[34] This was arranged through Lord Grey, in exchange for a place in Bristol Cathedral, which had been bestowed by his Tory friend Lyndhurst. To the same friend he was indebted for his living at Combe Fleurey. [35] _Life and Times of Rev. Sydney Smith_, by STUART J. REID, p. 226, 1885. [36] James Mackintosh, b. 1765; d. 1832; _Vindiciæ Gallicæ_ (reply to Burke), 1791; _Memoirs_, by his son, 1835. [37] _History of the Revolution in England in 1688, Comprising a View of the Reign of James II. from his Accession to the Enterprise [sic] of the Prince of Orange_, London, 1834. [38] Smith, Jeffrey, Brown, Horner, and Brougham. Stephens: _Hours in a Library_, iii., 140. The “Brown” alluded to as one of the founders, was Dr. Thomas Brown, a distinguished physician and psychologist (b. 1778; d. 1820), who after issue of third number of the _Review_, had differences with Jeffrey (virtual editor) which led him to withdraw his support. _Life_, by Welsh, p. 79 _et seq._ [39] I cannot forbear giving--though only in a note--one burst of his fervid oratory, when his powers were at their best: “It was the boast of Augustus--it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost--that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble--a praise not unworthy of a great prince, and to which the present reign [George IV.] has its claim also. But how much nobler will be our Sovereign’s boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book, and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.” Speech, on _Present State of the Law_, February 7, 1828. [40] William Gifford, b. 1757; d. 1826. I give the birth-date named by himself in his autobiography, though the new _National Dictionary of Biography_ gives date of 1756. Gifford--though not always the best authority--ought to have known the year when he was born. Ed. _Quarterly Review_, 1809-1824; _Juvenal_, 1802; _Ben Jonson_, 1816. Some interesting matter concerning the early life of Gifford may be found in Memoirs of _John Murray_, vol. 1, pp. 127 _et seq._ [41] John Wilson Croker, b. 1780; d. 1857, wrote voluminously for the _Quarterly Review_; _Life of Johnson_ (ed.), 1831; his _Memoirs_ and _Correspondence_, 1885. [42] Very much piquant talk about George IV. and his friends may be found in the _Journal of Mary Frampion from 1779 until 1846_. London: Sampson Low & Co., 1885. [43] _English Lands and Letters_, vol. iii., pp. 168-70. [44] Queen Charlotte, d. 1818. [45] W. S. Landor, b. 1775; d. 1864. _Gebir_, 1798; _Imaginary Conversations_, 1824; Foster’s _Life_, 1869. [46] P. 465. _Last Fruit from an Old Tree._ [47] Colvin cites this from unpublished verses.