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Certainly the "Blackwood" attack was one of the least of his miseries, for he never even mentioned it to me. The greater trouble which was ingulfing him he signified in a hundred ways.
Suppose, now, the enterprising apothecaries, who do for Mr Rowland what Reprint & Co. are doing for Mr Blackwood, should print a label for every bottle of their "incomparable oil," warning the public that spurious imitations of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine are now in circulation throughout the States, which they are compelled to stamp as FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS! Would not this be quite as IMPORTANT INFORMATION as the other?
Comments upon the young Queen by a contemporaneous writer in Blackwood A new Throne erected for her in Buckingham Palace A touching Anecdote related by the Duke of Wellington The Queen insists on paying her Father's Debts The romantic and passionate interest she evoked Her mad lover Attempts upon her life She takes possession of Windsor Castle.
Blackwood, being a great personal friend of the admiral, took the liberty, after exchanging greetings, of submitting to him the expediency of shifting his flag to the "Euryalus," and conducting the battle from her. Nelson made no reply, but immediately ordered more sail to be made upon the "Victory."
And the second time the bumping drummed more deeply; the drivers held, pushed, panted, and gained against the white wall; heaved and stumbled ahead; and with a yell from Sinclair and Sankey and the fireman, the double-header shot her nose into the clear over the Blackwood gorge.
She died without the common necessaries of life, and was buried at the expense of the town, notwithstanding Nelson's last words, "Blackwood, take care of my poor Lady Hamilton!"
On the second day of our stay at Blackwood Camp I sent 150 men under Commandants Groenwald and Viljoen through the Banks, via Staghoek, to attack the enemy's camp near Wagendrift on the Olifant's River. This was a detachment of the force which had been surrounding us.
The battle quickly developed into a carnage. The Bucentaure had found her range soon after twelve o'clock, when some of the shots went over the Victory. Blackwood was at this time ordered to rejoin his ship.
At last we heard the front door shut behind them, and my father came upstairs, his usually serene face wearing a disturbed expression. "Who in the world was it, Mr. Paret?" asked my mother. My father sat down in the arm-chair. He was clearly making an effort for self-control. "Blackwood and Ogilvy and Watling and some city politicians," he exclaimed. "Politicians!" she repeated.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and its rival Tatt's Magazine received a large number of contributions. The English Mail-Coach appeared in 1849 in Blackwood. Joan of Arc had already been published in Tait. De Quincey continued to drink laudanum throughout his life, twice after 1821 in very great excess. During his last years he nearly completed a collected edition of his works.
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