a
number of Westlanders.

FOOTNOTES:

[124] Mr. Colvin Smith painted in all about twenty portraits of Sir
Walter, for seven of which he obtained occasional sittings. A list of
the persons who commissioned them is given at p. 73 of the _Centenary
Catalogue_.

[125] The Right Hon. Charles Hope.

[126] _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 2.

[127] Mount Benger, which he had taken in 1820.--See _ante_, page 96.

[128] It now hangs in the Drawing-room at Abbotsford.--See Sharpe's
_Letters_, vol. ii. p. 408.

[129] Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, had been a visitor at Abbotsford
in the autumn of 1821. Of this visit his son Julian gives a pleasant
account in a Memoir of his father, pp. 88-96. London, 1871. Mr. Young
died in June 1856.

[130] This enthusiastic Gaelic scholar, then parish minister of Laggan,
joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, and was elected Moderator of
its General Assembly in 1849. As a clergyman, he had afterwards a varied
experience in this country and in Australia, before he finally settled
in the island of Harris; he died at Portobello in 1873.

The Gaelic dictionary of the Highland Society was completed and
published in 2 vols. 4to, 1828. The editor was Dr. Macleod of Dundonald,
assisted by other Gaelic scholars. Dr. Mackay edited the poems of Rob
Donn in 1829.--See _Quarterly Review_, July 1831.

[131] See next page, under _Feb_. 19.

[132] The Right Hon. David Boyle.

[133] _My Aunt Margaret's Mirror_, etc.

[134] See Jan. 25, 1828 (p. 114).

[135] To _kilt, i.e._ to elevate or lift up anything quickly; this
applied, ludicrously, to tucking by a halter.--Jamieson's _Dictionary_.

"Their bare preaching now Makes the thrush bush keep the cow Better than
Scots or English kings Could do by kilting them with strings."

CLELAND.

[136] See Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act I. Sc. 3.

[137] See Boswell's _Johnson_, Croker's ed. imp. 8vo, p. 318.

[138] Sir Reginald Steuart Seton of Staffa, for many years Secretary to
the Highland and Agricultural Society; died at Edinburgh in 1838.

[139] On reading the savage article on Hunt's Byron published in
Blackwood, for March 1828, Sir Walter's thoughts must have gone back not
only to Gourgaud's affair of the previous year, and to the more serious
matter of the _Beacon_ newspaper in 1821,--when, to use Lord Cockburn's
words, "it was dreadful to think that a life like Scott's was for a
moment in peril in such a cause"--but he must