altogether of a triumphant character. After very narrowly
escaping with his life from an outbreak at Travancore, incited by
a native minister who owed him a grudge, he had given proof of
courage and spirit during some military operations which ended in
his being brought back to the Residency with flying colours. But,
when the fighting was over, he countenanced, and perhaps
prompted, measures of retaliation which were ill taken by his
superiors at Calcutta. In his congratulatory effusion the nephew
presumes to remind the uncle that on European soil there still
might be found employment for so redoubtable a sword.

"For many a battle shall be lost and won
Ere yet thy glorious labours shall be done."

The General did not take the hint, and spent the remainder of his
life peacefully enough between London, Bath, and the Continental
capitals. He was accustomed to say that his travelling carriage
was his only freehold; and, wherever he fixed his temporary
residence, he had the talent of making himself popular. At Geneva
he was a universal favourite; he always was welcome at Coppet;
and he gave the strongest conceivable proof of a cosmopolitan
disposition by finding himself equally at home at Rome and at
Clapham. When in England he lived much with his relations, to
whom he was sincerely attached. He was generous in a high degree,
and the young people owed to him books which they otherwise could
never have obtained, and treats and excursions which formed the
only recreations that broke the uniform current of their lives.
They regarded their uncle Colin as the man of the world of the
Macaulay family.