Note 642 — Chapter III · GENERAL GLUTS.

The article on the Bullion question, in August of the same year, might be his, if it was not Francis Horner’s. Cf. Horner’s Life, vol. i. ch. vi., dates April and Sept. 1805, from which it appears that Horner was working hard at the question and meant to write on it, as he might have done better in 1811, fresh from his experience on the Bullion Committee. As to the February article, the authorship is shown partly by internal evidence, partly by Horner’s Life, vol. ii. p. 68 (Jan. 1811): “I received Malthus’ MS. from you [Jeffrey] and have since transmitted it to him with such remarks as occurred to me in perusing it,” &c. MacCulloch did not begin to write the economical articles for the Edin. Rev. till 1818. See Notes and Queries, 5th Oct., 1878.