in neither she however nor her sister mary was the first wife of their respective husbands james first married anne daughter of general who presented him with one only daughter before she off this mortal this daughter however is of some importance to our present purpose partly because her name being jane elizabeth she is the � p� � ni � � mm � � va � ch n and knights frequently referred to in our letters and partly because in november thought fit to marry the rev afterwards of the ben of the letters who lied in and thus gives me a upon which to hang a few other and show how they come to be so often mentioned by at jane mrs b had one on and six daughters and died in once upon a time there was a thomas of who married a of an estate not far from that cathedral city and had a son who lived some time at married elizabeth and two sons the one of was named while the other rejoiced in the of mm letters of jane on ir peter george fellow of all souls of near � ent m and in husband of anne of sister of sir and father of two sons the younger of whom was the who married our whilst tlie elder was henry of house who also became and married a and died in when his brother succeeded him in the living of the three to which had been purchased by mr he must have been immediately preceded in the by dr tlie grandfather of mary to family we shall also and allusions in the earlier letters there was a great intimacy between tlie of and ton and mrs was a valued friend of jane s up to the time of her death in which was occasioned by a fall from lier horse after this little i must return to james who is keeping all the rest of his family waiting in the most manner a jt j on ii and i liis wife was two mary mid in survived her twenty four years lie only survived his sister jane two years died nt in december james the writer of the of smith esq of and died in leaving a numerous family he took the name of in addition to that of inherited in under the will of tlie widow of his maternal uncle james of whom more anon as the old nay widow died in g and his sister who never married died in u letters of ob n to be as far as i can discover them that my worthy great uncle s want of of purpose was evinced by his trying various professions one after the other without any particular success in any i gather from the letters before us that his sister his character pretty well and did not anticipate much success for his career he seems to have had a after a soldier s life for some time then he went into a bank in he became general for and also a banker in london and whilst he lived there helped his sister jane with her business in his bank broke upon which he became a clergyman and went out as to in he married twice which seems to have been the general habit of the family his first wife being his first cousin madame de n e mr is mistaken in saying that his grandfather had only one sister he had two who rejoiced in the names of philadelphia and the latter died single the former married mr and her daughter married the de and when he liad been unlucky enough to be ob ii and in tiie french revolution took her cousin henry en died in and left liim until when he consoled himself with daughter of henry of london by his wife who was one of the of he had no children and died in at wells having i believe had no except the of which on the death of hia brother james in he held for a short time until hia nephew william knight was old enough to take it � a comfortable family arrangement i cannot henry without giving to my readers the only example of his powers with which i am acquainted and which s letters of jane os xl do get on sir where i can i you stupid fellow i was the any fool can do that i want you to get on where you can t i of the two sailor brothers of jane francis and charles � mr gives a fuller history than of the others because he thinks that their honourable career accounts for jane partiality for the navy as well as for the readiness and accuracy with which she wrote it however this may be there can be no doubt that their career was most honourable and that they were both of them as good examples of british sailors as could well be i believe that both of them were much loved in their profession as they certainly were by their relations old and young the us that francis was upon one occasion spoken of as ta officer who at church which reminds me of an anecdote which my mother used to tell of one admiral having whispered to the other at the commencement of divine service � brother what do you think it is that people mostly say into their hats when they come into church for my part i always say for what i am going to receive the lord make me truly thankful and ch u and i am not prepared to say that he could have improved on the petition as i am upon anecdotes let tell one also of sir francis since it shall never be said that i omitted that which i have heard of him all my life as one of the t 