THE BIIMI-PLACE OF SIR PHILIP FRANCIS. [To THE EDITOR OF
TILE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The reviewer of the Life of Sir Philip Francis in your late number repeats a correction of Lord Macaulay by the writer on
the same subject in Fraser, to this effect :—" Lord Macaulay asserts that Francis was born and passed the first ten years of his life within a walk of Luttrellstown. He was born in Dublin, and quitted Ireland for ever in his fifth or sixth year." But the writer in Fraser has led the reviewer into a mistake. According to Mr. Parkes (Memoirs, Vol. I., p. 4.) Philip Francis was born in Dublin (Luttxellstown is, I believe, in county Dublin) ; his father, the doctor, left for England when Philip was only five or six years old ; but Philip remained behind, at a free school kept by a Mr. Roe ; nor is there any reason to suppose that he left Ireland before the age of ten years.
The statement of Lord Macaulay appears therefore to be strictly
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