[90] “Thurloe writes to Henry Cromwell to catch up some thousand
    Irish boys, to send to the colonies.  Henry writes back he has done so;
    and desires to know whether his Highness would choose as many girls to
    be caught up:  and he add, ’doubtless it is a business in which God
    will appear.’  Suppose bloody Queen Mary had caught up and
    transported three or four thousand Protestant boys and girls from the
    three Ridings of Yorkshire!!!!!!  S.S.”

[91] John Singleton Copley (1772-1863).

[92] Endymion, vol.  I. chapter vi.

[93] The special services for “Gunpowder Treason” and other State Holy Days
    were discontinued by Royal Warrant in 1859.

[94] From Col. iii. 12, 13—­“Put on, as the elect of God, kindness,
    humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another,
    and forgiving one another.”

[95] This apologue (which, the preacher thought, “would make a charming and
    useful placard against the bigoted”) occurs in the Liberty of
    Prophesying, and has been traced to Gentius, the Latin translator of
    Saadi.

[96] “Having become a King’s Scholar, the hardships and cruelties he
    suffered, as a junior boy, from his fag-master, were such as at one
    time very nearly forced us to remove him from the school.  He was taken
    home for a short period, to recover from his bruises, and restore his
    eye.  His first act, on becoming Captain himself, was to endeavour to
    ameliorate the condition of the juniors, and to obtain additional
    comforts for them from the Head Master.”—­From Mrs, Sydney Smith’s
    Journal.

[97] Two donkeys, which were disguised as deer for the astonishment of
    visitors.

[98] The Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill had become law on the 13th of
    April 1829.

[99] Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1846).

[100] Sir Charles Wetherell (1770-1846), Attorney-General, and Recorder of
    Bristol.

[101] Michael Thomas Sadler (1780-1835), M.P. for Newark.

[102] This is the “Speech respecting the Reform Bill” in Sydney Smith’s
    Collected Works.

[103] Lord Houghton wrote in 1873—­“I heard Lord Melbourne say, ’Sydney
    Smith has done more for the Whigs than all the clergy put together,
    and our not making him a bishop was mere cowardice.”

[104] The archaic signature of the Bishops of Worcester.  Mrs. Austin
    transcribes it “Vigour,” and puts the Protest among the letters of
    1831.  Sir Spencer Walpole points out that it probably belongs to the
    year 1823, when Lord Ellenborough moved an Address to the Crown in
    favour of intervention in Spain.

[105] Ffolliot H.-W.  Cornewall (1754-1831).

[106] Robert James Carr (1774-1841).  It was said that this appointment was
    due to a promise made by George IV., whom Dr. Carr, formerly Vicar of
    Brighton, had attended in his last illness.