Note 331 — BOOK IX[247]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) abandoned medicine for the law. He received an Indian judgeship in 1804, and in 1811 returned to England, entering Parliament in 1812. He was the author of some masterly writings, including the famous Dissertation on Ethics in the Encyclopædia Britannica.—T.