ho-street now begins there was a dyer's pond
and yard; over it was a fine weeping-willow. In Duke-street also lodged
at one time Thomas Campbell, the poet. He occupied part of the house now
converted into a cabinet-maker's shop by Messrs. Abbot. I visited Mr.
Campbell several times when he was preparing "The Pleasures of Hope" for
publication. He was a very handsome young man, with a fine face and
bright eyes. Mr. John Howard lodged in Duke-street in the house directly
facing Cornwallis-street, then newly built. At this time his "Report on
Prisons" was passing through the Warrington Press; and he used to journey
backwards and forwards to correct the proofs. The Rev. Gilbert Wakefield
lodged in Duke-street, near the bottom, when he was first appointed
curate to St. Paul's church, then just erected. Dr. Henderson was the
first incumbent of that church. Strangely enough, he seceded from the
Dissenting body, while Mr. Wakefield joined it from the Church. Curious
stories were told of Dr. Henderson's ministration. Mr. Wakefield
complained bitterly of the unkindness and inhospitality of the Liverpool
clergy. He said he never was invited but by one brother clergyman to
visit him during his stay in Liverpool.

In 1812, Bellingham, who shot Mr. Percival in the House of Commons, on
the 11th of May, also lived in Duke-street, about the sixth house above
Slater-street. His wife was a dressmaker and milliner. She was a very
nice person, and after Bellingham's execution the ladies of Liverpool
raised a subscription for, and greatly patronized her. Bellingham was
born at St. Neot's, in Huntingdonshire, about 1771. His father was a
land-surveyor and miniature-painter. Becoming insane, he was for some
time confined in St. Luke's Hospital, London; but being found incurable
he was taken home, where he died soon afterwards. Bellingham, at the age
of fourteen, was apprenticed to a jeweller in Whitechapel, named Love,
from whom, after giving much trouble and annoyance, he ran away. In 1786
his mother's sister's husband, a Mr. Daw, yielding to the solicitations
of his wife and Mrs. Bellingham, fitted the young man out for India,
whither he sailed in the ship _Hartwell_, in the Company's service. This
vessel was wrecked off one of the Cape de Verd Islands, and young
Bellingham managed to get home again, penniless--having lost everything
he possessed. Still influenced by his female relatives, Mr. Daw next
took a shop in the t