 present enjoy, if the friend of my heart were not wretched.—There is something so uncommonly distressful in your circumstances, that to attempt to lessen your affliction, would be an insult to humanity;—for who that has a heart to feel another's loss, would wish to stop the graceful tears that flow
"where reason, and where virtue o'er the tomb, are fellow mourners?"

I AM sorry for captain Beaumont's disappointment in love, but I have infinitely more pity for

the young and innocent Maria. You and I both know how difficult it is to struggle with the first fond impressions of the heart; and women in general, from a principle of delicacy are much more inclined than men, to cherish their first passion, even when hope is fled.
I HAVE a melancholy proof of this truth too near me—poor lady Harriet Hanbury! She still laments the unworthy Barnard, and I fear will soon follow him to an untimely grave,—while Sir James Thornton seems to have transferred the passion he felt for lady Woodville to Miss Weston, who kindly receives his vows, and will, I hope, soon crown his wishes.
I CANNOT help being extremely shocked at the infamous conduct of the marchioness towards her mother.—Why need we become volunteers in vice? Our passions but too strongly and frequently impel us to break the bounds prescribed by virtue; but then those passions may, I humbly hope, in some degree alleviate our transgressions; but her unnatural behaviour to the unhappy woman who gave her birth, admits of no extenuation. This could not have proceeded from any passion, and must therefore be a double vice.
I am, however, much better pleased to owe my cure to Emily's virtues than to Isabella's vices; as the knowledge of the former are a perpetual source of happiness to me, while the discovery of the latter must for ever reflect on my own weakness, in being so grossly deceived.
MADAME de St. Far's establishment in the convent, must not be at your expence. My Emily! my lovely generous girl! insists on paying her pension. She must not be refused whatever she desires, by Woodville, or his friend.

I MOST impatiently long for your return to England; I wish you would meet us at Bristol, where we purpose going in a few days: for though my Emily is so much recovered, that neither her physician nor herself think she has occasion to drink the waters, I will not be satisfied, unless she does; as I flatter myself they may assist in confirming that health, which
