Nottingham.
_The Beauty of Buttermere._--In an article contributed by Coleridge to the
_Morning Post_ (vid. _Essays on his own Times_, vol. ii. p. 591.), he says:
"It seems that there are some circumstances attending her birth and
true parentage, which would account for her striking superiority in
mind and manners, in a way extremely flattering to the prejudices of
rank and birth."
What are the circumstances alluded to?