. 'Christopher North', a memoir of John Wilson ... : compiled from family papers and other sources . enemy. The other, thoughreckoned by men well fitted to judge, as a person singularly giftedwith philosophic as well as poetic faculty, was better known in theouter world as a daring and brilliant litterateur ; one of a band ofwriters who had excited much admiration, but also much righteouscensure, and personally as a somewhat eccentric young man of veryathletic and jovial tendencies. How these qualities affected hisposition as a candidate will speedily appear; but all other distinc-tions were l
. 'Christopher North', a memoir of John Wilson ... : compiled from family papers and other sources . enemy. The other, thoughreckoned by men well fitted to judge, as a person singularly giftedwith philosophic as well as poetic faculty, was better known in theouter world as a daring and brilliant litterateur ; one of a band ofwriters who had excited much admiration, but also much righteouscensure, and personally as a somewhat eccentric young man of veryathletic and jovial tendencies. How these qualities affected hisposition as a candidate will speedily appear; but all other distinc-tions were lost sight of in the one great fact of political creed. SirWilliam was a Whig: Wilson was a Tory. The matter all lay inthat. Wilson, too, was not only a Tory, but a Tory of the mostunpardonable description; he was one of the leading hands, if notthe editor, of that scandalous publication, Blackwoods Magazine, aman therefore who needed no further testimonial of being at leastan assassin and a reprobate. He, forsooth, a Professor of MoralPhilosophy, a successor of Dugald Stewart! The thing was mon-. Sir William Hamilton, at Oxford.—From a sketch by Mi-. Lockbart THE MORAL, PHILOSOPHY CHAIR. 205 strous; au outrage ou decency and common sense. Such, withoutexaggeration, was the view taken by the Whig side in this contest,and strenuously supported publicly in the columns of the Scotsman,*and privately in every circle where the name of Blackwood was aname of abomination and of fear. How the proceedings of this election interested my mother maybe seen best from her own true womanly feelings expressed withoutreserve, in a letter to her sister:— My mind has been anxiously occupied on Mr. Wilsons account,by an election in which he has, amongst other literary men, stainedas a candidate. It is for a Professors Chair in the University Professorship of Moral Philosophy is the situation, which becamevacant about six weeks ago, by the death of Dr. Brown. The gift ofthe Chair is in
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