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the English Courts, and had the supreme satisfaction of hearing Judge 

 Mansfield declare from the bench, that as soon as a slave sets his foot on 

 English ground he becomes free. In his late j'ears prophecy much 

 absorbed his attention, and he is said to have mourned over the degeneracy of 

 the statesman of his time because Charles Fox had never heard of Daniel's 

 little horn. 



Among the group too may be seen the Rev. Thomas Gisbourne the 

 naturalist — who woed the wood and glade — who loved natiu-e with a 

 devotion second only to that which he felt for those over whom he had 

 pastoral charge. 



Charles Grant, an autocrat in Lombard-street is here, and Lord 

 Teynmouth, set free from the viceregal cares of governing India, seeks 

 the repose and companionship of those around him. 



Yonder is the accomplished Macintosh, whose fiery eloquence is 

 hushed by the chastening yet kindly influences around him — near liim is 

 a face never to be mistaken — then plain Harry Brougham. 



Retired in the comer there are 3 youths, eagerly listening to their 

 elders with feelings of shyness and pride. — One of these died Professor of 

 Modern History at Cambridge - the 2nd lives as the active and eloquent 

 Bishop of Oxford, and the 3rd Thomas B. Macaulay, tlie greatest Essayist 

 and Historian of this and perhaps of any other country. 



Just one more picture and my list is complete. Zachary Macaulay. 

 He was robust, and somewhat of an ungainly figure — he was slow of 

 speech — but his " imderstanding was proof against sophistry and his 

 nerves against fear." In that chosen circle none was more honoured 

 or loved with such enthusiasm as he. 



An eye-witness of the abomination of slavery in Jamaica — a long 

 resident in Sierra Leone with the slave trade flourishing around hir.i. He 

 became impressed -with the conviction that he was called to do battle 

 against this giant sin. For 40 years he consecrated every faculty to tliis 

 one purpose. Sacrificed everything the world holds in esteem to its 

 fifftherance, and like his brother apostle Wilberforce he lived to see his 

 life-purpose accomplished. Such Avere some of those whom iJacaulav 

 was broii^'ht into contract with in early life. 



We are indebted to Mrs. Hannah More for an account of his boyhood. 

 When he attained the age of 8, she rejoices " that his classicality had not 

 extinguished his piety," a.id adds that " his hymns were extraordinary for 

 a baby." In his 1 2th year Macaulay's future education was confided to 



