II.-Lord Barham (Sir C. Middleton), First Lord. (His * To attempt a description of the events and transactions that occurred in VI.-Robert Lord Viscount Melville. (Renewed the prac- tice of visitations to the dockyards; war and VII.-His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, the Lord Right Hon. Sir Geo. Cockburn, First Councillor. VIII.-Robert Viscount Melville - Second Administration. Rt. Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, First Naval Lord. Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, First Secretary. IX. Rt. Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart. (Undertook and X.-The Earl of Auckland. (Was twice First Lord, for very short periods, and little occurred for notice) 440 XIII. The Earl of Haddington. (An amiable and attentive First Lord, and not wanting in talent) Rt. Hon. Sir George Cockburn, First Naval Lord. Sir Sidney Herbert, First Secretary; and had the I.-Retirement from Public Life-Various Compli- mentary Letters on the Occasion-Employment of II. The Quarterly Review-The Origin and Design of the AN AUTO-BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR, &c. &c. CHAPTER I. SECTION I. Education and Miscellaneous Employment, chiefly at Home. In the extreme northern part of North Lancashire is the market-town of Ulverstone, and not far from it the obscure village of Dragleybeck, in which a small cottage gave me birth on the 19th June, 1764; being the only child of Roger and Mary Barrow. The said cottage had been in my mother's family nearly two hundred years, and had descended to her aunt, who lived in it to the age of eighty, and in it my mother died at the advanced age of ninety. To the cottage were attached three or four small fields, sufficient for the keep of as many cows, which supplied our family with milk and butter, besides reserving a portion of land for a crop of oats. There was also a paddock behind the cottage, called the hempland, expressive of the use to which it had at one time been applied, but now converted to the cultivation of B |