A want of application, a restlessness of purpose, a thirsting after porter, a love of all that is roving and cadger-like in nature, shared in common with many other great geniuses, appear to have been his leading characteristics.

The busy hum of a parochial free-school, and the shady repose of a county gaol, were alike inefficacious in producing the slightest alteration in Mr.Barker's disposition.

His feverish attachment to change and variety nothing could repress; his native daring no punishment could subdue.
If Mr.Barker can be fairly said to have had any weakness in his earlier years, it was an amiable one--love; love in its most comprehensive form--a love of ladies, liquids, and pocket-handkerchiefs.

It was no selfish feeling; it was not confined to his own possessions, which but too many men regard with exclusive complacency.

No; it was a nobler love--a general principle.