t the prophecies of Daniel were written after
their completion, and such may be my fate here; but it requires no
second sight to foretell a tome; the first glimpse of the knight was
enough."--[MS.]

["I have seen Sir John Carr at Seville and Cadiz, and, like Swift's
barber, have been down on my knees to beg he would not put me into black
and white" (letter to Hodgson, August 6, 1809, _Letters_, 1898, i. 235,
note).]

[Sec.2] "I presume Marquis and Mr. and Pole and Sir A. are returned by this
time, and eke the bewildered Frere whose conduct was canvassed by the
Commons."--[MS.]

[A motion which had been brought forward in the House of Commons,
February 24, 1809, "to inquire into the causes ...of the late campaign
in Spain," was defeated, but the Government recalled J. Hookham Frere,
British Minister to the Supreme Junta, and nominated the Marquis
Wellesley Ambassador Extraordinary to Seville. Wellesley landed in Spain
early in August, but a duel which took place, September 21, between
Perceval and Canning led to changes in the ministry, and, with a view to
taking office, he left Cadiz November 10, 1809. His brother, Henry
Wellesley (1773-1847, first Baron Cowley), succeeded him as Envoy
Extraordinary. If "Mr." stands for Henry Wellesley, "Pole" may be
William Wellesley Pole, afterwards third Earl of Mornington.]

[Sec.3] [The base of the Giralda, the cathedral tower at Seville, is a
square of fifty feet. The pinnacle of the filigree belfry, which
surmounts the original Moorish tower, "is crowned with _El Girardillo_,
a bronze statue of _La Fe_, The Faith.... Although 14 feet high, and
weighing 2800 lbs., it turns with the slightest breeze."--Ford's
_Handbook for Spain_, i. 174.]

[Sec.4] [_Vide ante_, p. 78, note 2.]

[Sec.a] _By shrivelled Wellesley_----.--[MS. erased.]

[Sec.b]
_None better known for doing things by halves_
_As many in our Senate did aver_.--[MS. erased.]

[Sec.c] _Yet surely Vulpes merits some applause_.--[MS. erased.]

[Sec.5] "The Needy Knife-grinder," in the _Anti-Jacobin_, was a joint
production of Messrs. Frere and Canning.

[Sec.6] [Henry Richard Vassall Fox, second Lord Holland (1773-1840),
accompanied Sir David Baird to Corunna, September, 1808, and made a
prolonged tour in Spain, returning in the autumn of 1809. He suggested
to the Junta of Seville to extend their functions as a committee of
defence, and proposed a new constitution. His wife, Elizabeth Vassall,
the daugh