Note 233 — No. XXIV.

[“Romantic Ashbourn.” The road down Ashbourn Hill winds in front of Ashbourn Hall, then the residence of the Rev. Mr. Leigh, who married a relation of Canning’s, and to whom the latter was a frequent visitor. A clever parodical application of this couplet was made by O’Connell to Lord Stanley’s section of a party of six, who wished to hold the balance of power, during Peel’s short administration in 1835. He altered it to “The Derby Dilly,” carrying six insides.—See the Greville Memoirs, vol. 3, pp. 236, &c.—Ed.]