Excerpt from Secret Memoirs, Vol. 1: Letters Written at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Although Mr. Swinburne's career was not distinguished by any of those remarkable incidents, vicissitudes or adventures, which give interest to the lives of mariners, soldiers, and explorers of distant regions, it is desirable that the reader should be made acquainted with the outline of his history, as well as with the circumstances that gave rise to the correspondence which I have undertaken to lay before the public.
I shall commence, therefore, by stating that Henry Swinburne first saw the light in May, 1752, and that he was the third son of Sir John Swinburne, Bart., of Capheaton, in the county of Northumberland, and the youngest child of a numerous and very ancient Catholic family. After receiving the first elements of an excellent education under the superintendence of his parents, Mr. Swinburne was sent to complete his studies at the monastic seminary of Lacelle, in France.
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