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which he continued to maintain through life. In 1S03 he was ap- 

 pointed Recorder of Bombay, where he resided for seven years, and 

 where he secured the affection and admiration both of natives and 

 of foreigners, by the able, impartial, and considerate discharge of his 

 judicial functions. Upon his return from India in 1811, he was 

 elected Member of Parliament for Knaresborough, a place which 

 he continued to represent for the remainder of his life. 



Few persons of his own age had read so much as Sir James 

 Mackintosh, or remembered what they had read so well. His con- 

 versation was singularly instructive and brilliant, without being 

 overbearing; his manners were conciliating, his temper excellent, 

 and he was entirely tolerant of opinions which were different from 

 his own. He was one of the most distinguished Members of the 

 House of Commons; and his speeches upon all the great questions 

 which were agitated in his time were remarkable, not merely for 

 their eloquence, but the large and comprehensive views of national 

 policy, which were supplied by his almost unrivalled knowledge of 

 history and political philosophy. 



Sir James Mackintosh, besides his Vindicice Gallicce, was the 

 author of Lectures upon the Laws of Nations; of A Sketch of the 

 History of England; of an incomplete Essay on the Principles and 

 the History of Moral Philosophy; and of many admirable Reviews. 

 It is to be lamented that he should have dissipated his extraordi- 

 nary powers upon occasional and desultory publications, instead of 

 concentrating them upon some great work, which might have trans- 

 mitted, undiminished, to posterity the reputation which he enjoyed 

 among his friends and cotemporaries. There were, however, many 

 circumstances which might sufficiently account for his failing to 

 leave behind him a monument for future ages, which would have 

 been worthy of his genius and his learning. He brought home with 

 him from India a shattered constitution, which disqualified him for 

 continued and laborious exertion ; he had many Parliamentary as 

 well as official duties to perform ; and the pressure of his pecuniary 

 necessities compelled him to seek, too frequently, for the immediate 

 remuneration which was supplied by means of contributions to the 

 perishable periodical literature of the day. 



Colonel Mark Wilks went to Bengal in 1783, and served in dif- 

 ferent military and civil capacities in various parts of India. In the 

 year 1804 he was appointed principal Resident at the Court of My- 

 sore, and in the following year he published a very able Report upon 

 the financial condition, resources, and many other subjects connected 

 with the administration of the government of that country. He was 

 the author of " Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an 

 attempt to trace the History of Mysore to the Extinction of the 

 Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799," — a work of great learning and au- 

 thority : he was afterwards appointed Governor of St. Helena, and 

 he died in England in the course of the present year. 



Colonel Wilks must be considered as one of those distinguished 

 men who have been formed by the system of our Indian Empire. 

 The possession of great commands, upon which the happiness and 



