It is necessary to remember this, not only in
estimating the strength of the feeling which made him so anxious to
become himself the founder of a house within a house,--of a new branch
of the clan of Scotts,--but in estimating the loyalty which Scott
always displayed to one of the least respectable of English
sovereigns, George IV.,--a matter of which I must now say a few words,
not only because it led to Scott's receiving the baronetcy, but
because it forms to my mind the most grotesque of all the threads in
the lot of this strong and proud man.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 40: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, v. 387.]
[Footnote 41: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, v. 382.]
[Footnote 42: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, iii. 288.]
[Footnote 43: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vii. 287-8.]
[Footnote 44: Scott's _Miscellaneous Prose Works_, xxi. 22-3.]
CHAPTER XIII.
SCOTT AND GEORGE IV.
The first relations of Scott with the Court were, oddly enough, formed
with the Princess, not with the Prince of Wales. In 1806 Scott dined
with the Princess of Wales at Blackheath, and spoke of his invitation
as a great honour.
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