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 this scheme, as they saw their boy, with many excellent qualities, required much stricter and steadier discipline than was administered by his grandfather's indulgence. The colonel's regiment being speedily to embark for Ireland, it was at his instance determined that young Hamilton should be immediately sent to school. The second son of colonel Hamilton had died an infant, the third was, at the earnest entreaty of the vicar, left to replace William. The youngest child, a daughter, accompanied her parents. Mrs. Hamilton, with extreme reluctance, parted from her two boys; yet convinced that their respective situation was the fittest that could be chosen for their several ages, bore it with fortitude. She was now less uneasy on her husband's account, than during the first appearance of American discontent.—The conciliatory policy with which the