ABSTRACT
First published Edinburgh Saturday Post, 12 April 1828, p. 388. Never reprinted. The article appeared as the second of three pieces under the masthead. The first article, a two-sentence paragraph on ‘The Revenue’, is very likely De Quincey’s, but is too short for attribution, while the third, ‘Scotch Peerages’, is clearly the work of a Scots contributor. But the first sentence of this middle piece links it to De Quincey’s series on the Battle of Navarino and its aftermath. Corroborative evidence includes ‘between’ (which occurs twice) instead of ‘betwixt’, the many dashes, italics, rhetorical questions, and sentences beginning with ‘But’, as well as the English (rather than Scottish) viewpoint. The sentence beginning ‘But blind indeed must that man be’ sounds very much like De Quincey.
