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was complied with. He lent 500/. 

 to Mr. Willies, upon his bond, 

 which he afterwards increased, in 

 consequence of non-payment, to 

 2000/. and the bond was burnt. 

 Mr, Sylvia was the brother of the 

 Jew who was murdered in Garden 

 Row, Chelsea, by his nephew. — 

 Through tliu death of his brother 

 he got about 2000/. 



At his house in Pall Mall, the 

 Right Honourable William Wind- 

 hanri, M. P. D. C. L. one of his 

 majesty's most honourable Privy 

 Council, and a Governor of the 

 CharterHouse. Mr.Windhamwas 

 descendedfromanancientandhigh- 

 ly respectable family in the county 

 of Norfolk, where they had : c-ided 

 for several generations, and pos- 

 sessed a considerable property. 

 His father, William Windham, 

 was one of the most admired cha- 

 racters of his time ; and, in 1756, 

 soon after the plan of a national 

 militia was formed by Mr. Pi(t 

 (afterwards earl of Chatham) this 

 gentleman, in conjunction with 

 the late ]Marquis Tovvnshend, was 

 extremely zealous and active in 

 promoting and carrying into exe- 

 cution that scheme, which has 

 since proved so sakitarj' to his 

 country. On this subject he pub- 

 lished one or two very excellent 

 pamplilets. He died in 1761, 

 leaving his only son, then eleven 

 years old, under the care of the 

 executors of his will, the Rev. Dr. 

 Dampier, then under master of 

 Eton school, and Mr. Garrick. 

 Mr. Windham was born at Fel- 

 brigge Hall, the family seat in 

 "Norfolk, in March 1750. He 

 received the early part of his edu- 

 cation at Eton, where he continued 

 from 1762 to the autumn of 1766 

 when he removed to the University 

 of Glasgow, where he resided for 



about a year in the house of Dr. 

 Anderson, professor of natural phi- 

 losophy ; and diligently attended 

 his lectures, and those of Dr. 

 Robert Sinison professor of ma- 

 thematics, the well-known author 

 of a Treatise on Conic Sections, 

 and of other learned works. Here 

 first, probably, he became fond of 

 those studies to which he was ever 

 afterwards strongly addicted. In 

 September, 1767, he became a 

 gentlemancommoner of University 

 College, Oxford, Mr. (afterwards 

 sir Robert) Chambers being his 

 tutor. During his academic course 

 (from 1767 to 1771 ) he was highly 

 distinguished for his application to 

 •various studies, for his love of en- 

 terprize, for that frank and grace- 

 full address, and that honourable 

 deportment, which gave alustre to 

 his character through every period 

 of his life. In 1773, when he was 

 but twenty-three years old, Iiislove 

 of adventure, and his thirst of 

 knowledge, induced him to ac- 

 company his friend Constantine, 

 lord Mulgravc, in his voyage 

 towards the North Pole ; but he 

 was so harassed with sea sickness, 

 that he was under the necessity of 

 being landed in Norway, and of 

 wholly abandoning his purpose. 

 In 177<S, he became a major in the 

 Norfolk Militia, then quartered at 

 Bury, in Suffolk, where, by his in- 

 trepidity and personal exertion, he 

 quelled a dangerous mutiny, which 

 had broken out; notwithstanding 

 he was highly beloved by the regi- 

 ment. On one of the mutineers 

 laying hold of a part of his dress 

 he felled him to the ground, and 

 put him into confinement ; and 

 on his comrades afterwards sur- 

 rounding him, and insisting on the 

 release of the delinquent, he drew 

 his sword, and kept them at ba^, 



