zealous commentator was MR. J. RAMSAY M'CULLOCH, author of Elements of Political Economy,' and of various contributions to the Edinburgh Review,' which have spread more widely a knowledge of the subject. Mr. M'Culloch also edited an edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations' and the works of Ricardo, and compiled several useful and able statistical works, the most important of which are a Dictionary of Commerce,' a Statistical Account of the British Empire, and a Geographical Dictionary.' This gentleman was a native of Wigtownshire, born in 1789, and died at the Stationery Office, London, of which he was comptroller, November 11, 1864. A pension of £200 a year was conferred on Mr. M'Culloch by the administration of Sir Robert Peel.

The opponents of Malthus and the economists, though not numerous, have been determined and active. Cobbett never ceased for years to inveigh against them. Coleridge also joined in the cry. MR. GODWIN came forward in 1820, with an Inquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind,' a treatise very unworthy the author of Caleb Williams.'-In 1830 MICHAEL THOMAS SADLER (1780-1835) published The Law of Population: a Treatise in Disproof of the Superfecundity of Human Beings, and developing the Real Principle of their Increase. A third volume to this work was in preparation by the author when he died. Mr. Sadler was a mercantile man, partner in an establishment in Leeds. In 1829 he became representative in parliament for the borough of Newark, and distinguished himself by his speeches against the removal of the Catholic disabilities and the Reform Bill. He also wrote a work on the condition of Ireland. Mr. Sadler was an ardent benevolent man, an impracticable politician, and a florid speaker. His literary pursuits and oratorical talents were honourable and graceful additions to his character as a man of business, but in knowledge and argument he was greatly inferior to Malthus and Ricardo.-Among other works of this kind we may notice, 'An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and the Sources of Taxation,' 1831, by the REV. RICHARD JONES. This work is chiefly confined to the consideration of Rent, as to which the author differs from Ricardo.-MR. NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR (1790-1864), Professor of Political Economy in the university of Oxford, in 1831, published Two Lectures on Population.' He was the ablest of all the opponents of Malthus. Mr. Senior wrote treatises on the Poor-laws, on National Education, and other public topics. In 1864 he published Essays on Fiction,' being a collection of articles on Scott, Bulwer Lytton, and Thackeray, contributed to the chief Reviews. He also contributed a valuable article on politi cal Economy to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana.'

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MISCELLANEOUS WRITERS.

HANNAH MORE.

AH MORE adopted fiction as a means of conveying religious She can scarcely be said to have been ever free of the ion of novelists; nor would she perhaps have cared much to distinction solely to her connection with so mo ley and various Hannah withdrew from the fascinations of London society, tres and opera, in obedience to what she considered the call of we suspect 'Tom Jones' and Peregrine Pickle' would have unworthy in her eyes. This excellent woman was one of five rs, children of Jacob More, who taught a school in the village eton, in Gloucestershire, where Hannah was born in the year The family afterwards removed to Bristol, and there Hannah d the attention and patronage of Sir James Stonehouse, who n many years a physician of eminence, but afterwards took nd settled at Bristol. In her seventeenth year she published a drama, The Search after Happiness,' which in a short time rough three editions. Next year she brought out a tragedy flexible Captive.' In 1773 or 1774 she made her entrance into iety of London, and was domesticated with Garrick, who one of her kindest and steadiest friends. She was received vour by Johnson, Reynolds, Burke, &c. Her sister has thus ed her first interview with the great English moralist :

First Interview with Johnson.

ve paid another visit to Miss Reynolds; she had sent to engage Dr. PercyCollection,' now you know him-quite a sprightly moderu, instead of a tique, as I expected; he was no sooner gone than the most amiable and of women, Miss Reynolds. ordered the coach to take us to Dr Johnson's house; yes, Abyssinian Johnson! Dictionary Johnson! Ramblers, Idlers, e Johnson! Can you picture to yourselves the palpitation of our hearts as oached his mansion? The conversation turned upon a new work of his just the press-the our to the Hebrides-and his old friend Richardson. Mrs. s. the blind poet, who lives with him. was introduced to us. She is engaging inners, her conversation lively and entertaining. Miss Reynolds told the docI our rapturous exclamations on the road. He shook his scientific head at and said she was a silly thing! When our visit was ended, he called for as it rained, to attend us down a very long entry to our coach, and not Rasld have acquitted himself more en cavalier. We are engaged with him at ua's on Wednesday evening-what do you think of us? I forgot to menat not finding Johnson in his little parlour when we came in, Hannah seated in his great chair. hoping to catch a little ray of his genius: when he heard ghed heartily, and told her it was a chair on which he never sat. He said it d him of Boswell end himself when they stopped a night, as they imagined, he weird sisters appeared to Macbeth. The idea so worked on their enthusi at it quite deprived them of rest. However, they learned the next morning, mortification, that they had been deceived, and were quite in another part of atry.

In a subsequent letter (1776) after the publication of Hannah's poem, Sir Eldred of the Bower,' the same lively writer says:

If a wedding should take place before our return, don't be surprised--between the mother of Sir Eldred and the father of my much-loved Irene; nay, Mrs. Montagu says if tender words are the precursors of connubial engagements, we may expect great things, for it is nothing but child,' 'little fool,' love,' and dearest.' After much critical discourse, he turus round to me, and with one of his most amiable looks, which must be seen to form the least idea of it, he says: I have heard that you are engaged in the useful and honourable employment of teaching young ladies.' Upon which, with all the same case, familiarity, and confidence we should have done had only our own dear Dr. Stonehouse been present, we entered upon the history of our birth, parentage, and education; shewing how we were born with more desires than guineas, and how, as years increased our appetites, the cupboard at home began to grow too small to gratify them; and how, with a bottle of water, a bd, and a blanket, we set out to seek our fortunes; and how we found a great house with nothing in it; and how it was like to remain so till, looking into our knowledge-boxes, we happened to find a little larning, a good thing when land is gone, or rather none; and so at last. by giving a little of this little (arning to those who had less, we got a good store of gold in return; but how, alas! we wanted the wit to keep it. I love you both,' cried the inamorato- I love you all five. I never was at Bristol-1 will come on purpose to see you. What! five women live happily together! I will come and see you-I have spent a happy evening-I am glad I came --God for ever bless you! you live lives to shame duchesses.' He took his leave with so much warmth and tenderness, we were quite affected at his manner. If Hannah's head stands proof against all the adulation and kindness of the great folks here, why, then, I will venture to say nothing of this kind will hurt her hereafter. A literary anecdote: Mrs. Medalla-Sterne's daughter-sent to all the corre spondents of her deceased father, begging the letters which he had written to them; among other wits, she sent to Wilkes with the same request. He sent for answer, that as there happened to be nothing extraordinary in those he had received, he had burnt or lost thein. On which the faithful editor of her father's works sent back to say, that if Mr. Wilkes would be so good as to write a few letters in imitation of her father's style, it would do just as well, and she would insert them.

In 1777 Garrick brought out Miss More's tragedy of Percy' at Drury Lane, where it was acted seventeen nights successively. Her theatrical profits amounted to £600, and for the copyright of the play she got £150 more. Two legendary poems, Sir Eldred of the Bower' and The Bleeding Rock,' formed her next publication. In 1779, the third and last tragedy of Hannah More was produced; it was entitled "The Fatal Falsehood,' but was acted only three nights. At this time, she had the misfortune to lose her friend Mr. Garrick by death, an event of which she has given some interesting particulars in her letters.

Death and Character of Garrick.

From Dr. Cadogan's I intended to have gone to the Adelphi, but found that Mrs. Garrick was at that moment quitting her house while preparations were making for the last sad ceremony; she very wisely fixed on a private friend's house for this purpose, where she could be at her ease. I got there just before her; she was prepared for meeting me; she ran into my arms, and we both remained silent for some minutes; at last she whispered: I have this moment embraced his coffin, and you come next.' She soon recovered herselt, and said with great composure: The goodness of God to me is inexpressible; I desire to die, but it is His will that I should live, and He has convinced me He will not let my life be quite miserable, for he gives astonishing strength to my body, and grace to my heart; neither do I deserve; but I am thankful for both." She thanked me a thousand times for such a real act of friendship, and bade me be comforted, for it was God's will. She told me they had

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ed from Althorp, Lord Spencer's, where he had been reluctantly dragged, I felt unwell for some time; but during his visit he was often in such fine at they could not believe he was ill. On his return home, h appointed to meet him, who ordered him an emetic, the warm bath, and the usual but with very little effect. On the Sundar, he was in good spirits and free ; but as the suppression still continued. Dr. Cadogan became extremely and sent for Pott. Heberden, and Schomberg, who gave him up the moment him. Poor Garrick stared to see his room full of doctors, not being conhis real state. No change happened till the Tuesday evening, when the ho was sent for to blister and bleed him made light of his illness. assuring ick that he would be well in a day or two, and insisted on her going to lie owards morning, she desired to be called if there was the least change. ne that she administered the draughts to him in the night, he always her hand in a particular manner, and spoke to her with the greatest tenderaffection. Immediately after he had taken his last medicine, he softly dear!' and yielded up his spirit with a groan, and in his perfect senses. r during the night was all gentleness and patience, aud he frequently made to those about him for the trouble he gave them. On opening him, a stone d that measured five inches and a half round one way, and four and a half ; yet this was not the immediate cause of his death; his kidneys were ne. I paid a melancholy visit to the coffin yesterday, where I found room tation till the mind burst with thinking.' His new house is not so pleasant ton, nor so splendid as the Adelphi, but it is commodious enough for all the its inhabitant; and, besides, it is so quiet that he never will be disturbed terual morning, and never till then will a sweeter voice than his own be May he then find mercy! They are preparing to hang the house with black, s to lie in state till Monday. I dislike this pageantry, and cannot help that the disembodied spirit must look with contempt upon the farce that is ver its miserable relics. But a splendid funeral could not be avoided, as he laid in the Abbey with such illustrious dust, and so many are desirous of g their respect by attending. I can never cease to remember with affection itude so warm, steady, and disinterested a friend; and I can most truly bear imony to his memory, that I never witnessed in any family more decorum, y, and regularity, than in his; where I never saw a card, nor even metnone instance-a person of his own profession at his table, of which Mrs. by her elegance of taste, her correctness of manners, and very original turn our, was the brightest ornament. All his pursuits and tastes were so y intellectual, that it made the society and the conversation, which was always und in his circle, interesting and delightful.

782, Miss More presented to the world a volume of 'Sacred s,' with a poem annexed, entitled Sensibility.' All her works uccessful, and Johnson said he thought her the best of the feersifiers. The poetry of Hannah More is now forgotten; but is a good play, and it is clear that the authoress might have ed as a dramatic writer, had she devoted herself to that difficult s of composition. In 1786, she published another volume of Florio, a Tale for Fine Gentlemen and Fine Ladies;' and 'The leu, or Conversation.' The latter-which Johnson compli as a great performance '-was an elaborate eulogy on the eu Club, a literary assembly that met at Mrs. Montagu's.* The se meetings were called the Blue-stocking Club, in consequence of one of t admired of the members, Mr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, always wearing blue s. The appellation soon became general as a name for pedantic or ridiculous ladies. Hannah More's poems proceeds on the mistake of a foreigner, who, of the Blue-stocking Club. translated it literallyBas Blen.' Byron wrote satirical sketch of the Blues' of his day-the frequenters of the London -but it is unworthy of his genius.

following couplets have been quoted and remembered as terse and pointed:

In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.

Small habits well pursued. betimes
May reach the dignity of climes.

Such lines mark the good sense and keen observation of the writer, and these qualities Hannah now resolved to devote exclusively to high objects. The gay life of the fashionable world had lost its charms, and, having published her Bas Bleu,' she retired to a small cottage and garden near Bristol, where her sisters kept a flourishing boarding-school. Her first publication was Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society,' produced in 1788. This was followed in 1791 by an Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World.' As a means of counteracting the political tracts and exertions of the Jacobins and levellers, Hannah More, in 1794, wrote a number of tales, published monthly under the title of The Cheap Repository,' which attained to a sale of about a million each number. Some of the little stories-as The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain —are well told, and contain striking moral and religi ous lessons. With the same object, our authoress published a volume called 'Village Politics.'

Her other principal works are-'Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education,' 1799; Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess,' 1805; Colebs in Search of a Wife, comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals,' two volumes, 1809; Practical Piety, or the Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of Life,' two volumes, 1811; Christian Morals,' two volumes, 1812; Essay on the Character and Writings of St. Paul,' two volumes, 1815; and Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic, with Reflections on Prayer,' 1819. The collection of her works is comprised in eleven volumes octavo. The work entitled 'Hints towards forming the Character of a Young Princess,' was written with a view to the education of the Princess Charlotte, on which subject the advice and assistance of Hannah More had been requested by Queen Charlotte. Of Colebs' we are told that ten editions were sold in one year-a remarkable proof of the popularity of the work. The tale is admirably written, with a fine vein of delicate irony and sarcasm, and some of the characters are well depicted; but, from the nature of the story, it presents few incidents or embellishments to attract ordinary novel-readers. It has not inaptly been styled 'a dramatic sermon. Of the other publications of the authoress, we may say, with one of her critics, it would be idle in us to dwell on works so well known as the Thoughts on the Manners of the Great,' the Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World,' and so on, which finally established Miss More's name as a great moral writer,