Note 12 — BIOGRAPHY GONE MAD.

Mr Bennett, it would appear, is not indeed utterly free from the human feeling of “love of approbation”—the approbation, however, of “peculiar” characters. Mr O’Connell insulted him at a great Repeal gathering in Dublin, by saying, when his card was presented, “We don’t want him here. He is one of the conductors of one of the vilest Gazettes ever published by infamous publishers.” Poor Bennett was “ill for some days in Scotland”—probably, thinks the tender biographer, in consequence of this unexpected repulse from a brother demagogue.