Note 120 — BOOK THE SECOND 1810 TO JUNE, 1812

I allude particularly to Mr. Southey,* who should have found in the recollection of early kindnesses received from Mr. Charles Williams Wynn,† when he was himself accused of obnoxious and Jacobinical principles and not in affluent circumstances, some motives for suppressing or softening rather than promulgating and exaggerating any hasty or unguarded declarations which that gentleman might have made to him in the heat of argument or in the warmth and confidence of friendship. But Mr. Southey seemed about that time tired of opinions which led to no worldly advantages, and angry with all Whigs because those among them who were critics were not boundless in their admiration of all his poetical effusions.—V.H.

[* Robert Southey (1774-1843), the poet.]

[† Charles Watkin Williams Wynn (1775-1850), a nephew of Lord Grenville and Under-Secretary for the Home Department in the Ministry of “all the talents.” He settled a small allowance on Southey, which was to continue until he was able to obtain a pension for him from Government.]