162/377 195.) Again he wrote, "I saw it reported that Joseph Hume said I composed novels at the clerk's table; but Joseph Hume said what neither was nor could be correct, as any one who either knew what belonged to composing novels, or acting as clerk to a court of justice, would easily have discovered." (_Memoirs of Sir William Knighton_, p. 252.)] [Footnote 14: _Journal_, Vol. 60; _Lockhart_, Vol. |