HERBEET. 



Sfinry "Wiitiara Herbert, more familiarly known as 

 " Fijjfc Forester," was born in London, on the 7th of 

 April, ISOT. His father, the Hon. and Eev. William 

 Herbert, Dean of Manchester, and third son of the Earl 

 of Carnarvon, was a profound scholar, and is well known 

 to the American public as the author of " Attila." His 

 mother, a most estimable ladj'', was the second daughter 

 of Viscount AUyn, of Kildare, a representative peer of 

 Ireland, and is still living in London. 



Herbert was thus descended from some of the most 

 aristocratic families of Great Britain and Ireland : and to 

 the advantages of birth he joined those of a thorough edu- 

 cation, which commenced under the auspices of private 

 tutors in his father's house, and was continued at Eton 

 and Cambridge, until he graduated from Caius College at 

 the age of twenty-three. His tastes and occupations 

 through life induced a habit of study, and it was recently 

 remarked by a gentleman of New York, whose position 

 brings him in contact with literary men and scholars, 

 that Herbert was one of the best educated men of hia 

 acquaintance. 



Our author's acquirements at Cambridge were not all of 

 a scholastic nature ; for he there contracted such habits of 

 life, that before he attained the age of twenty-five, he had 

 thrice been "whitewashed" for insolvency; had been 

 flontenced to outlawry for debt; and had emigrated to 



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