Warren Hastings [antikvár]

XNTKODUCTION Thomas Babiííguw Macaulay was borii at Rotliley Temple, in Leicestershire, on tlie 25th of October, 1800. His grandfatlier, the ítev. John Maca.ulay, minister of Cardross, had twelve children. One of them, Zachary, began life as overseer of an estate in Jamaica, saw the ills of slavery, and at the age of twenty-four went to Sierra Leone in the service of a company förmed to oppose free labour to slave labour. After somé years Zachary Macaulay settled in England as secretary to that company, and married a Quakeress, Selina Mills, who had been a pupil, and who remained a friend, of Hannah More and her sisters. Zachary's sister Jean had married Mr. Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire; Mrs. Macaulay was staying with her friends at Rothley Temple when her first child was born; and so he was named Thomas Babington Macaulay. The child's ear-liest home was in Birchin Lane, at the house of the Sierra Leone Company; afterwards the family was established at a house in High Street, Clapham. From childhood Macaulay had a very wonderful memory. He read much, alsó wrote verses, and he " talked like