tainly was not true; both Gillray and Rowlandson were
draughtsmen and artists of exceptionable ability.

[68] The article from which this is quoted is variously assigned to
Professor Wilson and Lockhart; it matters little which. Meanwhile, we
must have a name, let it be Lockhart's.

[69] The editor of "The Scourge" was one Jack Mitford. He received a
classical education, was originally in the navy, and fought under
Hood and Nelson. Besides "The Scourge," he edited "The Bon Ton"
magazine, and "Quizzical Gazette," and was author of a sea song once
popular, "The King is a true British Sailor." He was an irreclaimable
drunkard, thought only of the necessities of the hour, and slept in
the fields when his finances would not admit of payment of a twopenny
lodging in St. Giles's. His largest work was "Johnny Newcome in the
Navy," for which the publisher gave him the generous remuneration of
a shilling a day till he finished it. He died in St. Giles's
workhouse in 1831.

[70] The reader may remember that Napoleon once contracted a skin
disease from taking up a weapon which had been wielded by a dead
artilleryman, which gave him trouble at various periods of his life.
It may be that this suggested the subject.

[71] See the "Declaration of the Powers," from which we have already
quoted.

[72] "Narrative of Captain Maitland," p. 109.

[73] The Regent's selfish nature and expensive habits may be judged
by the following extract from the Greville Memoirs. Under date of
1830, Mr. Greville writes: "Sefton gave me an account of the dinner
in St. George's Hall on the King's [William IV.] birthday, which was
magnificent, excellent, and well served. Bridge came down with the
plate, and was hid during the dinner behind the great wine-cooler,
which weighs 7,000 ounces, and he told Sefton afterwards that the
plate in the room was worth L200,000. There is another service of
plate which was not used at all. The king has made it all over to the
crown. _All this plate was ordered by the late king, and never used;
his delight was ordering what the public had to pay for._"--_Greville
Memoirs_, vol. ii. p. 42.

[74] See Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on
the Earl of Elgin's Collection ... of Marbles ("Annual Reg.," 1816,
p. 447).

[75] See Chapter III. (1817).

[76] The idea of t