Have you seen what the author of the "Young Duke" says about me: how rabid I am, and how certain I am to rat?
Ever yours T.B.M.
Macaulay's account of the allusion to himself in the "Young Duke" is perfectly accurate; and yet, when read as a whole, the passage in question does not appear to have been ill-naturedly meant.

["I hear that Mr.Babington Macaulay is to be returned.

If he speaks half as well as he writes, the House will be in fashion again.

I fear that he is one of those who, like the individual whom he has most studied, will give up to a party what was meant for mankind.

At any rate, he must get rid of his rabidity.