Chapter XXVII: Act I: Scene 1

_‘Fierce as a comet,’ etc._ _Paradise Lost_, II. 708.

‘_Bear fardels._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Scene 1.

_‘Was not,’ etc._ _Hamlet_, Act I. Scene 2.

98. _‘The pilot,’ etc._ Canning’s verses, ‘The Pilot that weathered
the storm,’ were composed for the first (1802) of the birth-day
dinners in honour of Pitt.

_Our great war-minister._ He means Pitt.

99. _Odia in longum, etc._ Tacitus, _Agricola_, I. 69.

_If Titus, etc._ See Suetonius, VIII. 8.

‘_Full circle home._’ _King Lear_, Act V. Scene 3.

‘_The child and champion of Jacobinism._’ This phrase occurred in
Coleridge’s report of Pitt’s speech of Feb. 17, 1800. See
_Essays on his own Times_ (II. 294). Mrs. Coleridge, the editor
of that work, says in a note (III. 1010): ‘It is remarkable that
the striking expression, applied to Buonaparte—“the child and
the champion of Jacobinism”—which was continually repeated
afterwards, does not occur in the speech as reported in _The
Times_, though it reappears in the later edition of it in the
collection of Pitt’s speeches.’ The words occur in Hansard. See
_Parl. Debates_, XXXIV. 1443.

_Mr. Whitebread._ Samuel Whitbread (1758–1815), the famous Whig
member.

101. PRINCE MAURICE’S PARROT. Published originally in _The
Examiner_, July 10, 1814, and later in _The Champion_, Sept. 18,
1814.

Charles Maurice Talleyrand de Périgord, Prince of Benevento, was
the representative of France at the Congress of Vienna (1814).
Castlereagh was the representative of England.

102. _‘With so little web,’ etc._ _Othello_, Act II. Scene 1.

103. _The Prince of Benevento._ Napoleon created Talleyrand a Prince of
the Empire under this title in 1806.

_The ex-Bishop of Autun._ Talleyrand was appointed Bishop of Autun
by Louis XVI. in 1789.

_His friend._ Croker.

WHETHER THE FRIENDS, _etc._ From _The Champion_, Oct. 23, 1814.

_An excellent article._ By Leigh Hunt in _The Examiner_, Oct. 16,
1814.

105. _‘Vows made in pain,’ etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 97.

_‘Why so,’ etc._ _Macbeth_, Act III. Scene 4.

_‘The right divine,’ etc._ Pope’s _Dunciad_, IV. 188.

106. _‘All power,’ etc._ _St. Matthew_ xxviii. 18.

‘_The milk of human kindness._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Scene 5.

_The Crown Prince of Sweden._ Bernadotte.

‘_All hail hereafter._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Scene 5.

108. _The dexterous prince, etc._ Talleyrand.

_The act of Mr. Fox’s administration._ March 25, 1807.

109. _‘A very currish performance,’ etc._ _Two Gentlemen of Verona_,