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  Large-Paper Edition

  LOCKHART'S
  LIFE OF SCOTT

  COPIOUSLY ANNOTATED AND ABUNDANTLY ILLUSTRATED

  IN TEN VOLUMES

  VOL. VI




[Illustration: WALTER SCOTT IN 1820

_From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_]



  MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE
  OF
  SIR WALTER SCOTT
  BART.

  by

  JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART

  In Ten Volumes

  VOLUME VI


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  Boston and New York
  Houghton, Mifflin and Company
  The Riverside Press, Cambridge
  MCMI

  Copyright, 1901
  by Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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TABLE OF CONTENTS


  Chap.                                                           Page

  XLIII. Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. --
    Letter on the Death of Queen Charlotte. -- Provincial
    Antiquities, etc. -- Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable
    & Co. -- Death of Mr. Charles Carpenter. -- Scott accepts the
    Offer of a Baronetcy. -- He declines to renew his Application
    for a Seat on the Exchequer Bench. -- Letters to Morritt,
    Richardson, Miss Baillie, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu,
    and Captain Ferguson. -- Rob Roy played at Edinburgh. -- Letter
    from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr. Charles Mackay. 1818-1819      1

  XLIV. Recurrence of Scott's Illness. -- Death of the Duke of
    Buccleuch. -- Letters to Captain Ferguson, Lord Montagu, Mr.
    Southey, and Mr. Shortreed. -- Scott's Sufferings while
    dictating The Bride of Lammermoor. -- Anecdotes by James
    Ballantyne, etc. -- Appearance of the Third Series of Tales of
    my Landlord. -- Anecdote of the Earl of Buchan. 1819            24

  XLV. Gradual Reestablishment of Scott's Health. -- Ivanhoe in
    Progress. -- His Son Walter joins the Eighteenth Regiment of
    Hussars. -- Scott's Correspondence with his Son. --
    Miscellaneous Letters to Mrs. Maclean Clephane, M. W.
    Hartstonge, J. G. Lockhart, John Ballantyne, John Richardson,
    Miss Edgeworth, Lord Montagu, etc. -- Abbotsford visited by
    Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. -- Death of Mrs. William
    Erskine. 1819                                                   69

  XLVI. Political Alarms. -- The Radicals. -- Levies of
    Volunteers. -- Project of the Buccleuch Legion. -- Death of
    Scott's Mother, her Brother Dr. Rutherford, and her Sister
    Christian. -- Letters to Lord Montagu, Mr. Thomas Scott, Cornet
    Scott, Mr. Laidlaw, and Lady Louisa Stuart. -- Publication of
    Ivanhoe. 1819                                                  106

  XLVII. The Visionary. -- The Peel of Darnick. -- Scott's
    Saturday Excursions to Abbotsford. -- A Sunday there in
    February. -- Constable. -- John Ballantyne. -- Thomas Purdie,
    etc. -- Prince Gustavus Vasa. -- Proclamation of King George
    IV. -- Publication of The Monastery. 1820                      132

  XLVIII. Scott revisits London. -- His Portrait by Lawrence, and
    Bust by Chantrey. -- Anecdotes by Allan Cunningham. -- Letters
    to Mrs. Scott, Laidlaw, etc. -- His Baronetcy gazetted. --
    Marriage of his Daughter Sophia. -- Letter to "the Baron of
    Galashiels." -- Visit of Prince Gustavus Vasa at Abbotsford. --
    Tenders of Honorary Degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. --
    Letter to Mr. Thomas Scott. 1820                               147

  XLIX. Autumn at Abbotsford. -- Scott's Hospitality. -- Visit of
    Sir Humphry Davy, Henry Mackenzie, Dr. Wollaston, and William
    Stewart Rose. -- Coursing on Newark Hill. -- Salmon-fishing. --
    The Festival at Boldside. -- The Abbotsford Hunt. -- The Kirn,
    etc. 1820                                                      172

  L. Publication of The Abbot. -- The Blair-Adam Club. -- Kelso,
    Walton Hall, etc. -- Ballantyne's Novelists' Library. --
    Acquittal of Queen Caroline. -- Service of the Duke of
    Buccleuch. -- Scott elected President of the Royal Society of
    Edinburgh. -- The Celtic Society. -- Letters to Lord Montagu,
    Cornet Scott, Charles Scott, Allan Cunningham, etc. --
    Kenilworth published. 1820-1821                                189

  LI. Visit to London. -- Project of the Royal Society of
    Literature. -- Affairs of the 18th Hussars. -- Marriage of
    Captain Adam Ferguson. -- Letters to Lord Sidmouth, Lord
    Montagu, Allan Cunningham, Mrs. Lockhart, and Cornet Scott.
    1821                                                           219

  LII. Illness and Death of John Ballantyne. -- Extract from his
    Pocketbook. -- Letters from Blair-Adam. -- Castle-Campbell. --
    Sir Samuel Shepherd. -- "Bailie Mackay," etc. -- Coronation of
    George IV. -- Correspondence with James Hogg and Lord Sidmouth.
    -- Letter on the Coronation. -- Anecdotes. -- Allan
    Cunningham's Memoranda. -- Completion of Chantrey's Bust. 1821 241

  LIII. Publication of Mr. Adolphus's Letters on the Authorship
    of Waverley. 1821                                              267

  LIV. New Buildings at Abbotsford. -- Chiefswood. -- William
    Erskine. -- Letter to Countess Purgstall. -- Progress of The
    Pirate. -- Franck's Northern Memoir, and Notes of Lord
    Fountainhall, published. -- Private Letters in the Reign of
    James I. -- Commencement of The Fortunes of Nigel. -- Second
    Sale of Copyrights. -- Contract for "Four Works of Fiction." --
    Enormous Profits of the Novelist, and Extravagant Projects of
    Constable. -- The Pirate published. -- Lord Byron's Cain,
    dedicated to Scott. -- Affair of the Beacon Newspaper. 1821    288




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                  Page

  WALTER SCOTT IN 1820                                  _Frontispiece_
  From the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A., in the
  Royal Gallery, Windsor Castle.

  CHARLES MACKAY AS BAILIE NICOL JARVIE                             22
  From the painting by Sir D. Macnee, P. R. S. A., in the
  Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

  ANNE RUTHERFORD, MOTHER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT                      106
  After the painting at Abbotsford.

  SOPHIA SCOTT (Mrs. J. G. LOCKHART)                               136
  After the painting at Abbotsford by William Nicholson,
  R. S. A.

  WALTER SCOTT IN 1820                                             150
  From the pencil sketch by Sir Francis Chantrey, R. A.

  CHIEFSWOOD                                                       288
  After the drawing by J. M. W. Turner, R. A.




SIR WALTER SCOTT




CHAPTER XLIII

     Declining Health of Charles, Duke of Buccleuch. -- Letter on the
     Death of Queen Charlotte. -- Provincial Antiquities, Etc. --
     Extensive Sale of Copyrights to Constable and Co. -- Death of Mr.
     Charles Carpenter. -- Scott Accepts the Offer of a Baronetcy. --
     He Declines to Renew his Application for a Seat on the Exchequer
     Bench. -- Letters to Morritt, Richardson, Miss Baillie, The Duke
     of Buccleuch, Lord Montagu, and Captain Ferguson. -- Rob Roy
     Played at Edinburgh. -- Letter from Jedediah Cleishbotham to Mr.
     Charles Mackay.

1818-1819


I have now to introduce a melancholy subject--one of the greatest
afflictions that ever Scott encountered. The health of Charles, Duke
of Buccleuch was by this time beginning to give way, and Scott thought
it his duty to intimate his very serious apprehensions to his noble
friend's brother.


TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD MONTAGU, DITTON PARK, WINDSOR.

                                       EDINBURGH, 12th November, 1818.

     MY DEAR LORD,--I am about to write to you with feelings of the
     deepest anxiety. I have hesitated for two or three days whether I
     should communicate to your Lordship the sincere alarm which I
     entertain on account of the Duke's present state of health, but I
     have come to persuade myself, that it will be discharging a part
     of the duty which I owe to him, to mention my own most
     distressing apprehensions. I was at the cattle-show on the 6th,
     and executed the delegated task of toast-master, and so forth. I
     was told by **** that the Duke is under the influence of the
     muriatic bath, which occasions a good deal of uneasiness when the
     medicine is in possession of the system. The Duke observed the
     strictest diet, and remained only a short time at table, leaving
     me to do the honors, which I did with a sorrowful heart,
     endeavoring, however, to persuade myself that ****'s account, and
     the natural depression of spirits incidental to his finding
     himself unable for the time to discharge the duty to his guests,
     which no man could do with so much grace and kindness, were
     sufficient to account for the alteration of his manner and
     appearance. I spent Monday with him quietly and alone, and I must
     say that all I saw and heard was calculated to give me the
     greatest pain. His strength is much less, his spirits lower, and
     his general appearance far more unfavorable than when I left him
     at Drumlanrig a few weeks before. What ****, and indeed what the
     Duke himself, says of the medicine, may be true--but **** is very
     sanguine, and, like all the personal physicians attached to a
     person of such consequence, he is too much addicted to the
     _placebo_--at least I think so--too apt to fear to give offence
     by contradiction, or by telling that sort of truth which may
     controvert the wishes or habits of his patient. I feel I am
     communicating much pain to your Lordship, but I am sure that,
     excepting yourself, there is not a man in the world whose sorrow
     and apprehension could exceed mine in having such a task to
     discharge; for, as your Lordship well knows, the ties which bind
     me to your excellent brother are of a much stronger kind than
     usually connect persons so different in rank. But the alteration
     in voice and person, in features, and in spirits, all argue the
     decay of natural strength, and the increase of some internal
     disorder, which is gradually triumphing over the system. Much has
     been done in these cases by change of climate. I hinted this to
     the Duke at Drumlanrig, but I found his mind totally averse to
     it. But he made some inquiries of Harden (just returned from
     Italy), which seemed to imply that at least the idea of a winter
     in Italy or the south of France was not altogether out of his
     consideration. Your Lordship will consider whether he can or
     ought to be pressed upon this point. He