in Bristol, and who built there a small street called “Mills Place,” in which he himself resided.  His grandchildren remembered him as an old man of imposing appearance, with long white hair, talking incessantly of Jacob Boehmen.  Mr. Mills had sons, one of whom edited a Bristol journal exceedingly well, and is said to have made some figure in light literature.  This uncle of Lord Macaulay was a very lively, clever man, full of good stories, of which only one has survived.  Young Mills, while resident in London, had looked in at Rowland Hill’s chapel, and had there lost a new hat.  When he reported the misfortune to his father, the old Quaker replied:  “John, if thee’d gone to the right place of worship, thee’d have kept thy hat upon thy head.”  Lord Macaulay was accustomed to say that he got his “joviality” from his mother’s family.  If his power of humour was indeed of Quaker origin, he was rather ungrateful in the use to which he sometimes put it.

Mr. Macaulay fell in love with Miss Mills, and obtained her affection in return.  He had to encounter the opposition of her relations, who were set upon her making another and a better match, and of Mrs. Patty More, (so well known to all who have studied the somewhat diffuse annals of the More family,) who, in the true spirit of romantic friendship, wished her to promise never to marry at all, but to domesticate herself as a youngest sister in the household at Cowslip Green.  Miss Hannah, however, took a more unselfish view of the situation, and advocated Mr. Macaulay’s cause with firmness and good feeling.  Indeed, he must have been, according to her particular notions, the most irreproachable of lovers, until her own Coelebs was given to the world.  By her help he carried his point in so far that the engagement was made and recognised; but the friends of the young lady would not allow her to accompany him to Africa; and, during his absence from England, which began in the early months of 1796, by an arrangement that under the circumstances was very judicious, she spent much of her time in Leicestershire with his sister Mrs. Babington.

His first business after arriving at Sierra Leone was to sit in judgment on the ringleaders of a formidable outbreak which had taken place in the colony; and he had an opportunity of proving by example that negro disaffection, from the nature of the race, is peculiarly susceptible to treatment by mild remedies, if only the man in the post of responsibility has got a heart and can contrive to keep his head.  He had much more trouble with a batch of missionaries, whom he took with him in the ship, and who were no sooner on board than they began to fall out, ostensibly on controversial topics, but more probably from the same motives that so often set the laity quarrelling during the incessant and involuntary companionship of a sea-voyage.  Mr. Macaulay, finding that the warmth of these debates furnished sport to the captain and other irreligious characters, was forced seriously to exert his authority