OF THE AUTHOR. SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH was born on the 24th October 1765, at Aldourie, in the county of Inverness. He received the rudiments of his education at the school of Fortrose in Ross-shire, thence he removed to King's College, Aberdeen, and gave at both of these places an earnest of his future eminence. At the University above named he formed an acquaintance with the celebrated Robert Hall, which continued during life. Having been destined by his friends for the profession of a physician, he entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of twenty, where he took his degree of M. D. in September 1787. In 1788 he went to London, and there married Miss Stuart about a year after. In 1789 he published a pamphlet on the Regency question, but as Mr. Pitt's theory on the subject triumphed over that of Fox, the pamphlet shared the fate of the cause which it espoused. His Vindicia Gallica, which appeared in 1791, passed through three editions in the short space of six months, and by the talents displayed in it procured for the author the acquaintance of Sheridan, Grey, Whitbread, Fox, and the Duke of Bedford. He renounced the medical profession, and in 1792 entered student of law in Lincoln's-Inn, and was called to the bar in 1795. Having resolved to give a course of lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations, he announced his intention by a prospectus in 1797, and, accordingly, delivered in 1798 in Lincoln's-Inn Hall his introductory lecture, which was published in 1799. The ability and sound principle displayed in it secured universal approbation; not only did Fox and his friends lavish their praises on the author, 1. Mackintosh, Sir James. Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations. Edin. 1838. 120 fep.60. 2. Jobert, A. C. &. Two Words on Lord Brougham's and Dr. and Dr. Paley's Natural L. 1835. 12° fupr. 36. Ο 3. Theology. 4. Whewell, Wm. Indications of the Creator. Phil. 1845. 12. pp. 86. 5. Basmage de Beauval, Henri' ] . Life of Lucilis Vanini. [2.1714.] [L. 1714.] 14: 7. Greene, W. B. Remarks in Refutation of the Treatise of Jonaction Edward on the Freedom of the Will. NestBrookfield. 1848. 12. fr.30. 7. Wilber, H.B.J. Circular of the Inst. for the Education of Idiots, etc. Barre, Max Jan. 1, 1851. Worcester. 1851. 12. Jap. 23. Lawrence, A. H. Examination Hume's Argument on Miracles. Wash. 1845. 12. fepr. 20. |