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 and prevent the insertion of much more interesting as well as original matter. His commission as a commander bears date Jan. 25th, 1822; and he obtained his present rank, Dec. 30th, 1825.

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 of the Rev. Dr. Abbot, Rector of the parish of All Saints, Colchester, whose widow married Mr. Jeremy Bentham, an eminent practitioner in Chancery, to whom her first husband’s children, John and Charles, were indebted for an excellent education. The eldest of these sons married a lady of fortune, and purchased the valuable situation of Clerk of the Rules of the Court of King’s Bench, with a condition, that in the event of his demise, the place should devolve to his brother. The latter, after practising for some years as a barrister-at-law, and representing the borough of Helstone in two parliaments, was appointed, in 1801, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Keeper of the Privy Seal in that part of the United Kingdom: in 1802, he was elected M.P. for Woodstock, and chosen Speaker of the House of Commons; in 1806, we find him elected to represent the University of Oxford; and in 1817, upon retiring from the above high office, the duties of which he had always fulfilled with great dignity and impartiality, he was elevated to the peerage, by the title of Baron Colchester.

Mr. Charles Abbot, the eldest son of this distinguished lawyer and statesman, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Gibbes, Bart, of Springhead, in the island of Barbadoes, was born in London, Mar. 12th, 1798; and first embarked as midshipman, on board the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral the Hon. A. K. Legge, April 8th, 1811. From June 1812 till Nov. 1813, he was a student at the Royal Naval College; and between the latter date and Mar. 13th, 1814, he appears to have been a passenger on board various ships, to join the Bacchante frigate. Captain (afterwards Sir 