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Updated: June 28, 2025

Unfortunately, we can, at present, do nothing more than lay before our readers its glowing peroration so worthy of this great orator, this unwearied friend of liberty and humanity." To Macvey Napier, Esq. Paris: September 16, 1830. My dear Sir, I have just received your letter, and I cannot deny that I am much vexed at what has happened.

Sir George Otto Trevelyan - Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay: Volume 1

Macvey Napier, my friend's elder brother, was the senior clerk. On John Mill's retirement, his co-officials subscribed to present him with a silver standish. Such was the general sense of Mill's modest estimate of his own deserts, and of his aversion to all acknowledgment of them, that Mr. Napier, though it fell to his lot, begged others to join in the ceremony of presentation.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone