]) In the list of abuses enumerated
by Baldwin is mentioned a "strong room," in which prisoners were
confined, without fires or glass to the windows, in the depth of winter.]
[Footnote 5: 'Richard III'., act iv, sc. 2.]
[Footnote 6: 'Sentimental Journey' (ed. 1819), vol. ii. p. 379.]
[Footnote 7: 'Ibid.', vol. ii. p. 337.]
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Sunday, December 5.
Dallas's nephew (son to the American Attorney-general) is arrived in
this country, and tells Dallas that my rhymes are very popular in the
United States. These are the first tidings that have ever sounded like
_Fame_ to my ears--to be redde on the banks of the Ohio! The greatest
pleasure I ever derived, of this kind was from an extract, in Cooke the
actor's life, from his journal [1], stating that in the reading-room at
Albany, near Washington, he perused _English Bards, and Scotch
Reviewers_. To be popular in a rising and far country has a kind of
_posthumous feel_, very different from the ephemeral _eclat_ and
fete-ing, buzzing and party-ing compliments of the well-dressed
multitude. I can safely say that, during my _reign_ in the spring of
1812, I regretted nothing but its duration of six weeks instead of a
fortnight, and was heartily glad to resign.
Last night I supped with Lewis; and, as usual, though I neither exceeded
in solids nor fluids, have been half dead ever since. My stomach is
entirely destroyed by long abstinence, and the rest will probably
follow.
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