Note 146 — Chapter III
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The famous 'Cevallos' article of 1808, said to be written by Jeffrey and Brougham (Macvey Napier's Correspondence, p. 308), gave the immediate cause of starting the Quarterly; and, according to Brougham, first gave a distinctly Liberal character to the Edinburgh. For Jeffrey's desire to avoid 'party politics,' see Lockhart's Life of Scott, M. Napier's Correspondence, p. 435, and Homer's Memoirs (1853), i. 464.