SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES. 19 
thus detailed our pian, we have, before coraraencin^, 
to enlrcftt those friends Uy whom ihh imperfect 
Kketch may he seen, that they will foi jd^^e atiy inac- 
curacies or niii^irepresejitatiom; nor Httribute to any 
tDOtive except that of doing jusiiee, whatever may he 
aaid of th« character of an individual, who»e wntinj^s 
hsii conveyed a very higli iiiipressioTi, which was »tilE 
farther confirmfni hy a «hon hut lively resuemberetl 
iiitercourae, for a few months previous to his untimely 
decease. 
Thomas Stamford Raffles, the son of Ben- 
jamia UatHes, one nf the oldest Captains in the Wvst 
India Trade, was bom at sea on the oih Jtdy 1781^ 
0& the hai'liour of Port Morant, in the I&lanil of Ja- 
maica. Little appeam to be knowa of hin family 
except it$i antiquity, and that it8 earlier memhera 
pasKe^l through life with unhlemisht?d repttUtion- 
Of his youth previous to the age of fourteen, when 
he entered into active business, few traits iHeem to 
have been recollected, beyond a ledateness of tem- 
per« ami penieverance in his atadteM superior to that 
of his achoolfellovvji, with a vivid ajiprehenaiun of the 
incident^) which ocuurred. During this period he 
sl;udied under tEie charge of Dr Anderson, who kep% 
a rea|)et-table academy near Hamraeruniith ; and^ at 
the early age we liave mentioned, he was placed as 
an extra clerk in the East India House- 
When we consider the very short portion of his 
early Jifcj wherein he could regularly gain the mdi- 
