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. Hewson Clarke (1787-1832) was entered at Emanuel College, Cambridge, apparently as a sizar, in 1806. Obliged to leave the University before he had taken his degree, he supported himself in London by his pen. He wrote two historical works — a continuation of Hume's
History of England
(1832), and an
Impartial History of the Naval, etc., Events in Europe
from the French Revolution to the Peace of 1815. It was, however, as a journalist that he came into collision with Byron. In the