The following Account of Lord Clinton, some time Lord High Admiral of England, is taken from the elegant Collection of Biographical Tracts written by Edmund Lodge, Esq. Lancaster Herald, and F. S. A. and illustrated by Bartolozzi's exquisite Imitations of Portraits by Holbein, in his Majesty's Collection. We may probably hereafter present our readers with some more extracts relative to Naval Biogragraphy, from that superb publication, as the very high price of it must always render it in a certain measure, scarce.

Edward, Lord Clinton, was the only son of Thomas, the eighth Baron of his family, by Mary, a natural daughter to Sir Edward Poynings, Knight of the Garter. He was born in 1512, and at the death of his father, within five years after, fell in wardship to the crown. Educated in the court, his youth was passed in those magnificent and romantic amusements which distinguished the beginning of Henry's reign; nor was it till 1544 that he appeared in a public character: in that year he attended the Earl of Hertford, and Dudley, Lord Lisle, in their expedition to Scotland, and is said to have then entered into the naval service, in consequence of his intimacy with the latter, who at that time commanded the fleet: with these noblemen he scoured the coasts of Scotland, and afterwards landed at Boulogne, which was then besieged by the King in person.