Lawrence

(James), Knight of Malta, b. Fairfield, Jamaica, 1773, of good Lancashire family. Educated at Eton and Gottingen; became acquainted with Schiller and Goethe at Stuttgart and Weimar, was detained with English prisoners at Verdun. In 1807 he published his The Empire of the Nairs, or the Rights of Women , a free-love romance which he wrote in German, French, and English. He also wrote in French and English, a curious booklet The Children of God , London, 1853. He addre ed a poem on Tolerance to Mr. Owen, on the occasion of his denouncing the religions of the world. It appears in The Etonian Out of Bounds . Died at London 26 Sept. 1841.