8. Her children (the present Lord Carlisle and Duchess of Sutherland).
I saw Sarah in Lincoln’s-inn consulting Mr. Fazakerly, who stood close to her Grace’s chair; so, you see, I beat history out and out.[[138]]...—From the Auckland Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 401.
[137]. Only seven; the name of the second Lord Spencer ought to be omitted.
[138]. Mr. Hatsell died 1820.
Memory (page [75]).
Professor Faraday, at the close of a Lecture on Gas Glass-house Furnaces, delivered at the Royal Institution in 1862, alluded, in an affecting manner, to his increasing loss of memory. There was a time, he observed, when he inclined to think that Memory was a faculty of secondary order; but he now feels its great importance; and the deficiency of that power, he said, would prevent him from again bringing before them any thing that was new; for he was often unable to recollect even his own precious researches, and he could no longer trust himself to lecture without notes.