ssion of such a son, so noble in bearing, so bold, and so
talented; adding, that he had pleaded the soldier's case so well, that he
had, so young an advocate as he was, obtained the acquittal of his
client. As he grew up in years he was the pride and terror of the little
farmers of the neighbourhood,--the first from his ready wit, playful, and
genial disposition, which he ever retained; the latter from the practical
jokes he was constantly in the habit of playing on them, many of which
are remembered and spoken of at, and around Oby, up to the present day:
and he had the love of all, for, if they wanted game, or any kindness
done them, they had only to ask and have. But midst this he read, and he
lacked not mental food to feed on, as his father possessed a large and
well-stocked library. Henry's reading, however, was necessarily
desultory and discursive, but such the retention of his memory, that he
forgot nothing he had once conned; as an instance of this I must relate
an anecdote, often told of him by Mr. Jay, an attorney at Norwich, still
living, and who was an excellent client, and a great admirer of my
brother, that soon after large business flowed in upon him, and he went
into court with a bag full of briefs; to his Mr. Jay's utter
astonishment, after a case had been called on, in which he was the
attorney, and the several witnesses had been called, examined, and the
cause gained, my brother, who had led it, turned round, and said, "There
Jay, I have won your cause, but I will be hanged if I know where your
brief is; I read it, but somehow lost it." He, of course, used blank
paper for his notes. His perception, too, was so acute, his imagination
so vivid, and his memory so retentive, that he could at once, and readily
apply the knowledge so widely gleaned to the subject under discussion,
that they who were ignorant of his previous mental instruction, would
have imagined that he had, in earlier years, been the lean and diligent
student, who had wasted the midnight oil in meditation and deep research.

After an interval of years, he became a member of Lincoln's Inn, when in
due course of time he was proposed by the late Mr. Justice, then James
Allan Parke, Esquire, and called to the bar, May 25th, 1811. Soon after
his call, he accompanied Sir James Cockburn, who had been just appointed
governor of the Bermudas, as his secretary, and after a short period, on
his arrival there, was made Attorney General, the dutie