BIOGRAPHY. 



Oliver Cromwell, Charles Stuart, * Dutch William" (mostly 

 associated with the -Hanoverian' rat and the national 

 debt), and other personages celebrated in history. 



Deeply as be felt the indignities to which he and his 

 family and co-religionists had been subjected, and fre- 

 quently as he referred to them, both in writing and con- 

 versation, he never used a worse weapon than irony, and 

 even that was tempered by an underlying current of 

 humour. He had fdt the wounds, but he could jest alt 

 the scars. 



On principle he refused to qualify as Deputy-lieu- 

 tenant and magistrate, because he had been debarred from 

 doing so previously to the Emancipation Act. His son, 

 however, serves both offices. 



Born in 1782, he spent his childish years in the old 



.. mansion and grounds of the family, and at a very early age 



displayed those powers of observation, love of nature and 



enterprise, which enabled him to earn a place among the 



fust aider of poetical naturalists both at home and abroad. 



At fen years of age he was placed under the ev. A. TUi*r. 

 Strong's care, in a school just founded at Tudhoe, a village 

 near Durham. From Watertons reminiscences, his in- 

 structor seems to have inclined to the severe order of dis- 

 cipline, and to have been rather liberal of the birch, of 

 which instrument Waterloo had his full share. His 

 account of storming the larder for the support of hungry 

 inmates; of the anxious glances which be cast in the 

 morning to judge by the master's wig of the state of his 

 temper; and of being captured in the very act of getting 

 through a barred window, is exceedingly humorous. 



He also relates two anecdotes, both telling against him- 

 self, and both prospective, as it were, of the celebrated 

 feet of riding on the back of a cayman and of his ship- 



