MEMOIRS.

I was born of highly respectable parents, about three miles out of the suburbs of London, in the county of Surrey. I was the eldest daughter of Mr. GEORGE HARVEY, who was employed in the Honorable East India Company's service two-and-twenty years. As the East Indiamen alternately arrived in the London Docks, my father had to go on board and take an inventory of their different cargoes'; consequently he was well known to all the Captains and East India Directors. My grandfather, Mr. GEORGE THOMAS GRIFFITH, was a manufacturer of anchors and different implements used to set out ships of war. He regularly supplied with goods the Navy Victualing office at Diptford, in Kent. This business proved very lucrative, and by his industry and perseverance, and by the assiduous attentions of his manager, in whom he placed the most implicit confidence, realized considerable wealth. At the age of forty-five, he was suddenly taken sick, and after suffering some few months died, leaving my grandmother, Mrs. Mary Ann Griffith, a widow, with two daughters and one son-her eldest daughter the wife of Mr. George Harvey, her youngest the wife of Mr. Charles Diveroux, a physician.

My grandmother soon perceived that my uncle, George Thomas, possessed no inclination to attend to her affairs; consequently, she thought it advisable to retain the manager, and continne on the business of her late husband.

About two years after the death of my grandfather, my grandmother married Mr. Frederick Dollman. My uncle felt very much displeased at his mother's entering into a second marriage, and felt determined in his own mind to torment and perplex them as much as he possibly could. My uncle's extravagent propensities soon caused much unhappiness between Mr. and Mrs. Dollman, for he thought of nothing else but spending money, and entering into every gaiety that he could possibly think of. At last his conduct became so incorrigible, that Mr. Dollman hastily determined that he should leave his country. The first convenient opportunity, he informed. Mrs. Dollman that he felt much displeased with the conduct of her son, and could plainly perceive that she indulged him in all his extravagant propensities. "I think, Mrs. Dollman, it will be for your son's future welfare to leave England. I will purchase for him a