
 too, which no man in this state of society ever felt 
 before, and a feeling that the national character is dis- 
 graced. I have very long felt the necessity of an im- 
 proved police, and these dreadful events, I hope and 
 trust will lead to the establishment of one as vigilant 
 as that of Paris used to be. The police laws cannot 
 be too rigorous ; and the usual objection that a rigorous 
 police is inconsistent with English liberty might easily 
 be shown to be absurd. 
 
 I am at present reprinting, in a separate and enlarged 
 form, the essay upon the " New System of Education," 
 which appeared in the last " Quarterly." The subject, 
 as connected with the well-being of society, is a very 
 important one, and the dispute in both parts, personal 
 and political, must, I think, be decided by it, in every 
 fair and well-judging mind. A few days ago I received 
 a curious proof of the effect which is produced by 
 
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CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. GOOCH. 383 
 
 London. I have been here only four months, 
 and one knowing man about London practice 
 says, that he would prefer my prospect to that 
 of any of the young physicians ; and another, 
 still more knowing, says that in ten years I shall 
 walk over the course. This, however, is intended 
 only for the eye and ear of friendship. As you 
 may readily suppose, I have much more leisure 
 than when I was at Croydon, for reading and 
 writing. I have been, at the suggestion of Ro- 
 bert Southey, drawing up a life of Beddoes for 
 the next volume of the Edinburgh Register. I 
 have several other things in prospect, which you 
 shall know when they are executed. 
 
 " By the by, Murray the bookseller and pro- 
 prietor of the Quarterly Review, has been ex- 
 pressing a wish that you would contribute to it ; 
 and Gifford the editor, to whom he mentioned 
 the subject, said that he was familiar with your 
 writings, and should be happy if we could per- 
 suade you to enlist in the corps ; he even went 
 so far as to say, that he wished I would call on 
 him, that he might talk to me about it. All this 
 arose, not from my recommending them to pro- 
 cure your assistance, for I was and am still un- 
 certain whether you would accept the task, but 
 merely from Murray's hearing me speak of you 
 in my usual strain. What shall I do about it ? 
 You know they pay ten guineas per sheet. Al- 
 
384 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 though Murray and Gifford went so far in their 
 invitation, I was deterred from meeting them, 
 because I was unwilling you should encounter 
 the same treatment as Dr. Sayers's article about 
 Dugald Stewart's book, and because of the known 
 habit of the editor, of rejecting articles, not 
 which are dull, for God knows they accept plenty 
 of that description of commodity, but which are 
 unsuitable to the tastes and the feelings and the 
 creeds of the literary multitude. Direct me what 
 to do, and it shall be done, 
 
 " I have been hearing several of Coleridge's 
 lectures, and met him once at a dinner-party ; he 
 is certainly a very eloquent man, but his public 
 effusions, although they now and then contain 
 powerful passages, are certainly uncomplete and 
 l unsatisfying. It seems as if he entered the lec- 
 
 ture-room without preparation, which is a mon- 
 strous disadvantage ; he is like a singer who be- 
 gins with too high a note, and having resolved at 
 the outset of a passage to give it a certain form 
 and length, he finds before he has gone half 
 through that he has expended all his stock of 
 thought, and is obliged to fill up the remainder 
 with flatulent and sonorous verbiage ; his finest 
 things seem to me to be said immediately after 
 having made his friends in pain and his indiffer- 
 ent hearers disgusted by his failures, like An- 
 teeus, who grew strong on touching the ground. 
 
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 CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. GOOCH. 
 
 What I have lately seen of him has not raised 
 him in my opinion. He is now I believe at Kes- 
 jjp^wick with Southey. Have you heard lately from ftC 
 gj the £[urham JDaciox? I have set him a task, and 
 L/<y«f he sends me word that he is very industriously 
 ^-engaged in doing it. You know that pulmonary 
 consumption is cured by warm climates, and is 
 said to have been relieved and even cured by 
 warm apartments in cold ones. Yet the remedy 
 has been tried in only a few cases, and the pro- 
 fession does not know the extent of its efficacy. 
 The only way to settle this or any other question 
 about the value of a remedy, is to try it on a 
 much larger scale than can be done in private 
 practice. Medical institutions, where numbers 
 with the same disease are treated, are, if properly 
 employed, the great means of setting all ques- 
 tions of this kind for ever at rest, and dissipating 
 that dreadful doubt which involves many of the 
 most important topics the profession has to de- 
 liberate on. They are engines, by which the na- 
 tural experience of a long life, so diffused and 
 scattered that it is almost valueless, becomes 
 compressed into a few years. With this idea 
 Southey has converted a large ward in the Dur- 
 ham Infirmary into a hot-house for consumptive 
 patients ; and if he is active and judicious in his 
 management of it, may before long be the most 
 experienced man in the kingdom about the influ- 
 
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386 MEMOIR OF WILLIAM TAYLOR. 
 
 ence of the remedy. The cases treated at the 
 Infirmary, together with an inquiry into the pre- 
 valence or absence of consumption among the 
 different nations of the world, and its connection 
 with their habits and their climate, would make 
 a very valuable book ; Beddoes only turned up 
 the field. Are you not writing for the Monthly ? 
 and could not you procure for me the admission 
 of a gratis volunteer article ? A very intelligent 
 lady has been translating Fenelon on ' Education 
 of Girls,' and I wish to review it. I want an op- 
 portunity of praising her, because she deserves it. 
 Pray let me hear from you soon. You have two 
 questions which require a speedy answer — one 
 relative to Murray, the other to the Monthly. 
 Mr. Grattan on the 15th of April opens the Ca- 
 tholic question : I am tired of the subject, as 
 much as some are of Liberty and Necessity ; but, 
 for the sake of the orator, I shall go to hear him, 
 unless anything should prevent me. I wish you 
 were with me. 
 "Yours with the utmost esteem and affection, 
 
 " Robert Gooch." 
 
 From the same to the same. 
 
 " Aldermanbury, April 20, 1812. 
 " My dear Friend, 
 " I send you a few words about the education 
 
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 1812. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 257 
 
 To Mr. J. N. White. 
 
 Keswick, March 18. 1812. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 There is not a man in England whose opinion 
 upon any matter of business is worth less than mine ; 
 but I think I can see a difficulty in transferring the 
 " Remains " from Vernon's house wholly to Longman's 
 which is not to be overcome ; and that is, that the two 
 houses being partners in this concern, the one will not 
 choose to do anything detrimental to the other. Your 
 interest or inclination is nothing to them : they will 
 consider nothing but themselves ; and it will be more 
 Longman's interest to remain with a fourth share of 
 the profits and the goodwill of Vernon's house, than to 
 take a third, and, by so doing, offend them. 
 
 I did not tell you in my last that I hope to produce 
 a few lines, in the form of an inscription, for a tablet 
 in Wilford churchyard, because in cases of this kind 
 the deed does not always follow the will ; and if I could 
 have succeeded I should have sent you the poem, if I 
 had failed the disappointment would have been confined 
 to myself. This is the only reply which I can make to 
 you on my own part. I can engage to produce a great 
 poem which shall be the work of years, and is to be 
 drawn from accumulate stores — the work of long me- 
 ditation and labour ; but for those smaller pieces, which, 
 if they come, must come unsought, I never can bind 
 myself. From Coleridge I could, without difficulty, 
 procure you a promise, but am very certain that such a 
 promise would end in nothing. His good nature would 
 render it impossible for him to refuse, and his habits 
 would render it still more impossible for him to perform 
 what he had thus incautiously pledged himself to do. 
 I would not have the book assume the appearance of a 
 
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258 LETTERS OP 1812. 
 
 formal collection of verses ; there must be, as in all 
 these " Illustrations," some short descriptive accounts 
 of the places represented in the prints, and such poems 
 as you may obtain had better appear interspersed in 
 their respective places. 
 
 I congratulate you on your good resolutions, and shall 
 be truly glad to congratulate you when they are carried 
 into effect. A man may be cheerful and contented in 
 celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy ; it 
 is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature 
 are never called into action. The risks of marriage are 
 far greater on the woman's side ; women have so little 
 the power of choice, that it is not perhaps fair to say 
 they are less likely to choose well than we are ; but I 
 am persuaded that they are more frequently deceived 
 in the attachments which they form, and their opinions 
 concerning men are much less accurate than men's 
 opinion of their sex. Now if a lady were to reproach 
 me for having said this, I should reply that it was only 
 another mode of saying there were more good wives in 
 the world than there are good husbands, which I verily 
 believe. I know nothing which a good and sensible 
 man is so certain to find, if he looks for it, as a good 
 wife. 
 
 I would answer Josiah Condor's note if I were more 
 at leisure, and thank him for it. Tell him I believe the 
 " Edinburgh Annual Register " will be obliged to him 
 for any pieces, and that I will gladly transmit them for 
 him. Tell him also that I have unfortunately mislaid 
 those lines of Montgomery's which he gave me for that 
 purpose. This has given me a good deal of trouble in 
 hunting for them, and still more vexation ; and I shall 
 be very much obliged to him if he will have the good- 
 ness to favour me with another copy. I have searched 
 so thoroughly for them, that I despair of ever finding 
 them till they shall turn up unexpectedly. 
 
1812. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 269 
 
 it, though I have a good deal dependent upon the suc- 
 cess of the work. As long as it continues it makes my 
 income sufficient, and enables me to rub off some old 
 scores. This is now the third volume, and it is an up- 
 hill business to get the work into an adequate sale, 
 because the old " Registers " have got possession, and it 
 is difficult to supersede them, though they are literally 
 below contempt, and as worthless as it is possible for 
 such works to be ; but many booksellers are concerned 
 in them, and they, of course, impede our progress as 
 much as they can. However, I think it will go on. 
 There was an article of mine in the last " Quarterly " 
 upon the Inquisition, containing a good deal of know- 
 ledge which probably no other person in this country 
 possessed, collected in great part from Portuguese 
 manuscripts. The next number will contain a reviewal 
 of the " Iceland Travels." I am going, as soon as 
 possible, to review " Humboldt," and also to write 
 upon the state of the poor. The truth of what Es- 
 priella says of a manufacturing populace, and of what 
 he saw in the last year's " Register " upon the sinking 
 of Jacobinism from the middle and reasoning classes, 
 down to the mob, is exemplified at this time in the 
 state of the manufacturing countries. It is well for us 
 that we have not a Pitt and Grenville Administration, 
 or, with this system of United Englishmen, so undeniably 
 existing, there would soon be an end of all liberty in 
 England. I do not think the country in danger, but it 
 is very certain that the tendency and object of these 
 proceedings is to bring about a second reign of Jack 
 Cade. The end will be to strengthen the Government 
 by alarming all men who are not wilfully blind, and 
 God be thanked that the Government are not likely to 
 abuse their strength ! 
 
 Here we are in want of potatoes. They tell us there 
 are plenty about Penrith. The backwardness of the 
 

 270 LETTERS OF 1812. 
 
 season is unfortunate ; the worst effect that I apprehend 
 from the universal scarcity is, that it may impede Lord 
 Wellington's movements. Nothing else, I think, can 
 prevent him from driving the French out of Andalusia. 
 The state of things in Sweden is very curious, but my 
 hope is in Spain : there is the vantage ground, — there 
 we have baffled the utmost effort which Bonaparte could 
 make against us, and there, if we persevere, we shall 
 give him his mortal wound. 
 
 Remember me to Rex. We are looking daily for 
 Miss Fricker, and wondering at her long delay. Will 
 you bring with you some citric acid ; and if Martha be 
 not set out, and you could send by her some of the dry 
 tamarinds which are sometimes to be had in Bristol, 
 they would prove very grateful to her sister at this 
 time. The young ones are well, and like your choice 
 of playfellows. How is Dr. Estlin ? Remember me 
 there, and to all who inquire for me. Coleridge is in 
 London, about to recommence lecturing. Tell Rex he 
 • must get Landor's tragedy. " Count Julian " is the 
 title, and his name is not affixed. " Pelayo " comes on 
 slowly. God bless you. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 R. S. 
 
 P.S. My Taunton affairs end in paying for counsel's 
 advice, which tells me I can claim nothing now, but 
 have good ground for a Chancery suit in case of Lord 
 Somerville's death without issue. A pleasant sort of 
 inheritance ! 
 
iETAT. 38. OF ROBERT SOU THEY. 333 
 
 so properly, — and which is the only thing for which I 
 have the slightest ambition, — it would soon put me 
 in possession of the utmost I could want or wish for, 
 inasmuch as I could lay by the whole income, and 
 the title would be, in a great degree, productive. 
 
 " Hitherto I have been highly favoured. A 
 healthy body, an active mind, and a cheerful heart 
 are the three best boons nature can bestow ; and, God 
 be praised, no man ever enjoyed them more perfectly 
 My skin and bones scarcely know what an ailment is, 
 my mind is ever on the alert, and yet, when its work 
 is done, becomes as tranquil as a baby ; and my 
 spirits invincibly good. Would they have been so, 
 or could I have been what I am, if you had not been 
 for so many years my stay and support ? I believe 
 not ; yet you had been so long my familiar friend, 
 that I felt no more sense of dependence in receiving 
 my main, and at one time sole, subsistence from you, 
 than if you had been my brother : it was being done 
 to as I would have done. 
 
 E. S." 
 
 The appointment of Historiographer, to which my 
 father refers in the letter, appears to have fallen 
 vacant almost immediately. Application was at once 
 made for it in his behalf in several influential quar- 
 ters ; but it seems to have been filled up with extra- 
 ordinary haste, having been bestowed upon Dr. 
 Stanier Clarke, Librarian to the Prince Regent. It 
 turned out ultimately that there was no salary at- 
 tached to the office, the appointment being merely 
 honorary. 
 
 The next letter was written immediately on hear- 
 ing of the murder of Mr. Perceval. 
 
334 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 38. 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, May 14. 1812. 
 
 " Dear Grosvenor, 
 
 " In spite of myself I have been weeping ; this has 
 relieved the throbbings of my head; but my mind 
 is overcharged and must pour itself out. I am going 
 to write something upon the state of popular feeling, 
 which will probably appear in the Courier, where it 
 will obtain the readiest and widest circulation. 
 Enough to alarm the people I shall be able to say ; 
 but I would fain alarm the Government, and if this 
 were done in public they would think it imprudent, 
 and, indeed, it would be so. 
 
 " I shall probably begin with what you say of the 
 sensation occasioned by this most fatal event, and 
 then give the reverse of your account as I have re- 
 ceived it from Coleridge; what he heard in a pot- 
 house into which he went on the night of the murder, 
 not more to quench his thirst than for the purpose of 
 hearing what the populace would say. Did I not 
 speak to you with ominous truth upon this subject in 
 one of my last hasty letters ? This country is upon 
 the brink of the most dreadful of all conceivable 
 states — an insurrection of the poor against the rich; 
 and if by some providential infatuation, the Bur- 
 dettites had not continued to insult the soldiers, the 
 existing government would not be worth a week's 
 purchase, nor any throat which could be supposed to 
 be worth cutting, safe for a month longer. 
 
 " You know, Grosvenor, I am no aguish politician, 
 nor is this a sudden apprehension which has seized me. 
 Look to what I have said of the effect of Mrs. Clarke's 
 
1812. 4* „ EOBEET SOUTHEY. 279 
 
 a few weeks every year on his way from Ireland: but 
 he is a very old man, and may very likely drop his lease 
 — or drop himself. He left it in August last year, 
 and lent it to the Bishop of Meath : very likely he 
 may be disposed to let it this autumn. It would suit 
 you well; it has land belonging to it, which may 
 probably be had, and the communication by land would 
 be easy, and better still by lake. 
 
 Do not send off anything but what is wanted for 
 your own use, for this house, though rather of larger 
 dimensions than a nutshell, is almost as full as one. 
 Martha is coming next week, and Danvers; and, what 
 is worse, the boys' holidays begin. I shall march off 
 with Danvers early in July for Durham ; the holidays 
 luckily have an end as well as a beginning. Hartley is 
 grown a great fellow, all beard and eyes, — as odd and 
 as extraordinary as ever he was, with very good dis- 
 position, but with ways and tendencies which will 
 neither be to his own happiness nor to the comfort 
 of anybody connected with him. Derwent, contrary to 
 all former appearances, is much weaker in body ; he 
 is very tractable, and may be made anything; whereas 
 Hartley is of such unmalleable materials that what 
 he may make of himself God knows, but I suspect 
 nobody will be able to mould or manage him. You 
 will be much pleased with Herbert.* He may best be 
 characterised by calling him a sweet boy. You can 
 hardly conceive anything more gentle and more loving. 
 He has just learnt his Greek alphabet, and is so 
 desirous of learning, so attentive and so quick of 
 apprehension, that if it please God he should live, 
 there is little doubt but that something will come out 
 of him. 
 
 * " Herbert ! — That sweetest and most perfect of all children 
 on this earth, who died in my arms at nine years of age, whose 
 death I announced to his father and mother in their bed, where I 
 
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280 LETTERS OF 1812. 
 
 I have long had many day-dreams of what was to be 
 done when you came to reside among us. One has 
 been of a poem or series of poems about this country, 
 for which you were to make drawings, so as to make 
 a splendid book. 
 
 If you get off as soon as you expect, we may look 
 for you early next week. I had nearly forgotten what 
 you say about the Island ; it does not seem to me the 
 kind of thing that could be asked. God bless you. 
 Come speedily and cure me of my cold, for you know 
 you have undertaken to cure everybody. I must go to 
 work upon this endless "Register," hoping and trusting 
 to finish the third volume this week ; after which the 
 first letter from Edinburgh will be to press me to lose 
 as little time as possible in beginning the fourth. There 
 is the difference between my labour and that of a 
 miller's horse, — that he goes round and round, and that 
 I go straight forward ; but both of us are likely to 
 be kept working as long as our strength lasts. Well ! 
 and if the horse likes it as well as I do, he has no 
 reason to complain. 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 R. S. 
 
 had prayed and persuaded them to go. When Southey could speak, 
 his first words were, — ' The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath 
 taken away ; Blessed be the name of the Lord!' Never can I forget 
 that MOMENT. 
 
 "Present ever — ever ! until I rejoin that heavenly child, and his 
 heavenly Father, 
 
 " Mary Slade, nee Bakkek." 
 
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1812. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 299 
 
 less than to draw up instructions with Dr. Bell for a 
 system of education to be introduced into every regi- 
 ment throughout the army. 
 
 6 
 
 To Wade Browne, Esq., Ludlow. 
 
 Keswick, November 5. 1812. 
 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 Guy Faux is receiving his usual honours of bon- 
 fire and uproar in the market-place : the two girls are 
 exhibiting themselves at the dancing-master's ball, as 
 happy as innocent hearts and apple-green kid shoes can 
 make them ; good old nurse is twirling the spinning- 
 wheel in the room where Mrs. Southey is in bed with 
 her new-born daughter Isabel ; and I, who, like the 
 last Duke of Cumberland, am all alone by myself, take 
 pen and paper to inform you of this daughter's safe 
 arrival. 
 
 I have desired Longman to send you a book of 
 shreds and patches, the work of many hours of that 
 sort of laborious idleness which is to me the most de- 
 lightful of all dissipation. You will find some things 
 to smile at, and some curious facts, affording matter for 
 speculation, from which it is not impossible that scien- 
 tific men may draw conclusions of some importance. I 
 inserted some articles of Coleridge's in the book, merely 
 in the hope of getting something from him in this way ; 
 he had literally only to cut them out of his common 
 place books. It was my intention to make four vo- 
 lumes instead of two, in this manner ; but he kept the 
 press waiting fifteen months for an unfinished article, so 
 that at last I ordered the sheet in which it was begun to 
 
300 LETTEES OF 
 
 1812. 
 
 be cancelled, in despair. I have marked whatever is his, 
 and you will wish that it were more. 
 
 My intended journey to London is postponed till 
 spring, because it is expedient that the " Register for 
 1811" should be published in April ; and this, there- 
 fore, allows me no time to stir from home. I am busily 
 employed upon it, and have this day got over, in as sum- 
 mary a manner as possible, the Bullion business ; — a 
 part to which I looked on with as much horror as ever 
 Christian did to the Slough of Despond or to the Hill 
 of Difficulty. This is a very laborious work ; it does 
 not weary me, nevertheless : as it commenced with the 
 usurpation of Spain, the first instance in which Bona- 
 parte unequivocally displayed himself in his true cha- 
 racter of pure devil, I should be well pleased to bring 
 my part in it to a conclusion with his fall ; ■ — an event 
 which I verily hope is not far distant. This wondrous 
 war with Russia, since it has become not a political 
 game at war for territory, but a national cause, in which 
 men fight to save their wives and children, or to revenge 
 them, — promises to become as fatal to France as the 
 Spanish contest has been : and a daybreak of hope has 
 appeared even in Paris itself. Should he leave his army 
 to prevent the danger of another insurrection, I hardly 
 suppose, composed as it is, of so many different people, 
 all forced to serve, and hating him for whom they are 
 sacrificed, that it can be kept together ; and should he 
 continue with it, there is good hope that a winter at 
 Moscow may involve him and his army in the same de- 
 struction ; or that a more successful attempt at deliver- 
 ance may be made in France, and that she may refuse 
 any longer to supply so wicked and so wanton a waste of 
 life. Oh, that there were but energy enough in our 
 Government to publish the terms upon which it is ready 
 to make peace with France, at the same time pledging 
 itself never to make peace with this frantic tyrant ! What 
 
1812. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 an instrument would such a declaration have been in the 
 hands of these generals at Paris ! 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Mr. J. Neville White. 
 
 Keswick, Nov. To. 1812. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 Thank you for the Buenos Ayres " Gazettes." 
 The fourth volume of the " Register," when it appears, 
 will show you that you have not procured these materials 
 for me in vain. I expect to be enabled to draw up a 
 very satisfactory chapter upon Spanish America. 
 
 Since this packet of yours arrived my family have 
 been increased by the birth of a daughter, who, with her 
 mother, thank God, is doing well. My sum total now 
 consists of five, — four daughters and one boy. The 
 latter has begun Greek under my tuition, and to his 
 great amusement. I am amusing myself occasionally 
 with putting the Greek accidence into rhyme for his 
 use. It lays such hold on his memory that I shall 
 probably go through with this curious undertaking. 
 
 Has Longman sent you the " Omniana " 1 These 
 volumes are the fruits of many hours of that laborious 
 idleness which is to me the most delightful of all 
 dissipation. I who methodise upon so many subjects, 
 and upon so extensive a scale, may certainly be allowed 
 to smile, if upon this occasion I should be censured for 
 throwing crude materials together without any method 
 at all. My only reply would be, that the person who 
 can find nothing there but what he knew before, is 
 
302 LETTERS OF 1812. 
 
 entitled to abuse the book. I have materials, or rather 
 memoranda, marked in the course of many years' almost 
 incessant reading, which are enough to fill half-a-dozen 
 more such volumes ; and if these should sell, I shall 
 certainly put two more to the press. But the sale of 
 books depends upon such adventitious circumstances, 
 that I can form a better guess about to-morrow's wea- 
 ther, than upon so uncertain a chance. The articles 
 which are not my own, are Coleridge's : they would 
 not have been there (being so few) if I had not hoped 
 to obtain from him enough to have doubled the extent 
 of the collection ; and for this I waited so long, as not 
 to leave me time for doing it myself. 
 
 I am reading Dr. Clarke's "Travels." They give me 
 a very poor opinion of the author's judgment or powers 
 of mind ; but I am thankful for his facts, and find the 
 book on that score exceedingly valuable. His preju- 
 dices against the Russians are both ridiculous and mis- 
 chievous ; and an Englishman travelling in Russia here- 
 after may feel their effects, as English travellers in 
 Sicily have heretofore felt the effects of Brydone's 
 rascally exposure of private intercourse. There is a 
 species of falsehood which consists in telling nothing 
 but truth, but, by telling only a part of the truth, pro- 
 duces all the effects of falsehood, and this is what Dr. 
 Clarke has done. He tells you all the faults of the 
 Russians, and keeps out of sight the good qualities 
 which co-exist with those faults. I know persons who 
 have lived in Russia; they uniformly speak of the 
 nobles as a corrupted and vicious class, but of the 
 people as possessing those good qualities which in a 
 certain stage of civilisation are natural to humanity. 
 In savage life they are like the seed which fell upon 
 stones, and cannot shoot forth : in such a state as that 
 of the Russian nobles, or the English journeymen 
 manufacturers, they are stifled or poisoned ; but neither 
 
1812. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 315 
 
 To Captain Southey, H.N., St. Helen's, Auckland. 
 
 Keswick, Dec. 30. 1812. 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 I should know that midshipman's name if I saw 
 it, and the name we must have. So I have written to 
 Bedford to learn what mids of the Victory fell in that 
 action. 
 
 You used to speak of the dead lying in shoal water 
 at Copenhagen ; there was the boatswains mate, or 
 somebody, asked for, when he was lying face upward 
 under the stern or somewhere. Tell me the right par- 
 ticulars of this, which is too striking a circumstance 
 to be lost. I believe I am making a most impressive 
 narrative of this battle by your help. Something I re- 
 membered from Lintham, something from Ponsonby, to 
 whom I shall walk over and read this chapter in hope 
 of getting some corrections and additions ; and a 
 Dane's account printed in English gives me some fine 
 things. 
 
 I am such a sad lubber that I feel half ashamed of 
 myself for being persuaded ever even to review the 
 " Life of Nelson," much more to write one. Had I not 
 been a thorough lubber, I should have remembered half 
 a hundred things worthy of remembrance, which have 
 all been lost, because, though I do indeed know the 
 binnacle from the mainmast, I know little more : tackle 
 and sheets, and tally and belay, are alike to me ; and if 
 you ask me about the lee-clue garnets, I can only tell 
 that they are not the same kind of garnets as are worn 
 in necklaces and bracelets ; and so fine facts have been 
 lost, because I did not know where to store them in the 
 ship, or in my recollection-closet up-stairs. There is 
 something ridiculous, and something like quackery in 
 
316 LETTERS OF 1812. 
 
 •writing thus about what I so little understand. I walk 
 among sea terms as a cat does in a china pantry, in 
 bodily fear of doing mischief, and betraying myself; 
 and yet there will come a good book of it, I verily 
 believe. 
 
 I have touched your old tyrant, Sir Thomas, gently, 
 but upon the sore place ; imputing no blame, but stating 
 every circumstance which makes misconduct an (almost) 
 unavoidable inference. 
 
 What was your loss ? Tell me all about your guns, 
 and what loss they occasioned. Were they not honey- 
 combed ? Were you not saying when you pulled the 
 triggers, " Here goes the death of six ! " This is a thing 
 which would be felt. 
 
 Did not Victor distinguish himself that day ? I must 
 not mention " poor Sir Hyde," as he was called, for 
 that day's behaviour ; for Sir Hyde had his merits. A 
 jealous man, or a conceited man, would not have let 
 Nelson do anj'thing, and I can perfectly well enter into 
 Domett's feelings when he said, " Save what you can, 
 Sir Hyde." 
 
 I do not rightly understand you about the spare 
 spars. " Many would have been saved that were de- 
 stroyed lying on the booms," you say. Do you refer 
 to the mere value of the spars thus destroyed, or to the 
 damage also done by the splinters from these spars ? 
 
 I am taking great pains with this chapter, and great 
 interest in it. Your letter was of main use. 
 
 What a miserable thing is this loss of a second frigate 
 to the Americans ! Coleridge knew Decatur at Malta, 
 and has often spoken of him in the highest terms. It is 
 a cruel stroke ; and though their frigates are larger 
 ships than ours, must be felt as disgrace, and in fact is 
 disgrace. It looks as if there was a dry rot in our 
 wooden walls. Is it that this captain also is a youngster 
 hoisted up by interest, or that the Americans were 
 

 
 1812. EOBERT SOUTHET. 317 
 
 manned by Englishmen, or that our men do not fight 
 heartily, or that their men are better than ours ? 
 
 The paragraph about Coleridge's tragedy is correct. 
 It is the play which he wrote in 1797, and which She- 
 ridan then rejected. I think it will succeed. 
 
 I have written to Sister Anne earnestly enough, but 
 probably to little effect. 
 
 Herbert has been reading the " Pilgrim's Progress," 
 taking infinite delight in the letter, but no great edifi- 
 cation from the spirit, as Mary will conclude, when she 
 hears that his favourite amusement at present is to what 
 he calls play Apollyon with Bertha and Kate. He goes 
 about the room or the passages roaring towards them 
 like a lion seeking whom he may devour ; and Kate 
 and bluff Queen Henry cry out, "Don't Pollyon, don't 
 Pollyon Herby ! " though when he has done they ask 
 him " to Pollyon again." 
 
 Supposing the action had not been suspended when 
 it was, were not you with the Russell and the Desiree 
 in danger ? The great book here says that there those 
 ships were not ; but I think I remember otherwise from 
 you. 
 
 "Robertson " and " Boyar Edward" I knew must be 
 in the Newcastle library, but it was better you should 
 have them at hand ; the latter indeed will last you 
 throughout the whole of your " Opus." I wish you had 
 the " Naval Chronicle," but it is too expensive to be 
 bought, and whenever you meet with a volume, it may 
 soon be gutted of all that is to your purpose. I shall 
 look out for books for you when I go to London, espe- 
 cially for " Du Testre." God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
318 LETTERS OF 1813. 
 
 To Mr. J. Neville White. 
 
 Keswick, Feb. 27. 1813. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 I have something to ask you respecting Cam- 
 bridge, and must first relate the circumstances which 
 occasion me to make the inquiry. 
 
 Some three or four months ago, a boy at school sent 
 me sundry specimens of his verses, asking my opinion of 
 certain poetical plans which he had formed. The verses 
 were nothing like Henry's at the same age, for he had 
 a prematurity of sense and judgment in which none but 
 Chatterton is comparable with him ; but there was in 
 them power enough of language, and ardour, and effect, 
 and promise. I wrote him in reply a letter not of such 
 advice as he had applied for, but of the best counsel 
 that I could give him, cautioning him against early 
 publication ; and endeavouring to show him how these 
 pursuits, which, if they were entered upon rashly, would 
 prove his bane, might be made instrumental, in every 
 way, to his advancement and happiness. A fortnight 
 ago there came a second letter, telling me he had left 
 school, that his friends thought the law would be the 
 best profession for him, — that he was one of ten chil- 
 dren, and his father (an old officer) could do little to set 
 him forward in life. While, therefore, he should be 
 preparing for the bar, he must do something for him- 
 self. For this purpose, he wished to make his love of 
 literature available. This, therefore, he thought, would 
 justify, or even require, earlier publication than would 
 else be advisable ; and he applied to me to instruct him 
 how he should proceed. I liked his letter ; it bore with 
 it an appearance of goodness, as well as of talents; so I 
 told him that the best way to the bar lies through the 
 University, and that there is no means by which he 
 
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 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
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 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON, THE 
 
 REV. CHARLES CUTHBERT SOUTHEY, M.A. 
 
 CURATE OF PLUMBLAND, CUMBERLAND. 
 
 IN SIX VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
 
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 1850. 
 
7 6J 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. 
 
 CHAPTER XVJLLL 
 
 Present Happiness. — Affairs of the Edinburgh Annual Register em- 
 barrassed. — Life of Nelson. — Roderick. — Thanks to Sir W. 
 Scott for Rokeby. — Regrets being compelled to Periodical Writ- 
 ing. — Politics. — Mr. Coleridge's Tragedy brought out. — Re- 
 marks on the Loss of youthful Hopes. — Destruction of the Erench 
 Army in Russia. — Life of Nelson completed. — Literary Plans. — 
 Reasons for submitting to Gifford's Corrections. — Letters con- 
 cerning Mr. James Dusautoy. — Gloomy Political Forebodings. — 
 Paper in the Quarterly Review on the State of the Poor. — Naval 
 Reverses in the "War with America. — Expected Death of his 
 Brother-in-law Mr. Ericker. — Montgomery's Deluge. — Animated 
 Horsehair. — Play by Mr. W. S. Landor. — Visit to London. — 
 Appointment as Poet-laureate. — 1813 - - Page 1 
 
 CHAPTER XLX. 
 
 The Laureate's Eirst Ode. — Restrictions upon his Freedom of Speech. 
 
 — Complaints of Gifford's Corrections. — Bonaparte. — Conduct 
 of the Austrian Government towards Hofer. — Anxiety respecting 
 his Children's Health. — Thinks of an Ode on the expected Mar- 
 riage of the Princess Charlotte. — Repulse of the British at Bergen - 
 op-Zoom. — Quotation from George Gascoigne concerning the 
 Dutch. — Feelings on the News of the Success of the Allied Armies. 
 
 — Poetical Plans. — Lord Byron's Ode to Bonaparte. — Remarks 
 on Mathematical Studies. — On Clerical Duties. — Ridiculous 
 Poem. — Portrait and Memoir wanted. — Laureate Odes. — 
 Spanish Affairs. — Humboldt's Travels. — Roderick. — Mr. Cole- 
 ridge. — Domestic Anxieties. — Advice on College Studies, — 
 
VI CONTENTS. 
 
 Children's Joy. — Hospitals badly conducted. — Political Specula- 
 tions. — Barnard Barton. — Mr. Wordsworth's last Poem. — Lite- 
 rary Plans. — The Ettrick Shepherd. — Laureate Odes still re- 
 quired. — Foreign Politics. — Mr. Canning. — History of Brazil. — 
 Expects nothing from Government. — A crazy Compositor. — 
 Grave of Ronsard at Tours. — Roderick. — Oliver Newman. — 
 Thoughts on Death. — Bonaparte. — History of Brazil. — New 
 Year's Ode expected. — The Property-Tax. — The Squid Hound. 
 
 — Lord Byron. — Roderick. — Difficulties of Removal. — Inscrip- 
 tions and Epitaphs. — Evil of going to India. — Murat. — History 
 of Portugal His Son's Studies. — Dr. Bell's Ludus Literarius. 
 
 — Question of Marriage with a Wife's Sister. — Rejoicings at the 
 News of the Battle of Waterloo. — 1814—1815 - Page 50 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 Feelings of rejoicing at the Termination of the War with France. — 
 Journey to Waterloo. — Account of Beguinages at Ghent. — 
 Notices of Flanders. — Of the Field of Battle. — Purchase of the 
 Acta Sanctorum. — Detention by the Illness of his Daughter at 
 Aix-la-Chapelle. — Return Home. — Picture of his Domestic Hap- 
 piness in the Pilgrimage to Waterloo. — Multitude of Correspondents. 
 
 — Meeting with Spanish Liberates in London. — Rapid Flight of 
 Time. — Declining Facility of Poetical Composition. — Politics. — 
 
 ' Regrets for the Death of young Dusautoy. — The Pilgrimage to 
 Waterloo. — Scott's Lord of the Isles. — The History of Brazil. — 
 Evils in Society. — Want of English Beguinages. — Early English 
 
 Poetry Death of his Son. — Poetical Criticism. — Feelings of 
 
 Resignation. — Circumstances of his Early Life. — Geology and 
 Botany better Studies than Chemical and Physical Science. — 
 
 Thomson's Castle of Indolence Youthful Feelings. — Owen of 
 
 Lanark. — Remarks on his own Fortunes and Character. — College 
 Life. —Wordsworth's Poems. — 1815— 1816 - - 124 
 
 CHAPTER XXL 
 
 Changes in his Political Opinions. — Causes which made him a Poli- 
 tical Writer. — He is requested to go to London to confer with the 
 Government. — Reasons for declining to do so. — Gloomy Antici- 
 pations. — Measures necessary for preventing a Revolution. — He 
 
CONTENTS. Vll 
 
 is hated by the Eadicals and Anarchists. — Thoughts concerning 
 his Son's Death. — Plan of a Work upon the State of the Country. 
 — Proposed Reforms. — Efforts to assist Herbert Knowles to go 
 to Cambridge. — Letter from him. — His Death. — Fears of a Re- 
 volution. — Literary Employment and Hopes. — Sympathy with a 
 Friend's Difficulties. — Motives for Thankfulness. — Melancholy 
 Feelings. — Blindness of Ministers 1816 - Page 198 
 
 CHAPTER XXIL 
 
 Surreptitious Publication of Wat Tyler. — Consequent Proceedings. 
 — Is attacked in the House of Commons by William Smith. — 
 Offer of a Lucrative Appointment connected with the Times News- 
 paper. — Tour in Switzerland. — Letters from thence. — Account 
 of Pestalozzi. — Of Fellenberg. — Impressions of the English Lakes 
 on his return. — High Opinion of Neville White. — Norfolk 
 Scenery. — Speculations on another Life. — Life of Wesley in 
 progress. — Curious News from the North Pole. — Lines on the 
 Death of the Princess Charlotte. — Cure for the Bite of Snakes. — 
 1817 ------- 234 
 
 CHAPTER XXHI. 
 
 Retrospect of Life. — Reviewing. — Life of Wesley. — Uses of 
 Affliction. — Edinburgh Annual Register. — Westmoreland Elec- 
 tion. — Humboldt. — Paper on the Poor Laws. — Cobbett. — 
 Nutritive Qualities of Coffee. — Milman's Poem of Samor. — Offer 
 of Librarianship of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. — Scarcity 
 of Literary Men in America. — Ritchie. — Mungo Park. — Recol- 
 lections of his Tour on the Continent. — He is attacked from the 
 Hustings at a Westmoreland Election. — Wishes to print his Poems 
 in a cheaper Form. — Mob Meetings. — Congratulations to Mr. 
 Justice Coleridge on his Marriage. — Literaiy Advice. — Habits of 
 Asceticism not unfavourable to long Life. — Mr. Wilberforce visits 
 Keswick. — School Rebellion. — Remai-kable Season. — Compara- 
 tive Happiness of Childhood and Riper Years. — Changes in the 
 Criminal Laws wanted. — 1818 - - - - 290 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIV. 
 
 Nervous Feelings. — Anxieties for the Future. — Becollections of 
 early Journeys. — Prudence of anticipating Popular Opinion. — 
 Ode on the Queen's Death. — Hay don. — Wordsworth. — Life of 
 Wesley. — Home Politics. — Switzerland. — Criticisms on a Volume 
 of Poems by Mr. E. Elliott. — Birth of a Son. — History of Brazil. 
 — Bising Poets. — Waverley Novels. — Beasons for declining to 
 attend the Westminster Meeting. — College Becollections. — Be- 
 ligion necessary to Happiness. — Notices of the Lake Country. — 
 Mr. Wordsworth's " Waggoner." — Advises Allan Cunningham 
 on Literary Pursuits. — Lord Byron's Hostility. — Probable Be- 
 ception of the History of Brazil. — Crabbe's Poems. — Peter 
 Boberts. — Literary Employments. — Colonisation necessary. — 
 Tour in Scotland. — Desirableness of Men of mature Years taking 
 Holy Orders. — John Morgan in Difficulties. — Literary Oc- 
 cupations. — Projected Journey. — 1818 — 1819 - Page 326 
 
 Appendix ------- 367 
 
 The Editor is requested to correct a mis-statement in 
 the Autobiography, vol. i. p. 81. It is there said that 
 V Mr. Dolignon, in some delirium, died by his own hand." 
 This is an error ; Mr. Dolignon having died of paralysis 
 in the prime of life, "in the full enjoyment of domestic 
 happiness and worldly prosperity." 
 
^TAT. 39. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 11 
 
 into sight again, sometimes spreading like smoke as 
 it ascends, then contracting as if performing some 
 military evolution, — once they formed a perfect bow ; 
 and thus wheeling and charging, and rising and falling, 
 they continued to sport as long as I could watch 
 them. They were probably wild ducks. 
 
 " Your godson is determined to be a poet, he says ; 
 and I was not a little amused by his telling me this 
 morning, when he came near a hollow tree which has 
 caught his eye lately, and made him ask me sundry 
 questions about it, that the first poem he should make 
 should be about that hollow tree. I have made some 
 progress in rhyming the Greek accidence for him, 
 — an easier thing than you would perhaps suppose 
 it to be ; it tickles his humour, and lays hold of his 
 memory. 
 
 " This last year has been full of unexpected events, 
 such indeed as mock all human foresight. The pre- 
 sent will bring with it business of importance at 
 home, whatever may happen abroad. 
 
 f There is one point in which most men, however 
 opposite in their judgments about the affairs of the 
 Peninsula, have been deceived, — in their expecta- 
 tions from the Cortes. There is a lamentable want 
 of wisdom in the country ; among the peasantry its 
 place is supplied by their love of the soil and that 
 invincible perseverance which so strongly marks the 
 Spanish character. Bonaparte never can subdue 
 them, even if his power had received no shock, and 
 his whole attention were exclusively directed towards 
 Spain : his life, though it should be prolonged to the 
 length of Aurengzebe's (as great a villain as himself ) 3 
 
12 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtat. 39. 
 
 would not give him^ time to wear out their perseve- 
 rance and religious hatred. I have never doubted of 
 the eventual independence of Spain ; but concerning 
 the government which may grow out of the struggle 
 my hopes diminish, and I begin to think that Por- 
 tugal has better prospects than Spain, because the 
 government there may be induced to reform itself. 
 
 " If Gifford prints what I have written, and lets 
 it pass unmutilated, you will see in the next Quar- 
 terly some remarks upon the moral and political state 
 of the populace, and the alarming manner in which 
 Jacobinism (disappearing from the educated classes) 
 has sunk into the mob ; a danger far more extensive 
 and momentous than is generally admitted. Very 
 likely a sort of cowardly prudence may occasion some 
 suppressions, which I should be sorry for. Wyndham 
 would have acknowledged the truth of the picture, 
 and have been with me for looking the danger in the 
 face. It is an odd fact that the favourite song among 
 the people in this little town just now (as I have 
 happened to learn) is upon Parker the mutineer: it 
 purports to have been written by his wife, and is 
 in metre and diction just what such a woman would 
 write. 
 
 " "What part do you take in the East Indian ques- 
 tion ? I perceive its magnitude, and am wholly in- 
 capable of forming an opinion. 
 
 " Coleridge's tragedy*, which Sheridan and Kemble 
 
 * After the successful appearance of this tragedy, which was en- 
 titled " Remorse," my father wrote — "I never doubted that Cole- 
 ridge's play would meet with a triumphant reception. Be it known 
 now and remembered hereafter, that this self-same play, having had 
 
7" 
 
 2ETAT. 39. OF EOBEKT SOUTHEY. 13 
 
 rejected fifteen years ago, will come out in about a 
 fortnight at Drury Lane. 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 My dear Gooch, 
 
 To Dr. Gooch. 
 
 " Keswick, Jan. 20. 1813. 
 
 Wordsworth refers, in more than one of his poems, 
 with a melancholy feeling of regret, to the loss of 
 youthful thoughts and hopes. In the last six weeks 
 he has lost two children — one of them a fine boy of 
 seven years old. I believe he feels, as I have felt 
 before him, that 'there is healing in the bitter cup,' — 
 that God takes from us those we love as hostages for 
 our faith (if I may so express myself), — and that to 
 those who look to a reunion in a better world, where 
 there shall be no separation, and no mutability except 
 that which results from perpetual progressiveness, the 
 evening becomes more delightful than the morning, 
 and the sunset offers brighter and lovelier visions 
 than those which we build up in the morning clouds, 
 and which disappear before the strength of the day. 
 The older I grow — and I am older in feeling than 
 in years — the more I am sensible of this : there is 
 
 no other alterations made in it now than C. was willing to have made 
 in it then, was rejected in 1797 by Sheridan and Kemble. Had 
 these sapient caterers for the public brought it forward at that time, it 
 is by no means improbable that the author might have produced a 
 play as good every season : with my knowledge of Coleridge's habits 
 I verily believe he would."— To G. C. B. Jan. 27. 1813. 
 
14 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Etat. 39. 
 
 a precious alchemy in this faith, which transmutes 
 grief into joy, or, rather, it is the true and heavenly 
 euphrasy which clears away the film from our mortal 
 sight, and makes affliction appear what, in reality, 
 it is to the wise and good, — a dispensation of mercy. 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 R. SOUTHET." 
 
 To Mr. Neville White. 
 
 " Keswick, Jan. 25. 1813. 
 
 " My dear Neville, 
 
 " Before I say anything of my own doings, let 
 me rejoice with you over these great events in the 
 North. Never in civilised Europe had there been 
 so great an army brought together as Bonaparte had 
 there collected, and never was there so total and 
 tremendous a destruction. I verily think that this 
 is the fourth act of the Corsican, and that the 
 catastrophe of the bloody drama is near. May his 
 fall be as awful as his crimes ! The siege of Dantzic, 
 and the accession of Prussia to our alliance, will, 
 probably, be our next news. Saxony will be the 
 next government to emancipate itself, for there the 
 government is as well disposed as the people. I 
 wish I could flatter myself that Alexander were 
 great enough to perform an act of true wisdom as 
 well as magnanimity, and re-establish Poland, not 
 after the villanous manner of Bonaparte, but with 
 
7 ' 
 
 jEtat. 39. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 25 
 
 which they have in common is a hatred of the Church 
 of England, and a wish to overthrow her. This 
 they will accomplish, and you will regret it as much 
 as I do ; certainly not the less for having yourself 
 contributed to its destruction. 
 
 " The end of all this will be the loss of liberty, 
 for that is the penalty which, in the immutable order 
 of things, is appointed for the abuse of it. What 
 we may have to go through, before we sit down 
 quietly in our chains, God only knows. 
 
 " Have you heard of the strange circumstance 
 about Coleridge? A man hanging himself in the 
 Park with one of his shirts on, marked at full 
 length ! .Guess C.'s astonishment at reading this in 
 a newspaper at a coffee-house. The thing is equally 
 ridiculous and provoking. It will alarm many per- 
 sons who know him, and I dare say many will 
 always believe that the man was C. himself, but that 
 he was cut down in time, and that his friends said it 
 was somebody else in order to conceal the truth. 
 As yet, however, I have laughed about it too much 
 to be vexed. 
 
 " I have just got General Mackinnon's Journal * : 
 never was any thing more faithful than his account 
 of the country and the people. We have, I fear, 
 few such men in the British army. I knew a sister 
 of his well some years ago, and should rejoice to 
 meet with her again, for she was one of the cleverest 
 women I ever knew. When they lived in France, 
 Bonaparte was a frequent visitor at their mother's 
 
 * See Inscription, xxxt. p. 178. one vol. edit 
 
26 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Etat. 39. 
 
 house. Mackinnon would have made a great man. 
 His remarks upon a want of subordination, and 
 proper regulations in our army, are well worthy of 
 Lord Wellington's consideration. It was by think- 
 ing thus, and forming his army, upon good moral as 
 well as military principles, that Gustavus became 
 the greatest captain of modern times: so he may 
 certainly be called, because he achieved the greatest 
 things with means which were apparently the most 
 inadequate. God bless you ! 
 
 R. SOUTHEY." 
 
 In a former letter my father speaks of an article 
 he had written for the forthcoming number of the 
 Quarterly Review, on the state of the poor, and he 
 there mentions briefly the heads of the general view 
 he had taken of the subject. This had appeared, and 
 Mr. Rickman now comments on it, whose practical 
 and sensible remarks I quote here, as showing his 
 frankness in stating differences of opinion, and his 
 friend's willingness to hear and consider them : — 
 
 " I have read your article on the poor with great 
 satisfaction, for the abundance of wit it contains, and 
 the general truth of its statements and reflections. 
 With some things you know I do not agree, — for 
 instance, not in your dislike of manufactures to the 
 same degree, — especially I do not find them guilty of 
 increasing the poor. For instance, no county is more 
 purely agricultural than Sussex, where twenty-three 
 persons, parents and children, in one hundred receive 
 parish relief; no county more clearly to be referred 
 to the manufacturing character than Lancashire, where 
 
^TAT. 39. OP ROBERT SOUTHEY. 29 
 
 Register, very much to the purport of Mr. Abbot's 
 speech. Mr. Perceval should have given the Catho- 
 lics what is right and proper they should have, by a 
 bill originating with himself. What but ruin can be 
 expected when a Government comes to capitulate 
 
 with the factious part of its subjects ! 
 
 " God bless you I 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, May 26. 1813. 
 
 " My dear Grosvenor, 
 
 " Tom is made quite unhappy by these repeated 
 victories of the Americans ; and for my own part I 
 regard them with the deepest and gloomiest fore- 
 bodings. The superior weight of metal will not ac- 
 count for all. I heard a day or two ago from a 
 Liverpoolian, lately in America, that they stuff their 
 wadding with bullets. This may kill a few more 
 men, but will not explain how it is that our ships are 
 so soon demolished, not merely disabled. Words- 
 worth and I agreed in suspecting some improvement 
 in gunnery (Fulton is likely enough to have dis- 
 covered something) before I saw the same supposition 
 thrown out in the ' Times.' Still there would remain 
 something more alarming to be resolved, and that is, 
 how it happens that we injure them so little ? I 
 very much fear that there may be a dreadful secret 
 
:• 
 
 30 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 39, 
 
 at the bottom, which your fact about the cartridges* 
 
 1 of the Macedonian points at. Do you know, or does 
 
 Henry know, a belief in the navy which I heard 
 
 from Ponsonby, that the crew of the loaded 
 
 purposely in this manner, in order that by being 
 
 * . made prisoners they might be delivered from 's 
 
 tyranny ? When Coleridge was at Malta, Sir A. 
 
 Ball received a round-robin from 's crew, many 
 
 of whom had served under him, and who addressed 
 him in a manner which made his heart ache, as he 
 
 was, of course, compelled to put the paper into 's 
 
 hands. One day Coleridge was with him when this 
 man's name was announced, and turning, he said to 
 him in a low voice, e Here comes one of those men 
 who will one day blow up the British navy.' 
 
 " I do not know that the captain of the Mace- 
 donian was a tyrant. Peake certainly was not ; he 
 is well known here, having married a cousin of 
 "Wordsworth's ; his ship was in perfect order, and he 
 as brave and able a man as any in the service. Here 
 it seems that the men behaved well ; but in ten 
 minutes the ship was literally knocked to pieces, her 
 sides fairly staved in ; and I think this can only be 
 explained by some improvements in the manufactory 
 of powder, or in the manner of loading, &c. But as 
 
 * " H. Sharp is just arrived from Lisbon ; he has been in Ame- 
 rica, where he went on board the Macedonian and the United States. 1 
 He says the captured ship was pierced through and through, and full 
 of shot, while in the American "vessel scarcely any hare been lodged. 
 Our ship seems to have been very badly fought ; the captors declared 
 that they found many of the guns with the cartridges put in the wrong 
 way." — G. C. B. to R. S., May 24. 18 13 
 
 sS* 
 
 The name of the vessel that took the Macedonian. 
 
1813. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 327 
 
 any undertaking. My advice to the booksellers is, that 
 they make it a splendid work, with views and portraits 
 as head and tail pieces to every chapter. In this way 
 large paper and proofs secure a certain kind of sale for 
 the first edition, and a notoriety which would give wings 
 to the second. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 P. S. " Roderick," which has long been aground, is 
 just afloat again. 
 
 ?'? 
 
 To Edith May Southey. 
 
 Streatham, Sept. 20. 1813. 
 
 My dear Edithling, 
 
 I owe you a letter, and it is time the debt 
 should be paid ; so your mamma will let me write to 
 you instead of her, especially as I have been stationary 
 at Streatham ever since I wrote, and consequently can 
 have nothing to communicate. 
 
 As I know you read the newspaper for the sake of 
 seeing whether Bonaparte has been killed, how the 
 King is, and whether there are any new murders, you 
 may, probably, have seen there that your father is to 
 be Poet Laureate. Son Lunus, who is an unbeliever 
 about Pegasus, will, perhaps, not believe that the 
 Prince is going to give me a right to wear laurel round 
 my head. If you and he will look in a book about 
 Petrarch, which is at the Senhora's, and is one of those 
 upon which she has bestowed a paper-morocco back, 
 there you will see the portrait of a poet laureate with 
 his crown on. The laurels should be gathered from 
 
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328 LETTERS OP 1813. 
 
 the grove on that mountain where the Nine Sisters take 
 care of my winged horse ; and it is not proper that I 
 should wear any others. 
 
 I am teaching the two eldest of your cousins to say, 
 " La, la, la, look at the lamb and the lark ; and wa, 
 wa, wa, we will walk." Herbert learns this much more 
 readily than his brother. They are very good children, 
 and are grown very fond of me. I tickle and toss 
 them wherever we meet, and sometimes kiss Duke 
 Bruin, who is Ursa Major or the Great Bear, and is 
 the best kissing of the three. But kissing him is a 
 very different thing from kissing my own Bertha Bruin, 
 and Kate, and Isabee-bo-bell. My aunt would be very 
 willing to visit us, and bring the three Bears with her ; 
 but I fear my uncle will not be persuaded to move. 
 Earl Bruin, the little wee Bear, is very little older 
 than Isabel, and does not talk; but Marquis Bruin, 
 the middle Bear, has an ursine language of his own 
 which is very winning. His daily subject of complaint 
 is, that nobody will be married, and so he can get no 
 wedding-cake. 
 
 You must tell your mamma that I have seen a letter 
 to-day from Mrs. Piozzi to Mr. Davies, which concerns 
 me ; and which, as the writer is only seventy-five years 
 of age, may, perhaps, make her jealous, if she heard 
 of it from any other quarter than from myself. Mrs. 
 Piozzi, hearing that I am at Streatham, and expecting 
 to find me there when she comes herself, bids me 
 beware of a solitary woman with " bright blue eyes, 
 although her hair be grey." She writes a sprightly 
 letter, full of life and spirits, and in a full, strong 
 hand, which, as a sample of pen-wowaraship, is re- 
 markably fine, but, considering her time of life, is 
 really wonderful. 
 
 I have bought for you some Arabian Tales in three 
 volumes, wherein you will find mention of the Dom- 
 
7 
 
 1813. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 329 
 
 daniel which Thalaba destroyed; and I have bought 
 for Herbert the " Persian and Turkish Tales." I am 
 writing at this time upon your desk, which is the size 
 of your mamma's, and I mean to buy the fellow to it 
 for Thisbe.* I shall also buy books and pictures for 
 Bertha and Kate. 
 
 Do not forget your lessons while I am absent. I 
 shall not be pleased if you lose ground. Tell Lunus 
 to look over the poems which I made for him about 
 his Greek, and have them all at the tip of his tongue 
 when I return. 
 
 Your mamma will like to know all the news of my 
 intended operations which I can send her. Tell her, 
 then, that I am getting on well with my business, in 
 every sense of the word ; that I go to town on Friday, 
 when Coleridge will be asked to dine with me at 
 Harry's ; on Sunday I dine and sleep at Holland 
 House ; the Wednesday following dine at a Mr. 
 Vaughan's, with Elmsley, and the next day with 
 Madame Stael. Next week will complete my main 
 business, and then another fortnight will set me free 
 from London. I mean to stop a day on my return at 
 Worcester for the purpose of seeing Lucien Bonaparte. 
 
 And now, my dear Edithling, farewell. Give my 
 love to Wilsey : the doctor inquired particularly for 
 her. Say to your Aunt Coleridge that I long to sneeze 
 and snap my toes at home once more ; and tell the 
 Senhora that poor / am getting sleepy, for it is half- 
 past nine o'clock. Sufficient for the day hath been the 
 labour thereof. I am Simorgish at all times ; and 
 when absent from home it is better to be asleep than 
 awake. I hope Lord Nelson, Bona Fidelia, and 
 Madame Catalani continue well. Sir John Murray 
 has probably gone the way of all geese. How is Paul 
 
 * This was poor Sara Coleridge's nickname. 
 
330 LETTERS OF 1813. 
 
 the Pig, and how go on his distant relations from 
 Guinea? Next week I shall write to Herbert. 
 God bless you. 
 
 Your affectionate father, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 Streatham, Oct. 8. 1813. 
 
 Two ladies arrived here to dinner, and they have 
 all the Ionic pronunciation in such perfection, that, 
 by an easy process of thought, I was led to think of 
 the Senhora and the ill at Keswick, and ome, and 
 sundry other things sympathetic of the malady called 
 owe-sickness, whereof I ave a touch at the art just now. 
 There they are talking away below stairs as appily as 
 possible, and just as if there was no h in the alphabet ; 
 and here am I, above stairs, by my own fire, in the 
 inner part of the drawing-room (Edith will recollect 
 the room), wishing myself three undred miles off, and 
 feeling very much as I used to do at school when I was 
 thinking of the oly days. The church clock has just 
 struck seven. 
 
 Herbert has got his letter this evening, and is, per- 
 haps, at this moment, preaching it out with all gravity 
 to Wilsey, who will be yet more delighted to listen than 
 he is to read. In a few minutes I shall be summoned 
 to tea. However, I have begun a letter, meaning to 
 scrawl through it in the course of the evening (for suf- 
 ficient for the day hath been the labour thereof), and to 
 take it with me to London to-morrow, in hope that I 
 may find Pegasus at the Doctor's, and seal it there- 
 with. 
 
1813. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 331 
 
 7 
 
 First, then, and foremost, of the things which are to 
 be said. I desire that I may have a letter sent off by 
 Tuesday's post, and directed here, that it may reach 
 me on Friday. My present engagements stand thus : 
 to-morrow, dine with Dr. Stanger ; Sunday, at Holland i 
 House ; Monday, at Mrs. Gonne's, where this family ***-^*j 
 are going ; Wednesday, with John May at the Doc- *% ^jk*^' 
 tor's; Thursday/' at Travers's, to be introduced to his ^LyOL^-^" 
 sister, whom Gooch is going to marry ; Friday and jT 
 Saturday will complete my business here, and then I 3^ m ^—j>~ 
 remove to town. There I shall stay as short a time as ^k-A^e^ 
 
 my unpaid engagements will permit, and then take the ' 
 shortest road home; for I am beyond measure weary />' ' 'S 
 of being out of my own proper element. 
 
 I shall look for Lord William on Sunday, and en<*£&> " 
 deavour to hurry this appointment by a simple notifica- 
 tion that I certainly do not intend to wait for it. As 
 long as my own affairs keep me in town, well ; but 
 they are not to suppose that I will submit to be de- 
 tained here for the Marquis of Hertford's pleasure, or 
 anybody else's. They ought to know that in accepting 
 the office, I am conferring a favour rather than receiv- 
 ing one. I want it settled ; because, as I intend to 
 invest the salary in a life insurance, I shall save a fine 
 of ten pounds by appearing at the insurance office ; 
 and I believe, also, that the oath of allegiance which I 
 must take, cannot, on this occasion, be taken in the 
 country. However, I shall ascertain all this, and get 
 through it with the least possible delay. Of the many 
 things which remain to be done in London, one is to 
 wait upon Smith, and have the bust finished, and another 
 to send off the hamper from Burges's, which shall be 
 done as soon as I get the one thing needful for doing 
 it : and you will not find fault with me, Senhora, if I 
 put in a pot of caviare, in expectation that you and I, 
 who have tips to our tongues, shall like it. I have to 
 
 
332 
 
 LETTERS OP 
 
 1813. 
 
 see Miss Linwood's pictures, and the beasts at the 
 Tower, and the Strand Bridge ; to dine with Longman, 
 and Murray, and Croker ; and to go with Sharp to his 
 country-house. Senhora, I am really too lazy and too 
 Simorgish to write anything but such mere gossip as this. 
 "It is poor I ;"and I wish it were bed-time, and that the 
 days were gone, and the nights too, which must pass be- 
 fore I take my seat comfortably in the mail-coach, and 
 pack myself up for forty hours ; for I want somegarlick- 
 pie, and the odour of your snuff-box, and to see Wilsey, 
 and to kiss the children, and to make a noise, and to sit 
 under the shadow of Mrs. Coleridge's nose, and to sit 
 by my own fire-side, and to sleep in my own bed, and 
 to resume my own way of life, and to say Aballaboozo- 
 langanoribo in the right place, and in the right tone of 
 feeling, and (when I am called upon) to sing the 
 " Bloody Gardener" with my usual obligingness. 
 
 Tuesday last I met Lord St. Helens at Mr. Legge's 
 — a regular-built old courtier. He said that I must 
 have lived a great deal in Spain ; for the " Espriella * 
 had been put into his hands, with information who the 
 author was. He could hardly persuade himself that it 
 was not the genuine work of a Spaniard, so well had 
 the characters been preserved. The newspapers, among 
 their fashionable news, have it that Mr. Legge gave this 
 dinner to Lord St. Helen's, whereas the truth is, that it 
 was given to me. However, as I made a better figure 
 over the hermitage and the claret, his lordship is wel- 
 come to figure by himself in the " Morning Post." I 
 took Coleridge to Madame de Stael on Monday, and 
 left him there in the full spring-tide of his discourse.* 
 His time of departure seems still uncertain. Mrs. C. 
 will not be sorry to hear that he is selling his German 
 
 * It was, after this interview that Madame de Stael said of 
 Coleridge^&Pourtant, pour Mr. Coleridge, il est, tout-a-fait un 
 monologue ! \ , * *? 
 

 iETAT. 41. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 81 
 
 " The restoration of the Jesuits is a most im- 
 portant measure, and not the least extraordinary of 
 the great events which have lately taken place. 
 This concluding volume of Brazil will be the only 
 single work which contains the whole history of 
 their empire in S. America, and of their persevering 
 struggle against the Indian slave-trade, which was 
 the remote but main cause of their overthrow. I 
 am working at this from manuscript documents, 
 some of which fatigue the sight. 
 
 " Murray sent me the other day the two first and 
 two last volumes of your translation of Humboldt, 
 which I shall review. This traveller has so en- 
 cumbered his volumes with science, that I think you 
 would do well to extract his travels, insert in them 
 the readable part of his other works in their proper 
 place, and thus put the generally interesting part 
 within reach of the reading public. This is what 
 Pinkerton ought to have done. Can you lend me 
 Humboldt's Essay on the Geography of Plants ? It 
 must, doubtless, contain some Brazilian information. 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 KOBERT SOUTHEY." 
 
 To Joseph Cottle, Esq. 
 ■ 
 if"* " Keswick, Oct. 17. 1814. 
 " My dear Cottle, 
 
 " It is not long since I heard of you from De 
 Quincey, but I wish you would let me sometimes 
 hear from you. There was a time when scarcely a 
 vol. iy. G 
 
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 82 LIFE AND COEEESPONDENCE ^tat. 41. 
 
 day passed without my seeing you, and in all that 
 time I do not remember that there ever was a passing 
 . coldness between us. The feeling, I am sure, con- 
 tinues ; do not, then, let us be so entirely separated 
 jZ~tU \ by distance, which in cases of correspondence may 
 i J almost be considered as a mere abstraction. . 
 
 " Longman will send you my poem. It has been 
 printed about two months, but he delays its pub- 
 lication till November, for reasons of which he must 
 needs be the best judge. I am neither sanguine 
 about its early, nor doubtful about its ultimate, 
 acceptation in the world. The passion is in a deeper 
 tone than in any of my former works; I call it a 
 tragic poem for this reason ; and also that the reader 
 may not expect the same busy and complicated 
 action which the term heroic might seem to promise. 
 The subject has the disadvantage of belonging to an 
 age of which little or no costume has been preserved. 
 I was, therefore, cut off from all adornments of this 
 kind, and had little left me to relieve the stronger 
 parts but description, the best of which is from the 
 life. 
 
 foflU/M'**7? ' ' ' . ' * . * * * 
 
 Um r " Can you tell me anything of Coleridge ? A few 
 
 n ' i J^jUL lines of introduction for a son of Mr. * , of St. 
 
 ' James's (in your oity), are all that we have received i£mh ku 
 
 since I saw him last September twelvemonth in 
 
 town. The children being thus entirely left to 
 
 chance, I have applied to/his brother/ at QtKy con^ 
 
 cerning them, and am ifl hopes through t hok* - m eans,T£^ ^ 
 
 yy^tjLHA an d the aid of other friends, of sending Hartley to 
 
 19 
 
t 
 
 C*+-*-<-*- , flL^/UL^ Hc^u^. c^-^^t ^"rCJ 
 
 
 
 _ ^x.> i-v-*.* uii-w y 
 
 lc very 
 
7 
 
 .Etat. 41. OF ROBERT SOCTHEY. 83 
 
 College. Lady Beaumont has promised 30/. a year 
 for this purpose, Poole 10/. I wrote to Coleridge 
 three or four months ago, telling him that unless he 
 lO&rfo * °k- some steps la*- providing for this object I must 
 make the application, and required his answer within 
 a given term of three weeks. He received the 
 letter, and in his note by Mr. ** - '^ /promis ed to 
 answer it, but he has never taken any further notice 
 of it. I have acted with the advice of Wordsworth. 
 The brothers, as I expected, promise their concur- 
 rence, and I daily expect a letter, stating to what 
 amount they will contribute. itnioA U ^TTtJ <£ c*o\*-*- 4 
 Believe me, my dear Cottle, 
 
 Ever your affectionate old friend, 
 
 KOBERT SOUTHEY." 
 
 To Mr. Neville White. 
 
 " Keswick, Not. 8. 1814. 
 
 " My dear Xeville, 
 
 " . . . . I was not sorry that we did not 
 meet at Ambleside merely to take leave. It is one 
 of those things which, since my schoolboy days, I 
 always avoid when I can ; there are but too many of 
 these long good-byes in life ; and to one who has ex- 
 perienced in the losses you have sustained that 
 fearful uncertainty of life which only experience 
 makes us fully feel and understand, they are very 
 painful. Our repast upon Kirkston* wore a good 
 face of cheerfulness ; but I could not help feeling 
 
 * A mountain pass leading from Ambleside to Patterdale. 
 g 2 
 
84 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Etat. 41. 
 
 how soon we were to separate, and how doubtful 
 it was that the whole of the party would ever be 
 assembled together again 
 
 After our return Isabel was seized with a severe 
 attack, and was brought to the very brink of the 
 grave. I so verily expected to lose her, that I 
 thought at one moment I had seen her for the last 
 time. There are heavier afflictions than this, but 
 none keener; and the joy and thankfulness which 
 attend on recovery are proportionately intense. She 
 has not yet regained her strength ; but every day is 
 restoring her, God be thanked. 
 
 " I am glad you have seen these children. . . . 
 If, by God's blessing, my life should be prolonged 
 till they are grown up, I have no doubt of pro- 
 viding for them ; and if Herbert's life be spared, he 
 has every thing which can be required to make his 
 name a good inheritance to him 
 
 " O dear Neville ! how unendurable would life be if 
 it were not for the belief that we shall meet again in a 
 better state of existence. I do not know that person 
 who is happier than myself, and who has more reason 
 to be happy; and never was man more habitually 
 cheerful ; but this belief is the root which gives life 
 to all, and holds all fast. God bless you ! 
 Yours very affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
7 
 
 1814. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 385 
 
 judge upon principles which must be common to every 
 modern European language ; and he has not imitated 
 the threadbare incidents of Homer, Virgil, and Tasso. 
 But there is no conception of character, no grandeur of 
 thought, no elevation of mind, no passion ; very little 
 of the cloak and embroidery of poetry, less of its body, 
 nothing of its life and soul. The story is put together 
 with some skill, but it is without interest. A multi- 
 plicity of characters are introduced, for none of whom 
 do you feel any concern (one perhaps excepted, which 
 is Laurena the widow of Carlomar); and the philo- 
 sophy of the poem is precisely what you would expect 
 from a poet who kisses the Pope's toe in his dedication. 
 I am to review it, with the advantage of being well 
 read in this particular branch of French poetry; having 
 long since read the "Charlemagne" of Courtin, the 
 " Alarique," the « Clovis," the " St, Louis," &c. &c. ; 
 many of which, indeed, are on my shelves. 
 
 Madame Stael means to write an heroic poem, in 
 prose, of which our Coeur de Lion is to be the hero ; 
 and she talks of going into the Levant, in order to see 
 the scene of action herself. She told me this, so you 
 have it upon good authority. 
 
 I talk of a long journey next year; to Paris, by 
 way of Dieppe, Caen, and Rouen ; then down the Loire 
 to Tours and Orleans ; across the country of the Py- 
 renees, and from thence — casting a longing, lingering 
 eye towards Spain — to Switzerland (if the state of 
 things will allow), and down the Rhine to the land of 
 the Frows, and the cheese and herrings and trackshuyts. 
 Were I a single man, I should be in Spain ; but being 
 what I am, my life is of too much consequence to be 
 put in the way of my old guerilla friends, who would 
 neither know nor care whom they were shooting at for 
 the sake of his portmanteau. Europe is left in a dismal 
 state; and I am afraid that France, by getting a rea- 
 
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386 ^ a . LETTERS OF <- _ ,J814. 
 
 sonably go^d Government; will improve her natural as- 
 cendency in the course of a very few years, to the immi- 
 nent danger of the rest of the disjointed continent. Oh, 
 what an opportunity has been lost ! Certain it is, that 
 English statesmen are the very worst in the world. 
 
 We know nothing of Coleridge, save that the letters 
 in the " Courier," signed " An Irish Protestant," are 
 his. I have written to his brothers, and by their help, 
 and that of some other friends, Hartley is going to Ox- 
 ford in the spring. A good thing, called by the odd 
 name of a postmastership, has been promised him at 
 Merton, which will materially lighten the expense. 
 
 The concluding volume of my " History of Brazil" 
 is in the press. It will contain much curious matter 
 respecting savage life, and a full and fair account of the 
 rise, progress, and fall of the Jesuit establishment in 
 Paraguay, and in the heart of South America. I 
 should have had much to show you, both within doors 
 and without, if you could have staid here a few days. 
 God knows when we shall meet again ! I look south- 
 ward, and frequently think that, in many respects, 
 Bath would be the best residence for me. God bless 
 you, Yours very affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To C. W. W. Wynn, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, December 15. 1814. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 You must take the old lady's comfort in Shak- 
 speare respecting your daughter, " 'Tis a girl — promises 
 boys hereafter."* There is yet time before you, and 
 chance in your favour. 
 
 * Hen. VIII. actv. sc. 1. 
 
1815. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 407 
 
 doing it in some verses to the memory of Perceval, and 
 this seems the favourite idea. Sometimes to the Army, 
 or to the British People. Perhaps it will end in no 
 dedication at all. Sometimes I have a half mind to- 
 wards Canning, — upon this point, that I trust his voice 
 will soon be heard powerfully in behalf of another war, 
 as just, as inevitable, &c. If you see any fitness or 
 unfitness in any of these embryo intentions, tell me. 
 Your opinion will have, as you well know, much 
 weight. 
 
 Ten o'clock, and I must go to the Senhora's to supper. 
 Good night. 
 
 Shedaw is this day eleven years old. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Mr. J. N. White. 
 
 Keswick, May 8. 1815. 
 
 My dear Neville, 
 
 I had resolved upon writing to you this evening, 
 and, alas ! my thoughts are drawn towards you very 
 mournfully by a letter which this post has brought, 
 informing me of poor Dusantoy's death. The fever at 
 Cambridge has proved fatal to him, and he, too, like 
 Henry, rests in the cloister of his own college ! You 
 may well suppose that this very much affects me. The 
 poor lad originally wrote to me in consequence of 
 reading Henry's "Remains." I advised him to a course 
 which, to all human foresight, might have seemed most 
 conducive to his welfare, and that course has led him to 
 an early grave. It would be worse than weakness to 
 feel anything like self-reproach, but it is impossible not 
 to feel something more than an ordinary regret. James 
 
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408 LETTERS OF 1815, 
 
 will be shocked at this event. I thank God that he 
 has escaped this danger, and I pray God the pestilence 
 (for so it may be called) may not spread. My letter 
 (which is from Tillbrooke) says that " in three days 
 Cambridge, with respect to its colleges, will become an 
 uninhabited desert ! " God be merciful to us ! How 
 frail a thing is human life ! And if this life were all, 
 how unsupportable it would be ! 
 
 Hartley is by this time at Oxford, and probably 
 settled at Merton. What will his fate be ? I hardly 
 dare ask myself the question. He goes with the in- 
 valuable advantage of having a cousin in the Uni- 
 versity old enough to be his adviser, and not too 
 old to be his friend ; he takes with him a larger 
 stock of Greek than is often carried to college, a 
 powerful intellect, good principles, and good feelings. 
 But with these he has some dangerous accompani- 
 ments ; for he is headstrong, violent, perilously dis- 
 posed to justify whatever he may wish to do, eccentric 
 in all his ways, and willing to persuade himself that 
 there is a merit in eccentricity. But his greatest danger 
 arises from a mournful cause, against which it is im- 
 possible to protect, or even to caution him, — it arises 
 from his father. Hartley is able to comprehend the 
 powers of his father's mind, and has for it all that vene- 
 ration which it is both natural and proper that he should 
 feel. The conduct of the father is, of course, a subject 
 on which no one would speak to the son ; and Hartley, 
 I believe, contrives to keep it out of his own sight; 
 but if Coleridge should take it in his head to send for 
 the boy to pass any of his vacations with him, there is 
 the most imminent danger of his unsettling his mind 
 upon the most important subjects, and the end would 
 be utter and irremediable ruin. For Coleridge, totally 
 regardless of all consequences, will lead him into all the 
 depths and mazes of metaphysics: he would root up 
 
1815. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 409 
 
 from his mind, without intending it, all established 
 principles; and if he should succeed in establishing 
 others in their place, with one of Hartley's ardour and 
 sincerity, they would never serve for the practical pur- 
 poses of society, and he would be thrown out from the 
 only profession or way of life for which he is qualified. 
 This you see it is absolutely impossible to prevent. I 
 know but too well, and Coleridge also knows, what an 
 evil it is to be thus as it were cut adrift upon the sea of 
 life ; but experience is lost upon him. 
 
 This has been a sickly season ; my young ones have 
 all been affected with an endemic cold and cough, from 
 which they are not yet thoroughly recovered, though, 
 thank God, they are recovering. The " Eclectic " has 
 not reached me yet. If the article be written by 
 Montgomery, he has, probably, stated the scope of his 
 objections in a letter which I received from him about 
 a month ago, and which I thought more creditable to 
 the benevolence of his temper than to his judgment. 
 Wordsworth is in town. Have you seen the new 
 edition of his poems ? I do not hesitate to say that in 
 the whole compass of poetry, ancient or modern, there 
 is no collection of miscellaneous poems comparable to 
 them, nor any work whatever which discovers greater 
 strength of mind or higher poetical genius. 
 
 I am working on in the old horse-in-a-mill way at 
 reviewing, with intervals of worthier employment upon 
 the " Brazilian History," which is advancing in the 
 press, and of which I have a huge pile of papers beside 
 me. Remember me to Josiah Conder, and tell James 
 that I am ashamed of not having written to him, but 
 will speedily atone for my fault. All here unite in the 
 kindest remembrances to you. 
 
 Believe me, my dear Neville, 
 
 Yours very affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey, 
 
410 LETTERS OP 1815. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, June 1. 1815. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 There are few persons who have more reason to 
 be thankful that the privilege of franking exists, than 
 myself ; thanks to my friends, and to yon in principal. 
 I shall soon be coming to you with some Brazilian copy. 
 I am about as far on my voyage as an Indian ship is 
 when she has doubled the Cape. 
 
 La Vendee, I fear, has been stirring too soon. But 
 France is in a hopeful way : the Royalists and the Im- 
 perialists cutting throats in one part, and a fair pro- 
 spect that the Jacobines and the Imperialists may soon 
 begin the same just and necessary work ! 
 
 There is a book newly published called " The Journal 
 of Penrose," a seaman, which I have heard of for twenty 
 years, and which the editor and West the painter, by a 
 portentous want of common sense, believe to be true * in 
 its main parts ! I mention it because there is something 
 about the Buccaneers which very likely is true, and per- 
 haps the Capitaneus may not have heard it before ; — a 
 practice they had sometimes of burying treasure, when 
 they did not choose to risk it on board, and burying a 
 prisoner with it, that his spirit might keep guard ! In 
 the second volume of this book there is the form of a 
 paper said to have been found in such a deposit ;' and it 
 looks very much as if it were genuine. Eagles (to whom 
 this journal belonged) told me he thought it likely that 
 the man who left it him had at one part of his life been 
 among the Buccaneers. God bless you. 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 * Truth is often stranger than falsehood ; and so it is proved in 
 this case. Williams was the author's real name. See " Blackwood's 
 Magazine " for Marcb, 1855, — " The Beggar's Legacy.' 
 
1815. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 423 
 
 but is that which I have uniformly entertained upon 
 the subject. Go cheerfully forward, and when you 
 are settled upon a curacy, look out for some pupils, and 
 live in hope. 
 
 Mr. Tillbrook is in this country, and has brought 
 with him poor Dusantoy's papers. I need not tell you 
 of what I was reminded while performing the melan- 
 choly office of examining these relics. There is no- 
 thing among them in any degree approaching to the 
 finish of Henry's pieces, some of which were as perfect 
 as he could have made them at any age, and must hold 
 their place in our popular Florilegia as long as the 
 English language endures. But there are abundant 
 proofs of power, and desire, and genius. Wordsworth 
 was with me, and fully agreed with me that there would 
 be ample materials for one volume ; popular it cannot 
 be, like the "Remains," still it will be a monument, 
 and an honourable one, to his memory. The next step 
 must be to obtain the consent of his parents for this, 
 and to enquire concerning his letters. The parents 
 have made no enquiry for his papers ; for this there 
 may be two causes, both alike probable : their grief 
 may be as yet too recent, or they may regard them as 
 things of no consequence ; for I learn from Tillbrook, 
 that his father used to speak of his fondness for poetry 
 as a trifling or silly pursuit, and express sometimes a 
 hope that he had done with it. It will be better to 
 communicate my wish to the family, and learn what 
 there may be through some person who is well ac- 
 quainted with them, than to write immediately myself; 
 and as I learn from the fragment of a letter that he 
 had an uncle at Salisbury, I think I have an opportu- 
 nity of doing this through him by means of one of my 
 own most particular friends. 
 
 Tillbrook thinks you may perhaps know something 
 of his correspondents. Had he any confidential friend 
 
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424 A LETTERS OF „ 1815. 
 
 to whom he was in the habit of writing ? Tell me any- 
 thing you know which may direct me in these enqui- 
 ries. Poor fellow, had he never applied to me for 
 advice, he would not thus have been cut off from all 
 hopes ! 
 
 I expect to see Neville in less than three weeks, for 
 I purpose running over to Flanders for a month's ex- 
 cursion in company with my brother Henry and his 
 bride. Neville has been strenuously aiding him in a 
 canvass for the Middlesex Hospital, and I believe has 
 been the most zealous and most useful of his friends. 
 I received a letter from Neville yesterday, and am sorry 
 to hear so poor an account of your excellent mother. 
 Pray remember me and Mrs. Southey also to her and 
 your sisters. 
 
 It is well that you were not in Cambridge during the 
 last calamitous sickness, and perhaps you might have 
 been there had you been successful in your examina- 
 tion. The fever clearly seems to have differed in some 
 respects from any which had formerly appeared there ; 
 and whether it were contagious, or, which is more pro- 
 bable, endemic, I think there is some danger of its 
 breaking out again when the season recurs ; for the 
 cause is so little known, or rather so entirely unknown, 
 that all precautions for preventing a recurrence must 
 be mere guess-work. If any friend of mine were about 
 to go to the University I should earnestly recommend 
 him to make Oxford his choice, upon this account. 
 Believe me, my dear James, 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 P.S. All who recollect you here, desire to be kindly 
 remembered. Hartley is of Merton College, Oxford, 
 and is now spending the vacation with his father at 
 Calne, in Wiltshire. 
 
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 JEtat. 43. OP ROBERT SOUTHET. 257 
 
 To Humphrey Senhouse, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, March 22. 1817. 
 
 " My dear Senhouse, 
 
 "You see I am flourishing in the newspapers as 
 much as Joanna Southcote did before her expected 
 accouchement. And I have not flourished in Chan- 
 cery* because a Presbyterian parson has made oath 
 that I gave the MSS. to him and to another person 
 whom I never saw in my life. There is no standing 
 against perjury, and therefore it is useless to pursue 
 the affair into a court of law. I have addressed two 
 brief letters to William Smith in the Courier ; and 
 there the matter will end on my part, unless he replies 
 to them. In the second of those letters you will see the 
 history of Wat Tyler, as far as it was needful to statg.- 
 it. There was no occasion for stating that about a 
 year after it was written I thought of making a se- 
 rious historical drama upon the same subject, which 
 would have been on the side of the mob in its main 
 feelings, but in a very different way ; and, indeed, 
 under the same circumstances, I should have brained 
 a tax-gatherer just as he did. The refaccimento 
 proceeded only some fifty or three score lines, of 
 which I only remember this short passage ; part of 
 it having been transplanted into Madoc. Some one 
 has been saying, a plague on time ! in reference to 
 Tyler's gloomy state of mind, to which he replies — 
 
 * My father seems to have mistaken the grounds of the Chancel- 
 lor's decision. Probably he had only been informed of the result, and 
 had not seen the judgment. 
 
 VOL. IV. S 
 
258 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 3LTA.T. 43. 
 
 ' Gently on man doth gentle Nature lay 
 The weight of years ; and even when over laden 
 He little likes to lay the burden down. 
 A plague on care, I say, that makes the heart 
 Grow old before its time.' 
 
 " Had it been continued, it might have stood be- 
 side Joan of Arc, and perhaps I should have become 
 a dramatic writer. But Joan of Arc left me no time 
 for it then, and it was dismissed, as I supposed, for ever 
 from my thoughts. I hear that in consequence of 
 this affair, and of the effect which that paper in the 
 Quarterly produced, Murray has printed two thou- 
 sand additional copies of the number. And yet the 
 paper has been dismally mutilated of its best pas- 
 sages and of some essential parts. I shall have a 
 second part in the next number to follow up the blow. 
 
 " My fear is that when commerce recovers, as 
 it presently will, Government should suppose that 
 the danger is over; and think that the disease is 
 removed because the fit is past. There are some ex- 
 cellent remarks in Coleridge's second lay sermon upon 
 the over-balance of the commercial spirit, that greedi- 
 ness of gain among all ranks to which I have more 
 than once alluded in the Quarterly. If Coleridge 
 could but learn how to deliver his opinions in a way 
 to make them read, and to separate that which would 
 be profitable for all, from that which scarcely half a 
 dozen men in England can understand (I certainly 
 am not one of the number), he would be the most use- 
 ful man of the age, as I verily believe him in acquire- 
 ments and in powers of mind to be very far the 
 greatest. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
SELECTIONS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 LETTERS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 VOL. III. 
 
London : 
 
 Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. 
 
 Ncw-street-Square. 
 
SELECTIONS 
 
 LETTERS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, 
 
 &c. &c. &e. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW 
 
 JOHN WOOD WARTEIi, B,D, 
 
 CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; 
 
 VICAR OF WEST TARRING, SUSSEX. 
 
 " Southey's Letters show his true Character." 
 
 Waiteb Savage Landor, 
 
 MS. Letter to Mrs. Southey, April 29. 1843. 
 
 IN FOUR VOLUMES. 
 VOL. III. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 LONGMAN, BEOWN, GKEEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 
 
 1856. 
 
 The right of translation Is reserved. 
 
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 LETTERS 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 To Miss Barker. 
 
 London, Nov. 9. 1815. 
 
 I am afraid, Senhora, that the letters, which I wrote 
 from Brussels did not reach their destination, for 
 there is no allusion to them in those which we have 
 received from the Venerable * and the juvenile Moon. 
 One was a second letter of wonders, carrying us, if I re- 
 collect rightly, to Ghent. The other was to yourself, 
 and brought our history as far as Brussels. I found it 
 impossible to write anything more than my journal, 
 which occupied every minute I could spare, even on 
 those days when we were stationary. You know how 
 little leisure is to be obtained in a foreign country, 
 when your curiosity is always on the alert, and eyes and 
 ears both upon active service from morning till night. 
 
 You shall, however, have our whole history in due 
 form when we return. My journal is very full. That 
 portion which relates to the fields of battle I shall 
 extract, and affix either as preface or postscript to my 
 
 * This was Mrs. Coleridge's household name. 
 VOL. III. B 
 
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2 LETTERS OF 1815. 
 
 projected poem. The rest I may arrange and fill up at 
 leisure to leave among my papers. Here in London I 
 can find time for nothing ; and to make things worse, 
 the devil, who owes me an old grudge, has made me sit 
 to Philipps for a picture for Murray. I have in my 
 time been tormented in this manner so often, and to 
 such little purpose, that I am half tempted to suppose 
 the devil was the inventor of portrait painting. 
 
 To-day (Thursday) we are to see the Lord Mayor's 
 Show. It is raining, and will continue to rain. We go 
 in about an hour to Rickman's, to see the water part 
 of the pageant; then to Josiah Conder's in St. Paul's 
 Church Yard, to see the procession by land. To-morrow 
 for Streatham, between which place and Champion Hill 
 (Mrs. Gonne's) we shall remain till the Saturday of next 
 week: on that day we go to John May's, and return 
 from his house to London on the Monday ; then, after 
 four or, at the most, five days, we set off on our return, 
 for which we are all equally impatient. T am weary of 
 this continual movement and bustle, and long most 
 heartily to be once more at home and at work, — the 
 best kind of rest. 
 
 I have bought for the Mountain Marshal a cuirassier's 
 pistol from the spoil at Waterloo, and also a piece of 
 kick-man-jiggery from Aix-la-Chapelle, which, being a 
 very out of the way sort of thing, and pretending to be 
 useful, is more fit for the said Marshal than for anybody 
 else. There is as yet no news of any of my books. 
 There are some Dutch volumes among them (" Lives 
 of the Painters "), with heads by Houbracken : some of 
 the very finest of his works. 
 
 I am writing upon Herbert's desk, and I mend my 
 pen with Herbert's knife ; a knife of queer cut from 
 Namur, containing two blades and corkscrew, and steel 
 for striking fire to light his pipe, and an instrument for 
 picking the pipe : the latter will serve to untie parcels, 
 

 1817. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 s^ acquit me ot the miserable folly imputed to me in 
 Shadwell's speech. 
 
 I have received a very kind letter from Wilberforce 
 on the occasion. There was an article in Tuesday's 
 " Courier," by Coleridge, upon the subject. 
 
 4^^V7 God bless 7s. 
 
 To C. W. W. Wynn, Esq., M.P. 
 
 Keswick, March 26. 1817. 
 
 My dear, Wynn, 
 
 I do not by any means regret the application to 
 Chancery : it was the straightforward course ; and the 
 question could not have been referred to a Court of 
 Law (being so plain a case) if a false defence had not 
 been set up, and supported by perjury. There is a 
 strong impression upon my mind that Winterbottom is 
 dead ; and it is much less improbable to me that a 
 fellow should have been found to swear falsely in his 
 name, than that he, — a dissenting minister, — a man who 
 was said to have undergone the same change in his 
 opinions as I have done, should in the first place be 
 guilty of so base an act as to publish the book, and then 
 to defend the act by a direct perjury. My magazines, 
 in which it appears to me that I have read of his death, 
 are unluckily forty miles off at the binder's. But I have 
 taken measures for ascertaining this matter ; and if it 
 should prove that my suspicions are well founded, the 
 transaction will assume a very different aspect from 
 what it now wears. Luckily, I have the rough draft of 
 my first letter, and shall therefore throw them both into 
 
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68 Letters of i8i7. 
 
 one : but this I will delay till I have satisfied myself 
 about Winterbottom. 
 
 A word or two about my intolerance. I recollect but 
 two persons of whom I have spoken with acrimony in 
 the true sense of the word. Whitbread in the " Regis- 
 ter," and Joseph Lancaster. In the first case, I was 
 treating of a leading politician, whose opinions would 
 have laid this country at Bonaparte's mercy. As for 
 my allusions to the " Edinburgh Review," it would 
 surprise me much if I were censured for speaking as I 
 think upon that subject, abstaining, as I have uniformly 
 done, from anything in the way of personal defence 
 during fifteen years of continual attack on their part. 
 In the article which William Smith pulled out of his 
 pocket, I have called Hunt an incendiary for one of the 
 wickedest paragraphs that ever was written ; and I have 
 bestowed the same appellation upon Cobbett. Can any 
 man in his senses think these misapplied? And for the 
 passage which William Smith read (p. 227.), it neither 
 names any individual, nor alludes to any, but deals in 
 generals, relating to those metaphysicians who begin by 
 denying the difference between right and wrong. Of 
 such men as myself there is plain mention (p. 237.), and 
 so far have I been from having ever sought to put my 
 former opinions in the shade, that they are placed in 
 broad daylight in the ". Pilgrimage to Waterloo ; " nor 
 have I ever cancelled a line in xay early poems on this 
 account. They who blame me for intolerance should 
 remember the abuse which has been incessantly poured 
 upon me. 
 
 Wilberforce wrote me a very handsome letter upon 
 William Smith's conduct, saying that he felt as if he 
 had to clear his own character from a stain, till he 
 assured me that he was not in the house at the time. 
 
 It will be unfortunate if I shall miss you on my 
 transit. I shall be in London (God willing) on the 
 
 
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 1819. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 107 
 
 were to sconce me a quarter's salary for it, I can tell 
 them this, that I could get 251. in less time than it 
 would take me to make a better. Nevertheless, if any- 
 thing comes into a head, which is at present far too 
 much occupied to have room in it for stray fancies, I 
 will give the "Minerva" birth; and, peradventure, it 
 may do as well for next year as for this, if all parties 
 concerned should see another new year, and if Europe 
 continues for so long at peace. Shields is a goodnatured 
 man ; and, really, I will in future let him have my ex- 
 ercise in full time. He shall have it by the end of 
 November. At present I think we are completely out 
 of the scrape. 
 
 My dear Grosvenor, why do you speak in such terms 
 of Haydon ? who is, even by the acknowledgment of 
 those who dislike him most, a man of first-rate power 
 in his art. He may have done some foolish things, and 
 acted indiscreetly in others; but to speak of him with 
 contempt, and call him a coxcomb, is out of all reason. 
 He has long since broken off all connection with Leigh 
 Hunt on account of his mischievous opinions ; but I 
 have nothing to do with his friendships or his enmities. 
 I know him only as one of those painters who, if op- 
 portunity were given them, would place this country as 
 much above all others in that art, as we are in arms 
 and in poetry, and in the real enjoyments of life. 
 
 Nor do you speak in consonance with my feelings 
 concerning your friend Mr. Fielding, and James Fon- 
 taine. If the former is thinking more of the world to 
 come than of this, it is not a mental dram-drinking to 
 which he has taken, but the only proper diet. Fon- 
 taine is not a dreamer, but a sober and rational in- 
 quirer into a subject of no trifling importance, inasmuch 
 as it involves the most reasonable objection to our esta- 
 blished creed. He has not written well, and, therefore, 
 will produce little or no effect. The book is far too 
 
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 long, and wants method as well as condensation. But 
 he is right, and when I come to town I should like to 
 see him. 
 
 My house is dismally silent. Tantemagne * (a coin- 
 age this moment from the mint) went yesterday with 
 Sara and Shedaw to Rydal, where they will stay about 
 a fortnight. Talking of Tantemagne, I threaten her 
 sometimes that I will import an aunt-eater from Brazil. 
 
 I wrote lately to Wynn, urging him to stand in 
 Romilly's place, and put himself at the head of that 
 reform on the criminal laws which must be made, and 
 which he will conduct with more judgment and upon 
 better principles than Sir Samuel. I do not want him 
 to be more in opposition than he is ; indeed, I would 
 far rather see him with the Government, and this he 
 knows. But I would have him more in the eyes of the 
 country, and here the way for him is open. 
 
 I suppose Murray will have to send me Mr. Butler's 
 book. We have an interchange of this kind, and are 
 upon the best terms with each other ; — though he is 
 the most zealous defender of the Catholics (his own 
 persuasion), and I the most zealous opposer of that 
 abominable corruption of Christianity, and of the im- 
 pudent cry of Catholic Emancipation. 
 
 God bless you, and give you many a happy new year. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Walter Savage Landor, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 3. 1819. 
 
 My dear Landor, 
 
 I procrastinated my intended letter too long, 
 till, upon the belief you would have left Como, I knew 
 
 * Mrs. Coleridge. 
 
iETAT. 44. 
 
 OP ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 297 
 
 " Remember us to Mrs. Scott and your daughter, 
 who is now, I suppose, the flower of the Tweed. 
 Believe me, my dear Scott, 
 
 Ever affectionately yours, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
 In a preceding letter my father refers to an article 
 on the Poor Laws which he was then preparing for 
 the Quarterly Review. This was a subject he would 
 hardly have taken up of himself, being well aware 
 of his inability to handle 'topics requiring a clear 
 head for statistical calculation and political economy. 
 He had, however, been urged to it by Mr. Rickman, 
 who furnished him with information and argument 
 on all those points he felt himself unequal to — " as a 
 history of the poor rates, a catalogue raisonne of the 
 abominable effects of the Poor Laws, an expose o£ the 
 injudicious quackeries which from generation to 
 generation had made bad worse." 
 
 It appears that although " the Poor-Law question 
 and its remedies, if to be remedied," would have 
 seemed, of all subjects, one of the least objectionable 
 for discussion, Gifford at first had some fears lest it 
 might be rather above the temperature of the Re- 
 view, and to his hesitation about inserting it (before 
 he had seen it) the following letter refers ; while the 
 next shows that a perusal of the paper removed his 
 objections. 
 
298 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE .Etat. 44. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 "April 5. 1818. 
 
 "My dear R., 
 
 " I apprehended, as you know, some such demurrer 
 on the part of the feeble. They are, I believe, 
 the only persons who, when engaged in mortal com- 
 bat, were ever afraid of provoking their enemies, or 
 striking them too hard. ..... 
 
 " Murray wrote me a brief note the other day, 
 wherein, without any mention of this paper, he said 
 he never desired to see another article upon either 
 politics or religion in the Review, because they are 
 * certain of offending a great mass of people.' I re- 
 plied to this at some length in a way which for a 
 little while would impress the magnus homo ; but 
 because Mackintosh and a few other Ops. praise 
 a number which does them no harm, he fancies be- 
 cause they are pleased the rest of his readers must be 
 pleased too. This is the mere impression for the 
 moment ; but that the Review will ever proceed in a 
 bold, upright, and straightforward course is not to be 
 expected. 
 
 " I have a chance letter from Stuart : he says 
 Cobbett has fallen one third in sale, and all such 
 publications are declining, but the anarchists are as 
 active as ever, and new opportunities will occur for 
 bringing their venom into life. * These wretches,' 
 he continues, -- are effecting their purposes by libelling; 
 they are driving off the ground every man that can 
 oppose them; they are conquering by scandal, and 
 
Meat, 44. of robert southey. 299 
 
 Ministers wish as much as others to keep out of the 
 way. Unless this spirit of scandal is put down, unless 
 the licentiousness of the press be restrained, cer- 
 tainly it will effect a revolution, — restrained I mean 
 by new laws, and new regulations. It is altogether, J 
 as at present practised, a new thing, not older than \ 
 the French Revolution. I can perceive every one 
 shrinking from it, — you, me, Wordsworth, Cole- 
 ridge, &c. Every one about the press dreads Cob- 
 bett's scandal ; and thus when a man throws off all 
 consideration of character, he has all others in his 
 power. Even the Ministry, too, and their friends, I 
 think shrink from those who fight their battles, when 
 covered with filth in the fray.' 
 
 " Stuart is wrong in two points. This sort of 
 scandal is certainly as old as Junius and Wilkes, 
 perhaps much older; and he mistakes my feelings 
 upon the subject and Wordsworth's. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 "April 11. 1818. 
 
 " My dear R., 
 
 " I am not a little pleased that the paper has 
 passed through the hands of Gifford with so little 
 
 mutilation My letter to Murraymagne 
 
 in reply to his intended act of exclusion, has had its 
 proper effect; but behold the said Murraymagne 
 does not regard the Poor Law paper as political : 
 
 . - 1*- <K 
 
 -U^- 
 
300 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 44. 
 
 ' Such papers as these,' he says, e are exceedingly 
 desirable for the Review, because they are of essential 
 service to the country, and they must obtain for us 
 the esteem of all well-thinking men.' He only meant 
 that we should avoid all party politics. I wish he 
 did mean this. However, for the present we have 
 got a most important paper — - most important in 
 two points — for strengthening authority, as much 
 as for its remedy for the evil of the Poor Laws. 
 
 " The second Police Report is not of the character 
 which you supposed. There is much valuable 
 matter in it ; and indeed, both Reports furnish 
 stronger positions for me than for the enemy to oc- 
 cupy. The Bow-street men appear to great ad- 
 vantage in both. It really appears as if the coffee 
 shops would almost supersede dram-drinking, so com- 
 fortable do the working classes find warmth and 
 distention (your philosophy). Do you know that of 
 all known substances coffee produces the most of that 
 excitement which is required in fatigue ? The hunters 
 in the Isle of France and Bourbon take no other pro- 
 vision into the woods. And Bruce tells us that the 
 viaticum of the Galla in their expeditions consists of 
 balls of ground coffee and butter, one per diem (I 
 believe) the size of a walnut sufficing to prevent the 
 sense of hunger. I have just made a curious note 
 upon the same subject for the History of Brazil : a 
 people in the very heart of S. America, living beside 
 a lake of unwholesome water, instead of making maize 
 beer, like all their neighbours, carbonised their maize, 
 ■ — as good a substitute for coffee as any which was 
 
? 
 
 ^ETAT. 44. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 305 
 
 jured up for the time feelings of security from anxiety 
 which had no solid foundation, but which served for 
 the time to excuse him to himself for declining 
 them. 
 
 To John Kenyon, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, June 13. 1818. 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " Your letter to Mr. Coleridge, which has this day 
 arrived, enables me to thank you for Dobrizhoffer, 
 and for the good old Huguenot Jean de Leny. The 
 American by whom the letter was sent to my 
 brothers has not yet made his appearance at the 
 Lakes. When he comes I will provide him with an 
 introduction to Wordsworth if he should not bring 
 one from London ; and if he is particularly desirous of 
 seeing live poets, he shall have credentials for Walter 
 Scott. I suppose an American inquires for them as 
 you or I should do in America for a skunk or an 
 opossum. They are become marvellously abundant in 
 England ; so that publications which twenty years 
 ago would have attracted considerable attention, are 
 now coming from the press in shoals unnoticed. 
 This makes it the more remarkable that America 
 should be so utterly barren : since the Revolution 
 they have not produced a single poet who has been 
 heard of on this side of the Atlantic. Dwight and 
 Barlow both belong to the Revolution ; and well was 
 it for the Americans, taking them into the account, 
 that we could not say of them — tarn Marte, quam 
 Mercurio. 
 
 VOL. IV. X 
 
306 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^ta*t. 44. 
 
 " I am very sorry that your friend Ritchie should 
 have gone upon an expedition which has proved fatal 
 to every one who has yet undertaken it, and which 
 I think the amateur geographising 'gentlemen of 
 England who sit at home at ease ' are altogether un- 
 justifiable in pursuing at such a cost of valuable 
 lives. The object is not tantamount, as it is in a 
 voyage of discovery. In such voyages men are only 
 exposed to some additional risk in the way of their 
 profession, and the reward, if they return safe, is 
 certain and proportionate ; but, here, Mungo Park 
 went upon his second expedition literally because he 
 could not support his family after the first. If, how- 
 ever, Ritchie should live to accomplish his object, I 
 am no ways apprehensive that his reputation will be 
 eclipsed by his intended rival Ali Bey, that solemn 
 professor of humbug having always made less use of 
 his opportunities than any other traveller. . 
 
 " If you go through Cologne (as I suppose you 
 will), do not fail to visit St. Ursula and the Eleven 
 Thousand Virgins, whose relics form the most ex- 
 traordinary sight that the Catholic superstition has 
 to display, You will also find the Three Kings in 
 the same city well worthy a visit to their magnificent 
 shrine. From thence to Mentz and Frankfort you 
 will see everywhere the havoc which the Revolution 
 has made ; further I cannot accompany your journey. 
 We came to Frankfort from Heidelburgh and the 
 Black Forest. 
 
 Yours most truly, 
 
 Robert Southey." 
 
. 
 
 1819. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 113 
 
 which (supposing them to be totally' abandoned) the in- 
 ward and spiritual grace could no more exist, than our 
 life could exist on earth without the body in which it 
 resides. Now I affirm that it is just as much the duty 
 of a Government to establish a National Church, endow 
 it largely, and support it liberally, as it is for the 
 father of a family to train up his children in the way he 
 would have them go. 
 
 I am most exceedingly obliged to your friend Mr. 
 John M'Neile, and I beg you will tell him so when you 
 have an opportunity. I should not have known that 
 such a book was in existence, had it not been for the 
 Yankee Report, and nothing could have been more 
 opportune for me than its arrival. You know with 
 what solicitude I seek for documents upon every subject 
 on which I am employed, but you can hardly estimate 
 the great delight there is in obtaining them, when they 
 are not easily obtainable, and especially when they are 
 unexpected. 
 
 Mrs. Southey desires to be most kindly remembered. 
 Edith and Sara are with Mrs. Coleridge, at Words- 
 worth's, as happy as playfellows, jackasses, and fiddles, 
 can make them. These are the joys of their dancing 
 days ! 
 
 God bless you, my dear Neville. 
 
 Yours most affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 vol. III. 
 
] 14 LETTERS OF 1819-. 
 
 To John Richman, Esq., 8fc. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 25. 1819. 
 
 My dear Ri, 
 
 Thank you for a Succession of proof sheets, every 
 one of which operates upon me like the crack of a 
 whip in the air upon a willing horse. I have been 
 lucky enough, by means of Neville White, to get a 
 history of Buenos Ayres, Tucuman, and Paraguay, lately 
 printed at Buenos Ayres, which I first saw mentioned 
 in the "Report" of the Yankee Commissioners. No- 
 thing could arrive more opportunely ; it gives me 
 information where I most wanted it, and in the most 
 satisfactory manner confirms the view I had taken of 
 those points that are most disputed. In this work of 
 Funes' is the only account which has ever appeared of 
 the tremendous insurrection of the Peruvians under one 
 of the Inca blood in 1782-3. In two instances they 
 demolished the fortifications of a Spanish town by 
 bringing a river to bear upon them. It is very evident 
 to me, that if the Indians were as active and as powerful 
 now as they were forty years ago, the end of these civil 
 wars would be, that they would destroy the surviving 
 Spaniards, and lay the country waste ; but I suspect 
 that since the expulsion of the Jesuits, spirits have been 
 introduced among them freely, and that this has con- 
 tributed to destroy them, almost as much as their own 
 cursed practices of abortion and infanticide. The 
 Buenos Ayres historian, however, speaks of them as 
 still formidable. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
7>y 
 
 1819. , ROBERT SOUTHET. 131 
 
 This I mention because it has been vacillating a hair- 
 breadth about change for the last week, and the weather 
 all the while as fixed as Fate, whence I conclude that 
 Dollond, the maker, has been accustomed to make 
 weather glasses for the Opposition. I have nothing else 
 to tell you, except that lately I had a rat roasted for 
 supper, which was very good, though it would have 
 been better had the rat been not so young. It was 
 more like roasted pig than anything else. Shedaw 
 liked it much ; Sara thought it not amiss ; but as for 
 
 Mrs. C , you should have seen her face when we 
 
 talked of it at breakfast. 
 
 It is a good thing for me that Tom is so near ; his 
 house is a gun-shot from that delightful beck in New- 
 lands wherein you and I have bathed ; and there I 
 shall bathe before this week is over, if the weather 
 continues as warm as it is now. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Messrs. Longman <$r Co. 
 
 Keswick, May 7. 1819. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 A lucky misapprehension respecting new and 
 old Methodists has procured me some very interesting 
 information from your correspondent Mr. Keene, upon 
 a subject of which I had no knowledge before, and 
 which is of much importance to my work. I enclose a 
 letter which you will have the goodness to get franked 
 to him. In it I have explained to him what further 
 documents I require from Ireland. 
 
 k2 
 
132 LETTERS OP 1819. 
 
 I hoped to have been in London at this time ; but 
 there has been a succession of illness in my family, and 
 the " History of Brazil " has grown under my hands 
 far beyond all calculation, owing to the richness of my 
 unprinted documents, and to the materials which have 
 reached me while this volume has been in the press. 
 However, we are printing the last chapter, — a long 
 and very important one, — containing a full view of the 
 present state of Brazil. It would have been worth 
 100/. if I had transferred it to the " Quarterly Review." 
 But it is in its proper place, — the fit conclusion of a 
 work upon which my reputation hereafter may safely 
 rest. 
 
 " Nichols's Anecdotes " are such a huge store of ma- 
 terials, applicable to many works which I have in hand 
 and in mind, that I must keep them. Please to send 
 me the " Illustrations " which he has published as a 
 sequel, and that number of the " Pamphleteer," con- 
 taining Koster on the Slave Trade, which I must refer 
 to in my " View of Brazil." 
 
 I shall be getting once more on the wrong side of 
 your books ; for during the last half-year, the " Brazil " 
 has swallowed up almost all my labour, like a sinking 
 fund. But " Wesley " and the sale of " Paraguay " 
 will bring me round ; and my long New England 
 poem is now in that state of forwardness that I begin 
 to calculate upon it. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 R. SOUTHEY. 
 
?7 
 
 MiKr. 46. 
 
 OF ROBERT SOUTHET. 
 
 361 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Dec. 3. 1819. 
 " My dear Grosvenor, 
 
 " . . . I must trespass on you farther, and 
 request that you will seal up ten pounds, and leave it 
 with Hickman, directed for Charles Lamb, Esq. 
 from R. S. _ It is f or^rjoor^Jqhn Morgan, whom you 
 may remember some twenty years ago. This poor 
 fellow, whom I knew at school, and whose mother 
 has sometimes asked me to her table, when I should 
 otherwise have gone without a dinner, was left with 
 a fair fortune, from 10,000/. to 15,000/., and without 
 any vice or extravagance of his own he has lost the 
 whole of it. A stroke of the palsy has utterly dis- 
 abled him from doing anything to maintain himself; 
 his wife, a good-natured, kind-hearted woman, whom 
 I knew in her bloom, beauty, and prosperity, has 
 accepted a situation as mistress of a charity-school, 
 with a miserable salary of 40/. a-year ; and this is all 
 they have. In this pitiable case, Lamb and I have 
 promised him ten pounds a-year each, as long as he 
 lives. I have got five pounds a-year for him from an 
 excellent fellow, whom you do not know, and who 
 chooses on this occasion to be called A. B., and I have 
 written to his Bristol friends, who are able to do 
 more for him than we are, and on whom he has 
 stronger personal claims; so that I hope we shall 
 secure him the decencies of life. You will under- 
 stand that this is an explanation to you, not an appli- 
 cation. In a case of this kind, contributions become 
 
 /y&u. 
 
362 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^tat. 46. 
 
 a matter of feeling and duty among those who know 
 the party, but strangers are not to be looked to. 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Dec. 20. 1819. 
 " My dear G., 
 a 
 
 I have been obliged to complain to Gifford of the 
 mutilations which he has made in this paper. Pray 
 recover the manuscript if you can ; or, what would 
 be better, the set of proof sheets. It is very pro- 
 voking to have an historical paper of that kind, 
 which, perhaps, no person in England but myself 
 could have written, treated like a schoolboy's theme. 
 Vexed however as I am, I have too much liking for 
 Gifford to be angry with him, and have written to 
 him in a manner which will prove this. .... 
 
 " Your godson, thank God, is going on well, and 
 his father has nothing to complain of except indeed 
 that he gets more praise than pudding. I had a 
 letter last night which would amuse you. A certain 
 H. Fisher, ( printer in ordinary to his Majesty,' of 
 Caxton Printing Office, Liverpool, writes to bespeak 
 of me a memoir of his present Majesty in one or two 
 volumes octavo, pica type, longprimer notes, terms 
 five guineas per sheet ; and ' as the work will be 
 sold principally among the middle class of society, 
 
1822. EOBEET SOUTHEY. 365 / 
 
 I must observe, also, that some very singular, and to 
 me unaccountable, notions on natural history, are fre- 
 quently implied in her discourse ; which, when she is 
 questioned concerning them, she avows and maintains 
 with great consequence and pertinacity. She insists 
 upon it that stone and wood are the same thing ; that 
 all dogs, whether male or female, are of the masculine 
 gender, and all cats female ; and, to prove this last ex- 
 traordinary, and, as I may call it, preposterous assertion, 
 she tells me that I never call my son puss, though I do 
 call one of my daughters so, — choosing to overlook the 
 manner in which the little girl came to be so called, as 
 being christened Katharine, from whence, by easy and 
 natural steps, we got to Puss. But what is yet more 
 singular, all things which she does not exactly like are 
 toads. Toads drop from her lips as they did from the 
 hair of the ill-natured fairy in the story-book, who 
 powdered with them. She applies the name to all 
 persons and all things, animate or inanimate, real or 
 notional, you or me, a cow or a cold, a flea or a fiddle- 
 stick, a book, a pen, a dance, a tune, the wind, the 
 weather, the day, whatever happens to displease her. 
 So general, indeed, is the use she makes of it, that one 
 might almost suppose it were derived from the Spanish 
 todo, which signifies all and everything, were it not that 
 she spells it as you here see it spelt, and explains it to 
 mean that poor, calumniated, persecuted, squat, squab 
 animal who is the frog's first cousin. 
 
 But it is time that this long letter should be concluded. 
 I will conclude it, therefore, with offering to your con- 
 sideration a thought which has occurred to me while 
 writing it. There is an hypothesis concerning the origin 
 of language, which (to use an Americanism) has been 
 advocated by some Hebricians and some Welsh anti- 
 quaries. It is, that the principal language was not re- 
 vealed to our first parents, but was " the result of a 
 
366 fy ^ LETTERS OF 1822. 
 
 / natural aptitude in the organs of speech to utter cer- 
 tain definite articulations, according to the impulse of 
 man's internal emotions." A certain number of imita- 
 tions and significant radicals were thus produced, and 
 the rest being matters of combination and caprice, were, 
 of course, infinitely variable. Attempts have been made 
 to show that the principle may, at this time, be clearly 
 traced in the Welsh and Hebrew roots. For some sin- 
 gular and whimsical illustrations of this theory, I refer 
 you to Mr. Davies's " Celtic Researches," a boob in 
 other respects, well worth reading, being full of Kimbric 
 learning. I have heard that the notion has been pursued 
 much farther by an ingenious, fanciful, and patient 
 German. He supposed that the characters of the He- 
 brew alphabet are of divine appointment, and carry 
 with them the proof of their superhuman origin, each 
 being so shaped as to represent the exact form which 
 the organs of speech assume in making the sound de- 
 noted by it. He is said to have spent a great many 
 years in pronouncing these letters with his back to the 
 light, a looking-glass before him, his mouth wide open, 
 and a pencil in his hand, to catch the likeness, and 
 finally succeeded in producing a series of anatomical 
 drawings to illustrate his hypothesis. 
 
 Something correlative, not to the German's notion, 
 but to the theory maintained by my brethren of the 
 Cymmrodorion, I remember to have heard more than 
 twenty years ago when dining,\^oi quatrieme, in com- 
 pany with Mr. Pettier. He was^fes^patiating to Mr. 
 Coleridge and myself, for our edification, upon the 
 peculiar excellences of French poetry, and of the 
 French language as adapted for poetry. And he in- 
 stanced both in these three words from Racine, •— 
 " Roi des rois;" words, he said, which no person could 
 pronounce properly, or hear properly pronounced, 
 without being sensible in himself of an expansion and 
 
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 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 VOL. V. 
 
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 THE 
 
 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON, THE 
 
 REV. CHARLES CUTHBERT SOUTHEY, M.A. 
 
 CURATE OF PLUMBLAND CUMBERLAND. 
 
 IN SIX VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. V. 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
 
 PATERNOSTE R- ROW. 
 
 1850. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 Opinions on Political and Social Subjects. — Curious Bequest from a 
 Lunatic. — Letter to him. — Dislike of the Quakers to Poetry. — 
 Life of Wesley. — Colloquies with Sir Thomas More. — Sir Howard 
 Douglas. — The King's Death. — Prospects of Society. — Rev. 
 Peter Elmsley. — New Fashion of Poetry of Italian Growth. — 
 Don Juan. — Political Forebodings. — Parallel Roads in Scotland. 
 
 — Death of the Duke de Berri. — Beguinage Scheme. — English 
 Sisterhoods. — His Brother Edward. — John Morgan. — Laureate 
 Odes. — The Life of "Wesley. — Letter in Rhyme from Wales. — 
 Account of his receiving the Honorary Degree of D. C. L. at Oxford. 
 
 — Return home. — Congratulations to Neville White on his Mar- 
 riage. — Opinions on the Life of Wesley. — Excuses for Idleness. — 
 Occupations. — Letter from Shelley. — Projected Life of George 
 
 Fox. — Mr. Westall and Mr. Nash. — The Vision of Judgment 
 
 Classical Studies. — Roderick translated into French. — Biogra- 
 phical Anecdote. — Death of Miss Tyler. — Birthday Ode Por- 
 tuguese Affairs. — 1820 — 1821 - - - - Page 1 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 The Vision of Judgment. — Lord Byron. — Mr. Jeffrey's Opinion of 
 his Writings. — Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets. — State of 
 Spain. — Scarcity of great Statesmen. — The Eikwv Baa-iXiKrj. — 
 Hobbes's Behemoth. — Failure of an Attempt to recover some 
 Family Estates. — Lonely Feelings at Oxford. — The Vision of 
 Judgment approved by the King. — American Visitors. — Disap- 
 
VI CONTENTS. 
 
 proval of the Language of the Quarterly Review towards America. 
 — American Divinity. — Account of Netherhall. — Bohemian Lot- 
 tery. — Hampden. — A new Candidate for the Protection of the 
 
 Game Laws. — State of Ireland. — Sir Edward Dering Decree 
 
 of the Long Parliament. — Spanish America. — Humboldt's Tra- 
 vels. — State of Italy, of Spain, and of England. — 1821. Page 66 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIL 
 
 Religious Feelings. — The Book of the Church. — History of the 
 
 Peninsular War Lord Byron. — Spanish Affairs. — Mr. Landor's 
 
 new Work. — Improvements in London — Effects of general Edu- 
 cation. — Visit from Mr. Lightfoot. — Dr. Channing and the 
 Reverend Christopher Benson. — General Peachey. — Dwight's 
 Travels — Editorship of the Quarterly Review. — The Laureate- 
 ship. — Ways and Means. — The Peninsular War. — Course of his 
 Reading. — Catholic Emancipation. — Illustrations of Roderick. — 
 Posthumous Eame. — The Quarterly Review. — American Visitors. 
 
 — Wordsworth's Poetry. — Mr. Morrison. — Owen of Lanark. — 
 Danger of the Country. — Blanco White. — The French in Spain. 
 
 — Journey to London. — Rowland Hill. — The Daily Study of the 
 Scriptures recommended. — 1822 — 1823 - - 108 
 
 CHAPTER XXVIII. 
 
 Plan for uniting the Wesleyan Methodists with the Church. — Amus- 
 ing domestic Scene. — Opinions of the Book of the Church. — 
 Roderick translated into Dutch Verse. — Effects of the Nitrous 
 Oxide. — Enmity more active than Friendship. — Odd Books in 
 reading. — Lord Byron's Death. — Cause of the Delay in the Pub- 
 lication of the Peninsular War. — Estimate of Human Nature. — 
 The Book of the State. — Wishes to procure the Publications of 
 the 'Record Committee. — Reasons for declining to be named one 
 of the Royal Literary Associates. — Prevalence of Atheism. — 
 History of the Monastic Orders. — The Doctor, &c — Love of 
 planning new Works. — Habit of reading while walking. — Wes- 
 leyan Methodists. — Long Life not desirable. — Mr. Telford. — 
 Lord Byron. — The Quarterly Review. — Plan of Oliver Newman- 
 
& 
 
 CONTENTS. Vll 
 
 State of Ireland. — He is attacked in the Morning Chronicle. — 
 
 Bible and Missionary Societies Evils of severe Reviewals. — 
 
 Smedley's Poems. — Mr. Butler's Reply to the Book of the Church. 
 — Eeasons for not visiting Ireland. — Literary Obligations. — 
 Vindicia? Ecc. Anglicanse in progress. — Wishes to make a Tour in 
 Holland. — Want of Readiness in Speech. — Hayley. — 1824 — 
 1825 ------- Page 159 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 Tour in Holland. — He is laid up at Leyden at Mr. Bilderdijk's. — Rev. 
 R. Phillips. — Mr. Butler. — Mr. Canning. — Motives for choosing 
 Friends. — Visitors to Keswick. — Tendency of his Ecclesiastical 
 Writings. — Sisters of Charity. — The Quarterly Review. — Meta- 
 physics. — Rules for Composition. — Knowledge of History the 
 first Requisite for a Statesman. — The Bullion Question. — Jacob 
 Cats. — Wishes to write a Continuation to Warton's Histoiy of 
 Poetry. — Mr. Bilderdijk. — Dangers of the Manufacturing Sys- 
 tem. — Effects of Time upon the Mind. — His own religious Feel- 
 ings. — Short Tour in Holland. — Death of his youngest Daughter. 
 — Wishes as to Posthumous Publications. — Letter to his Daugh- 
 ters on the Death of their Sister. — 1825 — 1826 - - 213 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 He is returned to Parliament for the Borough of Downton. — Declines 
 to take his Seat. — Growth of his Opinions. — His Autobiography. 
 ■ — Emigration. — The Edinburgh Annual Register a useful Occu- 
 pation to him. — Sharon Turner's History of England. — Ambition. 
 — Fruitless Efforts to induce him to sit in Parliament. — Reasons 
 for declining to do so. — Fortunate Course of Life. — Different 
 Modes of Preaching necessary to different Congregations. — He is 
 requested to undertake the Editorship of the Garrick Papers. — 
 Illness of Mr. Bilderdijk. — Death of Bard Williams. — A Quaker 
 Album. — Domestic Afflictions. — State of Holland. — Death of 
 Lord Liverpool. — Dislike of Political Economy. — Foreign Quar- 
 terly Review. — State of the Scotch Kirk. — Politics, Home and 
 
 Foreign Relative Happiness of Nations. — Decreasing Sale of 
 
 his Works. — National Education. — 1826 — 1827 - - 260 
 
Vlll CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 Visit to Harrogate. — Album Verses. — Lord Colchester. — Consti- 
 tutional Bashfulness. — The Prospect of another Life the only 
 solid Foundation for Happiness. — Proposes to collect his Political 
 Essays. — Mr. Canning. — Home Politics. — Projected Life of 
 Wolfe. — Ground of his Opinions. — Mr. May. — Mr. Cottle. — 
 Mr. King. — Intercourse with Mr. Wordsworth's Family. — The 
 Quarterly Review. — Desirableness of putting an End to Imprison- 
 ment for Small Debts. — Disagreeable Duties required from Public 
 Officers. — Ancient Statutes. — Undertakes to edit the Verses of 
 an old Servant. — Bishop Heber. — Difficulties of a Removal. — 
 The Peninsular War. — Engages to contribute to the Keepsake. — 
 Urges Mr. Bedford to visit Keswick. — Goes to London. — Sits to 
 Sir Thomas Lawrence and Sir F. Chantrey. — Translation of 
 Davila not likely to succeed. — His Uncle's Death. — Choice of a 
 few Standard English Works. — His Son's Studies. — Jackson's 
 Sermons. — Life of Nelson. — Declining Sale of his Works. — 
 Visit from Lieut. Mawe. — Interest in Mr. May's Affairs. — Re- 
 marks on the Annuals. — New Theory of the Weather. — Literary 
 Employments. — Intended Visit to the Isle of Man. — 1827 — 1828. 
 
 Page 299 
 
 Appendix ...... 343 
 
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 JEtat. 49. Or ROBERT SOUTHET. 141 
 
 books, and to reply to your welcome letter, I had not 
 been wholly unmindful of you. Without attempt- 
 ing to excuse a delay for which I have long re- 
 proached myself, I may say that it has been chiefly, 
 if not wholly occasioned by an expectation that I 
 might have communicated to you Gifford's retirement 
 from the management of the Quarterly Review, and 
 the assumption of that management by a friend of 
 mine, who would have given it a consistent tone upon 
 all subjects. Poor GifFord was for several months 
 in such a state that his death was continually looked 
 for. His illness has thrown the journal two numbers 
 in arrear ; he feels and acknowledges his inability to 
 conduct it, and yet his unwillingness to part with a 
 power which he cannot exercise, has hitherto stood in 
 the way of any other arrangement. 
 
 " I have more than once remonstrated both with 
 him and Murray upon the folly and mischief of their 
 articles respecting America ; and should the journal 
 pass into the hands of any person whom I can influ- 
 ence, its temper will most assuredly be changed. 
 Such papers, the silence of the journal upon certain 
 topics on which it ought manfully to have spoken 
 out, and the abominable style of its criticism upon 
 some notorious subjects, have made me more than 
 once think seriously of withdrawing from it ; and I 
 have only been withheld by the hope of its amend- 
 ment, and the certainty that through this channel I 
 could act with more immediate effect than through 
 any other. Inclosed- you have a list of all my papers 
 in it. I mean shortly to see whether Murray is will- 
 ing to reprint such of them as are worth preserving, 
 
142 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Ltat. 49. 
 
 restoring where I can the passages which Gifford 
 (to the sore mutilation of the part always, and some- 
 times to the destruction of the sense and argument) 
 chose to omit, — and beginning with the Moral and 
 Political Essays. 
 
 " Your friends and countrymen who come to Kes- 
 wick make a far shorter tarriance than I could wish. 
 They ' come like shadows, so depart.' Dr. Channing 
 could give me only part of a short evening. Ran- 
 dolph of Eoanoak no more : he left me with a promise 
 that if he returned from Scotland by the western 
 side of the island, he would become my guest : if he 
 could have been persuaded to this, it would have 
 done him good, for he stood in need of society, and 
 of those comforts which are not to be obtained at an 
 inn. Mr. Eliot passed through about five weeks ago, 
 and on Monday last we had a younger traveller 
 here, — Mr. Gardner. No country can send out 
 better specimens of its sons. 
 
 " Coleridge talks of bringing out his work upon 
 Logic, of collecting his poems, and of adapting his 
 translation of Wallenstein for the stage, — Kean 
 having taken a fancy to exhibit himself in it. 
 Wordsworth is just returned from a trip to the 
 Netherlands : he loves rambling, and has no pursuits 
 which require him to be stationary. I shall probably 
 see him in a few days. Every year shows more and 
 more how strongly his poetry has leavened the rising 
 generation. Your mocking bird is said to improve 
 the strain which he imitates ; this is not the case 
 with ours. 
 
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 ^tat. 52. OF EOBERT SOUTHET. 239 
 
 nurses for a course of years. The mortality was 
 monstrous. I think it appeared that these wretches 
 who dealt in infant suffering used sometimes to mur- 
 der the children by sitting upon them in the carts 
 wherein they conveyed them from the hospital to the 
 country. 
 
 " The change of ministry in the Quarterly Re- 
 view is the only change of such a kind which could 
 have affected me for evil and for good. 
 
 " As for my importance to the Review, it is very 
 little. Just at this juncture I might do harm by 
 withdrawing from it ; but at any other time I should 
 be as little missed as I shall be, except in my own 
 family and in some half-a-dozen hearts besides, 
 whenever death shakes hands with me. The world 
 closes over one as easily as the waters. Not, how- 
 ever, that I shall sink to be forgotten. 
 
 " But as for present effect, the reputation of the 
 
 Review is made, and papers of less pith and moment 
 
 ' than mine would serve the bookseller's purpose quite 
 
 as well, and amuse the great body of readers, who 
 
 read only for amusement or for fashion, more. 
 
 " God bless you ! 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 R. SOUTHEY." 
 
 To Henry Taylor, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Dec. 31. 1825. 
 « My dear H. T., 
 
 " I have pursued so little method in my own 
 studies at any time of my life that I am in truth 
 
240 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mtxt. 52. 
 
 very little qualified to direct others. Having been 
 from youth, and even childhood, an omnivorous 
 reader, I found myself when I commenced man with 
 a larger stock of general information than young 
 men usually possess, and the desultory reading in 
 which I have always indulged (making it indeed my 
 whole and sole recreation), has proved of the greatest 
 use when I have been pursuing a particular subject 
 through all its ramifications. 
 
 " With regard to metaphysics I know nothing, 
 and therefore can say nothing. Coleridge I am 
 sure knows all that can be known concerning them ; 
 and if your friend can get at the kernel of his 
 s Friend ' and his * Aids to Reflection,' he may crack 
 peach-stones without any fear of breaking his teeth. 
 For logic — that may be considered indispensable, 
 but how far that natural logic which belongs to good 
 sense is assisted or impeded by the technicalities of 
 the schools, others are better able to determine than 
 I am, for I learnt very little, and nothing which I 
 ever learnt stuck by me unless I liked it. 
 
 " The rules for composition appear to me very 
 simple ; inasmuch as any style is peculiar, the pecu- 
 liarity is a fault, and the proof of this is the easiness 
 with which it is imitated, or, in other words, caught. 
 You forgive it in the original for its originality, and 
 because originality is usually connected with power. 
 Sallust and Tacitus are examples among the Latins, 
 Sir T. Brown, Gibbon, and Johnson among our own 
 authors ; but look at the imitations of Gibbon and 
 Johnson ! My advice to a young writer is, that he 
 should weigh well what he says, and not be anxious 
 

 SELECTIONS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 LETTERS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
London: 
 Printed by Scottiswoode & Co.. 
 
 N e w -street- Square. 
 
• 
 
 SELECTIONS 
 
 FROM THE 
 
 LETTERS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, 
 
 &c. &c. &c. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON-IN-LAW 
 
 JOHN WOOD WARTER, B,D. 
 
 CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD; 
 
 VICAR OF WEST TARRING, SUSSEX. 
 
 South ey's Letters show his true Character." 
 
 Walter Savage Landor, 
 
 MS. Letter to Mrs. Southey, April 28. 1843. 
 
 IN FOUR VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 
 
 1856. 
 
 The right of translation is reserved. 
 

 1831. 
 
 ROBERT SOTJTHEY, 221 
 
 but extreme folly and incapacity in some, and in others 
 a desire to revolutionise these kingdoms. "We have 
 often been in danger heretofore, but hitherto we have 
 always had a Conservative Government, and a Conser- 
 vative party, which comprised by far the greater body 
 of the nation. But now all the knaves and fools who 
 belonged to that party have forsaken it, and you may 
 suppose how greatly it is diminished by their desertion. 
 
 I am accustomed to look at things hopefully, but 
 this is the first time that (with regard to public 
 affairs) I ever found my hopes rested solely upon God's 
 mercy, and had no human foundation to rest on. 
 
 When my " Essays " reach you you will find in them 
 some sad forebodings upon this subject, and others con- 
 nected with it. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, M.P. 
 
 Keswick, June 6. 1831. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 My temper is constitutionally so cheerful that if 
 not less alarmed than my friends at this time, I am less 
 cast down than any of them seem to be. My best 
 human hope rests upon a clear perception that the 
 ultimate struggle must be between property and the 
 levelling system ; that this becomes more evident every 
 day to those who look at the levelling journals and the 
 signs of the times, and that, if this can be made gene- 
 rally known, those who have property will come to their 
 senses, and then the country will be saved. 
 
 I have heard of one person whom my account of 
 Babceuf's conspiracy has frightened into conviction on 
 this point, " but such is Whig folly and ill principle, 
 not into moderation." The reign of Terror has so far 
 begun among us that very many persons are acting at 
 
222 LETTERS OF 1831. 
 
 this time with the Reformers against their own better 
 mind, — confessing their fears in private, and at the 
 same time increasing the danger by their public con- 
 duct. I know instances of this kind here in Cumber- 
 land. 
 
 Henry Coleridge's is, indeed, a very good pamphlet, 
 and in this way he has done good service. The " Life of 
 Swing " was his. You know there is a society for 
 printing such things, but it is ill supported, and at this 
 time greatly in arrears. Peel has subscribed to it so 
 sparingly that I almost wonder any other person has 
 subscribed to it at all, seeing how little he is disposed 
 to do for a cause in which he is so mightily concerned. 
 All that I hear of him lessens the little hope I entertained 
 of his becoming the leader of a Conservative party. He 
 makes himself disliked as well as distrusted. There 
 would be a formidable minority if it had but a leader ; 
 weight of talent too, as well as of character, is on the 
 right side. The Condottieri, as Vyvyan well called 
 them, have forfeited character, and the others, in pro- 
 portion as they are tried, are found wanting. Look- 
 ing, however, at all things, I see that nothing but God's 
 mercy can save us, and on that mercy I have so full 
 and calm a reliance that I continue to sleep in peace. 
 
 I have not seen Walsh's book, nor heard of its con- 
 tents till by your letter. 
 
 I am going about the end of this week to Cheltenham 
 upon an unpleasant business, to see my poor old friend 
 Dr. Bell for the last time, and determine whether in 
 common prudence I can take upon my myself the charge 
 of being one of his executors ; my present persuasion 
 is that it will be impossible. He leaves his works to 
 be published by Wordsworth and myself, and 1000/. to 
 each of us. But I have reason to apprehend that upon 
 the upshot there is likely to be more law than legacy. 
 He has irrevocably given 120,000/. to the University of 
 

 1832. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 279 
 
 will be something more " to point a moral and adorn a 
 tale." All guesses must be at random in these times, 
 when we have to speculate, not upon the conduct of 
 statesmen, and upon known systems of policy, but upon 
 the actions of fools and madmen. Guessing, therefore, 
 upon no better ground than such agents afford, I think 
 the Republicans are likely to succeed in France, be- 
 cause, aided by the Bonapartists, they are far the 
 strongest party. I mean the strongest active party (the 
 great majority being always passive), and Louis Philippe 
 is probably weaker than either of these, even separately. 
 If that party succeeds they can have no breathing time 
 at home without engaging in foreign war, and a general 
 war will presently ensue. 
 
 I do not enclose this, lest your business should be by 
 this settled, and your Empire of the Franks at an 
 end. I wish it may be so, and that you may have the 
 rare fortune of not being ill used at your emancipation, 
 — of all bad masters the public being, in these days, 
 the worst. When you are free pray turn your thoughts 
 and steps hitherward. Anne and Franco would enjoy 
 the mountains, and you and I could colloquise to great 
 advantage. 
 
 The hospital estates here have been sold for about 
 two thirds of their estimated worth. So much for the 
 interests of the charity ! You have an able man in the 
 House of Commons, * * * * *, who does not look to 
 his own interest here, just like an Irish absentee, and 
 never returns an answer to any application for a sub- 
 scription towards any charitable or local purpose. At 
 present we hear of none but Radicals as likely to be 
 returned from these parts ; but no county has been 
 more poisoned by provincial newspapers ; and half the 
 yeomanry have been bred up under a radical school- 
 master, — a liberalised Quaker, who has kept a large 
 
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280 LETTERS OF 1832. 
 
 seminary of disaffection for more than thirty years. 
 You may suppose what mischief such a man must have 
 done. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Mrs. Bray, Tavistock. 
 
 Keswick, June 12. 1832. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Bray, 
 
 Your packet followed me to the coast, where I 
 had taken two of my daughters to a friend's house, for 
 the sake of sea air. There I left them, and they have 
 now again rejoined me — the one better than when she 
 went, the other better than when she returned. I hope 
 your nephew may belong to a covey of Cantabs whom I 
 hear of as having taken lodgings at Keswick. I shall 
 not only be glad to see him, but to give him the very 
 few introductions that this place affords ; so let him 
 make himself known to me as soon as he comes. My 
 cousin, Herbert Hill, who is just now taking his degree 
 at New College, will be with me during the long vaca- 
 tion. Your nephew will find him a pleasant acquaint- 
 ance, for he is a good scion of a good stock. 
 
 Your Pixies are pleasant creatures ; I knew them of 
 old by Coleridge's poem about them, which was written 
 before he and I met in 1794*; but your stories were 
 new to me, and have amused my fireside greatly. We 
 have no playful superstitions here, or if there are any 
 they have not come to my knowledge ; but I suspect 
 that the popular superstitions of the mountainous coun- 
 
 * Writing to Belford under this date, Southey tells bow he and 
 Coleridge were obliged to sleep together in a garret at Cheddar. 
 " Coleridge is a vile bed- fellow, and I slept but ill. In the morn- 
 ing I rose, and, lo ! we were fastened in. They certainly took 
 us for footpads, and had bolted the door on the outside for fear 
 we should rob the house." — August 1st, 1794. 
 
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 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
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 THE 
 
 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 
 
 EDITED BY HIS SON, THE 
 
 REV. CHARLES CUTHBERT SOUTHEY, M.A. 
 
 CUKATE OF PLUMBLAND, CUMBERLAND. 
 
 IN SIX VOLUMES. 
 
 VOL. VI. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR 
 
 LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
 
 PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
 
 1850. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 OF THE SIXTH VOLUME. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXII. 
 
 Personal Appearance. — Habits of Daily Life. — Excursions. — His 
 House and Library. — Eleemon. — Growth of his Opinions. — The 
 Catholic Question. — Controversy with Mr. Shannon. — Ballads 
 from Romish Legends. — Renewed Health and Powers. — Mr. 
 Wordsworth. — Verbeyst the Brussels Bookseller. — Politics. — 
 His Health. — Visit to Netherhall. — Literary Employments. — 
 The Co-operative Association. — Dr. Philpotts. — Some Results of 
 his Colloquies. — Allan Cunningham's Lives of the Painters. — 
 Article in the Quarterly Review upon Portugal. — Prospects of 
 Society at Home. — Michael T. Sadler. — Ignatius Loyola. — Car- 
 lisle. — Heraud. — Desirableness of Men in later life taking Holy 
 Orders. — The Colloquies. — Church Methodism. — Mrs. Opie. — 
 Mr. Hornby. — Institution for Training Nurses opened. — Causes 
 of its Failure. — Marriage of Miss Coleridge. — Literary Employ- 
 ments. — Mr. Landor. — Mr. Wordsworth. — Recommendation of 
 Berkeley's Minute Philosopher. — Visit to Mrs. Hodson and Col. 
 Howard. — 1829 .... p as e 1 
 
 CHAPTER XXXHI. 
 
 The Co-operative Societies. — Literary Employments. — Death of 
 his Brother Henry's Wife. — Evils of our Commercial System. — 
 Cure for Lumbago. — Galignani's Edition of his Poems. — Miller's 
 Sermons. — Bishop Hacket. — The Reform Bill. — Dr. Gooch's 
 
VI CONTENTS. 
 
 Death. — The Evangelical Clergy Literature of Denmark. — 
 
 Renews the Lease of his House. — Art of Composition. — Hone's 
 Every-day Book, &c. — Politics. — John Jones. — Mr. Sadler. — 
 Literary Employments Pauper Colonies The March of In- 
 tellect. — Denmark. — Life of Bishop Heber. — State of France. 
 
 — Mr. Fletcher. — Ellis the Missionary. — Dr. Bell. — Politics 
 
 1830 ----.. p a g e 8 o 
 
 CHAPTER XXXIV. 
 
 Journey to London. — Engagements there. — National Education. — 
 Goes into Hampshire and to the West of England. — Correspon- 
 dence with Lord Brougham respecting the Encouragement of Li- 
 terature and Science. — Advice as to the Choice of a Profession. — 
 Miss Bowles. — Joanna Baillie. — Politics. — Necessity of National 
 
 Education. — The Observance of the Sabbath The Reform Bill. 
 
 — Prospects of the Country. — Ivan Vejeeghan. — Journey to Chel- 
 tenham on Dr. Bell's Affairs. — Sir Walter Scott. — Mr. Words- 
 worth.— Strange notion of Anastasius Hope's. — Death of Mr. Duppa. 
 — Mr. Kenyon. — Mr. Poole. — General Peachey. — His Prospects 
 
 not so good as formerly. — The Cholera Literary Employments. 
 
 — State of Peeling in the Country. — Journey to Liverpool, Man- 
 chester, &c. — Is invited to stand for a Professorship at Glasgow. — 
 Regrets Mr. May's removal from Bristol. — Riots in that City. — 
 The Cholera. — The Exchequer likely to be Abolished. — Publica- 
 tion of his Political Essays. — 1830—1831 - - 120 
 
 CHAPTER XXXV. 
 
 Fears of a Revolution. — The Cholera Morbus. — Mary Colling. — 
 
 Charles Swain Dr. Bell's Death. — Political Apprehensions. — 
 
 Offer of Professorship at Durham. — Few Men known thoroughly. 
 — Comparison between Public and Private Education. — Opinion 
 of Mr. Swain's Poetry. — Knowledge not the first thing Needful. — 
 History of Portugal. — Review of Bowles's St. John in Patmos. — 
 
 Mary Colling. — Visit to Lowther Lord Mahon.— Prince Polignac. 
 
 — Political Prospects. — Lord Nugent. — Lord Brougham — The 
 
CONTENTS. VH 
 
 Corn- Law Rhymer. — Dangers of the Country. — The Factory Sys- 
 tem. — Lord Ashley. — American Divinity. — The Church of Eng- 
 land. — Alison : s History of Europe. — Death of a favourite Cat. — 
 History of Brazil. — Dr. Bell. — Allan Cunningham's Lives of the 
 Painters. — French Politics. — Ebenezer Elliott. — Prospects of the 
 Country. — The Doctor. — Marriage of his Eldest Daughter. — The 
 Corn Laws. — Habits of Daily Life. — Henry Taylor's Plays. — 
 Zophiel. — Eemonstrance in a Case of Cruelty. — 1832 — 1834. 
 
 Page 172 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVI. 
 
 Personal Recollections. — Mode of Tuition. — His "Wife's Rlness 
 and Removal to York. — Feelings under Affliction. — Evil Effects 
 of Anxiety upon his Health. — Correspondence with Sir Robert 
 Peel concerning the Offer of a Baronetcy. — Journey to Sussex. — 
 Return to Keswick. — Grant of an Additional Pension. — Literary 
 Employments. — The Doctor. — Death of Miss Hutchinson. — 
 Mr. Wyon's Medallions. — Present Feelings and Employments. — 
 Spanish Literature. — Westminster School. — Causes of its Decline. 
 
 — State of his Spirits. — Jackson's Works. — Feelings of Thankful- 
 ness for his New Pension — Novel Mode of Book-binding — Literary 
 Employments. — Recollections of C. Lamb. — Singular Effects of 
 Sound and Light. — State of the Church. — Life of Cowper. — 
 Difficulty of leaving Home. — Is subpoenaed to a Trial at Lancaster. 
 
 — 1834—1836 ----- 239 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVH. 
 
 Journey in the West of England. — The Life of Cowper. — Literary 
 Advice to a Lady. — His Son's Prospects. — New Edition of His 
 Poems. — Prospects of the Country. — Lamb's Letters. — The 
 Doctor. — Failm-e of the Publishers of the Life of Cowper — Thanks 
 to Dr. S. Mackenzie for Reviewing the New Edition of His Poems. 
 — Certainty of a Future State. — Death of his Wife. — 1836 — 
 1837 ------- 306 
 
 3^r 
 
vm CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER XXXVni. 
 
 Melancholy Thoughts— Intended Movements.— Reflections on His 
 
 Wife's Death. —Letter from Mr. Bedford. —The Copyright Bill. 
 
 Review in the Examiner.— His Wife continually brought to Mind. 
 —Weak State of His Health and Spirits.— Miss Edgeworth.— 
 Invitation to C. Swain.— Letter to His Son on commencing a 
 College Life. — State of His Health and Spirits. —Literary Occu- 
 pations.— Froude's Remains.— The Doctor.— Tour in France.— 
 Return Home. — Great Storm. — Savonarola. — Chatterton. _ 
 Marriage with Miss Bowles.— Failure of Mind.— His Death — 
 1837 ~ 1843 Page 348 
 
 Appendix A. List of Publications - - . - 397 
 
 Appendix B. Letter from Prince Polignac to R. Southey - 402 
 
 483 Manuscript Poems. Verses from Eobbrt Southey to 
 Mr. Ablett, 17 June, 1832, and an interesting 4to Letter 
 (signed), dated Keswick, 29 June, 1882, mentions W. S. 
 Landor, both in Southey's autograph — An original 
 Poem, " Composed in the Church -yard of Llanbedr, on a 
 vacant tomb," by W. S. LANDOR — Autograph Letter of 
 Sir Eobert Peel, dated Whitehall, 13 April, 1824— Auto- 
 graph Letter of Mrs. H. L. Piozzi, dated Brynbella, Nov. 
 25, 1805 — Letter of Lady Blessington — Letter of Ser- 
 geant Talfourd to Mr. Ablett, dated 16 April, 1839, 
 speaking .of Leigh Hunt — Original Verses, entitled 
 " Llanbedr 1835," 2 pp. 4to, in the handwriting, and with 
 the signature, of Leigh Hunt — Letter from Charles 
 DlCKENS to Mr. Ablett, from Devonshire Terrace, Re- 
 gent's Park, 19 Jan. 1843 — Charades in the handwriting 
 of Mrs. Piozzi — Poem in the handwriting of Mrs. Hemans 
 — Extracts from Coleridge, Byron, Scott, Southey, Lan- 
 dor, Wordsworth, etc. — Facsimiles of Autographs of 
 Celebrated Persons ; three drawings, numerous engravings, 
 etc. in a vol. half russia 
 

1827, /u^J£^ T T?S^27 4 9 
 
 a copy of\«CoIgan» in time, which I left a commission 
 ior with Verbeyst. 
 
 A casket of laver is the only other arrival I have had 
 Cutnbert is the only one who will partake it with me 
 and we delight in it. 
 
 I take Wadding every night with my whiskey, or my 
 black-currant punch. This mild Irishman in one 
 place calls the heretics porcos in inferno torrendos. I 
 dare say he liked roast pork well, but roast Protestant 
 better. In his picture he looks as if he did. 
 
 I have been reading a « History of Dutch Poetry " 
 by Jeronimo deVries, somewhat in the manner of our 
 Warner, but upon a more contracted scale, but for its 
 scale a useful and good book. If I should continue 
 Wartons History" (which the shock in trad- -x-~ 
 has prevented me from doino-.Y ™v J^utch reading will 
 be of more u BS in this respect than I had anticipated. 
 The poets of that country resemble the English very 
 much more than those of any other nation, in the cha- 
 racter, and feeling, and form of their poetry. That 
 country has not been more fertile in painters than in 
 poets ; but the former are known throughout Europe, 
 because theirs is an owned language, the latter have 
 written to the smallest public in Europe. There is, 
 however, as much in their poets to satisfy and delight 
 one, as there is to disappoint us in the Spanish and 
 Portuguese ; and there is much more of household 
 feeling, of natural affections, quiet enjoyment, love of 
 the country, and sober, sincere religion, than I have 
 found in any other writers. You would infer from this 
 — what the appearance of the country seems to warrant 
 — that there is more domesticity, a more general diffu- 
 sion of good moral feeling and real substantial happiness, 
 in Holland, than in any other country ; very much more 
 in proportion to its extent and population. As for the 
 language, they who can admire German ought not to 
 
 VOL. IV. E 
 
50 LETTERS OF 1S27 - 
 
 vituperate Dutch. Its coarseness is an accident which 
 exists only for the English, who happen to have thrust 
 out of the vocabulary of good manners words which 
 are perfectly presentable in Holland, and to have given 
 a low and ludicrous meaning to others, which retain 
 there their original force and character. It is ugly to 
 the eye, and harsh to the ear, beyond all doubt or 
 denial; but it has great force and energy, and their 
 poets have done a great deal with it. 
 
 I must now take in hand a paper upon the " Emi- 
 gration Report"— in other words, upon colonization. 
 The matter is of great consequence to society, and the 
 paper to my Midsummer accounts. Love to my aunt. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Feb. 24. 1827. 
 
 My dear G., 
 
 I suppose his Right Honour, is not at this time 
 sleeping upon a bed of leeks, which is a more appro- 
 priate metaphor to be used in his case, than the flower 
 garden could supply. This stroke, which has put an end 
 to Lord Liverpool's public life, will bring to a crisis 
 certain intrigues of which I have long heard. For me 
 to speculate upon them with you, who are near enough 
 head quarters to have the first intelligence of whatever 
 arrives, would be very idle. I will only say this, that 
 we have lost a right-minded statesman, who always dis- 
 covered more knowledge and more judgment in his 
 speeches than any other person in either House, and 
 in whom the country had, very justly, great confidence. 
 Nothing was wanting in him but the warmth and 
 steadiness of Mr. Perceval : these, indeed, were great 
 
1827. EOBEKT SOUTHEY. 51 
 
 wants ; but he was an able statesman, and had that 
 weight of private character which is felt, as it ought to 
 be, by the public. 
 
 And how, Mr. Bedford, do you feel yourself under 
 the honours of uncleship? upon which I offer you all 
 due congratulations, hoping that the young Master of 
 the Rolls is doing well. Your godson has this day com- 
 pleted his eighth year. He is getting on well in all 
 things, thank God, and making good use of the Greek 
 grammar in which you had written his dear brother's 
 name. 
 
 I have just declined visiting the Bishop of Limerick 
 this year, but with a promise, if we live and do well, 
 of going to him next year. This year I shall not go 
 from home farther than I can take my family with me, 
 except for a day or two. I am busy upon my third 
 volume, which will presently be in the press, and for 
 which I am! rich in materials of the best kind. 
 
 Did I tell you that the gods have sent us three dozen 
 of Shiraz wine, the pure juice of the Shiraz grape, 
 made in that city, in the wine-press of Captain William 
 Bruce, whom the gods appointed their agent in trans- 
 mitting it to me. I had rather they had given me a 
 hogshead of Claret or of Rhenish, to both which the 
 wine of Hafiz, though much rarer, is very inferior. 
 Nevertheless it is an honest wine ; and if it were always 
 to be had, I could very soon acquire a taste for it. 
 
 I send you the " Devil's Walk," but am almost doubt- 
 ful whether you can decipher the detestable character 
 in which it is scrawled and scratched rather than written. 
 It has been lying on my table some three weeks before 
 I could make up my stomach to send it.* 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 * " This alludes to the enlarged copy, which I was led to do by 
 the confident assertions still put forth that Porson was the author 
 
52 LETTEBS OF 1827. 
 
 To the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, M.P. 
 
 Keswick, Feb. 25. 1827. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 In some of the correspondence from Spain and 
 Portugal, which has passed through my hands, I have 
 met with an anecdote of Maine, agreeing well enough 
 with what we remember of him at Westminster. He 
 stole that good sword Tizona from the Castle of Bejar, 
 leaving another in its place, and afterwards presented a 
 third to Beresford as the real Tizona, which he kept to 
 himself, but which I find afterwards in Sir John Dow- 
 nie's comical hands. It will be as difficult now to as- 
 certain which is the genuine sword, as to settle the 
 question of authenticity among the heads of St. John 
 the Baptist. 
 
 Nothing can be more interesting than the letters of 
 an intelligent officer written during such a war. And 
 this reminds me that I have Wolfe's letters to his father 
 and mother in the house, for the second time. Murray 
 has sent them to me ; but not a word can I get from 
 him concerning them, and I suspect he is playing a 
 Murrayish game, both with the owner of the letters and 
 with me. Time, however, will show this. The letters 
 will disappoint most readers if they are published ; and 
 yet I think you would think they were worth reading. 
 
 Sir G. Beaumont's death deprives me of one who had 
 been for many years more than a mere acquaintance. 
 Indeed, ever since I came into this country, I have kept 
 up an intercourse with him from time to time ; and if 
 my habits had led me much from home, or my occupa- 
 
 of that delectable poem." — Letter to G. C. B., 14th. Jan. 1827. 
 It may be added here that Southey gave the original scrawl writ- 
 ten at Nether Stowey, to Miss Caroline Bowles (afterwards Mrs. 
 Southey) , and she left it to Mrs. Warter, in whose possession it 
 now is. 
 
 
2ETA.T. 56. OF ROBERT SOUTHET. 71 
 
 the society act. I wish it was indispensable for 
 every member to be a religious as well as a moral 
 character. ........ 
 
 " En attendant, let me know more of thy views in 
 relation to Elizabeth Fry and myself. Thy letter 
 was truly gratifying to me, but humbling also, as it 
 led me to look into myself and feel how little worthy 
 I am of such an appeal, and how little able to answer 
 it as it ought to be answered. 
 
 " I left Paris (where I staid four months and a 
 fortnight at the house of a near and dear relation) 
 with a heart full of love and gratitude towards every 
 person there, but also filled with pity, strong dis- 
 approbation, and alarm. Still, when I consider the 
 efforts making by many pious and good persons to 
 spread the knowledge of the truth as it is in Christ 
 Jesus amongst them, I can answer the question, 
 * Can these bones live ! " not only { Thou knowest,' 
 but that I think they will. Farewell ! 
 
 " I, am thy grateful and affectionate friend, 
 
 A. Opie." 
 
 I do not find traces of any further correspondence 
 with Mrs. Opie upon this subject; several other 
 letters, however, passed between my father and Mr. 
 Hornby, chiefly upon the plan of educating a better 
 order of persons as nurses for the poor ; and through 
 the exertions of the latter, a beginning was made, 
 which unfortunately was prevented by untoward 
 circumstances from producing any permanent results. 
 
 It appears that Mr. Hornby, in concert with 
 Adam Hodgson, Esq. of Liverpool, undertook to 
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72 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE Mr at. 56. 
 
 set on foot an institution for this purpose as an 
 experiment, and to maintain it for two years. They 
 hired a house, engaged a matron, received a number 
 of inmates, and had educated and sent out some few 
 as nurses. Other individuals now became anxious 
 to join them in the responsibility and superintendence; 
 and there not being a sufficient unity of purpose 
 among all the managers, the scheme, which was pros- 
 pering admirably, fell to the ground. As soon as it 
 appeared that they were educating a valuable class 
 of persons, it was sought to make them available to 
 the upper classes as monthly nurses ; and this being 
 an entire perversion of the original plan, Mr. Hornby 
 and Mr. Hodgson withdrew at the end of the two 
 years, and the whole scheme quickly fell to the 
 ground. 9 > 
 
 The autumn of the year was marked by a great 
 change in the household at Greta Hall. From the 
 time of my father's first settling at Keswick, where 
 it will be remembered he found Mr. and Mrs. 
 Coleridge residing, she and her only daughter had 
 formed part of the family circle, and now the 
 latter was to change, not her name (for she was 
 about to marry her cousin, the late Henry Nelson 
 Coleridge), but her state and residence ; and Mrs. 
 Coleridge was about to take up her permanent re- 
 sidence with them. This, of course, was like the 
 parting with a sister. 
 
c 
 
 iETAT. 56. OF EOBEET SOUTHEY. 73 
 
 To John May, Esq. 
 
 "Keswick, Sept. 19. 1829. 
 " My dear Friend, 
 tt 
 
 I will tell you Murray's opinion of the Colloquies. 
 The sale, he says, would have been tenfold greater 
 if religion and politics had been excluded from them ! 
 The profits, I dare say, will be very little. 
 
 " My third volume of the War is in the press, and 
 my hand has been only taken from it for a short 
 interval, that I might do the needful work of review- 
 ing, by which alone does it seem practicable for me 
 to keep clear with the world. I have written for the 
 London Review a short, but very interesting account 
 of Lucretia Davidson, an American poetess, killed, 
 like Kirke White, by over-excitement, in her seven- 
 teenth year. It is a most affecting story. There 
 have been three papers of mine in that work ; in 
 the first, second, and fifth numbers ; and, as they 
 promise that there shall be no farther delay in pay- 
 ment, I should not like to withdraw from it. . . . 
 
 " I might be paid at the same rate for Sharpe's 
 London Magazine ; but, when that Avas converted 
 into a magazine, it passed from the hands of Allan 
 Cunningham into those of Theodore Hook and Dr. 
 M'Ginn, with neither of whom did I wish to associate 
 myself. 
 
 " But I am looking forward with much satisfaction 
 
74 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE uEtat. 56. 
 
 to next year, as setting me free from the Peninsular 
 War, and thereby leaving me at liberty to commence 
 printing the History of Portugal. I shall be able to 
 live by reviewing, and yet win time enough from 
 that employment to compose this history from the 
 materials which have been so long in preparation, 
 and to carry it through the press. And I shall get 
 by it something better than money : the profits, in- 
 deed, cannot be so small as to disappoint me, or to 
 make me in the slightest degree indisposed to the 
 task. 
 
 " The best news I can send you of myself must 
 be something like an echo of your own letter, — that 
 I go on working steadily, with little to hope, but 
 cheerfully, and in full belief that the situation in 
 which I am placed is that which is best for me. Had 
 I kept the path wherein I was placed, I might have 
 been a bishop at this day, — probably should have 
 been ; and therefore I bless God even for having 
 gone astray, since my aberrations have ended in lead- 
 ing me to a happier, a safer, and (all things considered) 
 a more useful station. 
 
 " If there be a later history of Bristol than Bar- 
 rett's, it must be a better one ; there is no earlier. 
 I do not know the spot which you call the Fairies' 
 Parlour by that name ; but I could show you some 
 haunts of mine upon those Downs, and in that neigh- 
 bourhood, which I know not whether I should have 
 most pain or pleasure in revisiting. Henry Coleridge 
 and his bride are now lodging in Keswick : her 
 mother departs next week, and then we part, after 
 six-and-twenty years' residence under the same roof. 
 
^TAT. 56. OP ROBERT SOUTHEY. 75 
 
 All change is mournful, and, if I thought of myself 
 only, I should wish to be in a world where there will 
 be none. 
 
 " I want to finish the biographical letter in my 
 desk ; but you would pity me if you knew what I 
 have in head, and in hand, and at heart, and saw the 
 continual interruptions which cut up my time in 
 large slices, or fritter it away. Withal I have the 
 blessing of being sound in body once more, and can 
 ascend the mountains with something like the strength, 
 and all the spirits of youth. I had more to say of 
 projects, and of approaching evils and dangers ; of 
 which we are likely to see the beginning, but not 
 the end. I was born during the American Revolu- 
 tion, the French Revolution broke out just as I grew 
 up, and my latter days will, in all likelihood, be 
 disturbed by a third revolution, more terrible than 
 either. God bless you, my dear friend ! 
 
 Yours most affectionately, 
 
 R. S." 
 
 To 
 
 "Oct. 1829. 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I have not seen Landor's second edition, though 
 
 Colburn was desired to send it me. Your judgment 
 
 of the book is quite in conformity with mine, if (as 
 
 I suppose) you except a few dialogues from the 
 
 general censure, one or two being (to my feeling) 
 
76 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE ^Itat. 56. 
 
 nearly perfect. What you have heard me say of his 
 temper is the best and only explanation of his faults. 
 Never did man represent himself in his writings so 
 much less generous, less just, less compassionate, less 
 noble in all respects than he really is. I certainly 
 never knew any one of brighter genius, or of kinder 
 heart. 
 
 " I am pleased, also, to find you expressing an 
 opinion respecting Milton and Wordsworth which I 
 have never hesitated to deliver as my own when I 
 was not likely to do harm. A greater poet than 
 Wordsworth there never has been, nor ever will be. 
 I could point out some of his pieces which seem to 
 me good for nothing, and not a few faulty passages, 
 but I know of no poet in any language who has 
 written so much that is good. 
 
 " Now, , I want you, and pray you to read 
 
 Berkeley's Minute Philosopher * ; I want you to 
 
 * To the same friend he writes at another time : — " It is because 
 your range of reading has lain little in that course that you suppose 
 religious subjects have rarely been treated in a philosophical spirit. I 
 believe you have cast an eye of wonder upon the three folios of 
 Thomas Jackson's works, and that it would be hopeless to ask you to 
 look into them for the philosophy and the strength of faith, and the 
 warmth of sincere religious belief with which they abound. I do not 
 recommend you to Dr. Clark as a philosophical writer, because I have 
 never yet had an opportunity of reading him myself; but I believe 
 you would find head-work to your heart's content there. But I again 
 recommend you to Berkeley's Minute Philosopher and to Philip Skel- 
 ton's works. 
 
 " But he did not arrive at his belief by philosophical reasoning ; 
 this was not the foundation, but the buttress. Belief should be first 
 inculcated as an early prejudice, — that is, as a duty ; then confirmed 
 by historical evidence and philosophical views. Whether the seed 
 thus sown and thus cultivated shall bring forth in due season its 
 proper fruit, depends upon God's mercy. Butler, I believe, was a 
 very pious man, though the bent of his mind was towards philosophical 
 inquiry ; but you may find among our divines, men of every imagin- 
 

 ^TAT. 59. OP EOBERT SOUTHEY. 215 
 
 a lively interest" be excited by their lives, when 
 written as you have written them. 
 
 " Give your history of the rustic poetry of Scot- 
 land the form of biography, and no bookseller will 
 shake his head at it, unless he is a booby. People 
 who care nothing about such a history would yet be 
 willing to read the lives of such poets, and you may 
 very well introduce all that you wish to bring forward 
 under cover of the more attractive title. The bio - 
 graphy of men who deserve to be remembered always 
 retains its interest. 
 
 " Are you right as to Lawrence's birthplace ? The 
 White Hart, which his father kept at Bristol, is in 
 the parish of Christ Church, not St. Philip's, which 
 is a distant part of the city. 
 
 " Sir George Beaumont's marriage was in 1774, 
 the year of my birth; he spent that summer here, 
 and Faringdon was with him part of the time, taking 
 up their quarters in the little inn by Lowdore. 
 Hearne, also, was with him here, either that year or 
 soon afterwards, and made for him a sketch of the 
 whole circle of this vale, from a field called Crow 
 Park. Sir George intended to build a circular ban- 
 queting room, and have this painted round the walls. 
 If the execution had not always been procrastinated, 
 here would have been the first panorama. I have 
 seen the sketch, now preserved on a roll more than 
 twenty feet in length. 
 
 " Sir George's death was not from any decay. 
 His mother lived some years beyond ninety, and his 
 health had greatly improved during the latter years 
 of his life. He was never better than when last in 
 
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216 LIFE AND CORKESPONDENCE Mtxt. 59. 
 
 this country, a very few months before his death. 
 The seizure was sudden : after breakfast, as he was 
 at work upon a picture, he fainted ; erysipelas pre- 
 sently showed itself upon the head, and soon proved 
 fatal. 
 
 " I know that he painted with much more ardour 
 in his old age than at other times of his life, and I 
 believe that his last pictures were his best. In one 
 point I thought him too much of an artist : none of 
 his pictures represented the scene from which he took 
 them ; he took the features, and disposed them in 
 the way which pleased him best. "Whenever you 
 enter these doors of mine, you shall see a little piece 
 of his (the only one I have), which perfectly illus- 
 trates this: the subject is this very house, and 
 scarcely any one object in the picture resembles the 
 reality. His wish was, to give the character, — the 
 spirit of the scene. But whoever may look upon this 
 picture hereafter, with any thought of me, will wish 
 it had been a faithful portrait of the place. 
 
 " He was one of the happiest men I ever knew, for 
 he enjoyed all the advantages of his station, and 
 entered into none of the follies to which men ai'e so 
 easily tempted by wealth and the want of occupation. 
 His disposition kept him equally from all unworthy 
 and all vexatious pursuits ; he had as little liking for 
 country sports as for public business of any kind, 
 but had a thorough love for art and nature. And if 
 one real affliction or one anxiety ever crossed his 
 path in any part of his life, I never heard of it. I 
 verily believe that no man ever enjoyed the world 
 more ; and few were more humbly, more wisely, more 
 
^tat. 59. OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. 217 
 
 religiously prepared for entering upon another state 
 of existence. 
 
 " He became acquainted with Coleridge here, be- 
 fore I came into this country ; this led to his friend- 
 ship with Wordsworth, and to his acquaintance with 
 me (for more than acquaintance it can hardly be I 
 called). He has lodged more than once in this house, 
 when it was in an unfinished state : this very room 
 he occupied before the walls were plastered. 
 
 " Next to painting and natural scenery, he de- 
 lighted in theatricals more than in anything else. 
 Few men read so well, and I have heard those who 
 knew him intimately say, that he would have made 
 an excellent actor. 
 
 " Thank you for your good word in the Athenasum. 
 I had not heard of it before : little of the good or 
 evil which is said of me reaches this place ; and as I 
 believe the balance is generally largely on the wrong 
 side (enmity being always more on the alert than 
 friendship), my state is the more gracious. The new 
 edition of Byron's works is, I think, one of the very 
 worst symptoms of these bad times. 
 
 " I am glad to hear of your sons' welfare ; they 
 will all find your good name useful to them through 
 life. 
 
 " Since this letter was begun, the influenza laid 
 hold on me and all my children ; all except Cuthbert 
 had it very severely. I was completely prostrated 
 by it for a full week, and it has left me emaciated 
 and weak, nor, indeed, is my chest yet completely 
 rid of it. However, I begin to walk about, and have 
 resumed my usual habits. 
 
218 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE .Etat. 60. 
 
 " God bless you, my dear Allan ! My daughter 
 joins in kind remembrances to Mrs. Cunningham. 
 Believe me always, 
 
 Yours affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Lord Mdhon. 
 
 " Keswick, Oct. 22. 1833. 
 
 " My dear Lord Mahon, 
 
 " Long ago I ought to have thanked you for 
 your paper, which had been so unbecomingly in- 
 terpolated in the Quarterly Review. And now, 
 having just completed that portion of our naval his- 
 tory which has never been brought together, I was 
 about to have done this with my first leisure, when 
 you give me a second occasion for thanks, both on 
 my own part and on Cuthbert's, whose eyes were lit 
 up upon finding himself thus unexpectedly remem- 
 bered. 
 
 " The French play is French indeed ; and in its 
 own way far exceeds Calderon's Cisma de Ingla- 
 terra. I shall place it among my curiosities. The 
 Loi sur l'lnstruction Prim aire I am glad to possess, 
 because the subject must, ere long, take up much of 
 my thoughts, when preparing for the press the Life 
 and Correspondence of Dr. Bell. This task will lead 
 me to inquire into the history of scholastic education, 
 its present state, primary schools, Sunday schools, — 
 the good and the evil, — the too much and the too 
 little. There are no other means by which the cha- 
 
1834. «} ROBERT SOUTHEY. 379 
 
 duced by forge tfulness of what I had read, but that I 
 come with more information to the subject, and am 
 therefore, the better prepared to digest and assimilate 
 what is to be found there. Something like this is felt 
 upon visiting a foreign country the second time. 
 
 There has been a considerable change of opinion in 
 this part of the country, but not enough to have affected 
 the elections if a dissolution had taken place. The 
 ground that was recovered at the last would have been 
 kept, and perhaps might not have been disputed. But 
 there would have been no chance in other places. Sir 
 James Graham would probably have been ousted by any 
 Radical who should have come forward to oppose him. 
 Yet there is a very perceptible change. Twice the 
 number of signatures to an address thanking the King 
 for his most gracious Speech, have been procured to 
 what could be mustered a few weeks ago to a petition 
 against the Dissenters, though both are precisely to the 
 same purport. It is right to stir in these things, and 
 keep up a spirit of resistance to the destructive system 
 which is at work. But it is God's special mercy alone 
 that can preserve us. 
 
 Next month I shall probably set out on a long cir- 
 cuit, which will take me into Norfolk on the way to 
 London, from thence to Somerset, Devon, Hampshire, 
 Sussex, and to London again on the way back. Should 
 you be at Llangedwin about the latter end of Novem- 
 ber, or the beginning of the following month, I will so 
 lay my plans as to see you there. At our age, and in 
 these times, we cannot well afford to put off any prac- 
 ticable meeting till a more convenient season. On 
 Tuesday next my sixtieth year will be completed. 
 Poor Coleridge has just died at sixty-two, of old age. 
 Time has dealt gently with me ; indeed the whole 
 course of my life has been singularly favoured by Pro- 
 vidence, and in such a way too as to keep me constantly 
 
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380 LETTERS OF 1834. 
 
 sensible of my constant dependence upon it. What 
 may befall during the last stage of my journey God only 
 knows ; but I enter upon it with good heart. 
 
 God bless you, my dear Wynn. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Mrs. Hughes. 
 
 Keswick, Aug. 14. 1834. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Hughes, 
 
 Like all my other friends, you have reason to 
 complain of my silence ; and yet never-ending occupa- 
 tions and ever-occurring interruptions afford, I am 
 sorry to say, always an all-sufficient excuse. When 
 your letter arrived (on Monday last) I was doggedly 
 employed upon a memoir of Dr. Watts, prefatory to 
 one of the volumes of the " Sacred Classics." With the 
 selection of his " Horse Lyricae " for that work I had 
 nothing to do, but I was very willing to draw up an 
 account of him, chiefly for this reason, that the spot 
 where he resided during the last six and thirty years of 
 his life is associated with some of the deepest recollec- 
 tions of my school-boy days. My Easter holidays from 
 Westminster were always past at Theobald's with some 
 excellent old ladies, whom it will be a joy for me to 
 meet in another world. Their garden adjoined that 
 which had been Lady Abney's half a century before ; 
 and the summer-house in which Watts was said to 
 have composed many of his works, looked over a large 
 fish-pond in their grounds to Theobald's park. My 
 hostesses were good churchwomen, but they were of 
 Huguenot extraction ; Watts's works were among their 
 books, and though I did not read them (for I preferred 
 Sydney's "Arcadia," which was there also), yet I par- 
 took, in some degree, of the feelings which made them 
 look upon that summer-house as a place which, having 
 been hallowed by his presence, was consecrated in their 
 eyes. 
 
1834. EOBERT SOUTHEY. 381 f 
 
 Periodical publication is very convenient for the 
 bookseller, but not so for an author who lives 300 
 miles from the press, and is not, and cannot, be always 
 absolute master of his own time. I was thrown some- 
 what behind-hand with this book by unavoidable cir- 
 cumstances ; and your letter, therefore, was left unan- 
 swered till I could sit down with a safe conscience to 
 reply to it. This morning the conclusion of the " Me- 
 moirs " was despatched, and you have here the first- 
 fruits of the evening leisure. ,4r*-> 
 
 My house is full at present. We have the two Miss "^J A 
 ^2T^ mar \fi kprfi, my cousin Georgiana Hill, who is' Jj/J * 
 'several years younger than my youngest daughter, and _^£*yu~ 
 her brother Herbert, a fellow of New College who is 
 tutor to Arnold's sons at Rugby, and who saw you there. 
 To-morrow I accompany this crew on a Borrowdale ex- 
 pedition ; next day I go to Lowther, there to meet 
 Rogers. This will be no cheerful visit. In all human 
 likelihood, it is the last visit that Rogers will ever make 
 to this country ; and there is almost as much likelihood 
 that it may be the last visit I shall ever make to Low- 
 ther, for Lord Lonsdale is now very far advanced in 
 years : his successor has no attachment to the place, 
 and is not likely to reside there more than he can pos- 
 sibly help. Nor shall I have the same motive for visit- 
 ing there, that of showing myself not insensible of 
 many and constant civilities, which can have arisen from 
 no other motive than kindness. I return on Tuesday, 
 on which day Manning (you may perhaps have heard of 
 him in the Chinese Treaties), a very old acquaint- 
 ance of mine, will arrive in Keswick. 
 
 Those whom I knew in early life, are now falling fast - A 
 
 around me. I commenced old man myself on Tuesday 
 last, that day being the completion of my sixtieth year. 
 It is just forty years since I became acquainted with 
 Coleridge; he had long been dead to me, but his de- 
 cease has naturally wakened up old recollections. The 
 
382 LETTERS OF 1834. 
 
 papers are left to the care of a Mr. Green, one of his 
 metaphysical disciples. If everything worth preserva- 
 tion be collected his remains will be found not incon- 
 siderable in quantity. There are seven volumes in 
 prose, besides scattered pieces. I know not what ma- 
 nuscripts he may have left, and do not suppose there 
 will be anything complete, or approaching to completion ; 
 but perhaps many fragments, probably much that has 
 been taken down from his conversation, and certainly a 
 great number of letters. Whoever edits these will have 
 a difficult and delicate task. All who are of his blood 
 were in the highest degree proud of his reputation, but 
 this was their only feeling concerning him. 
 
 His son Hartley, who was here last week, is confi- 
 dently believed in his own circle to be the author of 
 the " Doctor," &c. I do not believe it, because, though 
 he is one of the very few persons who could have writ- 
 ten that extraordinary book, I think he neither could 
 nor would have expressed with so much apparent ear- 
 nestness, opinions which are directly the reverse of his 
 own, for his are in many respects most pestilent ones. 
 He, however, has far greater powers than any one who 
 now bears the same name, and more genius than all of 
 them collectively. 
 
 I have been doing my devoir here in drawing up pe- 
 titions to both Houses against the Dissenters, and an 
 address to the King upon his Speech. In both these, 
 instead of mincing the matter, I minced the Dissenters 
 and their allies, and have the satisfaction to find that 
 strong language upon these points was relished here 
 much better than I had expected it to be. Nothing of 
 this kind ought to be left undone. If we had but an 
 able leader in the House of Commons who knew the 
 strength of his own cause, all would yet be well. As 
 it is we must abide the issue, and make up our minds 
 to revolution as we do to the cholera. 
 
 God bless you, my dear Mrs. Hughes. If my hopes 
 
1836. ROBERT SOUTHEY. , ... 439 
 
 per to themselves; and, suppressing, in their accounts 
 of him, everything that threw light upon his character 
 and explained his conduct, they supplied the 'place of 
 it with empty sectarianism. 
 
 I do not know whether you have seen two volumes 
 about Coleridge, which a Mr. * * * * has published. The 
 only mark of discretion in this gentleman is that he has 
 not affixed his name to one of the most indiscreet 
 works by which any man ever expected to do honour 
 to the memory of a friend. Moxon, the publisher, 
 caused him to expunge much that would have been 
 offensive, he says, to Wordsworth's relations, and has 
 done Coleridge more injury than ever could have been 
 done to him by an enemy. This * * * * was a great 
 friend of Lamb's and of Colberts, whom he also vene- 
 rated. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, March 15. 1836. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 Have you heard of a last year's Oxford pam- 
 phlet, entitled "■ Subscription no Bondage." It is such 
 a one as Hooker or Bacon might have written had they 
 been living now. 
 
 Dr. ****** ' s appointment to succeed Burton is 
 quite as bad as the affair of Magdalen College in 
 James the Second's time, and very much in the same 
 spirit. It is at once an outrage and an insult to the 
 University, and done under a feeling of enmity to the 
 principles of the Established Church. Nevertheless, 
 both Church and State will stand against all attempts 
 to destroy them, either by sap or assault. We shall 
 work our way through all difficulties and dangers, and, 
 as a Scotch Bishop said (Sandford, I believe), " the world 
 
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440 LETTERS OF 1836. 
 
 will continue to be governed as it always has been, by 
 the foolishness of man and the wisdom of God." 
 
 " Cowper's Life " will be finished before the end of 
 the week, and in the course of the summer I shall have 
 both leisure and desire to colloquise. My old friend 
 William Taylor of Norwich is dead, with whom I have 
 passed many pleasant hours in former years. He is 
 one of those persons whom I shall rejoice to meet in a 
 better state of existence; and meet I trust we shall, 
 though we travelled by different roads. 
 
 God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To Mrs. Hughes. 
 
 Keswick, March 20. 1836. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Hughes, 
 
 One of the first things I proposed to myself to 
 do as soon as the " Life of Cowper " should be finished 
 was to inquire what was become of you. Yesterday 
 I sent off the last portion to the press, and this morning 
 your letter relieved me from some uneasiness on the 
 score of your long silence. You would have heard 
 from me several weeks ago if I had not known that 
 Baldwin and Cradock were worried with inquiries which 
 might have made less considerate publishers worry me. 
 
 The pressure, however, of this work is over; for 
 though I have yet a great deal to do in the way of 
 biographical notices, &c, yet, as the greater part will be 
 thrown into a supplementary volume of " Cowperiana," 
 I shall have time to make them ready leisurely, while 
 the body of his works is passing through the press. I 
 begin to suspect, from the puffs which accompany B. 
 and C.'s advertisements, that the gentlemen of the 
 periodical press begin to think it just as much a matter 
 
7 
 
 1836. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 485 
 
 bedrooms, the attempt, which was made in all of them, 
 succeeded but in one, and in that very imperfectly. 
 
 In December, 1795, on my way for the first time to 
 Portugal, my uncle and I passed some days near St. Co- 
 lumbs, at Nanswhyden, the house of his friend and 
 fellow collegian Hoblyn, who to my surprise I now 
 learnt is still living. Nanswhyden was burnt to the 
 ground some thirty years ago ; it was one of the finest 
 houses in this part of Cornwall, and there it was that I 
 first met with that good " creature," black currant rum. 
 Your poor dear mother received a long letter from me 
 with the St. Columbs post-mark. There, too, it was 
 that I met with the curate who sent me afterwards a 
 specimen of his poem intitled " Paradise Found," and 
 communicated his intention of writing another epic, 
 which he had not determined whether to call the 
 *•' Cookead, " or the " Otaheitead." This very man 
 is the Mr. Tremayne who suggested to Pinkerton some 
 further improvements on his improvements of the En- 
 glish Language, as noticed in the notes of the last 
 volume of " Cowper's Letters." 
 
 The Champion of Cornwall despatched us on Tuesday 
 morning in a fly with two horses to Trevice, an old 
 mansion once belonging to the Arundel family, but 
 now the property of Sir T. Acland, and let with 500 
 acres of good land to a most respectable yeoman, Tre- 
 mayne by name. He also had been written to, and was 
 prepared to welcome us with such a breakfast, and such 
 genuine old English hospitality, that it would have 
 done your heart good to have witnessed one and the 
 other. The house is as venerable as its old tenant, one 
 of the finest halls and finest rooms I ever saw, in a state 
 of keeping which just preserves them from decay. Here 
 we might have been provided with board, lodging, and 
 welcome as long as we pleased. After breakfast, how- 
 ever, we bade farewell to our hospitable entertainer, 
 and proceeded to Perranzabuloe. 
 
 II 3 
 
486 letters of 1836. 
 
 o^La — &-*-. 
 
 But of that place, I must not attempt to write at the 
 
 fag-end of a letter. Suffice it for the present to say that 
 we parted with Henry Acland at Bedouth, and reached 
 Helston at six o'clock. The pleasure it has given me to 
 see Derwent what he is, is enough to repay me for coming 
 to the Land's End. You would like his wife, his little 
 boy, and his wife's sister Kate, who is the more to be 
 liked for her likeness to our dear Miss Hutchinson. 
 
 I must now tell you of our further arrangements. 
 Monday we go to the Land's End, Derwent with us, 
 and dine and sleep at W. Le Grice's *, a school and col- 
 lege friend of S. T. C's. ; Tuesday we return here ; and 
 Wednesday Karl and I depart for Truro, where we sleep 
 at an inn, and where, on Thursday, the Falmouth coach 
 is to take us up, and carry us to Liskeard : the Fawells 
 will meet us there, and, as they live only eight miles 
 from Liskeard, we shall be in time for dinner. Fri- 
 day we stay with them ; and Saturday they are to con- 
 vey us within one step of Tavistock. 
 
 The Derwents are going to Plymouth for the holi- 
 da} 7 s. We remain at Tavistock till Friday, the 30th, 
 and then go to them. There we stay Saturday and 
 Sunday. Monday I hope to meet Lightfoot at Kings- 
 bridge, and get with him to poor Mr. Luscombe's ; stay 
 Tuesday there, go to Archdeacon Froude on Wednesday, 
 stay Thursday, and get to Exeter on Friday, with the ex- 
 pectation of getting to Miss Bowles' on Saturday night. 
 
 Farther than this I cannot lay down my course, ex- 
 cept that I have resolved not to go into Norfolk, but to 
 make that a separate journey at a more convenient sea- 
 son, when, for the sake of seeing all Cowper's ground, I 
 may at the same time pay a visit to John Lightfoot ; — 
 this before I write the supplementary volume, about 
 
 * The mention of Mr. Le Grice's name gives me an opportunity 
 of correcting a mistake in Vol. I. p. 381.: "His intimacy with 
 Coleridge was uninterrupted," are his own words, so that Southey 
 was mistaken. 
 
1837. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 527 
 
 pains has been taken long ago ; the rest was only an 
 affair of time. The first volume of my poems is printed, 
 all except the prefatory part, of which I expect the 
 proof every day. This volume has cost me much pains, 
 as you will see by comparing it with the last edition of 
 "Joan of Arc." The second volume also required a 
 great deal of correction, most of which I have given 
 it; and five sheets are printed. "Wat Tyler" takes his 
 place here, that no one may complain of its omission. 
 A short advertisement introduces it. I know not yet 
 whether the " Devil's Walk " will come more conve- / . 
 niently into this volume, or into the third. " Dr. Bell's 
 Life" is in good progress; and I shall soon be engaged 
 again with the "Admirals." 
 
 The fourth volume of the " Doctor, &c." has been sent 
 me like the former, and with " from the Author " in the 
 same disguised hand. I like it quite as well as its pre- 
 decessors, which is saying much. But when is there to 
 be an end of the book ? for, as for the author running 
 himself dry, you see what he says upon that subject; 
 indeed one may perceive that he lays in as fast as he 
 lays out. The termination should seem to depend upon 
 his humour in some degree, but more certainly upon 
 that of the public, who are likely to be tired long before 
 he is. I think it likely that the book will die of a slow 
 decline, though with a galloping consumption it might 
 last as long as the author himself. For, in the com- 
 mon course of things, when a work is published volume 
 by volume, the sale continually diminishes ; more sell of 
 the first than of the second, and the longer the series 
 the greater the falling off upon every succeeding vo- 
 lume. Some persons die, others fail to complete their 
 sets ; and of a work like this it is not to be ex- 
 pected, when it gets beyond a fourth volume, hardly, 
 indeed, beyond a third, that people will be found to 
 purchase a long set at its present price. They who buy 
 fashionable novels in three volumes, price 11. lis. 6d., 
 
528 C7 I LETTERS OF ft ^ ,k 1837. 
 
 which is the ordinary extent and price, must have more 
 money than wit; and I suspect that those who would 
 be willing to purchase at the same rate a book which is 
 not fashionable, but only talked about, are likely to 
 have more wit than money, and therefore cannot be 
 purchasers. My notion is that the author will go on 
 as long as no loss is sustained upon the volume, suppos- 
 ing it may be for his interest to do so, with a view to a 
 wider sale when it is printed in a cheap form (two vo- 
 lumes, perhaps, comprised in one), and to a permanent 
 demand when it has established its place in English 
 literature as a work sui generis. I am amused at hear- 
 ing that it is ascribed to me, but certainly shall not 
 take credit for it, like Porson. 
 
 Henry tells me that if I live till the year 1840, there 
 will be a considerable addition to the sum for which my 
 life is insured ; and the question suggests itself whe- 
 ther it would be advisable to insure my life (in some 
 other office, of course) till that time to the amount of 
 the contingent bonus, so as to convert that contingence 
 to a certainty. Can you tell me what the bonus is 
 likely to be, and what such an insurance would cost, I 
 having entered upon my 64th year on the 12th of this 
 month. Give me your opinion, too, upon this ques- 
 tion. My own is that if the bonus be considerable, 
 it would be prudent in my circumstances to secure it. 
 
 Among my employments I omitted to mention a re- 
 viewal of " Mrs. Bray's Letters" for the " Quarterly 
 Review : " those letters have brought me again into com- 
 munication with it ; I am also about to review the new 
 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's works, one of my fa- 
 vourite authors.* 
 
 I see Mr. Gillman announces " Memoirs of S. T. C," 
 which I dare say will be quite as objectionable as Cot- 
 tle's, but in a very different way. In days of old, when 
 
 * About two pages only were written. The MS. is before me. 
 
 
1837. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 529 
 
 an author was dead and buried Requieseat in pace 
 might have been written on his tombstone ; but those 
 days are past, and he must expect now to be dissected 
 and embalmed, to have his rags presented as relics, and 
 to be canonised by his devotees. The confusion of 
 time and circumstances in Cottle's book shows me how 
 little that appears to be the most authentic materials 
 for biography can be relied on. Greater mistakes of 
 this kind no writer ever committed ; any one who 
 should draw from it, as far as it gives an account either 
 of Coleridge's life, or of mine, would be egregiously 
 misled. This book, and the " Memoirs of Sir Walter 
 Scott," and " Charles Lamb's Letters," bring to me many 
 painful recollections. I could explain some things in all 
 of them, and add more. As for my own biography, it 
 has been suspended, almost as much for want of heart 
 as for want of time. There is a joy in looking forward ; 
 but it is purely painful to look back. God bless you, 
 my dear old friend. My kindest remembrances to your 
 daughter. 
 
 Yours, most affectionately, 
 R. S. 
 
 To the Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, Esq., 31. P. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 3. 1837. 
 
 My dear Wynn, 
 
 A long time has elapsed since you have heard of 
 me, or I of you. Yet you have never been a day 
 out of sight, for your portrait (one of the best that ever 
 was engraved) hangs in full view of my evening seat.* 
 
 * It now hangs in my dining-room ; and to me it has a double 
 value, so much does it resemble my lamented friend, the late Sir 
 Henry W. W. Wynn. I have as much pleasure in paying such 
 tributes as these, as I have in recording obligations for all literary 
 courtesies in foreign lands. Americans have never forgotten that 
 tone in the " Q. R." which Southey laboured to obviate. My de- 
 parted friend, Henry Wheaton, — one of America's most distin- 
 guished sons, — told me this. 
 
 VOL. IY. M M 
 
530 LETTERS OF 1837. 
 
 What have I been doing the while ? The question is 
 more easily asked than answered ; for what with fre- 
 quent distractions, large demands upon little leisure 
 (many of them from persons who have no right to draw 
 upon it), an inclination for doing too many things at 
 once, and when anything ought to be done a propensity, 
 as was said of you know who, to be doing something 
 else *, — owing to these and other causes I seem to have 
 done little, though in truth I am never unemployed. 
 
 The irksome part of my task with the poems is over, 
 — that of tinkering the early pieces. The mere sight 
 of some, God knows, is painful enough, when my pre- 
 sent circumstances contrast so miserably with the recol- 
 lections which they call up. I have completed the 
 revisal of " Thalaba," and begun that of * Madoc." The 
 versification in the former has been improved in many 
 places ; in the latter there is little that I can mend ; 
 and in the remaining long poems I have chiefly to 
 beware of altering for alteration's sake. This, however, 
 is not a besetting sin with me. 
 
 The editor has sent me the first volume of a collec- 
 tion " Des Documents Inedites sur l'Histoire de France," 
 published by the King's order, and under the care of 
 the Minister of Public Instruction. The volume is 
 very curious, containing a contemporary history of the 
 Crusade against the Albigenses in Provencal verse. I 
 have never seen a book better edited in all respects. 
 The metre is remarkable, — stanzas of unequal length 
 
 * The following playful description of his friend can give no 
 one pain, so graphic is it : — 
 
 " Wynn is in Wales ; and wherever he is, he is always, as Elms- 
 ley most happily said of him at Oxford, — doing something else. 
 He is always in that state of bother and confusion which you would 
 expect in a man who, before he was married, used to begin doing 
 half a hundred things before he put his breeches on, and who used 
 to have books, pen, ink and paper, breeches, gallowses, neck cloth, 
 and rolls and butter, all upon the breakfast table at the same 
 time." — MS. Letter to Dr. H. H. Southey, Feb. 3. 1813. 
 
1837. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 533 
 
 To Grosvenor C. Bedford, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 10. 1837. 
 
 My dear Gr., 
 
 Will you take in the North Pole once more 
 for two nights' lodging, on Saturday and Sunday next. 
 He is bound for Oxford, in no comfortable state of 
 uncertainty as to what may be his lot there. The 
 fashion for Ch. Ch., it seems, has occasioned competition 
 even at entering. More names are on the Dean's list 
 than rooms can be found for. The equitable mode of pro- 
 ceeding should be that they should be admitted in the 
 order of their application, provided always that they 
 were not deficient in the ordinary qualifications ; but 
 they make it an affair of competition in this stage, there 
 being already far too much in the present course of 
 education at Oxford. 
 
 This is not all the mischief. The man who is ad- 
 mitted now may have to wait twelve months before he 
 can begin to reside, for want of rooms, and. this is 
 just so much time lost for his degree. My own opinion 
 is that if there is, in the first place, a chance of being 
 sent back at Ch. Ch., and, secondly, a certain loss of 
 time, he had better be entered at some other college, 
 where there will be neither difficulty nor delay. 
 
 Queen's has been thought of, as having fellowships 
 for natives of this county. He and Edward Hill will 
 discuss the pros and cons, and determine as they may 
 think good. My sole motive for fixing on Ch. Ch. at first, 
 was because of Edward's being there ; otherwise so far 
 am I from having any predilection for it, that I should 
 prefer any respectable college ; any except those halls, 
 which are either a refuge for the destitute, or a nursery 
 for Evangelicals. 
 
 If you can take him in, let him know it by a line to 
 Tarring, which will reach him on Friday, and comfort 
 M m 3 
 
534 LETTEKS Or 1837. 
 
 the cockles, that just now are not in a comfortable state. 
 My love to Miss Page. God bless you. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 To John Hickman, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Oct. 23. 1837. 
 
 My dear Rickman, 
 
 Your notes upon Lord Bacon are deposited 
 with other precious materials in a cabinet drawer ap- 
 propriated for them. I am very glad to have my own 
 suspicions converted into certainty by them. Coleridge 
 used to talk of writing a treatise to be called, with better 
 reason than Milton's, " Iconoclastes." Bacon's would 
 not have been one of those reputations which he would 
 have assailed ; and indeed he was more addicted to set 
 up idols than to demolish them. 
 
 I often urged Davy in his best days to write the life 
 of Roger Bacon. It would have been a more lasting 
 memorial of himself than anything he has written. 
 
 You will indeed be worthily employed in saving the 
 Church property from the danger to which the Ecclesi- 
 astical Commissioners have exposed it. The folly of 
 these times is to tamper with what is well, and to leave 
 ill alone. 
 
 One would suppose the Church to be very popular by 
 the appearance of a " Church of England Review " and 
 a "Church of England Magazine;" and to-day the first 
 number of a " Church of England Gazette " has been 
 sent me. The Reviews and Magazines are now, like 
 opposition stage-coaches, ruining each other. In con- 
 sequence of over-competition, first they lower the pay- 
 ment to their writers (" Frazer's Magazine " does this) ; 
 and now, I am informed, in the " Church of England 
 Quarterly " they request them to write gratuitously for 
 some numbers to come, that is, till the concern breaks 
 down. 
 
1837. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 537 
 
 said that he had a large collection of Cowper's papers, 
 and that he was one of his nearest relations. The 
 name I have forgotten, but it was not one which I had 
 ever heard of in connection with Cowper. Of course I 
 have requested that inquiry may be made. 
 
 It would have given me much pleasure to have met 
 you when I was last in town. I am sorry that the cir- 
 cumstance which prevented that pleasure should have 
 been a mournful one. 
 
 Farewell, my dear sir, 
 
 And believe me, 
 With many thanks for all your communications, 
 Yours, very truly, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
 To Mrs. Hughes. 
 
 Keswick, Dec 7. 1837. 
 
 My dear Mrs. Hughes, 
 
 I should sooner have replied to you, if letters 
 had not poured in upon me, — not a few being from 
 persons of whom I had long lost sight ; but in whom 
 the tidings of my poor Edith's death, when they read of 
 it in the newspapers, revived a painful recollection of 
 the days that are gone. Too many of these I have had 
 to answer. 
 
 My affairs with Baldwin and Cradock are in statu quo. 
 The money is in jeopardy ; but I believe they mean 
 well towards me, and it seems likely that eventually I 
 shall be paid. Be that as it may, the matter will never 
 cost me any vexation, inasmuch as I have nothing for 
 which to blame myself in the business. Not that I take 
 any credit for this sort of philosophy, which belongs as 
 much to my disposition as to my way of thinking and 
 of life. "Patience perforce " was what I heard of every 
 day in Portugal, — the most useful of all exhortations, 
 and, moreover, the most easy to put in practice, for it 
 must be practised at last, whether you like it or not. 
 
538 LETTEKS OP 1837. 
 
 How the edition of my poems may answer, remains 
 to be seen. The Longmen wrote me word, about ten 
 days after the first volume had been published, " that 
 they had printed 1500 copies, and had only 350 remain- 
 ing ; " but they added, " that no doubt many were in 
 the hands of the trade ; still," they said, ■" this was yery 
 satisfactory," and they thought it not unlikely that a 
 second edition might be wanted. They have stereotyped 
 the book, which implies more expectation of a good sale 
 than I have ever entertained : 1500 copies would afford 
 very little profit therefore, what with the additional 
 expense thus incurred in the first instance, the en- 
 gravings, the enormous cost of advertisements, and the 
 low price of the volume ; but the great outlay is at 
 first, and upon a second impression the profit would 
 be considerable in proportion. It is a great satisfaction 
 to me, whatever the success may be, that I undertook 
 thus to revise this portion of my works ; it was what I 
 owed to myself and to my children, and if it had not 
 been done now I should never have had heart to under- 
 
 J take it. 
 
 You mention Cottle's " Recollections." Nothing ever 
 
 made me so fully aware how incorrect the most careful 
 
 biography must inevitably be, than what I saw in this 
 
 book, and in the " Life of Sir Walter," and in poor 
 
 Charles Lamb's " Letters." Some years hence any one 
 
 who should undertake to write my life, as I have written 
 
 Cowper's, would think there could be no better autho- 
 
 v rity than what was to be found in these works, — directly, 
 
 V^ ,. indeed, in the one, and incidentally in the other two. 
 
 \\ \j The confusion in Cottle's " Recollections " is greater 
 
 than any one would think possible. He has only his 
 
 l . , memory to trust to, never having made any notes with 
 a view to be-Boswelling his friends. Coleridge's letters 
 to him were not fully dated ; and in consequence he has 
 
 , J\y confounded times, places, and circumstances in a way 
 ^ ^ /, which must utterly mislead the unlucky biographer who 
 
 J X 
 
1838. 
 
 ROBERT SOUTHEY. 539 
 
 goes to his book for materials. Foster the essayist was 
 the person who chiefly incited him to this publication, 
 and who has now reviewed it in the " Eclectic." Foster 
 is a fierce Puritan in politics, who would kiss the axe 
 that beheaded him ; and in religion he is a Calvinist of 
 the deepest die — engrained. 
 
 Cottle himself is one of the kindest hearted of human 
 beings, and, at the same time, unites in his character 
 the extremes of simplicity and vanity. The book shows 
 something of this. I was in time to make him strike 
 out a good deal ; but as to rectifying his mistakes, that 
 was impossible. In the old Queen of Portugal's time, 
 an engineer was sent to inspect the Bugio, a castle at 
 the mouth of the Tagus, and report what was necessary 
 for putting it in an effective state. His report was 
 comprised in three words, — A new fort. 
 
 God bless you, my dear Mrs. Hughes. 
 
 Yours, very truly, 
 
 It. S. 
 
 To John May, Esq. 
 
 Keswick, Jan. 22. 1838. 
 
 My dear old Friend, 
 
 Cuthbert and Kate have just taken their de- 
 parture. I thank God the weather has changed in 
 good time for their journey, the thermometer, which 
 two days ago stood at 16°, being now at 40°. They 
 hope to reach town on Wednesday ; and Kate will 
 remain at her uncle's till the Saturday or Monday fol- 
 lowing, according as she may feel herself sufficiently 
 rested for one day's journey more. Cuthbert must be 
 at Oxford by the Saturday's coach. 
 
 Bertha and I are thus left with Mrs. Lovell, who is 
 never visible at breakfast, and not more than half the 
 week at dinner. As to all purposes of companionable 
 society, we may be considered as left to ourselves. 
 
540 LETTERS OF 1838. 
 
 Cuthbert will return in about ten weeks for the Easter 
 vacation. 
 
 Poor Gilbert*, when he drew out the scheme of my 
 nativity, pronounced of me that I possessed " a gloomy 
 capability of walking through desolation." That capa- 
 bility is now put to the proof; for this house is desolate 
 indeed compared to what it was when you were here 
 some sixteen years ago. 
 
 Kate will be a great comfort to your god-daughter, 
 who has seen neither of her sisters since her marriage, 
 and has often grievously wanted the assistance of one. I 
 hope and pray, also, that the journey may prove beneficial 
 to my poor Kate, who is very much shaken by what she 
 has gone through. Better and more dutifully devoted 
 children no father was ever blest with, nor ever man 
 
 * The following came to me amongst Mrs. Southey's papers, 
 in Southey's handwriting : — 
 
 " By Lord Seymour : 
 
 " Were not the obliquity of the forehead much less arched than 
 intense, the judgment expressed in this countenance might be 
 equal to its imagination ; nor could its invention be so out of pro- 
 portion to the memory which it is known to possess. Far re- 
 moved from a phlegmatic, he approaches to a choleric disposition ; 
 and though he cannot be accused of revenge, he may be at least 
 suspected of temerity. His mind is capable of being filled in an 
 instant with the most extensive subject, which he is more adapted 
 to embrace or improve than to analyse or divide his ideas. The 
 man who can give a definition of a genius can write a character 
 of Southey ; but he who can write the character of Southey may 
 not be able to define a genius. Sunday, March 17. 1793." 
 
 On referring to Gr. C. Bedford's letters, I find 'one dated Ball. 
 Coll. March 16. 1793, in which are the following lines : — 
 
 " The gifts which she gave me I with gratitude take, 
 Nor what Nature has made me shall Oxford unmake ! 
 
 Like the hour-glass before me, the sands of life run, 
 Beginning to end where their course is begun." 
 
 They are inserted merely to show where the above extract was 
 written. 
 

 1839. ROBERT SOUTHEY. 575 
 
 The first of these, are the "Colloquies ;" the "History 
 of Portugal " comes next, and then the " History of the 
 Monastic Orders : " for each and all of these I am well 
 stored with materials, and was never in better mood for 
 setting about what has been for so many years among 
 the main objects which I have had in view. 
 
 You will infer from this that I am in good heart and 
 with a reasonable prospect of getting through all that I 
 have projected in prose or verse. You, who saw most, 
 if not all, my earliest verses, may, I hope, see my latest. 
 There are some in progress, with which I think you will 
 be pleased. 
 
 We have had no disturbances in Hampshire ; and in 
 Cumberland it was only the worst part of the popula- 
 tion who showed any disposition to riot. How heartily 
 did I wish that you had been in condition to have given 
 them full chase. 
 
 God bless you, my dear Wynn. 
 
 Yours, most affectionately, 
 
 Robert Southey. 
 
NOTE. 
 
 In volumes which comprehend so wide afield of litera- 
 ture as these do, there will probably be many mistakes 
 which I have overlooked. Where any such are found, 
 I shall feel very much obliged to any courteous and 
 competent scholar who will communicate with me. On 
 the publication of S out hey' s Common Place Books 
 I made a similar request, — and I do not forget, but wish 
 to record, the courteousness of the Bishop of London, 
 who, amidst the multiplicity of his engagements, found 
 time to notice it. So different is the genius of a great 
 Scholar from that of Men-milliners in literature, 
 
 Quibus ingenium est immansuetumque ferumque. 
 
i~ j&* m 
 
 INDEX.* 
 
 Abbot, Mr. i. 180. 
 
 Abbotsford, iv. 324. 
 
 Abbotsford Subscription, the, iv. 318. 323. 
 
 Abella, Don Manuel, ii. 206. 209. 259, 260. 
 
 His part in the " Partidas," 206. 260. 
 Abel's " Travels," iii. 278. 
 Aberdeen, Earl of, iv. 394. 
 Abergavenny East lndiaman, wreck of the, 
 
 i. 318. 321. 
 Abney Park, iv. 380. 
 Abyssinia, i. 196. The Jesuits in, 233. 
 " Abyssinian Annals," the, ii. 96. 
 Academy, the Portuguese, i. 126. 
 Academy, the Royal Irish, iii. 383. 
 Acland, Sir T., iii. 266 ; iv. 348. 474. 
 " Acta Sanctorum," the, ii. 429; iii. 50. 97. 
 
 356. 
 Adair, Sir Robert, ii. 347 ; iv. 192. 
 Adam, Catholic mythological anecdote of, 
 
 i. 306. 
 Adamson, Mr., ii. 98. His " Life of Ca- 
 
 moens,"iii. 117. 289. 295. 
 Adderley, Dick, ii. 95. 
 Addison, Joseph, his " Cato," ii. 217. 
 " Address," Cumberland, history of the, 
 
 iii. 147, 148. 154. 
 Adelaide, Queen, iv. 267. 
 " Adelphe," Cowper's, iv. 400. 
 " Advocates' Library," the, of Edinburgh, 
 
 i. 342. Office of librarian offered to 
 
 Southey, iii. 92, 93. 
 Affonso Henrique, i. 134. Sword of, 137. 
 " Affonso V., Ordinacoes de," i. 115. 
 Affonso VI., deposition of, i. 135. 
 Affghans, the, iii. 19. 
 " Africa, Discoveries in Central," iii. 538. 
 
 541. 
 Africa, the Portuguese wars in, i. 135. The 
 
 courts and cities of, 238. 
 " African Memoranda," the, of Captain 
 
 Philip Beaver, ii. 117. 123. 
 " Aguirre, History of Lope de," the, iii. 
 
 198. 236. 246. 254. 
 Aikin, Arthur, i. 249, 250. 302. 345.349; 
 
 ii. 17. 40. 
 Aikin, Dr., i. 27. 375. 385; ii. 193. His 
 
 " Biographical Dictionary," 343. 347. 
 
 405 ; ii. 152 ; iv. 57. His " George III.," 
 
 iii. 14. 
 Airey, George, iii. 501. 
 Aitzema's " History of Europe," iii. 292. 
 
 334. 
 Albans, Duchess of St., iv. 67. 
 Albertus Magnus, ii. 57. 
 Albubarrote, battle of, ii. 79. 
 Albums, Southey's proposed society for 
 
 the suppression of, iii. 284. 
 
 Albuquerque, his Indian conquests, u 280. 
 300. His life, by his son, 280. 
 
 Albuquerque, Bras d', (or, Blaise) his life 
 of his father, i. 280. 
 
 Albuquerque, Dukede, ii. 206. His death, 
 216. 
 
 Alchemists and alchemy, i. 94. 
 
 Alcobaca, i. 129. 137. 141, 142. 
 
 " Alderman's Funeral," the, ii. 154. 
 
 Allemanni, Luigi, his poems, ii. 27. 
 
 Alentejo, i. 110. 145. 154. 
 
 Alexander, the ventriloquist, iii. 265. 
 
 Alexander the Great, romance of his visit 
 down into the sea, i. 274. 
 
 Alexander I. of Russia, ii. 204. 289. 351. 
 428, 
 
 Alexander, Sir W., the oculist, iv. 468. 
 
 " Alfieri," Lloyd's edition of, ii. 394. Re- 
 view of his works, iii. 14. 
 
 " Alfred," Cottle's, i. 101. 182. 
 
 Algarve, i. 145. 154. 
 
 Alison, Sir Archibald, his " History," iv. 
 337. 444. 
 
 Allen, Mr., of Edinburgh, his Spanish 
 history, i. 327. 
 
 Allen, John, his exposure of Lingard's 
 " History," iv. 3. 
 
 Allen, Robert, ii. 194. 
 
 Alliance, La Belle, ii. 417. 
 
 Alloway, Mr., of Minehead, i. 78. 
 
 Almanzor, tale of, i. 199. 
 
 " Almeida, Life of," ii. 88. 178. 205. 
 
 Almeida, Tower of, i. 110. 
 
 Alps, tour in the, iii. 72. 
 
 Alston Moor, road across, iii. 401. 
 
 Althorpe, Lord, iv. 338. 
 
 " Amadas, Sir," poem of, i. 340. 
 
 " Amadis," Montalvo's, i. 379." 
 
 " Amadis of Gaul," i. 213. 217. 223, 224. 
 226. 250. 268. 287. 350. 378 ; ii. 34. 
 
 " Amadis of Greece," ii. 4. 15. 
 
 Ambleside, i. 329. 
 
 Ambleside, scenery of, i. 288. 
 
 " America, Davis's Travels in," i. 246. 
 
 America, the French in, i. 7. War with, 
 in 1812, ii. 316. Levelling tendency in, 
 iii. 134. Southey's article on, 417. Re- 
 ligious experiments in, iv. 160. 
 
 " America Portugeza," the, of Rocha 
 Pitta, ii. 10. 
 
 America, South, our policy towards, i. 
 406, 407. Non-affinity of the languages 
 of, to those of North America, ii. 21. 
 Condition of medical science in, 46. 
 Language of, 176. Depravity of, 241. 
 
 American Indians, how treated by the 
 Spaniards, ii. 165. 
 
 * I am obliged to some unknown hand for this Index. 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 P P 
 
578 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 " American Philosophical Society, Trans. 
 
 actions of the," iii. 266. 
 American Spaniards, character of the, ii. 
 
 263. 
 " Americana, Archaaologia," iii. 266. 
 Amerigo Vespucci, "Elogio" on, ii. 56. 
 
 Bandini's "Memoirs" of, 56, 57. 65. 
 
 Authenticity of his "Letters" denied, 
 
 119. 
 Amhurst's poem in the " Specimens," i. 
 
 422. 
 Amiens, Peace of, effect of the, iii, 320. 
 Amphilochius, Bishop of Iconium, his 
 
 "Life of St. Basil," iv. 110. 
 Amsterdam, description of, iii. 496. 
 Amyott, Mr., iii. 442. 
 " Analytical Review," i. 27. 
 "Ava.| ay$e£v. See Coombe. 
 " Anchieta, Life of Father," i. 115. His 
 
 poems and miracles, 115. His "Gram- 
 mar," ii. 88. 271. His observations on 
 
 the natural history of Brazil, 343. 
 Andalusia, the plague in, i. 123. 
 Anderson's poems, i. 420. 
 Anecdotes of — 
 
 A monk with visual sight strengthened 
 by spiritual grace, iii. 542. 
 
 Antonio, St., iii. 356. 
 
 Brazil, Prince of, i. 25. 
 
 Catholic mythology, i. 306. 
 
 Coleridge at Eton, i. 246. 
 
 Davy, Sir Humphrey, i. 85. 
 
 Deleau, Madame, iv. 286. 
 
 Derwent Coleridge and the seventeen 
 shillings and sixpence, iii. 457. 
 
 Hayley's " Autobiography," iv. 450. 
 
 Irish boy and a cow, i. 60. 
 
 Irish friars of Lisbon, i. 106. 
 
 Louis XV., i. 212. 
 
 Lawless, Jack, iv. 157. 
 
 Lowther family, iv. 77. 
 
 Lysons, iv. 75. 
 
 Nichols's " Anecdotes," iii. 134. 
 
 Plymouth people, i. 111. 
 
 Poleas of the Malabar Coast, i. 300. 
 
 Schoolboy in Portugal, i. 139. 
 
 Senhouse family, iv. 76. 
 
 Seward's " Anecdotes," iii. 289. 
 
 Southey's aunt, i. 100. 
 
 Wynn, Charles, his Theme, ii. 322. 
 Andrews, Gerard, iv. 517. 
 Aneurin, i. 167. 
 Anglesea, isle of, i. 171. 
 " Anglo-Saxons, History of the," Sharon 
 
 Turner's, i. 326. 338. 
 " Annual Register," the, iii. 246. 
 " Annual Review," the, i. 233. 245. 248. 
 
 250. 252. 287. 295. 298. 3(12. 316. 331. 336. 
 
 3J3. 345. 363. 383 ; ii. 17. 26. 43. 51. 81. 
 
 96. 113. Its death, 155. 186. 
 Annuals, the, Southey's dealings with, iv. 
 
 123. 
 Anquetil du Perron's Zendavesta, i. 78. 
 
 " Anthology, Annual," i. 83. 97. 104. 183. 
 201. 316. 
 
 Anthony, St., procession of, in Lisbon, i. 
 106. 114. 
 
 " Antidius, the True Ballad of St.," 
 quoted, i. 207. 
 
 Ami- Jacobin letters, the, of Lloyd, i. 72. 
 
 " Anti-Jacobins," the, i. 418 ; ii. 121. 
 
 Antonio Francisco Caetano Christofero, 
 Prince of Beira, i. 25, 26. 
 
 " Antonio," Godwin's, ii. 226. 
 
 Antonio de Santarem, Frey, Roman Ca- 
 tholic legend of, i. 307. 
 
 Antonio, St., anecdote of, iii. 356. 
 Apollo and Marsyas, i. 22. 
 Apparitions, i. 64. 
 Applethwaite, iii. 15. 
 Appleton, Mr., iv. 522. 
 Arabian school of medicine, i. 298. 
 Arabic language, the, in Spain and Portu- 
 gal, i. 225. 
 Araboutan, or Brazil-tree, ii. 308. 
 " Arcadia," the, of Sir Philip Sidnev, i. 
 
 224. 287. 315. 
 Arcadia, character of, i. 224. 
 " Archa=ologia Americana," iii. 266. 
 Ardoney, Diego de Toledo Zara, ii. 344. 
 Ariosto, Southey's opinion of, i. 268. 
 " Arminian Magazine," the, iii. 64. 
 Armour, reason of its disuse, ii. 39 — 41. 
 
 The armour in the Tower of London, 
 
 40. 42. Chain-mail, 41. 
 Army Bill, Mr. Windham's, i. 383. 
 Arrabida, i. 115. 
 Arrabida mountains, i. 110. 
 Arragon, kingdom of, i. 233. 
 Arrowsmith, the map engraver, ii. 55. 120. 
 
 133. 
 " Arthur, Prince," ii. 34. 39. 
 Asgill's examination of the Scriptures, iv. 
 
 370. 
 Ashley, Lord (now Earl of Shaftesbury), 
 
 iv. 328. 353. 375. 
 Ash's " Dictionary," iii. 53. 
 " Asiatic Researches," the, i. 301. 
 Aspul, George, the musical prodigy, iii. 
 
 501. 
 Association, the Constitutional, iii. 227. 
 Associations, political, dangers of, iii. 227. 
 Astorga, the Marquess de, iii. 375. 
 " Afhemenm," the, i. 385. 393. 416. 423 ; ii. 
 
 9. 43. 67. 81. 193. Its death, 186 ; iv. 
 
 363. 449. 
 Atlantis, tales of, ii. 21 . 
 " Atlas" newspaper, iv. 449. 
 Attila, the Latin poem relating to, ii. 41. 
 Attwood, Matthias, iv. 308. 
 " Aubrey," i. 286. 
 Aubrey's " Miscellanies," i. 64. 
 Audrey, Mr. iii. 347. 
 Augustines, the, in Portugal, i. 25. 
 Auracan language, the, ii. 22. 
 Austria, policy of, in 1809 ; ii.149. 154. 
 Autographs, Southey's lines on, iii. 527. 
 Autos-da-fe, in Lisbon, i. 107. 
 Ava, leprosy, the, iii. 89. 
 Avalanche at Skiddaw, iii. 15. 
 Aveiro conspiracy, the, i. 112. 
 Avery, Mr., iv. 481, 482. 
 Awdry, Mr., i. 338. 
 Aymures, the, of Paraguay, ii. 88. 
 Azote, oxyde of, i. 95. 
 Aztecans, their origin, i. 95. 
 
 B , i. 27. 59, 60. 203. 
 
 B 's Lucubrations, i. 29. 
 
 B's, the, i. 185. 
 
 Baber, Mr., iii.5341. 
 
 Bacon, Lord, i. 338. Basil Montague's 
 
 edition of the "Works," iv. 34. 
 Bacon, Roger, i. 274. 
 Badajoz, i. 177. Siege of, ii. 273. 
 Bagdad, i. 78. 
 Baillie, Mrs-, her " View of Lisbon," iii. 
 
 462. 470. 
 Baillie, Joanna, i. 295 ; ii. 115 ; iii. 353. 
 Baily, the Newbury Renegado, ii. 40. 
 Baldwin, Robert, Esq., iv. 461. Letters 
 
 to (see Letters.) 
 Baldajus, i. 301. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 579 
 
 Baldwin and Cradock, Messrs., iv. 516. 
 
 535, 536. 
 Balfour, Mr., h's version of Yriante's 
 
 " Dancing Bear," ii. 26. 
 " Ballads, Lyrical," of Wordsworth, i. 216. 
 Ballantine, the bookseller, ii. 139, 140. 
 
 His " Edinburgh Annual Register," 150. 
 
 162. 165. 169. 211. 237 ; iii. 104 ; iv. 270. 
 Bampton Lectures, iv. 114. 
 Bandini's " Memoirs of Amerigo Ves- 
 pucci," ii. 56, 57. 65. 
 Bangor, i. 170. 
 
 " Bank of Faith," the, of William Hunt- 
 ingdon, S. S., i. 355. 
 Baptist Missions in Hindostan, i. 234. 
 Barbauld, Mrs., i. 304. Her " Essay," 
 
 314. 
 Barbosa, the Rainhas of, i. 160. 
 Barcelona, seige of, iii. 326. 
 Barco, D. Martin, his " Life of Vieyra," 
 
 ii. 209, 210. 
 Bards, execution of the, i. 253. 
 Bardsey, island of, 1. 167. 243. 247. 
 Barge-travelling in Belgium, ii. 427. 
 Barker, Miss (afterwards Mrs. Slade), i. 
 
 107, 108. 113. 118. 120. 172. 184. Letters 
 
 to, (see Letters), 194. 195. 232.251.256. 
 
 272.332—335. 353. 356. 386; ii. 1. 175. 
 
 219. 265. 
 Barlow, Captain Sir R., i. 36 ; ii. 68. 
 Barlowe, Joel, his poem of " Columbus," 
 
 ii. 153. 
 Barnardez, Diego, the poet, i. 115. His 
 
 brother, i. 115. 
 Barnes, Mr., i. 132. 
 Bams, Mr., Southey's schoolfellow, iii. 
 
 269. 
 Barros, Joam de, i. 233. 264. 406. His 
 
 historical dishonesties, 280, 299. 
 Bartholomew, massacre of, i. 7. 
 Barre's " Papers," review of, ii. 420. 
 Barrow, Sir John, i. 336; iii. 105 282; iv. 
 
 398. 
 Barton, Bernard, the poet, iii. 210, 211. 
 
 297, 309. 
 Basnage, the work of, ii. 53. 
 " Basque Dictionary," the, of Larramendi, 
 
 ii. 196. 
 Bassenthwaite, Lake, i. 240; ii. 17. 
 Batalha, i. 129. 137. Visit to, 142, 143. 
 " Batavian Anthology," Bowring's, iv.257. 
 Bath, corporation of, i. 14. Scenery at, 
 
 353, 354. 
 Bathurst, Lord, ii. 412. 
 Bayard, " Memoirs of the Chevalier," 
 
 Miss Sara Coleridge's translation of, iii. 
 
 4.12. Southey's review of, 509. 
 Bayeux tapestry, iii. 513. 519.° 
 Bayley, Peter, jun., Esq., his literary pi- 
 racies, i. 245. 254. 
 Bean, his death, iii. 91. 
 Beatson's " Military Memoirs," ii. 404. 
 Beauharnais, Eugene, ii. 400. 
 Beaumont, Sir George, i. 271- 321 ; ii. 50. 
 
 160, 161.170. 181,276; iii. 98. 130. 406. 
 
 His death, iv. 52. 
 Beausobre's " Histoire de Manicheisme," 
 
 i. 339. 359. 368. His "History of the Re- 
 formation," iii. 479. 
 " Beauties of England and Wales," i. 326; 
 
 ii. 186. 
 Beavers in Wales, i. 243. Miss Barker's 
 
 drawing of the Beaver, 272. 
 Beaver, Captain Philip, ii. 117. His 
 
 " African Memoranda," 117. His colony 
 
 at Balama Island, 117, 123. 
 Beckford's " Vathek," i. 303; iv. 378. 
 Eeddoes, Mr., i. 92, 197. 245.397. 403. 431. 
 
 334. His death, ii. 192. The proposed 
 
 biography of, 192, 193. 
 Beddoes, Mrs., i. 191. 
 Bede, the venerable, ii. 271 ; iii 533. 
 Bedford, Grosvenor C Esq., i. l.n. 49.85. 
 
 90. 118. 218.279. 288. 303.403.414.428, 
 
 4x9, 430; ii. 9. 18, 19.355. 405; iii. 30. 
 
 146. 214. 225. 301. 347. 371. 421. 533; iv. 
 
 55. 443. Letters to, (see Letters). 
 Bedford, Henry, Esq., i. 381 ; ii. 19. 212 ; 
 
 iii. 157. 383. 
 Bedford, Duke of, i. 221. 363; ii. 87. 203 ; 
 
 iii. 308 ; iv. 259. 
 Beguinage, the, i. 96. 
 Beira, province of, i. 155. 
 " Bel and the Dragon," article in the 
 
 " Quarterly," ii. 236. 
 Belgians, the, iv. 193, 
 " Belgica Collectanea," Southey's, iii. 11. 
 Bell, Captain, his vision, i. 64. 
 Bell, Dr., i. 418 ; ii. 237. 250. 255. 289. 298. 
 
 377 ; iii. 130. 226. 326; iv. 222. 327. 339. 
 
 344. 355. 
 Bell, John, i. 132. 135; iii. 125. 
 Bellingham, the assassin of Mr. Perceval 
 
 ii. 272, 273. 
 Beloe, Mr., i. 91. 
 Bennet, Grey, iii. 385. 
 Bentinck, Lurd Frederick, iii. 279, 280. 
 
 409. 
 Bentinck, Lord William, iii. 280. 
 Benserade's verses, iv. 71. 
 Benson, Rev. Mr., as a preacher, iii. 449. 
 Bento, St., Convent of, i. 133. 
 Berenguer, Count Raymon, ii. 70. 
 Beresford, Bull, ii.94 ; iii. 27. 
 Bergen op Zoom, taking of, iii. 292. 
 Berkeley Castle, i. 90. 
 Berkeley's " Minute Philosophy," iii. 512. 
 
 543. 
 Berlings, the, i. 109. 
 Bernadotte, ascends the throne of Sweden, 
 
 ii. 204. 
 Bernard, St., i. 209; ii. 163. His grand 
 
 Benedictine scheme, 163. 
 Bernardines, the, of Alcobaija, i. 142. 
 Bernier's " Travels," i. 301. 
 Bernino's " History of Heresies," i. 359. 
 Berri, Due de, death of, iii. 184. 
 Berrington, the historian, iii. 429. 
 Best, Rev. Mr., iv. 69. His book, 73. 
 Betham, Miss, ii. 67. 147, 152, 153. 159. 175. 
 Bettesworth, his death, ii. 68. 
 Bewdley, i. 19. 
 Beza's " History of the Reformation in 
 
 France," iii. 479. 
 Bible Society, the, ii. 256. 292. 
 " Bibliographers, the British," iii. 49. 
 " Bibliotheca Britannica," Southey's pro- 
 jected, i. 219. 229. 
 " Bibliotheca Danica," iii. 334. 
 Biddlecombe, Mr., i. 39. 49. 75. 94. 220. 
 Bierzo, the, ii. 86. 
 Biggs, the printer, i. 39. 
 Bigland's '• Essays," ii. 132. 
 Bilderdijk, Mr., iii. 490.",517 ; iv. 9. 46.92. 
 Bilderdijk, Mrs., iii. 491. 517 ; iv. 9. 46. 
 " Biographical Dictionary," the, of Dr. 
 
 Aikin, i. 343. 347 ; ii. 33. 
 " Biography, French," review of the, ii. 
 
 251. 
 Biscay, Bay of, i. 178. 
 Bishops, bench of, insulted by Earl Stan- 
 hope, ii. 291. 
 Black, Dr., editor of the " Morning Chro- 
 nicle," iv. 103. 
 Blacket, the poet, ii. 172. 174. 
 Blackstone, Frederick, iii. 538. 
 
 P 2 
 
580 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 " Blackwood's Magazine," iii. 467. 514: iv. 
 302. 
 
 Blake, Admiral, ii, 254. 
 
 Blake, Southey's schoolfellow, iii. 275 ; iv. 
 27. 
 
 Blenheim House, i. 16. 
 
 Bligh, the midshipman, story of, i. 55,56. 
 
 " Bloody Gardener," song of the, ii. 332. 
 
 Blomfield, Dr. (now Bishop of London), 
 iii. 478. 498. 501. 
 
 Bloomfield, Robert, his poetry, ii. 174. 
 
 " Blue and Yellow," story of the, iv. 151. 
 
 Blue Devils, the, i. 230. 
 
 Boaden's tragedies, i. 67. 
 
 Boccacio, i. 325. 
 
 "Body of God," description of the pro- 
 cession of the, i. 104. 114. 
 
 Boddingtons, the, ii. 196. 
 
 Boethius, his " Philosophia," iii. 80. 
 
 " Boica, Monumenta," the, iii. 419. 
 
 Boiling Well, simile of the, i. 270. 
 
 Bolingbroke's " Voyage to the Demarara," 
 ii. lao. 
 
 Bolton, Mr., of Windermere, iii. 323. 325. 
 329. 
 
 Bonaparte, Napoleon, i. 180. 205. 227. 244. 
 279. 318. 357 ; ii. 48. 78. 83. 113. 123. 129. 
 149. 165. 169. 179. 184. 203. 216.221. 230. 
 251. 254. 270. 289. 305. 311. 314. 326. 352. 
 400. 403. 405. 412. 415, 416. 418; iii. 310. 
 His death, iii. 263. Preparations made 
 in England to repel his projected in- 
 vasion, i. 221. 253. His abdication, 350. 
 Scott's " Life " of, iv. 40. Hazlitt's 
 " Life " of, 40. 
 
 Bonaparte, Jacopo, his account of the 
 sack of Rome in 1527, iii. 287. 
 
 Bonaparte, Louis (King of Holland), his 
 "Documents" respecting Holland, iii. 
 524. 
 
 Bonaparte, Lucien, his poem, ii. 224. 231. 
 384, 385. 418. His conduct, 418. 
 
 Bony Well, the, ii. 229. 231. 
 
 Booksellers and literature, iii. 247. Revo- 
 lution in bookselling, 523. 526. 
 
 " Borja," the, i. 212. 
 
 Borrodale, i. 171. 
 
 Boscastle, iv. 480. 
 
 Boswell, James, ii. 425. His death, iii. 
 303. Notice of him and his family, 303, 
 304. 
 
 Boswell, Sir Alexander, iii. 303, 304. 
 
 Botelho, the poet, iii. 15. 
 
 Botocudos, the South American tribe, ii. 
 201. 
 
 Boucher, Jonathan, his " View of the 
 Causes and consequences of the Ame- 
 rican Revolution," iv. 91. His "Archaeo- 
 logical and Provincial Dictionary " left 
 unfinished, 91. 
 
 Bourbons, the, ii. 340. 
 
 Bourgoing's statistical account of Spain, 
 ii. 105. 
 
 Bourrit, Mr., i. 192. 
 
 Boutet, or Soutet, the French captain, i. 
 35.37. 
 
 " Bow-Begum," history of, i. 49. 
 
 Bowdler's " Sliakspeare," iii. 13. 
 
 Bowles, Rev. Mr., iii. 216. 222. 
 
 Bowles, Miss Caroline (the second Mrs. 
 Southey), iii. 139; iv. 13. 77. 81. 304. 
 556. Her "Widow's Tale," iii. 385. 
 404. Her " Ellen Fitzarthur," 404. 
 
 Bowness, William, the Keswick man, iii. 
 
 459. 
 Bowring, Sir John, iv. 257. 
 Boys compared with girls, ii. 65. 
 
 Boys, the Abbe du, i. 401. 
 
 Boyse, the poet, ii. 51. 
 
 Bradford, scenery near, i. 354. 
 
 Braganza Revolution, the, i. 135 ; ii. 76. 
 
 Brahminical system, the, i. 301. 
 
 Branksome, i.345. 
 
 Bravery, natural to man, ii. 221. 
 
 Bray, Mrs., iv. 202. 207. 211. 247. 343. 
 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 Bray, Mr., iv. 367. 
 Braybrook House, iii. 146. 
 Brazil, i. 93.;1401. 406; ii. 46. 76, 77. 128. 
 
 200, 201 ; iii. 315. Failure of the Mines 
 
 of, i. 124. Spices of, 125. Removal of 
 
 the Portuguese Court to, 48. Natives 
 
 of, 49.71. Language of, 176. Natural 
 
 history of, 343. 
 "Brazil, Arte da Grammatica da Lingua 
 
 da," of Figuera, ii. 205. 
 Brazil-tree, the, ii. 308. 
 " Brazil, Travels in," Koster's, iii. 16. 48. 
 " Brazilica Corographia," the, iii. 115. 
 " Brazil, Historv ol,"i. 401. 406. 414 ; ii. 10, 
 
 11. 34. 49. 57. 67. 78. 81. 98. 123. 130. 133. 
 
 142. 146, 166. 191. 193. 207. 215. 246. 268. 
 
 307. 320. 326. 347. 381 . 386. 399. 409 ; iii. 
 
 47. 61. 81.92. 110. 120. 125. 130. 132. 135, 
 
 136, 137. 140. 152. 173. 178. 181. 256. 267. 
 
 278. 288. 293. 
 Brewer, Mr., his death, iii. 180. 
 Brewers, the great, iii. 144. 
 Bridgewater, high tides at, i. 92. 
 Brigida, S., her revelations, i. 265. 
 Brissotines, execution of the, ii. 100. 
 Bristol, i. 92. 154. 221. iv. 252. 473. 
 Bristol Church of England Tract Society, 
 
 established, ii. 249. 
 "British Critic," the, i. 91. 887; ii. 67.414. 
 
 Its new form, iii. 512. 
 Brito Freyre, his work, ii. 72. 
 Brittany, iii. 513. 
 " Britton's Cathedrals," review of, iii. 539; 
 
 iv. 129. 
 Brixton, i. 70, 71. Southey's recollections 
 
 of, ii. 355. 
 Broadwav, i. 17, 18. 
 Brooke, Mrs. (Maria Del Occidente), her 
 
 poem, " Zophiel," iv. 214, 215. 361. 
 Brooksbank, his religious opinions, iii. 
 
 122 
 Brothers, Richard, i. 370. 
 " Brothers, The," of Wordsworth, i. 216. 
 Brotherswater, ii. 153. 
 Brougham, James, iii. 148. 151. 299. 
 Brougham, Lord, i. 342; ii. 110. 151. 224; 
 
 iii. 63. 88. 166. 188; iv. 206. 209. 223. 225. 
 Browne, Sir Thomas, his " Religio Me- 
 dici," ii. 32. New edition of his works, 
 
 iii. 426. 443. 446 ; iv. 517. 
 Browne, Wade, Esq., his death, iii. 287. 
 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 Browne, the traveller, iv. 368. 
 Brownes, the, ii. 17. 
 
 Bruce, Robert, Gordon's " Famous His- 
 tory " of, i. 290. Harvey's "Life" of, 
 
 290. 
 Bruce's " Travels," i. 279. His historical 
 
 inaccuracy, 280 ; ii. 149. Review of, ii. 
 
 96. 
 Bruce, Captain William, iv. 37. 51. 
 Biuges, description of, ii. 427. 429. 
 Brunswick, Duke of, i. 12. 
 Brussels, visit to, ii. 428. Visit of the 
 
 Emperor Alexander to, 428, 429. 
 Brutus, dramatised by Lee, ii. 66. Painted 
 
 by David, 67. 
 Brydges, Mr., ii. 51. 
 
 Brydges, Sir Egerton, ii. 136. 394 ; iv. 383. 
 416. 448. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 581 
 
 Buccaneer, origin of the name, iii. 12. 
 Buchanan's " Travels," review of, ii. 48. 
 Buckingham, Duke of ; his poem on 
 
 Felton, his father's assassin, i. 425 ; iii. 
 
 308 ; iv. 45. 
 Buckingham, Duchess of, iv. 45. 
 Buckingham, Marquis of, his patronage of 
 
 O'Connor's work, iii. 61. 64. 
 Buckminster's " Sermons," iii. 441. 
 Buddha, mythology of, borrowed from 
 
 Christianity, i. 339. 
 Buenos Ayres, Mr. Kinder's journal kept 
 
 in, ii. 239. Misgovernment in, 240. 
 
 Character of the inhabitants of, 264. 
 
 Their wild legislation, 360, 361. " His- 
 tory of," iii. 114. 
 Balama Island, Captain Beaver's colony 
 
 at, ii. 117. 123. 
 Bulkeley, Mrs., i. 114. 
 Bull-fights, i. 116. 
 
 Bullion question, the, in 1811, ii. 224. 300. 
 Bunbury, Sir H., iii. 64. 165. 182. 191 ; iv. 
 
 365. 
 Bunbury, Mr., his death, ii. 223. 
 Bunbury, Mr. (son of the last), ii. 223.) 
 Bunjy, or Bungy, or Benjy, or Bengy, 
 
 Miss, i. 194. 255. 
 Buonarotti, M., his " History of the Ba- 
 
 bceuf Conspiracy," iv. 180. 210. 
 Burdett, Sir Francis, ii. 214. 272, 273 ; iv. 
 
 505. 
 Burdettites, the, ii.. 212. 214. 272. 
 Bureta, Countess of, the Zaragozan, ii. 
 
 272. 
 Burke, Colonel, in South America, ii. 201, 
 
 202. 
 Burke, Edmund, i. 203. His logic, ii. 189. 
 
 His works published in 8vo., iii. 269. 
 Burn, Mr., i. 401, 402 ; ii, 11 ; iii. 279. 
 Burnet, Bishop, his " History of his Own 
 
 Times," iii. 393, 394. 
 Burnetski, Count, i. 305. 321 ; ii. 26. His 
 
 " Polish Letters," i. 416. 
 Burnett, George, i. 52. 156. 181. 251. 365: 
 
 ii. 13. 138. 
 Burney, Captain James, i. 219. 228. 401: ii. 
 
 53. 65 
 Burney, Dr., iv. 310. 
 Burney, Martin, i. 321. 
 Burns, Robert, i. 420. His "Works," 
 
 edited by Allan Cunningham, iv. 373. 
 Burrard, Sir Harry, iii. 416 ; iv. 82. 
 Burton, in Hampshire, i. 39. 44. 
 Burton, Robert, his Grub Street works, ii. 
 
 311,312. 
 Bury, town of, iii. 410. 
 Butchell, Martin Van, iv. 378. 
 Butcher, Mr., ii. 383. 
 
 Butler, Dr (afterwards Bishop of Lich- 
 field), iv. 241. 
 Bute, Lord, i. 140. 244. 
 Butler, Mr., iii. 379. His answer to 
 
 Southey's " Book of the Church," 462. 
 
 467. 482. His " Life of Erasmus," 514. 
 
 531. 534. 535. 
 Butler, Alban, his " Lives of the Saints," 
 
 iii. 108. 
 Butler, Lady Eleanor, of Llangollen, ii. 
 
 230. 234. 
 Buttermere, i. 329; ii. 154 ; iii. 262. 
 Buxtorf's " Synagogue," iv. 176. 
 Byron, Lord, ii. 387 ; iii. 34. 137. 142. 
 
 225. 232. 238. 293. 312. 310. 344.346. 450; 
 
 iv. 112. 288. 324. 
 Byzantine historians, the, ii. 39. 41. 158. 
 
 162. 
 
 C , the Spanish luminary, i. 27. 
 
 Cadaval, Duke of, i. 105. 
 
 Cabildos, the, ii. 200. 
 
 " Cabinet Cyclopaedia," the, iv. 122, 154. 
 
 164. 170. 183. 
 Cadell and Davies, the publishers, ii. 26. 
 Cadiz, the plague at, i. 123. Its unhealthi- 
 
 ness, 124. 
 Cadwallon, i. 171. 
 " Cain, a Mystery," Lord Byron's, iii. 
 
 293. 295. 
 Calais, siege of, in 1436, ii. 215. 
 Calas, death of, i. 7. 
 Calcutta, bishopric of, iii. 369. 371. 376, 
 
 377. Accepted by Reginald Heber, 393. 
 Caldas, i. 141. 
 
 Caldcleugh's " Travels," iii. 479. 
 Caldron Snout, ii. 286. 
 Caledonian Ball, iii. 432. 
 Caledonian Canal, the, iii. 378. 384. 
 Calicut, conquest of, i 300. 
 " California Historia de," ii. 216. 
 Cailimachus, epigram of, i. 49. n. Trans- 
 lation of, 50. 
 Calvert, John, ii. 117. 350; iii. 148. 154. 
 
 299 ; iv. 42. 
 Calvert, Mrs., iii. 240. 
 Calvin, John, i. 360. Spread of Calvinism 
 
 in England, 371. 
 Calvin's "Letters" in the " Courier," ii. 
 
 350. 
 " Cambrian Register," the, i. 286. 291. 
 
 294. 
 Cambridge, epidemic fever at, ii. 407. 424. 
 
 Visit to the town of, iii. 410. 
 " Cambro-Biiton," the, iii. 351. 369. 
 Camden Downs, i. 17. 
 Camoens, poetry of, i. 26, 27, 243. Hay- 
 ley's translations of, 26. His fate, 131. 
 
 Adamson's " Life" of, iii. 117. 289. 295. 
 
 D. Jose's Maria's editi on of the " Lu- 
 
 siad,"321. 
 Campbell, Horse, ii. 92, 93. 
 Cannibalism, iii. 11. 
 Canning, Bight Hon. George, i, 116; ii. 
 
 86. 149. 160. 170. 275. 382. 391. 396. 405 ; 
 
 iii. 31. 120. 324. 329. 501 ; iv. 85. 
 Canova, iii, 130. 
 Capel Cerrig, i. 170. 
 Caraccan deputies, ii. 240, 241. 247. 
 " Caramuru," the Brazilian poem of, iii. 
 
 316. 
 Carillons, the, of Ghent, iv. 200. " 
 Carlisle, Nic„ i. 49. 71. 219. 270. 275. 322. 
 
 His Icarization, 90. His tortoise, 351. 
 Carlisle, projected insurrection in, iii. 166. 
 Carlyle's translations from the Arabic, ii. 
 
 89, 90. His " French Revolution," iv. 
 
 509. 
 " Carmen Annuum," Southey's first, ii. 
 
 339. 
 " Carmen Nuptiale," the, iii. 26. 47. 
 Carol, Colonel, ii. 206. 212. 
 Caroline, Queen, iii. 183. Case of, 206. 
 
 218. 220. 
 Carpio, Bernardo del, tale of, i. 199. 208 ; 
 
 ii. 72. 
 Carte's " Life of Ormond," iv, 119. 
 Carter, Mrs., her translation of Epictetus, 
 
 i. 259.400; ii. 1. 
 Cartwright, Major, his saying, iv. 363. 
 Carvajal, D. Louisa de, sketch of her life, 
 
 i. 368. 392. 
 Carysfort, Lord, i. 289. 364. 
 " Carysfort," mortality on board the, i, 
 
 295. 305. 
 Casas, Las, i. 95. 
 Casaubon's " Letters," iii. 438. 
 Castanheda, the historian, i. 233. 264. 
 
 3 
 
582 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Caste, the Hindoo system of, i. 285. 299, 
 
 300. 
 Castelcicali, ii. 223, 224. 
 Castlereagh, Lord, ii. 170. 402 ; iii. 142. 
 Castro, Jao de, i. 128. 
 Catalan writers, ii. 70, 71. 
 " Catalonia, History of the War in," Spa- 
 nish, iii. 357. 
 Catarina, St., in Brazil, ii. 202. 
 Caterpillars, hairy, said to sting the hand, 
 
 ii. 346. 
 Cathcart, Lord, ii. 305. 
 Cathedrals, or Cambridge men, iii. 266. 
 Cathedral history, remarks on, iv. 28. 
 Catholic, Association, the, iii. 468. 
 Catholic Committee, the, ii. 305. 
 Catholic Declaration, the, iii. 32. 
 Catholic emancipation, i. 145. 356. 416. 
 
 426; ii. 276; iii. 31. 160. 312.398.480; 
 
 iv. 130. 158. 
 Catholic legends, iv. 40. 
 Catholicism in Portugal, i. 106. Its de- 
 moralising influence, ii. 241. 
 " Cato," Addison's, ii. 217. 
 Cato's "Letters," i. 367. 
 Cats, Jacob, i. 71.430. 
 Cats, Southey's.iii. 216, 217/240—243. 470 ; 
 
 iv. 88. 496. 
 " Caubul," Elphinstone's, iii. 19. 
 Causey Pike, the mountain so called, i. 
 
 302 ; iii. 403. 
 Cavps, the Yorkshire, ii. 288. 
 " Cecilia," the romance of, i. 66. 
 Ced'im, footstep of the, i. 360. 
 " Celestina," Charlotte Smith's novel of, 
 
 i. 179. 
 " Celtic Researches," Davis's, review of, 
 
 i. 336. 
 Cenis, Mount, iii. 72, 73. 
 " Censura Literaria," the, ii. 186. 
 Cervantes, his petition, iii. 126. 
 Cezimbre, height and castle of, i. 110. 
 Chagas, Padre Antoniodas, iii. 399. 
 Chalcondylas, history of, ii. 39. 
 Challenge, answer to an expected, iv. 
 
 497. 
 Chalmers' " Collection," iii. 528. 
 Chamberlaine, ii. 201. 
 Champion's Fragment of " Ferdusi," ii. 41. 
 
 96. 
 Chandler's " Greece," i. 339. 
 Channing, the Rev. Dr., iii. 321 ; iv. 160. 
 Chantrey, Sir Francis, iii. 130. 303. 312 ; 
 
 iv. 133. 478. 519. 
 Chapelain's " Joan of Arc," i. 34. 
 Charitable trusts, abuses in, i. 53. 
 Charlemagne, poems on, i. 206. 
 Charles Martel, St. Eucherius's vision of 
 
 the punishment of, i. 307. 
 Charles II. of England, article on, iii. 398. 
 
 402. 
 Charles VI., of Spain, i. 21, 22. His 
 
 Queen insulted in Madrid, 22. 
 Charlevoix, ii. 57. His " History of St. 
 
 Domingo," 310. 
 " Charlotte, Princess, Funeral Song on," 
 
 Southey's, iv. 283. 
 Charterhouse school, ii. 289. 
 Chastillas, ii. 149. 
 Chateaubriand, i. 207 ; iv. 551. 
 Chatham, Earl of, ii. 118. 
 Chatsvvorth,i. 17. 
 
 Cliatterton, Southey's opinion of, i. 420. 
 Chatterton subscription, the, i. 97. 145. 187. 
 
 205. 
 " Chaucer, Life of," Godwin's, i. 245. 254. 
 Chesterfield, Lord, his song in the " Speci- 
 mens," i. 419. 425. 
 
 " Chili, History of," by one of the ex- 
 Jesuits, ii. 134. 
 
 Cholera Morbus, the, iv. 225. 227. 230. 242. 
 245. 249. 262. 269. 285. 290, 291. 293. 300. 
 308. 
 
 Christ Church, Southey rejected at, i. 6. 
 203. 
 
 Christchurch, Hampshire, i. 30. 33. 179. 
 379. 
 
 " Christiad," the projected poem of Henry 
 Kirke White, ii. 184. 
 
 Christianity, end of the reign of fabulous, 
 i. 3. 
 
 Christianity, difficulties or facilities of in . 
 troducing, iv. 161. 
 
 " Christian Observer," the. ii. 7. 62. 
 
 Christophe, Madame (formerly Queen of 
 Hayti) iv. 144. 
 
 " Church, Book of the," Southey's, iii. 230. 
 294. 317. 342. 348. 353. 371. 387. 390, 391. 
 414. 438. 462. 464. 469 474 , iv. 26. 
 
 Church Establishment, Southey's appre- 
 hensions for the, ii. 291. 
 
 Church, national, duty of a government re- 
 specting, iii. 429. 
 
 Church, books relating to the history of 
 the, iii. 426. 
 
 Churchey, William, iv. 475. 
 
 Cibdareal, Bachelles F. G. de, his " Centon 
 Epistolaiio," ii. 87. 
 
 Cid. the, i. 199. 208. 347. 349. 357. 364. 373. 
 377. 382. 386. 404; ii. 10, 11. 13. 15. 22. 
 34. 43, 44. 67. 71. 78. 81. 85. 99. 193. 
 
 Cieca, Pedro de, his work, ii. 72. 
 
 Cintra, its beauty, i. 118. 120. 128. Con- 
 vention of, ii. 100. 108. 116. 120. 164; iii. 
 6. 13. 
 
 Cistercians, the, i. 209. 
 
 Ciudad Rodrigo, battle of, ii. 273. 
 
 Clarendon, Earl of, iv. 264. 
 
 Clarendon's " History of the Rebellion," 
 iii. 95. 
 
 " Claridge, Richard, Life of," iii. 214. 
 
 " Clarissa," Miss Barker's hypothesis con- 
 cerning, ii. 297. 
 
 Clarke, Stanier, his " History of Maritime 
 Discovery," i. 238. His " Life of Nel- 
 son," ii, 180. 184, 185. Appointed his- 
 toriographer, 281. 
 
 Clarke, Adam, his reply to Herbert Marsh, 
 ii. 256. His biblical erudition, 363. 
 "Life" of, iv. 356. 
 
 Clarke, Mrs. ii. 129. 
 
 Clarke, Dr. his " Travels," ii. 302. 
 
 Clarke's " Christiad," iv. 413. Notice of 
 the author, 413. 
 
 Clarkson, Thomas, i. 245; ii. 43. 147. 153. 
 255 ; iii. 304. 373. 376 ; iv. 145. 
 
 Clarkson, Mrs., i. 245. 
 
 Claverton, scenery at, i. 354. 
 
 Clavigero's " Mexico," review of, ii. 14. 
 
 Clede, La, i. 135. 233. 
 
 " Clelia," the French Romance, ii. 66. 
 
 Clercq, Mr. Willem de, iii. 415. 
 
 " Clermont, Acts of the Council of," ii. 
 157. 
 
 Climate, influence of, i. 91. 
 
 Clinton, Fynes, iv. 191. 
 
 Clive, Mr., iii. 145.266. 
 
 Cobbett, William, ii. 165. 214. 272 ; iii. 51. 
 68, 69. His " State Trials," 186. 
 
 Cochin saved by woodcutters, i. 300. 
 Loureiro's account of, ii. 395. 
 
 Cochrane, Admiral (afterwards Earl of 
 Dundonald), i. 327; ii. 11. 118. 
 
 " Cock and a Hen," Southey's, iv. 1 16. 
 
 Cod liver oil, iii. 151. 
 
 Codex Argenteus, the, i. 226. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 583 
 
 
 Coimbra, mail-coach to, i. 112. Beauty of 
 
 the situation of the city of, 136. The 
 
 interior of, 136. 
 " Coimbra Journal," the, ii. 382. 
 Colburn, Henry, the bookseller," iv. 450. 
 Colchester, Lord, iii. 376, 377. 
 Coleridge, Edward, i. 83. 
 Coleridge, George, notice of, i. 81, 82. 
 Coleridge, Mrs., senr., i. 83. 
 Coleridge, S. T., i. 67. 78. 81. 103. 108. 118. 
 
 122. 153. 165. 174. 183. 185. 216, 217. 228. 
 
 231, 232. 235. 237. 239. 246. 250. 253, 254, 
 
 257. 270, 271. 279. 297. 299. 310. 321. 338. 
 
 357. 365.377. 3S1. 391. 400. 408. 410.416; 
 
 ii. 16. 35. 48. 114. 119. 128. 182, 183, 184. 
 
 188, 189. 192, 193. 195. 212. 242. 247. 257. 
 
 270. 299. 317. 332. 386. 408 ; iii. 67 ; iv. 
 
 381. 
 Coleridge, Derwent, iii. 286. 457. 
 Coleridge, Henry, iv. 222. 307. His " Life 
 
 of Suing," 222. 
 Coleridge, John, ii. 415 ; iii. 49. 336. 342. 
 
 344, 345. 348. 350. 353. 383. 455. 509. 511 ; 
 
 iv. 67. 106. 
 Coleridge, Mrs., i. 335. 400. 410, 415 ; ii. 
 
 159. 190.378; iii. 1. 108. 
 Coleridge, Hartley (Moses), i. 241. 311. 
 
 355; ii. 30. 38. 279. 386. 407. 424; iii. 
 
 140; iv. 382. 
 Coleridge, Sara, i. 400; iii. 5. 286. 301. 
 
 432. 452. 
 Coleman, Mr., i. 75. 
 Collier, Jeremy, his Church history, iii. 
 
 429. 
 Collier, Jeremy, his " Annals of the Stage," 
 
 iv. 238. 
 Colling, Mary, her poems, iv. 21 1 , 212. 216. 
 
 228 247. 266. 
 Collingwood, Admiral, ii. 313. 
 " Colloquies upon the Prospects of So- 
 ciety," Southey's, iii. 177. 207. 230. 337. 
 
 251.311.437.485; iv. 56. 63. 84. 87.136. 
 
 153. 207. 224. 288. 
 Collyer, Dr., his " Lectures," ii. 131. 133. 
 
 182. 
 Colnaghi, iii. 82. 
 
 Colonial policy, Southey's opinions re- 
 specting, ii. 263. 304. 
 Colonization, necessity of, iii. 174. 
 " Columbanus's Letters," iv.48. 
 " Columbus," Joel Barlowe's poem of, ii. 
 
 153. 
 Combermere, Viscount, iv. 111. 
 Commodore, origin of the word, ii. 70. 
 Common Council, its reply to the King's 
 
 answer to a petition, ii. 117- 
 Comnena, Anna, history of, ii. 40, 41. 157, 
 
 158. 
 Compass, Mariner's, invention of the, ii. 
 
 57. 66. 
 Condor, Josiah, ii. 198. 234. 242. 258. 261. 
 
 293. 338. 409 ; iii. 2. 1 1 2. 217. 275. 
 Conestaggio, his " History," i. 390. 
 " Confessions," the, of Rousseau, i. 54. 
 Confirmations, neglect of, iii. 499. Wag- 
 gon confirmations, 499. n. 
 Congreve, i. 230. 260. 276. 
 " Consolations and Comforts," the, of 
 
 Coleridge, i. 246. 
 Constanuio, Dr., his " Ghost," i. 290. 
 Constable, Mr., thp publisher, ii. 29. 297. 
 Constantine Palseologus, subject of, pro- 
 posed to Southey for an epic poem, i. 295. 
 
 Miss Baillie's tragedy of, 295. 
 " Constantinople, History of," ii. 311. 
 Constitutional Association, the, iii. 227. 
 Consumption, its prevalence in Iceland, ii. 
 L 242. The Spanish belief that it is con- 
 
 tagious, 243. Its frequency in North 
 
 America, 244. 
 " Convocation, History of the," iii. 261. 
 Conway castle, i. 170. 
 Conundrums, i. :29. 1287. .290 ; i;. 420 ; iii. 
 
 295. 507. 
 Coombe (" His Majesty," or "An«g u.v'bgSiii), 
 
 i. 6, 7. 16. 19; ii. 93. 150 ; iii. 249. 268. 
 
 274, 275. 
 Copenhagen, bombardment of, i. 149; ii. 
 
 25. 27. 204. 312. 315. 
 Coppendale, Mr., i. 116. 158. 
 Copyright, observations on, ii. 323 ; iii. 90 ; 
 
 iv. 511. 
 Corbyn, Mr., i. 75. 
 Cordesius's "Joannes Aletophili Opera 
 
 M. Gulielmi de S. Amore," iii. 522. 
 Cordova, i. 78. 
 Cork Convent, i. 115. 
 Cork, Cove of, i. 228. 
 Cornwall, sands of, iv. 487, 488. Mines of, 
 
 489. 
 Cornwall, Barry, iii. 222. 
 Corpo de Dios, procession of the, i. 104. 
 
 114. 
 " Correio Braziliense," the, ii. 246 ; iii. 237. 
 
 Corry, Mr., i. 175. 179. 182. 199. 201. 212; 
 
 iv. 143. 
 Corunna, i. 20. 
 
 Corwen, village of, i. 169. 248. 
 Cossacks, the, ii. 305. 311. 
 Costin, Hippolyte da, ii. 295. 
 Costume, old Engiish, i. 289. 
 Cottle, Joseph, i. 38. 41. 48, 122. 150; iii. 
 
 141. \-"LC) 5*^ S 
 Cottle, Amos^his translation of the " Ed- 
 da," i. 46. His " Alfred," 101 . 397. His 
 
 " Ode of Thrym " quoted, 211. n. His 
 
 " Recollections," iv. 538. 
 Cottle, Patty, death of, i. 118. 
 Cotton, Charles, the angler, his translation 
 
 of Montluc's " Commentaries," iii. 441. 
 
 485, 486. 
 Cotton, Mr., ii. 88. 91. 
 " Courier," the, i. 184. 380. 416 ; ii. 12. 16. 
 
 48.81. 149. 184. 305. 341. 351. 386; iii. 
 
 67. 220. 
 Courtin's poem on Charlemagne, i. 206 ; 
 
 ii. 385. 
 Conto, Diojo de, i. 264. 
 Covent Garden Theatre, i. 51. 
 Cowper, William, ii. 1 12. 324 ; iv. 399, 400. 
 
 His works edited by Southey, 384. etseq. 
 Coxe, Archdeacon, review of his " Life of 
 
 Marlborough," iii. 164. 
 Crabbe, George, his poems, ii. 90. His 
 
 poetry compared with that of Goldsmith, 
 
 91. 
 Cradock, Charles, Esq., iv. 387. Letters 
 
 to (see Letters). 
 Craig, Mr., the Scottish Presbyterian cler- 
 gyman, iv. 191. 
 Craufurd's " Sketches of the Hindoos," i. 
 
 301. 
 Craufurd, General, iii. 92. 129. 
 Credulity and Medicine, i. 84, 85. 
 Criminal law, the, iii. 119. 
 " Critical Review, the," i. 27. 102. 249.310. 
 
 381 ; ii. 23. 
 Critics, dramatic, of London, ii. 218. 
 Croft Castle, ii. 229. 
 Croft, Sir Herbert, his tomb at Douay, iii. 
 
 516. 
 Croft, Sir Herbert, his " Letter," i. 118; 
 
 ii. 112. Proposal to dedicate Chatterton's 
 
 works to him, i. 145. 
 Croker, J. W., ii. 228. 236. 275. 282. 335. 
 
 P 4 
 
584 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 391 ; iii. 4, 5. 462 ; iv. 304. 372. His 
 
 " Boswell's Life of Johnson," iv. 237. 
 Cromwell, Oliver, iii. 291 . " Memoirs of," 
 
 by his descendant, Oliver Cromwell, 177. 
 
 252. Southey's " Life o/," 254. 256. 284. 
 Crosse, Mr., iv. 494. 
 Crossfell, ii. 284. Remarkable accident 
 
 on, 385. 
 Crossthwaite Church, i. 250. 
 Crummock Lake, ii. 338. 
 Crusades, advice to Dr. Southey for col- 
 lecting materials for a history of the, ii. 
 
 156. 161, 162. 178. 244. 
 Cruz, Santa, monastery of, at Coimbra, i. 
 
 136. 
 Cubitt, Rev. B. i. 252 ; iv. 278. 
 " Culdees, History of the," iv. 270. 
 " Cumberland Packet," the, iii. 150. 
 Cumberland, Duke of, i. 221 ; iv. 193. 
 Cunha, D. Luizda, ii. 49. 
 Cunha, Munho da, i. 390. 
 Cunliffe, Lady, i. 248. 282. 
 Cunningham, Allan, i. 420; iii. 302. 484 ; 
 
 iv. 103. 113. 116. 362. 373. 386. 
 Curtis, Sir Roger, ii. 68. 
 Curtis, Sir William, his conundrum, ii. 
 
 420. 
 Curwen, Mr., ii. 108. 117. His bill, 147. 
 
 265. 
 Cyr, St., i. 158. 
 
 Cyr, St., Marshal Gouvion, iii. 289. 370. 
 " Cymmrodorion Transactions," the, iii. 
 
 349. 351. 368. 
 " Cyclopaedia," Rees's, i. 423 ; ii. 186. 
 
 D , her perversion to Roman Catholi- 
 cism, ii. 313. 317. 
 Daiia, Bauba, iv. 303. 
 Dalecarlians, the, li. 204. 
 Dalhas, Mr., i. 302. 
 Dallas, Sir George, iii. 202, 203. 
 Dalrymple's " Oriental Repertory," i. 
 
 300. His library, ii. 53. 
 Dalrymple, Sir Hew, his convention, ii. 
 
 100.108. 116. 120. 164; iii. 13. 
 Dalrymple, Colonel, iv. 33. 
 Damien, the maniac, i. 7. 
 Danby, Mr., of Swinton Park, iv. 152. 155. 
 
 His " Ideas and Realities," 155. 
 Danes, the, conversion of, to Christianity, 
 
 i. 226. Healthiness of the, ii. 242, 243. 
 D'Anois, Countess, her account of Spain, 
 
 ii. 105. 
 Danvers, Charles, Esq., i. 103. 118. 153. 
 
 219. 235, 236. 309. 316. 332. 337. 353. 355. 
 
 Letters to, ii., 36, 37. 84. 147. 152, 153. 
 
 271. 279. 282. His death, 383. 421. (see 
 
 Letters). 
 Danvers, John, i. 186. 
 Danvers, Mrs., i. 193. 201. 
 Dapper, the dog, i. 284. 
 D'Arblay, Madame, iv. 315. Her " Diary," 
 
 315. 323. 
 D'Arblay, Mr. (son of Madame D'Ar- 
 blay), iv. 315. 
 Dartmouth, scenery of, i. 84. 
 Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, ii. 192. 
 " Darwin, Life of," Seward's, i. 336. 
 Dashwood, Mr., ii. 113. 
 Dauncey, the Counsel, iii. 101. 177. 
 David, the painter, i. 67. 
 Davidson, Lucretia.the American poetess, 
 
 iv. 228. 
 
 Davies' " Celtic Researches," review of, 
 
 i. 336. His other work, iii. 50. His 
 
 " Mythology of the Druids," 200. 
 Davies, Adam, his poem, i. 274. 
 " Davis, Richard, Life of," iii. 214. 
 Davis, Mr., of Croft Castle, ii. 229. 
 Davison, "Rev. J., his articles in the 
 
 " Quarterly," ii. 419. 
 Davison, Admiral, ii. 417; iii. 27. 
 Davis's " Travels in America," i. 246 ; ii. 
 
 349. 
 Davy, Mr. (afterwards Sir Humphrey), 
 
 i. 85. 95. 100. 108. 122. 153. 161. 185. 192. 
 
 197 ; ii. 35. 192. 245. 
 Davy, Captain, ii, 199. 201. 
 Dawe, Mr., the painter, ii. 293. 
 " Days of Queen Mary," the, i. 62. 65, 66. 
 
 145. Proposed plot of, 62, 63. 
 " Decameron," the, iii. 533. 
 " Decline and Fall," profits realised by 
 
 the author of the, i. 96. 
 Dee, the river, i. 168, 169. 248. The aque- 
 duct over the, ii. 232.* 
 Deering, Sir Edward, his speeches, iii. 
 
 291. 
 Deleau, Madame, anecdote of, iv. 286. 
 Delphi, Knowledge of the Priests of, i. 
 
 93. 
 " Deluge, The," considered as a subject 
 
 for an Epic poem, ii. 184. 
 Dempster, George, iv. 340. 
 Denon, Baron, his " Voyage dans la Basse 
 
 et Haute Egypt, pendant les campagnes 
 
 du General Bonaparte," i. 208. 
 Derby, Countess of, her letter to Henry 
 
 Kirke White, ii. 7. 
 Dermody, the poet, ii. 49. Review of the 
 
 " Life of," 51. 
 Derricke's " Image of Ireland," quoted, 
 
 iii. 159. 
 Derwentwater, the bottom winds and lakes 
 
 of the, 16. By moonlight, 96. 
 Derwentwater Estates, stewardship of the, 
 
 ii. 160. Sale of the, iv. 269. 314. 
 " desenter, a," letter from, to Southey, iv. 
 
 186. 
 Despagne's " Shibboleth," &c, iv. 453. 
 Despard, and his conspiracy, i. 213. 
 " Devil's Walk," the, lv. 51. 
 Devizes, incident in the market-place of, 
 
 i. 367. 
 Devon, South, scenery of, i. 84. 
 " Dialogues," Landor's, iii. 388. 
 Dibdin, Dr., his " Bibliographical Tour," 
 
 iii. 261. 
 Dickenson, Mr., member for Somerset- 
 shire, ii. 148. 150. 
 Dickins, Southey's schoolfellow, iii. 269. 
 Dickson, Mrs., i. 393. 
 Dictionary, the, of the Portuguese Aca- 
 demy, i. 126. 
 Digby's " Broad Stone of Honour," iv. 
 
 70. 74. 
 Digby, Sir Kenelm, iii. 428. 
 Dimond, John, his " Moral and Political 
 
 Philosophy," iv. 156. 210. 
 Dinevawr, i. 243. 
 Dinez, King of Portugal, his collection of 
 
 poems at Thomar, i. 129. History of his 
 
 reign, 159. 
 Dio, great siege of, i. 322. 
 Dirom, General, iv. 339, 340. 
 Diseases, contagious, theory of, i. 317. 
 
 * In Vol. m. p. 205., Dee is left by mistake for D., that is, Duddon. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 585 
 
 ■T 
 
 D'Israeli, the elder, ii. 53; iv. 264, 369, 393. 
 
 His " New Curiosities of Literature," 
 
 iii. 352. His " Literary Characters," iv. 
 
 112. His children. 177. His " Com- 
 mentaries on the Life of Charles I.," 
 
 264. 
 Diu, exploits of Joao de Castro at, i. 128. 
 Dobrizhoffer, Martin, ii. 133; iii. 75. 171. 
 
 Miss Sara Coleridge's translation of, 
 
 286. 289. 301. 
 " Doctor," the West Indian wind, so 
 
 called, i. 113. 
 " Doctor," Southey's, iii. 58 ; iv. 368. 373. 
 
 441. 527. 
 Dollond, the mathematical instrument 
 
 maker, iii. 131. 
 Domestic happiness, i. 45, 86. 
 " Domingo, History of," Charlevoix's, ii. 
 
 310. 
 Domingos, D., ii. 295. £ 
 Doncaster, iv. 199. 201. 
 " Donica," i. 54. 
 " Don Juan," Lord Byron's, iii. 142. 225. 
 
 238. 275. 336. 
 Dorey, Mr., Mrs. Bray's account of, iv. 
 
 343. 
 Douce, Mr. iii. 50. 
 Dousa, Janus, the Dutchman, iv. 4. 
 " Dove, Dr. Daniel," Southey's chapters 
 
 in, ii. 352. His proposed work, iii. 3. 
 
 56 ; iv. 442, 443. 
 Downton, ii, 230. Southey elected member 
 
 for, iv. 6. 
 Doyle, Dr., the Roman Catholic, iii. 488. 
 
 538. 
 D'Oyley, Southey's schoolfellow, iii. 269. 
 Drake, Sir Francis, traditions of, iv. 259. 
 
 260. 342. 
 Dramatic writing, i. 87. 
 Draper, Sir W., iii. 333. 
 Dreadnought ship, the, ii. 17. 74. 79. 
 Drogo de Couto, ii. 412. 
 Druidism, existence of, in Scotland and 
 
 Wales as late as the 12th century, iii. 
 
 20n. Davis's "Mythology of the Druids," 
 
 200. 
 Duarte, the historian, i. 160. 
 Duckworth, Admiral Sir John, his victory 
 
 off St. Domingo, i. 380. 
 Duelling, ii. 212. 
 Duncan, Mr., originator of Savings banks, 
 
 iii. 323. 
 Dundonald, Earl of. See Cochrane, Ad- 
 miral. 
 Dunmail Raise, snow on, ii. 29. n. 
 B <i U."\ Duponceau, M., of New York, iii 271. 
 L- j> T-i~ Duppa, Richard, i. 89 219.270.296.378; ii. 
 
 20, 21. 333. His " Heads," i. 336 ; ii. 20. 
 
 66, 67. His Memoirs of his own life, 333. 
 
 His death, iv. 231. 
 Duppa, Bishop, ii. 20. 
 Dupuis, i. 369. 
 Durham, Bishop of, ii. 136. University of, 
 
 iv. 287. 
 Dusautoy, Mr., his death, ii. 407. His 
 
 poems, 423 ; iii. 16. 
 Dutch Grammar, i. 71. 
 Dutch, how treated by the Spaniards, ii. 
 
 165. 
 Dutens, M., historiographer to George III. 
 
 ii. 167. His death, 275. 
 Dwight, Dr., his " Travels in New Eng- 
 land and New York," iii. 341. 405. 
 
 427. 
 Dyce's " Shakspeare," iv.547. 
 Dyer, George, i. 33. 72. 335. 386. 428 ; ii. 
 
 07. 175. His "Life of Robert Robinson," 
 
 33. His " Poems : " i. 201. His " Privi- 
 leges of Cambridge," iii. 441. 
 Dyson, Mrs., i. 114. 
 
 E , his suicide, iii. 171. 177. His pa- 
 pers, 171. 177. 
 Earthquakes, Dr. Holland's theory of, ii. 
 
 405. 
 East Indian affairs, Portuguese, i. 115, 
 
 116. 
 East Indies, missions to the, i. 207. 
 "Ecclesiastical Researches," Robinson's, 
 
 i. 33. 
 " Ecclesiastical Sketches," the, of Words- 
 worth, iii. 311. 
 " Eclectic Review," the, ii. 409. 414 ; iii. 
 
 217. 275. 
 " Eclogues," the, i. 70. 
 "Eclogues, Portuguese," i. 364. 
 " Edda," the, translated by Amos Cottle, 
 
 i. 46. 50. Ssmund's "Edda," iii. 334. 
 
 319. 401 . 
 Eden Hall, the seat of the Musgraves, ii. 
 
 284. 
 Edgeworth, Mr., i. 191. 
 Edinburgh, description of, i. 341, 342. So- 
 ciety of, 342. 
 " Edinburgh Annual Register," ii. 158. 
 
 162. 165. 169. 186, 187. 20:3. 206. 211. 214. 
 
 222. 249, 250. 280, 281. 287. 300, 30i. 319. 
 
 321 ; iii. 104. 121. Its death, 324. 
 " Edinburgh Review," i. 214. 251. 297. 346. 
 
 381. 401. 418 ; ii. 14. 29. 32. 33. 35. 38. 
 
 107. 114. 124. 132. 144. 165. 207. 221. 226. 
 
 228. 233. 236. 241. 258. 268. 293 ; iii. 116. 
 
 275. 
 Edinburgh reviewers, i. 298. 
 Edmund Ironsides, subject of, proposed 
 
 for a poem, i. 295. 
 "Education, New System of," the article 
 
 in the "Quarterly," ii. 248. 254, 255. 
 
 Importance of national education, 304. 
 ' Egypt, History of the Expedition to," 
 
 Miot's, ii 394 396. 402. 
 Egyptology, i. 208. 
 " 'Eikon Basilike," authorship of the, it. 
 
 20. 
 "■'ElxuvHanfaxr,? Who wrote," Dr. Words-^ 
 
 worth's, iii. 450, 451. 
 " Eleemon," written, iv. 103. 105. Ill . 
 Elgin, Lord, iii. 21. 
 " Elia," Charles Lamb's, iii. 374. 
 Elliot, Ebenezer, iii. 412 ; iv. 364. 
 Ellis, Agar, his book, iv. 71. 91. 
 Ellis, George, his " Specimens of Early 
 
 English Poets," remarks on, i. 166. 
 
 262. 269. Review of, 281 - His contri- 
 butions to the " Quarterly Review," 145. 
 
 149. Review of, 164. 
 Ellis's " Tour in Owhyhee," iv. 142, 160. 
 Elmsley, the Rev. Peter, i. 248. 340. 343. 
 
 371 ; iii. 222. 320. 351. 371. 430. 433. 
 
 499. 
 Elphinstone, Mountstuart ; his " Caubul, 
 
 iii. 19. 
 Elton, Mr., iv. 58. 
 Elvas, i. 158; ii. 129. 
 " Elwood, Thomas, Life of," iii. 214. 
 " Emanuel, Chronicle of King," i. 233. 
 Emigration, plans for, iii. 373, 374. 376. 
 
 Southey's paper on, iv. 105. 
 Emmet, Robert, i. 236, 237. 
 Emulation, the principle of, in modern 
 
 education, iii. 387. 
 " England, Moral and Literary History 
 
 of," Southey's proposed work, iii. 200. 
 England, preparations in, for repelling the 
 
 French, i. 221. 
 
586 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 English, the, in Spain, i. 22. In Portugal, 
 107. 1 19. The various races in England, 
 278. Expulsion of, from Lisbon, ii. 35. 
 
 - 37. 
 
 " English, in Italy," the, iii, 512. 
 
 Ennerdale, i. 329. 
 
 Enoch, Book of, ii. 96. 
 
 Enstone, i. 16. 
 
 Entre Douro e Minho, province of, i, 155. 
 
 Epictetus, Mrs. Carter's translation, i. 259. 
 400; ii. 1. 
 
 Epitaphs, i. 49; ii. 218. 
 
 Equestrian, story of a little, i. 29. 
 
 Erasmus's " Epistles," iii. 509. 514. But- 
 ler's " Life of Erasmus," 514. 
 
 '.' Espriella, Letters of Don Manuel Alva- 
 rez," i 282. 314. 316. 318. 322. 325, 326. 
 328. 331 . 340. 343. 347—349. 352. 376, 377, 
 378. 382. 386. 388, 389. 402, 404. 409, 410. 
 415 ; ii. 9. 13. 28. 30. 32. 34. 38, 39. 42. 
 44. 66. 81. 332; iv. 231. 
 
 " Espriella, Second Letters of," iii. 84. 
 
 " Essays," Gardiner's review of, i. 336. 
 
 " Essays," Southey's, iv. 62. 253. 255. 268. 
 275. 288. 
 
 Estlin, John, and his sister, i. 376 ; ii. 
 270. 
 
 Estrella, snowv summit of the, i. 136. 
 
 Ethiopia, the Jesuits in, ii. 412. 
 
 Etna, Mount, i. 1G6. 
 
 Eucherius, St., Bishop of Orleans, his 
 vision, i. 307. 
 
 Eugenius Philalethes, alias Thomas 
 Vaughan, i. 94. 
 
 " Europe, Memoirs of, from the Peace of 
 Utrecht," Lord John Russell's, iii. 462. 
 
 " European Magazine," the, ii. 353. 
 
 " Evangelical Magazine," the, ii. 112. 186. 
 234; iv. 187. 428. 
 
 " Evangelium Sempiternnm," the, i. 265 
 
 Evans, Greeton, the Welsh herdsman, ii. 
 373, 387. 
 
 Evelyn, John, review of his " Memoirs," 
 iii. 93. His " Journal," 99. 
 
 Everett, A. H., his Review, iii. 209. 
 
 Evesham, abbey of, i. 18. 
 
 Evesham, vale of, i. 17. 
 
 Evesham, town of, i. 18. 
 
 Ewlia Effendi, his account of the Ottoman 
 Empire, ii. 382, 383. 
 
 " Examiner," the, ii. 342 ; iii. 34. 
 
 Exeter, iv. 281. 
 
 Exmoor, villages round, i. 80. 
 
 " Extracts, the Book of," iii. 214. 
 
 F., funeral of, at Bath, i. 14. 
 
 Factory system, the, iv. 328. 504. 
 
 " Faerie Queen," the, of Spenser, i. 216 ; 
 
 iii. 169. 
 Falkland, Lord, iii. 283. 
 "Family Library," Murray's, iv. 164. 170. 
 Fanshaw, Lady, her " Memoirs," iii. 285. 
 
 290. 
 Faria, Manoel, the historian, i. 133. 160. 
 
 233. 
 Faro, city of, its poverty in 1801, i. 148. 
 Fat Man, the, i. 387. 
 Fauntleroy, execution of, iii. 472. 
 Fayette, La, i. 47. 
 Fell, Mr., author of the " Tour through 
 
 the Batavian Republic, i. 184. 
 Felton, the assassin, the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham's poem on, i. 425. 
 Fenwick, Miss, iv. 98. 
 Ferdinand VII., of Spain, ii. 360. 374 ; iii. 
 
 14. 339. 
 " Ferdusi," Champion's Fragment of, ii. 
 
 41. 96. 
 
 Fern, Miss, ii. 138. 
 
 Fernando, King of Portugal, history of his 
 
 reign, i. 159. 
 Ferreras, the Spanish historian, ii. 72. 
 Ferrol, the expedition to, i. 123. 
 Ferrol harbour, i. 86. 
 Feyjoo's " Theatro-Critico," i. 326; ii. 31. 
 Fielding, Copley, iii. 144. n. 
 Fielding, Mr., iii. 107. 
 Fiennes, Celia, her MS. " Account of her 
 
 several journeys into several parts of 
 
 England during the Reign of Queen 
 
 Anne," ii. 84. 
 Figueira, P. Luig, his " Arte da Gram- 
 
 matica da Lingua da Brazil," ii. 205. 
 Fischer's supplemental account of Spain, 
 
 ii. 105. 
 Fisher, Aggy, ii. 24. 
 Fisher, John, ii. 24. 
 " Fizeramo's Account," i. 83. 
 " Flagellant," the, i. 281 ; ii. 342 ; iii. 177. 
 
 233. 
 Flavel, i. 106. 
 
 Flaxman, the sculptor, ii. 229. 
 Fletcher's " Demetrius and Euanthe," ir. 
 
 547. 
 Fleury, Cardinal, i. 212. 
 Floating Island, the, of Derwentwater, iii. 
 
 431. 
 " Florisel," Shakspeare's, origin of, ii. 4. 
 Floyd, Colonel, iv. 340. 
 Fogs in Portugal, i. 119. 
 " Folksagn," the, iv. 189. 
 Fontaine, James, iii. 107. 
 Foreign Office, its method of shifting off 
 
 responsibility, iii. 300. 
 " Foreign Quarterly Review," iv. 57, 72. 
 
 84. 105. 119. 120. 
 " Foreign Review," the, iv. 84. 
 " Forger's Fortress," the, of Miss Barker, 
 
 ii, 265. 
 Forster, the Revd. Charles, his " Maho- 
 
 metanism Unveiled" referred to, i. 274. 
 
 n. 
 Foster, the Essayist, iii. 275. 
 Fountain of Tears, the, at Coimbra, L 137. 
 Fox, The Right Hon. Charles James, i. 
 
 122. 156,185.356. His house at St. Ann's 
 
 Hill, 381. His death, 393. His " His- 
 tory," ii. 104 ; iii. 481. 483. His law of 
 
 libel, 101. 147. 
 Fox, George, the founder of Quakerism, 
 
 ii. 31. Southey's proposed "Life" of, 
 
 iii. 199. 263. His "Journal," 199. 213. 
 Fox, Mr. William, junior, his poem " La 
 
 Bagatelle," ii. 47. 
 Fox, Margaret, her "Journal," iii. 214. 
 Foy, General, iii. 276. 
 France, its slavery in 1801, i. 180. End of 
 
 the reign of fabulous Christianity in, 
 
 370. War with, in 1815, ii. 403. Revo- 
 lution of 1830, iv. 278. 
 " France Antarctique," of Thevet, ii. 13. 
 
 71 ; iii. 524. 
 Francis II., Emperor of Austria, gives up 
 
 Hofer, ii. 347. 
 Franciscans, in Portugal, i. 25. Their 
 
 attempts to substitute St. Francisco for 
 
 Christ, 265. 
 Francisco, St., i. 208. 265. 
 Franklands, descent of the, ii. 406. 
 Fraser, Mr., of London, iv. 58. 73. 
 Fraser, Sir Alexander, iii. 354. 
 Free-thinking Christians, iii. 403. 
 Freeiing, Sir F., iv. 103. 
 Freemasonry in America, iv. 357. 
 Fremantle, Sir W., iii. 280. 
 French, Benjamin Franklin, iv. 348. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 587 
 
 
 French character, i. 7. Prisons, 35, 36. 
 Romances, 66. Letters, 95. Projected 
 invasion of England, 2'21. The, at Lis- 
 bon, ii. 78. Behaviour of the armv in 
 Spain, 352. Conduct of the, at St. Do- 
 mingo, iii. 313 
 
 Frere, J. Hookham, i. 141. 373; ii. 15. 70. 
 81. 86. 137. 149. 150, 151. 164. 210. 395; 
 iii. 6. 286. 294 ; iv. 467. 
 
 Frere, Bartholomew, iii. 294. 298. 326. 333. 
 337. 
 
 Frescobald Society, the, of Florence, i. 
 325. 
 
 Freshford, scenery at. i. 354. 
 
 " Friend, the," of Coleridge, ii. 119, 120. 
 182, 183. 187, 188, 189. 195. 
 
 Froissavt, i. 64. 
 
 Froude, Revd. Mr. i. 340. 
 
 Fry, Mrs., visits Southey, iii. 213. 
 
 " Fuero Juzgo," masterly edition of the, 
 iii. 126. 
 
 Fuller's " Sermons," quoted, ii. 39, 40. 
 His " Church History, iii. 429. His 
 " Abel Redivivus," iv. 190. 
 
 Fumbler's Feast, the, iii. 90. 
 
 Funes, Dean, his " History of Buenos 
 Ayres, Tucuman, and Paraguay," iii. 
 112.114,115.254. 
 
 "Furtar, Arte de," authorship of the, ii. 
 209.211. 
 
 Galignani's edition of Southey's poems, 
 iv. 170. 
 
 " Gall, History of the Monastery of St.," 
 iii. 503. 
 
 Galvam, Antonio, the historian, ii. 72. 
 
 " Garci Fernandez," i. 382. 
 
 Gardiner's " Essays," review of, i. 336. 
 
 Garman, "De Miraculis Mortuorum," iv. 
 313. 
 
 Garnett, Rev. Mr., iii. 541. 
 
 Garrick, portrait of, in the barber's at 
 Doncaster, iv. 199. 
 
 G/iuden, Dr., iii. 487. 
 
 Gauntlett's " Life of Cowper," iv. 401. 
 
 " Gebir," Walter Savage Landor's, ii. 217. 
 225, 226. 
 
 Geddes, Dr., his translation of the Bible, 
 i. 291. 
 
 Genappes, ii. 430. 
 
 " Genealogical History," the Portuguese, 
 i. 134. 
 
 Genet, the Abbe, iii. 503. 
 
 " Gentleman's Magazine," i. 208 ; ii. 112 ; 
 iv. 427. 
 
 " Geoffrev of Monmouth," ii. 27. 
 
 George HI. of England, i. 26. 237; ii. 117. 
 His death, iii. 178—180. 
 
 George IV. of England, when Prince Re- 
 gent, ii. 275. 335. His accession, iii. 
 178. 183. Reads the " "Vision of Judg 
 ment " twice, 240. 245. Dedication of 
 the " History of the Peninsular War" 
 to, 318. 328. 370. 372. 
 
 Germany, end of the reign of fabulous 
 Christianity in, i. 370. 
 
 Gerona, ii. 165. 
 
 Gerundio, Fr., ii. 73. 
 
 Gervase of Tilbury, his " Otia Imperi- 
 alia," i. 291. 308. 
 
 " Gesta Dei per Francos," the, ii. 157. 
 
 Ghent, visit to, ii. 428, 429. 
 
 " Ghost," the, of Dr. Constancio, i. 290. 
 
 Gibbon, Edward, his " Decline and Fall," 
 i. 96; ii. 158. 162. His account of Je- 
 rusalem. 157.' . 
 
 Gifford, William Esq., proposes that 
 
 Southey should write the present his- 
 tory of Spanish events, ii. 86. Appointed 
 
 editor of the " Quarterly," 107. 144, 145. 
 
 194. 275. 393. 395; iii. 4, 5. 25.31. 33. 51. 
 
 56. 62 87.J 116 119. 137. 162. 167. 216. 
 
 283. 335, 336. 342. 345. 348. 350. 353. 383, 
 
 384. 406; iv. 259. 
 Gildon's poems, i. 420. 425. 
 Gill, Frey, story of, i. 308. 
 Gillies of Edinburgh, iv. 58. 
 Gilpin's stone, near Keswick, i. 324, 325. 
 Giraldus Cambrensis, i. 167. 243. 
 Girls compared with boys, ii. 65. 
 Gladstone, the Right Hon. W., iv. 323. 
 Glastonbury, i. 75. 
 Gloucester, Duke of, iii. 202. 
 Glover, the carpenter, iv. 292. 
 Glover's poems in the " Specimens," i. 
 
 422. 
 Goderich, Lord, iv. 65. 85. 
 Godwin, William, i. 108. 184. His " Life 
 
 of Chaucer," 245. 254. His " Antonio," 
 
 ii. 226. 
 Goes, Damian de, i. 233. 264. 
 Goethe's poetry, iii. 135. 
 Gold as a standard of value, remarks on, 
 
 iii. 136. 
 Goldastus's " Alemannicarum Rerum 
 
 Scriptores, aliquot vetusti," iii. 503. 
 Goldsmid, Mr., his collection of books, ii. 
 
 27. 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, his poetrv compared 
 
 with that of Crabbe, ii. 90, 91. 
 Gomer, Madame, her volume on Cone- 
 
 staggio's history, i. 390. 
 Gonda, visit to, iv. 4. 
 Gonne, Mrs., i. 375. 383. 387; iii. 2. 156. 
 Gooch, Dr. Robert, ii. 236.'.239. 244; iv. 142. 
 
 167. His articles in the "Medical," ii. 
 
 115. 215. His " Plague Papers," 167. 
 Good, John Mason, iii. 217. 
 Goodenough, Dr., iii. 327. 
 Goodwin Sands, the, ii. 393. 
 Gordall Scar, ii. 288. 
 Gordon. Patrick, his " Famous History of 
 
 the valiant Bruce," i. 290. 
 Gordon, Lord William, iii. 150. 222. 
 Gorham, Rev. G. C, iv. 420. Letters to 
 
 (see Letters). 
 Goths, the, in Spain and Portugal, i. 224 — 
 
 226. 
 Cough's " History of the Quakers," iii. 
 
 214. 
 Graham, Sir James, iv. 218. 
 Graham, James, his death, ii. 235. His 
 
 poems, 236. 
 " Grandmother's Tale," the, i. 69. 
 Grandpre, his book on India, i. 301. 
 Grant, Robert, iv. 153. 
 Grantham, Lady, iv. 153. 
 Grantham, Lord, iv. 218. 
 Granville, Lord, iii. 280. 
 Grasmere, scenery of, i. 171. 276. 329. 
 Graves, Dr., Dean of Ardagh, iv. 79. 
 Gray, the Old, ode to the, i. 10, 11. 
 Gray, Thomas, the poet, Mason's " Let- 
 ters" of, ii. 244. 
 " Greaal, S.," iii. 49. 
 " Greenland, Rf cords of," iv. 271. 
 Greenly, Lady, iv. 407. 
 Gregoire's "History of the Sects of the 
 
 Eighteenth Century," ii. 412 ; iii. 340. 
 " Grenville Homer," the, i. 90. 
 Grenville, Lord, i. 91. 100. 401.408.409; 
 
 ii. 179. 401.403.; iii. 298. 
 Grenvilles, their dislike of Parliamentary 
 
 Reform, i. 356. 393. 
 Greta Hall, i. 231, 232. 
 
588 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Greta River, - i. 232. 240. 273. Etymology 
 
 of the word, 248. 
 Grev, Earl, ii. 170. 351 ; iii. 220 ; iv. 193. 
 
 277. 338. 
 Grice, Le, i. 381. 
 Griffith, King of Wales, i. 243. 
 Griffiths, Vaughan, i. 183. 
 Grimshawe's "Life of Cowper," iv. 414. 
 
 et seq. 
 Grotins, Hugo, his " Epistles," iii. 509. 
 
 524. 
 Grynasus, his " Novus Orbis," ii. 119. 
 " Guatberto," iii. 13. 
 Guarani grammar, ii. 205, 206. 
 Guaranis's, the, iii. 116. 
 " Guesses at Truth," the, of Augustus and 
 
 Julius Hare, iv. 72. 
 Guiana, language of, ii. 206. 
 Guignes. M. de, his memoir " Sur le Com- 
 merce des Francois dans le Levant," 
 
 &c, ii. 157. 
 Gulfilans, the, i. 224. 
 
 Gurney, Hudson, iii. 426. His book, 527. 
 Gurwood, Colonel, his " Despatches of 
 
 the Duke of Wellington," iv, 503. 
 Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, iii. 
 
 291. 
 Guthrie's " Grammar," ii. 22D. 231. 
 Guyon, M., iv. 454. 
 
 Guyon, Madame, her " Bible," iv. 376. 
 " Gwother, Sir," i. 340, 341. 
 
 Habeas Corpus Act, suspension of the, iii. 
 
 156. 163. 
 Hacket, Bishop, his " Life of the Lord 
 
 Keeper Archbishop Williams," iii. 261. 
 
 430. 
 Hakluyt's " Voyages," ii, 311. 
 Halbertsma, Mr. the Dutch author, iv. 
 
 194. 
 Hall, Capt. Basil, his " Travels," iv. 156. 
 
 271. 
 Hall, Rev. Peter, his letter to Southey, iv. 
 
 469. 
 Hallet, i. 369. 
 Hallam, Henry, his " Essence of Whig 
 
 Vinegar," iv. 60. His " History of Eng- 
 land," 71. 82. 101. 
 Hamilton, Mr. (author of " Cyril Thorn- 
 ton "), iv. 271. 356. 
 Hammond, Mr., ii. 86. 
 " Hampden, John, Life of," Lord Nugent's, 
 
 iv. 277. 
 Handel, iv.'372. 
 Haufield, his death, ii. 6 s . 
 Harcourt, Simon, Esq., i. 196 ; ii. 49. 
 Hare, Augustus, iii. 312. 356 ; iv. 72. 
 Hare, Julius (afterwards Archdeacon), iii. 
 
 388. 437. 539; iv. 72. 
 Harris's " Lives," iii. 260. 
 Harrison, A., ii. 284. 
 Harrogate, iv. 61. 
 Harvey, John, his "Life of Robert Bruce," 
 
 i. 290. 
 Harvey, Mrs., iv. 378. 
 Hastings, Mrs. (wife of Warren Hastings), 
 
 iii. 202, 203. 
 Hastings, Warren, iii. 203. Southey's 
 
 proposed " Life " of, 203, 204. 341. 
 Hawe's Water, ii. 153. 
 Hawker, Colonel, iv. 57. 
 Hawkins, Sir John, iv. 372. His " History 
 
 of Music," 372. 
 Haydon, B. R., the artist, iii. 107. 
 Hayley, William, his translations of the 
 
 sonnets of Cavnoens, i. 26. His " Life," 
 
 iii. 417. 425. 427. 483 ; iv. 450. 
 
 * 
 
 / 
 
 Hayti, state of, ii. 309. 
 
 Hazlitt, William, iv. 40. >' 
 
 Hearne, Thomas, his " Journey to the 
 Northern Ocean," i. 92. His publica- 
 tions, ii. 187. 
 
 Heath, Charles, the engraver, his "Keep- 
 sake," iv. 99. 103. 
 
 Heathcote, Sir William, iv. 107. 
 
 Heaven, Bishop Taylor's description of, i. 
 206. 
 
 Heber, Reginald (afterwards Bishop), i. 
 249- 279; ii. 27. 325, 326; iii. 266. 325. 
 His part in Ellis's " Specimens," i. 269. 
 His romances, 378. His eulogium on 
 " Madoc," 382. His review of Southey's 
 " Brazil," 307. His edition of Jeremy 
 Taylor's works, iii. 260. 269. Accepts 
 the bishopric of Calcutta, 393. His ill- 
 ness, iv. 71. Southey's recollections of 
 him, 154. 
 
 Heber, Richard, iv. 310. 
 
 Heinker, Mr., ii. 64. 
 
 "Helenore, or the Fortunate Shepher- 
 dess," the, of Ross, i. 290. 
 
 Helen's, Lord St., ii. 332. 
 
 ' Heloise," the, of Rousseau, i. 54. 
 
 Helston, the lake near, iv. 490. 
 
 Helvetius, M., ii. 161. 
 
 Henderson, Mr. James, his " History of 
 Brazil," iii. 201. 288. 
 
 Henley, Mr., his translation of " Vathek," 
 i. 303. 
 
 Henrietta's waterworks, i. 16. 
 
 Henrique, Count, i. 133. 199. 223. 
 
 Henriquez, Affonso, ii. 163. 
 
 " Henry the Hermit," i. 353. 
 
 Herbert, William, of Harrogate, iii. 305. 
 
 Heresiarchs, decline in the breed of, i. 
 369. 
 
 " Heresies, History of," Bernino's, i. 359. 
 
 Heriot's " Canada," review of, i. 336. 
 
 " Hermingius, Life of," iv. 190. 
 
 " Hermit of the Pacific," the, ii. 293. 
 
 Heron, Robert, his " Letters of Litera- 
 ture," iii. 360. 
 
 Herrera, ii. 343. 
 
 Herries, Right Hon. John Charles, ii. 228. 
 234.273.405; iii. 355; iv. 101. 
 
 Hertford, Lord, ii. 275, 331. 
 
 Hertford, Lady, and the Prince Regent, 
 ii. 275. 
 
 Hervas, his catalogue of all existing lan- 
 guages, ii. 21. 
 
 Hewlett's " Bible," ii. 186. 
 
 Hexameters, Southey's, ii. 214; iii. 189. 
 222, 229. 231. 
 
 Heythorp, Lord Shrewsbury's seat of, 
 i. 17. 
 
 " Hibernicarum Rerum Scriptores," 
 O'Connor's, iii. 61. 64. 246. 350 ; iv. 45. 
 
 High Tor, the, ii. 286. 
 
 Highlands of Scotland, the, iii. 142. 
 
 Hildvard, Robert, the barrister, iv.319. 
 
 Hill," Edward, iii. 248. 257. 288. 387. 399. 
 509 ; iv. 109. 
 
 Hill, General (afterwards Lord), ii. 251 ; 
 iii. 196. 279, 280, 281. 409. 
 
 Hill, Herbert, iv. 280. 542. 545. 
 
 Hill, Rev. Herbert, i. 24. 41. 121. 123. 155. 
 262. 373 ; ii. 1 1 . 23. 28. 35. 37. 70. 81. 97. 
 103. 106. 109. 128. 181. 185. 191. 203. 226. 
 328; iii. 168. His death, iv. 115. Letters 
 to (see Letters). 
 
 Hinchcliffe's poems, i. 420. 425. 
 
 " Hindoo Pantheon," the, of Major Moore, 
 iii. 355. 
 
 Hindoos, the, civilisation of, i. 284, 285. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 589 / 
 
 299. 302. Their system of caste, 285. 
 299. 
 
 Hindustan, i. 284. 299. 
 
 " Hirlas Horn," poem of the, i. 292. 
 
 Hispaniola, negroes of, ii. 295. 
 
 Historical book keeping, advice on the 
 best method of, ii. 157. 161, 162. 178. 
 310. 
 
 History, Royal Academy of, at Madrid, ii. 
 411. 
 
 Hodson, Mrs., iv. 137. 145. 513. 
 
 Hodges, his book on India, i. 301. 
 
 Hodnet, ii. 325, 326 ; iv. 71. 
 
 Hofer, given up by Austria, ii. 347. 
 
 Hoffner's article in the " Quarterly Re- 
 view," ii. 145. 
 
 Hogg (the Ettrick shepherd), ii. 23. 235. 
 308. 
 
 Hohenlohe, Prince, his prayers, iii. 499. 
 
 Holbroke, Mrs., ii. 230. 
 
 Holford, Margaret, iv. 137. 154. 513. 
 
 Holinshed's "Chronicles," iii. 251. 
 
 Holland, Dr. (afterwards Sir Henry, 
 Bart.), his theory of earthquakes and 
 hot winds, ii. 405. 
 
 Holland House, i. 354. 381 ; ii. 13. 326 ; 
 iii. 321. 
 
 Holland, Lady, i. 381 ; ii. 34. 38. 65. 
 
 Holland, Lord, i. 322. 327. 354. 381 ; ii. 
 326; iii. 348; iv. 33. 187. 
 
 Holland, rivers of, iv. 108. 
 
 Hollingsworth, the printer, i. 397. 425. 
 
 Holmes's "American Annals," review of, 
 ii. 148. 151. 184. 
 
 " Holy Living and Dying," the, of Jeremy 
 Taylor, i. 206. 
 
 Homer, the Grenville, i. 90. 
 
 Hone, William, his " House that Jack 
 built," iii. 176. His " Every Day " and 
 " Table Books," iv. 142. 183. 
 
 Hood, Admiral Sir Samuel, i. 320. 327. 
 
 Hood, Captain, iv. 104. 106. 
 
 Hood, Lady, iv. 1C6. 
 
 Hood, Sir Alexander, iv. 98. 104. 106. 
 
 Hook, Theodore, iv. 371. 
 
 Hooping-cough, garlic a remedy in, iv. 
 171. 
 
 " Horace in London," ii. 325. 
 
 Hornby, Mr., rector of Winwick, iv. 164. 
 
 Horner, Francis, ii. 110. 
 
 Horse Wynd, the, of Edinburgh, i. 290. 
 
 Hoi ton, Wilmot, iii. 25. 32. 129. 
 
 Houbracken's illustrations to the " Lives 
 of the Painters," ii. 2. 
 
 Houses of Parliament, burnt, iv. 387. 
 
 Howard, Colonel, iv. 303. 
 
 Howick, Lord, i. 394 ; iv. 264. 
 
 Howley, William, bishop of London, iii. 
 142. 476. 478. 
 
 Hudson's Bay, condition of the women of, 
 i. 92. 
 
 Hughes, Dr., iv. 22. His death, 325. Let- 
 ters to (see Letters). 
 
 Hughes, John, of Oriel, his " Itinerary of 
 Provence and the Rhone," iii. 197. No- 
 tice of, 197. n. His squibs, 220. 223 ; iv. 
 229. 
 
 Hughes, Mrs., iii. 197. 223. 431 ; iv. 267. 
 
 Human body, fossil, discovered, iv. 348. 
 
 Humboldt, M., his "Mexico," ii. 263. 
 Review of, 269. His accomplishments, 
 iii. 271. His praise of Southey's " His- 
 tory of Brazil," 278. His " Travels," 
 311.389. 461. 
 
 Hume, Joseph, iii. 299. 
 
 Hunt, Leigh, and the " Examiner," ii. 
 
 342 ; iii. 68, 09 ; iv. 253. His " Tasso, 7 ' 
 283. His " Liberal," iii. 340. 344. 
 
 Hunting near Merida, i. 22. 
 
 " Huntingdon, Lady," iii. 165. 
 
 Huntingdon, William, S. S., his " Bank 
 of Faith," i. 3r>5. Description of him, 
 355. Southey's article on, iii. 216. 225. 
 
 " Huron's Address to the Dead," the, i. 
 317. 
 
 Huskisson, Mr., iv. 65. 89. 193. 
 
 " Hutchinson, Memoirs of Colonel," i. 
 403; ii. 113. 
 
 Hutchinson, Mr. T., iv. 81. 
 
 Hutchinson, Miss, iii. 179; iv. 56. Her 
 death, 408. 
 
 Hutchinson, Mrs., and her thirty mon- 
 sters, iii. 500. 
 
 Hyde, the tailor, iii. 221. 
 
 Icarization, Carlisle's, i. 90. 
 
 Iceland, diseases of, ii. 242, 243. Review 
 of " Travels in," 269. 
 
 " Idiot Boy," Wordsworth's, iii. 133. 
 
 Idleness, i. 395. 
 
 " Idle Man," the, iii. 341. 
 
 Ilfracombe, beauty of, i. 78, 79. 
 
 " Illustrations " to Henry Kirke White's 
 " Remains," ii. 260. 
 
 " Inchcape Rock," the, ii. 293. 
 
 Income Tax, the, i. 356. Its death, ii. 398, 
 399. 
 
 " Indian Recreations," Tennant's, review 
 of, i. 30 1 . 336. 
 
 Inez de Castro, i. 24. Scene of her tra- 
 gedy, 137. Her tomb, 141. 
 
 " Infidelity, Rise and Progress of," Sou- 
 they's paper on the, iii. 386. 402. 
 
 Ingemann, the Danish poet, iii. 316. 
 
 Ingenhousz, his saying, i. 162. 
 
 "■ Ingleses, Privilegios," the, ii. 246. 
 
 Inglis, Sir Robert, iii. 53. 333. 488; iv.39. 
 131. 154. 453. 511. 
 
 Inquisition, the.in Portugal, i. 107. Causes 
 of the abolition of the ? 107. Annals of 
 the, 134. Article on the, in the " Quar- 
 terly," ii. 236. 251. 269. 
 
 " Inscriptions," Southey's, ii. 401.403. 406; 
 iii. 85. 92. 395, 396. 416. 
 
 " Inscriptions, Memoires de 1'Acadeinie 
 des," ii. 157. Restored, 379. 
 
 " Investigador Portuguez," the, ii. 295. 
 
 Institute, the French, i. 321. 
 
 Ipecacuanha, the word, iii. 274. Medical 
 properties of, 274. 
 
 " Ireland, Antiquities of," Ledwiche's, i. 
 336. 
 
 Ireland, intercourse of, with the East in 
 the 14th century, i. 325. State of, in 
 ] 822, iii. 299 ; and in 1825, 462 ; and in 
 1826, 538 ; iv. 30. Reports on education 
 in, 121. Church of, 166. Condition of, 
 in 1832, 257. 
 
 " Iris," the, i. 285. 318. 
 
 Irish antiquities, i. 167; iv. 19. 
 
 Irish Catholics, their bigotry, i. 146. 
 
 Irish friars of Lisbon, anecdote of the, i. 
 106. 
 
 Irishmen, wild, in Portugal, i. 109. 
 
 Irish nature and human nature, i. 367, 368. 
 
 Irton, ii. 154. 
 
 Irvine's " Lives of the Scotch Poets," i. 336. 
 Irving, David, his book, i. 290. 
 
 Irving, Washington, iii. 218. His "Sketch 
 Book," 218. 
 
 " Isaac Comnenus," the play of, iv. 65. 68. 
 
 " Ivan Vejeeghan," the Russian novel, iv, 
 188. 
 
590 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Jackson, Mr., the Waggoner, ii.4. 150. 152. 
 
 174. 
 Jackson, Cyril, iii. 21. 
 Jackson, Dr. Thomas, President of Corpus 
 
 Christi, iii. 486 ; iv. 24. 28. 
 Jacobins, the, i. 3 ; ii. 125. Amongst the 
 
 lower orders, 269. 
 Jaffa, massacre at, ii. 394. 402. 
 James, Mrs., i. 168. 
 Jardine, Mr., consul at Corunna, i. 20. His 
 
 " Travels," 20. 
 Jarric, the Jesuit, Pierre du, his " Histoire 
 
 des Choses plus memorable,'' &c ., iii. 1 82. 
 Jarrold, Dr., bis "Dissertations on Man," 
 
 i. 408 ; ii. 142. 
 Jarrow, ii. 271. 
 " Jasper," i. 54. 
 Jayme, K., history of his own times, ii. 
 
 71. 
 
 J , of the " Edinburgh Review," i. 251. 
 
 Jebb, John, Bishop of Limerick, iii. 351. 
 
 409. 489; iv. 51. 166. 453. 
 Jedderal, the "flatulent person," iv. 430. 
 
 433. 
 Jeffrey, Mr. (afterwards Lord), i. 297. 342. 
 
 345. 381. 404. 418 ; ii. 32. 35. 114. 125. 151. 
 
 221.226.250.297.352. 
 Jeffreys, Lord, his house, iv. 410. 
 " Jehephary, Book of the Prophet," iii. 
 
 35. 
 Jenner, Dr., i. 208. 
 
 Jerusalem, Gibbon's account of, ii. 157. 
 Jesuits, the, i. lift. Chronicle of the, in 
 
 Portugal, i. 233. The, in Abyssinia, 233. 
 
 Their works on South America, ii. 21. 
 
 49. The, in Paraguay, 193. Restored 
 
 in Spain-, ii. 376. The, in Ethiopia, 
 
 412. 
 Jesuit liberties, the, i. 133. 
 Jews, treatment of the, by the Spaniards, 
 
 ii. 165. 
 Joam I., his deliverance of Portugal, ii. 
 
 Joam' IV., King of Portugal, ii. 76. 411. 
 Joam, the Principe D., ii. 27, 45. 48. 76. 176. 
 
 199—202. 
 " Joan of Arc," i. 25. 27. 30. 34. 48. 57. 72. 
 
 89. 178. 320. 325 ; ii. 291. 321 ; iv. 506. 
 " Joan of Arc, or the Maid of Orleans," 
 
 drama of, at Covent Garden, i. 51. 
 Joan, Pope, game of, i. 194. 
 Joao I., King D., Fernao Lopez, 
 
 " Chronicle of, i. 198. 204. 
 Joaquim, Abbot, prophecies of the, i. 265. 
 John 1. of Portugal, i. 135. 
 John V. of Portugal, his saying, i. 124. 
 John VI. of Portugal, iii. 251. 339. His 
 
 death, 536. 
 John of Gaunt, death of, i. 291. 
 John, St., the almsgiver, Roman Catholic 
 
 legend of, i. 307. 
 " John Bull," the, iii. 170. 267: iv. 302. 
 Johnes', " Froissart," review of, i. 336. 
 Johnson, Dr., i. 36. 
 Jones, John, the poet of Catterick, iv. 66. 
 
 70. 80. 99. 104. 164. 212. 
 Jones, Inigo, his bridge over the Conway, 
 
 i. 170. 
 Jones, Sir William, his " Institutes of 
 
 Menu," i. 301. His " Works," ii. 75.96. 
 Jonson, Ben, ii. 337. 
 Jortin, compared with Robinson, i. 33. 
 Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, ii. 113. 
 
 129. 
 Judaism, works relating to, iv. 176. 178. 
 "Julian, Count," Walter Savage Landor's, 
 
 ii. 204. 216. 217. 220. 225. 252. 270. 335. 
 "Junius, Letters ot," ii. 333. 
 
 . 183. 208; ./ 
 ■rs). >» 
 
 17. 155. 163. / 
 
 Junot, ii. 100, 101. 158. Captain Southey's 
 story of, referred to, 118. 
 
 Kant, review of, in the " Edinburgh Re- 
 view," i. 279. 
 Kava, the liquor so called, iii. 89. 
 Kay, Dr., iv. 273. 
 Keenan, Mrs., iii. 262. 
 Keene, Mr. iii. 131. 
 " Keepsake, Heath's," large sale of, iv.99. 
 
 103. 
 " Kehama, Curse of," i. 201. 287. 364. 382. 
 
 383 ; ii. 17. 60. 64. 68. 69. 127. 133. 141. 
 
 146. 154. 166. 169. 174. 180. 185.191. 196. 
 
 202. 207. 210. 212, 213. 221, 222. 228. 237. 
 
 294.306; iii. 98. 104. 
 Kelham, Alexander, founder of the New 
 
 Methodists, i. 410. 
 Kemble, John, the actor, ii. 217. 220. 
 Kendal, i. 276. 
 Kent, Duke of, ii. 133. 
 Kenyon, John, Esq., i. 286; iii. 183. 208; 
 
 iv. 41. Letters to (See Letters] 
 ' KeradorT, Curse of," i. 140. 147. 
 Keswick, lakes and mountains of, i. 229. 
 
 232. 235. 239. 249. 277. Suow at, ii. 29. 
 Kew palace, i. 380. 
 " Killcrop," Cottle's, iv. 154. 
 Kinder, Mr., ii. 239. 240 ; iii. 117. 
 King, John, Esq., i. 153. 154. 185. 186. 197. 
 
 228. 234 — 236. 245; ii. 54. 192. 270. 
 
 Letters to (see Letters). 383 ; iii. 9. 
 
 10. 
 King, Mrs. i. 228. 234. 237. 245. 
 Kingsbridge, i. 36. 
 Klopstock, " Letters " of his wife, i. 286. 
 
 289.312. His " Messiah," ii. 183. 
 Knighton, Mr. William, iii. 222. 240. 347. 
 
 369. 372. 
 Knight, Mr., his place, Downton, ii. 230. 
 Knight's " Quarterly Magazine," iii. 473. 
 Knowles, Sir Charles, ii. 230. 
 Knox, Mr., his " History of the Reforma- 
 tion in Scotland," ii. 346. 
 Knox, the usher, iii. 248. 257. 288. 
 Koster, Henry, i. 114. 230. 429 ; iii. 170. 
 
 His " Travels in Brazil," iii. 16. 48. 483. 
 Kosters, the, i. 276. 
 Kotzebue's plays, i. 68. 87. His " Voyage," 
 
 iii. 287. 
 Kraken, Southey's dream of the, iv. 126. 
 Kutusoff, General, ii. 311. 314. 
 
 Labat, his account of Spain, ii. 105. His 
 
 " Travels," 310. 349. 
 Labrador stone, the, i. 302." 
 Lackington, the bookseller, iii. 252. 
 " Lady of the Lake," Scott's poem of the, 
 
 ii. 213. 
 Laet, Johannes de, his " History of the 
 
 West India Company, iii. 182. 256. 
 Lafayette, ii. 417. 
 Lagos, Southey's arrest at, i. 156. 
 Lakes, Land of the, ii. 59. 
 " Lalla Rookh," Thomas Moore's, iii. 86. 
 Lamb, Charles, i. 72. 181. 184. 428; ii. 393; 
 
 iv. 142. 18^; Jeffrey's critique on his 
 
 play, i. 297. -'His " Elia," iii. 374. His 
 
 death, iv. 394. His letters, 410. t" 
 Lamb, Mary, i. 181. 184. 
 Lamb, Thomas Philip, Esq., letters to 
 
 (see Letters). 
 Lambton, Mr. (afterwards Lord Durham), 
 
 iii. 155. 
 Lanark, New, iii. 174. 403. 
 Lancaster, Joseph, ii. 250. His system of 
 
 education, 254, 255. 291 ; iii. 68. 
 Landor.Walter Savage, Esq., ii. 55. 60. 64. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 591 
 
 69. 85,86. 119. 125. 193.202. 204.216,217. 
 219. 225. 229. 252. 335 ; iii. 108. 133. 205. 
 226. 240. 287. 311. 388. 399. 437 ; iv. 145. 
 473. His opinion of Wordsworth as a 
 poet, i. 216. n. Letters to (see Letters). 
 
 Lane of Leadenhall Street, i. 125. 
 
 LangsdorfFs " Travels," ii. 395. 
 
 Languages, Hervas' catalogue of all ex- 
 isting, ii. 21. Curious process going on 
 in various, 206. Researches in the phi- 
 losophy of, iii. 271. 
 
 Laplanders, health of the, ii. 243. 
 
 Lara, Infantes of, tale of, i. 199. 208. 
 
 Lardner, Dinnysius, iv. 121. 154. 165. 170. 
 173. 183. 219. 
 
 Larramendi's " Basque Dictionary," ii. 
 196. 
 
 " Last Day, The," considered as the sub- 
 ject for an epic poem, ii. 184. 
 
 Latimer, Bishop, i. 277.' 
 
 Latouche, Thomas Diggs, Esq., iv. 78. 
 
 Laud, Archbishop, his conduct, iii. 283. 
 
 Laureateship, the, conferred on Southey, 
 ii. 327. 335. Emoluments of the office, 
 336, 337. Slowness in the payment of 
 the salary, 356. 
 
 Laverdy's " Joan of Arc," i. 37. 
 
 Lawless, Jack, anecdote of, iv. 157. 
 
 Lawrence, Sir Thomas, the painter, iv. 46. 
 
 Lawson, Sir Wilfred, i. 249. 252. 298 ; iv. 
 384. 
 
 " Lay of the Last Minstrel," profits of the, 
 i. 422. 
 
 " Lay of the Laureate," Southey's, iii. 
 24. Parody on the " Proem to the Lay," 
 34. 
 
 Leamington water, ii. 73 ; iv. 377. 
 
 Lean, old, i. 80. 
 
 Lean, young, i. 80. 
 
 Ledwiche's " Antiquities of Ireland," re- 
 view of, i. 336. 
 
 Lee, the dramatist, his " Brutus," i. 66. 
 
 Lefroy, Mr., i. 132. 
 
 Legge, Mr., ii. 332. 
 
 Leicester, the Earl of, and Queen Eliza- 
 beth, iii. 394. 
 
 Leigh Down, camp at, i. 221. 
 
 " Lenora," ballad of, i. 64. 
 
 Leonardo, Bartolome, i. 49. 
 
 Leopold, Prince (afterwards king of the 
 Belgians), iii. 148; iv. 278. 
 
 Lentot and Osborn's " Collection," i. 301. 
 
 Lescarbet, his " Histoire du Nouvelle 
 France," iii. 182. His account of Ville- 
 gagnon's expedition, 182. 
 
 Lessing, i. 390. 
 
 L'Estrange, Sir Roger, iii. 486. 
 
 Letters, Metrical, i.49. Those of Bartolome 
 Leonardo, 49. 
 
 LETTEhS TO: — 
 
 , ii. 370. 
 
 Barker, Miss, i. 172. 176. 180. 193. 200. 
 209. 229. 253. 256. 259. 265. 269. 272. 
 275,276. 283 302. 313. 323. 328.331. 
 334.347. 352.385. 394.408; ii. 1. 23. 
 36. 58. 73. 137. 171. 188. 265. 278. 296. 
 330.426; iii. 1.178. 541. 
 Baldwin, Robert, Esq.,iv. 461. 
 Barton, Bernard, Esq., iii. 210. 262. 297. 
 
 309. 
 Bedford, Grosvenor C, Esq., i. 58. 90. 
 149. 160. 174. 218. 391. 396. 403. 412. 
 419. 421. 425. 428 ; ii. 18. 82. 341. 353, 
 354. 362. 393. 405. 413. 416. 420. 430 ; 
 iii. 4. 10. 19. 33. 42. 51. 56. 59 0. 80. 
 83. 85.92. 102. 1C6. 121. 123. 130. 137. 
 146. 148. 157. 189. 211. 214. 221.232. 
 240. 267. 270. 276. 295. 313. 332. 315. 
 
 352. 354. 359. 382. 391. 424. 483. 502; 
 
 iv. 50. 82. 116. 127. 129. 132. 168. 232. 
 
 447.451.515. 519. 532, 533. 
 Bray, Mrs., iv. 202. 207. 211. 215. 228. 
 
 234. 248. 258. 265. 280. 288. 293. 299. 
 
 321. 325. 334. 342. 360. 367. 436. 448. 
 
 472. 491.495. 
 Browne, Wade, Esq., ii. 299 ; iii. 28. 72. 
 Challenge, answer to an expected, iv. 
 
 497. 
 Cradock, Charles, Esq., iv. 374. 3S7. 
 
 399. 402. 405. 412. 414. 416, 417. 426. 
 453. 455. 466. 469. 471. 
 
 Cunningham, Allan, iii. 302; iv. 123. 
 
 140. 362. 385. 
 
 Danvers, Charles, Esq.. i. 78. 104. 117. 
 
 135. 153. 183. 239. 309. 344. 355. 374. 
 
 414 ; ii. 62.84. 141.267. 
 Elmsley, Rev. Peter, iii. 321. 
 Gorham, Rev. G. C, iv. 420. 424, 425. 
 
 429. 433. 536. 
 Hill, Rev. Herbert, ii. 56. 70. 86. 199. 
 
 208. 211. 275. 290. 294. 379. 394. 411 ; 
 
 iii. 5. 23. 97. 124. 141. 152. 167. 180. 
 
 224. 235. 247. 252. 260. 277. 287. 293. 
 
 303. 307. 315. 318. 321.325.333. 345. 
 
 355. 369. 375. 387. 398. 404.451. 461. 
 
 468. 477. 481. 485.508. 520. 523. 531. 
 
 537 ; iv. 12. 14. 29. 31. 38. 47. 102. 105. 
 
 108. 
 Hughes, Mrs., iii. 197. 223. 430. 433. 444. 
 
 472.515; iv. 17. 20.22.44. 61.66.74. 
 
 80. 186. 267. 295. 316. 345. 380. 407. 421 . 
 
 440. 507. 537. 566. 
 Kenvon, John, Esq., iii. 75. 170. 183. 
 
 2U8 ; iv. 6. 498. 
 King, John, Esq., i. 186. 189. 234. 244 ; 
 
 ii. 192. 343. 383 ; iii. 139 ; iv. 8. 59. 
 Lamb, Charles, iv. 183.; 
 Lamb, Thomas, Esq., i. 1. 3. 5. 8. 10. 13. 
 
 15. 56. 
 Landor, Walter Savage, ii. 125. 164. 202. 
 
 216. 219. 225. 231. 252. 262. 334; iii. 
 
 108.133. 205. 311. 388.437; iv. 127. 
 
 144. 283. 
 La Touche, Thomas Diggs, Esq., iv. 78. 
 Longman & Co., Messrs., iii. 15. 49. 
 
 131.133. 172. 198. 201. 213. 234.440. 
 
 528; iv. 213.456. 459. 
 May, John, Esq., i. 32. 40. 44. 52. 61. 76. 
 
 81.94. 101. 112. 127. 132. 157. 164. 198. 
 
 204. 214. 220. 229. 231. 262. 335. 388. 
 401.404; ii. 8.42.45.76.99. 128. 143. 
 175. 205. 245. 356 ; iii. 21. 46. 254. 429. 
 495 ; iv. 11. 13. 175. 185. 500. 526. 539. 
 569. 572. 
 
 Moxon, Edward, Esq., iv. 184. 188. 214. 
 
 253.338. 350. 357. 366. 393, 394. 410. 
 
 547, 548. 570. 
 Rickerby, Joseph, Esq., iv. 395. 
 Rickman, John, Esq., i. 91. 122. 181. 
 
 195. 212. 222. 225. 273. 279. 319. 325. 
 
 351. 368. 378 ; ii. 4. 20. 28. 33. 39, 40. 
 
 52 54. 65. 119. 133. 159. 237. 337. 359. 
 
 382. 399, 400. 404. 410; iii. 11. 18. 44. 
 
 53. 62. 88, 89. 94, 95, 96. 99, 100. 105. 
 
 114,115. 129. 135. 151. 158. 160, 161. 
 
 174. 188. 200. 230, 231. 250. 284. 291. 
 
 293. 298. 328. 343. 377. 384. 395, 396. 
 
 400. 439. 455. 480. 487. 500. 513. 518. 
 522. 530. 536. 540 ; iv. 37. 46. 90. 92. 
 94. 100. 113. 115. 118. 121. 128. 131, 132. 
 
 141, 142. 144. 147. 149. 152. 156, 157. 
 159; iv. 161. 162. 171. 179. 181. 192. 
 
 205, 206. 238. 250. 252. 254. 263. 278. 
 314.326. 329. 337. 348. 387. 411. 432. 
 438,439. 458. 464. 468. 470. 504. 511. 
 518. 523. 534, 535. 542. 546. 567. 
 
592 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sidmouth, Lord, iii. 319. 
 • Southey, Bertha, iii. 489 ; iv. 480. 487. 554. 
 Southey, Captain Thomas, i. 35. 37. 46, 
 
 47. 50. 70. 99. 108. 219. 315. 360. 380. 
 
 398 ; Ii. 15. 106. 116. 139. 147. 152. 168. 
 
 185. 194. 214. 229. 235. 271. 281. 303. 
 
 306. 309. 311. 315. 348. 350. ,390. 396. 
 
 401. 418; iii. 8; iv. 120. 
 Southey, Katherine, iii. 192. 195 ; iv.476. 
 
 481. 
 Southey, Dr. H. H., i. 250. 284. 290. 
 
 297. 299, 369; ii. 96. 109. 114. 155. 161. 
 
 242. 247. 259. 334 ; iii. 154. 185. 228. 
 
 347. 414. 463. 492; iv. 10. 42. 55. 57. 
 
 101. 167. 173. 510. 
 Southey, Edith May, ii. 227. 327; iii. 305. 
 
 412. 417. 435. 449. 456. 470; iv. 88. 98. 
 
 104. 200. 203. 239. 246. 
 Southey, Herbert, iii. 24. 
 Southey, Mrs. Senr., i. 140. 
 Southey, Mrs., i. 74. 168. 283; iv. 197. 
 
 205. 
 Warter, Rev. John Wood, iv. 189. 219. 
 
 230. 236. 240. 256. 261. 270. 291. 332. 
 
 339. 352. 369. 413. 452. 463. 556. 574. 
 Warter, Mrs., iv. 543. 570. 
 White, Rev. James, ii. 422 ; iv. 134. 273. 
 
 275. 306. 390. 
 White, Rev. J. N., i. 398. 417 ; ii. 6. 47. 
 
 50. 61. 89. 111. 121. 131. 135. 182. 197. 
 
 233. 239. 254. 257. 260. 287. 292. 301. 
 
 318. 338. 375. 377. 407; iii. 6. 111. 127. 
 
 191. 258. 330. 379. 385. 401. 409. 425. 
 
 427. 442. 446, 447. 452. 467. 475. 525 ; 
 
 iv. 27. 34. 163. 285. 492. 512. 523. 532. 
 
 549. 563. 
 Wordsworth, Miss Dora, iii. 504. 506. 
 
 508. 
 I Wynn, C.W.Williams, Esq., i. 20. 25. 
 
 29, 30. 54. 59. 62. 65, 66. 68. 73. 84. 86. 
 
 88. 97. 145. 166. 202. 206. 238. 242. 247, 
 
 248. 278. 281. 288. 292. 295. 305. 339. 
 341. 366. 371. 395; ii. 12. 26. 30. 35. 
 48. 67. 80. 92. 102. 124. 150. 179. 222. 
 
 249. 320. 323. 325. 347. 372. 386. 417. 
 425 ; iii. 13. 26. 30. 54. 60. 63. 65. 67. 
 69.78.90. 118. 142. 162. 165. 175. 202. 
 217. 220. 227. 238. 244. 246. 249. 264. 
 268. 274. 280. 290. 299. 323. 338. 342. 
 349. 351. 368. 371. 373. 392. 394. 407. 
 416. 498. 511. 534; iv. 16. 19. 24, 25. 40. 
 52, 53. 64. 69. 72. 85. 110. 112 ; iv. 153. 
 165.176. 194. 209. 217. 221. 223. 226; 
 iv. 244. 291. 301. 304. 309. 311. 319. 327. 
 330. 354. 363. 371. 376. 383. 394. 396. 
 398. 444. 474. 505. 509. 511. 529. 553. 
 558. 574. 
 
 Letter-writing, ii. 51. 
 
 " Letters written during a short Residence 
 
 in Spain and Portugal, by R. S.," i. 30. 
 
 47. 65 ; ii. 83. 99. 
 Leucadio Doblado's "Letters from Spain," 
 
 iii. 317. 329. 
 Leverett, Governor of New England, iii. 
 
 274. 
 " Lewis and Clarke's Travels," review of, 
 
 ii. 399. 
 Lewis, Sir Frankland, iii. 280. 
 Lewis's " Lives of Wicliffe and Bishop 
 
 Pecock," iii. 429. 
 Leyden, John, his death, ii. 251. 
 Libel, Fox's law of, iii. 101. 147. 
 " Liberal," the, of Leigh Hunt and Lord 
 
 Byron, iii. 340. 344. 
 Lightfoot, Rev. Mr., i. 36; iii. 257. 331. 
 
 354. 392 ; iv. 208. 307. 367. 475. 
 Lindley, Mr., his " Narrative of his Im- 
 prisonment at Bahia," i. 322. i 
 
 Lingard, Dr., his " History of England," 
 
 iii. 482. 
 Lingo grande, the, iii. 359—368. 
 Linwood, Miss, her exhibition of pictures, 
 
 ii. 332. 
 Lisbon, earthquakes at, i. 20. 23. Society 
 
 of, 24. Filth of, 110. Health of, 111. 
 
 Expulsion of the English from, ii. 35. 
 
 37. Aqueduct at, 232 ; iii. 500. 
 Lister, Mr. ii. 297. 
 Lisuarte, character of, i. 223. 
 Literary Fund, the, i. 166,' 167; iii. 24G. 
 
 Remarks on the, 246 ; iv. 281. 
 " Literary Souvenir," the, iv. 77. 
 " Literary Times," the, iv. 417. 
 Literature in Portugal, i. 125, 126. 
 " Litteratur Lexicon," the, of Nyerup and 
 
 Kraft, iii. 334. 
 Littleton, Lord, his " History," iii. 429. 
 Littleton, Sir Edward, i. 303. 313. 348. 
 
 353. 386. 388; ii. 36. 80. 175. 219. 226. 
 
 265. 278. 
 Liverpool, Lord, ii. 274. 336. 402 ; iv. 50. 
 
 53. 
 Liverpool Museum, armour in the, ii. 41. 
 Llanberris, i. 243. 247. 
 Llandaff, Bishop of, i. 273. 390 ; ii. 48. 
 Llangedwin, i. 171. 
 Llangollen, i. 168. 248. 
 Llanrwst, i. 169, 170. 248. 
 Llantony, ii.229. 
 
 Llewellyn, i. 167. 247. Tomb of, 170. 
 Lloyd, Charles, i. 44, 45, 46. 50, 51. 72. 
 
 286. 385. 389 ; iii. 309. 
 Lloyd, Edward, ii. 196. 
 Lloyd, Jaines, ii. 196. 
 Lloyd's " Alfieri," ii. 394. 
 Llywarc Hen, ii. 59. 
 Lobeira, Vasco, i. 223. 226. Southey's love 
 
 for, 268 ; ii. 4. 
 Lobo, Jeronymo, his MS. in the British 
 
 Museum, ii. 11. 
 Localities, attachment to, i. 44. 
 Locke, John, iii. 153. 156. 
 Locker, Mr. ii. 427. His " Views in 
 
 Spain," iii. 463. 
 Lockhart, John Gibson, editor of the 
 
 " Quarterly Review," iii. 514 ; iv. 2. 67. 
 
 72. 101. 193. 195. 298. 347. 364.408. 507. 
 Lockhart, Mrs., her death, iv. 507. 
 Lodore. i. 232. " The Cataract of Lodore," 
 
 ii. 168; iii. 353. 
 London, Southey's dislike of, i. 153. 375 ; 
 
 ii. 80. Atmosphere of, ii. 80. His de- 
 scription of, to his daughter, Catherine, 
 
 iii. 192. 
 London Institution, i. 343. 
 " London Magazine," iii. 437. 
 Londonderry, Lord, his death, iii. 324. 
 Long Main, the, ii. 181. 
 Longman, Mr., i. 135. 165. 185. 187. 219. 
 
 229. 263. 282. 289. 298. 343. 345. 376. 382. 
 
 385. 423 ; ii. 9. 26. 42. 213. 217. 237. 257. 
 
 321; iii. 8. 86. 409; iv. 164. 
 Longman and Co., Messrs., ii. 414 ; iii. 15 : 
 
 iv. 251. 
 Lonsdale, Ladv, iii. 353. 
 Lonsdale, Lord, ii. 108. 116. 160, 161. 265. 
 
 276. 282 ; iii. 147—149. 153. 276. 278. 280; 
 
 iv. 143. 381. ^ 
 Lopez, Fernao, his " Chronicle" of King 
 
 D. Joao I., i. 198. 204 ; ii. 98. And that 
 
 of" K. Fernando," 98. 
 Lord, his account of the Brahminical sys- 
 tem, i. 301. 
 " Lord William," i. 54. 
 Lord Mayor's Show, the, ii. 2. 
 Losh, James, i. 356. 363 ; ii. 89. 267. 
 
 
INDEX. 
 
 593 
 
 Loueiro's account of Cochin China, ii. 395. 
 
 Louis XVI., of France, i. 3. 
 
 Louis XVIII., of France, ii. 418. "Me- 
 
 moirs" of, iv. 305. 
 Louis Philippe, King of the French, iv. 278. 
 " Love Elegy on the Wig," i. 71. 
 Lovell, Robert, his death, i. 29. 234. 
 Lovell, Robert, i. 217. 397 ; ii. 113 ; iv. 119. 
 Lovell, Mrs. i. 200. 345. 
 Lowe, Mr., of Ludlow, ii. 235. 
 Loweswater, i. 329. 
 
 Lowther family, anecdote of the, iv. 77. 
 Lowther Castle, ii. 161 ; iii. 276. 278. 282 ; 
 
 iv. 33. 299. 
 Lowther, Lord, iii. 99. 480. 
 " Loyola, Ignatius," Southey's, iv. 163. 
 " Lucan, Supplement to," Corry's, i. 212. 
 Lucian's " Hermotimus," iv. 179.* 
 Lucretia, story of, i. 67. 
 Luddites, the, ii. 282. 304. 
 Ludlow Castle, ii. 229. 231. 
 Lully, Raymond, ii. 57. 66. 
 " Lusiad," the, D. Jose Maria's edition of, 
 
 iii. 321. 
 " Lutrin," the, i. 55. 
 Lymington, i. 31. 33. 
 Lymouth, village of, its beauty, i. 80. 
 Lyndhurst, i. 31. 
 Lynedoch, Lord, ii. 422. 
 Lvsons, his " Magna Britannia," anecdote 
 
 of, iv. 75, 76. 
 Lyttleton's " Henry II.," i. 328. 
 Lyulph's Tower, ii. 283. 
 
 M , i. 190. 
 
 Mabers, the, i. 283. 
 
 Mabillon's " Benedictine Annals and 
 
 Acts," iii. 486. 521. 
 " Mabinogion," the, translated by Owen, 
 
 i. 278. Character of the tales, 278. 
 Macaulay, Right Hon. T. B„ his " History 
 
 of England," iv. 237. 
 M'Culloch, J. R., iv. 93. 101. 
 Mackenzie, Sir G., review of his " Tra- 
 vels," ii. 251 ; iii. 276. 
 Mackintosh, Sir James, iii. 202, 203 ; iv. 
 
 71. 284. His " Remains," 410. 
 M'Kinnon, General, iii. 262. 
 M'Neile, Mr. John, iii. 113. 
 M' Vicker, Rev. Dr., iv. 518. 520. 
 Madan, Martin, iv. 431. 434. 
 Maddocks, Mr., i. 419. 
 "Madoc," i. 47. 71.87. 94. 103.140. 147. 
 
 165. 167. 183. 211. 239. 243. 246; 247. 249. 
 
 251 . 255. 257. 259. 263. 266, 267. 273, 274. 
 
 282. 288. 291 . 304. 310. 314. 316. 323. 332. 
 
 335. 339. 343. 347. 349. 358. 363. 376. 381. 
 
 386. 391. 404. 422 ; ii. 9. 12. 23. 42. 50. 60. 
 
 81. 181. 186. 221. 223. 291 ; iii. 13. 219. 
 " Madras System," Southey's Work on 
 
 the, ii. 259. 
 Madras, disturbances at, ii. 290. 
 Madrid, i. 22. 
 Maes Gwyn, i. 204. 
 Mafra, convent of, i. 25. 
 Magnus, St., story of his dance, i. 308. 
 Magnusen, Finn, iv. 352. 353. 
 " Mahommedan History, Retrospect of," 
 
 Major Price's, iii. 269. 
 Mahon, Lord (now Earl Stanhope), iv. 
 
 299, 300. 303. 353. 
 Maimbourg, Lewis, his " History of the 
 
 Crusades," ii. 162. 
 Maintenon, Madame, her " Letters," iv. 
 
 454. 
 
 Majesty, His. See Coombe. 
 
 Major, Dr., his " Pilgrim's Progress," iv. 
 
 183. 
 Majorca, curious code of laws of, iii. 98. 
 Malabar coast, custom of the Rajahs of 
 
 the, i. 300. Anecdote of the poleas of 
 
 the, 300. 
 Malcolm, Sir John, his pamphlet on India, 
 
 ii. 290. His visit to Southey, iii. 323. 
 
 His " Central India," 352. 395. 441. 
 Malet, Arthur, iii. 491. 495. 
 Malet, Sir Alexander, iii. 401. 
 Malet, Sir Charles, ii. 46 ; iii. 401. 
 Malet, Lady, iii. 402. 
 Malone, Mr., iii. 303, 304. 
 Malthus, Rev. T. R., Southey's hatred of 
 
 his book, i. 224. 287. 298. 408 ; ii. 304 ; 
 
 iv. 114. 180. 
 Malvern Hills, the, i. 18. 
 Mamalucos, the, of Brazil, ii. 49. 177. 
 Manchester, condition of, in 1829, iv. 149. 
 
 And in 1832, 273. 
 Manchester, Memoirs by, iii. 285. 290. 
 Manchester massacre, the, 148. 
 Manes, i. 360. 369. His Twelve Masters, 
 
 i.360. 
 Mango Capac, i. 82. 88. 
 '• Manicheism, History of," Beausobre's, i. 
 
 339. 359. 368. 
 Manoel, D. Francisco, his book, iii. 315. 
 Manoel Felix, his dress, iii. 138. 
 Manuel, the servant, i. 109. 
 Manufactories,specific diseases engendered 
 
 by, iii. 185. 
 Manufacturing districts, secret societies in 
 
 the, ii. 273. 
 Maria Antoinette, Queen, ii. 421. 
 " Maria d'Agreda," the imposture of, iii. 
 
 503. 
 Maria Rosa, i. 109. 
 Marialva, Marquis of, his country-house 
 
 Quinta, i. 120. 
 Maria del Occidente, her poem, iv. 214, 
 
 215. 361. 
 Mariana,!. 160. 
 
 Mariner, Mr., his adventures, iii. 12.53.62. 
 "Maritime Discovery, History ol',"Clarke's 
 
 i 238. 
 " Marmion," appearance of, ii. 82. 110. 132. 
 Marriage Act, the, iii. 347. 
 Martel, Charles, his defeat of the Saracens, 
 
 i. 206. 
 " Marlborough, Life of, " Archdeacon 
 
 Coxe's, review of, iii. 164. 169. 
 Marlborough, Duchess of, iv. 45. 
 Marsh, Dr. Herbert, ii. 255, 256. 288 : iii. 
 
 142. 
 Marshal, Mr., the cotton king, iv. 314. 
 Martin, Mr., i. 53. 60. 230. 
 " Martin Hall," i. 58, 59. 
 Martyn, Rev. J. K., iv. 424. 
 Martyr, Peter, his " Decades," ii. 309. 
 " Mary, the Maid of the Inn," i. 69. 72. 
 
 353 ; origin of the, ii. 181. 
 Mary RedclifF, St., church of, i. 187. 
 Mason, Rev. William, his "Letters of 
 
 Gray," ii. 244. 
 Massachusetts Historical Society, the, iii. 
 
 266. 
 Massena, General, his retreat, ii. 224 ; iii. 
 
 358. His campaign in Portugal, iii. 14. 33. 
 Massinger, Philip, his " Picture," i. 65. 
 Matchim, tale of, i. 99. 
 Mather, Cotton, his "History of New Eng- 
 land," ii. 264 ; iii. 500. 
 
 * By an oversight, in correction of the Proof, it is left " Hermotim'ws." 
 VOL. IV. Q Q 
 
594 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Matthias (Mr. Bray's friend), iv. 437. 
 Matthew of Westminster, his stories, i. 
 
 308. 
 Matthew Paris, his legends, i. 308. 
 Matthewes, Mrs., of Bath, i. 356. 
 May, John, Esq., i. 60. 297. 383 ; ii. 35. 37. 
 40,41.45. 212; iii. 392. 495; iv. 13.59. 
 185. His death, 501. Letters to (see 
 Letters ). 
 May, Mrs., i. 205. 391. 
 May, John, jun., i. 205; iii. 257. 307. 
 
 326. 
 May, William, ii. 382. 
 May Day in London, iii. 193. 
 Mecca, visited by a Spaniard, ii. 384. 
 " Medical Review," ii. 115. 186. 
 Medicine and credulity, i. 85. Medical 
 Knowledge of the Arabs and of the 
 Middle Ages, 299. And of the present 
 time, iii. 188. 
 Medwin, captain, Lord Byron's "blunder- 
 buss," iii. 450. 
 " Megistotherion," the squib so named, iii. 
 
 464. 
 " Melancholy Hours," the, of Henry Kirke 
 
 White, ii. 7. 
 Melbourne, Lord, iv. 193. 
 "Melody, Song on," the, of Henry Kirke 
 
 White, ii. 7. 
 Melrose Abbey, i. 345. 
 Melville, Lord, ii. 171. 181 ; iii. 299. 
 Mendicancy in Portugal, i. 127. 
 Mendicant Friars, i. 265. 
 " Menu, Institutes of," by Sir W. Jones, 
 
 i. 301. 
 "Mercurio Peruano," the, ii. 263. 
 Merida, hunting at, i. 22. 
 Merino sheep, ii. 87. 
 " Messiah," the, of Klopstock, ii, 183, 
 Mestizos, or mixed breed of South Ame- 
 rica, ii. 49. 
 Methodism, growth of, u 146. 249. 255 ; 
 iii. 443. Article on, in the " Quarterly 
 Review," ii. 207. 221. 
 Methodists, history of the, i. 248. 255. 287. 
 
 410, Methodist stories, 366, 367. 
 Methodists, the New, i. 410. 
 " Metrical Tales and other poems," i. 282. 
 
 316.376.386; ii. 9. 
 " Metrical Romances," the, of Weber, ii. 
 
 308. 
 Mexico, condition of women in, i. 96. 
 
 Von Humboldt's work on, ii. 263. 
 Michael, Mount St. iv. 551, 552. 
 " Michael Angelo,"Duppa's " Life of,"ii. 
 
 20. 
 Michaelis's " Commentaries on the Law 
 
 of Moses," iii. 239. 
 Mickle, W. J., iii. 395. 
 Middleton, Erasmus, his " Evangelical 
 
 Biography," iv. 454. 
 Middleton, Teesdale, ii- 285, 286. 
 Mierre, Monsieur A. J. Le, his letter to 
 
 Southey, ii. 397- 
 Miguel, Don, of Portugal, iii. 415 ; iv. 32. 
 
 55. 355. 
 "Milesian History, Fragment of," South- 
 
 ey's, ii. 362. 
 " Military Chronicle," the, ii. 292. 
 Miller, John, of Worcester College, iv. 
 
 114. 
 Mills, Charles, his works, iv. 93. 
 Milner, Dr., and St. Winifred, ii. 373. 
 His reply to the " Book of the Church," 
 iii. 467. 
 Milnes, R. M., Esq., iv. 366. 
 Milton, John, i. 87. 260. Southey's opinion 
 of, 268. 338. 
 
 Mina, the Spaniard, iii. 3. 6. 
 
 Minehead, i. 76. 
 
 Ministry, evils of frequent changes of, iv, 
 
 91. 
 Minnesingers, the, iii. 401. 
 Miot's " History of the Expedition to 
 
 Egypt," ii. 394. 396. 402. 
 " Missionary Transactions," review of,i . 
 336 ; ii. 186. " Periodical Account," 186. 
 " Mississippi, Travels to the Sources of 
 
 the," iii. 341. 
 Mitchell, Charles, his books, iv. 106. 
 Mitford, Rev. John, his proposed edition 
 
 of Gray's works, ii. 244. 
 Mitford, John, his fiction, iii. 468. 
 M'Kinnin's " West Indies," i. 336. 
 Mohammed the Prophet, his character, i. 
 
 77. 
 Mohammedanism, i. 77. Mohammedan 
 
 literature, 78. 
 Molesworth, Lord, ii. 243. 
 Monacism, Southey's dislike of, i. 146. 
 The monastic history of Portugal, 198. 
 209. Southey's article on the " Monas- 
 tic Orders," iii. 138. 146. 
 " Monarquia Lusitana," the, of Brito and 
 
 Brandao, i. 134. 
 Monchique, town of, i. 150. 
 Monchique, the Sierra de, i. 150. 
 Mondego river, the, i. 136. 
 Mono-dramas, i. 67. 
 
 Montague, Basil, i. 424 ; iii. 46. His edi- 
 tion of Lord Bacon's works, iv. 34. 
 Montaigne's " Essays," account of the 
 
 Brazilian savages in, iii. 315. 
 Montalvo, i. 223. 
 Montgomery, James, ii. 251. 258. 376. 409. 
 
 414 ; iiii. 275. 413 ; iv. 243. 
 " Monthly Magazine," the, i. 35. 64. 157. 
 
 183. 376. 381. 411 ; ii. 52. 184. 186. 404. 
 " Monthly Mirror, the, i. 423 ; ii. 112. 186. 
 
 325. 
 " Monthly Review," the, ii. 66 ; iv. 216. 
 Montluc's " Commentaries," iii. 441. 485, 
 
 486. 
 Montoya's " Conquesta Espiritual," iii. 
 
 288. 
 Montserrat, beauty of, iii. 126. 
 Montstrellet's " Chronicle," ii. 215. 
 Moore, Sir John, ii. 113. 127. 130. 149. His 
 last letter, 137. 151. His death, iii. 416. 
 Moore Thomas, i. 419 ; iii, 232; iv. 324. 
 His " Lalla Rookh," iii. 86. His " Life 
 of Sheridan," 519. His " History of Ire- 
 land," iv. 121, 154. 
 Moore, George, Esq., his " Life of the 
 
 Marquis Pombal," iii. 115. 
 Moore, Major, iii. 182. 191. 354. His Hin- 
 doo Pantheon, 355. 
 Moorish conquest of Spain, i. 199. 
 Moors, remains of the, in Portugal, i. 223. 
 Moraes, Francisco de, his book, ii. 5.34. 
 Morales, Ambrose, i. 225. 
 Morals, amongst the great, i. 226 — 228. 
 Mordred, Mr., i. 171. 
 
 More, Henry, ii.312. His " Poems," 312. 
 More, Sir Thomas, iii. 80. 168. Holbein's 
 
 portrait of, 168. 
 Moreau, Pierre, his " History of the Re- 
 covery of Pernambuco," iii. 288. 
 Morehead, Mr., edits Miss Seward's 
 
 " Letters," ii. 297. 
 Moreton-in-the-Marsh, i. 17. 
 Morgan, Mr., death of, i. 118. 
 Morgan, Lady, review of her book, iii. 78, 
 
 79. 
 Morgan, Sir Henry, the buccaneer, ii. 372, 
 373. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 595 
 
 " Mornay, Life of Philippe de," iii. 334.' 
 " Morning Chronicle," the, ii. 165 ; iii. 60. 
 
 453. 463. 467. 
 " Morning Herald," the, iv. 168. 
 " Morning Post" the, i. 147. 183. 213. 255 ; 
 
 ii. 332. 
 Morrison, Mr., of Fore Street, iii. 403 ; 
 
 iv. 196. His origin and career, iii. 404, 
 
 405. 
 Morris, James, his book, ii. 210. 
 " Mort d'Arthur," edited, ii. 27. 32. 43 ; 
 
 iii. 47. 49. 52. 56. 426. 
 Mosheim, compared with Robinson, i. 33. 
 Mosheim's " Ecclesiastical History," iii. 
 
 521. 
 Moscow, destruction of, ii. 314. 
 Moslems, difficulty of converting them to 
 
 Christianity, i. 299. 
 Mounier, review of, in the " Edinburgh 
 
 Review," i. 297. 
 Moxon, Edward, Esq., iv. 184. 214. 365. 
 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 Mozambique, ii. 413. 
 Muir's case, iii. 60. 
 
 Mulatto, the old, of Pernambuco.iii. 105. 
 Mulgrave, Lord, ii. 161. 170. 
 Muller, his translation of Southey's article 
 
 on Portuguese literature, iii. 125. 
 Miiller's " Dorians," iv. 219. 
 Mumps, the disorder so called, ii. 135. 
 Murat, King of Naples, ii. 400. 405. 
 Murder, tendency to imitate, iii. 177. 
 Murray, Captain, ii. 93. 
 Murray, John, Esq., ii. 308. 382. 411. 413. 
 
 416, 417 ; iii. 2. 33, 34. 47. 61. 81, 82. 85. 
 
 —88. 93. 103. 119. 159, 160. 167. 203. 254. 
 
 332. 336, 337. 343. 346. 348. 370. 372. 411. 
 
 455.469. 485, 486. 521. 525.532; iv.52. 
 
 62. 67. 72. 164. 170. 173. U74. 196. 251, 
 
 252, 253. 288. 364. 408. 433. 438. 472. 
 Museum, British, idea of getting Southey 
 
 into the ii. 237. Catalogue of the MSS. 
 
 in the, iv. 32. 
 Musgraves, the, their seat of Eden Hall, 
 
 ii. 284. 
 
 Naires, the, defeated by the Poleas, i. 300. 
 
 Nalson's collection, iii. 285. 290. 327. 469. 
 
 Nanswhyden House, iv. 485. 
 
 Napier, Lieut.-General, his " Peninsular 
 War," iv. 503. 
 
 Nares, Rev. Archdeacon, iii. 264. 267. 
 
 Nash, Mr., the artist, ii. 429; iii. 32. 53. 
 57, 58. 72. 194. 215. 257. 355. His death, 
 224. 228. 
 
 Nathan's abuse of Southey, ii. 419. 
 
 " Nativite, Vieet Revelations de la Soeur," 
 iii. 499. 503. 523. 
 
 " Naval Chronicles," the, ii. 187. 311. 317. 
 
 " Naval History," Southey's iv. 165. et seq. 
 
 Navarette's " Collection," iv. 105. 
 
 Neal, Cornelius, his tragedy of " Musta- 
 pha, iii. 217. 
 
 Neal's " History of the Puritans," iii. 214. 
 
 Neale, the Rev. Erskine, iv. 442. 
 
 Negroes, the, of Hispaniola, ii. 295. Di- 
 seases of negroes, 345. 
 
 Negroland, state of the courts and cities 
 of, i. 238. 
 
 Nelson, Lord, death of, i. 361. Ode on, 
 contemplated, 361. National honours 
 paid to him, 362. Review of Stanier 
 Clarke's "Life of," ii. 180. 184, 185. 
 Southey's " Life of," 237. 282. 294. 312. 
 315. 319. 395. His bombardment of Co- 
 penhagen, 312. 
 
 Netherhall, iii. 264, 265 ; iv. 74. 
 
 $ therlands, the Spanish, iii. 291. 
 
 Neufville, i. 233. 
 
 Newark, i. 345. 
 
 Newbury Renegado, story of the, ii. 40. 
 
 Newcastle, Duke of, iv. 193. 
 
 New Forest, the, i. 31. 33 
 
 Newlands, scenery of, i. 171 ; iii. 96. 
 
 Newspapers, remarks on, iv. 226. Stamp 
 
 duty, 226. ' 
 Newton, Mrs., i. 205 ; ii. 112. 
 New England, Dwight's " Travels " in, iii. 
 
 341. "A New England Tale," 341. 
 New Holland, iii. 373. 
 New Year's Ode, Southey's first, ii. 339. 
 Ney, Marshal, ii. 352. 403 ; iii. 27. 
 " Nibelungen Lied," the, quoted, i. 293. n. 
 Nicholas, Major, ii. 406. 
 Nichols, John, his '" Anecdotes," iii. 132. 
 
 His " Illustrations," 132. 
 Nicholson, Bishop, i. 338. 
 Nicholson, Peg, i. 8. 
 Nichols's " Arminianism and Calvinism 
 
 compared," iii. 349 ; iv. 190. 
 Nicol, George, his " Bears," iv. 521. 
 Nicol, William, ii. 94. 356. 
 Nicostrata, i. 224, 225. 
 Niebuhr's " Roman History," iv. 219, 220. 
 Niger river, iii. 538. 541. 
 Nile, battle of the, ii. 417. 
 Nimmo, the engineer, iv. 79. 
 Nino Alvares, ii. 381. 
 Non-resistance, the Quaker doctrine of, 
 
 iii. 310. 
 " Nootka Roc," the, ii. 216. 
 Norfolk, Duke of, i. 192. His election 
 
 influence, ii. 276. 
 Normandy, iii. 513. 
 " North Papers," the, iii. 487, 488. 
 Norwich, society at, i. 154. Newspaper 
 
 at, 213 ; iii. 442. The Musical Festival 
 
 of, 442. 
 Norwood, the gipsy prophecy at, i. 56. 
 Norwood, Captain B., i. 25. 
 Nourjahad, i. 162. 
 
 " Nuevo Mundo," the poem of the, iii. 14. 
 Nugent, Lord, iv. 265. 306. 311. His " Life 
 
 of Hampden," 277. 311, 312. 
 " Nuremberg Chronicle," legends in the, 
 
 i. 308. 
 
 " Oberlin, Life of," Southey's, iv. 210. 
 
 " Oberon," the, of Wieland, i. 68. 191. 
 
 Obidos, castle of, i. 170. 
 
 O'Callaghan, Mr., iv. 271. 
 
 O'Connell, Daniel, iii. 488 ; iv. 162. 242. 
 
 O'Connor, Dr., his " Rerum Hibernicarum, 
 
 Scriptores," iii. 61. 64. 246. 350 ; iv. 73. 
 
 His letter to Southey, 90; iv. 45. His 
 
 " Columbanus's Letters," 48. 
 O'Connor, Roger, his " Chronicles of 
 
 Eri,"iv. 17. 19. 
 Odes, ii. 339. 341. 403 ; iii. 9. 106. 121. 162. 
 
 225. 239. 249. 289. 353. 397. 
 O'Donnell, General, iii. 392. 
 Oehlenschlager, the Danish poet, iii. 316. 
 
 His " Life," iv. 219. 
 O'Keefe, Southey's schoolfellow, ii. 95 ; iv. 
 
 41. 
 Olaus Magnus, i. 280. 
 " Old Bear," the, i. 18. 
 " Old Lady," the, i. 64. 
 " Old Manor House, The," Charlotte 
 
 Smith's novel of,i. 179. 
 " Old Man's Comforts," the, i. 289. 
 " Old papers, overhauling," i. 202. 
 " Old Woman," the, i. 69. 
 Olivares's " History of the War in Portu- 
 gal,' iii. 415. 
 "Oliver Newman," ii. 381. 383. 387.392. 
 2 
 
596 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 396 ; iii. 8. 84. 103. 120. 12V. 132. 145. 219. 
 230.266.301.342.519. 
 
 " Omniana," the, ii. 212. 216. 237. 294. 299. 
 301.312.344,345. 
 
 'OiMHTiKivra, the, i. 226. 
 
 Opie, Amelia, her lines on Southey and 
 his daughter Edith, iii. 435. 
 
 " Oraisons Funebres," the, iii. 168. 
 
 Ordericus Vitalis, i. 291. 
 
 " Ordinacoes de Affonso V.," the, i. 115. 
 
 Oriana, character of, i. 223. 
 
 Orientalists, remarks on the, i. 91. 
 
 " Oriental Repertory," the, of Dalrymple, 
 i. 300. 
 
 " Orlando Furioso," i. 68. 
 
 " Orraca, Queen," i. 382 ; ii. 154. 
 
 Osorius, i. 233. 264. 
 
 " Ossian," Laing's, i. 397. 
 
 O'Sullivan, Mortimer, iii. 538 ; iv. 20. 
 
 Ottery, i. 79. 
 
 Otway, the poet, ii. 51 . 
 
 Ourang-outangs, i. 113. 
 
 Oviedoy Bafios, his " History of Vene- 
 zuela," iii. 198 ; iv. 29. 
 
 Owen, Mr. Arthur, of Edmund Hall, ii. 47. 
 
 Owen, "William, his translation of " Lly- 
 warc Hen," i. 166. And of the " Ma- 
 binogion," 278. His Welsh " Paradise 
 Lost," iii. 373. 
 
 " Owen Cambridge," i. 238. 
 
 Owen Cyveilioc, i. 167. 
 
 Owen Glendower, i. 169. 
 
 Owen Glendower's castle, iv. 165. 
 
 Owen Gwynedd, King of Wales, i. 243. 
 
 Owen, Robert, and his socialism, iii. 45. 
 174; iv. 146. 
 
 Oxford, society at, i. 19. 
 
 Oxyde, the nitrous, i. 95. 
 
 Pacheco, Duarte, his conquests of Calicut, 
 
 i. 300. 
 Paddy Furioso, iii. 464. 
 Paddyism, i. 167. 
 Page, of Westminster, subscription for his 
 
 family, iii. 150, 151. 
 Page, Mary, iv. 443. 
 Paine, Tom, i. 8. 
 
 " Painters, Lives of the," in Dutch, ii. 2. 
 Palace Yard meetings, iii. 89. 97. 
 Palermo, the infamous court of, ii. 224. 
 Palgrave, Sir Francis, iii. 250; iv. 25. 
 
 101. 
 Pallas's " Travels," review of, i. 331. 
 " Palmerin," i. 376. 378. 382. 388. 402. 410. 
 
 416; ii. 4.9. 13.33.42. 81. 
 Palmerston, Viscount, iv. 193. 
 Palmer's case, iii. 63. 
 " Pamphleteer," the, iii. 132. 
 Pantanaes, the, or Flooded Savannahs, ii. 
 
 98. 
 Pantisocratic scheme, the, i. 92 ; ii. 194. 
 " Papal Government, Subversion, of the," 
 
 Duppa's, ii. 20. 
 " Papel Forte," author of? ii. 208. 
 Paper, manufacture of cheap, i. 95. 
 Park, Mr., ii. 234. 
 Parke's " Contre-Projet to the Hum- 
 
 phreyisian Code," iv. 210. 
 Parliamentary Papers, usual fate of, ii. 
 
 175. 
 " Parliamentary History," the, iii. 284. 
 Parma, Prince of, his military genius, iii. 
 
 291. 
 Parry, Captain, his " Voyage," iii. 261. 
 Para, revenue and expenditure of, iii. 170. 
 Paraguay, i. 95. First mission to, ii. 88. 
 
 The Aymures of, 88. The " Annual 
 
 Letters from," 131. The language of, 
 
 176. Account of the Jesuits in, 193. 
 
 Establishment of the Republic of, 361. 
 " Paraguay, Tale of," iii. 48. 84. 98. 103. 
 
 132. 140. 169. 172. 207. 245. 324. 411. 417. 
 
 439. 441. 474. 511. 
 " Paraguay Annual Letters," iii. 288. 
 Park, Mr., ii. 113. 
 Parker, John, iv. 511. 
 Parnell, Sir Henry, iii. 326. 
 " Parody, the," i. 69. 
 Parr, Dr., iii. 226. 
 Parry, Charles, iv. 104. 
 " Partidas," the, of Don Manuel Abella, 
 
 ii. 206. 260. 
 Pasley, Colonel, ii. 223. 228, 308 ; iv. 162. 
 Pasqual's book on the compass, ii. 57. 66. 
 Patin, character of, i. 224. 
 " Patriota, O," the Rio Janeiro Magazine, 
 
 ii. 382. 
 Patronymics in Greek and Portuguese, i. 
 
 280. 
 Paul's, St., festival of the children of the 
 
 clergy at, iii. 196. 
 Peachey, General, i. 286. 347 ; ii. 98 ; iii. 
 
 99. 347. 483. 
 Peachey, Mrs., i. 286 ; iii. 93. Herdeath. 
 
 ii. 155; iii. 401. 
 " Pecock, Bishop of, Life of," Lewis's, 
 
 iii. 430. 
 Pedro II., King of Portugal, ii. 76. 
 Pedro, the Catalan author, his history of 
 
 his own times, ii. 71. 
 Pedro, Don, iv. 355. 
 Peel, Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert), ii. 427; 
 
 iii. 398. 533; iv. 93. 122. 130. 196. 210. 
 
 225. 256. 326. 396. 
 " Pelayo," ii. 79. 196. 213. 232. 235. 253. 
 
 264. 270. 294. See " Roderick, the last of 
 
 the Goths." 
 " Pembroke, Countess of, Memoirs of 
 
 the," iii. 290. 
 " Penates, Hymn to the," i. 70. 73. 
 Peninsula, war in the, ii. 216. 221. Pro- 
 spects of the, in 1812, 262. Southey's 
 
 " History of the "War" in the, 324: iii. 
 
 110. 140. 164. 174. 200. 207. 225. 229. 237. 
 
 251. 254. 256. 259. 262, 263. 266. 279. 281. 
 
 285. 294. 300. 311, 316. 328. 332. 369. 372. 
 
 375, 376. 389. 411 . 446. 451. 513. 517 ; iv. 
 
 30. 48. 138. 261. 264. 503. Sydenham's 
 
 " Peninsular Papers," 52. The Spanish 
 
 "History" of the, 121. 
 Penmaenmawr, i. 170. 
 Penn, William, Southey's opinion of, ii. 
 
 390; iii. 145. 
 Penrith, snow at, ii. 30. 
 " Penrose, Journal of," ii. 410. 
 Penwwnuraship, i. 211. 
 Perceval, the Right Honourable Spencer, 
 
 ii. 148. 179. 228. 291. 353 ; iii. 318. His 
 
 death, ii. 272. 274. 
 Percival's " Cape," review of, i. 336. 
 Percy, Lord, his motion, i. 416. Sonnet 
 
 to, on the Slave Trade, 179. 
 Pereyra, the Great Constable Nufio Alva- 
 
 res, his " Chronicle," i. 198. 
 Pernambuco, war of, ii. 208. Condition 
 
 of, iii. 170. « 
 " Persian and Turkish Tales," the, ii. 
 
 329. Persians, character of the, iii. 19. 
 Persons, the Christian Directory of Fa- 
 ther, iii. 261. 
 Peru, i. 95. Inhabitants of, ii. 263, 264; 
 
 iii. 114. 
 " Peru, Present State of," by Sir R. Phi- 
 
 lips, i. 321. 
 Peruvians, revolution of the, in 1782 ; iii. 
 
 114.116.254. Customs of the, 114. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 597 
 
 Peter, the pig, i. 256. 268. 
 
 " Peter Bell," Wordsworth's poem of, iii. 
 
 205. 
 Peter's pence, curious custom respecting 
 
 the payment of, iv. 94. 
 Petion, i. 3. 
 
 Petries, the Misses, i. 138. 140, 141. 
 Petronilla, Roman Catholic story of, i. 
 
 306. 
 Petty, Lord Henry, i. 394. 
 Phelan, Dr., iv. 108. 
 Philip of Pokanoket, iii. 218. 
 Philips, Sir Richard, and the " Monthly 
 
 Magazine," i. 35. 375. 385 ; ii. 404 ; iii. 
 
 96; iv. 450. His "Present State of 
 
 Peru," i. 321. His "Travels in Spain 
 
 and Portugal," ii. 83. 
 Phillip's " Voyages," ii. 186. 
 Phillips, the painter, iii. 2. 
 Phillimore, Joe, i. 203; iii. 299. 347. 
 Phillpotts, Rev. Dr. (afterwards Bishop 
 
 of Exeter), iii. 155. 477 ; iv. 266. 
 Phoenix Park, i. 236. 
 " Physical Education, Essays on," King's, 
 
 ii. 192. 
 Picart's " Religious Ceremonies," i. 266. 
 
 301. 
 Picton, General, iii. 15. 
 " Picturesque, Essays on the," by Uve- 
 
 dale Price, i. 302. 
 Pierre, St., i. 207. 
 
 Pietrodella Valle's " Travels," i. 301. 
 "Pig, The," i. 72. 
 Pigott, Solomon, iii. 330. 
 Pike, Major, his " Travels," ii. 216. 
 " Pilgrimage to Waterloo, the Poet's," iii. 
 
 10. 13. 15. 17. 46. 
 " Pilgrim's Progress, The," i. 17U ; ii. 
 
 317. 
 Pinkerton's " Voyages," ii. 132. 186. 
 
 His " Letters of Literature," iii. 360. 
 Pinto, Luiz, i 177. 
 Piozzi, Mrs., ii. 328 ; iii. 474. 
 Pitt, Right Hon. William, i. 26. 30. 37. 
 
 279. 347. 393; ii. 96. His death, i. 356. 
 
 National honours paid to him, 362. 
 " Pizarro," Sheridan's, i. 87. 
 Plague, the, at Cadiz, i. 123. The black 
 
 death, 123. n. The earlier English 
 
 plagues, 123. 
 Plato, translated by Thomas Taylor, i. 
 
 192. 
 Platoff, the Hetman, ii. 306. 314. 
 Plays, of Kotzebue, Sheridan, and Wha- 
 
 ley, i. 87. 
 " Plessis, Du, Life of," iii. 334 ; iv. 26. 
 Plott's " Staffordshire," ii. 60. 181. 
 Pneumatic Institution, the, at Bristol, i. 
 
 197. 
 Pocklington, i. 168, 169. 
 " Poetical Register," the, i. 201, 
 Poetry, of Spain and Portugal, i. 26, 27- 
 
 French, 186. Oriental, ii. 96. The 
 
 fashionable compound called poetry in. 
 
 1819, iii. 134, 135. Difference between 
 
 Welsh and Scandinavian poetry, 349. 
 Pole, Wellesley, iv. 196. 
 Poleas, the, of the Malabar coast, anecdote 
 
 of, i. 300. 
 Polignac, Prince, iv. 302. 
 Political economy, taught at Edinburgh, 
 
 ii. 224. Southey's dislike for the science 
 
 of, iii. 405 ; iv. 93. 122. 
 Polkinghorne, champion of Cornwall, iv. 
 
 484. 
 Polyandry in Tibet, iii. 18. In Scotland, 
 
 200. 244. 
 Polynesian languages, ii. 206. 
 
 Q 
 
 Pombal, Marquis, i. 25. 107; iii. 408; 
 
 " Lives " of, iii. 115. 
 Ponferrada, ii. 86. 
 Ponsonby, Miss, of Llangollen, ii. 232. 
 
 234. 
 Pont-y-Glyn, the bridge, i. 169. 
 
 Pont-y-Cyssylltan Aqueduct, the, iii. 500. 
 
 Poole, Thomas, i. 90. 197; iv. 114. 478. 
 494. 
 
 " Poor, Complaints of the," i. 70. 
 
 Poor rates, iii. 79. Old statutes respecting 
 the poor, iv. 100. 
 
 Pope, Alexander, style of, i. 404. His 
 " Homer," ii. 393, 395. 
 
 Popery, Southey's dislike of, i. 145, 146. 
 
 Pople, the printer, iii. 17. 101. 278; iv. 
 214. 
 
 Porson, i. 282. 
 
 Portal, Mr., iii. 404. 
 
 Portugal, war with, i. 244. State of Chris- 
 tianity in, 370. Southey's " Travels " 
 in, ii. 28. 43. Condition of, in 1809, 176. 
 The first " Academy " of, iii. 145. Pro- 
 ceedings of the Cortes of, 253. State of, 
 in 1822, 328 344. And in 1824, 408. 415. 
 And in 1826, iv. 32. 
 
 " Portugal, History of," the unfinished, i. 
 96.99.112.115. 133. 140. 145. 159. 179. 
 208. 220. 233. 239. 247. 316. 322. 3:17. 364. 
 390. 401. 436; ii. 381; iii. 252. 325; iv. 
 220. 
 
 Portuguese language, i. 24. Society, 24. 
 125. Poetry, 26. Infidelity, 107. Sce- 
 nery, 110. Paper money, 111. Sum- 
 mers, 112. 119. Burying-ground, 114. 
 The, in the East Indies, 115,116.300; 
 iii. 393. Bull fights, i. 116. Robbers, 
 121. Literature, 125, 126. Indolence, 
 128. Poverty in, 1801, 148, Monastic 
 history, 198. Customs derived from 
 the Moors, 223. Discovery of a MS. 
 poem, ii. 5. Colonial policy, 209. Aca- 
 demy, 343. 
 
 " Portuguez, Investigador," the, ii. 413. 
 
 " Portuguez, Observador," the, ii. 207. 
 
 Postage in Portugal, i. 101. 
 
 " Powell, Vavasor, Life of," iii. 214. 
 
 Praia, Fonte da, i. 177. 
 
 Pratt, Mr., ii. 171. 174. 
 
 Press, liberty and licentiousness of the, ii. 
 273. 304 ; iii. 43, 44. 61. 101.111.163. 184. 
 204. 215. 224. 
 
 Price, Major, his " Retrospect of Mahom- 
 medan History," iii. 269. 
 
 Price, Uvedale, his book on the pictu- 
 resque, i. 303. 313. 
 
 Primerose, J., extract from his " De Vulgi 
 Erroribus in Medicina," ii. 238. 
 
 Printers, Southey's lines on his, iv. 544. 
 
 " Printing, History of," ii. 187. 
 
 Prison discipline, iii. 120. 
 
 Prize-money, Spanish, misappropriation of 
 the, i. 380. 
 
 Proby, Lord, death of, i. 295. His papers, 
 364. 
 
 " Protestant, An Irish," letters of, in the 
 " Courier," ii. 386. 
 
 Proverbs, i. 4. 47 ; ii. 303. 
 
 Prowett, Septimus, his bookselling scheme, 
 iii. 526. 
 
 Prowitt, Lieutenant, ii. 68. 
 
 Prussians, the, i. 7. 12. 
 
 Prynne's " Pleasant Purge for a Roman 
 Catholic," iii. 486. 
 
 Psalms, Sir P. Sidney's version of the, iv. 
 183. 
 
 Ptolemy, the geographer, the Lyons or 
 Leyden edition of, ii. 1 19. 
 
 Q 3 
 
598 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Publications, cheap, Southey's advocacy 
 
 of, iii. 172. 
 Pugilism, i. 351. 
 
 Purchas's " Vo ages," ii. 216.311. 
 " Puritans, History of the," Neal's, iii. 214. 
 Pye, Mr., poet laureate, his compositions, 
 
 iii. 122. 
 Pyrenees, Treaty of the, iii. 252. 
 
 Quakers, Southey's opinion of, i. 426. And 
 of Quakerism, ii. 31 ; iii. 199. 210. Sew- 
 ell's " History of the Quakers," 199. 
 George Fox's " Journal," 199. Gough's 
 " History," 214. Various works relating 
 to the history of the, 214. " Tracts 
 
 against the Quakers, 214. Mrs. , 
 
 converted to Quakerism, 444, 445. 
 
 Quarles, Ellis's ignorance about, i. 166. 
 
 " Quarterly Review," the, ii. 107. 110. 114. 
 123, 124. 132. 140. 144, 145. 148, 149. 151. 
 153. 164. 171. 184, 185, 191. 194. 207. 209. 
 221, 222. 236. 248. 251. 269. 282. 290, 297. 
 n. 304. 353. 362. 395. 412. 414. 416. 418. 
 425; iii. 4, 5. 14. 21. 31. 33. 44. 47. 56. 61. 
 
 - 64. 83, 84. 93. 100. 103. 116. 129. 137. 141. 
 146. 159, 160. 167, 168, 169. 177. 216. 225. 
 254, 255. 282. 289. 335, 336. 342. 346. 348. 
 353. 383. 405. 417. 427. 450. 455. 509. 514. 
 523; iv. 2. 28. 40. 67. 72. 105. 118. 161. 
 165. 170. 196. 210. 216. 237. 271. 277. 307. 
 347. 364. 385. 408. 472. 
 
 Quatre Bras, field of, ii. 430. 
 
 Quebec, conquest of, iv. 54. 
 
 Queenhithe collection of books, i. 429. 
 
 Quillinan, Mr.,iv. 186. 
 
 Quincey, Mr. De, ii. 108. 
 
 Quinta, i. 120. Wonders of, 120, 121. 
 
 " Quixote, Don," i. 26. 
 
 Races, the various, of Englishmen, i. 278. 
 Radicals, their proposed insurrections at 
 
 Carlisle, iii. 166. 
 Radji, story of, i. 28. 
 Raduor, Lord, iv. 6, 7. 88. 
 Railways, iv. 526. 
 Rainhas, the, of Barbosa, i. 160. 
 " Raleigh, Life of Sir Walter," review of, 
 
 i. 321. His " Poems," iv. 448. 
 Randolph, John, Bishop of London, ii. 292. 
 Randolph of Roanoake, iii. 322. 326. 
 Raphael de Jesus, F., his work, ii. 72. 
 Rathbone, Mr., ii. 80. 
 Rathbone, Mrs., ii. 230. 
 " Reconciliation," the, of Kotzebue, i. 68. 
 Records, the public printed, iii. 249. 281. 
 
 347 ; iv. 16. Robbery of some, iii. 350. 
 Red Cross Street Library, the, ii. 66. 131. 
 Reece, Dr., ii. 376. 
 Rees's, " Cyclopaedia," i. 423 ; ii. 186. 
 Rees's " Grammar," iv. 143. 
 Rees, Thomas, Esq., ii. 111. 155.409. 
 Rees, Mr., the Unitarian minister, iii. 144. 
 Reform, Parliamentary, iii. 312 ; iv. 218. 
 Reform Bill, the, iv. 218. 256. 274. 282. 
 
 338. 
 " Reformation," French prize Essay on 
 
 the, i. 321. Villiers on the, 321. 
 Reid, Isaac, ii. 247, 283. 342. 
 Reid, Sir John, iv. 13. 
 " Rejected Addresses," the, remarks on, 
 
 ii. 325. 
 " Relacoens Annuaes," the, iii. 182. 
 " Religio Medici," the, of Sir Thomas 
 
 Browne, ii. 32. 
 " Religio Poetae," the, Southey's ideas of 
 
 writing, ii. 32. 
 " Religious Ceremonies," the, of Picart, 
 
 i. 266.301. 
 
 Remnant, the German bookseller, i. 183. 
 
 Rennie, Sir John, iii. 378. 
 
 " Retrospect, the," i. 48. 343. 
 
 "Revenge," Young's tragedy" of the, ii. 
 217. 
 
 Reviewing, i. 212. 213. 238. 254. 321.336, 
 337. 364. 383 ; ii. 14. 23 ; iii. 84. . 
 
 Revolution, the French, i. 3. 7. 
 
 Reynolds's Comedies, i. 67. 
 
 " Rhadamanthus," the publication so 
 called, ii. 140. 153. 
 
 Rhaiadr Cynwid, waterfall of, i. 169. 
 
 Ribeiro's " Journal," ii. 88 ; iii. 461. 
 
 Ricardo, Mr., his treatises, iii. 314. 
 
 Richard's Castle, ii. 231. 
 
 Richards, James, ii. 153. 
 
 Richardson, the novelist, his life and cor- 
 respondence, i. 286. 289. 304. 312. His 
 character, ii. 297. 
 
 Rickerby, Joseph, Esq., iv. 395. 
 
 Rickman, John, Esq., i. 100. 108. 181. 187. 
 219. 220. 250. 270. 277. 299. 375. 386. 
 383. 410; ii. 23. 125, 126. 154. 159. 212. 
 337 ; iii. 284. 536. 540 ; iv. 95. 147. 409. 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 
 Rickman, Mrs., i. 375. 386 ; ii. 55. 121. 
 333. 
 
 Ridgeway, iii. 62. 65. 
 
 Rio Janeiro, language of, ii. 177. The 
 court at, 199. Climate of, 200. Popu- 
 lation of, 202. Questions respecting, 
 205. 
 
 " Rio Janeiro, Annaes do," ii. 209. 
 
 " Rio Janeiro Magazine," the, ii. 380. 382. 
 
 Risco, Fr. Manuel, his continuation of the 
 " Esp. Sagrada," ii. 71. His Latin his- 
 tory of the " Cid," 71. 
 
 River-scenery in Wales, i. 248. 
 
 Rio Verde, i. 27. 
 
 Ritchie, the African traveller, iii. 541. 
 
 Roberts, Barry, his article on " Medals " 
 in the " Quarterly Review," ii. 145. 
 
 Roberts, Peter, his papers, iii. 368 - 
 
 Robins, Mr. George, the auctioneer, iv. 
 269. 
 
 " Robinson, Robert, Life of," George 
 Dyer's, i. 33. 
 
 Robinson, Right Hon. Fred. John (after- 
 wards Earl of Ripon), ii. 212 ; iii. 378. 
 
 Robinson, Mark, local preacher at Bever- 
 ley, iii. 443. 453. 475, 476. 
 
 Robinson's " Ecclesiastical Researches," 
 i. 33. 
 
 Rocha Pitta, ii. 381. 
 
 Rochfort, ii. 349. 
 
 Rocking-stone at Land's End, iv. 289. 
 
 " Roderick, the last of the Goths" (called 
 at first " Pelayo,") ii. 294. 298. 314. 327. 
 340. 345. 347, 348. 353. 383. 387. 390. 396. 
 420 ; iii. 8. 46. 98. 104. 265 ; iv. 9. 
 
 Roe, Sir Thomas, his " Account," i. 301. 
 
 Roger, Abraham, his account of the Brah- 
 minical system, i. 301 . 
 
 Rogers, Cooke, " Cadwallader," ii. 180. 
 195. 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, iii. 33 ; iv. 33. 184. 189. 
 383. 
 
 " Rokebv," Sir Walter Scott's poem of, ii. 
 392. 
 
 Rokeby, Mr. Morritt's grounds at, ii. 
 288. 
 
 Roman alphabet, the, in Spain and Portu- 
 gal, i. 225. 
 
 Romana, ii. 212. 216. 
 
 Romance, Turner's researches ;in the his- 
 tory of, ii. 41. Southey's opinion respect- 
 ing, 41. 
 
 Romances, French, i. 66. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 599 
 
 Eome, Jacopo Buonaparte's account of the 
 sack of, in 1527, iii. 287. 
 
 Romilly, Sir Samuel, iii. 108. 
 
 Rondolph, Dr.,i. 4. 
 
 " Roprecht," iv. 170. 
 
 " Rosamond," i. 343. 
 
 Rosas, siege of, iii. 370. 
 
 Roscius, the young, i. 359. 
 
 Roscoe, William, ii. 80 230. Review of 
 his Leo X., i. 281.328. 
 
 " Rose, The," i. 70. 
 
 Rose leaves exported from Holland to 
 Turkey, iv. 92. 
 
 Roslyn, Lord, ii. 11. 
 
 Ross, Mr. George, his translation of" Ivan 
 Vejeeghan," iv. 188. 
 
 Ross's " Helenore, or the Fortunate Shep- 
 herdess," i. 290. 
 
 " Round Table Romances," ii. 99. 
 
 Rousseau, his " Confessions," " Heloise," 
 and " Levite of Ephraim," i. 54. His 
 proposed drama of)'* Lucretia," 67. His 
 genius, 187. Review of the " Corre- 
 spondence " of, 336. 
 
 Rowe, Mr., i. 122. 185. 
 
 Rowland, Mr., iv. 239. 
 
 Royal Institution, the, ii. 35. 
 
 Royal Society, vote Southey a medal, iv. 
 203. 
 
 " Rudiger," i. 54. 70. 
 
 Russell, his Sonnets, i. 420. 426. 
 
 Russell, Lord John, iii. 462. 
 
 Russell, Lord William, execution of, ii. 
 104. 
 
 Russia, ii. 204. Invasion of, by Bonaparte, 
 289.305. His retreat from, 311. English 
 loan to, in 1832, iv. 255, 256. 
 
 Russians, i. 90. Character of the upper 
 and lower classes of, ii. 302. Their sol- 
 dier's manual, 314. Their heroism in 
 the destruction of Moscow, 314. 
 
 Rutty's " History of Friends in Ireland," 
 iii. 214. 
 
 Ruy de Pina, the historian, i. 160. 
 
 Rydal, scenery of, i. 171. 
 
 Rydal Mount, iii. 108. 322. 
 
 Rymer, Thomas, his " Whole Prophecies 
 of Scotland, England, Ireland, France, 
 and Denmark," &c, i. 290. 
 
 S , Lord, ii. 200, 201. 
 
 " Sabbath," Graham's poem, ii. 236. 
 
 " Sacred History of the World," Turner's, 
 
 iv. 262, 263. 
 Sadi, the Persian poet, ii. 96. 
 Sadler, Mr., his book on Ireland, iv. 112. 
 
 114.131.150.180. 
 Sailor, saying of the, at New Orleans, iv. 
 
 521. 
 " Sailor, the," i. 70. 
 Saints, their cure of particular diseases, 
 
 iv. 43. 
 " Saints, Lives of the," i. 393. 
 Salazar, the Spanish historian, ii. 72. 
 Salford, village of, i. 17. 
 Salkeld, Mr., of Naubeck, ii. 284. 
 Salt, Mr., sent into Abyssinia, ii. 148, 149. 
 
 His " Travels," 412. 
 Sampson, the Wild Irishman, i. 109. 
 Sancho II., King of Portugal, history of 
 
 his reign, i. 160. 
 Sandford, Bishop, his " Remains," iv. 197. 
 Sans Culottes, i. 3. 
 Santiago, the Marquis, i. 21. 
 Savage, the poet, ii. 51 . 
 Savings Banks, originator of, iii. 323. 
 " Saxon Chronicle,'' the, iii. 356. 399, 
 
 400. 
 
 Saxon romance, the, produced by Turner, 
 
 ii. 41. 
 Saxton, Sir Charles, ii. 427. 
 Sayers, Dr., of Norwich, iv., 28. 30. 520. 
 Sayers, James, iv. 520. 
 Scafell, ii. 154. 
 Scale Hill, i. 329 ; ii. 154. 
 Scarlett, Mr. (son of Mr. Scarlett, after- 
 wards Lord Abinger), iii. 281. 
 Schiller, Essay on, Coleridge's, i. 122. 
 Scheffer's " Swecia Literata," iii. 355. 
 Schlegel, ii. 340. 
 
 Schools, public, vice in, i. 60 ; iv. 158. 
 Scoresby, Rev. Mr., iv. 513. 
 " Scotland, History of the Reformation 
 
 in," John Knox's, ii. 346. 
 Scotland, improvements in, iii. 143. " Ode 
 
 to the Praise and Glory of," 397. 
 Scott, Sir Walter, i. 336. 340, 341, 342. 345. 
 
 422; ii. 29. 32, 33.35. 82. 107. 110. 132. 
 
 139, 140. 145. 160, 165. 194. 210. 213. 282. 
 
 307.336.391; iii. 116, 117. 126. 196.498. 
 
 501 ; iv. 2. 42. 62. 189. 234. 284. 296, 297, 
 
 298. His death, 304. Lockhart's." Life " 
 
 of, 510. 
 Scott of Amwell, iii. 297. 
 Scudamore pedigree, the, ii. 175. 
 Sealy, George, i. 131. 
 Sealy, Miss, i. 114. 139. 
 Sea-sickness, i. 161. 
 
 Sebastian, King of Portugal, his expedi- 
 tion, i. 135. 
 Sebastian, St., ii. 201. 
 Sedgwick, Professor of geology, iii. 403. 
 
 431. 
 Selden, i. 212. 
 
 Semple's " Travels," review of, ii. 77. 
 Seneca, Southey's favourite, iv. 168. 
 Senhouse, old Mr., iv. 75. 
 Senhouse, Humphry, ii. 16. 75. 117. 160. 
 
 230; iii. 72. 230. 265. 268. His ancestors, 
 
 265. 2/9. 521. 
 Serpents, cures for the bites of, ii. 344. 
 Seton, Miss, i. 132. 136. 140, 141. 159. 185 ; 
 
 ii. 43. 
 Sevigne, Mad., her "Letters," i. 289. c, 
 Seward, FJiwatd, i. 16 ; ii. 20. 
 Seward, Miss, i. 201 ; ii. 23. 80. 285. Her 
 
 " Life of Darwin," i. 336. Her review 
 
 of Hogg's poems, ii. 23. Her death, 137. 
 
 Her " Letters," 225, 226. 297. 
 Sewell, Mr., iii. 410,411. 
 Sewell's History of the Quakers," iii. 199. 
 Sewell's " Recreations of a Clergyman," 
 
 iv. 301. 
 Shadwell, Mr. (afterwards Sir Launcelot), 
 
 iii. 67. 205; iv. 153. 155, 218. 
 Shaftesbury, town of, i, 75. 
 Shaw, Dr., iv. 368. 
 Shakspeare, his plays, i. 87. His " Flori- 
 
 sel," ii. 4. 15. His poetry, 174. Isaac 
 
 Reid's edition of his works, 247. Bowd- 
 
 ler's edition, iii. 13. 
 Sharpe, Richard, i. 279; ii. 148. 160; iii. 
 
 322. 441. 
 Shepherd, of Liverpool, ii. 80. 85. 
 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, his " Pi- 
 
 zarro," i. 87. Obtains an apointment 
 
 for Coleridge at Malta, 279. Moore's 
 
 " Life ' of, iii. 519. 
 Sherwin, case of, iii, 163. 
 Shield, William, the musician, iii. 106, 107. 
 
 121. 249; iv. 368. 
 Shipley, Conway, ii. 68. 
 Shiraz wine, iv. 51. 
 Shoemaker, the, at Quinta, i. 121. 
 Shuldam, Lady, ii. 45. 
 Sicily, i. 164. 165 ; ii. 228. 
 
 TyyistAsi-^ 
 
 QQ 4 
 
600 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sidmouth, Viscount, ii. 274 ; iii. 53. 319. 
 Sidney, Sir Philip, his " Arcadia," i. 224. 
 
 287. 315; ii. 97. His poetical qualities, 
 
 i. 224. His opinion of " Amadis of 
 
 Gaul," 268. His " Zelraane," ii. 4. 15. 
 
 Dr. Zouch's "Life" of, 97. 123. His 
 
 death, 104. 
 Sierra Leone, language of, ii. 206. The 
 
 Sierra Leone Report, iv. 179. 
 Simancas, the famous archives of, iii. 125. 
 Simeon, Mr., ii. 61. 
 Simpson, Mr. Samuel, of Liverpool, iii. 
 
 277. 
 Skiddaw, i. 232. 239. 257. 279; ii. 159. 421 ; 
 
 iii. 337. 
 Skottowe, Mr., his book, iv. 93. 
 Slave Trade, William Taylor's defence of 
 
 the, ii. 130. Sonnet to Lord Percy on 
 
 the, 179. Observations on the, 356—358. 
 
 Curious laws of Buenos Ayres relating 
 
 to slaves, 361. Attempts of the French 
 
 to restore the slave trade at St. Domingo , 
 
 iii. 313. 
 " Slave Trade, Abolition of the,".Graham's 
 
 poem, ii. 236. 
 Slavery, when abolished in England ? iii. 
 
 251. The Anti-Slavery Society, iv. 227. 
 Smedley, Rev. E., iv. 169. His " Religio 
 
 Clerici," 169. 
 Smirke, Robert, the artist, ii. 27. 
 Smith, Adam, his "Wealth of Nations," 
 
 translated into Spanish, i. 124. 
 Smith, Captain John, his " History," ii. 310. 
 Smith, Charlotte, i. 107. 179, 180. 184. Her 
 
 novels, 179. 
 Smith, Dr. Southwood, iii. 349. 
 Smith, Mr., of Brummejam, i. 333. 
 Smith, Mrs., the Quaker, i. 375. 
 Smith, Miss, i. 416; her "Fragments," 
 
 Smith, Sir Sidney, ii. 27. 199, 200. 
 
 Smith, Rev. Sidney, ii. 114. 144. 308; iv. 
 
 223. 242. 314. 357. 
 Smith, William, the sculptor, ii. 379. 
 Smith, Woodruffe, of Stock well, iii. 27. 
 Smith, William, iii. 66—71. 
 Snow in Cumberland, ii. 29. 
 Snowdon, i. 170, 171. 279. 
 Soame's "Poetry," iv. 365. 
 " Society, Dialogues upon the Prospects 
 
 of," iii. 177. 
 Somatenes, the term, iii. 307. 
 " Somers Tracts," the, ii. 186. 308. 
 Somerset, Duke of, i. 84. 
 Somersetshire, beauty of the north of, i. 84. 
 Somerville, Lord, i. 100. 372; ii. 87. 270. 
 
 295. His death, iii. 147. 152, 153. 155. 
 
 157. 165. 179. 205. 
 Sonnerat, his book, i. 301. 
 " Sophia de Lissau," iv. 178. 
 Soult, Marshal, his campaigns in Portugal, 
 
 iii 289. 
 Sousa, Miguel Pinto de, his " Musa Pane- 
 
 gyrica Theodosium," iii. 345. 
 South, Dr., his works, iii. 260. 
 South Downs, the, iii. 415. 
 Soutet, or Boutet, the French captain, i. 
 
 35. 37. 
 South Sea Missions, article on the, in the 
 
 " Quarterly Review," ii. 136. 151. 153. 
 
 164. 
 Southampton, i. 31. 
 Southcott, Joanna, i. 314. 325. 370 ; ii. 
 
 376. 392 ; iii. 373. 
 Sotheby, the poet, i. 68. His " Oberon," 
 
 68. His poem on Wales, 266. 
 Sotheby, Admiral, ii. 74. 79. 139. 180. 
 Southey, Charles Cuthbert, iii. 123. 128. 
 
 139. 180. 209. 212. 226. 292. 331. 412. 438. 
 
 444. 503; iv. 60. 68. 188. 423. 474.494. 
 
 508.519. 526. 533.555. 
 Southey, Mrs. Mary (Southey's aunt), iii. 
 
 153. 154. 226; iv. 474. 
 Southey, Herbert, i. 395. 407 ; ii. 4. 11. 18. 
 
 44. 63, 64. 68. 70. 102. 139. 142. 144. 207. 
 
 279. 301 . 317. 399. 422. His death, iii. 21. 
 
 Poetical epistle to, from his father, 24. 
 Southey, Canon John, i. 372 ; iii. 157. 
 
 179. 
 Southey, Margaret Edith, i. 210. 228, 
 
 229. 
 Southey, Mrs., senr., i. 36. 38. 50. 52, 53. 
 
 103.140. Letters to (see Letters). 
 Southey, Mrs., i. 29. 76. 78. 83. 85. 89. 100. 
 
 103. 108. 119. 136. 140. 143, 144. 174. 229, 
 
 230. 232, 233. 253. 261, 262. 273. 305. 315, 
 
 345, 346. 362. 377 ; ii. 89. 98. 127. 128. 143. 
 
 144.159.267. 299; iii. 22. 24. 140. 504. 
 
 531. Letters to (see Letters). 
 Southey, Mr. T. (Southey's uncle), i. 368. 
 
 372 ; ii. 82. 94. His death, 222. 
 Southey, Mrs. Sarah, ii. 401. 
 Southey, Captain Thomas, i. l.n. 6. 10. 12. 
 
 35, 36. 86. 149. 22H. 252. 2S7. 292. 304, 305. 
 
 309. 320. 327. 347, 348. 363. 381. 395. 402. 
 410. 427 ; ii. 44. 54. 63. 74. 79, 80. 94. 102. 
 117. 139. 180. 228. 271. 303. 309.348,349. 
 404; iii. 9. 96. 104. 131. 133. 140. 180. 
 386. Letters to (see Letters). 
 
 Southey, Bertha, ii. 141. 143. 150. 169. 207 ; 
 
 iii. 292. 413. 415. 489; iv. 539. 
 Southey, Dr. H. H., i. 52. 102. 130. 140. 
 
 158. 166. 246. 250. 255. 284, 285, 286. 337. 
 
 362. 364. 377. 388, 389. 395. 402. 415. 426 ; 
 
 ii. 11. 23. 35. 37. 44, 45. 58. 64. 81. 102. 
 
 114. 139. 142. 156. 178. 244. 348. 378. 415. 
 
 419.421.425; iii. 326. 347. 398. 454; iv. 
 
 169. 173. 366. Letters to (see Letters). 
 Southey, Edith May, i. 275. 277. 279. 304. 
 
 310. 323. 338. 350. 355. 377. 392. 400. 407. 
 423; ii. 11. 44. 70. 98. 102. 197.207. 227. 
 327. 407. 429 ; iii. 5. 57. 140. 292. 305. 
 310.317.326. 399. 424. 435. 503; iv. 68. 
 81. 98. 241. 292. (See Warter, Mrs.) 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 
 Southey, Edward, i. 252. 
 
 Southey, Emma, ii. 59. 63. Her death, 
 142. 144. 
 
 Southey, Isabel, ii. 296. 299. Her death, 
 iv. lo. 18. 77. 
 
 Southey, Kate, iv. 539. 541. 
 
 Southey, old John, i. 329. 
 
 Southey, Robert, attempts Euclid and the 
 Fathers, 5. Rejected at Christ Church, 
 6. His translations, 12 n. Goes to Por- 
 tugal, 20. And Spain, 21. Returns to 
 England, 29. Resides at Christchurch, 
 30. His views of the legal profession, 
 32, 33. 88. His account of his early life, 
 40 — 43. Resides in London, 47. His 
 marriage, 56. His journey to Burton, 
 74. Studies the character of Mohammed 
 and Mohammedanism, 77. Visits De- 
 vonshire^ — 80. Resides in Hampshire, 
 86. His plans for the future, 88. His 
 health, 95. 97. His unfinished " History 
 of Portugal," 96. 99. Rejects a proposal 
 to write a general history of poetry, 98. 
 Resides in Portugal, 101. Visits Cintra, 
 117. Settles his brother Henry, 130. 
 Takes a journey into the interior of 
 Portugal, 135. Hisjwork, 145. Extent 
 of his travels in Portugal, 146. Returns 
 to England, 160. His prospects, 164. 
 His tour in Wales, 168. His residence 
 in Dublin, 174. And in London, 180. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 601 
 
 His acquaintance with Mr. Corry, 182. 
 Resides at Bristol, 195. His " Thalaba" 
 reviewed by the " Edinburgh Review," 
 214. His version of " Amadis of Gaul," 
 217. Arranges to manage a "Biblio- 
 theca Britannica," 219. Loses his daugh- 
 ter Margaret Edith, 229. Resides at 
 Keswick, 229. Progress made with "Ma- 
 doc," 247. His eyes, 248. 282. His 
 supplement to Ellis's "Specimens," 262. 
 267. 209. Proposes to remove to London, 
 326. Visits Edinburgh, 341.345. Gives 
 up reviewing, 364. 383. His independent 
 spirit, 373. Prints his " Letters of D. 
 Manuel Espriella," 376. 378. His weak 
 lungs, 392. His son Herbert born, 395. 
 Edits Henry Kirke White's " Remains," 
 396, 397.417 , ii. 52. Studies the Dutch 
 grammar, 410. Settles down at Keswick, 
 i. 415. Gets a pension from the King, 
 417. 430 ; ii. 2. His " History of Brazil," 
 10. et scq. His plans for the year 1808, 
 28. Overtures made to him to bear a 
 part in the " Edinburgh Review," 29. 
 Refuses, 33. 35. Prepares a second 
 edition of his " Letters, 92. Applied to 
 to write for the " Quarterly Review," 
 107. His confession of faith, 108. The 
 first articles for the " Quarterly," 114. 
 123, 124. The proposed publication, 
 " Rhadamanthus," 139, 140. 146. Engages 
 to write for the " Edinburgh Annual 
 Register," 158. 162. Fails in obtaining 
 the Stewardship of the Derwentwater 
 Estates, 160, 161. Insures his life, 178. 
 Writes the revinw of Stanier Clarke's 
 "Life of Nelson," 185 — 187. His progress 
 in Dutch, 235. 239. His " Life of Nel- 
 son," 237.312.315. His reflections on 
 the state of England in 1812, 272—274. 
 276, 277. Fails to obtain the place of 
 historiographer to the King, 281 . Takes 
 a trip to Durham, &c, 283. His appre- 
 hensions of the downfal of the Church 
 Establishment, 91. His advice to| a 
 young man, 318, 319. Proposes to write 
 the " History of the Peninsular War," 
 324. Made Poet Laureate, 327. 331. 335. 
 His first New Year's " Ode," 339. Sends 
 " Roderick " to press, 340. Writes 
 " Oliver Newman," 381. And the "Life 
 of Wellington," 402. Made ,a member 
 of the Royal Academy of Madrid, 411. 
 Visits Belgium, 427. His " Pilgrimage 
 to Waterloo," iii. 10. 13. Death of his 
 son Herbert, 21. 28. Writes " The Tale 
 of Paraguay," 48. Takes a tour in 
 Switzerland and the Alps, 72. 75. Writes 
 the " Life of Wesley," 81. 110. And the 
 " History of the Peninsular War," 110 
 Prepares the " Cumberland Address," 
 148 — 150. His annoyance with the 
 " Quarterly," 167, 168. His advocacy of 
 cheap publications, 173. His " Collo- 
 quies upon the Prospects of Society," 
 177. 207. 230. His " Vision of Judg- 
 ment," 189. His proposed " Life of 
 George Fox," 199. 210. 213. 263. His 
 plan for writing a " Moral and Literary 
 History of England," 200. And for 
 writing a " Life of Warren Hastings," 
 202—204. The degree of D.C.L. con- 
 ferred on him, 205, 206. Writes a " Life 
 of Oliver Cromwell," 254. 284. And 
 " The Book of the Church," 294. 317. 
 His dedications to the " History of the 
 Peninsular War," 318. Learns Danish, 
 338. 352. 452. Proposals to him to write 
 
 a continuation of Warton's " History of 
 Poetry," 352. 357. His paper on the 
 " Theophilanthropist3 in France," and 
 the Rise and Progress of Infidelity, 383. 
 And on the " Reign of Charles II.," 398. 
 His idea of editing Sir T. Browne's 
 works, 426. Proposes a republication of 
 Montluc's " Commentaries," 441. Libel 
 of the "Morning Chronicle," 453. His 
 Chronicle of domestic events, 456 — 460. 
 His squib, " The Megistotherion," 464. 
 His " Vindication" of the " Book of the 
 Church," 469. 574. 478. His visits to 
 the Netherlands in 1825, 489 ; iv. 4. 
 Elected for the Borough of Downton, 6. 
 His " Essays, Moral and Political, 62. 
 253. 255. A "Life of Bonaparte" pro- 
 posed to him, 63. Edits General Wolfe's 
 " Letters," 63. Writes "Eleemon," 103. 
 105. 107. His dream of the Kraken, 
 126. Applied to to write a " History of 
 England," 154. Engages to write a 
 volume of " Naval History " for the 
 " Cabinet Cyclopaedia," 105. And to 
 write six volumes for the " Family 
 Library," 173, 174. Voted a medal by 
 the Royal Society, 203. Edits the " Life 
 and Correspondence of Dr. Bell," 365. 
 Publishes " The Doctor," 368. Edits 
 " Cowper's Works," 384. His " Memoir 
 of Dr. Watts," 395. Refuses a Baronetcy, 
 397, 398. Periodical issue of his works, 
 459, 537. His second marriage, 556. et *cq. 
 
 Spain, travelling in, i. 21. Uncultivated 
 land in, 23. Moorish Conquests of, 199. 
 Condition of Christianity in, 370. State 
 of, in 1808, ii. 77. 78. 113. 122. And in 
 1813, 326. And in 1822, iii. 338. 344. 350. 
 379. 393. 
 
 Spanish character and society, i. 20, 21. 27. 
 Civility to Englishmen, 22. Converts, 
 23. Poetry, 26. Ballads, 27. Bull- 
 fights, 116. Superstition, 208. Ancient 
 and modern language, ii. 89. Patriotism 
 of the people, 164. 254. Language in 
 South America, 176. Laziness, 241. 
 Colonies, condition of the, 263. Ease 
 with which the language may be learned, 
 292. 
 
 " Spanish remedy" (El remedio de Es- 
 pana), ii. 303. 
 
 " Specimens of English Poets," Southey's, 
 i. 166. 262. 269. 273, 274. 283. 376.388. 
 412. 414. 419. 428, 429 ; ii. 9. 12. 42. 
 
 " Specimens of Early English Poets," 
 George Ellis's, i. 166. 262. 269. 
 
 Spencean philanthropists, the, i i. 51. 
 
 Spencer, General, iii. 357. 
 
 Spenser, a favourite with Southey, i. 5. 
 260.268. His " Fairy Queen," 216. His 
 •' Mask of Cupid," ii. 4. 15. 
 
 Spithead, i. 86. 
 
 Spottiswoode, Robert, iv. 301 . 
 
 Stael, Madame de, ii. 332, 333. 340. Her 
 saying of Coleridge, 332. «. Her book 
 on Germany, 340. Her proposed heroic 
 poem, 385; iii. 244. 
 
 Staffordshire, earthquake in, i. 322. 
 
 Stael, M. de, iv. 58. 
 
 Stanhope, Lord, his insults to the bench 
 of bishops, ii. 291. His scheme re- 
 specting county votes, iii. 118. 
 
 Stapleton, boiling well near, i. 100. 
 
 " State, Book of the," Southey's idea of 
 writing a, iii. 434 ; iv. 16. 26. 
 
 " State Trials," Cobbett's, ii. 186. 
 
 Stavorinus, his book on India, i. 301. 
 
 " Steel's List," ii. 171. 
 
602 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Stereotype, introduction of, iii. 235. 
 
 Stevens, Miss, i. 144. 
 
 Stewart, Mr., ii. 209. 271. 
 
 Stewart, Dugald, iii. 314. 
 
 Stiles, Dr. Ezra, his " History of the 
 
 Three Judges," iii. 274. 
 Stillingfleet, Bishop, his Sermons, iii. 283. 
 Stock, Dr., iv. 68. 
 Stoddart, i. 370. 
 Stoddart, Dr., editor of the " Times," iii. 
 
 55. His " New Times," 455. 464. 
 Stonehenge, iv. 289. 
 
 Stones, Valley of, description of the, i. 79. 
 Stonor, Colonel, iii. 379. 
 Stork, the, i. 257. 
 
 " Stork," the, of Miss Barker, i. 256. 
 Stowey, i. 78. 
 Strachey, George, i. 55; ii. 207. 251. 290; 
 
 iii. 299. 351. 
 Strachey, Sir Henry, iv. 310. 
 Strada's " Decades," iii. 291. 394. 
 Streatham, Mr. Hill's living of, ii. 181. 
 
 185.191.203. 
 Strype's " Annals," iii. 259.441. 
 Stuart, Athenian, i. 72. 255. 394 ; ii, 341 ; 
 
 iii. 35. 
 Stuart, Sir Charles, iii. 252, 253. 278. 
 Styles, Dr. John, ii. 144. 
 " Succession, History of the War of the," 
 
 Lord Mahon's, iv. 353. 
 Sugar in potatoes ? i. 286. 
 Suicide, tendency to imitate, iii. 177. 
 Summer in Portugal, i. 113. 
 Sumner, Dr. (now Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury), iii. 539. 
 Sunderlin, Lord, his house at Keswick, 
 
 ii. 278. 295 ; iii. 304. 
 " Suppression Bill, the, iv. 132. 
 Surinam, language of, ii. 207. 
 Suwarrow, General, his instructions to hit 
 
 soldiers, ii. 312. 
 Swain, Charles, the Manchester poet, iv. 
 
 240. 275. 288. 306. 
 Swedenborgianism, i. 333. 
 " Swing, Life of," Henry Coleridge's, iv. 
 
 222. 
 Swiss, character of the, iii. 111. 
 Switzerland, visit to, iii. 72. 
 Sydenham's " Peninsular Papers," iii. 52. 
 
 54, 55. 
 " Sylvester," ii. 60. 
 Syntax, Dr., iv. 368: 
 
 T., his pamphlet, i. 250. 
 
 T., Colonel, and his wife, and Miss Seward, 
 ii. 226. 297. 
 
 Tag, Rag, and Bobtail, origin of the mean- 
 ing of, iii. 158, 159. 
 
 Tagus, scene on the, i. 110. Voyage down 
 the, 139. 
 
 Talfourd, Mr. (afterwards Mr. Justice), 
 iv. 512. 
 
 Taliessin, i. 80, 87. 167. 
 
 Talleyrand, Prince, iv. 239. 305. 
 
 Tantarararas, the, of the House of Com- 
 mons, ii. 55. 
 
 Tarley Castle, scenery at, i. 354. 
 
 Tarragona, siege of, ii. 326. 
 
 Tasso's " Jerusalem delivered," i. 330. 
 Hunt's translation of, iii. 283. The 
 Venice edition of 1722, iv. 463. 
 
 Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, his description of 
 Heaven, i. 206. His works, 206. His 
 sermons, 215. Heber's edition of his 
 works, iii. 260. 269. 
 
 Taylor, Charles, his death at Vimiero, iii. 
 85. 
 
 Taylor, Henry, iii. 160. 463. 491. 495; iv. 
 
 5. 93. 149. 211. 228. 310.398. His " Isaac 
 
 Comnenus," 65. His " Philip Van Arte- 
 
 velde," 374. 
 Taylor, John, the bookseller, iii. 388. 
 Taylor, Mr. George, ii. 17. 114. 306. 312. 
 
 390 ; iii. 509 ; iv. 269. 
 Taylor, Richard, the printer, i. 376. 
 Taylor, Thomas, his translation of Plato, 
 
 i. 192. 
 Taylor, William, i. 71. 130. 100. 213. 234. 
 
 237. 245. 249, 250. 285. 287. 295. 298. 363. 
 
 402.416; ii. 130; iv. 35. 98. His death, 
 
 440. . Notice of him, 438. 
 Techo, P. Nicholas del, his Latin history 
 
 of Paraguay, ii. 13. 
 Teddesley, ii. 230. 
 Tees, head of the, ii. 286. 288. 
 Tegner, Bishop, iv. 293. 
 Telford, Mr., iii. 252. 326. 329. 378. 395. 
 
 401. 456. 501 ; iv. 180. 546. His death, 
 
 391. 
 Tennant's "Indian Recreations," i. 301. 
 
 Review of, 336. 
 Tenterden, Lord, iv. 272. 
 "Tesoro Espanol, El," i. 234. 
 Test Act, repeal of the, i. 356. 
 " Thalaba," i. 89. 97. 99, 100. 102. 108. 118. 
 
 127. 130. 135. 140. 147. 155. 163. 178. 214. 
 
 323. 332. 343. 386 ; ii. 79. 101. 107. 123. 
 
 151. 294. 305. 348. 
 Thanet, Lord, iii. 290. 
 " Theatro-Critico," the, of Feyjoo, i. 
 
 326. 
 Thelwall, Algernon, iv. 178. 
 Thelwall, John, i. 255. 345. 
 Thevet, his " France Antarctique," ii. 13. 
 
 71 ; iii. 524. 
 Thiebault, General, iii. 279. 
 Thirlmere, Lake of, ii. 233. 
 Thomar, poems collected by King Diniz 
 
 at, i. 129. 
 " Thomas, My Uncle," the novel, i. 144. 
 Thornbury Castle, i. 98. 
 Thornton, Mr., iv. 445. 
 Thorpe's " Catalogue," iv. 29. 83. 
 "Tibet, Travels in,"^ Turner's, iii. 18. 
 
 Singular customs of, 18. 
 Ticknor, Professor, of Havrard College, 
 
 iii. 341. 
 Tides, the, of Bristol and Bridgewater, 
 
 i. 92. 
 Tilbrook, Mr., ii. 153. 422. 
 Timbuctoo, Portuguese at, i. 238. 
 " Times," newspaper, the, ii. 170.306. 352 ; 
 
 iii. 54, 55. 226 ; iv. 129. 263. 
 ' Times, the New," Dr.Stoddart's,iii.455. 
 
 464 ; iv. 30. 
 Tintagel, iv. 483. 
 Tintern Abbey, i. 98. Wordsworth's poem 
 
 on, 216. 
 Tobin, Blind James, i. 183. 193. 327. 
 Tobin, Captain, i. 327. 
 Tokay, history of a bottle of, iii. 268. 
 Tomich, Pere, ii. 70. 
 Tomkins, Mr., his Gothic halography, i. 
 
 296. 
 Tongataboo Islands, Mr. Mariner's ac- 
 count of the, iii. 12. 53. 62. 
 Tonkin, Nancy, i. 338. 
 Tooke, Home, i. 149. 373. 
 " Torso," the, iii. 58. 
 Tortoise, the, caught in Algarve, i. 351. 
 Totness, i. 84. 
 
 Toussaint, L'Overture, ii. 403. 
 Tower of London, armour in the, ii. 40. 
 
 42. Beasts in the, 332. 
 Towey, beavers in the, i. 243. 
 Townsend's case, ii. 321. 323. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 603 
 
 Townsend, Chauncey, his letters and 
 
 poems, iii. 57. 98, 99, 100. 259. 
 Townsend, Hare, iii. 100. 349. 
 Trade, Free, iii. 530. 
 Trafalgar, battle of, i. 361. 384. 
 Transportation of criminals, iii. 119. 
 Tras-os-Montes, province of, i. 155. 
 Travelling in Spain, i. 21. A traveller's 
 
 feelings, 23. Advantages of travel, 23. 
 
 Travelling in Portugal, 140, 141.1 
 " Travels in Portugal," Southey's, ii. 28. 
 
 43. 78. 
 " Tremaine," iii. 512. 
 Trieste, i. 89. 
 
 " Tristram Sir," Scott's, i. 336 ; ii. 27. 
 " Trystans," the Italian, iii. 49. 
 Tupi, or Brazilian language, ii. 177. 202 ; 
 
 iii. 461. Anchieta's " Grammar," ii. 
 
 271. 
 Tupinumbas, odd custom of the, ii. 238. 
 
 Montaigne's songs of the in his " Es- 
 says," iii. 315. 
 Turkey, Ewlia Effendi's historical and 
 
 statistical account of, in the middle of 
 
 the 17th century, ii. 382, 383. 
 Turks, the, in battle, iv. 119. 
 Turner, Dawson, iv. 428. 
 Turner, Mrs. Sharon, ii. 306. 
 Turner, Sharon, i. 219. 224. 292; ii. 47. 
 
 278. 321 ; iii. 62. 116. 155. 184. 352. His 
 
 " Anglo-Saxons," i. 326. 338 ; ii. 14. 41. 
 
 His article on " Sanskreet Grammar " 
 
 in the " Quarterly Review," 145. 179. 
 
 His " History of England during the 
 
 Middle Ages," ii. 394. 536 ; iv. 37. 262. 
 Turner's "Tibet," iii. 18. 
 Tweed, salmon spearing on the, i. 345. 
 Twining the second, iv. 295. 
 Tyler, Miss, ii. 37. 
 Tyne, head of the, ii/286. 
 Tyrolese, the, sacrificed by Austria, ii. 
 
 154. 
 
 Ulphilas, alphabet of, i. 226. The two 
 
 bishops of that name, 226. The Codex 
 
 Argenteus of, 226. 
 Unitarians, the, ii. 195. 
 United Irishmen, ii. 273. 
 United States, their premature separation 
 
 from England, ii. 241. 
 University honours, observations on, ii. 
 
 261. " Cramming," iv. 271. 
 Unwin, Mr., Cowper's friend, iv. 426. 
 Upcott, Mr., iv. 418. 469. 
 Utrecht, Peace of, ii. 351. 357 ; iii. 307. 
 
 Vaccination, i. 208. 
 
 Valentia, Lord, his " Travels," review of, 
 
 ii. 148. 151. 153. 162. 
 Valerius Flaccus, i. 243. 
 " Valeroso Lucideno," the, ii. 209. 271 ; 
 
 iii. 181. 252. 278. 
 Valle Crucis Abbey, account of, i. 168. 
 Van Mildert, Bishop of Durham, iii. 539 : 
 
 iv. 45. 
 Van Diemen's Land, iii. 373. 
 Vansittart, Mr., ii. 274. 
 Vardon, Mr., ii. 428; iii. 50. 
 Vardon, Mrs., ii. 428. 
 Vasconcellos, P. Siman de, his " Vida de 
 
 F. Joam d' Almeida," ii. 171. 205. 
 " Vathek'" Beckford's, i. 303. 
 Vaughan, Thomas, alias Eugenius Phila- 
 
 lethes, i. 94. 
 Vega, Lopez de, review of, iii. 78. 81 . 
 Vendee, La, ii. 410. 
 " Venezuela, History of," the, of Oviedo : 
 
 y Banos, iii. 198. 
 
 Verbeyst, the bookseller of Brussels, iii. 
 50.279. 419.478; iv. 71. 89. 
 
 Verdier, M., and his family, at Thomar, i. 
 139. His destitution in Paris, iii. 125. 
 
 Vernon and Hood, the publishers, i. 423 ; 
 ii. 111. 257. 320,321. 
 
 Vice, Society for the Suppression of, i. 
 282. 336 ; ii. 135. 
 
 Vicenza, i. 89. 
 
 Vieyra, the painter, his metrical Autobio- 
 graphy, i. 114, 115. 
 
 Vieyra, the Jesuit, book attributed to 
 him, ii. 53. 72. His authorship of the 
 " Papel Forte " discussed, 208. Barco's 
 "Life" of, 209, 210. His genius and 
 character, 210. 
 
 Vigo, i. 123. 
 
 Villafranca, ii. 86. 
 
 Viilegagnon's expedition, iii. 182. 
 
 Villiers on the Reformation, i. 321. 
 
 Vincent, St., account of him, iv. 171. 
 
 Vincent, Dr., i. 6. 203. 208; ii. 322. 353. 
 
 Vincent, Lord St., i. 295. 
 
 " Vincent, History of," ii. 71. 
 
 " Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanaj," Sou- 
 they's, iii. 478. 480. 483. 509. 514. 517. 
 520. 522.525.530,531. 
 
 Virgil, i. 29. 
 
 " Vision," the, i. 343. 
 
 " Vision of Don Roderick," Scott's, ii. 
 225. 
 
 "Vision of Judgment," the, iii. 189. 221. 
 229. 231. 233. 236. 238. 245. 251. 
 
 Vitus's dance, St., iv. 43. The Saint 
 himself, 43. 
 
 Volney, i. 369. 
 
 Voltaire, influence of his writings in Por- 
 tugal, i. 107. His genius, 187. 
 
 " Voyages, BibliothSque Universelle des," 
 ii. 349. 
 
 Vries, Jeronimo de, his " History of Dutch 
 Poetry " iv. 49. 
 
 W., the player, ii. 342. 
 
 " Waggoner," Wordsworth's, iii. 205. 
 
 Wakefield, Gilbert, imprisonment of, i. 
 
 391. His book, iii. 60. 
 Wakefield, Mr. (son of Priscilla Wake- 
 field), ii. 235. 
 Wakefield, Priscilla, ii. 235. 
 Wakefield, Rev. Thomas, his death, i. 404. 
 
 Inscription for his tomb, 405. 
 Walcheren, Island of, expedition to the, ii. 
 
 154 212 228. 
 Wale's, North, scenery of, i. 168-172. 243. 
 
 248. Beavers in, 243. Cannibalism in, 
 
 iii. 12. Druidism in Wales as late as 
 
 the 12th century, 200. 
 Walhouse, Mr., ii. 73, 74. 
 Walla Wood, iii. 327. 
 Wallace, Mr., his "Address," iii. 149. 151. 
 
 154. His character, 149. 154. 
 " Wallenstein's Camp," i. 122. 
 Waller's poetry, i. 418. Henry Kirke 
 
 White's addition to one of his songs, 
 
 418. 
 Walpole, Horace, i. 173. 
 " Walpole, Memoirs of Lord," quoted, i. 
 
 212. 
 Walpole, Mr., i. 114. 
 Walpoles, the, in Lisbon, i. 114. 
 Walpole, Horace, ii. 97. 
 Walsh, Mr. his articles in the " Edinburgh 
 
 Review," ii. 151. 251. 
 Walter, Mr., proprietor of the " Times," 
 
 iii. 55. 
 Walton's " Present State of the Spanish 
 
 Colonies," ii. 359. 
 
604 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wanley's " Wonders of the Little World, 
 or a General History of Man," iv. 
 535. 
 Warburton, Bishop, his " Correspon- 
 dence," ii. 132 ; iii. 277. 
 Ward's " Account of the Hindoos," iv. 57. 
 Warden. Mrs., i. 114. 
 Waring, Scott, ii. 48. 
 Warner's " Literary Recollections," iv. 
 
 542. 
 " Warning Voice," the, published, iii. 225. 
 
 230 * iv 283 
 Warter, Rev.'j. W. iv. 189. 219. 293. 866. 
 
 269. 394. 462. 
 Warter, Mrs. (See Southey, Edith May), 
 
 iv. 366. 368. 563. 
 Warton's " History of Poetry," iii. 352. 
 
 357. 372. 
 Warton, Joseph, his poems, i. 420. 426. 
 Wastdale, i. 329. 
 
 " Wat Tyler," iii. 59. 61. 66 ; iv. 527. 
 Waterhouse, Mr., i. 129. 141. 143. 154 ; iv. 
 
 31 32 
 Waterloo, battle of, ii. 415. 418. 421. 425. 
 
 Visit to the field of, 429. 
 Waterloo Bridge, ii. 332. 
 Watts, Alaric, iv. 124. 
 Watts, Dr.,iv. 380. 
 " Waverley Novels," the, iii. 117. 
 " Wealth of Nations," the, translated into 
 
 Spanish, i. 124. 
 Weber's " Metrical Romances," ii. 308. 
 Wedgewoods, the, i. 185. 
 Weld, Isaac, iv. 79. 
 Wellesley, Richard, iii. 52. 
 Wellesley, Marquis, ii. 170. 401. 405; iii. 
 
 56. 289. 397. 
 Wellington, scenery near, ii. 231. 
 Wellington, Lord (afterwards Duke of), 
 ii. 165. 176. 216. 262. 270. 303. 306. 399. 
 412. 415, 416.425; iii. 5. 56. 196. 409; 
 iv. 89, 122. 143. 187. 193. 196. 282. Con- 
 templated " Life " of, 399. 411. 
 " Wellington, Life of," Southey's, ii. 402. 
 Welsh language and literature, i. 83. 
 
 Dress, 242. 
 " Welsh Remains," the, iii. 368. 
 Wensley Dale, ii. 288 ; iv. 61. 
 Werth, the German, ii. 420. 
 Wesley, Charles, iv. 455. 
 Wesley, John, i. 360 ; ii. 33 ; iii. 537. His 
 family, i. 411. His suit of sable and gold, 
 ii. 59. Southey's " Life " of, iii. 81. 92. 
 96, 97,98. 110. 123. 132. 140,141. 156.164. 
 169. 171. 178. 188. 234.327. 
 Wesleyans, the, i. 146. 248. 255. 410, 411 ; 
 
 iii. 141. 
 West, Sir Benjamin, iv. 54. 
 Westall, W., the younger, iii. 33. 53. 58. 
 85. 88. 230. 259. 294. 316. 323. 354. 437 ; 
 iv." 10. 236. 288. 
 West India squadron, the, of 1804, i. 319, 
 
 320. 
 " West India Company, History of the," 
 
 Laet's, iii. 182. 256. 
 Westminser School, i. 30 ; ii. 289 ; iii. 327 ; 
 
 iv. 159. 310. 446. Library of, i. 90. 
 " Westmoreland Gazette," the, iii. 135. 
 Westoby, Mr., the artist, iv. 532. 
 Whaley, Mr., his tragedy, i. 87 .j 
 Wharton, Dr., ii. 244. 
 Winston's " Memoirs of Himself," iii. 261. 
 Whubread, Mr., ii. 170. 187. 351. 416; iii. 
 
 68. 
 White, Blanco, his " Letters from Spain," 
 iii. 317. 329. His articles in the " Quar- 
 terly," i. 405. 
 White, Henry Kirke, his first volume of 
 
 Poems, i. 252. 411. His "Rosemary 
 Bush," 252. His health, 242. His 
 "Remains," 398,399.411. 418. 423; ii. 
 6, 7. 47. 50. 61. 71. 88. 111. 122. 173. 198. 
 248. 257. 320, 321 ; iii. 258. 297. 379. 447. 
 His Calvinism, 89. His proposed poem, 
 the " Christiad," 184. The Illustra- 
 tions 294. 
 White/Mr. 'j. N., ii. 75. 122. 197. 242. 292. 
 295. 319, 320 ; iii. 112. 127, 128. 191. 258. 
 330. 379. 385, 386. 401. 425. 443. 448. 467. 
 491. 525 ; iv. 35. 285. 307. Letters to 
 (see Letters). 
 White, James,; ii. 133. 230. 233. 261. 287. 
 294. 319. 375. 377. 407. 409. 422. 424; 
 iii. 330 ; iv. 27. 35. 134. 149. 237. 276. 
 Letters to (see Letters). 
 Whitefield, the Rev. George, his fol- 
 lowers, i. 254. His journal, 410. 
 Whitehaven, iii. 148. 153. 
 White's " Natural History of Selborne," 
 
 iv. 208. 
 Wicliffe, Lewis's "Life" of, iii. 429; iv. 
 
 190. Baher's " Life " of, 430. 
 Wieland, his *' Oberon," i. 68. 191. 
 Wild, Jonathan, and the Ordinary, ii. 38. 
 Wilberforce, William, i. 245. 413; ii. 61. 
 
 326 ; iii. 53. 67, 68. 99, 100. 304. 
 Wilkes, John, " Letters" of, i. 289. 
 Wilkie, Sir D., iv. 387. 
 Wilkin, Mr., iii. 426. 443. 
 Wilkinson, Rev. Joseph, ii. 35. 
 Wilkinson, Thomas, iii. 264. 
 William IV., iv. 346. His death, 518. 
 Williams's " Missionary Enterprise in the 
 
 South Sea Islands," iv. 506. 
 Williams, the Lord Keeper Archbishop, 
 
 " Life of," iii 261. 284.430. 
 Williams, Roger, ii. 390 ; iii. 145. 
 Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, his poems, 
 
 iii. 348. 
 Willis, Dr., i. 413. 
 Wilson, Prof., his account of Southey, iii. 
 
 124. 
 Wilson, Mrs., i. "6. 311 ; ii. 265 ; iii. 179. 
 
 Her death, 185. 
 Wilson, Sir Robert, ii. 311. 314 ; iii. 27. 340. 
 Wilson, Sir John, iv. 38. 
 Winborne, town of, i. 75. 
 Windham, Mr., i. 358. 381 ; iii. 51. His 
 
 Army Bill, i. 383. 
 Winds, hot, of Portugal, i. 113. 119. The 
 West Indian " Doctor," 113. Dr. Hol- 
 land's theory of hot winds, ii. 405. 
 Wine-duties, i. 30. 
 Wine, the, of the Rhine Countries, iii. 
 
 74. 
 Winifred, St., and the Roman Catholics, 
 
 ii. 373. 
 Winterbottom, the dissenting minister of 
 
 Plymouth, iii. 65—67. 
 Winthrop's " Journal," iii. 500. 
 Wintle, Southey's schoolfellow, iii. 269. 
 Wishing-cap, the, of the " Nibelungen 
 
 Lied," i. 293. ». 
 " Witches," Bedford's, i. 85. 
 Wither, George, i. 256,257; ii. 103. 394; 
 
 iv. 441. 
 Wither, Lovelace Bigg, Esq., ii. 106. 109; 
 
 iv. 48. 
 Wither, Lovelace Bigg, Esq.,junr.,iv.297. 
 
 330. 
 " Wittman's Travels," review of, ii. 40. 
 Wivelcombe, i. 80. 
 Wolfe, General, his letters to his \ father, 
 
 iv. 52. 63. 84. 
 Wolseley, Mr. Robert, ii. 17, 18. 84. 230 ; 
 iii. 226. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 605 
 
 
 Wolseley, Mrs., ii. 17, 18. 230. 
 Wolseley, Sir C, iii. 226. 
 Wolseley, Sir William, ii. 84. 230. 
 Women, their condition in civilisation and 
 
 amongst savages, i. 92- 
 Wood, Miss, ii. 16. 98. 
 _Woolstonecraft, Mary, sonnet to, i. 180. 
 Wordsworth, Captain, his death, i. 318. 
 Wordsworth, Mrs., i. 328. 
 Wordsworth, Dr., iii. - 167. 322. 327. 430. 
 
 450. 
 Wordsworth, Dr., Chris, iv. 447. 
 Wordsworth, William, i. 216. 216. n. 237. 
 
 245. 254. 271. 386. 408. 410 ; ii. 15, 16. 54. 
 
 108. 117. 376.409. 425; iii. 7. 109. 133. 
 
 205. 222. 279. 311. 487, 488 ; iv. 225. 
 Wordsworth, Miss Dora, iii. 194. 504 ; iv. 
 
 81.173. 
 Worgan, M., i. 287. 289. 
 " World, the," i. 35. 
 
 Wortley, Lady, her " Letters/' i. 286. 289. 
 Worthington, Mr., i. 117. 
 Wrangham, Archdeacon, iii. 475. 
 Wyndham, Mr., i. 116. 213. 
 Wynn, C. W. Wiliiams, Esq., i. 30. 32. 69. 
 
 122. 164. 242. 294. 304. 309. 316. 363, 364. 
 
 382. 393. 408.417. 427; ii. 3. 18. 23. 179. 193. 
 
 212. 230. 249. 355. 386. 425; iii. 62, 6>. 
 
 108. 119, 120. 162. 182. 280. 298, 299. 336. 
 
 351. 392 ; iv. 48. 85. 90. 95. 117. 132. 291. 
 
 3C9. 317. 330. 345. 529. Letters to (see 
 
 Letters). 
 Wynn, Sir Henry W. W., ii. 295 ; iii. 252. 
 Wynn, Mrs., iii. 219. 432. 
 Wynne, Sir John, i. 253. 
 Wvnnstay, seat of, i. 86. 243 ; ii. 23 : iii. 
 
 182. 
 Wyon, Mr., iv. 455. 
 
 Xarayes, the Lago, ii. 98. 
 
 " Xavier, Life of S. Francisco," i. 233. 
 
 Yescombe, Captain, i. 117. 122. 159. 235. 
 
 York, Duke of, i. 347 ; ii. 129. 132. 140. 
 228 ; iii. 488. 
 
 York Cathedral, burning of, iv. 129. 
 
 Yorke, Mr., i. 243 ; ii. 228. 
 
 Young, Arthur, quoted, i. 19. His account 
 of agriculture and agriculturists in 
 France, iii. 519. 
 
 Young, Dr., Dean of Salisbury, iv. 462. 
 
 Young, Edward, his tragedy of " The 
 Revenge," ii. 217. 
 
 "Young Dragon," the, iv. 170. 
 
 Yriarte's " Dancing Bear," Balfour's ver- 
 sion of, ii. 26. 
 
 " Ysumbras, Sir," poem of, i. 340. 
 
 Yucatan, Indians of, their mode of nume- 
 ration, ii. 134. 
 
 " Zaccoum's fruit accurst," iii. 391. 
 
 Zaragoza, siege of, ii. 113. 165. 272. 
 
 Zayas, the Spaniard, his death, ii. 254. 
 
 Zealand, New, language of, ii. 206. 
 
 " Zelmane," the, of Sir Philip Sidney, ii. 
 4. 15. 
 
 Zendavesta, the, of Anquetil du Perron, i. 
 78. 82. 
 
 Zonoras' Byzantine History, ii. 39. 
 
 " Zophiel," Mrs. Brooke's poem of, iv. 361 . 
 
 Zoroaster, i. 82. 
 
 Zouch, Dr., his "Life of Sir Philip Sid- 
 ney," ii. 97. 123. 
 
 Zurita, i. 233. 
 
 Zuyder Zee, the, iv. 108. 
 
 THE END. 
 
49 
 
 699 Hardwicke (Lord Chancellor) Life, &c. by G. Harris, 3 vol. 
 
 port. &c. uncut 1847 
 
 700 Scottish Songs and Ballads, collected and illustrated by 
 
 E. Chambers, 3 vol. uncut Edinb. 1829 
 
 701 Taylor (W.) of Norwich, Memoir of Life and Writings 
 
 with his correspondence with R. Southey, compiled by 
 J. W. Robberds, 2 vol. portrait, uncut, 1843 ; and others 
 
 11 vol. 
 
 702 Southey (R.) and C. C. Southey, Life of the Rev. Andrew 
 
 Bell, 3 vol. port, uncut, 1844 — Wordsworth (C.) 
 Memoirs of W. Wordsworth, 2 vol. port, uncut, 1851 — 
 Wordsworth (W.) The Prelude, first edition, 1850 
 
 6 vol. 
 
 703 Southey (R.) History of the Peninsular War, 6 vol. 
 
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 704 Taylor (W.) Historic Survey of German Poetry, 3 vol. 
 
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 705 Elizabeth (Queen) and her Times, a . series of original 
 
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 706 DTsraeli (I.) Curiosities of Literature, 6 vol. port. 1834 
 
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 707 Liddon (H. P.) The Divinity of our Lord, half bound, 
 
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 between Bp. J ebb and A. Knox, edited by C. Foster, 
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 graph, 1834 8 vol. 
 
 708 Whately (Abp.) Works, 12 vol. calf gilt, 1832-41 ; and 
 
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 709 Clarendon (Earl of) History of the Rebellion and Civil 
 
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 710 Owain Miles, and other Inedited Fragments of Ancient 
 
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 (R.) Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress 
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 720 Loudon (J. C.) Magazine of Natural History, vol. I to VIII, 
 
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 bookplate, uncut, in the original boards 1826 
 
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 natory (translated from the French by the Rev. Mr. 
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 (G.) Hymns and Songs of the Church, 1815 ; and 
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 780 Johnson (S.) Dictionary of the English Language, with 
 
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 788 Gray (T.) Poems, with Memoirs by Mason, portrait, old 
 
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 795 Southey (E.) Eeview of Madame de la Eoche Jacque- 
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 the light of his countenance had shone upon her. Banfill 
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 he was always the great man — always the first — always 
 Bonaparte. God bless him — but he disturbs my dreams 
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 4 2 ^SOEJHEYXEobertX A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Decem ber 5, 1799, to 
 
 Coleridge, telling him that he writes from Bristol, "drawn 
 there by illness, and that nervous fever very much 
 reduced him, and mentioning his poems, &c. ; " To your 
 advice respecting Madoc I must thus reply. For the last 
 sixteen months my opinion has been fixed upon the sub- 
 ject. I shall finish it and polish it with all convenient 
 speed, so that it may be ready for publication. Th(j 
 longer it is left the less faulty will it be, and in case of 
 my death it will be a post-obit bond for my family op 
 considerable value, with only a little trouble on the part 
 of my friends ; published now it could not possibly be 
 half so lucrative." 
 
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 43 Southey (Roberta A. L. s. (with initial), 3^ pp. 4to. to 
 Coleridge 1 i nteresting letter referring to his children and 
 "otner tamily matters : Eight and twenty sheets of Madoc 
 are printed, twelve more are in the printer's hands — 
 Ballantyne, of Edinburgh — and I just now stuck in the 
 mud in the last insertion of new story, being the sixteenth 
 section of the second part. However, the compleat leisure 
 of a week will carry me a long way, and if no untoward 
 accident intervenes, the whole will be done before this 
 can reach Malta. You will instruct me accordingly as 
 you regulate your movements, whether to send out a copy 
 or not — perhaps my plans may in some degree influence 
 yours. I certainly intend, if not prevent'd by any public 
 or private event, to remove to Lisbon about this time 
 twelvemonths, with the intention of remaining there two 
 or three years — the longer the better. If you do not 
 return home in the summer, this will induce you to touch 
 at Lisbon. Of myself there is nothing more to com- 
 municate, save that I have resolvd upon adding a History 
 of the Monastic Order or Monachism to my other 
 historical labours." 
 
 14 S outhey, (Robert) A. L. s. (with initial) 31 pp. 4to. to 
 Coleridge, March 12th, 1804 : " You would rejoice with 
 me, were you now at ALeswick, on the tidings that a box 
 of books is safely harboured in the Skerrey, so that for 
 the next fortnight I shall be more interested in the news 
 of Fletcher than of Bonaparte. It contains some dupli- 
 cates of the lost cargo. Talk of the happiness of getting 
 a great prize in the lottery 1 what is it to opening a box 
 of books ! The joy upon lifting up the cover must be 
 something like what we shall feel when Peter the Porter 
 opens the door up stairs and says, Please to walk in, 
 Sir. That I shall never be paid for my labour according 
 to the current value of time and labour is tolerably 
 certain ; but if any one should offer me ten thousand 
 pounds to forego that labour, I should bid him and his 
 money go to the devil, for twice the sum could not 
 purchase me half the enjoyment." 
 
 4 5 Southey (Robert) A. L. s. 8 pp. folio, to Coleridge, with 
 on the back an A. L. s. of Mrs. Coleridge : " I hardly 
 look forward, my hopes have been so often prolongd, and 
 are now so blasted ; but my wish is to finish and publish 
 Madoc, that I may have wherewith to return to Portugal." 
 Very fine specimen 
 
 46__SouiHJ2L (Robert) A. L. s. 3£ pp. 4to. Keswick, Feb. 9, 
 1809. to Ebenezer Elliott , in answer to a letter enclosing 
 a specimen of his poem : " It is far, very far, from my 
 
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 wish to discourage or depress you. There is great 
 promise in this specimen ; it has all the faults which I 
 should wish to see in the writings of a young poet, as 
 the surest indications that he has that in him which 
 will enable him to become a good one. But no young 
 man can possibly write a good narrative poem, tho' I 
 believe he cannot by any other means so effectually 
 improve himself as by making the attempt." 
 
 47 SOUTHEY ( Robert) A. L. s. 2Jr pp. 4to. Keswick, November 
 _*£"£. Ib09. to the same i ™ I have had your poem little 
 
 more than a week ; yesterday I carefully perused it (not 
 having had leisure before), and should this evening have 
 written to you, even if your letter had not arrived. 
 There are in this poem (which appears to be an alteration 
 of that whereof you formerly sent me an extract) 
 unquestionable marks both of genius and the power of 
 expressing it. I have no doubt that you will succeed in 
 attaining the fame after which you aspire, but you have 
 yet to learn how to plan a poem ; when you can do this, 
 I am sure you are able to execute it." 
 
 48 SouTSEX^R^ier^A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Keswick, Feb. 9. 1810, 
 - to the same ; " The objections which have been made to 
 
 / ^ f(y— ~ the style of Madoc are ill founded. It has no other 
 
 peculiarity than that of being pure English, which 
 unhappily in these times renders it peculiar. My rule 
 of writing whether for prose or verse is the same, and 
 may very shortly be stated — it is to express myself, 1st, 
 as perspicuously as possible ; 2nd, as concisely as 
 possible ; 3rd, as impressively as possible ; this is the 
 way to be understood and felt and remembered. But 
 there is an obtuseness of heart and of understanding 
 which it is impossible to reach." 
 
 49 SOTJ£EJS (Robert^ A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Keswick, Ju ne 5, 1810, 
 to the = jLajn£_; " There is one lesson which you should 
 especially learn from our great poets, that of purity of 
 style, and the charm of giving not only a meaning, but 
 
 its own peculiar meaning to every word, in which almost 
 all your contemporaries grievously, most grievously, 
 deficient. Campbell's Gertrude has scarcely a sentence 
 of good English in it. 
 
 50_SOUTHEY ( Robert) A^_ L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Keswick, 30 Feb. 
 1809, to the samej " You will say that this opinion 
 proceeds from the erroneous system which I have 
 pursued in my own writings, and which has prevented 
 my poems from obtaining the same popularity as those 
 of Lord Byron and Walter Scott. But look at those 
 poets whose rank is established beyond all controversy — 
 
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 look at the Homeric poems, at Virgil, Dante, Ariosto, 
 Milton. Do not ask yourself what are the causes of the 
 failure or success of your contemporaries, their failure or 
 success is not determined yet — a generation, an age, a 
 century, will not suffice to determine it ; but see what it 
 is by which those poets have rendered themselves 
 immortal who after the lapse of centuries are living and 
 acting upon us still." 
 
 5 1 Bouthey (Robert) A. L. s. 3| pp. 4to. May 29, 1798, to 
 Mrs. Southey . interesting letter referring to his visit to 
 Mr. Ormsby 
 
 ' 52_SoUTHEY_,(Robert) A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Faro, Anril 17 r 1801. 
 t o Mrs. Southey^. written during his visit to Spain, on 
 various interesting subjects relating to his travels 
 
 53 SojIIHEX (Robert) A. L. s. 21 pp. 4to. March 17 r 1817, to 
 "William Smith , on matters connected with the surrepti- 
 tious publication of Wat 
 
 of "Wat Tyler. " You call upon the 
 Government to prosecute me for a work written in the 
 year 1794, & not first published, for motives which can- 
 not be mistaken, by some person as little scrupulous as 
 yourself concerning the means by which he may gratify 
 the malignity of factious feeling. And you bring it as a 
 heinous charge against me, that having entertained wild 
 & extravagant notions of liberty in my youth, three & 
 twenty years should have produced a change in the 
 [ opinions of one whose life has been devoted to unremit- 
 ting study, & who may say in the words of Bentley to you 
 & teach you, that he has forgotten more than ever you 
 learnt." 
 
 jQUTHEY C Robert"! A. L. s. 3 pp. Ato. March 17 J _I8T7 J to 
 the Editor of the Courier on the same subject. "In 
 the year 1794 this manuscript was placed by a friend of 
 mine (long since deceased) in Mr. Ridgeway's hands. 
 Being shortly afterwards in London myself for a few 
 days, I called on Mr. Ridgeway in Newgate ; & he & Mr. 
 Symonds agreed to publish it. I understood that they had 
 changed their intention because no proof sheet was sent 
 me, & acquiescing readily in their cooler opinion, made no 
 enquiry concerning it. More than two years elapsed before 
 I revisited London, & then if I had thought of the 
 manuscript it would have appeared a thing of too little 
 consequence to take the trouble of claiming it for the 
 mere purpose of throwing it behind the fire. That it 
 might be published surreptitiously at any future time, 
 Was a wickedness of which I never dreamt/' 
 
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 5 5 SOUTHEY (Robert) A. L. s. 3^ pp. 4to. Kesioick, Nov. 8, 
 
 1831 , to Dr. Bell. " I was invited lately to offer myself 
 a candidate for the Professorship of Humanity at Glas- 
 gow, & it was represented that the prospect of success 
 was not doubtful. Under the present circumstances of 
 the publishing trade, it would have become a question of 
 prudence in which inclination must not have been per- 
 mitted to interfere, if it had not so happened that the in- 
 vitation found its way to me too late to admit of my 
 making enquiries concerning particulars which it did not 
 communicate. If as I suspect the Professors are required 
 to subscribe to the Kirks Articles of Faith, there could 
 have been no choice." 
 
 56 SCOTT (Sir Walter) A. L. s. 5| pp. 4to. Abbotsford, May 
 
 17, 1817, to Southey, very fine specimen. " I have to 
 thank you for the continuation of the history of Brazil 
 one of your gigantic labours the fruit of a mind so active 
 yet so patient of labour. I am not yet far advanced in 
 the second volume reserving it usually for my hour's 
 amusement in the evening." 
 
 57 Scott (Sir Walter) A. L. s. 1£ pp. 4to. to the Duchess of 
 
 Richmond, introducing Southey to her. " I take the 
 opportunity of making my respectful acknowledgements 
 by favour of my friend Mr. Southey whose reputation 
 must be so well known to your Grace and I hope I do 
 not too much intrude upon the encouragement you have 
 been pleased to give me if I take the opportunity to make 
 his visit to Brussels known to your Grace, as he is in 
 every respect a gentleman as well as a man of the first 
 poetical genius." 
 
 58 Bowles (Rev. W. Lisle) Poet, A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Bath, 
 
 Feb. 11, 1815, to Southey, interesting letter, thanking 
 him for the mention he has made of his poetical writings 
 in the Quarterly Review — A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. December 
 30, 1815, asking Southey to point out the chief faults in 
 the third Edition of his last poem (2) 
 
 59 BOWLES (Rev. W. Lisle) A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Bremhill, Oct. 
 
 22, 1820, to Southey, interesting letter referring to his 
 works — A. L. s. 3 pp. 8vo. Bremhill, n. d., to Southey, 
 inviting Southey to visit him (2) 
 
 60 LAMB (CharlesXA. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. 34, Southampton Build- / $o/ 
 
 ings, Monday, to Southey, very curious letter. " Lafst 
 year poor Mary after 12 weeks absence, came home ^o 
 low spirited & utterly unable to manage, that we sold off 
 furniture & went into board & lodging. We had been 
 warned to leave the house previously, & that hung upon 
 
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 her mind. We boarded & lodg'd 9 months, but were so 
 uncomfortable, that having no incumbrance to move, I 
 thought we would try again old Natural London. But 
 that slight removal overcame her, & she is now in her 
 9th week of absence (it will be 9 weeks tomorrow), & I am 
 alone, to begin life as we shall consult when she gets 
 better." 
 
 fij Wflp-na^ju (Wil^™) A L. s. 3 pp. 8vo. Penrith, Sept. 
 28, 183 5. to Southev . "Your improved Wesley will 
 prove a most interesting Work, and will be well timed ; 
 as through the force of factious passions, & presumptious 
 opinions, a great secession from the Society as estab- 
 lished by its Founder, appears to be taking place." 
 
 62 " White f Rev. John Blanco ") A. L. s. 7 pp. 4to. Charles St. 
 Jan. 27, 1812, to Southey, very fine letter on various 
 subjects. " Your Beview of the Inquisitorial Books and 
 pamphlets is exquisite. What a flow of sense, learning, 
 and wit! That Article, as far as I can be a judge in these 
 matters, is a model of how Reviews ought to be, if they 
 are to answer the purpose of spreading information 
 through the whole mass of a community." 
 
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 63 Wttttti ("R.fty. John Blanrio) A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. 7 Paradise 
 
 Row, July 3rd, 1836, to Southey, thanking him for the 
 kind manner in which he has spoken of his letter to 
 Butler — A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to, Oxford, November 18th, 
 1828 (2) 
 
 64 CLARKSON (Thomas) A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Purfieet, January 
 
 25th, 1808, to Southey, giving him advice as to the sum 
 he should take for his History of Portugal 
 
 6 5 Bar ton (? a ™a H) Quaker Poet . A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. Wood- 
 
 ~~ hridge, July V6t h\ 1814, to Southev . " I have for many 
 years been a constant reader of thy poetical productions, 
 and can do no less than thank thee for the many agree- 
 able hours the perusal of them has afforded me ; from the 
 interest excited by that perusal to know all that I could 
 of their author I procured a few days since a No. of a 
 Magazine in which was advertized a biographical Sketch 
 of R. Southey, Esq. I read it through, and glanced over 
 the features of the Portrait which accompanied it, with 
 an eagerness, which were I to attempt to express, thou 
 wouldst probably smile at." — Inglis (Sir R. H.) A. L. s. 
 2 pp. 8vo. Bedford Square, May 27, 1835, to Southey 
 
 6 6 GlFFORD ( Will iam 1 Critic, Three interesting Letters, 1809- 
 11, to Robert Southey, on literary and other subjects 
 
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 67 Lockhart (J. G.) A. L. s. 3 pp. 8vo. Pall Mall, April 11, 
 1826, to Southey. " I believe Mr. D'Israeli has some- 
 intention of writing an article on the History of his Na- 
 
 /tion during the Middle ages, and I therefore should like 
 to have yours on the Jew Society in an early number." — 
 A.L.s. 4 pp. 8vo. December 9, 1826, to Southey — A.L. s. 
 21 pp. 4to. London, Feb. 9, 1829, to Southey (3) 
 
 68 Montgomery (James) Poet, Three very interesting Letters 
 addressed to Robert Southey, 1815-29, referring to his 
 poetical works, &c. 
 
 69 TlCKNOR (George) Poet, A. L. s. 1^ pp. 4to. Edinburgh, 
 March 10, 1819, to Southey, telling him that he intends 
 to pass a day at Keswick with him before he recrosses 
 the Atlantic, and that he is going to Abbotsford to stay 
 with Sir Walter Scott — A.L. s. l^pp. 8vo. Dumfries, 
 May 6, 1838, to Southey (2) 
 
 70 TlCKNOR (George) A. L. s. 5£ pp. 4to, Boston, May 27, 
 1822, to Southey, very fine and interesting letter, men- 
 tioning Southey 's History of Brazil, which he greatly 
 praises 
 
 71 Hesketh (Lady) Friend of Cowper, A. L. s. 5 pp. 4to. 
 Weston, May 17, 1794, to the Rev. Walter Bagot, a very 
 fine letter, referring to her Cousin the Poet. " You 
 may Sir very possibly have heard our dear friend speak 
 of his Cousin Hesheth as one to whom he is kindly par- 
 tial, and who has from her earliest youth felt for him 
 that strong & affectionate regard, & attachment of which 
 he is, so deserving, and which he cannot indeed fail to 
 inspire in the breasts of those who are acquainted with 
 his merits, and his misfortunes!" 
 
 72 Unwin (W. C.) A. L. s. 3 pp. 4to. n. d., to the Rev. John 
 
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 Newton, a very interesting and affectionate letter, mostly 
 on religious subjects. " I loved You dearly Mr. Newton 
 before I saw you, tho' I love you more now — may it in- 
 crease and attract Love & esteem in return. I will lay 
 open my heart to you in plain terms, and very freely — 
 I'm sure you'll give me leave — I dare to say you'll find 
 me sincere & honest and not altogether uncandid." 
 
 73 Copy of St. James' Chronicle, December 11, 1798, contaiajflg'"' 
 
 an account of the Battle of the Nile 
 
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 74 The London Gazette of October 2, 1798, containing an ac- 
 count of the Battle of the Nile, with some MS. notes and 
 calculations by Southey 
 

 t8 
 
 of Southey's Life of Wesley, presented to S. T. Cole- 
 with the following memoranda in the handwriting 
 of Uoleridge on the fly-leaf. " It is my desire and request 
 that this work should be presented to its Donor and 
 Author, Robert Southey, after my Death. The substance 
 & character of the marginal annotations will abundantly 
 prove the absence of any such intention in my mind at 
 the time they were written. But it will not be uninter- 
 esting to him to know that the one or the other Volume 
 was the book more often in my hands than any other in 
 my ragged Book regiment, and that to this work and to 
 the Life of R. Baxter I was used to resort whenever sick- 
 ness & Languor made me feel the want of an old friend, 
 of whose company I could never be tired. How many & 
 many an hour of self oblivion do I owe to this Life of 
 Wesley — how often have I argued with it, questioned, & 
 remonstrated, been peevish & asked pardon, then again 
 listened & read, Right! Excellent ! & in yet heavier 
 hours intreated it, as it were, to continue talking to me, 
 for that I heard & listened & was soothed tho' I could 
 make no reply. Ah ! that Robert Southey had fulfilled 
 his intention of writing a history of the monastic Orders, 
 or would become the Biographer at least of Layola Xavier, 
 Domince, & the other remarkable Founders. 
 
 S. T. Coleridge 
 
 Grove, Highgate Aug. 1825." 
 
 * # * This very valuable and interesting book is filled through- 
 out on the margins with MS. notes by Coleridge, and to 
 the Wesleyan would be invaluable, the notes should be 
 read to be thoroughly appreciated. (2) 
 
 76 Hoe^e B. Marine Virginis secundum Usum Romanum cum 
 
 Calendario etAlmanach (1510-30), PRINTED ON VELLUM, 
 with woodcuts and capital letters illuminated in gold and 
 colours, sold with all faults Paris. G. Hardouyn (1510) 
 
 77 Kent. Old Deed on vellum, Grant of a Farm House called 
 
 Higham Hill, from Mary Petley of Chelsfield, to her son 
 Robert, 26 October, 1632 
 
 78 NORFOLK. Agreement by which Sir Robert Knolles re- 
 
 covers from John Drewe and John Seymour, of London, 
 the Pickenhamwade, with the Advowson of the Church 
 of Pickenhamwade, on payment of a fine of 500 marcs, 
 %th year of Henry VIII. 
 ' ?3H§pB,R,EY. Anthony Mason & Elizabeth his wife are enjoined 
 to Surrender to Francis Hawley three messuages, 3 cot- 
 tages, 2 gardens, 2 orchards, 6 acres arable & 6 acres 
 pasture in Kewe aliaz Keys & East Shene alias Mort- 
 lake; in default to appear in answer at Westminster, 
 9th May, 1592 
 
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 170 EO'JTHEY (Robert) A. L. s. 4 pp. 4to. December 10, 1807, 
 — -- N to Miss Seward, " You speak of Wordsworth's poems as 
 
 I should expect, fairly appreciating their defects and 
 excellencies. William Wordsworth is a most extraor- 
 dinary Man — one whose powers as a poet it is not 
 possible to over-rate and who will stand in the first rank 
 \ of poets. It is the vice of his intellect to be always 
 
 upon the stretch and strain, to look at pile works and 
 daffydowndillies thro' the same telescope which he applies 
 to the moon and stars, and to find subjects for philoso- 
 phizing and fine-feeling just as D. Quixote did for 
 Chivalry in every peasant and vagabond whom he meets. 
 Had I been his adviser great part of his last volumes 
 should have been suppressed, the storm of ridicule which 
 they would draw down might have been foreseen, and he 
 is foolishly and ever diseasedly sensible to the censure 
 which he despises," portrait 
 
 171 Stanhope (Lady Hester) b. 1776, d. 1839, A. L. s. 8 pp. 
 
 folio, Caifa, March 21, 1815, a very fine example in 
 answer to a letter from her Cousin, asking her to use 
 her influence with Emir Beecher, telling him " It has 
 ever been my aim during my residence in this Country 
 rather to elevate than degrade the minds of the people, 
 never to offend their prejudices, but never to indulge 
 their empty vanity " 
 
 I . 172 Steele (Sir Richard) Dramatist, A. L. s. lp. 4to. Land- 
 Guard Fort, September 28, 1702, referring to his various 
 /Military Operations and the Company of which he is 
 Captain. 
 
 173 Stewart (Dugald) b. 1753, d. 1828, A. L. s. 4 pp. 4to. 
 
 to Cadell, July 26, 1810, relating to a New Edition of 
 Adam Smith's Works. A small scrap of paper in his 
 autograph (2) 
 
 174 Stuart (Charles Edward) the Young Pretender, son of 
 
 James III, b. 1720, d. 1788, L. subscribed and signed, 
 1 p. 4to. in French, to Sir Peter Nugent, Rome, Feb. 2, 
 1774 — Albany (Louise de Stolberg, Countess of) A. 
 L. s. 1 p. 4to. in French, superscription and seal, business 
 letter to M. Gomel, Paris, December 30, 1786, portrait 
 of Charles Edward by Daulle, and portrait of the Countess 
 of Albany 
 
 175 Stuart (Henry, Cardinal) b. 1725, d. 1807, A. L. s. (with 
 _ L^-r initials), May 20, 1767, 1 p. 4to. " My brother was to 
 
 dine with me last thursday, I found him very well pleased 
 of his visit to the Pope, and particularly so of his having 
 had on that occasion a present from his Holiness of a 
 
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