The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-15 00:00:00

" 0 thou hast damnable iteration."--Hinny IV.

We have hastily glanced at this singular publica-
tion, smoking wet from the press, and almost fancy
that we see Mr. Mathews performing his mail-coach
adventures over again, and presenting us with another
portrait of himself for the eighth or tenth time—for,
at every page of this work we meet another and the
same subject like an old nd with a new face, per-
forming like Clara Fisher, The Maid of All Work,
to the astonishment of -the beholders. The object of
the work before us is to point out what appears to us
an incredible number of instances, -in which Mr.
M'Culloch has reprinted his own ideas upon Political
Economy, almost verbatim in several publications, as well
as in the Edinburgh Review, the last number of which
bears ample testimony to the charges of self-plagiarism,
brought forward against him. The thing is so palpa-
ble, that we cannot refuse the evidence of our eyes,
and yet it appears perfectly unaccountable why the
same thing should be multiplied repeatedly, and that
too as original each successive time, like the new
moon, unless it were done under the idea that a good
story cannot be told too often. And yet there ap-
pears to be some method, if not due discretion in the
thing, for the same arguments, like a swivel gun, are
brought to bear upon the same object, come from what
quarter it may. We are truly eta loss to guess the drift of
all this economy in printing, for a man of Mr.M,Culloch's
original mind was surely above thecora mon place repeti-
tion of himself. It cannot be that he imagined the reading
public would overlook the repetition of the old tale,
and that at such a short interval ; or perhaps he judged
them like the frequenters of different cook-shops, 'and
so gave all his customers the same dish, as political
economy wasuit in season. But the thing is alto-
gether
marvelously perplexing, and the wonder is in-
creased by the circumstance that if the plagiarism did
exist so long,•how it escaped detection and exposure
till the present time. For the honour of Mr. M'Cul-
loch—for the benefits conferred On the public by the
cultivation of the science of Political Economy, we
shall suspend our belief in the extraordinary proofs
contained in this publication, and invite the public to
judge for themselves by referring to the documents
which Mordecai Mullion very manfully lays before his
readers with their dates and authorities. In the mean-
time we select at random some passages from the text
which is exultingly caustic, and subjoin a few extracts
for the satisfaction of those who cannot get the book
so expeditiously as Our paper. If the imputations be
true, they appear incredible—and if false, it would be
villainous economy to stint the utter reprobation of
their author.
There are some things about Mr. M‘Culloeh's -conduct, as a
contributor to the Edinburgh Review, which appear to us more
especially to require explanation. Mr. Jeffrey, we presume, con-
siders his Journal to possess a character for some originality, but
we are greatly mistaken if its originality, in as far as Mr. M'Cul-
loch's contributions are concerned, be not of a kind that the Editor
would not be, by any means, anxious to.see established.
During the eight years that Mr. M'Culloc.ll has been a contri-
butor to that work, be has acted upon a system never before re-
cognized as legitimate, either in it or in any other journal—a sys-
tem in itself at once ludicrous and unprincipled. 'The editor of the
Edinburgh Review pledges himself that every article, in every
number, shall, in expression at least, be mainly different from all
its predecessors. He Also pledges himself that the articles in hie
journal shall substantially he written for it, and not cobbled up
articles out of other publications. 'That surely is not to take very
high ground ; for if Mr. Jeffrey were to maintain that he has a
right to reprint, if he chooses, in one number, the article which
bad appeared iu another, without saying it word about it, he
would be :lying in the face of all honest and sensible mon ; and if
be were to maintain that he has a right to insert cobbled articles if
be chooses, and ia S often as he chooses, then he degrades his jour-
nal to the level of a mere compilation.
In his review of Mr. M'Culloch's Discourse on the Rise, Pro-
greso, Peculiar Objects, and Importance of Political Economy,
Mr. Jeffrey shows that he is notat all aware of the nature of the
plan on which that person constructs his works. , " Mr. *Cul-
loch," he says, " has given so luminous a summary of these doe-
trines (of wages and population), that we think it our duty, at the
risk of some apparent repetition, to lay his edition of it also before
our milers." Mr. Jeffrey's own edition was a thousand times
better than that which, at the risk of some repetition, he lays be-
fore his readers. Rut, in his simplicity, he was neither aware of
the sort of repetition counnitted—nor that Mr. M'enlattli otherltad
been long in the habit, in the .Edinburgh Review, a
places, of giving two, three, tour, five, and six editions of all his
doctrine,. See how absurd part of Mr. Jeffrey's quotation from
the Discourse looks beside its brother of the Priuciples of Poli-
tical Economy 1

Passage from Mr. M'Culloch's DiscOurse, quoted by Mr. Jeffrey
in Edinburgh Review,No. $5, Sept., 1825, p. 14.
" From the remotest antiquity down to our own times, it had
. been the uniform policy of legtilators to rye an artificial stimulus
to population by encooraginrearly marriages and bestowing re-
wards on those who had reared the greatest number of children.
But the doctrines of Mr. Malthus show the mischievous nature of
all Interference with the natural promss of population, and' have
in this respect effected a complete change in the public opinion," tic.

Passage from Mr. MiCulloch's Principles of Political Economyt
Bvo., Edinburgh, lilgh, pp. 1951 and 194, quoted by Mordecai
Mullion.,
" Prom the remotest antiquity down to our Own times,
.been the uniform policy of legislators to give an artificial stimulus
to populatinn, by encouraging early marriage, and bestowing re-
wards on those who bad reared the greatest number of children.
Rut the researches of Mr. Malthus, Ad th
o, it bad
ough not the original
discoverer of the principle of population, was certainly the first to
establish it on a secure foundation, have shown the mischievous
nature of all such interference," Isc.

a few words respecting
But we wish to say sonic other kindred
traits of conduct in Mr. M'Culloch, as contributor to the Edits-
burgh Review. We have been a Subscriber to that work. during
the period of Mr. M‘Culloch '5 delinqu cy, and on that ground
site are entitled to whisper our complaints in the ear of the
Our warnings in the ear of the public. We FAli-
en
tor, and to shout,
therefore denounce Mr. M,Culloch as an impostor. And the first