[969]. Otter himself was fourth wrangler in 1790, and E. D. Clarke junior optime in the same year.
[970]. Otter, l. c. p. xxviii.
[971]. l. c. p. xxvii.
[972]. l. c. p. xxviii.
[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.
[974]. See above, p. 7.
[975]. Of which the genesis has been sufficiently described above, Bk. I. ch. i.
[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.
[977]. See above, pp. 48, 49 (abroad), and p. 195 (in Ireland).
[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.