THE LIFE OF A MIDSHIPMAN. CHAPTER I. THE VILLAGE.-THE RECTOR.-FRANK HARTWELL AND HIS SISTER. Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain; Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, And parting Summer's lingering blooms delayed; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seat of my youth, where every sport could please. GOLDSMITH. IN the south-eastern corner of Wiltshire, and not far from the town of Southampton, surrounded by a cluster of woody hills, and remote B |