[124] Mr. Colvin Smith painted in all about twenty portraits of Sir
Walter, for seven of which he obtained occasional sittings. A list of
the persons who commissioned them is given at p. 73 of the _Centenary
Catalogue_.
[125] The Right Hon. Charles Hope.
[126] _Twelfth Night_, Act II. Sc. 2.
[127] Mount Benger, which he had taken in 1820.--See _ante_, page 96.
[128] It now hangs in the Drawing-room at Abbotsford.--See Sharpe's
_Letters_, vol. ii. p. 408.
[129] Charles Mayne Young, Tragedian, had been a visitor at Abbotsford
in the autumn of 1821. Of this visit his son Julian gives a pleasant
account in a Memoir of his father, pp. 88-96. London, 1871. Mr. Young
died in June 1856.
[130] This enthusiastic Gaelic scholar, then parish minister of Laggan,
joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1843, and was elected Moderator of
its General Assembly in 1849. As a clergyman, he had afterwards a varied
experience in this country and in Australia, before he finally settled
in the island of Harris; he died at Portobello in 1873.
The Gaelic dictionary of the Highland Society was completed and
published in 2 vols. 4to, 1828. The editor was Dr. Macleod of Dundonald,
assisted by other Gaelic scholars. Dr. Mackay edited the poems of Rob
Donn in 1829.--See _Quarterly Review_, July 1831.
[131] See next page, under _Feb_. 19.
[132] The Right Hon. David Boyle.
[133] _My Aunt Margaret's Mirror_, etc.
[134] See Jan. 25, 1828 (p. 114).
[135] To _kilt, i.e._ to elevate or lift up anything quickly; this
applied, ludicrously, to tucking by a halter.--Jamieson's _Dictionary_.
"Their bare preaching now Makes the thrush bush keep the cow Better than
Scots or English kings Could do by kilting them with strings."