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HAVE heard, on the best possible authority, that I was born at a house in Great Portland Street (the number of which I forget), on the morning of the 13th September 1829. I was the fourth child and the third son, two having died before I was born. I was baptized at All Saints' Church, Langham Place. As an infant, I was remarkably plump and of such Michael-Angelesque proportions, that my sister, my senior by two years, would proclaim to all VOL. I.