Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart volume 03
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott Bart volume 03
J G John Gibson Lockhart
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Skene, Mr. William Clerk, Mr. Hay Donaldson, Mr. Thomas Shortreed, Mr. John Richardson, and Mr. Thomas Moore. The entries in Scott s Diary on contemporary litera- * For W. Murray, read Jones. Note by Mr. Andrew Shortrede. 11839. ] DUKE OF YORK. 183 hire are at this time very few ; nor are there many on the public events of the day, though the period was a very stirring one. He seems, in fact, to have rarely seen, even when in town, any newspaper except the Edinburgh Weekly Journal. At his age, ...it is not won derful that when that sheet reached him it for the most part contained the announcement of a death which in terested his feelings ; and several of the following pas sages refer to incidents of this melancholy class: "January 9. This morning received the long-expected news of the Duke of York s death. I am sorry both on pub lic and private accounts. His R. H. Was, while he occupied the situation of next in succession, a Breakwater behind the throne. I fear his brother of Clarence s opinions may be dif ferent, and that he may hoist a standard under which men of desperate hopes and evil designs will rendezvous.
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