168 A Journey to London in 1840. 



new capacity was delivered on the Stli of April, 1824. The 

 course extended to twenty-one lectures. He continued annually 

 to prelect in this institution till he was elected Professor in the 

 University of London, into which seminary the Ricardo lecture- 

 ship was allowed to merge, at any rate it was discontinued, the 

 promoters of both splendid objects being the same persons. So 

 great an interest did Mr M'CuUoch's prelections excite that 

 abstracts of them were regularly printed in some of the leading 

 public journals. 



Having received a requisition from certain gentlemen in 

 Liverpool to deliver a course of lectures in that town he complied 

 with the application, and on his ^vay from London gave a series 

 there in the winter of 1825-26. His introductory lecture both in 

 Edinburgh and in the Ricardo Institution he extended and i)u1j- 

 lished in 1824, under the title of A Discourse on the Rise, Pro- 

 gress, Peculiar Objects, and Importance of Political Economy, 

 containing an outline of a course of lectures on the Principal 

 Doctrines of that Science. This work, which is full of valuable 

 information, was reprinted a year or so afterwards, was translated 

 into French, and re-published in New York. 



In 1825 he pul>Iished A Discourse delivered at the opening 

 of the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution, 30t/i 

 May, 1825, and dedicated it to John Smith, Esq., M.P. In 

 the same year he printed for private circulation and at the expense 

 of the family of Air Ricardo Memoirs of the Life and Writings of 

 that excellent man, a composition extending to 32 pages, octavo, 

 most judiciously and carefully written ; perhaps the best specimen 

 of his style ttiat exists. 



The London University was opened for public instruction in 

 October, 1828, and in the spring of that year Mr M'CuUoch was 

 without application elected to the Chair of Political Economy. 

 T have seen the simple letter from Mr Brougham intimating the 

 circumstance. Mr M'Culloch with his family removed to London 

 in September of the year mentioned. As he took his wliole 

 household furniture with him and had besides a very large family, 

 he preferred as a matter of economy one of the sailing smacks 

 from Leith to a steamer, the expense of the latter being .so great. 

 After his house was half dismantled and within a day or two of his 

 departure he gave a dinner to a very few of his best and most 

 intimate private friends, of whom I had the honour to be one. 



