MACKLIN'S ORDINARY AND SCHOOL OF CRITICISM

Mr. George Wingrove Cooke, in his valuable work, *The History of Party* (vol. iii, p. 66.), gives an admirable sketch of the life of Edmund Burke. Speaking of his early career, and of the various designs which he formed for his future course, we are told that "at *Macklin's Debating Society* he made the first essay of his powers of oratory." Mr. Cunningham, in his *Handbook for London*, speaks of Macklin delivering Lectures on Elocution at Pewterer's Hall (p. 394.), and of his residence in Tavistock Row, Covent Garden (p. 484.); but he does not mention *Macklin's Debating Society*. I imagine t…