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Friends. His ancestors had been manufacturers at Carlisle, but shortly before his birth his father removed to London, where Bernard was born, January 31st, 1784. He was educated in a Quaker school at Ipswich. At the age of fourteen he was appren ticed to Mr. Samuel Jesup, a shopkeeper at Halstead, in Essex, where he remained eight years. In 1806 he went to Wood- bridge, Suifoik, and a year after married Lucy Jesup, the niece of his former master, and entered into partnership with her brother as a coal and corn merchant. But his happy married life was cut short by death, a year after he had entered upon it, and he left Woodbridge and became private tutor in a family at Liverpool. After a year at Liverpool, he returned in 1810 to Woodbridge, and became a clerk in Messrs. Alexander s bank, where he continued for about forty years, till his death. He did not marry again, but found a life companion in his only daughter Lucy, who edited his &quot; Poems and Letters, with a Memoir,&quot; in the year of his death, 1849.

Some idea of Mr. Barton s life may be formed from what he says in a letter, dated &quot; 11 mo. 16, 1843.&quot; Some of his words are these: &quot;I took my seat on the identical stool I now occupy at the desk, to the wood of which I have now well-nigh grown, in the third month of the year 1810 ; and there I have sat on for three-and-thirty years, beside the odd eight months, without one month s respite in all that time. I often wonder that my health has stood this sedentary probation as it has, and that my mental faculties have survived three-and-thirty years of putting down figures in three rows, casting them up, and carrying them forward, ad injinitum. Nor is this all for during that time, I think, I have put forth some half-dozen volumes of verse ; to say nothing of scores and scores of odd bits of verse contributed to annuals, periodicals, albums, and what not ; and a correspondence implying a hundred times the writing of all these put together.&quot; His life had two different elements, the daily routine, and the evenings, too often prolonged into the night, devoted to poetical efforts,

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