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Macklin Scotch accent.' (A copy of the handbill is in the British Museum.) Mackintosh, who is stated on doubtful authority to have returned to Scotland after his father's death, in the same year, was implicated in the abortive attempt at a rising in 1719, and was afterwards a fugitive. Captured in the wilds of Caithness, he was sent as a state prisoner to Edinburgh Castle, where he ended his days, 7 Jan. 1748, at the age of eighty. The period of his incaceration is variously stated at from fifteen to twenty-five years.

Mackintosh marriea Mary, daughter by his second wife of Edward Keade of Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, and maid of honour to Mary of Modena [q. v.], by whom he had two sons, Lachlan and Shaw, and three daughters. Shaw afterwards sold the feu-rights of Borlum.

While a prisoner at Edinburgh, Mackintosh wrote 'An Essay on Ways and Means of Enclosing, Fallowing, and Planting Lands in Scotland, and that in sixteen years at farthest,' which was printed in Edinburgh in 1729. In it he discusses the formation of schools of agriculture, which he says was suggested by Robert Boyle. He also published 'An Essay on the Husbandry of Scotland,' 1732 (cf. Donaldsow, Agricultural Biog.) By some writers Mackintosh is represented as a rough-handed soldier of the Dalyell of Binns type, but by others as a polite and cultivated gentleman. The Master of Sinclair, in what Burton styles his 'Malignant Memoirs,' and other writers disparage his military pretensions and gird at his poverty ; but nis sagacity, foresight, and enterprise certainly indicate fitness for command. Robert Chambers relates that in his childhood at Peebles, in the first years of the present century, one of the rough pastimes of the school-children was to natter with stones a much-defaced effigy, called 'Borlum,' which was built into the walls of a ruined church in the neighbourhood. His name thus survived as a popular bugbear.  MACKLIN, CHARLES (1697?–1797), actor, son of William McLaughlin, was born in the north of Ireland, between 1690 and 1697, most probably at the latter date. After William McLaughlin's death in 1704 his widow married Luke O'Meally, landlord of the Eagle Tavern, Werburgh Street, Dublin, and Charles was sent to a school at Island Bridge, near that city, kept by one Nicholson, a Scotsman, and to his experiences there he attributed the antipathy to Scotsmen which in life and writings he subsequently displayed. Originally a Roman catholic, he subsequently adopted protestantism. Macklin soon acquired a reputation as a mimic, and is said in amateur theatricals to have acted Monimia in the 'Orphans.' Running away from home, he lived for a time in London on money stolen from his mother, and became a servant in a public-house in the Borough frequented by mountebanks, the mistress of which is doubtfully said to have become his first wife. In 1713 he was a badgeman, scout, or 'skip,' at Trinity College, Dublin. Various adventures, all more or less apocryphal and contradictory, are ascribed to him before he arrived in Bristol, where— as author, actor, pantomimist, and factotum — he joined a strolling company, with which he is said to have made his first appearance as Richmond in ' Richard III,' According to Congreve, his most trustworthy biographer, he played Alcander in the 'Œdipus' of Dryden and Lee at Lincoln's Inn Theatre about 1725, and Sir Charles Freeman in Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem ' at Lee and Harper's booth on the Bowling-green, Southward, 18 Feb. 1730. On 4 Dec. 1730 he played at Lincoln's Inn the small parts of Porer and Brazencourt in Fielding's 'Coffee-house Politician,' and on 31{Oct. 1733 made, under the name of Mechlin, as Brazen in the ' Recruiting Officer,' his first appearance at Drury Lane. His name at this period was variously spelt. Marplot, Cloaio in 'Love makes a Man,' Teague in the 'Committee,' Brass in the 'Confederacy,' Lord Lace in the 'Lottery,' the Marquis in the 'Country House,' and Lord Foppington in the 'Careless Husband,' were played during his first season, in which he was also, 15 Jan. 1783-4, the original Colonel Bluff in Fielding's 'Intriguing Chambermaid.' His engagement for these first-rate parts was due to the El between Highmore, the manager of Lane, and his principal actors, which had led the latter to secede and open the Haymarket for the season of 1733 [see, d. 1742]. Highmore, thus deserted, collected what performers he could from the country theatres and elsewhere. Among these Macklin was conspicuous by the promise he exhibited. But early in 1734 Fleetwood succeeded to the management of Drury Lane, the seceding actors returned on 12 March, and Macklin, who found his best, parts taken from him, joined at the Haymarket the company of Fielding, in whose 'Don,' 