The greater part of this ancient
palace was again occupied by his
Majesty Charles the Tenth of France,
and the rest of that illustrious fatnily,
which, in former ages so closely con-
nected by marriage and alliance with
the house of Stewart, seems to have
been destined to run a similar career
of misfortune. Rcquiescant in pace!
* P. 336.— This Club, of which the



Author of Waverley has the honour to
be President, was instituted in Feb-
ruaiy, 1823, for the purpose of printing
and publishing works illustrative of
the history, literature, and antiquities
of Scotland. It continues to prosper,
and has already rescued from oblivion
many curious materials of Scottish
History.
*■ P. 336. — The ancient Norman family
of the Sommervilles came mto this
island with William the Conqueror,
and estabhshed one branch in Glouces-
tershire, another in Scotland. After
the lapse of 700 years, the remaining
possessions of these two branches were
united in the person of the late Lord
Sommerville, on the death of his
English kinsman, the well-known
author of "The Chase."

* P. 342. — See the opening scene of the
first part of Shakspeare's Henry IV.
* P. 346.— Horace, Sat. 11. Lib. 2.
The meaning will be best conveyed to
the English reader in Pope's imita-
tion : —

What's property, dear Swift ? you see

it alter
From you to me, from me to Peter

Walter ;
Or in a mortgage prove a lawyer's

share;
Or in a jointure vanish from the heir.
» * * *

Shades, that to Bacon could retreat

afford,
Become the portion of a booby lord ;
And Helmsley, once proud Bucking-
ham's delight,
Slides to a scrivener and city knight.
