[140] Life, i. 309-16.
[141] See Miscellaneous Works, iii. 3.
[142] Ibid. iii. 203-38 (an article highly praised by Bagehot in his Parliamentary Reform).
[143] Miscellaneous Works, iii. 215-16.
[144] Ibid. iii. 226. Mackintosh in this article mentions the 'caucus,' and observes that the name implies that combinations have been already formed upon 'which the future government of the confederacy may depend more than on the forms of election, or the letter of the present laws.' He inclines to approve the system as essential to party government.
[145] Essays (1844), i. 84-106.
[146] The famous 'Cevallos' article of 1808, said to be written by Jeffrey and Brougham (Macvey Napier's Correspondence, p. 308), gave the immediate cause of starting the Quarterly; and, according to Brougham, first gave a distinctly Liberal character to the Edinburgh. For Jeffrey's desire to avoid 'party politics,' see Lockhart's Life of Scott, M. Napier's Correspondence, p. 435, and Homer's Memoirs (1853), i. 464.
[147] April 1805; reprinted in Essays, ii. 38, etc., to show, as he says, how early he had taken up his view of the French revolution.
[148] Sydney Smith complains in his correspondence of this article as exaggerating the power of the aristocracy.
[149] Essays, iv. 29.