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hood, at the distance of only three miles from the place actually chosen, half a century afterwards, for the seat of the general government. It was far from his hereditary estates, for these lay in that county which has had the honour of furnishing three presidents to the United States; and may with pride and exultation number among her sons a Washington, a Lee, a Jefferson, and a Monroe.

TO RICHARD HENRY LEE, who was born on the twentieth of January, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia, seems to have descended an hereditary care of his native state, for his maternal grandfather and uncle, held with credit to themselves and advantage to their country, seats in the king's council, of which his father was president, and his great grandfather in that line was governor Ludwell, of North Carolina.

Fashion prompted or necessity urged, in the infancy of the colony, such as could afford the expense, to send their children to England to be educated. Wakefield, in Yorkshire, then a flourishing school, was selected for Mr. Lee; where the refinements of the town were mingled with the economical habits of the country. The classic pursuits and chaste style of Mr. Lee in after life, may give a favourable opinion of his docility and talent, while they contribute to support the well earned fame of his tutor, as a scholar and a teacher. The histories of the ancient blics inspired him wth a love of liberty, taught he fate of tyrants and elated him with hope, not er unmingled with apprehension, for he saw

forces of the republic of Eugland. Before the voice of the people or the strength of a faction had collected the scattered fragments of the throne, the colony, moved by Lee and Berkley, proclaimed the second Charles, king of England, France, Scotland, Ireland, and Virginia, while yet he wandered an exile in a foreign land; and the quartering of her arms on the ancient escutcheon of his kingdom testified the gratitude or the vanity of the dissolute Stuart.

The memory of his father's services or his own capacity and influence, obtained for Richard, second son of Mr. Lee, an honourable and important situation, a seat in the king's council in the colony, which he was able to transmit to his son Thomas, the father of him whose life it is proposed to sketch.

Historians record a few intimations of facts, long antecedent to their existence, which philosophy has been perplexed to explain; some refer them to strange but casual coincidence, some to remarkable foresight, while others almost dare to call them prophecies. To these may be added, as an instance of peculiar sagacity or prophetic anticipation,

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independent dominion. of the first king Charles of England had lost to him his kingdom and his life, as Virginia had not suffered with the parent state, so she shared not in its joy on this event, and only by treaty as an independent dominion, would she consent to avail herself of the protectorship of Cromwell. Mr. Lee and Sir William Berkley conducted, on the part of the colony, the negotiation which followed her resistance to the armed

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