xxii MEMOIR 



his orders were no longer answered from below : he jumped 

 down without hesitation and slung up several insensible men 

 with his own hand. For this act, he received a letter from the 

 Lords of the Admiralty expressing a sense of his gallantry ; and 

 pretty soon after was promoted Commander, superseded, and 

 could never again obtain employment. 



The In 1828 or 1829, Charles Jenkin was in the same watch 



Jacksons! w ^ anotner midshipman, Robert Colin Campbell Jackson, who 

 introduced him to his family in Jamaica. The father, the 

 Honourable Robert Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, 

 came of a Yorkshire family, said to be originally Scotch ; and 

 On the mother's side, counted kinship with some of the Forbeses. 

 The mother was Susan Campbell, one of the Campbells of Au- 

 chenbreck. Her father Colin, a merchant in Greenock, is said 

 to have been the heir to both the estate and the baronetcy ; he 

 claimed neither, which casts a doubt upon the fact ; but he had 

 pride enough himself, and taught enough pride to his family, 

 for any station or descent in Christendom. He had four 

 daughters. One married an Edinburgh writer, as I have it on 

 a first account a minister, according to another a man at least 

 of reasonable station, but not good enough for the Campbells 

 of Auchenbreck ; and the erring one was instantly discarded. 

 Another married an actor of the name of Adcock, whom (as I 

 receive the tale) she had seen acting in a barn; but the phrase 

 should perhaps be regarded rather as a measure of the family 

 annoyance, than a mirror of the facts. The marriage was 

 not in itself unhappy ; Adcock was a gentleman by birth and 

 made a good husband ; the family reasonably prospered, and 

 one of the daughters married no less a man than Clarkson 

 Stanfield. But by the father, and the two remaining Miss 

 Campbells, people of fierce passions and a truly Highland 

 pride, the derogation was bitterly resented. For long the 

 sisters lived estranged ; then, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Adcock 

 were reconciled for a moment, only to quarrel the more fiercely ; 

 the name of Mrs. Adcock was proscribed, nor did it again pass 

 her sister's lips, until the morning when she announced : ' Mary 

 Adcock is dead ; I saw her in her shroud last night.' Second 



