Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849

7

Cook's grease.

8

East-Indian steward.

9

Mina-bird, or Grakle; a frequent pet in homeward-bound East Indiamen, and singular for its mimetic faculty; but impudent, and, from educational disadvantages, not particularly select in its expressions: appearance as described by the lieutenant.

10

Familiar metonomy, at sea, for the ship's cook.

11

Five o'clock, P.M.

12

It is here due to the credit of our friend the captain, who was not unusually imaginative for a sailor, to state, that this speculation as a commercial one, is strictly and literally a fact, as the Anglo-Indian of Calcutta can probably testify. The bold and all but poetical catholicity of the idea could have been reached, perhaps, by the 'progressing' American intellect alone, while Staffordshire, it is certain, furnished its realisation: the investment, it is nevertheless believed, proved eventually unprofitable.

13

Currents are designated from the direction they run towards; winds, the quarter they blow from.

14

Wales: the Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People considered in their relation to Education. By Sir Thomas Phillips. 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 606. London: 1849.

15

For the information of those among our readers who may not be aware of the fact, it will be well to mention that Sir Thomas Phillips was knighted for having, as mayor of Newport, in Monmouthshire, aided so materially in suppressing the Chartist riots that took place there in 1839.

16

"In Breconshire, the proportion of persons who speak English is much larger; but a considerable number of these are immigrants from England to the iron works; whilst, in Radnorshire, the great bulk of the population is not Celtic, and English is all but universal."

17

The leading scholars and authors of Wales are all named Williams: viz. Archdeacon Williams, and the Revs. Robert Williams, John Williams, Rowland Williams, Charles Williams, and Morris Williams – none of them relations!

18

It is only a short time since that Vincent, of London notoriety, made a successful visit to South Wales, lecturing in the Baptist chapels, wherever he went, on the Claims of the Age, on the Rights of Woman, on the Claims of Labour, and the other usual clap-trap subjects. At Swansea, though it is a poor compliment to the good sense of its inhabitants, he actually succeeded in getting one of his meetings presided over by a gentleman who had once been mayor of the town, and he lined his pockets at the expense of not a few persons calling themselves respectable, and pretending to be people of discernment. The lecturer, in his hand-bills posted on the walls of Swansea and Tenby, called himself simply Henry Vincent; but in the smaller towns, such as Llanelly and Caermarthen, he gave himself out as Henry Vincent, Esquire!

19

The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems. By A. London: 1849.

20

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. 58.

21

Ibid. 62-3.

22

We remember once in such a house – it was a rainy day, and for the amusement of the inmates a general rummage was made among old papers – that in a corner of a press of a law library were found a multitude of letters very precisely folded up, and titled – they had a most business-like and uninteresting appearance, but on being examined they were found to consist of the confidential correspondence of the leaders of the Jacobite army in 1745. Their preservation was accounted for by the circumstance that an ancestor of the owner of the house was sheriff of the county at the period of the rebellion. He had seized the letters; but, finding probably that they implicated a considerable number of his own relations, he did not consider himself especially called on to invite the attention of the law officers of the crown to his prize; while, on the other hand, the damnatory documents were carefully preserved, lest some opportunity should occur of turning them to use. They are now printed in a substantial quarto, under the patronage of one of the book clubs.

23

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. 60.

24

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. 6.

25

Houston's Memoirs, 92.

26

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. 34-5.

27

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. p. 57.

28

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. p. 46.

29

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, iii. 4.

30

Ibid. p. 6.

31

Miscellany of the Spalding Club, pp. 17-20.