Wakefield’s _Life_ (1804), vol. i. p. 214. It is curious to remember that Marat is said to have been an usher at a Warrington School a short time before this. Footnote 961: Wakefield’s _Life_, i. p. 344. Footnote 962: Elected in 1776. See _Life_, i. p. 111 ft. Footnote 963: Otter, _l. c._ p. xxvii. ft. Footnote 964: Letter in App. II. to Wakefield, Life, ii. pp. 454–463. A comparison of this letter with Wakefield, _Life_, ii. p. 334, and Otter, _l. c._ p. xxiv. ft. (“by his own acknowledgment”), makes it almost certain that the letter is by Malthus. Footnote 965: _E. g._ with such very different men as Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, and Thomas Paine. Footnote 966: Though at college he took several prizes for Latin and Greek and English Declamations. We may hope that his defect of utterance had not become pronounced at that date, or that the declamations were not always declaimed. Footnote 967: Wakefield, _Life_, ii. p. 9. Footnote 968: Otter, _l. c._ p. xxv. Footnote 969: Otter himself was fourth wrangler in 1790, and E. D. Clarke junior optime in the same year. Footnote 970: Otter, _l. c._ p. xxviii. Footnote 971: _l. c._ p. xxvii. Footnote 972: _l. c._ p. xxviii. Footnote 973: On the road leading out of Albury towards Guildford, a snug little low-roofed house clinging to a hill slope, less ambitious than the Rookery, but not without its pleasant garden walks, trees, and shrubberies. Footnote 974: See above, p. 7. Footnote 975: Of which the genesis has been sufficiently described above, Bk. I. ch. i. Footnote 976: One of his sources is shown by _Essay_, IV. ix. 438: “In some conversations with labouring men during the late scarcities.” Cf. the tract on _The High Price of Provisions_, p. 10, &c. Footnote 977: See above, pp. 48, 49 (abroad), and p. 195 (in Ireland). Footnote 978: Clarke (E. D.) (_Life_ by Otter, vol. ii. p. 15) refers to a letter from Malthus, asking about the Foundling Hospital at St. Petersburg (date March 1800). Cf. _ibid._, p. 39: “As for Malthus, tell him he is not worth writing to. He is wrapped up in other matters and obliterating all traces of his pilgrimage.... He is a great deal _trop de plomb pour un tourist_” [_sic_]. So he draws on Mackintosh when the latter is in India, in 1804. See Mackintosh’s _Life_ (1836), p. 215. Footnote 979: _E. g._ Ricardo, Senior, and Dr. Thos. Chalmers (who paid him a flying visit in October 1822: _Life_ by Hanna, vol. ii. p. 358), and Francis Horner (_Memoirs and Corresp._, e. g. vol. i. p. 406). In i. 436 of his _Memoirs_ Horner speaks of having gone with John Whishaw, the barrister, to visit Malthus at Haileybury in 1808, and takes occasion to praise his mere love of truth above the eloquence and versatility of others, though that, he says, may look like a decision in favour of dulness. Footnote 980: