MR. GLADSTONE'S DICTION. [To THE EDITOR OF THR " SPECTATOR."
J should think that your correspondent "F. B. E.," in the Spectator of November 21st, would find the phrase "bag and baggage" even earlier than the time of" Tristram Shandy." But if Mr. Tollemache's suggestion is that Mr. Gladstone invented it—and as my Spectator of November 7th is not at hand I cannot verify "F. B. E.'s " assertion—the point is worth clearing up. Mr. Glads'on3 used .the phrase as applicable to the corrupt rule; o of Turkey, and it is not improbable that in this connection he remembered that his friend Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had employed it. As far back as 1821 the Ambassador wrote : "As a matter of humanity I wish with all my soul that the Sultan were driven, bag and baggage, into the heart of Asia" (Stanley Lane-Poole's Life, Vol. I., p. 307). The "Great Eltchee," as he is still called here by Turks and Christians alike, seems to have been partial to the expression "bag and baggage," for he uses it on other occasions.—I am, Sir, &c., EDWIN PEARS. Constantinople.
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