Note 11 — OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS: SHOWING

Sir Walter Scott, in correspondence with his friend Ellis, undertook to explain how a whole edition of Godwin’s Life of Chaucer had vanished, by conjecturing, that, “as the heaviest materials to be come at, they have been sent on the secret expedition, planned by Mr. Phillips and adopted by our sapient Government, for blocking up the mouth of our enemy’s harbors.”—Letter to George Ellis, Esq., March 19, 1804: Lockhart’s Life of Scott, Vol. I. p. 414.