Chapter XXXVI: Act V: Scene 1

_Bewick’s woodcuts._ Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), the famous
wood-engraver.

_Waterloo’s Sylvan etchings._ Antoine Waterloo (1609?–1676?), a
native of Lille, painter, engraver, and etcher.

‘_He hates conchology_,’ _etc._ Hazlitt quotes from himself. See
his Lecture on the Living Poets (_English Poets_, Vol. V. pp.
163–4).

278. ‘_Where one for sense_,’ _etc._ _Hudibras_, II. l. 29–30.

‘_Take the good_,’ _etc._ Plautus, _Rudens_, Act IV. Scene 7.

279. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), born in
Inverness-shire, and educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh
Universities, with a view to the medical profession, came to
London in 1788, and soon turned to politics. His _Vindiciæ
Gallicæ_, in reply to Burke’s _Reflections on the Revolution in
France_, appeared in 1791. Called to the bar in 1795, he soon
gained a considerable practice. In 1803 he was appointed to a
Judgeship in India, where he remained till 1811. Soon after his
return he was elected (in 1813) for Nairn. From 1819 till his
death, he sat for Knaresborough. In 1818 he was appointed to the
professorship of law and general politics at Haileybury, a post
which he held till 1824. He was made a privy councillor in 1827,
and a Commissioner of the Board of Control in 1830. His
_Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, chiefly
during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries_, contributed to
the seventh edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_, was
republished in 1836 with a preface by Whewell. See Macaulay’s
Essay on Mackintosh’s _History of the Revolution_.

281. _His maiden speech._ The speech referred to was delivered on Dec.
20, 1813. Colonel St. Paul said: ‘A more finical opposition to
any measure he had never heard in that House.’ _Parl. Hist._,
XXVII. pp. 301 _et seq._ Mackintosh had spoken before on Dec.
14.

282. _Lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations._ A course of
thirty-nine lectures, delivered between February and June 1799.
An ‘Introductory Discourse,’ published in 1798, contains a
recantation of the revolutionary doctrines of the _Vindiciæ
Gallicæ_, and an attack on Godwin. The lectures do not appear to
have been published, but some ms. notes, taken by Sir John
Stoddart at the time, are still preserved.

‘_The whiff and wind_,’ _etc._ ‘The whiff and wind of his fell
sword.’ _Hamlet_, Act II. Scene 2.

282. ‘_Laid waste the borders_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Lay waste thy woods,
destroy thy blissful bower.’ Dryden, _The Hind and the Panther_,