part i. 1800, p. 18-24; part ii. 1802, pp. 1013, 1062, 1063,

1157; part ii. 1803, pp. 779, 876, 983.

11. _The European Magazine_, part ii. 1792, p. 436; part ii. 1802, pp. 316, 477; part ii. 1803, pp. 157, 242.

_Coleridge and the “Morning Post.”_

Three accounts from the pen of Coleridge, which appeared in the _Morning Post_ of October 11, October 22, and November 5 respectively, under the titles “Romantic Marriage” and “The Fraudulent Marriage,” find a place in Coleridge’s “Essays on His Own Times,” edited by his daughter. The late Mr H. D. Traill, in his monograph in the “English Men of Letters” series, has pointed out (note, p. 80) that “it is impossible to believe that this collection, forming as it does but two small volumes, and a portion of a third, is anything like complete.” It is not an unwarrantable assumption that two subsequent articles in the _Morning Post_, which appeared on November 20 and December 31, were written from Greta Hall, and that Coleridge therefore was responsible for the sobriquet “The Keswick Impostor.”

Sir Alexander Hope, brother of the third Earl Hopetoun, whom Hadfield impersonated, was not (as stated in the _Dic. Nat. Biog._) the second but the _eighth_ son of the second earl (_vide Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1837, part ii. p. 423).

NOTES.

NOTE I.--_A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakes in Westmorland_, Lancashire and Cumberland.

This book is reviewed at full length in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, December 1792, pt. ii. pp. 1114-16, and in the _European Magazine_, December 1892, pt. ii. p. 436. The author, Joseph Budworth, who afterwards adopted his wife’s surname, Palmer, was a contributor to the former journal. Mary Robinson is described under the pseudonym ‘Sally of Buttermere’ The second edition of the _Fortnight’s Ramble_ is reviewed in _Gentleman’s Magazine_, vol. lxvi. pt. i. p. 132, February 1796.

NOTE II.--_A Revisit to Buttermere._ Letter from a rambler to ‘Mr. Urban’ dated Buttermere, January 2 (_vide Gentleman’s Magazine_, January 1800, pp. 18-24).

This account was inserted in the third edition of _A Fortnight’s Ramble_, published in 1810. Joseph Budworth tells us that his second visit to Buttermere took place in January 1798.

NOTE III.--_The Prelude_, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, by Wm. Wordsworth. Commenced 1799, finished 1805, published 1850. The Centenary edition of the works of Wm. Wordsworth. Six vols. Edited by E. Moxon, 1870.