Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . t is that of a man of gentleblood, built up by ages of ease and ciiltivation. Tliis is not tlieburly form of Malcolm, the farmers son, nor these the ruggedfeatures and gnarled and warped forehead of Colin Campbell. POLITICAL. Elphinstone was one of a noble band whom Edinburgh sentforth at the close of the eighteenth century; there were Horner,Murray, Brougham, Jeffrey, Mackintosh, and three last were hot Eepublicans in their teens,—a garbsoon to be exchanged for more sober livery, the blue and buffof the Edinburfjli Bevi
Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; . t is that of a man of gentleblood, built up by ages of ease and ciiltivation. Tliis is not tlieburly form of Malcolm, the farmers son, nor these the ruggedfeatures and gnarled and warped forehead of Colin Campbell. POLITICAL. Elphinstone was one of a noble band whom Edinburgh sentforth at the close of the eighteenth century; there were Horner,Murray, Brougham, Jeffrey, Mackintosh, and three last were hot Eepublicans in their teens,—a garbsoon to be exchanged for more sober livery, the blue and buffof the Edinburfjli Bevievj. There seems to have been a doubtin the kings mind, when Mackintosh in 1804, who was then 38,was being sent out as Kecorder of Bombay,! that the opinions ofthe author of Vindicim Gallicce were too pronoimced, but, on * The portrait in this volume is from the jiainting by Sir ThomasLawrence. t llackintosh had been designated in 1801 to go out to Calcutta as chiefof an educational Institution.—Scotts ii/e (ed. 183j), vol. ii., pp. 70, 74.— [w^ -r- -•.!if,fi^l!;iari-rir^.-f~-^-~ LPH IN STONE -riEK&C* PARIS HIS POLITICS. 49 being assured on this point, he shrewdly observed : A manmay be allowed to change his opinions ; his principles , when a boy, sung Qa Ira and the Marseillaise, andhis young friends in India on his arrival—by way of burlesque,we suppose—presented him with a tricolor cockade and cap ofliberty. He had no stereotyped prejudices, * but the earlyviews which he imbibed, thougli many modifica-tions, never left him, and the Whig peeps out at intervals tothe end of his life. By his accidental meeting with Mackintosh in Bomljay in1811 and afterwards, Elphinstone, thougli a man of independentthought and action, must have been brought to some extentunder the sway of his intellect, which was irresistible anddominated all ^\•ithi^ its reach. He it was who urged upon himto come before the world and publish his book
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