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The Chancellor thereupon wrote a letter, which, though an explicit promise could not be made, virtually amounted to a promise. In accordance with this he was appointed on January 3, 1879, to a judgeship which had become vacant by the resignation of Sir Anthony Cleasby.
Why should I? Those who do not work from necessity take violent labour from choice, and were necessity out of the question I would take the same sort of literary labour from choice something more leisurely though. Mr. Forbes had lately returned from Italy, where he had had as travelling companion Mr. Cleasby, and it was owing to Mr. Forbes's recommendation that Mr.
Cleasby came to Edinburgh to pursue his studies. Mr. Forbes possessed a fine tenor voice, and his favourite songs at that time were the Neapolitan and Calabrian canzonetti, to which Sir Walter alludes under April 4. Mr. Lockhart's own account of the overture is sufficiently amusing and characteristic of the men and the times:
This is witless prejudice, however. My walk to-day was up the Rhymer's Glen with Skene. Colonel Ferguson dined with us. April 4. Mr. Cleasby left this morning. He has travelled much, and is a young man of copious conversation and ready language, aiming I suppose at Parliament. William Forbes is singing like an angel in the next room, but he sings only Italian music, which says naught to me.
I stuck by the pen till one, then took a drive with the ladies as far as Chiefswood and walked home. Young William Forbes came, and along with him a Southron, Mr. Cleasby. April 3. Still the same party. I fagged at writing letters to Lockhart, to Charles, and to John Gibson, to Mr. Cadell, Croker, Lord Haddington, and others.
Cleasby died in 1847, but the work he had planned was not published until 1874, when it appeared under the editorship of Mr. Bickerstaff's Padlock, Act I. Sc. 6. Don Quixote, Pt. I. Bk. II. Cap. 2. Friends of Joanna Baillie's and John Richardson's. This must have been an unusual experience for the head of a family that considered itself to be the oldest in Christendom.
When the occasion for a word in season offered itself, hardly any threats or promises could have induced him to keep silence. 'Judge or no judge, he observes more than once, 'I shall be forced to write' if certain contingencies present themselves. Cleasby has unexpectedly resigned, and I am to succeed him.
The truth is, I don't admire, after all that has come and gone, being applied to through the medium of friend Crokey. I hope you will approve of my resolution." Richard Cleasby, afterwards the well-known scholar who spent many years in gathering materials for an Icelandic Dictionary. Mr.
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