let; and in the next number of the _Review_ we find him
threatened with "castigation", as an "owl that has broken from his
mew"!

In Dr. Moore's biography of him is a pleasant anecdote. After
publishing the _Don Quixote_, he returned to Scotland to pay a visit
to his mother:--

"On Smollett's arrival, he was introduced to his mother with the
connivance of Mrs. Telfer (her daughter), as a gentleman from the
West Indies, who was intimately acquainted with her son. The better
to support his assumed character, he endeavoured to preserve a
serious countenance, approaching to a frown; but while his mother's
eyes were riveted on his countenance, he could not refrain from
smiling: she immediately sprung from her chair, and throwing her
arms round his neck, exclaimed, 'Ah, my son! my son! I have found
you at last!'

"She afterwards told him, that if he had kept his austere looks and
continued to _gloom_, he might have escaped detection some time
longer, but 'your old roguish smile', added she, 'betrayed you at
once.' "

"Shortly after the publication of _The Adventures of an Atom_,
disease again attacked Smollett with redoubled violence. Attempts
being vainly made to obtain for him the office of Consul in some
part of the Mediterranean, he was compelled to seek a warmer
climate, without better means of provision than his own precarious
finances could afford. The kindness of his distinguished friend and
countryman, Dr. Armstrong (then abroad), procured for Dr. and Mrs.
Smollett a house at Monte Nero, a village situated on the side of a
mountain overlooking the sea, in the neighbourhood of Leghorn, a
romantic and salutary abode, where he prepared for the press, the
last, and like music 'sweetest in the close', the most pleasing of
his compositions, _The Expedition of Humphry Clinker_. This
delightful work was published in 1771."--SIR WALTER SCOTT.

150 The dispute with the captain arose from the wish of that functionary
to intrude on his right to his cabin, for which he had paid thirty
pounds. After recounting the circumstances of the apology, he
characteristically adds:--

"And here, that I may not be thought the sly trumpeter of my own
praises, I do utterly disclaim all praise on the occasion. Neither