ABSTRACT

First published in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, III, July 1833, pp. 417–21. See headnote above, pp. 203–5. It was misnumbered ‘No. VII’ in Tait’s (see Wellesley Index, vol. iv, p. 497). The essay was reprinted in Hunt, Political, pp. 271–8, where the misnumbering was retained in the text but referenced in the endnotes (Hunt, Political, p. 432).