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though far from haughty or austere ; 

 and his countenance, with a shade of the 

 benign, was sufficiently expressive of his 

 descent from the friend and minister of 

 our great Dutch deliverer. 



His friend and neighbour, and associate 

 in his agricultural pursuits and who after- 

 wards accompanied him to India, where 

 he died was my frequent companion. 

 He was as voluble as the noble lord was 

 chary in his communications ; but we had 

 known each other in early days I as a 

 midshipman of a man-of-war on the In- 

 dian station, he as secretary to old Admiral 

 Rainier, who commanded there, where he 

 had amassed sufficient wealth to invest in 

 some rich alluvial soil in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lynn, immediately adjoining Lord 

 William's. Here he sat himself down as 

 a country gentleman and a magistrate, 

 and upheld his position with tact and 

 dignity, winning, by his frank manner 



