Visit to Falmouth. — Friendship with Mrs. Fox. - Descriptive Letters. Visits London.-Bruce Crove. Visit to Bury Hill. - Hannah Kilham. Paralytic Seizure. -Sufferings and Consequences. -Henbury Court. - Dr. Jephson. Visits to Leamington. - Her Husband's failing Health. Remove to Harley Place, Clifton. - Her Husband's Death. - His Cha- - Life of Seclusion. - Mrs. R. Smith. Intercourse with her.- Letters: to Mrs. Smith; to Mrs. Lloyd; on Female Education, to the On the Catholic and Protestant Principles. — Symbolism. -- Familiar Cor- respondence. On writing Biography. - Account of an Accident.- Architecture: Grecian, Gothic, and Symbolic. - Phrenology. - Dr. Spurz- heim. Temperaments. — Applications made to her. - Letter on Phre- nology. Summary of the Temperaments. — Conversation. - Best known in domestic Life. - Love of Animals. - Dogs.—Morning Walks. — - Christian Happiness. - Love of God.-Dr. and Mrs. Booth. — Industry. Second Letter, on hearing of her Illness. - Note from Lady Buxton. Death of Mrs. C. Gurney. — Goes to Mal- vern. Letter to Mrs. Smith. Her last Journey. - Henbury. — De scriptive Letter thence. — “Voices of the Cross."-Thoughts on bearing CHAPTER XIV. - War and capital Punishments. - Letter on the same. - Letter on a musical - - - obtained. Her Relief. — Change respecting Roman Catholics.-Letter. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARY ANNE SCHIMMELPENNINCK. PART I. 1778-1787. "Whatever I write is in its nature testamentary. It may have the weakness, but it has also the sincerity of a dying declaration." — BURKE. "Oft in my way have I Stood still, though but a casual passenger, So much I felt the awfulness of life.". - WORDSWORTH. I was born in the evening of the 25th of November, 1778, in Steel-House Lane, at my grandfather's house of business in Birmingham, where my father, Samuel Galton, then lived. My mother was Lucy Barclay. My grandfather resided at that time at Dudson, a country-house distant about a mile and a half from that town. My first recollections date from 1782; when we had removed to Hagley Row, the Five Ways, which was then the Clifton of Bir B mingham. I remember the aged Judge Oliver, Lord Chief Justice of Massachusetts, as then living within two or three doors of us; and the pleasure it was to me to be allowed to hand to his relative, Governor Hutchinson, a rich cup of chocolate in his morning calls, and to be taken on his knee afterwards and hear all about the Falls of Niagara and hunting the bisons; to look through his Claude glass and his telescope; and to see a collection of little curiosities, which he delighted to make, and to show to children. I then remember, too, learning to put together Dissected Maps; and, my eyes being blindfolded, I was expected to find the different counties by their form and size. I also recollect the pleasure it was to see a camera obscura, and to have it explained by my mother. As a shadowy remembrance, I recall the image of old Lord Monboddo, approaching the house on horseback, with a huge package on his horse behind him; so that I, looking from a window, called out to my mother that the tame dromedary we had seen a few days before, was coming back to us. About the same time I remember seeing Dr. Smeaton, the builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Nor can I forget the delightful holiday it used to be, when my kind grandfather came to visit us, or I went to him, and he gave me a little basket of his beautiful fruit, particularly grapes and pine-apples, and taught me how to skip the rope or to sow seeds in my little garden. I also recollect the pleasure it sometimes used to be on a winter evening when my father told me of Menelaus, and Troy, and Ulysses, and the adventures of Eneas; and to go with |